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The need for separate configuration sounds contrived, breaks existing expected behavior, and assumes that this tool is special, unlike all of the other tools that call use a $PAGER. The comparison isn't "jornalctl" vs "less /var/log/messages". jornalctl should respect $PAGER (it does), and it should similarly respect any other environment variable the user sets.

If there really was a need to override behavior of the pager for just this one tool, the normal solution should be to locally override these cases:

alias journalctl="LESS='...opts...' journalctl"

It is worth pointing out that this solution works for any tool that uses the $PAGER, and isn't specific to journalctl. If, for some strange reason that isn't an acceptable solution (such as Lennart's hatred of shell scripting - which he's entitled to, if that's the way he wants HIS environment to work), then a far better solution would be, as you suggest, two variables in priority order. It's a trivial change: [pager.c:92]

- less_opts = getenv("SYSTEMD_LESS");
+ less_opts = getenv("SYSTEMD_LESS") || getenv("LESS");

This makes no assumptions about what the user intended and accepts either their general or specific settings, if present. This IS done for the $SYSTEMD_PAGER / $PAGER at [pager.c:59] making it somewhat strange that similar behavior wasn't also used for $LESS.

TL&DR: Setting defaults when $LESS isn't present is fine. Overriding behavior when a special, tool-specific request is also fine. Requiring everybody to search documentation and set a new environment variable to restore the standard, expected behavior is lazy and rude.

I set $LESS (and $PAGER, and $EDITOR, $VISUAL, $LESSOPEN, ...) for a reason, and the value(s) change depending on what I'm working on[1]. Overriding these should never be done as default behavior, or it is creating extra work for no reason. Assuming you know WHY I override $LESS (or any other environment variable) is always bad behavior, because you cannot know what all possible requirements that everybody will have.

// yet another reason I don't consider systemd to be usable

pager.c:92 http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd-stable/tree/src/...

pager.c:59 http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd-stable/tree/src/...

[1] I use custom tool that can push/pop environment variable overlays, which setup use/project specific behavior for a lot of stuff... including the pager.
It is a buzzword, one that's very great at fear-mongering, and is getting RC planes grouped with UAVs that are killing people overseas.

It's unfortunate. Assholes like the guy flying this drone aren't helping, either, for hobbyists that want to fly legally and responsibly, which as you note, has been going on for a very long time.
Naw, you're still oversimplifying it and being way too pessimistic. Renewables aren't 100% the answer yet, but their LCOE in practice isn't that bad right now at all[1]. I realize this is at relatively low levels of penetration, but their uptake has been extremely rapid and tech progression has been quick. Solar is still expensive as fuck, but everyone knows that. Look at those variable O&M costs though, those are some sexy zeroes if you can lock in your other costs adequately.

Pages 10 and 11 here [2](warning, pdf), discuss wind curtailment in MISO, where they've tackled the curtailment problem head-on with great success. They also estimate that they can keep manual curtailment incredibly low until wind doubles in capacity from the time of the report. The intermittentency is not overwhelming until you have much more wind in the system than we currently do. Additionally, there are exiting traditional storage techniques that don't get much traction for a variety of reasons (like pumped storage), which we could build out hard if we actually needed to.

A healthy mix of renewables, storage technology, grid upgrades, and more efficient traditional generation technologies would leave us in a fine position.

[1]http://www.eia.gov/forecasts/aeo/electricity_generation.cfm

[2]http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd...

Hmm, never been downvoted before for providing a sourced comment with relevant information. Guess people aren't down for discussion today.
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> very hard life

As in "physically demanding", or "lots of technical knowledge needed"?
I think you and zaphar both have good points. That is to say, if for some reason you have $LESS set, it would be nice if journalctl respected it. (I'm trying not to take that and the kernel debug flag fiasco and view it as a trend.) However, as you say, if the only command you invoked was journalctl, it makes no sense to consult other documentation.
No idea, I'm from a small beach town and I haven't been to Melbourne before. From what I know, it has extreme temperatures and moody weather.

Walking in to a supermarket with boardies is fine in my hometown (Port Macquarie).

You should know though, my town is warm all year round. I used to surf in winter without a wetsuit.
Actually I've been coming on here for years now. This is just one of my other accounts created while I'm at work. But yeah, seems like you are on your way to being hellbanned.
This Greenpeace Stunt May Have Irreparably Damaged Peru's Nazca Site
And the article very precisely says

>(People in the military, prison and institutions are excluded from these figures.)
yum does the same thing. I actually looked at the code and it always assumes the output width is 80 characters and wraps or center…truncates if output isn't a terminal. It also doesn't properly sort its output, so you're tempted to use `yum search | sort`, which ends up with indented lines at the top of the output.

Of course, the recommended thing to do is use a different program for scripts/pipelines rather than yum, so now there are two different interfaces that need to be remembered. yum looks like a terminal-friendly program, but actually isn't.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=584525

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=986740
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They are only removing the V and replacing it with another V.
Why not rattle off every fascist and authoritarian regime, then? Why not say he's acting the corrupt autocrat, i.e. every bad guy in every civilization since pre-history.
Furthermore, it's not like physical licenses are particularly robust against identity fraud. Go to the nearest college campus and you'll find a dozen kids with fake IDs in 10 minutes.
For microcontroller projects, you can go pretty far by taking example projects and modifying them. For low-medium speed, low-medium power, low-medium voltage projects, if you follow the guidance in the chip manufacturer's data sheet, it'll work well enough for personal use.

Upverter (YC-funded) is a great web-based PCB design tool. There's a free version, and a convenient way of ordering PCBs. They have a large community providing open-source examples you can start from.
> I do wonder if Rust 1.0 is being branched just a little bit too early.

Rust has been going as a project for five years.
didn't know about the tractor beams. That's pretty cool
I'm not sure they could know ahead of time what signals would operate which motor.

Plus it'll vary per setup. 40% thrust might bring some rc models down quickly & dangerously, and might actually increase height on others.

Without being able to view the models, I don't think this is a very viable solution.
Sure, I totally understand your desire to do things the way you're used to, but launching apps (imho) has never been easier for me by invoking Spotlight, typing the first letter or 2 of the appname and when the app you want is highlighted, hit return. Spotlight knows where all your apps are so you don't have to.
Amazon has a robust ecosystem of supporting services and APIs to enable you to orchestrate as you described. DigitalOcean does not.
Control-click on a Finder window and select "Customize Toolbar..." from the menu. Drag a "Path" widget to wherever you like.
I'm not saying Apple made the right choice, but it is legal to include "/" and "~" in OS X filenames. This means that pressing "/" or "~" is already reserved for jumping to a file in Finder, just as pressing "a" would take you to the first file beginning with the letter "a"
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The makers of such radio controlled deviced call them drones. It doesn't really pertain to 'self guiding' anymore.
I just skimmed through it; it contains too many "weasel words", making it sound like something still controversial. :(

I guess a few people still believes the myth and likes to keep the page that way. (Korean wikipedia has much smaller community behind it, so it's easier to exert editorial influence if someone is committed. At least that was my impression several years ago.)
It's completely bonkers when you lay it all out there. On $100k of family of 4 household income... it's a combination of actively paying taxes, and missing out on credits;

Payroll taxes* = $ 15,300
Federal income taxes = $ 6,500
CA income taxes = $ 4,000
ACA Subsidy = $ 12,000
Food Stamps = $ 8,000
EITC = $ 5,000
Disability = up to $30,000 if applicable
Energy credits = ???
Housing credits = ???
Waived fees = ???

Some of these are refundable credits or progressive credits which you lose by earning too much, so it's a direct cost of working.

Every progressive subsidy is mathematically equivalent to a progressive tax. The $12,000 ACA "tax credit" is actually a $12,000 progressive tax. It's the single largest tax hike against the middle class... possibly ever?

This doesn't even get into the property tax side of the equation, since we're talking direct cost of working, not cost of owning things like houses, and cars. But that's part of the overall conversation of the war on the middle class. [Edit] There are even property tax circuit breakers where you get credits on property tax for earning less, so that should be in the above table. That's separate from housing credits such as means-tested rent control.

Then you can start to pay for the personal costs of actually going out and earning that income.... everything from child care, to transportation, to business clothes, etc.

And then that's still not even counting opportunity costs, e.g. I'm too busy at work, now I have to pay for a plumber, contractor, mechanic, landscaper, take-out dinner, etc. versus doing it on my own time. Think, all the things you could do for yourself in 2,080 hours per year...

* Don't be fooled by the employer hiding half the cost from you.
Ask a Korean wrote a few articles on this, the most authoritative on the Internet. (Don't be put off by the URL)
http://askakorean.blogspot.com/2009/01/fan-death-is-real.htm...
I originally started Bolt to learn about the implementation details of low-level data stores. It started as a pet project but became more serious as I filled it out and added additional layers of testing.

I'd honestly suggest reading through the source code of some database projects. That's the best way to learn the structures and understand the engineering tradeoffs. Some are more approachable than others though. Bolt and LMDB are 2KLOC and 8KLOC, respectively. LevelDB is 20KLOC and RocksDB is 100KLOC, IIRC.

If you want to go further then I'd suggest porting one of those over to a language you know well. It doesn't have to be code you release to the world or use in production but just porting the code really helps to cement the concepts in my head.
recently, people have been fired from their jobs when their political affiliations/donations have been made public

i wouldn't put it past someone somewhere out there in the politically correct machine to fire/not hire someone because they admit that they watch porn
This is a really good point, actually. Parent says:

Part of what they say is now men have access to
their basic needs with out needing to work as much.

...but men don't have access to enough resources to fulfill their basic responsibilities. If you're a celibate hermit who pays his taxes and is funding his own retirement, that's fine. But I don't know many of those.

In reality, one of the easiest ways to be poor is to have a single mom. In other words, one of the easiest ways to be poor is to have a dad who isn't (can't or won't) fulfilling his responsibilities. Men and women who are fertile and sexually active need to be able to care for a child for eighteen years. Yes, birth control, please. But there are millions of single moms out that came from somewhere.

Additionally, someone needs to pay for current social security retirees, poverty programs, etc. And if you aren't having kids, someone else's kids will be paying for both their social security checks and yours.

I say all that not to be judgmental, but to point out that the numbers don't add up for men to just live the minimalist lifestyle free of guilt. Like I said, that's possible, but you'd literally have to live (and die!) off the grid while somehow caring for orphans, veterans, and windows at the same time (lifestyle choices don't count).
Oh, they'll namespace the pager options environment variable, but wouldn't namespace the kernel command line options so systemd's debug output isn't confused with the kernel's debug output? This is some next level inconsistent shit.

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76935
A little more detail on the first statement would be great (outside of what people have posted already).

And yeah, I know it's been done before -- but that only proves that the market is there, and more importantly investors (notably YC) think it's worth it to pursue.

I doubt I could do as great a job as some of these products and their engineering teams, but then again, I don't know that I have to. I think it'd be a fun open source project.
I expected better from the BBC. Although they referred to it as a model helicopter in the article itself, the use of the D-word in the title makes it sound much more serious then it actually was.
Well, I hope you know that a fan cannot lower room temperature...
First of all I don't necessarily think I am good at coding. When I was young it was the fun of learning. Then when I work tech support I coded because I was for trying to create my ideal life, which was not having to work for someone else (failed at that). Now that it's my day job I simply do it for money. Ultimately I am too burned out from work to do any coding for fun anymore. However, if I had another way to get money I think I would probably start finding coding fun again.
It's not beautiful it's sickening.

"Pop philosophy" is ridiculous since philosophy is already digestible
google photos is pretty neat and space expansion is not expensive either
"Drone" in this context just means "remote controlled aircraft." The term has been used that way since World War II. It doesn't imply autonomous flying, after all, even "Predator drones" are remotely piloted by humans.
It is just ignorant to be unaware of the scale of police brutality in the United States. Educate yourself.
Per other comments in this thread: Cmd-Up will go to parent. (This also is indicated in the menu item that you just pointed out.)

If you don't like using the keyboard:

* Right click on the title bar, choose "Customize Toolbar..." and drag the "Path" option to your toolbar. You'll then have a dropdown button to navigate to the parent and any ancestor of the current folder.

* Alternately, you can choose "Show Path Bar" in the View menu, and it will display your path at the bottom of the window. (You have to double click on an entry to go to it.)
Have you considered trying to make the fabric alter the gameplay (e.g. make things travel faster on warped fabric)?

Great work btw.
It's shown definitively by having known some women in my lifetime.
I'm talking about people I've known since before I was 10, so I can say I know them pretty well.

Edit: And don't even get me started about the ones who aren't progressive and open minded.
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Don't agree with your perception of Microsoft's strategy, most of which makes perfect sense if you apply one simple rule: follow the money.

Since HockeyApp is now part of Microsoft's cross-platform, mobile-first strategy, the main question is whether a failing HockeyApp would be more likely to survive on its own or as part of Microsoft.

If it's a success, it's never going to be a problem -- or at least, not until Windows Phone/Windows 10 has a hugely dominant market share in smartphones and tablets. If that happens, I expect you'll have other things to worry about ;-)
The "green movement" anti-nuclear camp cannot seem to see...

As a bleeding heart treehugger myself, the "green movements" are routinely susceptible to "letting perfect be the enemy of good", which is where a lot of my objections to those movements come from, and IMO where your particular point stems from as well.
I've always used Cmd+O for open. Interesting that Down would open.
More trouble for Uber; now in Brussels
Ugh, well, Terminal. iTerm 2, rather.

I barely have need of Finder on a day-to-day basis. When I do use it, it's sufficient for what I need. No major complaints.

I'm a long time Mac user (since 1984) and the paradigms and shortcuts are ingrained. The current Finder uses a lot of them, so for me predictability around selection and navigation via keyboard is there and I've never really found it lacking. Look in Help for "shortcuts," and google for the same. There are a lot of them, and many are supported throughout the OS and most apps.
My problem is that the filter bubble is increasingly used as a retort of fear, uncertainty and doubt when discussing personalization, marketing and privacy. It’s become a proxy to end discussions about how our personal data can, will and should be used as technology advances. Because despite the dire warnings about the dangers of the filter bubble, I believe there’s potentially more to gain than to lose.
I agree with other posters that the term is problematic, but most popular drone platforms do in fact have automated flight modes - everything from just stabilized fly-by-wire, to fully automated, GPS-plotted flight, to Return-to-Home when it gets out of range.

I know people with multirotor craft that have 5-10km radio range; that should tell you something: at that range there's no way the drone is in sight range, though it is possible (and even common) to have FPV video, but that really doesn't give you the kind of vision needed to avoid all kinds of risks (especially other aircraft, closing at high speed from behind).

Fighting the use of the term "drone" is like trying to change the popular use of "hacking". It's too late, and I'm not sure why it really matters. I don't think anyone is really confused when I say I'm flying a drone what I mean - they know it's not an armed Predator.
It's not as though the URL inaccurately describes his position. After a lot of talk about pseudo-science, that's his position.
PowerShell? That's a new one....

I haven't used Idris, but as a proof assistant, Coq is one of the best computer games I know[1]. As a programming language, it's a very good proof assistant.[2]

[1] Really! It's fun. I've found the resulting proofs impossible to read, though. The closest description I can make is that they're programs for a stack machine; reading those is not a skill I've developed.

[2] All of the dependently typed languages, like Coq, that I've seen have not been very good programming languages, in my opinion. Except for ATS, which I don't think is a good programming language for different reasons. But I really like it, anyway.
See below for a table. Also, please note, $100k household income != $100k individual income. Although if one parent works and the other stays home to take care of the kids...

> Is your list "Medicaid and health insurance credits, SSI, food stamps, EITC, FICA..." things that you have to pay, or benefits you get if your income is $0/yr.? For example, you wouldn't get EITC if you had no income, but you wouldn't get food stamps if you had $100k/yr.

I edited in; they don't all fully stack or else it would hit well over $100k. So it's a very complicated calculation (why we need a nice D3 app to show how everything interacts!). For EITC, I think it's fair to count the full $5k which you could get by working just a little, against the cost of working 'too much'.

I have not done the math necessary to find the global maxima of public support. Frankly, I'm not sure it's a great idea to make that calculation too easy for everyone to figure out, lest we all start optimizing for it!! Conversely, there are many points in the curve where you are below Net-$0. $63k household income for a family of 4 is probably the global-minima, where you're way below Net-$0.

The cost of working is much worse if, for example, you have a qualifying disability but are not vegetative and know how to code. You then have to choose, just stop working and get $30k, or don't go quietly into the night and forgo the entire $30k of SSDI.
Rather than berate him for this "unforgivable" practice, why not send him a pull request fixing it? https://github.com/kreldjarn/TRON/blob/gh-pages/scripts/Play...
Just a note - the Go to Folder dialog supports tab completion. Pretty handy.
>You are asserting the conventional view.

Actually, considering that something like 95% of people on earth are religious, I'd say believing in mysticism is the conventional view.

But that argument is flawed anyway; both the argumentum ad antiquitatem and argumentum ad novitatem are logical fallacies. Just because something is or is not a traditional belief has no bearing on its truthfulness.

What's important is whether or not something is supported by empirical evidence, which the mystical view(s) of consciousness mentioned in the article certainly are not.
That spending stimulates the economy is a fallacy.

Standard economics defends that idea; but it is only true in a fairy-tale world where you have a magic money printing machine - like the world we are currently living in.

In the real world you actually have to have savings first and foremost in order to produce the products that others will buy.

Hoarding is a good thing since it frees the person to work on what they like, which is likely to benefit others. Also, money hoarded is usually invested in some instrument that might be benefiting other businesses.

> In a two person economy, your expenditure is my income and my expenditure is your income.

This is wrong. Imagine two people in an island. We elect that fish is money since it's the thing we all want and have a use for and can easily trade with each other. Now I fish 5 fish and put that in my savings account (a bucket of salt). As I spend this money, it does not become your income.

You might be confusing the way governments characterize the economy with how a real world economy actually works in practice.

> Also moderate inflation is a good thing. It disincentivises hoarding of cash.

And moderate tax-evasion is a good think because it disincentivizes hoarding of cash by the government. This is wrong as well. Not to say morally wrong, as it's trying to steer people's financial decisions in a definite uniform direction (ie. spending).

That sort of thinking is what had the US government almost shut down yesterday and have to inflate the money supply with $1.1 trillion more. It used to take us decades as a country to spend that much, but now it's only expected to last until September 2015.

But we still have people saying moderate inflation is a good thing.
Don't worry if the government can access your encrypted communications. Government employees and contractors are completely trustworthy.
There's a community-built app for Crashplan for QNAP NAS boxes.

http://www.qnap.com/i/useng/app_center/con_show.php?op=showo...