We've been talking about The Year of the Linux Desktop for over 30 years. Now it's clearer then ever that such a year is never going to happen. Meanwhile, Linux has become the server OS of choice - and that's not likely to change for a long, long time. Linux has even become the OS of choice for embedded environments as well, so long as your runtime environment isn't too terribly constrained, you don't need hard real time, and human lives won't be lost if something were to go wrong. That's a lot of places where Linux is running. It's just not going to run on many desktops. I take that as a win.
Falling to phones and tablets, not Linux desktops. Fewer and fewer people even want a desktop. Normies don't give a crap about Linux and haven't given a crap for over 30 years.
Exactly. Trump has zero sense of humor. Warsh should submit a written, formal complaint to Congress documenting the matter and his concern over the independence of the Fed. This becomes part of the Congressional record.
Peter Thiel may be brilliant, but the picture that’s emerged over time - including his associations — doesn’t suggest a particularly moral man. And he’s hardly unique. Much of the tech elite appears profoundly ethically compromised, insulated by wealth and influence from the consequences that apply to everyone else.
I'll second this. I've worked for multiple Fortune 200 companies as an enterprise architect and I can tell you there is years worth of work in the backlog that development teams aren't even aware of. If they knew, they'd be more stressed-out than they are currently!
AI is a productivity-enhancement tool. We're working on getting real numbers, but what we'll do is go to our other backlog of work (not the mainstream backlog I was talking about above) that was "shelved" because the ROI didn't make sense. Well, with increased productivity it might make sense now. That would add even more work to the backlog.
I get it. A lot of people here on HN pay attention to FAANG and startups. Well, the FAANG companies are now decades old and have pretty much run their course. Startups have always been dicey, but nowadays we're back to the model before the mid-90s where industry experience mattered more than being a so-called "serial entrepreneur." All that is to say if you're Gen X and were in this industry back in the 80s and early 90s, then things are looking very familiar.
This headline was pretty much true 5 years ago, 10 years ago, 15 years ago...
Don't get me wrong, I think Hurd is interesting, but I seriously doubt it's going to have a big impact on anything as it reflects the software engineering philosophies of the 1980s.
It is barely distinguishable from the first slide featured in the Phoronix article from today: https://www.phoronix.net/image.php?id=2026&image=gnu_hurd_1 It seems like there has been progress on other fronts, so I'm not sure why Phoronix ran a headline focused on very old news.
> reflects the software engineering philosophies of the 1980s.
It has a microkernel architecture. That's already an improvement over the "modern" monolithic kernels we are stuck with today. Given Big Tech's interest in hardening security and sandboxing you'd think this would get more attention.
True but it's not exactly new. I remember Andrew Tanenbaum and Linus Torvald's heated discussions in the early 90s :) Minix featured a microkernel before linux existed.
Yeah, but we are still far off making it mainstream beyond some key use cases, QNX, INTEGRITY, language runtimes on top of type 1 hypervisors, all kernel extension points being pushed into userspace across Apple,Google,Microsoft offerings, Nintendo Switch,....
Why do people use The Last Answer by Isaac Asiimov to justify that dying is ok? If anything I find it a great reason to not like the idea of an afterlife.
But living as a human, you can do so much more than just thinking.
What’s the real difference between life and afterlife? Death is what gives life its shape. It defines, sharpens, and focuses it. Humans need finitude to act with purpose. Without death, we’d end up with centuries-old adolescents — infinite time, no urgency, and no reason to actually live. And frankly, that sounds worse than dying.
Agree 100%. A colonoscopy is a nothing burger. Getting everything squeaky clean for the procedure is way worse than the actual procedure itself. Even without an anesthetic, you're administered a sedative and they set an IV "just in case." Even so, not a big deal at all.
I thought we discovered years ago that people retain content better when reading books than when reading e-readers? Nobody could really explain why, but that's what the results showed. I know if I'm using reading to learn new things then I learn it better when reading a book. However, I also know that good videos plus a book is even better. Which is to say I think screens may augment books, but they're not going to replace them.
There could be so many reasons for this past just whether we retain more reading on a screen or a page.
They aren't reading on e-readers, but usually laptops or tablets that have all manner of distractive apps, messaging services and notifications potentially drawing kids attention away.
A book doesn't have a popup that your friend sent you a message, or that you got a new snapchat.
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