Posts by Tomato42 1174 publicly visible posts • joined 31 May 2011
lack of backwards compatibility and API stability is a bane of all the "hip" new languages: Go, Javascript, ruby
it's much better with older established languages (as in, some developers behave as if they actually heard of the concept) like Java and Python
but it's wide-spread basically only in C land, shame really
the version used by system tools will be supported for the lifetime of the distribution, irrespective if it is used by system tools or by user apps, but if user wants to make `python3` point to newer version, they can, without fear of breaking anything in the system
and things may break because of deliberate incompatible changes _in python_ like the recent promotion of `async` to a keyword
> without adequate or accurate release testing and with no backup to restore the system to a working, previous build is one hell of a set of "kinks".
as if most IT systems couldn't be brought down with one wrong person getting sudo access on a domain controller or such – yes, you can protect against maid pulling the power cable of the root DNS server, can't protect against the authoritative root server advertising empty or wrong root zone – there needs to be a single source of truth, but you need a good process/syste how it is updated, which appears to be lacking in Galileo. So, yes, that's a minor kink compared to overall complexity of the system.
and it does look like they did have backups to restore, but because of the precision necessary, and given that the satellites are in in non-inertial reference frames, it does mean that getting it all back synchronised isn't a matter of seconds
There are plenty of countries that have been ravaged by 2nd WW, had to rebuild from scratch and are not totalitarian shitholes.
The only reason why China is so big on international scene is because it is a frikkin huge country with a lot of people. If you look at per capita statistics, it's hardly impressive, it's GPD is on the level of Iraq or Brazil.
> It's only systemd distros which are unbootable. Poettering decided calling the kernel to get a random number wasn't good enough for him
get off the bandwagon, you'll end up in a ditch
the problem was that the kernel needed entropy but it didn't trust RdRand, with no entropy and no services starting the system would lock up because the init system was waiting for kernel random pool initialization (getrandom() won't give out bits before that happens)
that is fixed with the very newest kernel (5.4) after Linus merged jitter entropy generator: https://lwn.net/Articles/802360/
> cheap burner sims you buy typically do
I don't think you're talking about EU, I'm using pre-paid card as a EU citizen and have no problems with roaming or roaming charges, including for data. Are you sure you didn't have to simply enable the roaming support on the card?
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