I am with you, this is just BS. The whole point of 737Max what that experience with 737 was enough, with maybe some small adjustments. Now claiming that you need to be some kind of super-pilot to keep the 737Max in the air when the thing tries to kill you is total bullshit.

This is like Tesla claiming that all crashes due to autopilot failures are driver faults because they are not properly trained... it is supposed to be a car driveable with a regular car license! If you need extra train to drive it properly, be explicit.

There are alternatives, like "pay as bid", which heavily incentives the best price guesser instead of the cheapest producers. And is a system more fragile against collusions in concentrated markets (i.e. a handful of big producers that agree on high bids).

That's the same insane system used in the rest of Europe, at least in Germany, France, Italy and Spain.

The key is that in the UK gas sets the price almost 100% of the time, vs 25% in Germany or less than 10% in France. The fix: build more of the cheap sources. A patch: cap what gas can bid.

That happened once, and the causes are still unclear/ being investigated. We don't have blackouts unless extreme weather or bad grid sectors (e.g. semi abandoned rural). Also, we have marginal pricing, and we had this pricing for years before the Blackout.

And you can have other pricing schemes, for example pay-as-bid, that also balance supply and demand.

I recently started using Lutris for gaming in Linux, and so far so good.

> Most of us choose to drive a car that just works, and take it to a mechanic when it doesn't, rather than buying one that requires and rewards tinkering.

You can also bring your Linux machine to the mechanic. The only difference is that we linux users are also the mechanics.

My mother only wants a browser and a mail client, maybe a word processor from time to time. I installed Fedora, and the thing is still working after 5 years or so. I ssh into the thing once a month to do a "dnf update", she doesn't even notice. After initial setup, no more tinkering ever needed.

Because you maintain it for her.

The world is full of dictators, one of them just a few miles from Florida, yet the USA only seems interested in dictators with plenty of oil.

You fool no one.

I wouldn't be so sure about the longevity of the Cuban regime right now.

The US has many voters of Cuban origin, and the vast majority of those would be happy with a regime change in Habana.

Rubio is a well-known Cuba hawk and Trump is crazy enough to try.

Yeah, we're fucked.

As much as I wish I could go and pontificate about how much better and more moral the PCC is than any other government on the face of the earth, they are in the worst possible spot right now.

It's less of a 'will they topple the revolutionary government in Cuba?' and more of a 'will they do it before or after they topple the revolutionary government in Nicaragua?'.

I'm surprised Castro's Cuba still exists.

I'm not naive about Trump's motivations, he tried to destroy democracy in the US after all. But it doesn't bear on my interpretation of the outcome of this event, which is what I am happy about. Call it a coincidental alignment of self-interest with what's best for the people inside Venezuela.

This is short sighted too It can also turn out worse for the Venezuelans, it doesn't have to become better.

Primarily spent in wars (mercenaries, weapons, warships...) and keeping the colonies under control.

> it is often simply because the site is badly written

I find that some techs tend to cause badly written code. I have junior coworkers that can write clear Python after a short intro, but can't write clean R after a year using it daily. I don't know if it is caused by the philosophy behind the language, the community, the tutorials and docs...

readthedocs down is hurting me the most. My small websites are doing OK.