>It's one of the few segments in IT where you're not directly at constant risk of being replaced by an H1B.

Truth. One of the reasons why I keep gravitating back to defense work. Only since around 2004 or so; there's now this "government shutdown" nonsense, which is a bit of a vicious circle, because programs get fucked over, then you have to roll off the contract and find work on another. And sometimes, there isn't any. (happened to me at Lockheed), so some people have to cycle back into the private sector for a few years (which isn't a bad thing; because THAT is where you pick up new skills, to be honest). Then when some asshole "businessman" crashes the business and does layoffs (to replace you with H1B's), you're back on the street again, and you end up back in the "safe" sector: defense. Oh, and if your Clearance expires while you're in the private sector, then the contractor just pays the $10k (or whatever it is now) to re-do your investigation. This has happened to me twice now.

Debian is not for most users.
I love it, it's close to perfect for me, ymmv.

And yet people still claim Linux requires obscure commands in a terminal...

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Exactly.

Also, why is "penis" an offensive word? It is a body part, are kids not supposed to know this exists?

The way that the US Navy operates nuclear reactors.
It's not been accident free, but has been much safer. Because it's not operated on a for-profit basis.

yeah, but the risk is borne by innocent bystanders.

Not shareholders.
Not board-members.
Not idiot operators who don't vet the authenticity of replacement parts (or otherwise cut corners to save their costs).

>n that environment, a "safer" reactor just means they can get away with more cost-cutting to line their own pockets. Until we figure out a way to eliminate that, I'm not at all confident that even the most theoretically "idiot proof" reactor would actually be substantially safer in practice than the reactors we have today.

It's really THIS.

And we already have a way to eliminate that. Just not in the Civilian world. As soon as you try to run a nuclear reactor as a for-profit business where the costs are borne by others (like the people who live in the town that gets shut down after the plant explodes; they will not get their land back in their own lifetimes, but shareholders don't give a fuck) - it's a recipie for disaster. But operate a nuclear power plant as part of an Navy vessel; these folks mean business, and they do it right. And it's nowhere near profitable, compared to other means of electrical generation. (this is why the commercial industry is leaving nuclear power: it's not profitable unless the government gives them shitloads of money).

And the prevailing Milton Friedman attitudes of running business and informing Government Policy is what is responsible for the NRC being no longer able to do their jobs.

It's like the voice of millions of auto mechanics cried out and were silenced.

Only nobody ever expected a GM product to last more than 1023 weeks.

I don't think so.

The sanctions may have hurt Huawei as intended, but every other Asian organization is now looking for independence of any supplier that the US has control over. This means that in the long term more and more Asian organizations will depend on each other for supplies instead of using American suppliers. This can cost the US a lot more than the temporary harm on Huawei.

Debian 11

# find / -type f | wc -l
find: '/run/user/1000/doc': Permission denied
find: '/run/user/1000/gvfs': Permission denied
743428

I've been using this laptop for three years.

If they're suffering from problems, they should solve them.

For the corruption, maybe institute an actual justice system that punishes actual corrupt people, taking bribes, or using extortion. Rather than just jailing political opponents.

For the sanctions, they might consider honoring the treaty they signed to not invade or threaten Ukraine, or Crimea.

Things would be going much better for them, and their space program.

But it becomes vanishingly unlikely; to produce certain alloys with certain isotope ratios; outside of a clean-room. There is so much environmental contamination from various sources, (including nuclear testing; also nuclear accidents, and also natural volcanism) - that it's almost a science to be able to determine the age some materials were manufactured, purely by analyzing the isotope content).

I think that there tend to be simpler explanations for things like these, and it's not likely what most people think it is, (aliens). But on the other hand, I think it's fascinating, and definitely bears much deeper examination.