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  • The silence from some of the systemd fan club is deafening. For years, anyone criticizing systemd’s expansion was treated as a luddite. Suggest an alternative init system and you would get lectures about how systemd had already won and everyone else should just accept it. Meanwhile, people were showing up in Void Linux communities asking why Void refused to “modernize” by adopting systemd, as if distributions couldn’t possibly make different design choices.

    Now when age verification was introduced in systemd without discussion, a lot of those voices seem remarkably quiet. Apparently the concerns were only stupid when other people raised them. Bigots.






  • Great cartoon and so much what is sometimes going on in the job world. In my case:

    Chef: You cannot work alone on problems. If you have one, don’t wait, but approach us.

    Chef after evaluation of work: You showed little autonomy (without mentioning that it has to do with approaching them when problems).














  • I jumped on Julia in the beginning (somewhere around 2015). I even bought the data analysis book by Bogumil Kaminski published a few years ago. However, Julia never made me feel comfortable. The syntax felt too complicated, even for smaller things. In addition, I kept running into compilation and package version issues, which cost me more time than I gained from typing or vectorization. The claims of some Julia followers that the language would soon surpass R or Python added another bad taste to the whole experience. I think this is part of the reason why Julia remains a niche language to this day. I stopped using it completely.