People are not praising the comment for showing evidence of modesty and discipline, they are praising it for the attitude it advocates that there are better things in life to care about than merely the number of money points that you have. (Obviously this is only true to a point since being in poverty makes it a lot harder to be happy, but this post was in response to someone arguing that if he had chosen differently than he could have been a billionaire rather than merely a millionaire, which is important context.)

I for one like to keep things simple and just express everything directly in units of the number of periods of the radiation emitted by the ground state hyperfine levels of Cesium-133.

Nice try, but this post is actually now talking about JavaScript, which means that the close parentheses areautomatically inserted.

Fixed that for you!

Man, imagine if he had just come out and said this earlier before burning out a kernel contributor...

I personally am extremely concerned about the fact that Windows is already at version 11 but Linux has not even made it to version 7 yet.

I prefer RAID -1, which is like RAID 0 except that you routinely yank one of the drives so that only the fittest of the bits survive, greatly improving the quality of your data!

Sure, but in fairness I think that the intent of that saying is not to say that husbands should not be happy but to counterbalance the trend that used to be more historically prevalent in marriages for the wife to be treated as an appendage of the husband and taken for granted. If you view your partner as co-equal then arguably this saying simply does not apply to you at all.

The Software Publishers Association has finally won:

It is no longer possible to copy that floppy. :-(

You make the excellent point that expressing enthusiasm for using Linux to solve problems is entirely inappropriate for an online Linux community.

I think that sometimes what happens to people is that they build the life that they implicitly believe they are "supposed" to be living because that is what they see everyone else around them doing, rather than based on an honest self-assessment of whether this really is the what will make them happy. When they realize that this life is not actually making them very unhappy, they look for outside factors to blame because they did everything that they were "supposed" to be doing so it could not have been their own misinformed choices that led them to this point.

And in fairness, no one chooses where they are born and the cultural conditioning that we receive, so this is not entirely their fault. It is really a societal problem that we do not encourage enough people to engage in true self-introspection to figure out for themselves what is important to them and what they want to get out of life so that they make these kinds of decisions with great deliberation and personal self-insight rather than taking the default option.

That's a little bit like saying, "I don't understand why people continue to complain about the landmine sitting right there on the ground. We've painted it red so you can easily walk around it, so how has the problem not been solved?"