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Re:A Lufthansa A350's frustrating Oakland diversion on Friday December 22, 2023 @05:13PM (#38739265)
Now I am confused - I have no actual knowledge on this but on the post there is a comment from an experienced pilot saying the opposite:

> [...] But IMO ATC was absolutely not doing what they are supposed to do. Air traffic control is literally a service provided to and paid for by the airlines.

Have you used it recently, or just years ago? It definitely used to be very slow, but since ~2 years ago it's very good, and my go to browser (my phone is not high end, by the way)
Re:How fast are Linux pipes anyway? on Thursday October 05, 2023 @08:39PM (#37785995)
That's wrong though, it's got nothing to do with different buffering (which is usually done at the application level, by the way).
Re:MIT SICP Book in JavaScript on Monday July 24, 2023 @05:22AM (#36845030)
You'd be surprised at how readable Lisp is for people who actually learn it instead of just saying "look, weird language ha-ha!"
It's not necessarily interactive, it's also pretty common to have a shell script for initialization/setup.
Re:A large crash spike affecting Firefox users on Linux on Saturday June 24, 2023 @11:48AM (#36459683)
Wasn't that because of Variable-Length Arrays? I remember a while back there was a movement to remove all of them from the kernel.
> The "ssh-agent -k" command will emit shell commands

Does it really? I've executed it here and it just runs kill, doesn't emit any bash. Running just ssh-agent (without any args) does that though, which is what's probably causing the confusion.

Re:Changes to Tailscale Pricing and Plans on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @03:50PM (#35619100)
They said he should reconsider if the free plan covers his usage, not that he'd get the same features. Which could be true if e.g you were only paying so you could get more than one user.