Just that it’s already installed, and I haven’t tried a new distro in over a decade.

But 15-20 years ago it was easier to install the nonfree stuff on ubuntu, like drivers and DVD playback and stuff. I don’t know if its still like that.

I never understood ubuntu as a server over debian, but for a desktop it was a nicer experience for a while.

I liked the presentation, and thought it was worth it.

I hope Kevin bacon takes this as a personal attack and manages to get small roles in every upcoming film that has actors he hasn’t worked with yet.

Is it just me, or is this just an ad with a headline that is trying to make common sense sound profound?

Things that helped me the most are a camping spice shaker, a long flat hdmi cable, and a roll of painters tape.

The spice shaker had like 6 spices, and really helped the hospital food. The cable and tape helped me plug in my laptop and switch without having to get up during chemo which was kind of painful.

Now I want to goto the haunted REI

pickle is nuts, but I can imagine dumping an entire object into the cookie while troubleshooting something then forgetting to clean it up afterwards.

I don’t normally upvote jokes on hn, but it’s saturday and I was about to say the same thing.

Still significantly better than running everything on fossil fuels burned by the power company.

Are you saying that gas turbines don't burn fossil fuels?

No, I'm saying that using a gas generator as a backup for solar is better than not using solar at all.

They can burn non-fossil fuels.

A non-carbon containing fuel that is almost entirely created by burning fossil fuels is effectively the same (and often worse) than just using the fossil fuels directly.

Biodiesel or biomethane looks at first glance to escape this, but it has serious other costs.

Is almost entirely fossil-fuel created doesn't mean it has to be almost entirely fossil-fuel created. You know, just like observing that cars are almost entirely burning fossil fuels doesn't mean cars must burn fossil fuels.

If we had a union we would be training people from customer support to engineer.

I truly believe that software would be improved immensely if all developers spent a few years doing tech support for the elderly.

> If we had a union we would be training people from customer support to engineer

This, to my knowledge, very rarely works.

> software would be improved immensely if all developers spent a few years doing tech support for the elderly

This, on the other hand, absolutely does.

I've worked with several excellent people in my career who progressed from customer support to QA to QA engineer to software engineer.

It's not common though, and I don't think it's a case of "training". Some people have the drive to figure that path out, and those people should be encouraged and supported.

> Some people have the drive to figure that path out, and those people should be encouraged and supported

Totally agree. I don’t think that means institutionalizing that pipeline is likely to yield those folks. They’re rare.

> This, to my knowledge, very rarely works.

Strictly a function of management quality and experience.

Not everyone is interested in programing. Some people are amazing at customer support and super extroverted and seek out jobs where they interact with customers and would be miserable looking at code all day. The opportunity should be there, but some people are just never going to be engineers. Management quality can't fix that.

> Not everyone is interested in programing.

This isn't a pipeline, it's a pool.

Actually, let's think of it as a stew. Lots of different base ingredients, add seasoning and heat. When the individual bits are delicious they start bubbling up to the surface. Not every bit is a carrot or chunk of meat. Some are potato, maybe that's a bean.

I'm sorry but this is just absurd. Not everyone has the same aptitude for every job. For a company or country to function you have to acknowledge this and put people in jobs suited to their natural talents.