I have come to bury the BIOS, not to open it: The need for holistic systems

Re:I have come to bury the BIOS, not to open it: The need fo... by aidenn0 on Sunday October 09, 2022 @05:36PM (#33145551)

Anyone else worried by the title that Bryan is going to setup an autocratic triumvirate?

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Re:I have come to bury the BIOS, not to open it: The need fo... by encryptluks2 on Sunday October 09, 2022 @05:44PM (#33145612)

I'm not exactly worried but it wouldn't surprise me if he wanted to.

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Re:I have come to bury the BIOS, not to open it: The need fo... by rrss on Sunday October 09, 2022 @05:57PM (#33145717)

Here was the BIOS, when comes such another?

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Re:I have come to bury the BIOS, not to open it: The need fo... by aidenn0 on Sunday October 09, 2022 @07:42PM (#33146362)

My heart is in the coffin there with the BIOS, And I must pause until it returns to me.

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Re:I have come to bury the BIOS, not to open it: The need fo... by lifeisstillgood on Sunday October 09, 2022 @06:06PM (#33145758)

Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your binaries?

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Re:I have come to bury the BIOS, not to open it: The need fo... by xdmr on Sunday October 09, 2022 @06:27PM (#33145912)

No, I am Ole Torvalds the poet!

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Re:I have come to bury the BIOS, not to open it: The need fo... by mlindner on Sunday October 09, 2022 @07:10PM (#33146177)

I appear to missing some inside joke. Anyone want to explain it?

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Re:I have come to bury the BIOS, not to open it: The need fo... by skybrian on Sunday October 09, 2022 @07:18PM (#33146231)

The title alludes to the second line of a speech from one of Shakespeare's plays.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/56968/speech-friends-...

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Re:I have come to bury the BIOS, not to open it: The need fo... by wmf on Sunday October 09, 2022 @07:19PM (#33146240)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friends,_Romans,_countrymen,_l...

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Re:I have come to bury the BIOS, not to open it: The need fo... by mlindner on Sunday October 09, 2022 @09:41PM (#33146989)

Interesting. I've read/watched a bit of shakespear but literally never even heard of this.

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Re:I have come to bury the BIOS, not to open it: The need fo... by aidenn0 on Monday October 10, 2022 @11:43AM (#33152832)

I've noticed that Shakespeare's history plays get much less time in school than the comedies and tragedies.

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Re:I have come to bury the BIOS, not to open it: The need fo... by lifeisstillgood on Monday October 10, 2022 @04:00AM (#33148945)

As others pointed out it's (mis)quoting shakespeare's Julius Caesar. It is worth mentioning that I hope one day we (HN?) will be quoting code - that some portions of code (maybe elegant implementations of encryption or quadratic voting) will become canon just as shakespeare is taught in schools.

It's always been a worry that if more people can quite shakespeare than do long division or understand a car engine then we will have "uninformed" decisions.

I am dubious about that - I think of elections are meaningful, the populace takes them seriously and self informs to a level they are happy with (!) but anyway I like the idea that some of the Linux Kernel maybe in peoples heads enough to pop up in middle age

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Re:I have come to bury the BIOS, not to open it: The need fo... by aidenn0 on Monday October 10, 2022 @11:42AM (#33152815)

It was around 700 years from Beowulf to Shakespeare, so using English literature as a measuring stick, we have plenty of time yet.

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