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I find myself agreeing with this sentiment. The first 50% of developers will go soon, as automated tools become way better at churning out simple building blocks with uniform unit testing, etc. Then I believe there will be a long tail, as the tools get better and make redundant more and more senior-level positions.

At some point this breaks the junior -> senior developer pipeline, and we become completely dependent on the machines to understand and maintain our systems. From one perspective this is is an inevitable step on the road to progress, but it doesn't make it any less scary.

I haven't felt the need to overclock my desktop CPU for maybe a decade now. Why do people even want to overclock anymore?

Push power consumption way up for a couple percent of performance gain and risk stability issues? Is that 2 FPS really doing anything for you?

So what you're saying is that globalization is bad, and socialism is good. Right?

This is the solution that the whole CA model of trust is built around.

We can go in and delete the offending root cert from our browsers now, but the masses are dependent on Google, Mozilla, Microsoft and Apple to choose whom to trust for them.

I had no idea there were that many blogs that nobody reads.

Repeat after me until it sinks in. RAID is not backup.

RAID is not backup.

If you want to keep your pictures, make multiple copies and keep one in a different location. Tape has a 30-year shelf-life and no logic board or mechanical parts to fail, and there will always be services available to restore them. Tape drives are unfortunately prohibitively expensive.

Find a way. But remember. RAID is not backup.

Remap caps lock to escape. All your vi editing mode apps (which can be a lot with proper configuration -- your shell is in emacs mode by default (ewwww)) will be much faster after you get used to it.

This is compounded by the fact that the linux community isn't what it used to be. No longer died-in-the-wool hackers and problem solvers, the community is overrun by cookbook readers just-reboot-it mentality people.

Systemd is a just-reboot-it solution for a just-reboot-it generation.

I have never seen a bunch of Linux users get so excited over a bug in a development branch before.

Umm, sendmail's process is called 'sendmail', postfix has no process called 'smtpd'.

That sound you just heard in the distance? The puckering of a million Linux fanboys' butts.

The framers of the constitution could not possibly have anticipated a world with such a thing as this "murder".

A whole article on their CDN boxes and not one mention of the OS. I'm surprised. It's FreeBSD.