You buy such a thing with Club Z points?

That’s the one you buy then if that’s what matters to you.

Yeah. But where can I find a phone with Qi, reverse-Qi, and a 3.5mm jack? Other than the old one I have now, that is.

What if there was a standard time to move to? Wouldn’t that be the standard?

And if they help Canada, it’s a by-product of helping their actual constituents. Keep in mind where their loyalties are - totally okay, no criticism on that - because it will rightly and absolutely dictate their decisions and their focus on a particular region of Canada.

BSD isn’t Unix. It’s fairest to say it is a Unix. Unix was built in Murray Hill and maintained by a succession of corporations and now sits locked in a safe at a company where they will never have the clue or interest to maintain or distribute it, thanks to IBM. Everything else is just sparkling multics.

(Source: was on the periphery, know the people who know where the bodies are)

And it’s neat to see how well IBM killed the competition who dared to cry code-rape.

So he’d be polievre at half stupid, you mean.

Conservatives are dollar-store Republicans.

That’s kinda it. A little dumber, a little more sad in the pearl-clutching, a little more pathetic in their polite disdain of brown, non-male, and/or poor people, a little more ignorant in their rejection of expertise across the board.

We’re at the stage where our guys can be heckled and laughed out of it, even if it’ll Nickelback their supporters a little harder.

NO! I AM ANTIFA!

GDP seems to be a high score for wage slavery.

Canada does things slightly differently.

They do now have containerized notebookd and an on demand cluster. So that’s something we had 10 years ago.

Containers violate iso27002. The pros know that chasing the sparkle is a bad idea.

spend your whole career in one place, from university to retirement. Frankly, that’s a horrible idea in the 21st century. You need to bring in people with expertise

No. You train your staff because you value them – you don’t ditch experience. You’ll discover the truth of this eventually.

The number of private sector organizations and staff who should be in a position to interface with the public and safeguard or provide for public service services is 0.

At no point should they be in a position to make bad choices to keep or get some bonus, and at no point should services be seen as a profit center or a well to plumb for cust-cutting measures.

Oh! Stir bars are the magnetic things at the bottom of lab jars when you’re mixing stuff, right?

I thought Stir Bar was a nutrition bar or a chocolate bar like a Boost. Stir isn’t a great name for a protein bar, but it’s not the worst.

Apt: safest for Debian

Pip/pipx: kids dig it. See “supply chain attack”

You do what you want to support and maintain.

As popularity doesn’t equal validity, repo size isn’t a measure of safety.

Ask a system person about the massive validation hole in pips (and dockers and CPAN and composer bits and venvs and crates and gems) and why enterprise people and the safety-aware avoid this like it’s toxic.

Yep. They don’t get the land; just a bus ticket.

Ok, then how much should they cost?

I bet they have experts to figure that out.

I’d be willing to bet they already did figure it out, based on requirements.

I bet it’s a little more complex than we can imagine.

… And the staff to maintain it?

The whole point is to produce a relatively small amount of expensive products with minimal capital investment, not to take advantage of economies of scale to produce large amounts of equipment efficiently.

Lacking your psychic powers, we’re going to need a citation showing that’s “the whole point”.

Enjoy your social and public services getting worse for an [arms] race

No. We tax. If we hated healthcare, elder care, and schools, we’d’ve elected a conservative.

Ahh, the budget correction after decades of poor funding.

It’s gonna be large, for we’ve let it get really bad.