Posts by Missing Semicolon 2367 publicly visible posts • joined 18 Nov 2013
I wonder if the financial wizards behind this have worked out that IPv4 addresses are an appreciating asset. Companies using this facility are by definition in trouble, so a significant number will go under. The plan may be to get a controlling proportion of the available address space, and so control the price.
<fanboy>If you want a nice 13-inch device, that does not lock down what you run on it, you need a Framework 13. If you are a shell-using, Python-wrangling power user, you run a Linux Distro on it. Nice 3:2 screen, as much storage as you want, pick-your-processor, loads of I/O. When they launch an AI-capable motherboard, you just upgrade!
And of course upgradable, replaceable battery, yada, yada. And less than a MacBook.
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And that is the problem with C++. When it was just C-wirh-classes, or structs-with-methods, normal human beings could conceive how it works
But operator-overloading, templates, generics, and all the rest of the clever syntax that makes declarations look like a fandango on the shifted numeric row just ensure that only the elite practitioners can actually cope.
C++ jumped the shark years ago.
But, nothing actually happens about this kind of thing. The move to the Cloud, and rampant offshoring, reduces reliability and availability. But the customers are trained (resigned) to not being able to access their accounts occasionally, so banks no longer need 24/7/365 reliability. Azure will do.
TLDR; All software and systems are now shit. So why bother spending money that your competitor isn't spending?
Most States do not. Even California just does a "smog test" for emissions, but the basic vehicle safety features (steering, brakes) are not checked. Watch the many US-based automotive repair YT channels for the kinds of rotted-out deathtraps that are on the road.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_inspection_in_the_United_States
These high-growth countries have one thing in common. They understand that a prosperous economy is full of people doing productive things. In order fo this to happen, there must be businesses employing the people.
So these high-growth economies don't import anything they don't have to, instead ensuring that local demand is satisfied by local business. This is achieved by regulation or by direct import controls/tariffs.
However, our lords and masters could not conceive of upsetting the Globalist gravy train, so successive governments of all stripes have either watched as local industry dies, or actively worked to ensure it's failure.
Labour would rather people all worked for the State, and the Tories don't like pissing off the financial services industry, which runs on globalisation.
2 things:
1) SystemD re-implements some features. But it does so in an unexpected and worse way. For example, fstab mounts used to fail-soft, leaving you with a system which while broken, could at least be logged in to to fix it. Now, mount fails are fatal. Ands since the mounting (for swap files) happens in initrd, just patching fstab frm a rescue disk doesn't fix it.
2) It does not work like it's documented. I was trying to implement a script that runs on shutdown before the users are logged out. It seems that the user sessions are ended, and their processes killed, before any unit shutdowns are processed.
2.1) Oh, yes, changed defaults to suit LP's desktop. It used to be that processes started by users lived after the user logged out. Because he got fed up with Gnome desktop processes being left over on session end, he unilaterally changed the default to kill all processes on logout. You can disable this, but it surprises you when you first upgrade from SysVinit.
To be fair, the perception is that the whole system has become so ossified, so encrusted with stuff that happens because it's always happened, and little projects that are nothing to do with running a country, that doing the IT thing of just switching it off and seeing what stops working is the only solution.
USAID was a really bad case of that.
There are organisations who have become comfortable with the constant drip of State cash who need to have hard questions asked.
If they just reviewed everything, 40 years would not be enough to review each one.
Reading the comments in the thread, there definitely seems to be a case of "I enable the Rust components, I change some Code, it stops building. If I disable the Rust build, it works again". That sounds like there needs to be more work on the shim layers to be less fragile.
I can see that one might get unhappy if you say "this breaks things" and you get the response "our code must go in, and you must help maintain it!"
It would help if we had a government who were determined to improve the situation. They seem to be hell-bent on doing the opposite.
It could be ideology, it might well be incompetence, but is there a chance they are deliberately doing it so that the only way out is to abase ourselves before the IMF and the European Commission?
https://www.nbclosangeles.com/investigations/outside-investigations-to-examine-ladwps-empty-reservoir-during-palisades-fire/3617569/
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-01-22/why-has-a-reservoir-in-palisades-stood-empty-for-a-year
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/la-fires-santa-ynez-reservoir-pacific-palisades-california/
The hydrants ran dry, for various reasons. You build next to fire canyons, you need effective fire response resources.
