Are we living in a world in which the JS/TS ecosystem is the yardstick by which we measure well written code? I mean... Wait a minute! I figured it out! This is the Bad Place!

• Theoretically Yes, if your Linux partition is not encrypted, any OS can read it. Password protecting it doesn't do anything to conceal your data, just keeps people from logging into your system while Linux is booted. If this is a security / privacy related question, there is nothing to stop a program running under Windows from reading the data on your Linux partition except

• Practically No, depending on the filesystem you chose (if you went with the default, it's likely ext4 but could be something more exotic). Out of the box Windows lacks the software / drivers to read most Linux filesystems. If this is a "can I access my files" question, you probably need to install something like this to read your data from Windows. Note that the reverse is not true. Most distros other than light weight distros like Alpine are perfectly able to read the NTFS file system out of the box. Sometimes they can't write to it unless you install additional tools (like OOTB Debian probably can't, but I'm pretty sure OOTB Linux Mint can if you change a setting and IDK about OOTB Ubuntu / Fedora / Arch).

The easiest way to share data between Windows and Linux is with a 3rd partition formatted to FAT32, as both Linux and Windows have no problem reading from / writing to it without additional software.

EDIT: The other poster is absolutely correct. The modern way to do this is with exFAT. What can I say? I'm a crusty old engineer.

It's very likely that adware / spyware / malware targeting Windows users will NOT be able to read Ext4 or other Linux filesystems, unless it's specifically targeted to do so, so you do have that added "security through obscurity" protection.

Linux uh... Finds a way.

As a PHP developer, I'm in full support and look forward to contributing to what will be a vastly simpler and easier to use Linux kernel.

Such hostility my child. I can only pray that the Prophets will help you find peace.

Which is how they run the business for short term profit. This is confusing, but it's a thing. It being confusing is half the point, because if all the average Joes out there understood how it all really worked, they'd demand reforms so fast your head would spin. It's essentially a paper vehicle for transferring non fungible value into money in the bank, and then using chapter 11 protections to bilk the other creditors (sometimes including employees with bounced paychecks). They can then sell the Red Lobster business again (probably at what looks like a huge loss, which they can then write off their taxes, to offset profits from other entities they own). Then they can lease the land to the new business owners. Or they can restructure Red Lobster in some other way that allows them to keep squeezing profit out of it (converting to franchising, then finding suckers to buy the individual locations, for instance).

In this whole process, they're probably raising food prices while lowering quality of both ingredients and service and deferring essential business expenses (like maintenance and equipment upgrades). Because the money is disappearing into rent and the business looks like it's struggling.

Source: I used to be a business analyst for a VC company.

I began using Linux as my daily driver in 2001. I was 21. I think my story is pretty unique.

I lived in a house with 5 roommates, of which I was the second oldest. The others were 17, 18, 19 and 43. Except for the 43 year old we were basically all friends from Waldorf School (which is a fucking cult disguised as a liberal arts school, don't let anyone tell you otherwise).

There were only two computers in the house. Mine was the only one with an ethernet card. I got a Cable Modem. No one else thought they needed fast internet.

It was a kind of disaster of a living situation... like the 17 year old was an emancipated minor who was stripping using a fake ID, the 18 year old was a stoner who worked at the local bagel shop and sold weed. The 19 year old was a kid who immigrated from Mexico City when his mom married a American and was into a BUNCH of sketchy shit. SUPER nice kid, but his friends were like, in retrospect, obviously a bunch of gangsters.

Before the 43 year old we had two other roommates. The first was a girl who was 20 who we knew from school, but then she left and went to college out of state. The second was a girl our stripper roommate knew who was ALSO a stripper and had an inoperable brain tumor. Poor girl was 19 years old and was told she had 18 months to live. She quit school, became a stripper and dedicated her life to sex, drugs and partying. She was a complete mess and her friends + the gangster guy's friends turned our house into an absurd party flat that got the cops called on us (for noise or trash or sketchy people hanging around) like once or twice a month.

(yes... this IS the story of how I became a Linux user, I'm getting there).

So terminally ill stripper girl just disappeared one day. Never came home, never showed up to work, we never heard from her again. We needed to pay rent and we were all poor young people. Gangster guy has a legit job as a dish washer at a Mexican restaurant and he's like "Hey, this dude who's a server there needs a place to live."

Enter the 43 year old who is a TOTAL creep ball (imagine that). Just to cut straight to the chase, one of the first things he does is start regularly fucking 17 year old stripper girl's 16 (or possibly even 15) year old best friend from middle school, who starts spending the night at our house almost every night (and also ditching school all the time). They don't just fuck in his room, they fuck all over the house and don't clean up. Like I had clean up their used condoms and cum tissues from all over the house.

The other thing 43 year old creep ball does is fucking use my computer to download a shit ton of porn while I'm not around. Here's how we caught him.

Some friends and I are messing with my computer and we notice that... for some goddamn reason... AOL has been installed. Why the FUCK would AOL be there? I have a goddamn cable modem! So my buddy, who's also a computer nerd and is starting to get into Linux himself and I uninstall AOL and it asks if we want to save local files. When we say yes, it dumps... a bunch of AVI files of the hairiest 90s porn you can imagine onto my desktop and all I can think about is this creep ball who's used condoms I'm cleaning up sitting in my chair in my room when I'm not there jerking off.

SO... my buddy and I nuke my OS and install Debian. I leave the house and leave the computer logged in leaving a virtual console running.

Creep ball comes in to watch porn on my computer and is faced with the linux terminal. He typed (I'm not kidding)

• dir
• win
• win.exe
• windows
• start windows
• motherfucker!

That's the 100% true story of how I became a Linux user.

I disliked the books and haven't tried to watch the show.

But I think I disagree that our civilization is no longer capable of solving it's own problems. Rather, I think our civilization is going through one of the crappy parts of common cycles that civilizations go through. Frighteningly, this part usually comes right before really scary crappy parts.

Civilizations aren't static and the patterns don't always happen the same way, but I think we can predict that

1. Things get really shitty. People pull together for survival and build to a place of stability and prosperity.

2. The rich and powerful (being short sighted idiots just like the rest of us, but ALSO insulated from and out of touch with reality), start looting society for their own selfish, short term benefit. This destabilizes the institutions and systems creating the stability and prosperity. The population at large doesn't really understand what's happening or why, but they DO know that while they're still relatively comfortable, they're scared and they don't like it. They get more conservative and eventually turn to fascists, strongmen and authoritarians to try to get stability back.

3. This doesn't work out. It exacerbates the existing problems, makes things even more scary and less stable. Eventually war and rebellion break out.

4. When the dust settles, things are really shitty. People pull together for survival and build back to a place of stability and prosperity.

These steps aren't exact. They're trends. Lots of things can disrupt them (including famine, plague and barbarian invasions). But in step 1/4, we (humans) are actually REALLY good at collectively solving problems. In step 2 we're TERRIBLE at collectively doing anything. In step 3 we (collectively) are trying to solve all the WRONG problems... then back to step 1/4.

We seem to globally be right at the tail end of step 2. Which SUCKS.

tl:dr; This has all happened before and will surely happen again. Hostile aliens are just a modern take on the "barbarian invasion" disrupter. Beware of strangers bearing gifts.

Cleaning out a ball mouse.

My 14 year old son recently picked one up out of this big pile of old computer treasure I was given by a client and said "What's up with this mouse?"

One of the highlights of all D&D games I've ever played was

• Finally levelling to the point I could cast 7th level spells, while the party was trapped on some awful demiplane where strange creatures were coming out of cracks in reality and just beating us to shreds.

• Learning Mordenkanen's Magnificent Mansion.

• Casting it so the party had some where to go rest and escape.

• Taking the party on a tour of the mansion and getting super prissy about it. "Here's the kitchen. Here's the living room, no feet on the couch! The guest rooms all have private bathrooms, everybody better wash up, and send your dirty clothes to be laundered before you touch ANY furniture!"

That game continued to epic level and that character (who I had played starting from first level over the course of YEARS) created this spell using the 3.5 Epic Spell development rules. It is the best spell ever.

Sounds like a giftwrapped present to the Satanic Temple.

I worked for a team building electronics for the Artemis Program for a year and a half. This thing is a boondoggle. NASA isn't what it was during the Apollo Program. There's a number of places you can lay the blame for that, I tend to focus on decades of defence lobbyists setting NASA up to get looted by big aerospace companies and decades of congress cutting NASA's budget while simultaneously bloating it's bureaucracy.

Things that were going on in my little corner of the program:

• Managers managing managers managing managers managing managers managing engineers. I checked my math on this one 3 times to make sure I got the full hierarchy right. Not because we WANTED to do things that way, but because NASA basically MADE us.

• NASA not having the budget to accomplish their goals, but not being able to flex on those goals.

• Different departments at NASA not talking to each other, and so passing conflicting requests and requirements down to us.

• Our customer (a big aerospace contractor) not letting us talk directly to NASA, thus confusing the issue and slowing down the conversation (I fully believe on purpose, to milk more money out of NASA).

• We weren't told ANYTHING solid about the systems out tech was supposed to integrate with. Everything's all secret, with all the different companies and subcontractors working on the project fiercely protecting their petty IP. I would talk to my friend who works at SpaceX about this and he would laugh 'till he cried and say "How the fuck are you supposed to build ANYTHING like that??"

• We would learn later that some of the other tech being built for the mission could do parts of the job of our tech. SO... those parts COULD have been cut out to save money. I mean, I understand wanting lots of redundancy on a dangerous space mission, but you have to be willing to pay for it or you can't have it.

• We also learned that several other contractors working on the project were going through similar shit. One of them had passed up on building what we were building saying "NASA's not willing to pay enough to have that... how the fuck are you guys doing it?"

We were a small start up subcontracting on the project. This literally happened several times:

1: The big contractor would say "Money people at NASA say you guys are too expensive."

2: We would say "OK, let's go through the requirements list from NASA and figure out what to take off so that we can build the thing cheaper."

3: The big contractor would say "OK, we'll pass this back up the chain. In the meantime, you guys keep working, we'll keep paying you, we have a contract with NASA that says they have to pay for it."

4: Months would go by. We would keep getting paid.

5: The big contractor would say "The requirements people at NASA say you can't cut those things. STOP WORKING."

6: Weeks would go by. The big contractor would say "We told the engineering people at NASA no one but you can build this for cheaper than you guys bid. They said they really need this and you need to get back to work ASAP. So go back to work. The engineering people signed off on it, so go back to work and put all the requirements back in. The engineering people say they need all of those. We have a contract with NASA that says they have to pay for it."

7: Months would go by. The big contractor would say "The money people who WERE in charge of this part of the project at NASA aren't in charge there anymore. Stop working, because the new money people have to review and approve everything."

8: Weeks or months would go by. Then the big contractor would say "The new money people at NASA say you guys are too expensive. But the engineering people say you need to get back to work ASAP!"

At the end, literally millions of dollars and a year and a half later on this project, NASA said "Never mind, this piece of equipment is just too expensive and progress has been too slow (I wonder why THAT could be??), we're gonna have to figure out how to fly the mission without it."