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Which have all descended, or are in the process of descending, into suckitude because of business issues rather than technical ones. And trying to replace programmers with LLMs is fundamentally a business issue.

I will have to remember not to use that command anymore. 'Scuse me while I clean up the hairball . . .

Hmm. "Couldn't rule out" ≠ "does". I can understand wanting to hold a claim of damage to a slightly higher standard of proof. I can also understand wanting to err on the side of caution.

On trhe one hand, this looks like a nothingburger to me—likely this stuff is no more dangerous than, say, table salt (which no one expects to completely remove from processed foods even though it has known medical risks associated with it).

On the other hand, titanium dioxide is just a colourant, so taking it out doesn't alter the food in any way that matters.

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It takes a few seconds to type a password in manually as well, but people seem to regard the time differently if they're actively doing something than if they're passively waiting for something to happen. Nontechnical users regard computers and other devices as black boxes that should respond instantly to stimuli, the way purely analog equipment does. If it doesn't, many of them treat it as broken.

Security and convenience (not "speed") always pull in opposite directions. The thing is that experts always seem to advise using the highest level of security even for trivial accounts. This creates unnecessary friction, with the result that the average person drops the effective level of security even for important accounts in order to get rid of it. This is not a new problem, just a bad article on an old problem.

(As for cryptocurrency, just don't.)

Historically, there have been cases where a single large steam-heat or hot water system served multiple buildings on a corporate or university campus, or even several ciy blocks (I think that was in New York). No reason you couldn't do the same with a heat pump.

Anyone who is actually surprised by this has not been paying attention.

Another good reason to stay away from the US in general and Georgia in particular.

The people who should be working on the appointments have other responsibilities that they consider more urgent? Obsolete or otherwise problematic requirements make it difficult to find suitable candidates? Candidates who are suitable refuse the positions when offered?

(More than likely it's just the usual combination of outright screwups with childish bureacratic infighting, though.)

Rolling release distros don't do this. Gentoo isn't versioned. I'd guess that Arch isn't either. Not that you're the first person to look at an issue that exists only with some distros and assume it extends to all of Linux (and I doubt you'll be the last).

There are plenty of them still around—much of the Boomer generation was in elementary school before widespread administration of MMR and polio vaccines, or at least knew people a few years older who were. Thing is, they're not the ones making the decisions about whether to vaccinate youngsters these days. Their own kids—GenX like me (and I suspect you as well), and some early Millenials—all got the vaccines.

There are two different RDP implementations in Linux: freerdp (which is the underlying library for remmina as well) and rdesktop. Each has its own set of bugs. No idea if rdesktop offers better support for what you want to do—I use it, but I only have single-monitor setups at both ends. (It has an annoying bug that can make it require multiple attempts to establish a connection, though.)

This sort of thing is why I went with an established, for-pay email provider (fastmail). I mean, they might still sell out if someone made them an attractive enough offer, but they're not looking for offers the way a recent startup would be, and it's obvious where they get the cashflow to sustain the business from.

Tried to register with gitlab three times some months back to file a bug against qemu. It rejected my registration silently every time (as in, it appeared to take it but never sent a confirmation email, not even one that got mistaken for spam). I gave up on filing the bug.

Some of the initial carjackings may be opportunistic, but the people shipping the stolen cars out of the country are definitely organized.

Or sed the existing config file at the end of your script.

Save you from reading the author’s life story.

I can probably do that and still have time to spend in the washroom before the video is over. Some of us read fast.

If no investigator his completed all the required courses, then either the requirements are unreasonable, or the agency is so incompetently administered that it should implode into a black hole. I knew it was probably bad, but I wasn't expecting this.

We do have to adhere to Betteridge's law of headlines, after all.

And the issue that does exist doesn't even require Linux to be installed, technically. Unless you're an IT pro administering large numbers of systems that boot from a network disk image, there is nothing for you to worry about here.