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Multiple? A Main Battle Tank such as the German Leopard 2 weighs 62,300 kg (137, 347 lb). Even a puny WW2 Sherman medium tank weighed in the neighborhood of 70,000 lb.

XNU is a hybrid kernel incorporating large elements of Mach (microkernel) as well as BSD (monolithic kernel).

Does it have an HDMI connector? The description is extremely poor.

We've failed: open access is winning and we must change our approach

"What do you mean, "we", white man?"

Physical? You could jam a lot more storage in a 3.5" drive than you're ever going to see, but it would not be economically practical, and the MTBF and reliability would be very poor.

You completely missed the drawn of HDDs with the ST506 5MB, and the big breakthrough when the much faster 10MB ST512 replaced it? Those were the exciting days.

What other possible way is there to pronounce it?

"Gaz" for gas/gasoline.

Reminds me of the ludicrous idea of medical savings accounts. Hardly anyone below the top 0.1% could ever hope to "save" enough money and put it away to cover a medical or legal disaster or a really bad accident involving personal injury or destruction of extremely valuable property.

It just isn't a realistic proposition. Insurance with all its flaws exists for good reason.

Honest question: If you aren't going to share data between/among threads, why use threads at all? Why not just fork-abd-exec?

It's not even fully C++11. Massive fail.

It passes shared_ptr via reference

Talk about not getting it.

Mine is beat and barely holding together and it is at 97_000 miles.

You are ridiculously hard on your capital equipment. It must be nice not to have a care in the world for your expensive possessions. Personally I couldn't bring myself to torture fine machinery like that.

I would say perl6 was stable as of the Christmas 2015 release of rakudo.

I found this a nifty intro to perl6. I am a 70 year old retiree and have 37 years of C programming and some C++, perl5, and other languages. This is the first time I've been able to make the slightest headway digging perl6.

Didn't you bother to run SMART and see what the power-on time was? Just for curiosity if nothing else.

That's odd. I certainly wouldn't [feel bad, that is].

I don't see any control keys at all in that picture! This has to be a joke.

- over 40% thermal efficiency

- significant reduction in CO2

CO2 production is directly inverse-linearly related to thermal eficiency. It is silly to list both.

An electric power transmission is hardly hybrid. You just have two extra conversions in your transmission, mechanical to electric and electric back to mechanical.

a Tesla uses about 300 Watts a mile @ 55 Mph

This is nonsense. The dimensions are wrong. Watts are instantaneous power. To be meaningful, you would have to give either kWh/h or kWh per mile or km.

Besides that 300 W is only 0.4 hp. Sorry, but that is just not credible.

So this is ... diesel without the NOx

NOx is not peculiar to diesel engines. Gasoline engines also generate NOx. All internal engines make NOx. As long as you burn fuel + atmospheric air you get NOx. The atmosphere is 78% nitrogen. Some of it gets oxidized.

so it seems that Oracle could in fact sue.

Says the SFC. But Oracle has had plenty of time and they have not sued. In fact, they have not criticized Canonical for integrating ZFS.

One theory is that Canonical has essentially forced Oracle to decide whether it wants to crack down on inclusion of CDDL-licensed code being shipped with Ubuntu's stock kernel, so Red Hat may be waiting to see if Oracle sweeps in or not before following suit.

That is not a "theory" that anyone who understands the basics of the licenses adheres to. The possible threat is that linux' GPL could attack ZFS; not the other way round. There is nothing in the CDDL in the way of using ZFS in linux.

They can't legally use anything except CDDL. If anyone could just pick and choose to alter the licensing, there wouldn't be any point in having licences.

I disagree with the use of the word "deprecating"

Then you disagree (literally) with Red Hat's official statement as a matter of fact (not opinion). From Chapter 53, RHEL 7.4 release notes: "Btrfs has been deprecated ... Red Hat will not be moving Btrfs to a fully supported feature and it will be removed in a future major release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux."[0]

Pretty definitive.

[0] https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterp...

Zfs on Linux has data loss bugs.

Please don't spread untruths. Somebody who doesn't know better might actually believe you.

No idea on earth why you are downvoted. My sympathies for your challenged vision. Your objection is well founded, and your suggestion has merit.

"human-readable" file sizes).

Nothing is more human readable than "123,456,789", so I think the problem is just the way you go about making them human readable. I couldn't agree more that lurching between B, kB, MB, and GB just because the file size changes it extremely jarring and disconcerting, and actually makes comparing the size much more difficult.

Sounds a bit extreme, but I am always puzzled by people who think dark backgrounds are just fine. Light all the way for me!

What would people think if all web pages on the internet had ugly black backgrounds?