Paul Miller

"I always leave a root shell open on older servers in case a driver gets deadlocked and I need to sysrq to reboot. You? Maybe I'm oldschool." - Paul Miller

"And also be able to talk to xmpp people that aren't actually on google talk... Say you're using your company xmpp server and you want ot talk to google talk people on gmail addresses. No problem, right? So far, person2person still works on xmpp, but group chat's don't work or appear in xmpp." - Paul Miller

"India's a big place with like 80 languages and 40 cultures... I've always wanted to visit, but it's not the first time I've read something like this and my wife refuses to go there. So where was this?" - Paul Miller

"It does work better though. At point blank all the escaping gas tears up tissues to the point where the victim wouldn't make it to the hospital if you shot them in the leg." - Paul Miller

"Wait, ... a user said things and Google read them and did something? There has to be a mistake somewhere." - Paul Miller

"Not new. Google is weird that way. You almost have to go scan all their offerings daily to know which ones are coming and going. Personally, I can't believe shopper is still here and reader is gone. Nobody uses shopper, do they? Wallet popped up on me one day, but I couldn't figure out what it was exactly. Then Now appeared. Finally I can see them in my S3, but I don't use them because they're all hype... Wait, what was the question? Right. No." - Paul Miller

"The really freaky part about this is that the UNIX flight simulator was real and ran on Irix. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki..." - Paul Miller

"rigged" - Paul Miller

"I upvoted the grammar nazi for bringing out what is maybe the best reaction gif of all time." - Paul Miller

"touch your nose to your elbow, do it now. It's closer than you think. Turns out, you can rotate your shoulders." - Paul Miller

"If those are bagels, why don't they complete the fully toroidal shape? It appears there's a divider there that continues into the tunnel. is it some other bagel-alike-pastry? Is there some next process to join the ends? HELP ME!??!?!" - Paul Miller

"Speaking from personal experience? You may not n be able to tell without controls. It only feel like it's working, or have other side effects that make it pointless or counter productive." - Paul Miller

"I doubt it really helps. I expect unless you actually have an attention problem, it just gives you a euphoric-a-like sensation of studying harder. Is there science on this?" - Paul Miller

"It's still not waste. I'm never really happy with gnome, and I hate kde. The kde don't really like gnome. Personally, I don't want either. I use ratpoison. Anyway, there's no The Desktop organization you can trick into making a one size fits all solution. Gnome hates focus follows mouse (particularly while decoupled from raise-window-on-focus) — so I don't really want to use it. Sounds like a window manager issue right? Yeah, well, I don't think gnome knows where that blury line of distinction really is. I actually kindof like unity. I like unity more than gnome/kde and I don't see how you could merge kde+gnome much less kde+gnome+unity. Now we want to talk about not creating new projects to compete with xorg? What if you hate xorg, but you want to make something? Why should you end up working on xorg? Who's in charge of this thing? Oh, right, the devs. The devs do what they want and there's nobody corralling them. Nor could there ever be. They wanna do what they want, so they do. If..." - Paul Miller

"Doesn't seem needless to me at all. Plenty of people hate X for bloat. Adding more to it isn't going to satisfy them in the slightest. I like X, personally, but some people don't. How likely is it that the upstream devs will accept patches to remove bloat from xorg? There are also plenty of projects that come up doing 1% different stuff that take off and smoke the original because the leaders are better. xorg itself is like that. Remember what we used to do before xorg? Yeah, me neither, but it was really similar at first. The bottom line is that projects people hate will die and projects people like will live — no matter how pointless they seemed at first." - Paul Miller

"The first real actual bullet points were three X11/etc/etc and I knew immediately I'd hate the fragmentation talk. I'm really glad you posted this TLDR. Now I'm feeling great about not watching this. People have been complaining about fragmentation in “linux” since 1974. Doesn't really matter. These platforms are all about choice. Choose what you want. Why would you ever want to narrow it down? If anything, I want more distros, more packages, and more choices." - Paul Miller

"wtf is that? (DO NOT TELL ME)" - Paul Miller

"I wondered if it was to make some kind of temperature differential more dramatic? maybe?" - Paul Miller

"The stunts performed with go pro cameras are legit. I suspect they're performed by people who wanted to do them anyway, but got free cameras to use and funding for the helicopters. Knowing that GoPro maybe funded the stunt doesn't make the avalanche less exciting to watch. (I know like 30 skydivers with these things and I want one too.)" - Paul Miller

"I believe this footage to be from Good Stuff (Joe Jennings), but I've never seen this camera angle that I can recall." - Paul Miller

"Why are people downvoting this? I've seen this argument before elsewhere. Is it wrong?" - Paul Miller

"Yeah, I switched back to swype from swiftkey over this. The social integration doesn't cut it... I use different words in talk than I do in email and it never ever learns them." - Paul Miller

"I don't know who this kid is, but I've watched three of these with rapt attention. I even paused it to check my phone. My guess is he's a rising star of some kind." - Paul Miller

"That is really interesting. I know so little about that I can't really follow at all, yet I watched all three." - Paul Miller

"I think he's just stumbling backwards trying to catch himself." - Paul Miller

"I recommend looking up the mythbuster's result on the one inch punch. Those guys are hardly scientific, but ... it's compelling." - Paul Miller