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I have a confession to make. I love doing meetings over video conferencing specifically because everyone hates them and it makes them get right to the point so they can get off of them as quickly as possible. There's far less chit chat about irrelevant stuff, or political talk, or whatever other nonsense is keeping me from getting work done. Yes, I hate the disconnects and freezes, and the half-second delay, and all that stuff. But if it makes my meetings short (and it does!) then I'll take it!
OK, I think I'm following. Your notion of free speech ideals isn't bound to a specific law like the 1st amendment and is more abstract. (I'll note that it sounds like your notion of free speech here actually seems to cover less speech than the 1st amendment, since you're explicitly excluding harassment and threats which the 1st amendment may cover. Of course, that's determining what is legal and illegal while free speech ideals are more abstract, so that's kind of an apples-and-oranges comparison). And you object to Counter Culture, which you're defining as coercive actions against those who hold abhorrent or objectionable views. And you propose an alternative, which we could call Refutation Culture, where you instead seek to open up a sort of dialogue to prove those views wrong or immoral.

I have a couple of follow-ups. You reject using Cancel Culture to silence those expressing abhorrent ideas. But what if someone isn't expressing a political view or ideology, but is instead performing bad actions? Like using racial slurs and insulting minorities, or shouting sexual harassment at women walking down the street? As you mentioned, threats and harassment aren't protected under the banner of free speech ideals. And, depending on the circumstances, those actions may be protected under the 1st Amendment, so are not illegal. Do you object to using Cancel Culture against those who are performing threats and harassment? If not, do you have an alternative recommendation? Because I'm not sure how Refutation Culture would apply in such a situation, there's no idea being put forward to argue against. As a follow up, what about abhorrent views being put into practice, such as the CEO of a company instituting racial segregation in their stores?

Secondly, where do you draw the line between Cancel Culture and general acts of protest? If someone in a position of power publicly expresses abhorrent views, and under Refutation Culture we should voice an alternative viewpoint, can that take the form of a protest? If we march around that person's office holding picket signs refuting their viewpoint, would that be considered coercive?
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> The windows nt kernel is better by design (dont crucify me for this, but it really is),

How so? Maybe at least state something, not just put it in like an "undeniable fact".

> we need to pay large sums of money to kernel dev. depart

IIRC, their kernel (core) department is rather small - I really do not think that has anything to do with it.

They also hire already Linux kernel devs, and if they want to shape it for their OS stack, they'd need to do even more so.

And I'm really not sure how the mixed rant about planned obsolesce and replacement of the native clients, which are very hard to maintain for multiple OS, with using a cross platform technology instead, for better or worse, has to do anything with the initial stuff.

> It gets destroyed when complete analphabets drive the decision about progress trough their vision of getting more money.

So using the Linux kernel would be equivalent of the decision of an Illiterate?

Further, as you seem to care about IT progress, how does fare the NT kernel with that compared to the Linux Kernel?

The last time I looked the NT one lacked a lot of features, from control groups, to checkpoint restore whole processes, varying amount of namespaces, scheduling (CPU, IO, realtime, ...), highly sophisticated Filesystems with lots of research going on there and in other areas.

Linux is multiple order of magnitudes more diverse and accepting for research, features, new design approaches, ... in comparison to the NT kernel, so please, don't make yourself look stupid by stating as it would be the other way around.
sorry to say, but most of the people that i know that don't like working from home are micromanagers (who have to know what every employee is doing at every second of the day), people who like to gossip (usually the people that hang around the water cooler all day) or warm bodies (co-workers who do nothing all day anyway but want to be at work so they can act like they do something)

people who are self-motivated or like to GSD, don't want the distractions that come along with an office or waste their time commuting.
> But today Microsoft is a very different company

Said the fox to the chickens. Come real close and let me tell you a story.
It take "It works really well" as a response to the parents claim:

> Some scholars get labeled denialists because they have different estimates for the number of Jews killed in concentration camps.

I am not aware of any case where a legitimate scholar was convicted as a holocaust denier, so there is a proven track record that renders that point mostly moot.

> I'm reminded of Iran's leader claiming they have no gay people. Of course he would think that, because if they were openly gay they would be jailed.

Sure, it forces the people that deny holocausts into hiding instead of eliminating their belief, but that's also not the intention of those measures. The goal is that they can not openly spread those beliefs and create more holocaust deniers in an uncontrollable fashion.

Iran's leader has the same idea regarding gay people, just that it's a stupid idea, because contrary to holocaust denial, being gay is not a chosen belief (though in their mind they might think it is).
Yeah, how dare anyone learn from history?!
The goals of the Free/Libre Open Source Software movements and the Corporate Captialist profit motive directly contradict each other. The goal of Capitalism is to enclose/monopolize.

I believe this whole 'M$ loves Linux' is a Trojan horse and we should always remain skeptical until the system changes.

The question is: what are M$'s angle(s) - in the long term?

I think the biggest one is ideology.

M$ will say there are some 'limits' as to what can be open sourced... But those limits will be limits imposed by the current Capitalist system, not the organic human limits. Intellectual Property is better termed 'Intellectual Monopoly', or even 'Intellectual Slavery'.
Interesting! Feel free to elaborate :)

Stuff like releasing Vscode and Powershell under the MIT license, porting SQL Server to Linux, developing WSL… Did Ballmer contribute to/enable any of that stuff?
A very intriguing seed indeed.
> It's been a long, strange trip but it's always driven by two motives: Making good products and money.

Actually, they are going after Android handset makers. Who are paying Microsoft for each handset sold didn't you know Microsoft owned Android?.

https://www.theregister.com/2014/10/07/how_much_is_that_micr...
To extend parent, which was for some reason downvoted: Microsoft is purchasing game studios, that were Linux friendly, like Obsidian (Pillars of Eternity, Neverwinter Nights 2, Tyrrany) and inXile (Wasteland, The Bard's Tale, Torment: Tides of Numenera). After the purchase, the new releases from these studios have no longer Linux versions.

Who would have thought why... coming from the company that loves Linux.
Exactly.

What was the reason why do much money was required at this specific time?

British businesses might have been natural customers for this address space, since the UK IDD code is 00 44.

I would gladly pay $50 per IP for what is almost the only virgin address space going, if I had been offered.

Diligent address space title management including some genuinely tough identification requirements, managed by any top tier corporate actions specialist, could have multiplied the value several times immediately, and then there would have been increased inflation rates applicable to the range precisely because of this management.
A lot of people's jobs almost literally entirely involve interacting with people. There is no alternative to video meetings/calls other than human interaction.

Furthermore when those meetings/calls involve multiple persons it becomes increasingly time consuming and complex to scale efficient interaction. In my experience impossible.
WHO has also spoken against lockdowns recently and harshly criticised it.
No, absolutely not. That's like saying sed, awk, grep need more features. These are all specific tools. They do a job reliably and fast. Keep your bloat out of my tools. Please. thank you. Not everything in the world needs Social.
There used to be soooo many small interactions that happen throughout the day that right now require way too much formal structure. For example, after lunch as we're walking back to our desks we would randomly chat about an idea. These ideas might grow into a bigger group conversation that clarifies things or shifts how one approaches it. Sometimes just sitting next to someone having that conversation is enough, and sometimes I feel like I have something to contribute to it.

These are things that can never be replaced with WFH and shouldn't need to be. It's not a problem right now since we're all WFH as we're in the middle of this pandemic. Once we return to safer times, some of us will really want to stay WFH, but they'll begin to miss out on a lot of these small interactions. People won't realize they missed out, and it'll never be intentional, but it'll happen. At some point it'll become a forcing function to bring everyone back into the office.

I am definitely pro-WFH a couple days a week, like Tue/Thur or Wed/Fri. Make those meeting-less days and I can use those to go into deep focus mode. If the whole company does it then we won't miss out on any in-office banter.

This isn't to say there aren't roles that work well fully remote if the entire team is fully remote too. Keep in mind those are going to be less-creative projects and much more task based, and if that appeals to you, those will always exist. They existed before the pandemic, and what's different now is that these types of teams can now flourish in bigger companies as well.
No it's won't. I don't know who is proposing this stuff, and after a lifetime of computer nerditry this is the first time I've even heard of it, but "rebasing Windows on the Linux kernel" is just fucking insane.

Like what kind of fucked up fantasy are these diehard Linux fans living in.
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> The bombs were built specifically because scientists theorized that it would be possible to generate large bombs with their knowledge of atomic energy.

Below is my attempt to add a little more detail so it doesn't sound unrealistically straightforward:

...because a few scientists theorized that it could be possible to generate large bombs with their knowledge of atomic energy and because politicians became desperate enough to give it a chance.
This is the normal state of affairs for the vast majority of republicans trying to get elected where they are in fact the minority. History has show that fraudulent practices are not below them. Why would it be any different this time?
The point is the employer wouldn't fire them apart from the mob's pressure. Moreover, mobs are famously fickle and they're happy to descend upon anyone, guilty or not (even irrespective of whether or not today's target was part of the mob yesterday). I really hope we can agree that mob rule is strictly worse than rule of law.
This was the case for the danish military in Iraq and Afghanistan as well.

The people I feel worst for are the soldiers themselves. You're informed over and over about the rules of engagement, and when you get there none of it applies.

If you don't shoot first, then your next to you friend will die. Obviously you're going to break the rules in that situation, it's what any human would do.

Now you have to live the rest of your life, knowing you broke conventions. You should be tried like the war-criminal you are. Or so it feels.

While I disagreed with the west's involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan, I have the utmost respect for the soldiers who fought there. They deserve a set of rules can realistically be followed.
Same here. My Jewish German grandfather's father was taken by the Nazis and beaten. Somehow he managed to escape.

They lost the family bakery on Kristellnacht.

His synagogue was burnt down that night as well.

My grandfather routinely got beaten up at/after school by Hitler Youth.

Not to mention many other things.

After immigrating to the US he was drafted at 16 to fight in WWII and landed in Normandy on D-Day, where he almost drowned because his landing vessel opened too far from shore and he didn't know how to swim. And his unit was also captured later and he could understand the soldiers who'd captured them debating in German whether to kill them or not.

Crazy stories.

I know some people are desensitized to it by now, but whenever classmates in school would throw up the Nazi salute at me because they knew I was Jewish or make other anti-Semitic comments/jokes "in jest" always made my blood boil.

I still feel this way and don't think I'll ever be desensitized.

Even in middle school two decades ago I understood there was a huge lack of Holocaust education.

I hope someday that changes.

I'm just glad my grandfather is still alive for now and that he was able to share his family's story in a Shoah Foundation interview (I recommend anyone curious to look them up [0]); Shoah Foundation was able to gather a plethora of interviews of Holocaust survivors specifically for this reason of educating about what happened.

[0] https://sfi.usc.edu/ (USC Shoah Foundation)
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/win7appqual/c...

They did add that. With the initial Windows 7 release. In 2009.
I also think that leasing or buying used negates the car-rental argument. The costs of owning a used sedan are very low, and the on-demand convenience imho beats renting a car for $8/hr. Leasing enables one to have a new car without taking the depreciation hit.

Own what appreciates, rent what depreciates.
MS threw out their lock-in (ActiveX, Silverlight, whatever) when they lost browser wars and started collaborating on Web standards. What gives?

Nothing stops them from being a good citizen when it comes to GPU APIs too. Except they profit form their lock-in and are hostile to competition (including Linux). So no, MS aren't friends of Linux. They only pretend to be friendly, when it suits them.
I am a software developer and I do not have any secret sauce to manage distractions of the open plan/ I absolutely hate those. Luckily I run my own company and have worked from home (except some meetings) for the last 20 years.
I don't understand why we even have ballot drop boxes. The ballots are all sealed in postage paid envelopes already and surely the majority are placed in regular mailboxes which are everywhere. So what's the point in having special drop boxes at all?

I don't see a security argument since centralizing the collection of ballots would seem to me to make it easier, not harder, to attack. Fake boxes are one attack discussed in the article, but even straightforward stealing of ballots from boxes would be much easier when you only have to attack one collection box containing thousands of ballots instead of thousands of individual mailboxes distributed all over.
This article has more info:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/10/12/california-...

Apparently the state GOP set them up and has admitted as much on Twitter. They say they are justified under California's law that allows ballot harvesting.

They're putting them outside places usually frequented by GOP voters (gun stores, churches, etc) to help make it easier for them to vote.

They may have a pretty solid argument. But more importantly, like most of these types of shenanigans, it probably won't be resolved until after the election.
Is there a cell phone service that actually secures your account and data (prevents people from sim swapping, etc)?
Microsoft is purchasing Linux-friendly game studios and canceling their Linux releases - see comment above for examples.
Very interesting, thanks for the follow up.

Would this issue be any way relieved with things like AWS ground station?

If you can only see a ground station from a satellite for 20 minutes, could you just add more ground stations?

Or is that 20 minutes window constrained by something other than having a ground station within receiving range?
You see literal holocaust denial on Hacker News all the time? Is dang cleaning up that quickly or are you exaggerating a lot?
Since I didn't see it mentioned here among the mentions of satire, and I found the problem interesting...

The number of valid tic-tac-toe games is 255168.
I remain skeptical as to the broad applicability of this approach. Some amount of preprocessing on on the space segment is valuable for certain mission types, but I don't know how generalizable it is.

By doing all your processing on the space segment you have eliminated the possibility for analysts to take the level zero / level one products and reprocess them manually, either for quality assurance purposes or to develop enhanced or entirely new capabilities with the data.

The other main problem I have with satellite-as-a-service type approaches is that it requires building generic spacecraft hardware by necessity, which means that you'll never be optimized for a particular mission type. When you build a mission from scratch, you get to carefully specify sensor parameters to achieve your remote sensing objective. Not so much when you're trying to build a generic bird that does everything. For most applications that benefit from generic data, what's the advantage over, say, downloading data from Copernicus (which already has pole to pole coverage at moderate resolution and revisit) or tasking a DigitalGlobe satellite to do the work?

I can think of some edge cases where realtime calls might be valuable (eg: dynamic re-tasking based on realtime image analysis, especially if you have a wide-view forward squinted sensor and a higher resolution nadir sensor), but I really don't see the broad applicability.

It's true that communications is definitely a bottleneck in high resolution wide-coverage missions, but there are other intermediate approaches that work before going all the way to doing the entirety of the processing including decisionmaking on the space segment. We have a lot of room to grow in the comms space, such as moving EO missions to Ka-band (and above) and free-space laser for missions without stringent data latency requirements. Sure, it's a crowded world if you're doing X-band from an isoflux antenna, but there's other architectural options to improve throughout. We can also look at doing selective preprocessing on the space segment (ie: up to Level 1 products) which may allow for better data compression.

I'm not saying there isn't room for space segment processing and dynamic tasking - I saw a really interesting mission proposal a while back that used it extensively. But I don't see the business case for it on generic satellites in all but particularly niche cases.
*retain, release respectively.
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'just use HTTP proxying' would require having another HTTP server. That second HTTP server would need to implement an abstraction similar of SCGI/FCGI itself, or you'd need to move the sharding into the former HTTP server to distribute the work across several backend HTTP servers.
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Distcc works for c/c++. This is aimed for js, Android etc
Really don't see how that announcement is an "extend" move, despite the surface-level phrasing. They're piping host-side drivers through into WSL, only to immediately wrap them back up in Mesa OpenGL and Vulkan. Their use of the D3D API itself is purely an implementation detail, which doesn't lock anyone into WSL.
The overwhelming consensus says lockdown. 1% of scientists say don't. So obviously the jury is out...
Yes, it's about as useful as couples bringing up two-decade old issues in fights they're having today.

The Microsoft from 20 years ago does not look anything like the Microsoft of today, and trying to pretend it is is lazy and dishonest.
India flat out has laws that prohibit hate speech and creation of racial disharmony of all sorts. I'm not sure if an Indian court has ever dealt with holocaust denial in particular, probably because there's barely any Jews in India at this point, but Indian limitations on speech go far beyond the genocide-speech laws that exist in Europe. Same of course is also true for Singapore and most other Asian countries.
Interesting. When I was younger (just starting out) I didn't have much idea of how much markup others had when I was working for them (as employee or contractor). I typically thought it might be 20-25% markup. And... in some cases I know it's that, but that has tended to be the low end. It's usually more like minimum 50% markup; if you're getting $50/hr from an agency, they're charging at least $75/hr, probably more. If you're getting $60/hr, they're probably charging at least $90/hr, and so on.
The Achilles heel of 3d printed firearms is ammunition. You can 3d print a bullet, but the entire cartridge with primer is an unsolved problem.

Factory ammunition in common calibers like 9mm and 5.56 is hard to find now at least in the US.

US states with strong gun control laws now focus on ammunition sales, requiring identification and criminal background checks, and creating law enforcement databases of ammunition buyers and sellers.
Bret Weinstein (the evolutionary biologist) has argued for a new, "brief but intense" lockdown. We know so much more about the virus now than we did back in March, we might yet be able to orchestrate a way to suffocate the virus completely.
Unix turned out to be more elegant and flexible in the long run than VMS despite being a few years older. OS are commodities now anyway. Cost savings equals improved profits for shareholders, which is the goal of every big company.
Sounds like you could mean the Microsoft Android patent licensing deal: https://www.theregister.com/2014/04/08/microsoft_holds_200_a...

We don't know the exact specifics of any of the patent deals, though, because neither Microsoft nor its new Android-flogging partners are telling. For the most part, we don't even know which patents Redmond is actually licensing.

Few things are as scummy as legal extortion, with contract clauses that prevent that extortion from becoming public. At the very least, refusal to reveal which patents something allegedly infringes, should result in any subsequent patent claims being invalidated. It's like being accused of trespassing, but the property owner refuses to tell you what part of the land is theirs.