Emma_Gold_Man

You mean the middle one of the three cropped images?

Yes

Typically yes, they can fine you. That fine is often a certain amount per day. If you don't pay it, they can put a lien on your house so it gets taken out of the proceeds when it's sold. Oh, and if you die and your kids can't pay off that ever growing fine, they can force the house to be sold.

A key point that isn't mentioned: the Washington Post editorial it talks about was written by the Editorial Board. They can't hide behind some drivel it being an op-ed that "does not represent the opinions of The Washington Post — in fact, it may often contradict the opinion of The Post’s Editorial Board."

No, this IS the editorial board, and Bezos has not been shy about exerting absolute editorial control of their positions.

Somebody else's measuring scale of win or lose doesn't tell the tale.

I would say exactly the opposite - it proves the point. The sameness of the two dogs and the lack of the corresponding marriage ceremony in the background rob the image of most of its significance, and the background is a copy that wouldn't exist if the original hadn't existed.

If the recall weren't such a high bar I'd agree. At 75% though, not being recalled doesn't represent a mandate from the users. It only means the person hasn't openly and overwhelmingly offended everybody they've interacted with. If that's going to be the bar, it would be good for the community to have some say up front.

If the people who call themselves cynics today had Diogenes' spirit, the world would be a very different place. And I'm not just talking politics - they would be homeless, walking into your house uninvited, pissing and shitting in the street. He wasn't a fun person to hang out with, but damn, our politics show how many more like him we need today ...

Advice from a long time sysadmin: You're probably asking the wrong question. ncdu is an efficient tool, so the right question is why it's taking so long to complete, which is probably an underlying issue with your setup. There are three likely answers:

1. This drive is used on a server specifically to store very large numbers of very small files. This probably isn't the case, as you'd already know that and be looking at it in smaller chunks.
2. You have a network mount set up. Use the -x option to ncdu to restrict your search to a single filesystem, or --exclude to exclude the network mount and your problem will be solved (along with the traffic spike on your LAN).
3. You have a single directory with a large number of small files that never get cleared, such as from an e-mail deadletter folder or a program creating temp files outside of the temp directories. Once a certain number of files is reached, accessing a directory slows down dramatically. The following command will find it for you (reminder - make sure you understand what a command does before copying it into a terminal, DOUBLY so if it is run as root or has a sudo in it). Note that this will probably take several times as long to run as ncdu because it's doing several manipulations in series rather than in parallel.

sudo find $(grep '^/' /etc/fstab | awk '{print $2}') -xdev -type f -exec dirname {} \; | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head

explanation

This command doesn't give an exact file count, but it's good enough for our purposes.

sudo find # run find as root

$( ... ) # Run this in a subshell - it's the list of mount points we want to search

grep '^/' /etc/fstab # Get the list of non-special local filesystems that the system knows how to mount (ignores many edge-cases)

awk '{print $2}' # We only want the second column - where those filesystems are mounted

-xdev # tell find not to cross filesystem boundaries

-type f # We want to count files

-exec dirname {}; # Ignore the file name, just list the directory once for each file in it

sort|uniq -c # Count how many times each directory is listed (how many files it has)

sort -nr # Order by count descending

head # Only list the top 10

If they are temp files or otherwise not needed, delete them. If they're important, figure out how to break it into subdirectories based on first letter, hash, or whatever other method the software creating them supports.

That was actually a followup to the 1990 April Fools RFC classic A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers .

The most recent installment in the official IPoAC series was 2011's Adaptation of RFC 1149 for IPv6.

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