esoterae

Well, I was being a little flippant dismissing it as largely a complaint about things not showing up in the terminal, but it's obviously deeper than that, yes.

I think this overall situation is most acutely a lack of standard. Someone up in the nosebleed section rightly pointed out that there should be some environment variable for a config to be written to, and I agree. I also want to stress that there should be the inclusion of a single variable on top of that, that all programs should use when constructing the path to their configuration. USER_CONFIG_DIR or something equally arguable should, if unset, default to $HOME, and if set, be used as the root to construct whatever structure therein is desired, also able to be changed with an environment variable specific to that program. Be it filename or further subdirectory, first using a single reference that is /not overloaded/, like HOME, but defaults to HOME if unset.

How interesting (: I find myself typing a lot of `ls -dl /a/b/d/*` these days.

What a strange fingerprint I imagine all our collective accumulated behaviors project about our past experiences.

alias ls='ls -a'

Well, if nothing else hopefully someone else notices this witness statement exposing the above-linked revisionist history for what it is--a fabrication.

On the topic of Unity: I, a linux user since the mid 90s, worked an actual linux job through the forced deprecation of GNOME 2.. I don't have much anything constructive to say about it. I even used fvwm2 for a while after gnome2 got yoinked.. it was a nice reminder of my halcyon days writing perl in xemacs, running fvwm on my sparc 2. It wasn't too long after that I landed on xfce. I still wonder what gnome2 could've been.

All I ever wanted was a compositing, focus-follows-mouse, raise/lower window manager with a full-featured keyboard shortcut config. I still feel as though we were sold out. I don't think my mental representation of Canonical will ever recover. It just felt so blatantly anti-user during that period, and that impression has not been tempered with the passage of time.

So far.

No death tallies from the accident will be complete until the products have decayed to background levels.

I think this study will take sometime to complete.

>> It is also unfair by itself that MS OSes will boot without requiring the user to fiddle with the system firmware, but non-MS OSes won't

>Unfair? You're talking about systems that come with Windows pre-installed. Of course these systems are going to be configured for booting Windows out of the box.

I think it more _accurate_ to have said "of course these systems are going to be configured to boot nothing but Windows out of the box", which is ... drum roll please.. anti-competitive. Facially, and blatantly anti-competitive.

I have noticed a pattern that keeps popping up.. I've seen many orgs invoking docker/k8s simply as an abstraction layer to allow mapping of commit hashes in a repo to objects in deploy environments.

Please provide proof that a coding interview makes a statistically significant effect on predicting success in a position, all other things being equal.

A suicide rate increase of 2x is incontrovertible, across multiple years of administration. 5x is writ large.

IIRC individual fibers are terminated every Nkm at a repeater. Not that it wouldn't be spendy, but I would also conjecture replacing a segment of fixed length instead of just gluing the ends back together might still be a reasonably strong constraint on unplanned repair cost (and also probably providing a pretty strong lower constraint as well--notably higher than solid core).

> my airplane

> your airplane

> my airplane

Now can we get driver support for older chipsets, please? What is the deal with taking a dump on the people that buy chipsets in order to use them to their advertised potential?

Easiest to pwn 2FA

No, this _is_ people doing something. This is people reaching out in a chaotic way to attempt to interrupt/disrupt an apparently in-use insecure method of designating artillery targets. This method of disruption does seem legitimate, and appears that if successful in reaching someone at Google in a position to make a decision, a real difference could be made.

Meanwhile, you're suggesting "This does nothing" when in fact, it's a legitimate avenue because, to use your specific quote, "all is fair in love and war".

On reflection, I'm completely flummoxed why you would suggest this has no potential. In fact, it seems to be the exact opposite, and quite interesting that these pages are being taken down nearly as quickly as they're posted here. These things taken together suggest that this idea is perceived as dangerous to someone

The old #idlerpg was fun, in a historic sense (reading the log). I wonder when that got written. Anybody remember? Google doesn't.

I stand in awe of your patience in the face of autodefensive incomprehension.

Yeah. I've also heard it likened to "Who needs freedom of speech? I have nothing to say"

ITYM political projection. Fomenting hysteria is a well-documented tool of science deniers. Not so much the scientists, as their spoken words typically mirror reality.

Sooo.. it's a yaml-based bash DSL that manually cross-compiles back to .. bash?

It's probably clever, sure, but it seems like this would wind up more declarative than imperative?

Why does the slider conflate position with velocity? Leave it at 0.95c for a minute, put it back to zero, then watch as your position is re-set back to 0. Subsequently slide it back to 0.95c, your position is magically fast-forwarded to your previous position, along with resumption of velocity.

Changing a threshold is not changing the underlying data. One is attempting to be rational and iterate through policy, and the other is lying.

Edit: Just to be explicit, yes I'm calling out the false equivalence as a logical fallacy.

How about giant airbag and mating structures underneath the gondola, shaped-charge the cables, and then just let the air out to bring it down to the ground.

Just inflating something like that would take some weight off the cables and allow a more controlled and safer process.

I am surprisingly incensed by my interpretation of your questions as being cavalier and disingenuous. As far as I can tell, you mean to dismiss by misdirection or fallacy. I suggest you've got the wrong end of the stick, and leave it at that.

Up until 30 minutes ago, I was an octotree customer. Do I have standing? Do I need someone's permission to care about this? I'm not a concerned contributor; I'm a former supporter now concerned with what my subscription has enabled. I cannot address the money that is already under the bridge, but I can certainly stop dropping it in the river.

I'm not upset about the question re: AGPL inclusion, I'm upset about the very, very poor series of answers and actions by the maintainer, whatever form they've individually taken.

Should the whole mess of a posteri license reassignment get addressed cogently and comprehensively, I'll reconsider. Even a mea culpa would be sufficient, should it be followed by Doing The Right Thing[s].

There's a number of quiet warnings in my head that this is too overbroad. Don't get me wrong, I think something like this should happen 100%. But this seems to cast too wide a net.

What about my bank? They have >100M users, and with an app/service portal, they'll be required to be "interoperable". I don't want my bank or my bank info to be interoperable. I also don't want my bank to have an interoperability interface; as an internet plumber, I fully realize the first thing you need to have a blockage is a pipe with something in it.

What about content delivery? Will I be able to play music/movies hosted by my subscription provider through a 3rd party? This calls into question some difficult problems around licensing that may be impossible to satisfy via existing, established contracts; don't paint a content provider into a corner of guaranteed noncompliance.

Where is the definition of "interoperability"?

This will be a field day for an endless bevy of corporate lawyers to say "Oh XYZ isn't a service with users. It's available to users of ABC service, which is fully compliant with the interoperability rules as required by blah blah."

I applaud the effort and think this is a priceless next step in helping define where we should go next, but I'm only hearing possibility and daydreams, not concrete implementation.

This seems relatively well written, but I consider the cost analysis worse than a dead fish handshake. It's just plain facile to explain in one sentence that it took two years of development to bring an internal tool into service, and then in another suggest that it is cost effective without any kind of rational assignment of figures; as well without comparison of the same environment without the tool.

Doesn't allow characters it doesn't think belong in my email address. LH of @ is local-only.

Binned.

Thank you for telling me about that, I didn't know. However, I'm most interested in a product able to bridge my statefiles into coherent visual representations of state, either within a single statefile or more importantly across several. The cost aspect seems a secondary concern.

tl;dr: Creating dynamic visual layouts from terraform state would be worth >= 50USD/mo to me.

This needs to be able to read my terraform statefiles

I think at issue is this economic concept of eternal growth. It's rather plainly obvious endless growth isn't sustainable, for myriad reasons. Continuing to believe growth will get us out of our growth-induced nightmare is the equivalent of plugging ones ears and chanting "la la la la la"

If that were true, wouldn't UL refuse to certify them?