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Linux File System
  • /sbin is like /bin, but for system administrative type commands. /usr holds all the other software that isn't critical to get the system up and running.

    A device file is a special file that's like a pointer to a piece of actual hardware, like a serial port or a hard drive. /dev also has some non-hardware special files like /dev/zero. When you read from that one, you get an endless stream of zeros. Or /dev/null, that discards any data that's written to it.

  • Men in their 40s, what’s one piece of advice for men in their 20s?
  • Also, unless you're one of those people who legitimately doesn't care if food tastes good or not, learn to cook. You don't have to be good a cooking everything, but develop a repertoire of food that is healthy and you like to eat.

    The age where you could depend on a wife to be a good cook for you are long past.

  • Alexa Is in Millions of Households—and Amazon Is Losing Billions
  • Honestly, they can just send the keywords. No need to send audio if they can match 1000 or so words that are most meaningful to advertisers and send counts of those.

    AFAIK this is only speculated, not proven.

  • Toddler, 2, dies after shooting himself while left alone in a Walmart parking lot as his parents shopped for fireworks
  • As a non-American, it's crazy to me that there (apparently) aren't any safe storage laws enforced. Would it really infringe people's gun rights to require that all firearms may only be in a safe, in your hands, or on your person (in a holster, sling, etc.)?

  • Nearly 20% of Microsoft SQL Servers running have passed end of support
  • At least some of the app developers have realized that if they develop for Postgres they get to keep the Sql Server licensing costs for themselves. Windows server licensing costs too, if they're clever.

    Unfortunately the old janky enterprise shit will probably never get updated. You know the ones. The ones that think they're new and hip because they support SSO (Radius only)

  • Linux is still not ready to replace Windows
  • I think you're massively overestimating what normal users are willing to do. Normal users aren't going to install Linux because normal users don't install operating systems. Other things normal users don't do:

    • Install drivers
    • Configure hardware (including printers)
    • Run system recovery
    • Run OS upgrades (unless forced on them)

    When the upgrade from windows 7 to 10 resulted in broken systems/applications, some normal users paid someone to fix it, but most bought a new computer.

    In short, Linux is ready to replace Windows, but only in the cases where it's sold preinstalled on supported hardware. Android, ChromeOS and Steamdecks are good examples of this.

  • California blew it on bail reform. Now Illinois is showing it works.
  • Unlike Canada, where the consensus seems to be that the country is ruined now. Not damaged, or heading in the wrong direction or anything, but actually ruined. The only things that can save us now is banning all gender bathrooms and adopting bitcoin.

  • Incredible Apple M4 benchmarks suggest it is the new single-core performance champ, beating Intel's Core i9-14900KS — results of 3,800+ posted [Geekbench online database]
  • The data is unreliable. If we knew how much of the data was faked we could compensate for it, but we don't. We could discard the outliers, but we don't know if we're discarding valid data, and someone who is deliberately tainting the dataset would submit a bunch of samples that are only a little bit off as well.

    And while some of the numbers must be from trolls, manufacturers (and shady investors) are heavily incentvized to sway the listings.

  • Start learning at 50
  • One nice thing about learning (and teaching) python is that it's a multiparadigm language. Students don't have to learn about indenting until you cover flow control. Classes and OOP can come way, way later.

    I started with C++. Also multiparadigm, but the syntax and compiler errors were brutal, not to mention pointer arithmetic.

    I'm not sure I can think of a language that would be better suited to learning. GDScript seemed kind of nice, and you get to make games.

  • nuanceposting
  • I don't think this is a good example of class struggle, at least not directly. The bear meme is valid in as much as it describes one woman's feelings, but the truth is that in 85-90% of cases, the woman knows her attacker1. The random man is simply not the issue.

    The issue is power disparity. Teacher vs student, employer vs worker, landlord vs tenant. It's difficult to reduce the power difference due to physical strength, but the others are all changeable. More (meaningful) oversight for police, better tenancy boards, and stronger unions are all examples of structures that might make it harder to victimize women.

    Class struggle explains economic, and maybe political power, but those are not the only types of power in play.

    And if I'm wrong? Then we've made a better society for nothing.

    1 https://nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/most-victims-know-their-attacker

  • [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism?
  • Many people who aren't vegan still choose free range eggs, organic beef, fair trade coffee and chocolate.

    The 500 mile diet is absolutely a moral choice, even if it includes meat.

    Albertans preferentially eating large amounts of Alberta beef is viewed as a virtue there. Veganism is viewed as immoral, unalbertan (amongst some communities).