This is how humans were created.

Calling it a ‘dumpster fire’ is a bit dramatic.

Thank you, this is a great explanation. I look forward to the rest of this series.

Edit: I successfully booted a Debian kernel using this tutorial, though I wrote the init program in C++ instead of Go. The process is pretty much the same, but you have to add the -static flag to g++ since the C runtime is not included in the initramfs. This might be obvious to more seasoned programmers but it took me a minute to figure it out.

Internet is cats, all the way down.

It’s a good question and years ago I might have asked the same thing. I’m a minimalist and I really dislike all the extra crap that comes with all-in-one distros these days. Not just installed programs, but also daemons and services that start by default. I hate the idea that I have to go in and manually turn them all off on new installs. I used Ubuntu for a long time but slowly got more and more annoyed at the bloat. The snap situation was the final straw that pushed me to explore other distros. I landed on Arch and really liked it. A new Arch install can be incredibly clean, basically providing nothing more than a command prompt from which you can install what you need. The only stuff running on your machine is what you explicitly put on it. There are a couple things I get annoyed with in Arch, like some baked-in drivers for hardware I don’t have, however it’s minor enough that I can let it go. I also played with Gentoo but couldn’t get comfortable enough to make it my daily driver. Arch is my personal best-balance between cleanliness and effort.

These look great.

Also, I think the minimum system requirements for OpenBSD is just a potato. Maybe two potatoes if they’re small.

Original Hebrew is my favorite. If you’re not reading it in the language God intended, do you even have faith bro?

In the words of Jamie Zawinski, “Linux is only free if your time has no value.”

My work allows RHEL, but it’s a specialized configuration that doesn’t get updated very often. I tried it for a while but it was so out of date that I couldn’t build half the tools I needed, so I ended up switching back to Windows. It was about 10-15 years ago when the C++ standard was undergoing a lot of changes, and the company-approved version of GCC was several years old and didn’t support any of the newest features.

Meine dispatcher said there is something wrong mit deine kabel.

That disease factory is the lifeblood of this town, I’ll tell ya. My granddaddy worked there all his life. My pappy been there since he was fourteen. Me and all my cousins work there as long as I can remember. I still remember the day Uncle Chester fell into the centrifuge. Boy howdy did he make a mess!

The book Project Hail Mary explores some interesting ideas about how we could communicate with aliens.

Just create a new AI that’s specialized in cleaning up vibe code.

You idiots! These are not them… You’ve captured their stunt doubles!

Rust: The Longest War, by Jonathan Waldman. It somehow makes metal corrosion interesting.

Also Napoleon’s Buttons by Penny Le Couteur, a good look at chemistry throughout history.