"Hurr durr I'ma sheep" AKA Linux 4.0
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There's a Python 3?
Yes. It's enough incompatible with Python 2 to have made a lot of people rather reluctant to upgrade their production code. Brillant!
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That depends. Do you consider Raymond Chen a reliable source?
That's the 3.1->95 changeover, though. Pendantically, it doesn't confirm "why Windows 9 was skipped".
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That depends. Do you consider Raymond Chen a reliable source?
@Matt from Raymond's blog comments said:
It's absolutely stunning how much poor quality software is out there. Just stunning.
What constantly frustrates me are applications that won't run on newer operating systems... yet drivers that WILL allow themselves to be installed on newer operating systems.
Maybe the industry could come up with a highly visible "hall of shame" for these instances. (Hey, I can dream.)
And thus, The Daily WTF was born
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My point exactly!
It provides confirmation that this sorry of trickery had been done before, not that it happened this time.
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http://thedailywtf.com/articles/Wheres-Windows (scroll to bottom)
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It's absolutely stunning how much poor quality software is out there. Just stunning.
Poor quality software is always going to be faster to develop than good quality software, because all you have to do to turn potentially good software into complete crap is leave out all that time-consuming QA.
As fans of the Singularity have often observed, the pace of technological change is increasing. More and more software gets pushed out every year.
Poor quality software therefore has a competitive edge over good quality software and will eventually displace it altogether, forming an event horizon around the Singularity at which we will simply hang motionless forever.
I can't take transhumanism seriously, as I am completely awed by the majestic scale of human incompetence.
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I can't take transhumanism seriously, as I am completely awed by the majestic scale of human incompetence.
The singularity is coming. It involves cute fox videos.
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Poor quality software therefore has a competitive edge over good quality software and will eventually displace it altogether, forming an event horizon around the Singularity at which we will simply hang motionless forever.
I predict the Singularity will look like an endlessly repeating Screen of Death...
The History of the BSOD (Blue Screen of Death) – 02:33
— Computer ClanDeath Screens and Various Other Errors – 17:49
— TheDash456
Maybe ten years ago, I installed a "BSOD" screensaver on my work PC for shits & giggles. It ran a short looping animation of windows booting followed by a blue screen. One day I went to a meeting and when I returned to my desk I found there was a random IT guy there, who had taken it upon himself to reimage my PC (without asking anyone), as he said "it was repeatedly crashing". Thanks, random IT guy, I guess I only lost a day or so's work thanks to your "diligence"... Anyway, I didn't install that screensaver at work again.
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I predict the Singularity will look like an endlessly repeating Screen of Death
Well I woke up this morning
Got a STOP 0x0000007B
Yeah I woke up this morning
Got a STOP 0x0000007B
Loop forever on my blue screen
Fucken immortality!I got the cheap and shitty cloud plan BSOD human upload blues
HP Offers 'That Cloud Thing Everyone Is Talking About' – 02:10
— The Onion
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"it's so simple and intuitive I don't need to waste your time explaining it..."
Also:
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s/cloud/clown/
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Think I can one-up that...
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Any repercussions from that incident?
I had to do about 4-6 hours work again really quickly, although it was a lot easier the second time. I learned a lesson, and I like to think the IT guy did too...
(TBH, it wasn't worth me escalating it to try and get the guy in trouble, so I just verbally disapproved of his actions...)
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When Linux 3.0 went out, it broke a number of kernel drivers which were checking versions numbers like this:
if (major < 2 || minor < 6) { /* kernel version < 2.6... or is it? */ }
I wonder what will break this time...
24 Oct 2015 update: As of today, Bochs 2.6 is still breaking because of the new kernel version, more than six months later. Happy birthday to me!
Filed Under: or is Portage not getting updated for four months TRWTF? I'm not sure, it could be that they fixed it in May and the Gentoo folx still didn't notice.
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or is Portage not getting updated for four months TRWTF? I'm not sure, it could be that they fixed it in May and the Gentoo folx still didn't notice.
That is TRWTF anything but Cinnamon DE on Fedora is
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24 Oct 2015 update: As of today, Bochs 2.6 is still breaking because of the new kernel version, more than six months later. Happy birthday to me!
The magic of Open Source - no one is going to fix your problem for you, so write the goddamn patch already!
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Jumping through multiple hoops
The correct invocation is two commands. So multiple is correct only if it is not several. If like most people you use
--nogpgcheck
then it is just one command, and multiple would be an incorrect term.
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ThreeToo true. I'll see if I can get to that sometime soon.