[-] Ooops@feddit.org 7 points 5 days ago

You forgot the one that is still compiling...

[-] Ooops@feddit.org 7 points 5 days ago

What do you mean by poor long term stability? It's a rolling release. I run the same installation for basically forever, while fixed releases' life-time is measured in just a few years before you lose support and need to do a full distro upgrade... which rarely seems to work without problems.

PS: I just looked it up. The first date in my pacman log in from 2014...

[-] Ooops@feddit.org 47 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

You wouldn't believe the secondary costs caused by thawing salt. And then there's the primary cost of operating vehicle park to spread a lot of salt each winter.

Although general streets would not be my first choice (you should start with bridges where corrosion is even more of an issue) every example of heated street I saw was just a matter of "yeah, simple math says this makes sense".

PS: And that's obviously not car-specific even. Every newly build bike lane should incorporate this idea. Modern bike and pedestrian bridges doubly so.

PPS: For reference: new bicycle-bridge in Germany... 16 million € to build, of which the added heating is a very small fraction (300k).

[-] Ooops@feddit.org 47 points 3 months ago

Apparently this is about neither DRM

It's not about the DRM people think about... but the Direct Rendering Manager

[-] Ooops@feddit.org 41 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Because "number of commits" is such a relevant metric (for reference 85% of the commits resulted in 110% of added lines compared to 2023).

Are people too lazy to talk about actual features and stuff added, so they compare some arbitrary number because that's a stat easily pulled from the data?

PS: Nice to see the comments talking about "woke" developers... Guess the culture war brain rot really spreads everywhere 🤮

[-] Ooops@feddit.org 42 points 9 months ago

So what humans have done for millenia in the form of furs, leather and bone?

[-] Ooops@feddit.org 36 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Actual wolf packs are a family. One pair of adults plus their children. Until those are old enough, then they leave and search for a partner and own territory.

All the stuff you read about pack alphas, all the sociological pseudo-science about alpha behavior derived from it... that's all based on a one bullshit study about a large group of wolves artificially intoduced to a new area, that in no way behaved like wolves naturally do.

Basically the equivalent of putting a few dozen teen-age boys on an isolated island then studying their behavior to understand human society.

[-] Ooops@feddit.org 48 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Germans are still suffering from having to integrate another failed quasi-soviet state more than 30 years later, so you couldn't pay them enough for taking Königsberg back.

[-] Ooops@feddit.org 127 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

An immutable OS is fixed and mounted non-writable. Every update you get, every program you install is handled on top of it via containers or filesystem overlays so the underlying OS is untouched. Basically the same concept you know from smartphones or other devices with a "reset to factory settings" function. No matter how hard you screw up your system, you can always reset to the base OS, either by granulary deactivating things installed on top, or by a reset to the working base OS.

[-] Ooops@feddit.org 103 points 11 months ago

No... the Crowdstrike debacle primarily shows the dangers of today's corporate culture in software development.

Ship as fast as possible, fix issues later if necessary...

[-] Ooops@feddit.org 46 points 11 months ago

The software is the problem if it's produced with a corporate mentality of "ship first, fix later".

[-] Ooops@feddit.org 77 points 11 months ago

"More Tech and Venture Capital Execs Are Coming Out as ~~MAGA~~ Believers of Tax Cuts, Deregulation and Corruption"

Fixed that headline...

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