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  • ysjet@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.mlSwitch from Ubuntu to something immutable?
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    5 months ago

    I’d you want immutability and things that just works, snaps are the exact opposite of what he needs. I’m gearing up to swap away from Ubuntu for the same reasons as him, and the snap ecosystem is utterly fucked and accelerating my timetable daily.

    I’ve never seen something so damn broken, and it gets more so every update. It’s gotten to the point of where snap store will just straight up log me out of my session out of the blue when it finds an update so it can install it, losing all of my work.









  • In the case of Discourse, a hardware engineer is an embarrassment not deserving of a job if they can’t hit 90% of the performance of an all-time-great performance team but, as a software engineer, delivering 3% the performance of a non-highly-optimized application like MyBB is no problem. In Knuth’s case, hardware engineers gave programmers a 100x performance increase every decade for decades with little to no work on the part of programmers. The moment this slowed down and programmers had to adapt to take advantage of new hardware, hardware engineers were “all out of ideas”, but learning a few “new” (1970s and 1980s era) ideas to take advantage of current hardware would be a waste of time.

    You can really tell this guy is some hardware design engineer at nvidia that has absolutely no fucking clue about how real-world user space programming works. Also I like how 74% slowly kept getting inflated until it became 90%.

    Like, this dude is trying to claim that fucking Donald Knuth himfuckingself cannot figure out some new computer hardware.

    Multiple processors working in concert is not, and never has been, a cure-all. It’s highly situational and generally not useful.

    What’s dumb is that, as a Systems Design Engineer at NVIDIA, Dan Luu should know that. After all, how has SLI been doing recently?

    That said, yes, of course, web dev bloat is absolutely out of control, and slow websites absolutely have nothing to do with hardware or network. That’s a culprit of bad frameworks, horrific amounts of ads/trackers/bullshit, and honestly just general lack of programming fundamentals in the web dev space. Might as well call them web technicians and really ruffle some feathers. :P






  • ysjet@lemmy.worldtolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldLinux error starter pack
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    8 months ago

    Possibly, but I’ll just transcribe it here for screenreaders and people who can’t see through the pixelation:

    Linux Error Messages That Go Hard Starter Pack

    ERROR: Failed to mount the real root device.
    Bailing out, you are on your own. Good luck.
    
    WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed.
    This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing!
       sysvinit initscripts (due to sysvinit) sysv-rc (due to sysvinit) util-linux
    0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 198 to remove and 3 not upgraded
    You are about to do something potentially harmful.
    To continue type in the phrase 'Yes, do as I say!'
     ?] 
    
    (12/19) upgrading linux-raspberrypi
    WARNING: /boot appears to be a seperate partition but is not mounted.
             You probably just broke your system. Congratulations.
    >>> Updating module dependencies. Please wait...
    
    [   0.895799] ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs 
    on unknown block(0,0)
    
      _______________________________
    < Your System ate a SPARC! Gah! >
      ------------------------------
                \    ^__^
                  \  (xx)\_________
                     (__)\         )\/\
                      U   ||-----w |
                          ||      ||
    
    Out of memory: Kill process 15745 (postgres) score 10 or sacrifice child
    



  • ysjet@lemmy.worldtoProgrammer Humor@lemmy.mlC++ Moment
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    9 months ago

    https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Apport

    It intentionally acts as an intercept for such things, so that core dumps can be nicely packaged up and sent to maintainers in a GUI-friendly way so maintainers can get valuable debugging information even from non-tech-savvy users. If you’re running something on the terminal, it won’t be intercepted and the core dump will be put in the working directory of the binary, but if you executed it through the GUI it will.

    Assuming, of course, you turn crash interception on- it’s off by default since it might contain sensitive info. Apport itself is always on and running to handle Ubuntu errors, but the crash interception needs enabled.




  • Really dude? I never once devolved to name calling, I stated that s/he lied when s/he made false statements. What else am I supposed to say there?

    I also don’t understand how saying they doesn’t know what the subject matter s/he’s taking a stance on is ‘know-knowing’ either? S/He’s straight up said they doesn’t know what a CVE is, doesn’t know what experimental means, and while they claims to be in this field of work, they doesn’t know what a web worker is and confused a web transaction with a database transaction.

    Sure, I could have been nicer about it when they started escalating, but I never made it personal, and have no intentions of doing so either.

    EDIT: realized I was assuming their gender.