Unless we have a headline "Is Betteridge's law wrong?"

I wish that Windows would work when I boot it up again.

W10 was getting pretty fair, but as usual, Microsoft pushed another dog's breakfast out the door, and W11 is a disaster IMO. DDG'ing Windows 11 is a disaster shows that even Microsoft admits that. So if people are pissed about all the Linux distros, I wonder what they think about the various Windows versions Things like Basic, Home, Pro,Enterprise?

All that said, if a person is pleased with th eWindows experience, I believe they should use it and be happy, the worlds largest installed user base have to be using the best OS I mean if it wasn't teh best, it wouldn't be the biggest. For me, Windows is the VHS of OS's, or for the car people, Windows is like Lucas Electrics.

So is present day MacOS.

So, there's tons of improvements and changes that can be made to the Unix baseline to bring the system up to 2020's expectations. But anytime you give 100 passionate people open source that needs lots of changes, you end up with 110 different sets of changes. Plus, you have completely disparate sets of users (Developers, Home users, Internet operations, Datacenters, etc) who have orthogonal use cases, so there is a constant tension between changes that are good for one group vs. changes that are good for another.

Yes, everyone has a different "only way it can be done". While it might make for a lot of grumbling, I think that having many people weighing in on the development side has some advantages. If someone wants to say put ads in places they shouldn't be, there will be a lot of pushback.

I think W11 is far below mediocre. What I am concerned about is that most other versions improved over time, W11 is getting worse. I just went through a reboot loop after an update, some bizarre onedrive problems, while I had it disabled, re-enabled it, that moved applications and support files to onedrive, which made a mess and I ended up removing onedrive totally. And other travails.

Sure as hell, my MacOS and Linux computers simply work pretty well, while the Windows experience, never all that great - is downright unacceptable at this point. I want the operating system to boot, allow me to run my programs, then get the hell out of the way.

And hella more if Distrowatch is any guide. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdistrowatch.com%2F they only do a top 100 listing. I've never been bothered by the plethora of distros. I've noticed a lot of people who get into Linux use Distrowatch as a sort of of playground, trying out distros as a sort of hobby. I did that for a while, after which I figured they are all pretty similar.

I tell the curious to install Mint, run it from a thumb drive, understanding it will be slow that way, then install if they like, and have fun. I have a guy in my classes who is doing that right now - even though I told him that we were standardized on Mint, and if he did have issues, it will slow down the troubleshooting. Damn Linux people don't listen for crap! ;^)

I think a longer development cycle is actually a very good thing.

Many of us are trying to get work done. Not have the model of one particular company who would have us believe that the most important thing is the Operating System. All those applications and the work done on the computer is far less important. Irrelevant in fact.

This! It is hard to imagine that we have people in here claiming this is some sort of highly focused operation, with the results that the adversary now has control of the gulf of hormuz, and the Republicans have decided to blockade it to bitch everything up even more as a solution.

And the Republican plan for peace is that the Republican Party has determined that violence against the Vatican is part of the Republican plan, and the Republicans believe that the bible is the movie Pulp Fiction

So much winning!

You'll have to wait your turn... ;^)

Talk about a situation. Somebody somewhere made a braindead idea that attacking the whole of Iran, rather than targeting a specific thing. So now the we aer on record as planning to end an entire civilization - sounds A lot like advance notice of Genocide, the rest of the world must now obey the smallest whim of the Superpower.

Now just between us, this was some sort of victory? Shutting off our one time allies fuel supplies, and looks like it might get worse.

I'm on record as saying I understand that the Democrats made some weird decisions that cost them the 2024 elections, but if anyone voted for Trump and his merry band, you support use of nuclear weapons against anyone, support subjugation of religion if they do not support everything you want to do. and anything else the stable genius wants to do. I'll bet he tries to declare martial law with use of deadly force before this is over, Demands deadly force against all Citizens who do not obey his orders. And now, let us pray from teh Wholly babble:

“And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to capture and destroy my brother, “And you will know my call sign is Sandy 1, when I lay my vengeance upon thee.”

Words straight from teh mouth of Gawd.

Republican faith based fuel? Maybe the EU can fuel their jets with thoughts and prayers.

In reality, unless he stopped, the rest of the world is going to decide that war with the USA is inevitable, Because the Party of trump are not going to stop him. Amnd despite the rhetoric, the USA cannot subdue the entire world.

Well, around 30 years old, men start to think with their big head, not their little one.

True about the ability to have casual sexual intercourse.

As a not-young guy who is sexually active, my wife and I have had discussions about this. I could go out and find a woman to have casual sex with. A bar most likely. using the 10:1 method - If I approach 10 women, I'm going to get laid by one.

She would have an easier time, could be as little as 1:1 so she can be pretty picky. Both of us look okay, are fit and attractive enough.

But really, casual sex really ain't all that. If a woman wants to get impregnated at a club or bar, it isn't that hard, but then there is the single mom problem. Few men today want to raise another man's children.

In the end, most everyone wants to find a loving partner, and it seldom happens via casual sex.

In great irony, looking at the statistics, I'm getting laid so much more often than over 60 percent of young men who should be gelling sex regularly. I guess infinitely more, since those guys aren't in relationships or with women at all.

When I was their age.......

After you scroll down to my listing, it really isn't all that unique. Unless you are into checkboxes.Because as I'll show you, every mission can be unique after some metric. If I went to space, I'd be the first Hungarian/Polish/Italian mix to ever go. (note among my listing, of female astronauts, they have many checked as first person or female of their country. If you see my posts on Artemis II, you will note that Christina Koch is highly qualified, and I would add, perhaps the most qualified person on the voyage. Victor Glover, the male of African descent who is the pilot, is likewise highly qualified. They are Astronauts, they are elite, females have performed every mission in space, from specialist to pilot, to commander.

Who is pretending? We definitely do not live in a color blind society. And make no mistake, if you believe in race in any form, you are by definition a racist. Don't like it? You are welcome to your opinion, I respect that, and I have mine based on Science and biology,I see DNA evidence that shows that homo sapiens sapiens is a species, with extremely small and insignificant genetic differences.

And sexism abounds as well.

Okay, I might be a little insane, and I'm going to stop after the female Astronauts - I'm on vacation, and I don't need to go into the "race" of astronauts Valentina Tereshkova - first woman in space

Svetlana Savitskaya, Sally Ride, Kathryn D. Sullivan, Anna Lee Fisher, Margaret Rhea Seddon, Shannon Lucid, Bonnie Jeanne Dunbar, Mary L. Cleave Ellen S. Baker, Kathryn C. Thornton, Marsha Ivins, Linda M. Godwin, Helen Sharman, Tamara E. Jernigan, Millie Hughes-Fulford, Roberta Bondar, Nancy Jan Davis, Mae Jemison, Susan J. Helms, Ellen Ochoa, Janice E. Voss, Nancy J. Currie, Chiaki Mukai, Yelena V. Kondakova, Eileen Collins, Wendy B. Lawrence, Mary E. Weber, Catherine Coleman, Claudie Haigneré, Susan Still Kilrain, Kalpana Chawla, Kathryn P. Hire, Janet L. Kavandi, Julie Payette, Pamela Melroy, Peggy Whitson, Sandra Magnus, Laurel B. Clark, Stephanie Wilson, Lisa Nowak, Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper, Anousheh Ansari, Sunita Williams, Joan Higginbotham, Tracy Caldwell Dyson, Barbara Morgan, Yi So-yeon, Karen L. Nyberg, K. Megan McArthur, Nicole P. Stott, Dorothy Metcalf-Lindenburger, Naoko Yamazaki, Shannon Walker, Liu Yang, Wang Yaping, Yelena Serova, Samantha Cristoforetti, Kathleen Rubins, Serena Auñón-Chancellor, Anne McClain, Beth Moses, Christina Koch, Jessica Meir, Sirisha Bandla, Sian Proctor, Hayley Arceneaux, Yulia Peresild, Kayla Barron, Jessica Watkins , Nicole Aunapu Mann , Anna Kikina, Rayyanah Barnawi, Jamila Gilbert, Kelly Latimer, Keisha Schahaff, Anastatia Mayers, Jasmin Moghbeli, Loral O'Hara, Namira Salim, Ketty Maisonrouge, Lina Borozdina , Jeanette J. Epps, Marina Vasilevskaya, Sarah Gillis, Anna Menon, Wang Haoze, Nichole Ayers, Jannicke Mikkelsen, Rabea Rogge, Zena Cardman, Patricia Robertson (died before spaceflight in accident), Christa McAuliffe, Jennifer Sidey-Gibbons Backup Artemis II, Sophie Adenot, Rosemary Coogan, Meganne Christian, > Meganne Christian, Anthea Comellini, Sara García Alonso, Carmen Possnig, Amelie Schoenenwald, Nicola Winter, Katherine Bennell-Pegg, Mariam Fardous, Christina Birch, Deniz Burnham, Jessica Wittner, Lai Ka-ying,

And for the checkboxes? some of them are pretty funny, other than the young lady who was the first to fly into space wearing a prosthesis, a cancer survivor, and I wish her long life and good health. Even a crazy like me can't begrudge that.

But things like being the first to play a violin in space, or the 20th woman to do a spacewalk? If we keep doing that, will we have a big celebration fort the 10,0046th woman to walk in space?

You specifically said I hate women when you wrote

" I call BS. Do you have any evidence for this claim beyond misogyny?"

This will be important

Yes, I used the word quota, and that was incorrect. The supreme court has made a ruling that specific quotas for race would be unconstitutional Gratz vs Bollinger https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsupreme.justia.com%2Fcas... Gender was also noted, but in manner of gender "was but one of numerous factors [taken] into account in arriving at [a] decision" because "[n]o persons are automatically excluded from consideration; all are able to have their qualifications weighed against those of other applicants" in case Cf. Johnson v. Transportation Agency, Santa Clara Cty., 480 U.S. 616, 638 (1987) https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsupreme.justia.com%2Fcas...

So no, there cannot be a quota. There can be goals, as I stated in another post. s do.

If I might note, you are using rhetoric as opposed to intent, even way back when you said I hated women. You used the term misogyny. Do you disagree?

Let's do some analysis - since in the last decade, there has been an effort to attract more men as they have leaned out of University to a significant extent. Here is a report from Shayna Medley a former recruiting officer from speaks of being told to hire more men to correct that imbalance. Here is the Hechinger Report with background: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhechingerreport.org%2Fan... And here is her paper. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fjournals.law.harvard.e...

So now that men are leaning out, and Universities are attempting to bring gender diversity, it is disfavoring women, who already hold a large gender advantage.

Okay, but now let us speak of preferential education of men to correct gender imbalances. In the educational world, men have become an underrepresented minority

If I express that gender goals in opposing a 50/50 mix makes me a misognyst, What do we say about university efforts to achieve a gender mix. And people claiming that hurts women?

She claims that "In their effort to maintain a relatively balanced gender distribution on their campuses, admissions offices are preferencing weaker male applicants over their more-qualified female counterparts. So in an educational system in which women already had a large and growing percentile advantage, Universities are allowing unqualified men into college.

Wat do you think? Is she correct? Is it within the realm of possibility that a system that as one person notes, prefers men, that other's might give a preference to women?

Because there is a problem.

I interact with other users of similar workflow. We compare notes, we share boots on the ground experiences. If I try something out it works or does not work well, I share it with them, and the other way around as well. A cohort told me "you really have to use an M series machine for Photoshop and any rendering you do like AI sharpening" Bought one with a sweet tradein on my Intel Mac, and he was so right.

I have to trust them first. The people I network with have that boots on the ground experience, every day, and We trust each other's judgement. I've seen too many people with personal prejudices to automatically trust someone who provides benchmarks.

To me, and I might be completely wrong on this, but I've seen a lot of benchmarking over the years that serves best as bragging rights. Been doing this computing thing since 1979, and seen a lot of it.

And if you tie that bread on the back of a cat, you can get perpetual motion!

I'm not certain how many of us actually care about benchmarks, whether that conspiracy is true or not.

My wants are a computer that works quickly with every program designed for it. Give me a reason to prefer benchmarks over boots on the ground performance.