Also no anger management issues.

Absolutely no dehumanization happening here.

Self-driving cars don't have to be infallible. They just have to be safer than the average person, which is a really low bar.

Awesome. When I move to a planet with vertical wind, I'll let them know.

This guy sounds like an asshole with an axe to grind, honestly. Nobody completely in possession of their rational faculties writes a Twitter thread that long. If I got this in an email, I would read about a quarter of it, realize the author is crazy, and put them in my spam blocklist.

This is why we'll never launch another successor to Hubble: you can do better from the ground for a fraction of the cost -- hundreds of millions instead of tens of billions.

The James Webb Space Telescope (which at this point may very well never fly) views in the infrared, which you can't do from the ground. $8 billion and counting.

You can still download and run encfs. It just isn't supported by default.

Muffley: But this is absolute madness, Ambassador. Why on earth would you build such a thing?

Russian Ambassador: There were those of us who fought against this. But in the end, we could not keep up with the expense involved in the arms race, the space race, and the peace race. And at the same time, our people grumbled for more nylons and washing machines. Our Doomsday scheme cost us just a small fraction of what we'd been spending on defense in a single year. But the deciding factor was when we learned that your country was working along similar lines, and we were afraid of a Doomsday gap.

Muffley: This is preposterous! I've never approved of anything like that!

Russian Ambassador: Our source was the New York Times.

This pretty concisely sums up everything that is wrong with the tech industry: this sort of smarmy hubris is why everybody else wants to repeatedly smack Teh Tech Bros with a length of hose.

... but I thought they still had a functioning road system.

Nope. Happened to me on a bog-standard from-scratch 16.04 install onto an empty drive. BTW, if you poke around on this one, you'll see that this, and apparently related install problems, are pretty widespread. And, apparently miraculously, the install works just fine on 17.10, which uses a different version of mysql-server. As it did in 14.04.

I'm not sure about you, but if I were Canonical, and suddenly a whole bunch of people were discovering that the install script for a very widely used database server was all of a sudden nontrivially borked for a whole bunch of people using my "stable" release, I would do more than shrug and call it somebody else's problem. Or at least backport the fix once it showed up upstream. YMMV. Me, I'm looking into other distros.

This, right here, is how open-source software companies end up circling the drain.

Also, as a followup, the mysql bug also happens on fresh installs (it just isn't included in that particular bug report):

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fserverfault.com%2Fquesti...

There is no excuse for this.

Then these versions of the packages shouldn't be in a stable release in the first place. They are not ancillary systems: they are core functionality, and if they have major bugs, they shouldn't in something called a "stable release".

Fuck you very much.