It's a Windows Subsystem that provides Linux, in addition to the Windows Subsystem that provides Win32, and the old Windows Subsystem that provided Unix, and the Windows Subsystem that provided OS/2.

If NT had ended up with as many supported APIs as VMS had, we'd probably find the term mundane.

The original version of Palpatine was a lot closer (since he was inspired by Nixon), but he didn't survive the initial wave of changes after Star Wars turned into a mega-hit worthy of high-budget sequels.

Where are you seeing that? The BLS data from two years ago that the parent commenter linked has a mean of 258k and a median of 209k: http://www.bls.gov/oes/2023/m...

Before the prequels, it was originally a reference to Samuel Butler's late 19th century think piece about not letting machines dictate our decisions, and how that would inevitably lead to machine evolution, where the successful machines are the ones that get humans to make more machines and defer to their needs and logic. I don't think it was even explicitly about sentience, just that we'd create our own parasites.

So Dune had humans doing all the data analyses and making all decisions, with machines at least several steps away. There were also some hints of a Talmudic solution where operations that we'd use computation for were instead done by intricate mechanical devices. Apparently, the Orange Catholic god can't tell when you encode the logic to a physical process.

Last time I looked (which was already years ago), it seemed like everyone involved in KDE 4, Plasma, and the semantic desktop had left. Plasma has certainly improved, but Akonadi is still there doing unspeakable things to its poor database.

Remember the KDE tablet that got delayed again and again as they found out the suppliers would swap out components whenever it was cost effective?

I do chuckle whenever someone asks why KDE doesn't write its own display manager.

Last I heard about it, that kind of share voting restrictions weren't allowed for new stock issues. I don't remember if it was even applied for new buyers of existing Smuckers shares, or even completely stopped for existing owners, but it was in the courts.

Didn't we go through this with all the planets that were reclassified as "asteroids" when the term was coined? In the mid 19th century, there were a lot of planets in the solar system. If they weren't going to repeat that with the Kuiper Belt objects, Pluto should have been reclassified as soon as we started finding more.

We know that lack of exposure to peanuts as a baby can cause it (or exposure can prevent it, whichever way you want to see it). Studies with ethnic groups in the US and abroad where the US population didn't have peanuts in their babies' diets basically ruled out strong genetic factors.

Now, I doubt the US baby peanut intake used to be high, so there's probably another thing causing the allergy to manifest after they're not pre-emptively exposed.

I remember that unlocking medic abilities required sitting in-game in a first aid class and then taking and passing a test. It was pretty much the same as Boy Scout first aid, plus tourniquets.

It's funny that the "biblical definitions" party never seems to use actual biblical punishments. Death for wearing mixed fabrics, two shekel damages to the father for causing a miscarriage. Mike Johnson's bible that he references must have some heavily redacted books of Deuteronomy and Leviticus.

What AnandTech article (from the good old days) were you reading in two minutes? AnandTech used to have details of system bus design, microarchitectural choices and tradeoffs, radio encodings, transistor operation, etc. Alternate question: do you listen to hard science or engineering audio textbooks while cooking dinner? That's the kind of information I appreciated getting from AnandTech, not "phone X has 5 hours of battery life and gets 4 more FPS than phone Y did."

AnandTech had detailed technical information, written by people who understood what they were talking about. Any time I read an AnandTech article, it was something I needed to pay attention to and learn from. It wouldn't be worth listening and half paying attention to.

Crowdstrike caused Linux kernel panics last month: http://access.redhat.com/solu...

From what I read when they dropped to 2 years, these LTS branches aren't updated in a consistent manner by the various subsystem maintainers. Google just cares that security-relevant fixes are backported, and otherwise that it doesn't break out-of-tree or just rarely tested drivers. But actual LTS distros have more behavior to preserve, and probably care about a mostly different set of drivers than Android uses.

When they announced dropping to two years, the explanation was that Google had convinced the Linux kernel community to adopt the six year LTS model based on their needs, and none of the other commercial LTS players abandoned their existing approach and business model to hop on. And the LTS process didn't actually make the guarantees that other hardware producers needed. So for the most part, the only group benefiting from the community's work was Google.

Maybe if Red Hat, SuSE, and Canonical had decided to jump in with their next releases and push for the LTS branch to actually get or not get backports consistent with their sales pitches and philosophies it could have worked, but that didn't happen AFAIK.