Partially. Being gifted is special needs education. And the average K-12 in the US is not equipped to provide that for that special need, especially in a post No Child Left Behind era.

A lot of adults conflate giftedness with maturity and expect the kid to act like an adult, combined with the pressure to perform and an identity built around being gifted...it fucks with development.

There is a reason why depression and suicide in adults can be correlated with formerly gifted children.

Not only are they not equipped to provide for gifted students, they're scarcely equipped to educate basic students to the already-low bar of grade-level expectations.

Depending on the year and test, four in ten struggle with basic reading or basic math. That's not even the pressure of high expectations, but just the pathetic state of US culture around educational attainment, expected behaviors, etc.

One man's freedom fighter is another man's terrorist.

If we cannot decide, we call them guerrillas - Ellie (fictional)/Carl Sagan

This is very much a big compromise where you decide for yourself that storage capacity and maybe throughput are more important than anything else.

The md metadata is not adequately protected. Btrfs checksums can tell you when a file has gone bad but not self-heal. And I'm sure there are going to be caching/perf benefits left on the table not having btrfs manage all the block storage itself.

This is what LVM/btrfs/ZFS snapshots were invented for.

Windows is using Volume Shadow Copies, which for the purposes of this discussion, you can think of as roughly equivalent.

> What slice of my mortality pie was radon before and after spending $5000?

You'll never know. The same way people in the exclusion zone will never know if their thyroid cancer was always destined to be or if it really was related to the Chernobyl meltdown.

But spending (closer to $1000) to mitigate some risk from a known threat vector does seem thrifty.

> But spending (closer to $1000) to mitigate some risk from a known threat vector does seem thrifty.

No, there are a lot of known threat vectors.

This will change starting with Trixie.

Of course, I have always manually configured tmpfs for /tmp/ since Jessie as part of my post-install checklist.

> Why hire an intern or a recent college-grad when they lack both the expertise and experience to do what an AI could probably do?

AI can barely provide the code for a simple linked list without dropping NULL pointer dereferences every other line...

Been interviewing new grads all week. I'd take a high performing new grad that can be mentored into the next generation of engineer any day.

If you don't want to do constant hand holding with a "meh" candidate...why would you want to do constant hand holding with AI?

> I often find myself choosing to just use an AI for work I would have delegated to them, because I need it fast and I need it now.

Not sure what you are working on. I would never prioritize speed over quality - but I do work in a public safety context. I'm actually not even sure of the legality of using an AI for design work but we have a company policy that all design analysis must still be signed off on by a human engineer in full as if it were 100% their own.

I certainly won't be signing my name on a document full of AI slop. Now an analysis done by a real human engineer with the aid of AI - sure, I'd walk through the same verification process I'd walk through for a traditional analysis document before signing my name on the cover sheet. And that is something a jr. can bring to me to verify.

> What an average person wants in their desktop is Windows - not Linux and certainly not some obscure independent distro. And this is still not a problem of that distro or Linux.

The average person doesn't even want Windows. They want to click a button and not be bothered with the implementation details.

That is why mobile/tablet is such a popular form of compute these days. People don't even have to learn the basics of interfacing with a file system most of the time. Want to look at pictures you've taken? You can be oblivious to the fact that your camera app puts picture files in a specific directory and embeds a date code in the file name, the photo viewer app takes care of that for you.

Just wait until LLM's and mcp matures; why tap tap tap your phone when you could just talk to Jarvis

Who is Jarvis?

I think it's a (fictional) AI assistant in Iron Man.

15 years ago almost everyone would recognize the name because of the popularity of the Iron Man movies.

10 years ago Jarvis became a part of Vision in Age of Ultron and effectively no longer exists in the MCU. A variety of new AI assistants with new names were made in later movies.

None of the new ones became as recognizable, and I guess Jarvis is also falling into obscurity.

Don't read too much into my only vague awareness (or person I responded to's unawareness) - I think I've seen one Iron Man film, or maybe only bits of it even. I'm just not into all that Marvel/DC/superhero stuff.

(And as a student I Saturday-jobbed at a cinema, so there's a certain era for which I've seen at the very least many odd scenes out of order for essentially all widely released films...)

> GCC Go does not support generics, so it's currently not very useful.

I don't think a single one of the Go programs I use (or have written) use generics. If generics is the only sticking point, then that doesn't seem to be much of a problem at all.

You’re also at the mercy of the libraries you use, no? Which likely makes this an increasingly niche case?

> You’re also at the mercy of the libraries you use, no?

To a certain extent. No one says you must use the, presumably newer, version of a library using generics or even use libraries at all. Although for any non-trivial program this is probably not how things are going to shake out for you.

> Which likely makes this an increasingly niche case?

This assumes that dependencies in general will on average converge on using generics. If your assertion is that this is the case, I'm going to have to object on the basis that there are a great many libraries out there today that were feature-complete before generics existed and therefore are effectively only receiving bug fix updates, no retrofit of generics in sight. And there is no rule that dictates all new libraries being written _must_ use generics.

I just used them today to sort a list of browser releases by their publication date. They're not universal hammers but sometimes you do encounter something nail shaped that they're great at.

In general, no. Most of the coal companies went bust and the rights are owned by gas and/or fracking companies or consolidated by one of the surviving companies.