* Posts by AdaLoveseal

5 publicly visible posts • joined 2 Sep 2021

Will Flatpak and Snap replace desktop Linux native apps?

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Re: Performance isn't free...

This. Exactly this. I've had servers taking 5 minutes to initiate a shutdown, and also servers actually *never* shutting down, having to be rebooted from the vCenter. It gets old real fast when you are trying to automatically reboot systems during off-hours to update kernels and the shutdown never completes. Add to this login timeouts on older versions of libnss-systemd, mount point supervision that doesn't detect network mounts going down... Systemd was utter sh!te in the days of Debian 8/9, it's getting a little better now, but still far from being as reliable as, say, runit. The shutdown bugs are mostly a thing of the past though, not really seen in the versions shipped with Debian 10+. The only good bit is unit files, and they're miles better than the old sysvinit. The file watchers are OK (not perfect, but OK). The unit override directory tree is just weird and confusing, and the private /tmp has caused me quite a lot of headaches, but overall creating systemd services is really painless, which is not always the case (though, well... runit).

People still seem to think their fancy cars are fully self-driving

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"Just"

"You actually just have to solve real-world AI".

The word "just" does an awful lot of heavy lifting here, Elon...

Blue Monday for Blue Origin as rocket bursts into flame

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Re: It's going to hurt sales

The escape motor fired near max-Q, which also means the aerodynamic deceleration was hard. Problem is, aerodynamic deceleration while the capsule is traveling upwards means passengers are pushed towards the ceiling, not the floor. In other words, they get pushed against their harnesses, not their seats. At multiple Gs, that HAS to hurt.

Here comes the blob: Asia's top 'net boffin thinks 'shapeless services' could replace the Internet

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Trollface

"Common referential mechanisms..."

... surely don't mean IPv6, right? No way the Internet won't still be running on IPv4 50 years from now.

Arms not long enough to reach the plug socket? Room-wide wireless charging is on the way

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Plus socket or...

What, you'd rather call it a PowerPoint?