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Is it faster on Windows? This would be quite fascinating if it is the case - my experience with windows is that it is an all round slacker when it comes to performance.

I don't really have any issues with Fedora performance wise, is it widely perceived to not be performant? I have had much more issues with everything on Ubuntu than I ever had with Fedora. Maybe ricing with Gentoo could get me a bit further but given both Firefox and Chrome will basically use the same system libraries I don't see how it is fair to blame Fedora for the difference.

I am not using Wayland and I am running XFCE

Using Fedora Linux, last I tried a switch to FF (less than 6 months ago) it was way slower than chrome. I actually like FF functionality more and would prefer to use it but my laptop runs significantly hotter when I run FF on it.

Nobody works for free. I get your beef but the problem is we buy things and want to pay once, if you were willing to pay for your router every month, well heck you could actually just buy a new one every year about already. fancy that.

Why? Did they ever say they will indefinitely provide updates?

> It would be a global good to counteract the local incentives for producing perishable software.

What are we talking about here? Asking people to not write bugs?

Never felt this on Fedora either, to the contrary actually.

I have yet to see a deep fake that was passed of as real. Is there any major incidents of this happening that I'm not aware of?

Not sure how you get from Darwin being based on BSD to Darwin should be able to support something which heavily relies on Linux specific functionality to the point where even Freebsd having trouble https://wiki.freebsd.org/Docker

Sure with enough changes MacOS could support it, but then with enough changes to anything, so that is not really a sensible measure.

> The fundamental problem with this theory is that there are sub-populations that have been able to maintain high fertility despite the decline in broader society.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fertility_factor_(demography)

I would have a 1,000,000,000.00 USD a year salary if I could. Just saying.

I think we completely rule out cases where people were in a good financial position and could provide for children and cases where people were using birth control child poverty will remain virtually unchanged.

https://www.businessinsider.com/parents-determine-child-succ...

> The researchers further suggest that the "fraction of children living in single-parent households is the strongest correlation of upward income mobility among all the variables we explored."

See also: https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/02/single-mothers-new-yo...

> Some people have more control over their circumstances than others. That includes parents providing (or not) for their children.

I don't think the majority of the poverty problem comes from otherwise well to do parents falling on hard luck. At least in South Africa and I would think most of the rest of Africa this is not the case. If people just made sure to be in a position where they have the capability to provide for children at the point in time when they have them the poverty issue will be almost entirely gone.

And already just something as simple as providing a two parent household and not having children before 25 already virtually guarantees that they will not be impoverished:

- https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dont-deny-the-link-b...

- https://www.businessinsider.com/parents-determine-child-succ...

> What if people in general have some agency, but not always enough to counteract the larger scale actions that affect them?

Would one of those actions be the urge to have sex? If not then not sure what we are talking about here.

I think the majority of people who have children they can't provide for bear the responsibility for that and I don't really see where in that you want to plug your nuance - but if you have something more than "there is nuance" I would love to hear it.

> In discussions about low income families I often see somebody comment along the lines of blaming the parents for making bad choices and choosing to have children they couldn't afford/care for/want.

So just to be clear on some points before I get accused of holding positions I do not hold. I am all for helping children who were let down by their parents. I don't think they should be condemned. I also grew up very poor, my parents had to go into debt to buy basic necessities and I still have to support my parents financially and will likely always have to do this.

When it comes to this issue, you need to pick a lane and stay in it. Either people have agency and are responsible for their actions and ultimate responsibility lays with the parents - or people do not have agency and nobody is responsible for anything and concepts like democracy makes no sense.

I personally pick the lane that people do have agency and do bear ultimate responsibility for their actions. I do make exception for those who are severely mentally ill but this is not the root of poverty.

Consequently, while social support for those who were let down by their parents is good - this alone cannot fix all problems. Maybe in a place like Norway with very low unemployment it is enough, but it will never be able solve the problems in places like South Africa where the unemployment is ~30% (calculated in the same way as unemployment reported for US and EU economies is calculated).

So sure, lets help the children - but lets stop making excuses for those who put the children in that position to begin with. I don't think it is okay to run cover for absolutely horrible human beings who bring children into this world that they cannot adequately provide for.

The programming paradigm provided by a threaded model (which is also there in async/await syntactic sugar) is a lot easier to follow and work with than asynchronous code paradigm IMO. I think writing code asynchronously is solving a problem all over your code base which can be solved much better by async/await or lightweight threads like golang has with goroutines and like jvm is getting with project loom - all of those solves the problem in the right place - allowing you to write code synchronously but execute it asynchronously.

Once we de-couple these two things - how we write code and how we run code - the discussions about this become clearer and easier to have.

And last I checked it does not work on wine and there is no Linux version.

To be frank when people using "..., and that’s OK" they pretty much lost me. It implies the person thinks their value judgement on the matter is somehow universal - which it just is not.

I use sci-hub - others can decide for themselves to use it - but I'm not going to say others should think it is okay or not okay if I use it - the value judgements of most other people regarding my actions is not something that I care about a lot.

I think actually for some reason lutris binaries don't work that well with fedora or something - but hard to tell.

ZFS on Solaris 10 was ill suited for almost everything out of the box and was not feasible for MongoDB due to the half are integration between ZFS and the rest of Solaris

What about the reliability? Are many people losing data with Btrfs?

I actually have better mileage without lutris - not sure why.

> something that was not carefully designed in the first place (like basically all of Unix)

While I would generally agree that the Unix shell language (of which bash is a superset) and the bash language itself is not the most elegant and well designed things in the world - and that it should be used in a limited way and there are better options in most cases - I do have to say that to me at least it is significantly better than PowerShell which, while it clearly had a lot of design work put into it, seemed to have been designed by someone who has never used a shell or a terminal and maybe only had some limited interaction with a computer of any kind.

It is kind of weird that people freak out when Google requires that employees acknowledge something factual as Prerequisite for employment.

> Saying that something is not a systemd replacement because it does not do x feature that systemd does misses the point that systemd does too much. /sbin/init can be simple, and written in any language, and when it is, its often better than systemd because of that.

If someone tells me something is a systemd replacement I don't take it as them telling me it is an init system. If it is an init system unrelated to systemd don't call it a systemd replacement.

> the common market has distorted things in Germany's favor, an effect that probably won't last.

Quite by design. Having the whole Europe on Germany's monetary policy (i.e. Eurozone with EUR interest rates) while not sharing any other policy is heavily in Germany's favour and one of the main reasons the European debt crisis happened.

Not to say that being a well governed country with good policy and a culture that is conducive to high productivity and good quality did not help - it definitely did. And I'm not trying to redirect blame for the Eurozone crisis - Greece has mainly itself to blame.

BitWarden is one of the few things I pay for even though I don't have to simply because I really want it to keep existing.

> This being said, what was really wrong with V3?

Nothing is free to maintain.

> Think about how drastically perspectives on figures like Christopher Columbus have changed over just the last generation from bringing more diverse viewpoints into the conversation.

In my view Wikipedia should not be a repository of value judgements or specific values that one should adopt - perspectives on Christopher Columbus is important and should be included but in no manner should those perspectives be made out to be incontrovertible or something other than value judgements and perspectives from specific points of view. I think it is valuable to understand the European perspective and native american perspectives at the time and throughout the following centuries for events.

But I don't think Wikipedia should be telling me I must think what Columbus did was good or bad - Wikipedia should not be trying to teach me morality - and as long as it does not do that I don't see how there is any problem with what topics Wikipedia covers and who writes it.

I think the only problem comes in when you attempt to do something which is impossible - like incorporate something which is fundamentally specific to specific people (morality) into something which purports to be valid for everyone.