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“Linux distros are dying!!!”

“The young people are <slur>!!!”

Literally in the same thought. It’s almost impressive.


Water gets wetter.


What that means?


This isn't new information. It's about as obvious as the nose on your face. Some people are just now openly recognizing it.

Compare the number of people skipping visits with the number of uninsured. Even with insurance, doctor's visits can still be expensive depending on the plan. After the doctor's visit, there's still paying for any prescriptions. Without insurance, some medicines are pretty much impossible to afford.


It means that this is a worsening of an existing phenomenon in the U.S.


As an example, my 2017 Corolla runs the fuel pump for a while 5 hours after shutdown to test fuel system pressurization. I didn’t even know until I recently started parking it inside and I finally heard it running.


I learned about this with my 2013 Scion iQ. I was living with my brother who didn't allow weed smoking in or near the house so I would go hotbox my car.

Weirded me out the first time I'm sitting there in silence smoking a bowl and suddenly fuel pump noises. Which were easier than normal to hear because I took the back seats (the only sound deadening in the back) out of that car so I'd have room for a full size spare tire instead.

With my current car (2020 Kia Sportage) I've noticed the head unit is waking up before I even start the car. As soon as you unlock the car I can see my flash drive light up with activity as the head unit gets ready to pickup music from where it left off.


Yeah that's pretty normal across different manufacturers, and you only hear it if you park in a quiet garage and happen to be in the garage at the moment it turns on to do it's thing. It's testing the seal of the fuel cap to make sure you aren't just venting gasoline fumes.


And usually it only runs in a certain temperature range. Winter climate cars may get several months between a test.


I had to sleep in a work truck once and every hour or so it would modulate the shutters in the air vents to refresh the air in the cab or something. The click and buzz whir kept waking me up, it was quite annoying.


I think if the Tesla had been avoiding a hazard, there would be a lot more gray area for FSD to hide in. It’s true that sudden braking and swerving is sometimes the least-bad thing for a driver to do, but if a human driver showed a pattern of repeatedly performing that maneuver for no reason, at some point a reasonable person would have to conclude that that driver is at least partly at fault for the inevitable crash that happens.


Microsoft has a(t least one) Linux Distro: CBL-Mariner [1]. Not a desktop offering, obviously, but I felt like it was worth pointing out.

[1] https://github.com/microsoft/CBL-Mariner


The article is probably describing RISC-V as growing in popularity, not number of instructions.

The distinction between "reduced" (RISC) and "complex" (CISC) is more philosophical than "number of instructions."

Even as the RISC-V specification gains new instructions, the modular design of the architecture is specifically designed to allow implementations to pare down to just the subset they need.


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