Headed towards a gateway.

If you are having a party with lots of people, fine by me, I’ll avoid your group.

This is a much bigger problem when you are at a crowded location with strangers and you choose to play music. In that case, get some headphones.

Not if you don’t want to. It’s an option outlined in the gentoo docs but for first time gentoo users they recommend just grabbing sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel-bin

Well, I’d start by saying that linux has a superior story here vs batch files.

The most direct equivalent is bash/shell scripts. However, they are far more capable. Better conditional statements, loops, variables, text manipulation. It’s always shocking to me how limited batch files are when I’ve had to deal with them. Bash/shell are more equivalent to powershell if you are familiar with that.

But if you want something nicer/more powerful, then nearly every linux distro at this point ships with python. That’s what I’d probably use if I needed more than 100 lines of code. As a bonus you can also install python on windows/mac and keep using those scripts.

If I wanted to install something additionally though, then I do really like the asthetics of ruby. But it’s by no means as popular.

Perl is the old guard here and it does generally exist on all linux systems. However, I think python is superior in basically every way.

The process of installing gentoo and arch is nearly identical. Really the main difference between the two is that arch (usually) offers binaries to install while gentoo prefers that you compile things (though it does actually allow you to use binaries as well).

I suppose my very basic knowledge of terminal isn’t enough to install Gentoo, even with the handbook.

Nope. The gentoo handbook is VERY good. Don’t skip parts on it and you can install a gentoo. You really don’t need very advanced terminal skills to get gentoo up and running. So long as you understand basics like cd/nano/ls/cat then you can pretty easily do the entire handbook.

One thing to realize is that you can always go backwards and fix things if you make a mistake. Nothing is permanent. If you get into a “why isn’t this working” state, just go back and see if you’ve skipped something.

I’m paying for kagi exactly because of all this BS. Results tend to be decent for the most part.

I like to subscribe to the “magic makes it’s users imbeciles” fan theory. (Though the truth is that JK just isn’t all that bright).

It isn’t that the killing spell is unblockable. Harry and his mom managed to block it twice. But apparently magicians in HP universe are just completely dumb and unwilling or incapable of innovation. That was spelled out clearly in book 1 where an elementary logic puzzle was seen a good way to protect the greatest treasure on earth.

Ron’s dad, for example, lived in England. He could wander the muggle streets freely if he wanted to. He had a deep fascination of basic muggle items, yet he didn’t just go to his local library to check out a book or log on to the internet to learn about things that were his passion.

Yup. In basically all terms, rail is more efficient than airplanes.

The only thing that makes Amtrak less efficient in the US is the fact that it’s unused. And the reason it’s unused is because it’s an afterthought in government spending.

1. Amtrak isn’t funded by the US government. They have to extract all their funding from operations.

2. Amtrak’s service is bad mainly because the line operators have found ways to make it impossible to effectively operate. That means late and long delayed trains with unpredictable arrival/departure times.

3. Amtrak is slow, mainly because it has almost no dedicated lines. It has to share them with line operators.

4. Very few people use amtrak.

The end result is a high price. Few people using amtrak means it has to hike ticket prices up.

The only way for Amtrak to get better is extensive investment by the feds and regulation of rail lines in general. Without that, as you’ve correctly observed it will always be disadvantaged compared to other modes of transport.

But hey, the war in Iran might make it cheaper than driving so that’s something.

I looked at the lawsuit details. Steam basically did what everyone else does. Apple, google, EA, everyone.

They charge 30% of the sale. They require that the steam price be the same as an external price.

It’s the most nothing of nothings.

To compare, what MS did when they got smacked with their monopoly lawsuit is bundle IE with the OS and they both made it hard to switch the default and they’d constantly try to switch you back to IE.

Red green color blindness is the most common form of color blindness.

To someone with that form of color blindness these shirts would be different shades of the same color (think, dark red vs light red).

I have one coworker with red green color blindness that said that peanut butter and zucchinis were roughly the same color to him (Oh, it’s also more common in men than women).

Silly commenter.

L1 cache shouldn’t be large. Increasing the size of the L1 cache increases the latency. Maybe if you shrink the size of the cloths you wear you can squeeze more into the chair, but the ideal L1 cache has to minimize it’s distance from processing. Oversizing adds latency.

Your L2 cache is where you generally try and shove a much bigger cache into it, but it’s still got a size constraint for the latency you are after. Further, typically L1 and L2 only serve 1 CPU. To multi-process stuff you’ll typically need an even larger L3 cache which is shared among cores.

So the cloths on your chair should be minimal for fast access (L1). You can put more cloths on your bed and dressers or in laundry baskets that can be promoted to the chair if you start needing them more often (L2). You can throw a bunch of cloths into a pile in the corner which sit there for a few years and serve many occasions (L3).

The worst thing is going back to main memory (your closet) to search for specialty cloths you are ultimately going to need to send back to the closet. And heavy help you if you have to swap (do laundry).

This is, unfortunately, just typical of the gaming industry in general.

Effectively for all these game studios, everyone is on contract for the duration of the project. Once that finishes, they fire everyone and let them compete for the next contract. Because the game industry is highly competitive and having “EA” on your resume is impressive, they can get away with this behavior as they can always find more bodies to work. It allows EA to continually pay shit and have a bad working environment because people yern to do something creative.

I had that recently. The call and meeting “here’s x, can you do x?” Me: “yes”.

Was a bit crazy.

As a younger teen trying to get starcraft running on my linux box, my parents were definitely upset when they saw me browsing “winehq”. They thought I was trying to get booze shipped to our house :D

Much like the law should allow people to cancel any subscription created online, online, the law should mandate clear times when and where advertisement is allowed with opt out options.

If Samsung wants to advertise to me on a product, that should have to pay me $10/month to send those adverts.

Yes.

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/articles/24324-birth-control-sponge

Condoms are far more effective.

All containers are, are isolated preccesses so its barely different than launching any other process.

The two biggest differences are that containers use more disk space vs non-containers and that containers won’t use shared libraries. That means that instead of loading up 1 version of glibc for most of the OS, you end up with n containers glibcs loaded up.

Practically speaking, this isn’t really a huge deal. A lot of those libraries fit in less than 1mb. A disaster if this was my childhood computer. A non-issue on modern systems with more than 512mb of ram.

What can I say, I’m a performance nerd.