brianorca

A defibrillator is for a heart that is in fibrillation, which is a jumbled, ineffective vibration, NOT a flat line.

True, but it especially applies to drowning because they are under the water, unable to get air to make any noise.

Spoilers in Connect are not readable when I click them. (White on white) Unless I first select the post so the background in grey.

This actually exists, but for a different operating system. The AS400 (aka iSeries) had a command line where programs had a standard way to specify parameters, so that pressing a prompt key (F4) would allow you to build the proper command line by filling a form. I do miss that, pity it doesn’t exist for Linux.

If someone is paying you to write code, they have some say in the contract about how it is licensed. You could be upfront about only doing GPL, and they could be upfront about saying no. But if you try to do it after the fact, that’s a violation of the contract.

Sounds like sleep. Hibernate is when it turns completely off, such that you can leave it unplugged for a weekend and still have battery when it pops you back into your session. It takes longer to save and restore the session than sleep does.