Fly? Isn't it basically gliding?

Except for rockets, everything in the air is gliding. Some things are also powered, but that does not makes them glide less, just more.

In aviation, by definition gliding is unpowered flight, like coasting in a car. If you're doing performance calculations, there are different equations for gliding and powered flight.

Ballons aren't gliding.

Helicopters and quadcopters also aren't gliding.

Helicopters and quadcopters provide lift through rotary wings, thereby gliding. Fair point about balloons though.

That's like saying cars are moving by turning (because their wheels do that).

Cars are moved by turning though. From the pistons driving the engine, through the gearbox and drivetrain to the wheels.

This feels like it's in pre-alpha. It's a pain to configure it

It’s meant to be configured once and then shipped as a disk image that gets installed on client devices.

This team did an amazing job that will most likely go completely unnoticed if they are successful

Isn't that the point of such fixes?

(And also why a lot of people thought that the Y2k but was over-hyped, when there was a lot of background work which fixed the problems so few people noticed when it did come to roll-over time)

It's not about the point, it's more about giving credit/praise/acknowledgement where it's due.

Parent is probably saying those things will most likely be disproportionally low for that kind of effort/impact.

Outside of the field most people see it as:

- It failed, the people in charge must be incompetent;

- It works, it's probably routine and simple;

- What works? Is that a thing?

System administration is a terrible job -- the only time people talk to you is because they're angry that something broke.

On the other hand there are places where you are pretty free to do what you want in that job.

It really depends on the place.

It wasn't overhyped, but you are correct that most of the hype was wrong

Oh, I'm not denying that some hype was justified. Even a very big hype.

Just not as big a hype (and of the wrong type!) as we saw.

"The Moscow rollover was the big one. The Russian military’s highly centralized command-and-control system meant that anything truly catastrophic would occur in Moscow first, then radiate outward through linked computer systems or trigger human errors farther afield. Among the Americans’ greatest fears was that a Russian missile commander might receive incorrect early-warning information from a Y2K-affected radar system; this could inspire needless retaliation."

https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/when-rus...

This looks like we are going to also feed our computers nutrients on top of electricity.

I really like these corporative battles. Seems it's the only thing that keeps the market being for consumers and not for profit.

I don't like malware tho'

It seems that periodically there is evidence showing that the universe is this or that and yet nothing is and it will never be concrete because it's impossible to find the root of the universe. I see it as a more philosophical question. I think we should be more focused on exploring the universe, not understanding it.

We are able to explore the universe because of out attempts to understand it.

Really enjoyed the read! Two minor things I found: downgrade(&self) should be downgrade(self), and rw2 and rw3 have TCell parameters, should these not be QCells?

Maybe it's time for a global reform on schools' approach. I see more and more that children aren't willing to attend school. And I think that's because the approach is the same in the past 30-40 years, at least in my country, Nothing changes, the literature is the same, the teaching methods are the same. I feel that there's a need of change.