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  • I’ve never seen any substantial evidence of a distro with outdated packages really being any more reliable than a rolling release.

    I think the fundamental issue here is that you conflate the concepts of reliablility and stability. Those are not the same. Stability in distros is a question of how much they restrict change during support cycles in order to not be a moving target for developers and system integrators. Fundamentally a rolling release can’t be stable. It can absolutely be reliable to use, but you wouldn’t use it as a basis for an embedded system you’re trying to develop.





  • Sometimes it really annoys me if a perfect spot for a proper “whom” is missed. Even worse though is a misplaced “whom”. Both instances are easy for me to spot because we decline pronouns quite a lot in German.

    Edit: Sorry that’s not a construction, so much as just an error. For constructions one thing that gets on my nerves is if you try to tell someone about your previous state of mind to clear up a misunderstanding like “I thought the water had boiled already” and then they say “no” to tell you that your assumption was incorrect. This is annoying because first of all the information they are conveing is already known to you by the time of this discussion and secondly in the grammatical sense they are actually disagreeing with your state of mind, not the content. I always have the urge to say: “Yes, actually, I’m telling you that’s what I thought, you can’t disagree with me about what I was thinking.”




  • Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

    It’s so creepy because you read the repeated sexual abuse of a minor through the eyes of the perpetrator who continuously justifies his acts and misrepresents Lolita’s reactions. He’s a very unreliable narrator. First he even becomes her stepdad to have better access to her. Then her mother dies, through a car accident just before she can call the police on him. Again this is recounted through Humberts eyes, so I’m thinking it was actually murder.

    I haven’t finished the book yet, it’s kind of hard to read. It’s been a few years, and I should be somewhere in the middle IIRC.


  • Unfortunately the article of the post directly contradicts your point about ZLUDA improving:

    ZLUDA appears to be floundering now, with both AMD and Intel having passed on the opportunity to develop it further

    Following the links and searching around, I found this: Andrzej “vosen” Janik, the lead dev, says in his FAQ:

    What’s the future of the project?
    With neither Intel nor AMD interested, we’ve run out of GPU companies. I’m open though to any offers of that could move the project forward. Realistically, it’s now abandoned and will only possibly receive updates to run workloads I am personally interested in (DLSS).