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Sadly I'm stuck with it if I want to run any mainstream Linux distros.

Boohoo! Then man-up and look at all the alternatives out there! You can boot a Linux system with a simple 5-line shell script as /bin/init if you want! You clearly don’t care much about desktop Linux, because those of us that do don’t want a hundred rogue clipboard processes running in the background after we log out. Build a server box with Linux from scratch!
Nice. What works for someone might not work for someone we can see again!
I am unsure of your argument.

Are you saying that the size of the company factors into what policies it can enforce? i.e., smaller companies can have more freedom in policing content, but if an undefined critical mass is reached (perhaps market share), they should have less flexibility on curated content?

Or is it a factor of what it's trying to build? e.g., if YouTube only focused on hosting political content, should they be allowed to censor that content or shape what is permitted?
In the USA, if travel restrictions hadn't been put in place in late January (going directly against WHO recommendations at the time), the virus would have propagated much quicker into the country and the US would have been in way worse shape today than it is now.
And those employers will suffer for it by getting sub-standard employee as the competent ones will find jobs at places that don't play big brother.

They could possibly get away with it by paying exceedingly well. But that would afford workarounds, like buying a work-only computer for the spyware to live on.
Well don't be shy, post some videos of your $200 quadruped showing off its flexible dynamic gait performance.
> I realize I'm not doxable so you can consider my comment "fake" but I am a contractor SE making $83K/yr in midwest, no degree.

You are making half of a new grad salary at a FAANG, if that. They have offices in the Mid West. Please consider boning up on LeetCode or Elements of Programming Interviews or Cracking the Coding Interview and getting paid much, much more.
Necessity is the mother of entrepreneurship.

I grew up around there and bagged astoundingly large grocery orders for people coming in from the villages to shop. I also stayed in Gustavus at family friends homes, and even grew up with a kid named after the town. It's weird that I am reading this story from SF now. Just wanted to show up and rep the hometown/s.
Try to build something. That really forces you to push yourself to make sure you understand something.

And in particular, try to build things that force you do things from first principles vs. using a library.
Netflix & Google work-life balance is actually pretty good. Amazon it's very variable - some teams have decent hours, others work you to the bone. Apple has a reputation for preventing engineers from having a life, though it might've gotten better since Steve Jobs died. Facebook is probably similar to Apple overall - you work harder than at Google, and also have less time for reflection (Facebook is all about metrics and hitting the numbers).

I would shop around and see if you can get an offer from a FAANG or Bay Area growth company before moving out, though. They'll often pay your relocation, and it's a lot less stressful than moving out, paying Bay Area rents, and hoping you get a job without any firm commitments.

Also beware of down-leveling. People who have not previously worked at a FAANG or hot growth company often take a title demotion (but salary bump) when moving to one of them. I've heard of folks - in the Bay Area, but at a bank rather than a tech company - going from being a Director with ~20 people under them to an IC at Facebook (but making more money), and of people being VPs at their previous company but going back to being an IC to work at Stripe. If you were a senior-level engineer making $150K at SLC you might get a mid-level engineer position at a FANG for maybe $250K, which is basically a wash after CoL adjustments (actually probably a step back in quality of life, because Bay Area housing & traffic is so terrible). But then you have a FANG on your resume, and you can either stick with it and get promoted into those $500K-$1M roles once you get back into management & senior engineering, or you can turn it into a very senior engineering or leadership position at an up & coming startup.
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> * Platform has ubiquitous and wonderful package manager (Homewbrew)

Is this the case? I thought Homebrew was considered fairly mediocre compared to more established package managers on (eg) Linux systems. But I've never been required to use a Mac, so my firsthand familiarity is limited.
I have never seen that usage — in what community is it common? Thanks!
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I hope we start seeing more analysis with better data and use it to modify our response. It seems like everyone is throwing out their opinions on what should be done, most relying on instinct, fear or unfounded optimism.

It seems like a uniform consensus response inhibits useful data. In the face of the unknown, comparing different responses seems like it would provide a better result in the long run.
Or that the Navy is happy with these pedestrian explanations, but realize that the public will claim "weather balloons again, another government cover-up" if they provide such an explanation. So they release them as "unexplained" without further comment.
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be careful, quazeekotl may be simply trying to waste your time and exhaust you. it's a technique used to have you talk till exhaustion so that you don't have any energy or desire left to discuss the matter in a more important and useful setting as you've spent it all being provoked in a highly nested comment chain that most will never see.
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It's astounding to me the issues people have with this. systemd's existence doesn't preclude anyone from using the old, pre-systemd ways of doing things. There are thousands of linux distributions, and afaik there are at least a dozen which are primarily defined as never-using-systemd.

Face it: the linux userspace has always sucked. Linus punted on it way-back-when (to be fair, he was a solo dev working on a kernel, he had his hands full) and opted for the gnu tools, but those (other than the compiler and libc and a few other spots like grep) have never been best-in-class. It was always just sort of "good enough" to avoid swimming upstream (no pun intended) and trying to swap them out.

Someone decided to make an attempt at making the situation better in one way, doing things differently. Perhaps it was a mediocre attempt, even. (I'm just speaking for sake of discussion here; I haven't read the systemd code, just making a point.). Still, nobody was forced to use it, and indeed many options for avoiding it exist.

Somehow, this ended in a holy war and corresponding schism. It makes no sense to me. Are linux users upset that someone dared question their decades of suffering under a poorly-designed userspace? Agree or disagree with systemd's decisions, it's hard to fault someone for making and releasing software and offering it as an alternative, even if it sucks.

I'm all for experimentation in this space. The old way of doing things was super janky, and I think systemd is an improvement in a lot of ways. I (thanks to a lot more time stuck in my house) have two recent Gentoo installs, one with systemd and one without. They both work, but one works better.

"This is the way we've always done it" seems in opposition to the hacker ethos, to me. Doing things differently to see if there might be a better way seems like it's always valuable, considering that nobody's deleting /etc/init.d/* from your system if you don't participate.

Traditions are not always inherently valuable. Try new things. Discard the ones that don't work for you.
This is the exact type of escalation that is not helpful. This caricatures the argument that institutions are not perfect. In the beginning, the WHO said the virus could not be spread between people. And YouTube & friends are actively censoring to imperfect sources (since all sources are ultimately imperfect).
> The biggest issue is that the open debate is vulnerable to astroturfing with corporate influence and financial backing, which can completely drown out others and turn public opinion, through sheer exposure.

Meh. Money buys speech has been a thing since day zero. If anything the internet has made this problem smaller because you don't have to buy a TV station to publish video anymore. Then the corporate propaganda isn't the only thing people see, which allows them to see it for what it is, which makes them think this is some kind of novel problem never previously encountered, when it's really a novel solution that makes the old and pervasive problem much more conspicuous through contrast.

You also have to see the irony in suggesting that corporations decide what people can see in order to protect us from corporations influencing the public debate.

> And when it comes to subjects like human rights, there is a definite right and wrong, not a "truth in the middle".

That would be really convenient, but it's still as complicated as anything. There is a truth but it isn't a simple truth and that means getting it right is hard work.

Uncle Google doesn't have a magic wand of righteousness that lets them tell right from wrong over everybody else in the world.
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> because they think it basically hides taxes from the public

Well that's factually false because taxpayers can see all the information and verify it for themselves (that's what they're supposed to do before they verify it). Who exactly is arguing that making tax filing easier is "anti-democratic"? A couple American tax extremists? The Intuit lobby?

If the U.S. can't even make something as simple as tax filing easier, then the U.S. is hopeless when it comes to bigger issues. We're already the only country without universal healthcare and where an undergraduate degree at a public school costs six figures. How can we fix those bigger and more "complex" problems if we can't even fix something as dead simple and bipartisan as tax filing?
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Isn't spreading dangerously false information about a viral pandemic similar to shouting "fire" in a theatre? I'm not sure it's always so easy to distinguish that actively dangerous conduct from fake news.

Not that this difficulty means we shouldn't try.
> but the temperature flux up/down

Have you checked if your air vents are blocked? Ovens don't have adjustable fires, they are always on/off.

I can't think of any kind of failure that would cause unusually high swings.
True. We haven't confirmed a single other one yet, which is why actually finding one will be probably the most significant discovery humans ever make.

But I would imagine that an interstellar civilization that has discovered thousands of life-bearing planets would start to develop some criteria about what type of life is interesting or not. It could just be that nothing on Earth meets the criteria to be interesting.
Suppressing blatantly false, inflammatory ideas isn't "all but the 'blessed'".

It is taking the man on the corner who is shouting "Ducks are responsible for your failure!" and "Letting the blacksmith build a second shack will cause insanity in all the children!" off to a quiet room where he no longer causes people to throw stones at the blacksmith, or shoot ducks on sight.

Icke was that special kind of conspiracy nut who wouldn't dare fact check his own bile because he'd find his whole worldview based on nothing.

Slippery slope questions aside, we tend to put controls on things like schizophrenic rambling and people having psychotic breaks... I consider him in that same category. He should be isolated for his own protection and those around him.
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This could happen at any time due to a solar flare.

Actually, no. If you want to read what happens in such an event, see section 3.8.2 of the PJM Emergency Procedures Manual.[1] You get DC current to ground in AC transformers, which results in saturation of the magnetic elements and transformer heating. It's a heat problem; it has to be dealt with in minutes, not milliseconds.

That document is addressed to the people in the grid control room. There used to be a training course on line which explained this in simpler terms.

[1] https://www.pjm.com/~/media/documents/manuals/m13.ashx
+ Kidney issues.

Kidney failure could explain the swelling of feet, cardiac issues, and strokes being observed in Covid-19 infected cases.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.12.20022418v...

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/04/22/health/strokes-coronaviru...
Not to mention the absolute abyss of useless care that is physical therapy. The same cookie cutter treatment plans are assigned to every patient. Any PTs that have real skill and interest in curing their patients (as opposed to symptom management for geriatric care, which is a huge majority of the market) don't accept insurance. I've been given almost the exact same home care program by 5 different PTs despite me describing what I've tried and didn't see results from, and I'm pretty sure it's because that's what their insurance allows them to prescribe. God forbid they try to dig in at the individual, underlying issues with a novel treatment plan that could open their practice up to liability issues.
In Canada, the reality is that all the butter is the same anyway. All churned to 84% by the dairy board.

Centralized production...
It's way to early for 10X to be influencing anyone's plans. It's still in the middle of transitioning from a pile of Microsoft's pipe dreams to a product that may or may not bear much resemblance to those original ideas.
thanks for the suggestion

> grad salary at a FAANG

I need that mindset, plenty of work/opportunity/more pay

I actually was hit by Amazon/Google but I think that's just recruiters on Linked In looking for "software engineer" matches in profiles. I just thought with my "no degree" thing and that I'm not a heavy algorithm guy, I didn't really see myself as a FANGULTAD person. The $83K is nice with my means(single/midwest) but I'm still trying to get out of the debt that I have/wasted from school that I didn't use with my "savings"/credit.

Since I don't have nice savings/investments I'm not really secure. It would suck if I lost my job but I have a burn rate of close to a year.

> boning up on LeetCode

Yeah I was doing some. I know you should at least know the big O/sorting... mainly so you don't make poor architecture choices.

I am making sure that I have value by learning a lot(granted I have stayed away from Microsoft stuff as I never personally used it eg. setup an IIS server) and I'm sold on React.

I don't know. I also think I'm aware I need to be on some meds or something to be "truly performant" so I'm also looking for freedom as well(my own SaaS products) but I don't have ideas currently and so I'm just a do-er at this time. I also suck at all the scrums/meetings I feel like I make an ass of myself all the time... so idk.

I'm also not a super maths guy eg. linear algebra/ML/AI stuff.

But yeah I know it's up to me "I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, etc..." so I won't haha. And it is all about mindset as you pointed out, it's not a lot of money elsewhere. The rent is insane there(SF) that's my monthly salary ha.

last edit: I would like to break 6 figures, that would be cool.
Sibling comments are missing the point.

I am capable of make video game A. I am also capable of making video game B.

I do not have the capacity to make both video games in parallel, even if I give myself twice the time. A core level of attention and care is required by each, of which I only have capacity to focus on one at a time.
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I’ll take you up on the bypass statement. :) This is an 80 yo woman, that alone would probably make me not want to put her under for bypass. Also, she had a history of paroxysmal afib and prior pulmonary embolism (they don’t state if it wad provoked or not) but is not on anticoagulation. By CHADS2-Vasc criteria she should have been on AC alone, but isn’t. She’s clearly intelligent and has no issues with access to care (engineer, has an Apple Watch) which further makes me think that her underlying health warrants a more conservative approach.
I’m very much a “process over product” type of guy. I’ve never hit “success” when I’ve aimed for it, so the only way to keep pushing forward is to see the journey as its own reward, highs and lows included.
It’s not just costs incurred by engineers, it’s costs incurred by users. If you’re providing file storage as part of your app, then for every engineer with a dev environment in the cloud, 1000 users could be uploading gigabyte files into your S3 bucket.
> - flat earth (before Galileo)

I believe this isn't true - the sphericity of the Earth was widely believed well before Galileo.

> - human sacrifice
> - laws against gay marriage
> - caning children
Were these ever views held by the majority? As opposed to, say, a minority of religious zealots in power?
I could accept almost any standard if I felt it was credibly being applied to all members of the platform. We're far from that world today.
Where are people going in lieu of Youtube?
For one, Facebook's trying to give YouTube a run for their money. There's an entire tab in their mobile app dedicated to small bite-size videos like are watched on YouTube, and Facebook Live is all about connecting small video producers directly to their audiences. Outside of that, there are lesser known sites. Vimeo, Metacafe, Dailymotion, Twitch, Veoh. YouTube has the brand recognition, but simply hosting video online isn't that hard. It's way harder if you have to build your own colo though.

For the casual viewer, YouTube has unbeatable brand recognition, and if I was trying to build an audience for a mainstream idea, that's the obvious place. However, for dedicated fans of a specific ideology, with YouTube deplatforming that ideology, the usual considerations are fewer.

Normally, the friction associated with getting viewers to install an app would be enough to dissuade a large number of users. For users who believe the government lies and that they're seeking the truth, and only the RushLimbaughTube app can expose them to it, I don't know if there's the same friction.
> All kinds of ideas died when information became readily available
> For example, the idea of a nobility class.

America literally has a nobility class right now. The UK isn't far off.
When writing software, it’s comparatively easy to come up with grand new ideas and turn them into lines of code and files filled with modules.

What’s much harder is (1) to expand ones code without coupling everything together (2) present it in a persuasive way that naturally builds a user base.

SystemD feels like the new grad hire who decided the first thing the would do after joining — the opening power play — is to convince the PHB we should rewrite everything in Haskell.

At this point the gentler folk start quietly honing their CVs and sneaking their personal belongings off their desks, one night at a time, in the hope no one notices they are all about to quit.

It felt like Unix systems administration was a haven from this sort of politics — I don’t remember tmux, git, or python trying to push behavior changes on upstream components of the OS[1]. I’m sure it’s why Unix attracted a certain type of personality for so many years and I’m sad to see that changing.

[1] If you are thinking “but those are command line utilities, whereas the init process is a much more specialized case” then I’d encourage you to revisit the Unix principles of every component being a small and simple program! Even init, cron, and login! It’s not some grand ideal to be zealously adhered to: it’s the principles of small components that mean the same OS can run on a quad core Xeon as runs on a $45 network switch.
Sounds like you had junior admins at best leading your university's *NIX department.

A mid-level admin in 1995 could have easily made a 100 line script to kill background processes from non-logged in users that were running over three hours (or whatever).

systemd brought nothing to this arena.
It's a good question and infects all of our software "sacred cows."

The underlying thing is that we keep driving ourselves to "forward progress" in the sense of a collaborative hegemony, and only in those terms. Either a business wants to own the platform, or the developer wants to build that platform. To do that they have to achieve buy-in from existing stakeholders, but simultaneously reinvent incompatible things. Thus through repeated application of this approach the world of professional software development has aggregated itself into conformance to standards that barely make sense, are poorly specified, and have limited proof of concept, but tick whatever buzzword boxes are relevant to the immediate climate.

If you want to take a real stand, invest yourself in "dead" technologies. Then you can choose whatever you want, and if other people want to follow you on it it's implicit that they are working on a similar problem, and not trying to play the platforms game(else they would be looking for an angle to "modernize")
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HN has a monopoly on discussion between people with (slightly) above-average critical thinking skills. Should we ban their moderation as well?

15 years ago the idea of an internet video monopoly didn't even exist and if it did no one would have cared.

What you are suggesting is impossible to enforce or even reason about.
Zachary Lipton has a really good taxonomy of the different things people refer to when they talk about interpretability and explainability here:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1606.03490.pdf
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