Except the “emergency capsule” is all of them, including Starliner. Because Starliner is perfectly capable of returning to earth safely.

Because every thruster that has shut down has hot fired okay, and the known helium leaks still leave enough margin to cover several multiples of the 5 hours or so of RCS operation that you need to get to landing.

I think my mother played that star trek game on a time shared minicomputer.

Let us all remember that, at least back when it started, the establishment alternative to systemd was a product named after its original operating system, System V UNIX, which is a direct descendent of the original UNIX from AT&T. This sysvinit software used complicated shell scripts to manage daemons. Contrary to some opinions, these shell scripts were not “just working”; they were in fact a constant and major maintenance burden for Linux distributions. When I started on Linux at least, Debian had a suspiciously large fraction of bugs on init script breakages.

All this is to say that the new system, systemd, doesn’t have to be anywhere near perfect to be worth replacing sysvinit.

People argue that systemd is rejecting the “UNIX philosophy” of small tools that do one thing well. I argue that this UNIX philosophy is not some kind of universal good with no tradeoffs. It’s an engineering rule of thumb. There are always tradeoffs.

People argue that systemd is too much like Windows NT. I argue that Windows NT has at least a few good ideas in it. And if one of those ideas solves a problem that Linux has, Linux should use that idea.

Next thing you know, Kansas is sending all-caps letters Remittance and Demand to the NHTSA demanding their share of the Interstate Highway System, as it was allocated to their secret treasury account under the Uniform Commercial Code as enacted by the Continental Congress in 1779.

(I really need to stop reading that stuff)

Pay no attention to gconf, dconf, GSettings, or whatever else there is.

Israel is a more-or-less democracy in a region where that is quite scarce. For a long time, most of the Arab league was aligned with the Soviet Union, and Israel was the only and primary counterbalance.

That kind of inertia takes a long time to unwind, even though the Soviet Union no longer exists, and several of those Arab League members have made permanent peace with Israel.

In conclusion, I don’t think Israel “has anything” on the United States. I think the plight of a few million stateless Palestinians is not enough to override the various realpolitik concerns that the United States has in the region.

And really people are not making phone calls nearly as much as they used to. The pollsters need to find a reasonably unbiased method to sample people on other communication methods.

Some of those dialog boxes have not changed a bit since Windows 3.0.

I think that Biden has done a better job of working the hill to get the stuff he wants than Obama ever did

To be clear, nearly every substantial bill in the House only arrives on the floor by passing a custom single-bill rule that was referred out of the rules committee.

So these normally-party-line rule changes are a routine occurrence in the House. The weird part is that this one went through on a bipartisan vote.

Devaluing currency?

Isn’t that the thing the US used to accuse a bunch of other countries of doing?

Sounds like Trump, then.

Thanks.

Can anyone summarise what the fraud was?

Honestly, I think Lemmy is just not thinking straight on Israel and Palestine. There are just some truly wild ideas that seem to get traction around here.

(Like seriously, Israel has no justification to attack a hospital even if Hamas stages nuclear weapons there??!?)

It’s American specifically. “Come-to-Jesus” evokes the tent revival culture that started in the second great awakening in the 1830s and continues to the present day.

In the tent revival culture, an itinerant preacher will ride into a (typically small) town and pitch a tent for about a week or two (or more). They then attempt to “revive” the faith of the townspeople by preaching intensely for several hours at a time, sometimes for multiple times per day. In typical Christian fashion these services will include multiple invitations to literally “come to Jesus” by publicly confessing sins and professing faith before the whole group, thereby becoming born again. Regular church goers are expected to attend revival sessions every night when they’re in town.

Everything about the tent revivals evokes imagery of the early Christians in Acts and the epistles. Large crowds and mass conversions. That sort of thing.

<Dark Brandon laser eyes start charging up.>

How reliable is this actually? There are a millions reasons for me to fake which is and web browser in using.

Shouldn’t this effect cause Linux use to be under reported? That is, the real percentage would be higher than 4%?

I would pretty strongly expect significant correlation between people who spoof their user agent and Linux users.

And just for the sake of science: do you have an opinion on NATO?

Here’s something to consider if you’re thinking about selecting a different party ballot than you normally would:

If you select a party today, you are bound by state law to stay with that party for the entire rest of the election cycle.

This choice is also public info, and it will influence what kinds of mailers you will get.

Hint: if the non-free firmware is necessary to make most systems work, Debian is not actually all that close to being completely free.