mkwt

mkwt , 1 day ago to 196 in micrulesoft

Really, I think rtfm culture predates Windows by a good bit.

mkwt , 1 day ago to Technology in Russia has escalated its information war against Moldova joining the European Union

Pro tip: EU membership comes with its own defense pact among just the EU members. Whether you join NATO or not.

mkwt , 2 days ago to Mildly Infuriating in This Undersized Captcha Window

Get a bigger monitor, just like the software dev has.

mkwt , 7 days ago to Technology in NASA and Boeing say Starliner astronauts ‘are not stranded,’ but will be on the ISS for a few more weeks

Except the "emergency capsule" is all of them, including Starliner. Because Starliner is perfectly capable of returning to earth safely.

Because every thruster that has shut down has hot fired okay, and the known helium leaks still leave enough margin to cover several multiples of the 5 hours or so of RCS operation that you need to get to landing.

mkwt , 19 days ago to 196 in lemmy user(ule)s: "this sign won't stop me because i can't read"

To be fair to Airbus,

1. They probably chose the language for that call-out way before 2009. Airplanes can live for thirty years, and type designs can keep going several decades longer

2. The designers were also likely to be French, but they selected English call-outs. This seems to me like a case where they picked a word that's technically in the OED l, but is actually much more common in French.

mkwt , 1 month ago to linuxmemes in Switched to linux before it became mainstream

I think my mother played that star trek game on a time shared minicomputer.

mkwt , 1 month ago to linuxmemes in Init wars part 1

Let us all remember that, at least back when it started, the establishment alternative to systemd was a product named after its original operating system, System V UNIX, which is a direct descendent of the original UNIX from AT&T. This sysvinit software used complicated shell scripts to manage daemons. Contrary to some opinions, these shell scripts were not "just working"; they were in fact a constant and major maintenance burden for Linux distributions. When I started on Linux at least, Debian had a suspiciously large fraction of bugs on init script breakages.

All this is to say that the new system, systemd, doesn't have to be anywhere near perfect to be worth replacing sysvinit.

People argue that systemd is rejecting the "UNIX philosophy" of small tools that do one thing well. I argue that this UNIX philosophy is not some kind of universal good with no tradeoffs. It's an engineering rule of thumb. There are always tradeoffs.

People argue that systemd is too much like Windows NT. I argue that Windows NT has at least a few good ideas in it. And if one of those ideas solves a problem that Linux has, Linux should use that idea.

mkwt , 1 month ago to 196 in Math Rule

Well, it's a weightless chicken at least, because this model's got no gravity.

mkwt , 1 month ago to Memes in Last one, i've been farming Ai for memes but last one with lore

These are all general opinion statements. There aren't any verifiable facts like, "on this date at a meeting with x we discussed how AI project y is myopic and non-user-centered."

mkwt , 1 month ago to Memes in Piracy

To be fair it might actually be possible to find smut there.

mkwt , 1 month ago to 196 in Rule

Somebody who is less lazy than me should try to translate the glyphs.

mkwt , 1 month ago to linuxmemes in "LiNuX uSeR iNsTaLlInG A BrOwSeR haha" meanwhile :

Pay no attention to gconf, dconf, GSettings, or whatever else there is.

mkwt , 1 month ago to Fuck Cars in Weird

That many people would sure help if you have two miles off poles to install.

mkwt , 1 month ago to Memes in What have the Roman's ever done for us?!?!

Noooooooooooo

mkwt , 1 month ago to Memes in Just one more lane

The loading and unloading is a pain.