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> Red Hat still has to release the patches, right?

I think that's a gray area. For example RHEL has some support branches where they'll produce security updates for minor updates. For example you can pay a lot of money and you'll get RHEL 7.2 with security updates. They won't release sources for those packages unless you'll ask for those packages (you, as a paid client, not you as nobody in the Internet). But if you'll ask sources and then publish those sources in the internet again and again, so other entity like CentOS or whatever could pick them up and build CentOS 7.2 LTS, they will terminate your contract.

So that's a weakness in GPL. You won't break any law, but they'll just terminate contracts with those who publish those sources. So those sources are effectively unavailable for a large public.

Currently they publish their mainstream branch sources to the public. But they could stop doing that any time and only provide those sources to their clients on request.
Peter Thiel is a big part of why PayPal succeeded. PayPal enabled Elon Musk. I think Thiel also invested in various Elon Musk projects, so we probably do want more Peter Thiels.
> To me that sound like while I can still use my own map tiles, it would still costs the same as if I used Mapbox hosted tiles.

That's my reading of it, as well. Even though it's somewhat expected on the data collection side, it's decidedly unexpected that they not only require ToS acceptance, but also licensing fees for what used to be entirely free, OSS software.

> Hopefully the OSS community can maintain a fork of the 1.x codebase.

I'm sure this will happen. My company is trying to get some consensus around the best way to proceed. Email in bio if you're interested in taking part!
There have been some pretty solid userstyles for HN. There was a big thread about it a while back:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23197966

Many really good themes you can install with Stylish or whatever extension works with your browser.
Hmm. And what's the debate called today, then, if not musicality?

Regardless of whatever you'd like to call it, I would argue that most audiophile products do not have it. I've personally tried a ton of "audiophile" products, from your standard Massdrop DAC+IEM combo to the incredibly fancy setup of a Swiss acquaintance and was left disappointed. Sure, there's plenty of music that did sound good to me on those setups, but there was more music that sounded better on a pair of AirPods. This is also borne out by my own personal experiments. Let a random Joe listen to your expensive setup with a carefully chosen song, and they'll likely be impressed at first. Wow, the details! The range! Incredible! But let them put on their favorite song, and they'll often actually prefer it on their shitty setup. Try it - the results will surprise you.

And my critique of audiophile equipment is not coming from an untrained ear, or someone who cares about branding. I've been playing violin for almost my entire life, and even plenty of classical music sounds better on AirPods vs many audiophile setups! And as much as I like my Etymotics+DAC combo, it exposes flaws in the music. You hear the sneezes in the orchestra, you notice the small mistakes, and God help you if you play a recording of lower quality - it'll sound terrible. There is an enormous amount of music that is _only_ available in low quality, and it will sound a million times worse on your audiophile setup than your AirPods.

In my opinion, the audiophile world has completely lost its mind. Nobody cares about if the music is actually fun to listen to - they're far more concerned with frequency response curves, which, as anyone in the audiophile world knows, absolutely makes or breaks a manufacturer. Case in point: all the audiophiles downvoting the comment by 'gambiting' to oblivion, simply because they expressed their personal preference! It's preposterous to actually _like_ Beats: clearly that user is just an uninformed sheeple, downvote them and move on. I am so tired of the idea that Beats is objectively bad and Massdrop DAC+IEMs is objectively good. Has anyone ever considered that, just like the music you play with them, it's possible to have personal preferences in headphones?
Owners of repositories that "assumed white background" (for example, https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins), consider updating your graphics to something that is readable in both styles.
This is less of an SRE school and more of a Systems Admin school. The Systems Design section is neat but quite bare.
$100 is nowhere near enough, but you estimate it at $105 with a $25 parking fee?
Same, airpods work great for me.

Bose requires using their mobile app that is always very slow to open and sync and full of useless bloated features, and for whatever reason they've decided nobody should ever have more than 2 devices as a firm rule. So you want to use them with a work computer, home computer, and phone? Gotta spend 20 seconds opening the shitty app all the time and fiddling with which two are the currently connected devices.

And then on top of that, even when exactly 2 devices are connected they frequently steal focus from each other (which may be MacOS behaving badly rather than the fault of Bose, but the end result is that I'm often connected to the wrong thing and my sound isn't working).
Someone who hasn't done a 4-year bachelors degree in CS/CE or a related field, or doesn't have previous industry experience in the role.
Wow. Disappointing! Wonder if we should trust other Red Hat projects? Like I think podman is cool if I were building my own PaaS type system.
> With the spatial audio they're actually cheap if you figure I'm done with any Dolby Atmos, 9.1, 7.1, 5.1 etc stand alone setup. I'm watching movies with this.

Spatial audio is a replacement of true surround sound to you? it's a gimmicky weird audio effect to me. Zero sense of sound source behind or in front of me.
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This is the right answer. Google has tons of internal tooling and libraries and frameworks that are all just internal to Google.
What belongs on your due fundraising diligence checklist?
Spending money on "fancy audiophile stuff" isn't necessarily the same as being an audiophile.
So, my experience as an OSS developer is indeed that I wouldn't have switched to CI in the first place if Travis hadn't existed.

I had heard of CI testing, and sure it sounded good, but we had all been making due without it, and I didn't have time (and certainly the projects didn't have money) to set it up. But travis made it so damn easy and free to turn on, there was no reason not to try it. Once tried, there was no going back, we would never want to do otherwise.

Travis really defined this market and opened up CI testing to entire communities. We owe them (employees, former management) a debt of gratitude for that.

But then we come to depend upon it for sure. Which they had no obligation to supply it forever, and perhaps it wasn't even sustainable business to do so. So now what? Well, now we move over to other free options like Github Actions which fortunately exist.

But is it dangerous to depend on the largesse of for-profit companies? FOR SURE.

Is it, at this point, hard to figure out how to do otherwise? FOR SURE.

So, what could we do instead? In my dream world, we'd have a non-profit collaborative project to provide CI to open source on an ability-to-pay basis. Is that likely? I dunno, raising money for open source is already a problem. And it's a hard project. As long as there are companies providing it to us for free, it's definitely less likely.
Oh, I just saw that you replied to this effect in another comment - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25348518
Do we really think missing 8% of required schooling is that dramatic? I can’t be the only person who thinks the education being afforded the folks hit hardest is minimally valuable.

School sucks fir the vast majority of kids. It’s a warehousing system so parents can both work.
It's fine on my screen. But yes, my experience with dark mode is that it requires a finer tuning by the user, done right it's superior to light mode, but the threshold of success is tighter

You can check your gamma settings, but that's a bit of an ask if you have everything setup just right. Green line numbers are pretty indicative either way
I have the same use case, and you don't need to visit the Bluetooth menu. On OSX, you can use the volume icon and select the AirPods as output device to switch. On iOS, you can use the AirPlay quickmenu icon to select the AirPods and switch to them.

I think this is much faster than going to either OSs bluetooth settings menu.
> In my third world country they're still selling _new_ (straight from the factory, this year's models) laptops with 4 GBs of RAM

I live in France and there are 4GB here too: https://www.ldlc.com/informatique/ordinateur-portable/pc-por...

hell, in one of the biggest online retailers, the second biggest category is 2 gigabytes (number in parentheses is the number of laptop models available with that ram amount)

https://imgur.com/a/LL8H7aP
Wow, thanks so much for sharing this!
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Nothing was fixed. MCAS simply disables itself if it hits any number of problems. The FAA and the nor the NTSB released any data or appeared to inquire if operating the MAX without the MCAS enabled is safe. They made vague statements like "MCAS only operates in rare flight conditions" without any quantification of "rare."

We don't know if a single plane has successfully taken off or landed with MCAS disabled.

The real problem that was never addressed is the FAA's complete lack of competence when it comes to certifying the safeness of flight control systems. The same incompetent group of people that approved the planes in the first place are still in charge.
I really wish more people would heed this. It's obnoxious, and I know people take advantage of it (and wish they wouldn't!) to claim allergies to things when they just don't like them. But it's just not worth playing with someone's health. I'm really lucky that people believed me when I told them I had to know what things were fried in or whether they'd used beef stock for that soup.
Are you arguing that a majority of people prefer winter weather in NYC to winter weather in SF?

The initial claim up-thread was "SF has a phenomenal climate though in comparison."
"the data they've seen so far is inconclusive" has connotations that I don't think the FDA has implied officially or unofficially.
Yeah, it worries me a little that Apple thinks they can charge anything for the Mac Pro and probably iMac Pro. $10,000 starting price anyone?
Install a browser plugin that allows you to inject custom CSS.
> Dramatically better than any bluetooth speaker I've had? Of course. But not perfect.

I agree, save I wouldn't describe it as dramatically better. My experience with bluetooth headphones switching between multiple devices prior to the AirPods was pretty much unusable. So the AirPods delivering "Not Perfect" was by comparison night and day.
Ok. I admit using Kafka as DB is not straight forward but just stating it doesn't provide ACID functionality is not enough.

The example they give is very simplistic. With the correct design of kafka topics and events the problem of the example can be fixed.

And according to oracle https://www.oracle.com/database/what-is-database/ :

> A database is an organized collection of structured information, or data, typically stored electronically in a computer system.

So Kafka clearly fits that definition.
I think it’s a bit more than that, it’s an abundance of supply. Dating apps and websites make it seem like the pool is tremendously large, so it makes it significantly easier to reject people based on the smallest disagreement. There’s no court ship. There’s no getting to know one another. We just keep flipping swiping endlessly
> prudent

USPS has a pension funding burden that no other entity in the USA operates under.

Without that they would be doing just fine.
I think an even better, albeit harder, question would be "how can we set up systems such that even when they're gamed they result in positive outcomes?".

Any system with incentives can be gamed. Those that learn to game systems as a means to survival are always going to be adept at manipulating those systems.
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As former Presidents of the USA have proved time and again, qualifications are no barrier to getting a job. You could get an SRE job without this. But could you get a decent SRE job with this? Nope.
https://www.reddit.com/r/KerbalSpaceProgram/comments/4hw5x7/...
I have about 40degree astigmatism, but also myopia. I blow hot & cold with dark mode. It’s definitely NOT the “one true way” that it seems to be for other devs. It hadn’t occurred to me that my astigmatism might affect perception in dark mode differently. I’ll look out for that. Thanks!
Current ticket: #101772
Previous ticket: #95957
Ok but non-industrialized animal farming is much more humane than whaling or industrialized animal farming. Reducing meat consumption is more humane than all of the above.
It's an anti-de-non-sensical
I'm not sure if this is meant to be snarky/sarcastic but do you understand some of the dynamics that bear this out?

For example, the U.S. pays more than 40% (down from 50%) of the worlds medical R&D. They essentially subsidize healthcare for much of the rest of the world (meaning the U.S. bears more of the cost so other countries can have cheaper care). There's plenty wrong with the U.S. healthcare system that needs fixing, but trite sentences don't begin to capture the real nature of the problem.
Yes clearly: we use CentOS at work because it's free (as in beer). If I go to my boss to ask money for a RedHat license he would laugh me out of his office.
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Browser extensions aren't universal, unfortunately :(

I often use all of Safari, FireFox, Chrome, and maybe one or two mobile browsers in a day, and the dissonance from having different styles on the same site in different browsers is worse than having to suffer through not having dark mode for me.
> 3. It's not a good posture for focusing

I have the opposite experience.

> 2. The keyboard is not positioned correctly

This is probably the biggest issue which I think requires some kind of stand or other supporting equipment. Right now I prop up the keyboard in front of me using my arms and elbows or with the aid of a cushion or something on my chest.
Considering LinkedIn is owned by Microsoft they don't exactly need their own hosting.
I am a front-line coder but if I don't restrain myself I will usually be the #1 person for creating tickets in the ticket system because I like to split tasks into great detail enough to drive my co-workers nuts.

There was a time I did updates to a web form application and I could break the work down to tasks in 10 minute increments and plan it would take six hours and I would really get it done in 5.8 hours. The design of the application helped because the changes I had to do were all straightforward within the existing framework.

An alternate model for "development" is fast cycle run-break-fix. Even if you are planning to deliver good "user stories" or whatever makes the project go forward there is some probability that the tester will say your code failed, some probability the tester is right and that the ticket gets sent back to you.

Sometimes before you send it to the tester you might try a few "failing" solutions before you find one that works; so instead of a model that you'll take "12 hours" to develop something rather something like a Markov process where maybe you get lucky on the first try, but it may take several attempts.

Hopefully you learn as much as you can from these attempts, maybe the first draft was written when you didn't understand the problem, the second draft was basically right but there were 1d4 places where it gets hung up because of an interaction you didn't think through and etc.
You're assuming they'll sound worse. I don't consider that a safe assumption.

Apple is an established professional audio company. Macs are the computer used in production and DJing, have been for decades. They take sound seriously, and when Apple says less than 1% distortion across the entire audible range, well.

They could be lying, but I wouldn't bet money on that.
That's pretty funny. We all have those "dumb" moments I reckon.
This assumes public schools are so efficient that losing be 8% will be impactful? I just don’t see it.
LOL at the corporate guff. The primary use case of CentOS is "I want to run RHEL without paying anyone anything". The best way to "serve that need"? Don't kill off CentOS 8.3+.
The U.S. rewards irresponsible behavior and punishes responsible people. Over and over again. People who save money are punished; people who don't overeat are punished, etc.
Hopefully support in RefinedGithub ships soon: https://github.com/sindresorhus/refined-github/issues/3798
... but also your colleagues?
Indeed, that is why Travis said they were changing the way they handled open source, because people were using it to mine crypto. They just weren't clear that the "change" was basically "not anymore providing free services to open source".
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What a positive and uplifting comment, thank you! I love the idea of amplifiers... it's a great counter-argument to naysayers, that it just changes the scale.
That's treading towards company confidential data, so I'll just say that it did represent a serious threat to overall capacity but that we have been able to navigate well enough by using a variety of tactics (including demand shaping, negotiating with carriers, and tweaking some of our fitness functions for fulfillment scheduling [to ensure we never/rarely wasted our carrier parcel allocation, even if it might be slightly cheaper to fulfill an order a different way if we had infinite outbound parcel capacity]).
Glad to see this. I’m a long time mapbox gl js user for https://onthegomap.com which costs $300-400 per month for running my own graphhopper routing servers and Stadia Maps tile hosting. It would cost over $3000 per month to upgrade to 2.0 and I have no need for 3D.

I also use mapbox gl js for visualizing large datasets locally (precomoute vector tiles from non-geographic datasets), which doesn’t seems like it needs to be reaching out to mapbox servers.

Happy to help, I’ve had a few pull requests accepted to the mapbox gl js codebase.
I think this is exactly the crux of the issue, but I see a big difference: Bluetooth being "open" doesn't mean much when the kernel and device drivers and electronics are all closed. What would them being "open" mean -- specs are available? No, it would mean they are built in a fashion that allows them to be modified. It would mean that tools are easily available to the lay to allow modification.

I fully agree that just publishing the spec of a chip does not enable random people working part time in their garages or collaborating over github to do it, but creating software and hardware from the ground up with modifiability in mind would enable that kind of ad hoc work.

Would it solve all problems? Would it fix every bug? No, of course not! I'm not saying that open source is the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything -- I'm saying that a world built out of proprietary, competing, closed-off little gardens at the least guarantees that that which was created sub-standard cannot ever be brought to par.

Let me fix my own damned watch, and I really might.
I a big believer in the fact that splitting tasks into little micro bits that we work on in isolation is really holding teams back. Sizing work so that it's big enough to be of some value delivered to your users is a great way to actually getting your team thinking about the big picture and the impact they're having and to encourage your team members to work together on delivering that value.

You don't need to slice and dice stuff into tiny tasks. You don't need a manager handing these tasks out to team members. You can have teams that self organize and have a laser focus on the impact they deliver.

I'll admit I'm quite biased as I'm the founder of a startup [0] that builds a product management tool that encourages teams to have larger work items where they can capture a whole "unit" of value delivered to users. Teams use our work items to write a lot, attach designs, code snippets, etc. When they need to break down stuff, just add a todo list in the work item. We also don't have a notion of single assignees, but instead allow groups of users to be set as the team for a work item. My cofounder wrote a blog post on "right sizing" work items [1].

0: https://kitemaker.co

1: https://medium.com/kitemaker-blog/right-sizing-elements-of-w...
Do you not have coding style guidelines and code reviews? Unlike incompetence this behavior can be corrected easily.
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I balked at the price but if they've solved the wind noise problem I'd think about getting it. I love to walk outside when I have calls but the wind makes it impossible most days.
this isn't any different than microservices getting a deathball dependency on a user service or logging service or security service or ...

you either don't allow microservices to consume from others' topics, or you publish event schemas so they can still iterate independently.

the move to a 2nd kafka cluster in my experience has always been driven by isolation and fault tolerance concerns, not scalability.
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Me too. It a dark and shiny.
I just came up with this PHP version:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>

<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<title>Pure Text Browser</title>
</head>

<body>
<div style="text-align:center;">
<form method="GET" action="<?php echo htmlentities($self); ?>" enctype="multipart/form-data" style="padding: 5px;">
<input rows="2" cols="40" type="text" name="url" placeholder="do not type http">
<button id="searchButton" type="submit"> Go </button>
</form>
</div>

</body>

</html>

<?php
// composer require html2text/html2text
include_once("./vendor/autoload.php");
$self = $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];
if (isset($_GET['url'])) {
$url = trim($_GET['url']);
if (substr($url, 0, 4) != "http")
$url = "http://" . $url;
$html = file_get_contents($url);
$te = new \Html2Text\Html2Text($html);
$text = $te->getText();
$text = preg_replace("/\n/", "<br>", $text);
$pattern = '/(\[)(http.*?)(\])/i';
$replacement = '$1<a href="' . $self . '?url=$2">$2</a>$3';
$text = preg_replace($pattern, $replacement, $text);
echo $text;
}

?>
Here is my answer if Kafka is a database:

(the answer is yes, but you should still not try to replace every other database)

https://www.kai-waehner.de/blog/2020/03/12/can-apache-kafka-...

Would be curious what the people here think about my post, too. Disclaimer: I work for Confluent - and I am also happy about critical feedback.
It could be. Or it could be the equivalent of people screaming at each other in all caps on the internet. We don't really know.
Yeah, but you'd probably have to play it quite a lot to override all the people who have already "poisoned the well".
With BSD-style licenses there's still a strong incentive to share code. That's why permissively-licensed projects, from Node, to PostgreSQL, to FreeBSD, work.

With GPL-style licenses, there's an incentive to avoid putting effort into development, and instead undercut other parties who did invest, and then had to share their code.