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Comment Re:Not At All (Score 2) 191

The work of the programmer/engineer is what, 95% mental work, 5% typing?

50 years a programmer, never learned touch typing and have never had the need to. You are not typing letters but lines, speed is not necessary. As the quote says, I would say maybe 20%(?).

Plus in many cases you are doing copy/paste instead of typing everything out.

Comment Re:BETTER Mitigation (Score 1) 66

I use Slackware and only used Slackware for personal use, at work I had a RHEL Workstation until I left.

I know Slackware does not create core files by default, I had to enable that for my ID for development. At work I do not remember getting core dumps, but I never bothered looking.

So systemd-coredump will start creating core dumps all over the place ? There was a time not getting core dumps was annoying for me due to the way *BSD and other UNIXs work, but I got use to it adapted ages ago. Now you get core files by default via systemd

Comment Re:Yeah, no shit, Sherlock. (Score 2) 57

I only hope that the new equilibrium isn't a global plus of 5 degrees centigrade

I would mod you up, but with the new /. changes I have to unblock like 10 sites, I will not do that. :)

But I am certain we will hit 5C in a few decades. In reality we need to stop dumping CO2 into the atmosphere now. But with Trump cutting incentives in the US, AI and *crypto I do not see any significant reductions anytime soon.

I heard Trump is trying to jump start nuclear power, but that is too little to late, the US should have followed France and started 40 years ago. Even Germany is now look at nuclear. The only issue with nuclear is NIMBY and the time it takes to get a reactor built.

Plus I think heard China is doing great research with nuclear, the US, crickets.

Comment Re: He's correct (Score 1) 174

Try to convince the project managers of that.

Every project manager should know this, and many already knows this. But their raises are mostly based on meeting the deadline of the project. So no one cares if you deliver bloated messes, as long as it was delivered on time, upper management does not care.

So I guess we are back to unreasonable deadlines as other people mentioned above :)

Comment I used to (Score 1) 5

I use to work on SAP and applying patches is a a nightmare. It is as if SAP want you never to install patches at all, I have never seen a worse method of applying updates than SAP.

So no surprise here, I am pretty sure SAP has more holes in it than there are "back holes" in this universe. :)

Comment Re:Good. (Score 1) 104

I fully agree, but I doubt Mexico would win :(

But, since you are from Canada, I think Canada, Mexico and all other sane countries get together and tax Google say 99% of their full revenue (not profit) until they change the name back in the US. No way the Trump owned court system could stop the tax and it would hurt Goggle were it counts. In their pocket book.

Comment Re:BSD (Score 2) 71

Came here to say the same, and AFAIK there are no planns for NetBSD to drop that support.

OpenBSD is there too, but seems the day may come for i386 (32 bit) removal, see:

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.openbsd.org%2Fi386.html

Due to the increased usage of OpenBSD/amd64, as well as the age and practicality of most i386 hardware, only easy and critical security fixes are backported to i386.

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