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by bamfly 3y ago
I can only imagine this is the actual preference of two types of people: 1) Those who've never had a good martini made with high-quality, fresh vermouth, carefully chosen to complement the gin (or vodka, for that variant) being used. 2
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by bamfly 3y ago
> Flash never sucked or had power use issues. Maybe Mac users had a sub par experience. Linux and Windows. Yes, it ate power like it was free.
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by bamfly 3y ago
> same as why rural areas have high rates of ownership and access to firearms, but don't experience the violent crime rates found in cities. It's not the guns, it's who has the guns. You may be surprised about that, actual
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by bamfly 3y ago
Good point, another common reason that slipped my mind. Dogs can get snake-bit or horribly mauled by any number of things, for farmers who don't even deal in livestock but do have dogs. Horses, obviously (though you don't necessar
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by bamfly 3y ago
No federal estate tax on $10m of farm land (kicks in around $13m this year, from what I can tell—the so-called "death tax" is often framed as applying to a whole lot more people than it actually does). Further, I'm pretty sur
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by bamfly 3y ago
> article somewhat addressed it but I'd say demographics are the biggest factor, with an older male population and high gun ownership rate Right, how much of this is explained simply by what we'd expect to see in a population o
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by bamfly 3y ago
> The AV stuff is huge. It’s always why windows Windows 8 era PCs were maybe the most brutally slow. IIRC Win8's also the first Windows I found unusable on spinning rust. Part of it may have been AV, but things like opening the star
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by bamfly 3y ago
The min specs would be the same, laptop or desktop. A laptop with those kind of specs back then probably just had terrible battery life and was really big & heavy, didn't throttle down or anything. Not like today when you'd ex
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by bamfly 3y ago
Dafuq kind of scale could even a service for lots of restaurants have, that that wouldn't be a single query taking milliseconds to execute? I'd maybe split the last bit (user history re-ordering) into another operation, but th
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by bamfly 3y ago
> Geerling is also contributing and if he thinks that Red Hat has gone too far, he doesn't owe anybody contributions either. Like, even if one thinks Red Hat's totally in the right—why volunteer time helping out RHEL, now? Comp
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by bamfly 3y ago
RHEL specifically is now fenced off. Supporting it's barely any different than supporting macOS or Windows—do it if you are targeting it in particular or personally use it, sure, then you get benefits, but otherwise, why give them fr
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by bamfly 3y ago
RHEL specifically is no longer contributing back. Helping that particular distro is just giving them free labor and getting nothing in return.
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by bamfly 3y ago
I went with Ansible way back when all these were fairly new, because it was not just possible, but considered "culturally", if you will, normal, in that ecosystem, to run it agentless. Having to run a config agent on the target sy
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by bamfly 3y ago
Why would anybody put even one second of volunteer effort into helping RHEL, let alone pay to do it, when Red Hat's locked off access to their system? If they're taking and not contributing, what possible reason would anyone hav
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by bamfly 3y ago
There's still no replacement for the specific thing Flash did. I get that Flash itself sucked (the power use...) but it's really damn sad we simply lost what it could do. I'd have thought we'd have a replacement by now,
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by bamfly 3y ago
A country making solar panels doesn't necessarily plan to use all of them. It was an exports/services (consulting) play. "Skating where the puck will be" and all that—become the experts with plenty of production ca
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by bamfly 3y ago
> So, what would voters hope to get out of the deal? Well, if teacher total comp has been declining (health insurance getting worse without getting cheaper, and often while getting more expensive; wages not keeping up with inflation, esp
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by bamfly 3y ago
Gnome was a major lever in making it hard for other distros to avoid systemd, early on. The way Wayland's been structured and that... transition, such as it is, has been managed, smells a whole lot like a fire-and-motion move, and besi
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by bamfly 3y ago
What's that got to do with maneuvering for control of extremely-important parts of Linux? If anything, license/attribution fuckery would put you at a disadvantage in that kind of a game. Red Hat was playing for position, not mater
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by bamfly 3y ago
They just have to make it hard/risky/expensive to keep using things they've declared deprecated, or to avoid the software they're pushing & steering. Which they've done pretty damn effectively (again, if this we
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by bamfly 3y ago
I would be very surprised if it's a coincidence that Systemd's as difficult to avoid, if you're building a Linux distro, as it now is, nor a coincidence that it's been going NIH all over the rest of the system ever since
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by bamfly 3y ago
Gnome and Wayland countered Ubuntu's attempts to "own" competitor projects in those areas (the current fight is Snap/Flatpack). Gnome, in particular, was important as a lever used to make it expensive for distros to avoi
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by bamfly 3y ago
Yes, Canonical has been their main competitor on each point and it's possible the threat of Canonical is what sent them this direction in the first place [EDIT: or vice-versa—Ubuntu may have attempted to "own" parts of thei
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by bamfly 3y ago
Systemd's a lot more than an init system, and that's no accident. Red Hat now determines where Linux goes in some very important ways, and I think they believe they've finally got a solid lock on that, after years of effort,
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by bamfly 3y ago
Gnome's part of the play to make it painful for other distros to avoid Systemd, which does concern ~all enterprise customers. And I'm sure some of those enterprise customers are paying for graphical workstations, besides, even i
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by bamfly 3y ago
Ah—I'd never noticed VSCode could do that, in years of using it. I ignore some of its features (some of which Sublime also has, and I tend to ignore them there, too) because I find them janky and fragile or requiring-configuration such
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by bamfly 3y ago
I think this is a key part of where they've been aiming for years . Since the '00s, even. Maybe earlier, IDK. I just have their public behavior to go on, but it sure looks like a long-term strategy. If it's not, it ought t
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by bamfly 3y ago
Oh man, the legal battle when Red Hat tries to crack down on "pirated" GPL software is going to be... interesting. (that's where this is surely going, right? Or else they're just not going to bother actually trying to en
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by bamfly 3y ago
I'd say they compete in a similar space of smart plugin-friendly code editor, not IDE. What are you thinking of, in terms of differences? I use both quite a bit (some of VSCode's plugins are better) and have always viewed them as
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by bamfly 3y ago
> That doesn't mean there is demand. If I start eating more rice and beans, that doesn't mean I'm in the market for steak. Class sizes are a hot topic here too. It is not because we can't come up with enough teachers,

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