You can tell it's a scam call immediately because Google has no such thing as "support", let alone an actual "support engineer"
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ebilgenius commented on The Shepherd 1.0.0 released guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2024... · Posted by u/sharpshadow
I think this may be just due to unfamiliarity. Like, if that mess you shared was written as follows:
{
start: makeForkexecConstructor(["…/bin/ntpd", "-n", "-c", "/…/…-ntpd.conf", "-u", "ntpd", "-g"]),
logFile: "/var/log/ntpd.log"
}
And I think it's also hard to claim that one is better than the other. I personally have gotten my feet wet with Guix and I would love the time to become more familiar it.
While I agree it's hard to claim one is outright better than the other and there are a lot of factors that go into it, I do feel it's important to toss my chip in as someone who's not familiar with Lisp, Scheme, or any other functional language that I find it's syntax and layout particularly difficult to parse, let alone get started with compared to say, the INI-inspired systemd conf files. I can detail why but the mere fact that I'd have to learn an entire functional programming language (no matter how "easy/simple" it's claimed to be) to be able to competently edit a service file is a huge immediate turn-off for me.
Incredible website design, I hope they keep the theme. With so many AI startups going with advanced WebGL/ThreeJS wacky overwhelming animated website designs, the simplicity here is a stark contrast.
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ebilgenius commented on Firefox finally outperforming Google Chrome in SunSpider phoronix.com/news/Firefox... · Posted by u/marcodiego
You know. That actually highlights an understated risk of the Chromium monopoly.
What happens if Chrome... doesn't become evil, it's just mismanaged? What happens if the team loses personnel and gains too much tech debt? What happens if Chromium is run into the ground just by happenstance? I don't know, maybe they give it to a product manager, or they try Scrum or something.
It's a lot of influence to put in the hands of a single fallible team.
I'm seeing this already with how they're handling the new right-click contextual Search feature being moved to open the results in the new "Search sidebar" rather than a new tab. This was supposedly able to be disabled with the flag "Search web in side panel" (there's no option for it in the preferences), however if the completely undocumented "CSC" flag was left at it's default then it overrides any other flag to force enable the feature. You can see the consequences of this decision to this very day in places like /r/chrome with users complaining that disabling the feature flags isn't working.
ebilgenius commented on Ohio vinyl chloride accident summary twitter.com/FalconryFinan... · Posted by u/surement
One of the frustrating problems with this is how underreported it is. If you can offer more reliable information, then link to it.
I don't think we necessarily need a more reliable source to point out that this one is wildly unreliable
ebilgenius commented on Show HN: FIFA Interactive Bracket (World Cup) worldcup.cole.ws/... · Posted by u/colewilson
I'll see if I can localize it. Can you give me an example format?
Can you also look at adding the time/date's timezone on the end? Thanks, I love the site's layout/design
That's quite the final conclusion to be drawing based on the aimless wanderings of a fidgeting police helicopter camera operator.
Perhaps declaring that the algorithmically condensed footage of a police helicopter camera equates to a supposed general mindset of the law enforcement profession in general might be just a bit reductive.
ebilgenius commented on What went wrong with the Texas power grid? houstonchronicle.com/busi... · Posted by u/daenney
>Anyway seems like this storm is so bad Texas would be in trouble no matter what, but letting utilities under-invest in winterizing and not joining either of the major grid corridors just made a bad situation 100x worse.
The weather in Texas is in the single digits. The weather in Minnesota is in the double digit negatives.
Texas would not be in trouble "no matter what" if they had bothered to spend the money on winterizing their power plants. They chose not to, and this is the end result.
The roads shut down due to lack of snow removal is completely understandable - and quite frankly most people should be perfectly capable of surviving in their homes for a week if they have heat and water.
The lack of updating power plants so they can function in below-freezing weather is just straight incompetence. This type of weather isn't some 1,000 year storm. They have extended below freezing temperatures on a fairly regular basis.
From what I understand the average low temperature in Texas around this time usually doesn't go below 30-35 degrees. Meanwhile the average high temperature around this time doesn't get above 20-35 degrees in Minnesota.
To demand every state spend the same resources that Minnesota does to winterize their infrastructure is completely unrealistic.
>This type of weather isn't some 1,000 year storm.
Not according to this professor of meteorology:
>“We’re living through a really historic event going on right now,” said Jason Furtado, a professor of meteorology at the University of Oklahoma, pointing to all of Texas under a winter storm warning and the extent of the freezing temperatures.
https://apnews.com/article/2-dead-texas-subfreezing-winter-w...
ebilgenius commented on German police take down 'world's largest darknet marketplace' barrons.com/news/german-p... · Posted by u/thinkloop
The article mentions the us irs were involved. For a german marketplace run by an Australian.
Any idea why?
Looks like the FBI and DEA were involved as well as several other country's police agencies, with Europol acting as coordinator. Lots of money moving across countries means lots of taxes probably not being paid, hence the IRS.