Back in the day when embedded devices are running Linux kernel 2.6, the kernel is gzipped and saved to an SPI flash, then extracted to RAM and run from there.

Does that sound immutable enough to you?

The decision on this design wasn’t for an immutable system, but just that flash chips were expensive. Immutability was an accidental achievement.

Actually we developers dreamed every day we can directly modify the operating system ad hoc, not needing to go through the compile-flash-boot agonising process just to debug a config file.

You see, my point is, when a system is in good hands, it just does not break. End of story.

Maybe the next time before you guys press Enter after pacman -Syyu (not exclusively saying your distro is bad, Arch pals, sorry), think about the risk and recovery plan. If you are just an end user expecting 100% uptime and rarely contributing (reporting bugs at least), consider switch to a more stable distro (I heard Debian is good), and ask yourself if you want an immutable distro, or do you just want a super stable system.

You could have booted the old kernel in Grub.

I think “atomic” means “a bunch of actions grouped together as one action”, so that the system won’t end up in a state where some required actions are missing and becomes unusable. But it doesn’t mean it’s unto itself making a system unbreakable: If your system starts in a state of malfunctioning, then it also takes a series of actions to fix it, be it atomic or not.

Most Linux distributions start in the state of functioning after installation.

Tried multiple attempts to make myself understand CMake with no success. With GNU Make it just explains itself.

-Thanks for saving us, Mr. Zelda.

-My name is Link.

-Then who’s this Zelda?

-You won’t see her until the end of the game.

-She’s a “her”?

-Yes, she’s the princess of… uh… Never mind. Let me show you this cool bomb I picked up in the last room.

I don’t recall doing any regular updates

You needed to buy a modem to get online

If you stay offline, you don’t need upgrading to prevent virus or hacking. That’s the norm in the good old days.

I support indie developers. I loved World of Goo 1.

Sorry, but your argument is very weak. A pirated version of a game would not have additional features for no reason. A poorly done port is a poorly done port. There is no excuse of it. It may work well on the touchscreen, but I enjoy playing on my TV more.

And I am not a petty person who pirate everything as I assume you think. All I said is World of Goo 2 has unplayable control in docked mode on Switch. I would give my money to Windows/Mac/Linux version instead, where I can use a mouse.

But control scheme aside, I don’t find the stages of it challenging and interesting enough for me to buy the game. In fact I stopped playing after stage 3 or so.

Not sure about it on PS5. I tried (pirated) it on Switch. The experience is awful, mostly because of the control was originally designed for a mouse. They mapped the mouse movement to the sticks and called it a final product. It’s unplayable to me.

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This trend is quite an explosion.

Same word pronounced differently in three languages.

Do you want to take a genetic modification and let the new DNA alter your body for 40 years for it to take effect, or do you want to become a comic character?

If the pizza was taken a bite in panel 3, then it’s also bitten in panel 4, then it’s also bitten already in panel 2 because it’s taken from panel 4, then it can’t be bitten in panel 3. It contradicts with itself. The pizza cannot be bitten.

And now we know that the pizza can’t be altered in any way. It can be large, hot, freezing, or small.

One, and only one scenario of these defies physics the least, and you know which one it is.

You know what they say: (⁠☞⁠ ͡⁠°⁠ ͜⁠ʖ⁠ ͡⁠°⁠)⁠☞Fight executive’s bullshit with executive’s bullshit.

Personally I would happily let my AI bot attend the stupid scrum meetings for me. Let it tell my scrum master and stakeholders whatever the progress of my day of work and in the sprint. Don’t bother me in my coding time.

Well, with root enabled, the SSH server at least need to verify the key, no? It’s wasting CPU power albeit tiny amount.

I don’t need to. I can feel the sweet death threat every time I cross the road on the zebra lines without traffic lights.

Perhaps change the dialog to:

-How’s research going?

-There is nothing but rocks here. Mission complete.

-You’re a rock analysis robot. You’re here to research rocks.

Do you just want to see the text content of a HTML file? - a text editor

Do you want most, if not all, HTML tags to be rendered as pretty graphical shapes?

Do you want the text have proper fonts?

Styles? You need something to parse CSS files.

What about dynamically generated content like ten smiley faces? You need a JavaScript engine.

Do you also want to see iframes? You need it to be capable of sending XHR requests.

What if it references to a piece of WebAssembly?

It’s way more complicated than you anticipated.

I’ll save y’all some time. The intervewee said,

is not an exorbitant price

It’s an interesting product

Yeah, this feels like $9.99 is not an exorbitant price. It feels like a good value for what you’re getting out of the product.

You know when you repost someone else’s work, you should at least say who made it, right?

AI-generated artwork has thousands if not millions artists’ names attached to it.