We don’t live to make the line go up - we make the line go up that we might live. What is in an extra half percentage point in the GDP that’s worth taking away one of life’s joys from people?
> Affirmative Actions seems to just be reversed racism. I.e. in the end more-or-less still unfair.
It's not even reversed racism, it's just plain old racism. The only difference is the targets of the racism are European descended and Asian descended people instead of African and Latin American descended people.
>Please, dear Red Hat, just give me a DigitalOcean VM (or something comparable) that costs a few dollars more and has automatic RHEL licensing. Make deals with the VM providers, work something out.
We've tried to make deals with RH in the past, but they will only let us sell RHEL VMs with licenses if it's running on a RHEL hypervisor... which none of our platform is using at all.
I think this sucks, but for a little bit of defense of RH on this the entire support stack is built around assuming a RHEL host (meaning you're using a supported and exact version of the hypervisor and associated tools). Adding support capabilities for a non-RHEL host would be a major task, and not one they are well equipped to do.
Now that said it's a bit dumb because with most things it's not hard for support to tell your customer, "yep that's a problem in the guest" and help, or "that's a problem with the host, contact DO" or whoever.
But in general, when Red Hat says something is "supported" they are guaranteeing a lot about it. They'll literally fix the code if something is wrong. There's also a culture internally of "be careful helping with something that is 'unsupported'" because customers have previously accused RH people of messing stuff up and demanding they fix it. I helped with stuff like that most of the time when I worked for RH, but I was always very clear with the customer that "this isn't Red Hat, this is me helping as a friend and fellow Linux nerd" and the rapport with the customers was always good enough that I wasn't worried.
> you're using a supported and exact version of the hypervisor and associated tools
Having exact versions is not a problem (any version of RHEL guests are supported on any RHEL hosts past and future, almost). Plus Windows, ESX, Amazon and Google clouds, and a few more.
Rather, the problem is having _up to date_ versions; with RHEL you can often ask the customer to reproduce on an up to date host if possible, with other distros the support machinery isn't there and you need someone to talk to at the cloud provider, so that they can debug stuff that breaks only in their environment and can't be reproduced. Otherwise you cannot guarantee the level of support that you mention. Very few cloud provider can provide that, I am not even sure that IBM's cloud made the short list.
Isn't long term support Red Hat's thing? The ask isn't to support some random system, it's for RH to put out an official image and distro they support on cloud providers and bake the licensing costs into the hourly runtime fees.
This is exactly how you consume Windows on AWS and it's a huge incentive to do it that way because it takes licences management out of consideration.
The cloud provider is also running software, the cloud doesn't run on magic dust. Red Hat doesn't supports RHEL on your blood if they don't believe they can trust you to help supporting RHEL, the way their customers expect. The easiest way is to run RHEL as the bare metal OS but it's not the only way.
> This is exactly how you consume Windows on AWS and it's a huge incentive to do it that way because it takes licences management out of consideration.
It's also how you consume RHEL on AWS, GCE or Azure.
As someone who has done this, and benefitted from others doing this, I think the open sharing is probably the number one reason to use these types of solutions. You get people that are in their own niche and know specific parts of the system inside and out. That builds credibility and increased profits, but the companies are too nervous to stand behind their people.
I don't think it's realistic for you to expect your jeans to last a lifetime.
I buy decent jeans once a year. The new pair is for daily wear. The old pair is retired for manual labor. The old-old pair is retired to when I crawl under the house.
I usually have 3 decent (not super cheap, but nothing expensive, 40-80€) pairs at a time, they usually last around 10 years, with taking them to get fixed once or twice.
May have to do with how often you wear them. For a few years I wore jeans every damn day, unless there was a funeral or something, and I had a similar rotation: two pairs "active" at a time (with maybe one reserve pair in case the lesser of those two got ruined, assuming I had any older ones that were still wearable)—one for light duty, one for heavy duty, order a new pair of 501s when they're on sale about once a year, they become the new light-duty pair, everything else shifts down, oldest become rags or get thrown out (they were never in good-enough shape to donate, by the time they were leaving my closet).
~$40/yr wasn't so bad.
[EDIT] Oh, and for the record, I minimized washing, though I wasn't as hardcore about it as some people who claim to go months between washes. Every wash seemed to age them a couple weeks worth of wearing.
These days, I wear a lot more wool, linen, and cotton/linen blends for light-duty, and wear a single pair of Prana Zions (very thin mid-tier hiking pants, synthetic material) for anything risky/dirty. The Zions are probably at something like 1,000 wears (for the first couple years I wore them kinda like I had my jeans before—for everything) over five years or so. About a penny per wear. Finally due to be replaced, starting to get enough holes that they're getting iffy for wearing around... people, at all. If I hadn't damaged them with sharp things a few times, they'd probably go another 500+ wears, they're not getting worn-looking anywhere, no stains have proven permanent, nor is any part of them fraying (except at the holes).
I wear the same pair daily to do pretty much everything. I work, I shop, pick the kids up, walk to my parents house, do yard work, hike, literally everything in the same pair of jeans. I don't think there's a fabric yet made that could withstand the abuse I put on them for more than a year.
Although this pair I'm about to replace is at 16 months so I will revise to say "about a year"
Tip: Wash in cold water on the lowest-impact cycle, hang up to dry. Of course I don't know your materials, washer, etc., but for me, everything comes clean with (what seems like) very little impact on the clothing.
Why? AR lowers are ludicrously cheap and common. You're going to need a generally "rifle-like" form factor for ease of use, so why not go with the most common design, and save money on things like pistol grips, buttstocks, etc?
And the manual of arms is known to everyone who'll be using it.
I'm still not convinced teen pregnancy is a bad thing. We evolved to have children pretty young. Running after toddlers is way easier when you're younger than when you're in your 30s.
If I'd had kids at 19, they'd be almost done with high school by now. And if my wife had decided to be a stay-at-home mom at 19, she would have been done with the most time consuming parts long ago and well into whatever she decided to do after that part of her life.
