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So, as a card-carrying member of the FSF, I'll weigh in. When I pull out my FSF card that contains a tiny flash drive with a Trisquel image on it [0], most people think it's incredibly cool and often allow me to demo it on some old PC/laptop they have lying around.

The "demo" of Trisquel goes pretty well for about ten minutes (the DE is quite easy for people used to the Win 9x paradigm to understand), then I inevitably get to the point where they want to see the browser or something that requires internet, and it doesn't work. It doesn't work because there are very few desktops or laptops that ship with a wireless card supporting a completely free driver that Trisquel will ship. And that's where the conversation usually ends. Because if the free OS can't let the computer do the things the end-user expects it to do, they won't use it. It doesn't matter if they align practically or philosophically with the FOSS movement, a computer that can't access the internet is just a toy or a paperweight to them.

[0]https://www.fsf.org/associate/benefits
Speaking of unionizing the union, see this recent piece in the WSJ about that-- turns out, they don't seem to like their own employees organizing either!

https://www.wsj.com/articles/are-unions-exploiting-their-emp...
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Distinction without a difference. Only a lawyer will stand a chance to argue in front of a court competently. Thus, they or their client or someone will have had to have distributed the video to them in order to successfully argue the case. Like I said, kafka-esque.
I see a lot of business apps that use Java on the client side with the JRE. From my observation, they're tending to move towards HTML5 clients, rather than updating to more modern Java versions. The fact that the January 2019 security update, 8u201, is the last version of Java 8 commercial entities can use for free, has pushed this a bit, it seems.
Wonder how much their management troubles played into this https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/daveyalba/kickstarter-p...
> I expect this needs to be taken with a chunk of salt, since a smaller heap can only require so much GC...

Pause times. Not GC times. Shenandoah pauses to scan the root set only. The size of the root set doesn't grow with the size of the heap.

You can have a large root set and a tiny heap, or a tiny root set and a massive heap. They're entirely independent.
I honestly cannot have a discussion with someone who says ‘there is no such thing as overcrowding’. This is the end for me. Have a good rest of the day.

I suspect you are using some popular misconceptions in place of actual knowledge of urban geography, history, and economics. (Not that I'm such an expert. Basically, I took Geography 101 and remembered the 20th century segment.)
Hey there – made a quick site showcasing the amazing "This [blank] does not exist" sites that have popped up over the past few months. Be sure to check out the listed sites to see how GANs can create synthetic digital versions of almost anything.
Find a different work place.
replace with another jvm hosted language ? like scala / kotlin /clojure ?
How do you get an account there?
> Higher pay (thanks to unions) for public schools, and lower quality (thanks to unions).

Mandated by government and paid for with taxes seems to be part of the equation too. I'm not commenting on whether that's a good or bad thing.

However, if a regular business ended up being forced into a situation where they had to overpay underperformers, they'd go out of business, probably for the better(?).
Exactly. Trying to find something you saw last week? Just sort "by date and site" and scroll down to its page title!

This kind of thing is why I leave tabs up.
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Rural United States. That's the only kind of circles we have around here.
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Serious question: Isn't Java still one of the default languages if you are choosing a "safe" language to build and maintain a large piece of software? Considering how long it's been around and how many libraries exist for it now, i've generally viewed it as a language that's:

- fast enough for most things without a lot of pitfalls/gotchas

- easy enough to read for most developers

- easy enough for most developers to pick up if they've never used it, even if they aren't exactly enthused by the idea of doing so

- supported enough that you'll never be the only person who is debugging something

- widely used enough to never be alone when you are trying to use it in unsupported ways

- has commercial support from multiple companies

Basically all the things that a lot of "enterprise" companies love.

Edit: formatting
When I asked Steve McConnell for career advice at a time when I was frustrated build web apps he suggested embedded systems as an area with interesting problems but a very different culture. (eg. inside cars, airplanes, thermostats, drones, ...)
How many companies are located within such close geographic proximity to their competitors that employees can choose to work for the competition without moving to a completely separate place? Outside of natural resource extraction, this kind of thinking only applies to nascent eras of new and flourishing industries such as the late 19th century steel industry, early 20th century automobile industry, and current SV-centered tech industry. Eventually those industries will expand away from that overly competitive region in a fragmented manner, divorcing an employees choice in employment from affecting any change in the labor market for a given industry.
>If there's anything that ought to be a "lifestyle business" it's Patreon.

The question is, would Patreon have succeeded had they not taken in $2 million in seed funding or would they have been beaten by someone who did? Since the second they took seed funding they were no longer on the path of a lifestyle business.
interesting, i wasn't bothered by the propaganda at all. the fable they wove through the story was a bit simplistic but otherwise a fun diversion. the dancing was mostly good but not "the best". it wasn't all that different from modern chinese wuxia dramas: a little bit of rebelliousness underlying an uncomplicated morality tale.
Java has evolved pretty far past its strict OOP roots. I haven't kept up with the last few versions, but it added lambda functions way back in Java 8, for example. There's definitely syntactic baggage holding it back in some ways, but it's added lots of features for more modern functional-programming styles (one mentioned in this release is expression-style switch statements).

More importantly, the JVM ecosystem is much bigger than Java itself. The JVM is a highly-optimized, cross-platform, garbage-collected environment on which people have built much more progressive languages that lack the syntactic baggage of Java: Scala, Groovy, Clojure, Kotlin. Clojure is one of the most popular and performant Lisps we currently have, and Scala is one of the closest things we'll get any time soon to a practical version of Haskell. Both of these projects got to avoid building their own garbage collectors, which is an enormous lowering of the effort barrier. And to top it all off, all of these languages' binaries are interoperable, which not only allows you to use different ones for different parts of the same system, but makes it much easier to gradually migrate your legacy codebase to a newer, better language.

I don't know if I'd start a new project in Java-the-language, but it's far from a Cobol situation.
" ... , then they fight you. Then you win." - Mahatma Gandhi
The union my friend was forced to be a member of, in particular? And if he didn't pay his union dues, these laws would go away somehow?
Open source makes heaps of money... but the gains are distributed. It should be obvious why your single open source project didn't turn into even a small business: how would the money even get there?
Do you really think the right to distribute a mass killing video designed primarily to be a meme would be the hill that zuck would die on?

Also, you act like countries have no leverage against these platforms. Maybe NZ should levy a 50% tax on all advertising revenue made by facebook in NZ?
Had a look through the patents. Their IP seems to be around a forward-osmosis separation process. They use CO2 in ammonia on the dilute side of the osmosis process.

So my complete seat-of-the-pants, duffer-on-the-bench guess is that they have a CO2 capture process (or use CO2 from a nearby industrial combustion process), use the CO2 in their process to separate gasoline in place of a traditional distillation process, then remove the CO2 from the gasoline by precipitating it as ammonium carbonate, which can be sequestered somehow.
> turn off his VPN

I just gave up on Netflix because of this, but not because I actually use a "VPN." It's because my ISP doesn't provide native IPv6 support so I use a tunnel from Hurricane Electric's TunnelBroker service. A couple of years ago, Netflix published AAAA records in DNS and decided that HE's IPv6 service is a "VPN" so they block it.

I made do with forwarding *.netflix.com in my usual DNS server to another DNS server configured to not return any AAAA records but that only works about 80% of the time now and I've had to do even more drastic things (like forcing a DNAT rule for anything heading out on port 53 to be rewritten to my own DNS server to avoid the apps getting "clever" and just querying whomever they like in spite of my DHCP server's config) to the point that I gave up. Hulu and iTunes don't give me crap so I just use them.
Have you tried the Uber PWA? It should work with Mozilla's location API (which microg uses).
When I was in OK the 6% seemed like a lot, but it was workable.

Now in CA, after selling my first home, this 6% is simply absurd. After selling and buying a new house, even with considerable equity, if I were to sell my house again I would actually be losing money.

We had several major life events at once recently (job loss, family death, and a couple others), and almost had to sell the house. Doing so would have been like starting over after building up equity for 30 years.
Where would the game content come from? They can't just start with no content or one in-house studio, can they?
I think it’s interesting to speculate what would happen if there was a significant cost to running OSS as a cloud provider.

I suspect what would happen is that they would look at the cost and wonder if it’s not worth building an alternate solution in house.

They would be able to build it to work and scale as it works best for their technical setup.

Lock in would be much worse even if it’s not ideal even with OSS and OSS would be less used in general.

I think if you look at e.g Redis vs the Dynamo/Cassandra split the OSS ecosystem is much better off in the former.
I use Incognito mainly to let my friends log into their accounts for a minute on my computer, if they desperately need to e.g. make a bank transaction or an Amazon purchase or something using some combination of my information and theirs, where I can type stuff in (e.g. my shipping address) and they can type stuff in (e.g. their login credentials.)

Porn browsing, meanwhile, is much better done with a secondary dedicated Chrome profile.
I feel so confused by the large negative reaction to this thread.

The unions in other countries have done great things for workers. In Germany, most employed individuals get 6 weeks of vacation and 35 to 40 hour a week contracts.

People are scared they're salary is going to go down the hole for some reason. A tech union can exist with pay scales that match current peoples compensation.

Articles like this really put into perspective how strong the American perspective is here.
Totally fair. We shouldn't just assume that "weirdness" is bad because there's a social norm against it.

But I for one feel everybody around me finds "weirdness" unbecoming. I find it to be an inescapable reality that people will care about you less and not want to get you for any manner of tiny deviation (e.g. as an extreme example, just if you said "beep" outloud every 10 minutes this would be reason enough for I think half of the population or more to not want to associate with you)

In my friends case though, I think what scared me the most was he became very unclear/metaphorical in speaking about even basic topics and didn't seem to realize how much trouble people had understanding him.
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I have about 30 open on my phone.
If you manually change something, how is it supposed to handle it? Notify the user and ask them to accept the change? But NetworkManager changes the file based on each network. So it'd have to ask you every time you connected to any network. And what do you do until the user accepts the change? Default to nothing? That would break any headless box where resolv gets accidentally overwritten.

The simple solution is, make your manual overrides through NetworkManager, or don't use it.
What did folks have to do to get the $10k?
Though I also have sympathy for those stuck in it, I kind of wish it would die just so I didn't have to be afraid anymore that I'd one day get stuck with having to use it after a sad sequence of bad luck ending with having to take a job in desperation.
Not really, the Samsung Galaxy S10 still has a headphone jack. And Samsung being the largest Android device manufacturer, makes a big counter point.
The Java ecosystem is still there and still rich. It didn't go away or stop growing because golang was released.

You'd rather use wasm to write c to talk to javascript apis? Your case against Java might be more compelling if it wasn't so gross itself.
I think there's a real cultural clash between NZ and the US style of politics that is readily visible in this thread. Our censors have most visibly banned a few videogames in their time, but as an office, I think most kiwis accept the role they have in society and are happy for them to do their job. The political fearmongering about Government overreach that the US seems to have hasn't fully infected us yet; we still kinda like our Government and aren't particularly afraid of them. I hope that stays true, it seems like a happier and more relaxed way to live.

That said, possession, distribution and (I believe!) consumption of objectionable material are all considered an offence. The cops and the courts exercise discretion here.
Origin does not compete with Stradia, sorry.
homes shouldn't be investments anyway
Buyer's agents deserve their 3% perhaps even more than listing agents and it's unfortunate you screwed this agent out of that. It's sort of like stiffing a server on a tip

A tip might be $20, not $10,000. The two are nothing alike.
Google Cloud looks fantastic, but I could never trust it for anything beyond hobby projects: Google's policy of minimal support and seemingly-arbitrary algorithmic decisions regarding customers makes for more risk than I am willing to accept from a single component.
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I got the opposite out of this post; not only do RH/Cent use hellish network middlemen, but other distros have their own fresh hells. Is there really a choice that doesn't commandeer your configs?

Standard practice for me was to rip out every last shred of NetworkManager on every fresh build, but I didn't realize how many other utilities broke the resolver config as well.
Yes, and it mentions SuperStor, ugh.

Having ‘Stacker’ flashbacks.
I think the problem gets out of hand when the represented employees become too large. If you have a nationalized union for many types of professions all under one umbrella, I can see your issue. There are those cases today as we speak. But if you have a focused union for a specific profession in a specific region, it can be easily managed and be a representative.

For example, a national union of software engineers would not be a great idea. (Even with local branches) Too many factors to consider to come to agreement. I guess a lot more sacrifice on the employees part nationally when mou negotiations are happening.

But if you have a California union for software engineers who are in a media industry, you have really focused the goals to a set of people. They can negotiate by looking at a union formed by google employees. Same thing with google. Vice versa, Just a union for google employees. They negotiate on their own or look at the benefits of a union provided by, say, Facebook.
I've been using an extension called TabWrangler for years–it automatically closes tabs you haven't looked at (or pinned) for a specified period of time.

The closed tabs are saved in a searchable list so if something actually important gets closed you can find it again, but I find that 99% of the time I don't even notice that it has auto-closed hundreds of tabs I've opened over the course of the day.

I think I used to tell myself that leaving tabs open was sort of a 'soft bookmark', but now I just bookmark stuff that I genuinely want to come back to, and let the rest of the unimportant stuff I stumble across just disappear.
They're also blocking 4channel.org (which is the worksafe, e.g. retro gaming, version of 4chan, /pol and /b etc are on 4chan.org) and zerohedge and others not sharing the video.

I just wanna read about TurboGrafx and Sega Genesis...
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> Your emotional response to my logical statement

Wealth inequality has been increasing for 40 years despite worker productivity rising. Nearly every metric shows the rungs to wealth being pulled away, and I'm the non logical one here?

> doesn't necessitate a downvote

You were already downvoted before I commented.

> should be inspiring, bc it shows that literally anyone middle class or above can be incredibly wealthy if principles are followed for 3-4 generations.

You didn't 'show' anything; you simply stated economic religion.
Yes, Michaelson-Morley proved that "medium" doesn't exist, because no distortions of speed of light were found. These distortions were found much later by LIGO.

So, IMHO, author should replace "ripples in water" with something scientific, e.g. "ripples of space-time", "ripples of fabric of pond", "excitements of pond field", because now his text makes reader feel like there is water in the pond.

End of trolling.

> In particular, the problem with aether is that it was a non-relativistically-invariant medium (that is, by moving, you could change your speed with respect to the medium).

Yep.

> Whatever light and gravity travel in is relativistically invariant,

LIGO demonstrated that c in vacuum ≠ const, thus they are not.

By the way, medium can change it speed too, it's not a static thing, so theory of relativity can be extended to include medium, which may solve some problems with QM and with experimental observations.
I think folks have, but it's hard for any one group to break the loop:

Local government mostly represents native San Franciscans who, understandably, do not want to give up their home so that "other people" can live there (even if, by utilitarian standards, more of those other people can live there).

Folks who moved to the Bay Area in search of employment in tech (both immigrants and Americans who are not "native San Franciscans") who desire more housing are not always represented in local government. (In some local meetings, folks shoot down your opinion if you aren't born in SF.)

For CEOs/management, telecommuting and remote sites can make your company less nimble / competitive. Remote workers get left out of "serendipitous microkitchen discussions", and coordinating across sites/time zones is more work than just having one big all-hands in one big campus. (Can be mitigated by starting with a remote-first culture, but this is very hard to bolt on to an existing company.)

Finally, companies can't exactly reduce their hiring (number of roles) or salaries in collaboration with their neighbours to reduce housing prices.
It's slightly amusing, but it's sad that we still have to act taboo around sexual subjects.
Yeah that was always a "benefit" of using a CDN for jQuery except it never really works out in practice when there's so many versions and then you're at the disposal of a public CDN, which can be the bottleneck, especially when it's critical code.

Sure you can fallback to local copies, but that just means your app hung there for X amount of time, and the added complexity of adding fallback logic.
How are you going to be admitted to a graduate program without an undergraduate degree? The cases I'm aware of where that's happened are so rare and unique they may as well have never happened.

Even in those instances, I don't think any of them happened in the last decade or two. If anything it's probably more difficult than ever to e.g. impress the right faculty member and thus bypass graduate admissions these days (Lockhart did this after meeting Erdos at Columbia in the late 80s). The amount of bureaucracy has only increased over time. More importantly much of it has been systematically automated, so you longer even have a clear system for a human to bypass a requirement in exceptional cases.

I think it's also hard to make a really good case for it. I know someone who was admitted to Harvard at 16 years old. Upon admission he already had two full years of undergraduate credit completed through a gifted youth program at Stanford. He finished his bachelors degree before he turned 18 and received his PhD at 21. He didn't "need" undergraduate education in the usual sense of the word, but he still got it (albeit in a non-traditional way) before going to grad school.

It might sound harsh but when people like that exist and still get a bachelors degree, universities don't really have to make exceptions. There's just no pressure to do so, and in their eyes anyone without the qualification is an unknown quantity with an unfamiliar bureaucratic exception process tied to it.
I remember reading that they were used to clean up the sites of French nuclear tests. Not very romantic...
> The article states the stream had ~200 views total. That's not anywhere close to viral.

No. According to the article the original video actually had ~4,000 views in the unspecified amount of time before it was removed. Only ~200 people watched it live.

But you missed my point: the current design is setup to present as few obstacles as possible to something going viral, which means it's easy for something to spread so quickly it's impossible to moderate. The solution is to add obstacles on the path to virality to prevent things from going viral. These could include things like post-visibility delays that could trigger even before the objectionable content is even close to viral (and would similarly slow down the spread of mutated reposts).
Since you have a point of contact, it might not be a bad idea to ask them what you are supposed to do if it happens again? Surely they don't want you to post on HN every time?
London: 40hr/week up to 70hr/week, rough contracts and tight deadlines.

Moved to LA 3 years ago, work 40hr/week even though on 5x salary compared to UK. Never felt pressure to work more, but would when required (launches).
Wouldn't this depend on the definition of "injury"? You could argue that under some definitions of "injury" Google violates its own "AI principles" already.
I remember how much excitement Netflix created in the data science community when they used to run their recommendation competition. There was so much optimism that big data would bring big benefits for consumers. How naive we were. Of course the data is used to extract maximum value for the data owner, not consumers. I guess we used to think their interests were aligned; the dream of the free market: that companies will compete on who makes customers' lives better. So so wrong.