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Linux kernel boss Linus Torvalds has released the first release candidate for version 6.1 of the project and added an appeal for developers to make his life easier by adding code earlier in the development cycle. He...does know they're developers, right?
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I'm asking because I'm ignorant.
Are those developers/contributors paid employees or people using their own time to add to the project?
If the former, he's right.
If the latter, be glad you're getting the free help Linus, go give your blanket a squeeze.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
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MarkTJohnson wrote: Are those developers/contributors paid employees or people using their own time to add to the project?
If the former, he's right.
If the latter, be glad you're getting the free help Linus, go give your blanket a squeeze.
Very wise.
BUT.... the kind of people who are hardcore coders (and you have to be a hardcore coder to work on the kernel) tend by nature to be all-nighter sort of people, and this is true whether they are employed or volunteers.
I know that when I'm working on code I really like I don't want to stop. I can't stop! At least, I can't stop until I reach a point where I feel there is a natural break or the job is done. If that requires an all-nighter then so be it.
This isn't a matter of "grow[ing] up" -- it's a matter of personality, of the fundamental kind of people who do this work at all. They are who they are, they are what there are. They must work according to their inate requirements.
I'd have thought that Linus would know this.
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Well there is that too.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
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Mostly the former.
What Linus should do is to make his expectations about when PRs should be submitted to be included in the next kernel explicit. ie for inclusion in the kernel release on day D, all non-vulnerability fix PRs must be submitted by D-5.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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Recent explorations of unique geometric worlds reveal perplexing patterns, including the Fibonacci sequence and the golden ratio. One's under the cushions, one's in the corner, two are behind the lamp, three are in the closet, five are...
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This is a series matter.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Three researchers at University of Waterloo in Canada have recently developed a unique comic authoring tool that can automatically create stories and comics based on code. And then they came for the cartoonists and I did nothing as I need some for the newsletter, please!
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A senior Microsoft employee has teased "something exciting" for Windows next week. Icons incoming!
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If they announced Office was going back to menus I'd get excited enough to start saving for it. Otherwise the only exciting thing I can imagine happening is they are going to fire all the executives in charge of that decision...
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I hope it's a new old taskbar and start menu for Windows 11.
How could they mess up an entire OS with something so simple yet so important?
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Are they bringing back any of the following?
- Windows 10 style start menu that allows customization?
- Color code printing to Visual Studio?
- Easy use of a local Pictures library for desktop slideshow? (It's still doable but not via the control panel.)
- Right click on the task bar for a Desktop list? This is useful for those of us who operate multiple windows.
- Right click on the task bar to get to the Task Manager?
- Ability to put the task bar on any edge of your screen? (I don't use this but many people do.)
If it's not one or more of the above I'm probably not interested in this "announcement."
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There is no one at Microsoft left or new who can code such things...if there was it would have been there...
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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New blinds finally came in?
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
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Either that or a "fall colors" theme.
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As part of the ongoing partnership between Intel and MS, Windows 12 will require 12th- or 13th-generation Intel processors only, 1TB of Optane memory (recently discontinued), and TPM 3.0.
All others need not apply.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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are they getting big bonus for shipping icons again !!!
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Open sourcing Windows?
Full screen Start Menu again?
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That, and the task manager stuff, yeah.
TTFN - Kent
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The campaign uses a combination of tactics to fool both end users and email security scanners. May their hovercrafts fill with eels
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Microsoft's 'Project Haven' work is moving ahead, making container-based app development and management an increasingly important piece of Microsoft's evolving Azure cloud picture. Why should only Linux folk struggle with it?
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Microsoft is promoting the feature alongside Edge’s recent shopping and security additions. Because...? Why?
Do people do that? Or want to do that?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Because...? Why? Because we are M$ and we know what you need better than you, of course.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Apple’s rumored virtual and augmented reality headset will reportedly use iris scanning tech for logins and payments If you stare into the abyss, you buy the abyss
Or at least a copy on DVD.
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