Well yeah, he fired the head of the agency that produces the stats when he didn't like the numbers.

My old Sony Ericsson T616 was inferior to my smartphone in so many ways, but I could tap out SMS messages on that keypad without having to look at it. It was handy to be able to take notes on long drives.

You can use ZFS to replicate your VMs. IIRC each VM has its own ZFS dataset. There's probably a config file somewhere that you also need to replicate.

> You can extend this analogy to pretty much every aspect of society. I see it every day working in financial services, in the stubborn resistance to new payments, lending, and compliance technology.

Translation: Why doesn't every person change to fit my way of seeing the world?

This is the other big thread: https://old.reddit.com/r/AlaskaAirlines/comments/1oehxxv/who...

Nope, no snow in Seattle yesterday.

What gave you the impression that this happened yesterday?

Is it related to automobile wheels always seeming to have odd-numbered spokes?

That has to do with the physics of harmonic vibration.

It's not that you can't make even numbers of spokes balanced, it's just marginally easier to do odd numbers.

Back in ye-olden days when things sucked there were more manufacturing benefits to it too but these days (this century) that doesn't really matter because even the sloppiest casting factory in china has their stuff figured out.

There are plenty of six spoke wheels?

It's pretty easy to enable things like pip-cache (for pypi) so your machines don't have to hit the package servers for each and every install. We should all be doing this. Maybe the tools could be modified to have caching on by defailt?

If the costs were all bandwidth related I would agree. Most open source package managers benefit from Fastly's generous donation of credits. Even if one ignores the single-provider-point-of-failure risk, the reality is that the development and operational costs of running package managers is much more than just networking bandwidth and more is needed.

Malware scanning, AI slopsquatting, and typosquatting are just a few of the things that package managers do today. Implementing emerging standards like Trusted Publishing ( https://repos.openssf.org/trusted-publishers-for-all-package... ), the Principles for Package Repository Security ( https://repos.openssf.org/principles-for-package-repository-... ), and improved infrastructure hardening will all important.

The key insight is that these are services that require development and operations budgets that scale with their usage.

Brevity is for the weak. It is pronounced "command line".

The Cogmind dev made his own tool called REXPaint which is mentioned elsewhere on this page.

Yeah I'm very familiar with Josh Ge and Rex - my current project uses rex files for loading images - I just have a lot of metadata I bake in through hacky ways and rex format is not very flexible - rexpaint is great though