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Notice this was vehicular homicide and not murder of children in their schools. That's what bothers people most.
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No, I assumed you were engaging in good faith when you mentioned rifles. Instead you were responding to strawman argument no one made about how banning rifles (but not pistols) wouldn’t work.
I didn't read the text, but I'm glad to see people switching to project management. I've been one myself for 16 years, until I found that it was a dying career or, at least, a career obfuscated by alternatives like "product owner", "customer success" or just by the fact teams are getting more and more self-managed. I've seen a consistent reduction of job openings for project managers. Some specific niche oriented job boards don't even have "project manager" as option to select in the opening creation form. So four years ago I left my last project management job to never look back nor forward, as there wasn't much to look at anyway.
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It’s not the media’s obsession. Negative news sells. If positive news sold more than negative then we wouldn’t hear so much about it.
It's not about stopping it so much as not promoting it. Most people aren't going to spend time digging up information about rumored mas shootings. That alone would kill the fame and name recognition component.

I've had to dismiss and block more than one news organization from my feeds to avoid knowing the name of the most recent shooter. I'd settle for their information just not being shoved down my throat.
So far as I know, DeVault and the one other person who chimed in on his ticket are the only people who have ever availed themselves of this process, which may well have been created specifically for them. So, no, I don't think that's a valid point. Also: it is being fixed by the party responsible.
I agree. I'm in favor of the second amendment for a variety of reasons, but since it is clear that firearms are amplifying the casualties inflicted by crazy people and the US has a lot of crazy people, I'm open to restrictions that I think can have a tangible effect.

That said, it is treating the symptom instead of the cause. Our society is fundamentally rotten. We are growing increasingly irrational and violent, we are hating each other more and more, we believe in wild nonsense because we want to believe in it. People are lashing out, but where is all that anger coming from?

I think this single-minded focus on firearms any time these events happen is a distraction, a furthering of the divide between people who don't understand each other and increasingly have no desire to. The real issue is that people feel trapped, oppressed, caged, and helpless, and because they feel like that they act rashly. People do not shoot up schools, run over protesters, and storm government buildings because they feel like things are mostly ok. As long as we continue to pretend that our society as it is today is fundamentally sound we'll continue down this path.
CADT (the "Cascade of Attention Deficit Teenagers") is about rewrites. Jamie particularly doesn't like the habit of throwing away old bugs you didn't fix on the rationale that if they were really still a problem you should take the time to install the new program that doesn't fix them and report them again...

I don't think rewrites were on the map for Perl, except arguably for Raku (Perl 6 as was) and I don't think Raku's developers were intending to throw away bug reports and just begin over next year, indeed even though Perl 6 failed in its original goals Raku seems to still be going.

I wouldn't classify any of the spectrum of language evolution strategies for popular languages as CADT, even Python where Python 3 was needlessly incompatible this wasn't part of some larger plan it just fell out from what they wanted to do and was then mismanaged. Getting to a place where strings aren't just "some bytes, who knows if they're human text, good luck" is difficult enough to justify a lot of pain on the route there, notice how C++ has tried and failed several times already.

Jamie was thinking mostly of things like GNOME where this was (is?) a big problem.
I remember when there were parallel Winamp 2 and Winamp 3, and the next one was Winamp 5 (which is 2+3).
Australia still has more than half the guns it had prior to that legislation.

And still has regular shootings in Sydney due to gang violence.
Which media?

Is there a sex divide, country divide, some other large scale segmentation ... I can't recall ever seeing anything about child stars when they are/were children but I consume mass-media every day.
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We have given relatively little attention to all the times someone has driven their car through protesters, but it still keeps happening.
No, not in the software industry. Nothing VMware has in pure IP is that special. I can’t think of any of the big tech companies that even use VMware.

Broadcom is paying for the huge enterprise customer base, sales and support connections, mindshare, and engineering org that has proven adaptable to market demands.
Azure uses Hyper-V under the hood not kvm. Its also not built on Linux.
I didn't know VMware was still a thing. What do they even do? Who uses any of it?
Proportional representation. A major advantage of STV is that there is an easy to understand and manually count proportional version of it (called single transferable vote and used in Ireland). IMO it is best to go directly to multimember STV but single member RCV is at least a non-trivial improvement. I think the Irish system would be easier to switch to in the US vs other proportional systems.

There won't be a huge change immediately, particularly when most of the country is still using a different system. It doesn't solve everything but it helps.
Making pip installs a little less slow
Repeal this law the politicians all know how to fix this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protection_of_Lawful_Commerce_...
One could also use this example for arguing the other way. AbstractFactory pattern would not be needed if Java had more rich feature set to begin with, in this particular example anonymous functions. (Which I believe it nowadays have). Patterns emerge when the foundation isn’t solid enough by itself to stand on.

People needed modularity, DI and callback functions (essential complexity) but since the only way to do that with the language was classes, you had to invent AbstractFactory pattern (accidental complexity).
https://github.com/gurrgur/er-patcher

Been playing ultrawide and 144hz for a while. Mostly offline, but haven't been banned online, either.
Nvidia already showed this last year I think.

So whatever he is trying to patent, big companies already patent something.
I work for a small company and they seem to have figured this out 20 years ago. I've been tasked with supporting the network and I've got to say that all the fancy (or not) proprietary firewalls all seem like a pick your own poison of cost/support issues, and they all go end of life eventually but the network needs to keep running. We also use PFSense in a few places and I think the feeling among the operations team (2.5 of us) is that we'd like to just use that in future.
The first sentence is and will always be true.
See also http://www.modulecounts.com .
Maaaaaybe. I am not a fan of software patents but intellectual property laws are the only thing stopping Big Company A from just cloning Small Company B's product. At least now they have to go to the trouble of buying them.

Of course, it goes both ways and laws often favor the strong against the weak. But it is not all one-sided.
Cops automatically scan plate info now. It's harder to get away with being unregistered in metropolitan areas. Source: was slow to switch out-of-State plates that were no longer registered, got stopped in the city.
Maybe he'll wait for the Y2038 crisis :p
I am perfectly ok with it, people developing software need to pay bills.

This hinders .NET adoption outside Windows on FOSS circles, but so what, there is still plenty of business on Microsoft shops, the same that won't blink twice when discussing license costs.
Reminds me of this afterthetone.com
There’s a neat tool - stow - which handles dotfiles style installs with soft links quite handily. Absolutely worth investigating.
In the U.S. this is often because someone can't work. When you're stuck in a poor area, job opportunities are extremely limited. Public transport is very limited, so you often can't get out of the immediate area to find a job, and most jobs are very restrictive about criminal history.

You can get something minor on your record, and be stuck out of work until you can get enough money to move closer to a place which will hire someone with a crime on their background check, which is now near impossible to do legally.

This situation can make one desperate enough to attempt crimes which can lead to murder, such as armed robbery.
I wrote a utility for this problem. I had 3 computers -- Linux with HiDPI, Linux with a normal DPI, and Mac. They all used the same dotfiles with slight differences. It was impossible to keep them in sync. I created a super simple template utility designed for working with dotfiles.

https://github.com/kesslern/dot-templater
With the default curl settings, I get captcha indeed; but when I fake the User-Agent header ("Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/91.0"), it works for me.
If the object has an API to do functional options, why wouldn't you expect it to be viable to do a scoped override? The API for dynamically changing them already implies they are available to be changed frequently.

The source of this pattern per the article https://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2014/01/self-referential-...

The example used is trace verbosity, which is both useful to do a scoped override and cheap to do.
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I entered YC as a solo-founder with Wasmer, so I think it might just be a circumstantial thing (they receive a lot of applications so it's always hard to judge who should enter with the limited time and data they have to make a decision). I would really encourage you to apply again!

In any case I'd love to help you on both aspects (YC application and OSS), I believe your idea has really great potential.
Please ping me to syrus@wasmer.io and we can schedule some time to chat!
The cool thing (perhaps the only cool thing) about the way we teach physics in chronological order is that students can get a sense of what "not a law yet" feels like. I remember being totally puzzled by the third law, and how it feels less like a law and more like playing against an opponent. Then of course you learn the general principles, and eventually about symmetry, though there's certainly more to go. You get a similar thing in math, when you really feel like something is impossible but you've only been able to rule out examples for other reasons. It's frustrating but fun, like you're getting close.
I encountered two or three compiler bugs within weeks of starting to (seriously) work with C++. And one of them was as simple as enabling lto caused GCC to segfault.
Will take awhile for Ruby to reach that state (if at all), 15 years at least I'd say. The reality is many companies are built on Ruby and rewrites are hard. Stripe, Shopify, Github, Gitlab and the list goes on. Perl never had this kind of traction afaik - yes many scripts were written on Perl but not many .com companies were based on it.

But I'm not arguing Ruby is well past it's peak - that is (sad, to me) fact because I happen to think it's a gorgeous language but it is what it is. I guess I'll have to get used to Python/Node or maybe switch to low level which is an old and perhaps unrealistic old dream of mine.
Pardon my humor I didn't realize you were an actual Neo-Nazi
> the major foot-gun (which I talk about more in a previous post on foot-guns) that got a lot of places in trouble was the premature move to microservices, architectures that relied on distributed computing, and messaging-heavy designs.

Preach! Micro services are a solution to a problem that affects effectively 0 startup sized systems. That problem is scale. Micro services are hard. WAY harder than monoliths. They become necessary only once your physical hardware can no longer keep up in a monolithic fashion and parts of your system need dedicated compute and/or storage.

And no, they are not automatically necessary once your engineering team reaches N size either. Introducing network boundaries as a way to scale your engineering organization is a bad idea.
the same way you enforce everything else? the idea isn't to make guns non-existent.
I also use GNU Stow + Git and has worked well for me. For files I want to sync that I don't need versioning for and it is important that I have them available even in cases where I may have forgotten to commit my changes on some individual machine, I use Syncthing[1], which is really great for the more Dropbox-y kind of cross-machine sync that I also have a need for.

[1]: https://syncthing.net/
This is some peak /r/persecutionfetish material right here.

This seems like a violation of Masterpiece v Colorado. In cases where the government cannot compel you to provide service end running around the law by implementing punitive actions with your purse strings ought to be a distinction without a difference. This should be a case where the conservative court is united in striking down overreaching government.

It’s bad when the federal government overreaches their power by using interstate commerce and tax/spend and it ought to be overreach when states do it too.
You get co-benefits of reducing water evaporation and plant growth (some places just use plastic balls for this same purpose) on the water side and on the solar side you get some cooling which increases efficiency.

For existing dams the ability to share the existing connections in an area that probably isn't flat except for the water is neat.
Would be interesting if a foundation with a charter could own a a
patent, to prevent later trolling.
> Once you have the desired circuit, you don’t have to build it out of discrete components, you also can send it to a fab

You are still going to use a very old and obsolete process, compared to the microcontroller.

As a rule of thumb, every generation of lithography that has made transistors smaller and more efficient, has also roughly doubled the NRE costs. As you move down the feature size slope, you get all kinds of useful properties, but the tradeoff is that you have to manufacture more of any given design for it to be able to make any economic sense. To the point where you can get an amazing chip that has an arm core, storage and memory in a single package that costs pennies (well, not right now it doesn't, but it did in the past and will again) and uses almost no power, so long as you can use the exact same device that is also shipped in the millions for other things too.
Or k0s! I used it to set up a4x nice cluster in Oracle Cloud and it really doesn't get any easier.
Funny game, stood up the patent troll and cut down on users data, tech and talent was very happy under my wings :)

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Sounds like a good opportunity for building a tool that syncs dotfiles in a smart way across different environments. Bonus points for managing what gets synced at a granular level, i.e. including/excluding certain files/configurations.
I also tend to purchase a prepaid SIM while overseas, and ran into a bunch of issues paying for bills at bars/restaurants using their website or mobile apps, as my credit card was doing a second layer of authentication through Mastercard's Verification and would only send me a code via SMS!

It is crazy that my capitalone mastercard wouldn't allow me to do the validation through my capitalone app!
There are norms the media choose to follow on their own accord.

Think for example how suicides are generally covered. Reputable organisations don't publish the details of the precise method, and they include a link/phone number to a help line for those who struggle themselves.

> What is the punishment if you break it?

The same as with most norms: Professional embarrassment, and loss of reputation among your peers.
For what it's worth, I'm the kind of person that would pay full price if I saw and clicked the "It's too expensive" button :)
The FOSS community is also not keen on what Stallman believes, trying to replace each piece of GPL software with Apache/MIT/BSD alternatives, including UNIX clones.

In a couple of decades the Linux kernel might be the only valuable GPL piece still around.
Well put.

People should be taught about Strawmanning and Steelmanning in elementary school, sad to see it needs teaching on HN
So this would kind of a mentoring help, right? I feel like that is one of the main advantadges of working inside a Big Co. Its hard to do the same without being part of a group.

What probably works best "outside" is writing a blog post with your problem, and throwing that into HN/Reddit for discussion.
They're 'custom', but are heavily derivative of KVM in the case of AWS (Nitro) and GCP. Azure runs a fork of Hyper-V, AFAIK.
At the time of the founders, common citizens could legally own cannons.

Framers intended for individuals to be able to own weapons as powerful as what was available to the military at the time. I'd say framers wanted us to be able to legally buy tanks (with the gun still operational!).
The EMC purchase of VMware was probably one of the best tech acquisitions of all time. At least financially. You can reasonably argue whether VMware's overall trajectory was better or worse as a result; in any case, most of the original leadership team ended up departing.
>the objective of the buyback program was to lower the volume of certain kinds of guns

Oh, so it only affected those types of guns that can kill people?

Note during the same timeframe, Australia saw the same decline in non-gun homicides as it did in gun homicides. Maybe there were bigger factors (lead removal from common goods for one) at play?

Note that New Zealand saw the same declines, despite no such gun laws, and the US saw the same declines, despite massive increases in guns owned, all during the same period. Most of the world saw this, and it's much more attributable to removing so much lead from society, resulting in less at risk people, than it was to laws.
I wonder if John Carmack feels any compunction about first person shooters and their proliferation.
I think you mean profit, not revenue. In terms of surviving difficult economics, revenue is useless if not accompanied by profit. Cutting 33% of their workforce will at least temporarily stop an awful lot of bleeding. Long term effect, probably not good. If losing 33% doesn't hurt them long term, then they have been doing some incredibly bad hiring. They might make it to the other side of this and I know nothing about their specific situation, but judging from the history of other failures, this is sadly often the first step in a death spiral.
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Unplayable is exaggerating it. There are frame pacing issues, and dips are common, no matter the hardware. (Possibly due to them binding 25000 resources at every single frame). It is perfectly playable on PC.
Check out Unison [0]. I use it to sync between macOS and Linux box.

[0] https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/
Enforce the Second Amendment.

It starts with "A well regulated militia..."

A well regulated militia has absolutely no relationship to selling assault weapons to teenagers and/or fantasists.

There is no constitutional "right to bear arms" outside of that context.

And while that's being clarified, it would be also be good to investigate the NRA's Russian money problem.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/sep/27/nra-russia-f...

Because the US doesn't have a gun problem so much as a stochastic terrorism problem, blatantly sponsored and encouraged by a hostile foreign power which is known for encouraging extremely destructive cultural subversion.
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Yes, those too. Perhaps allow guns to work only in the owner's home or around it.
That's yet again not true. Parents are often paying for the Chromebooks used in some of these markets (eg, US & Canada at least). That the school requires a certain OS doesn't change who pays for it, just like parents are still buying TI graphing calculators.

> Before COVID, most schools were still about pen and paper in most European countries,

Gonna need a citation on that one. It'd be quite surprising for European schools to be so far behind

And from what I can find, they weren't. Eg way back in 2006 https://www.theverge.com/2013/4/19/4242022/europe-ict-survey...

"Scandinavian nations like Norway, Denmark, and Sweden are able to provide computing equipment to almost every single student and teacher within their borders"
I added this one to my 810. Screwed it up when I did it myself (note: 1st time ever soldering should not be done on your one and only disk drive) and got the folks at Happy to fix my botched job. The chip was really interesting: it basically gave extremely low level access to the drive to copy protected disks, but it was also leverged by their "Warp" disk operating system which was both faster than the Atari system and also was able to read wonky disks that the regular drives hiccuped on.
There are already plenty of laws blocking certain kind of information from news. Minors that are crime victims for instance.

It's so realistic that it's already a real thing.
> Guns add little value to people's lives

Spoken like someone who lives in a city where you can't use a gun. There is a reason why guns laws are unpopular in rural areas: guns are very useful in rural areas. There is no way to safely shoot a gun in a urban area (except a few gun ranges), so any possible use is dwarfed by the danger.
Handguns proliferate in the cities, trafficked from the U.S., quite easily in Canada. This is where the mass shooting rate comes from.

Your results will be starkly different if you search for school shooting rates, and not mass shooting rates. Gangland homicide of several individuals is still considered a mass shooting. It spooks the city-dwellers somewhat, but nationally no one cares. They care about school shootings, or more broadly, mass shootings of innocent bystanders. Canada fares way, way better than the U.S. in this fashion.
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Someone knew something - that's an insanely low valuation for a major player in the (then just starting) virtualization market.

But at the time virtualization was considered as something "to keep that old Windows NT server/software running" - not foundational for all cloud services ever.
You seem to be asking if there is a case within current legislation. Whereas the parent is suggesting that more cases ought to be covered by future stricter legislation (which could at least in principle be as simple as "big company").
What does history teach us about the outcomes of disarming an entire population?

(collective) Do you think Ukraine would have been invaded if they didn't unilaterally give up their nuclear weapons?

(individual) Does the bully pick on the child who stands up for themselves?
I agree, good clarification.

It's a pity really, lots of people worked hard on it, and I think things could have worked out better by just better messaging. Doing the "Perl 6 to Raku" renaming early on might have salvaged things.

I think this is an important lesson -- technical skills are great, but communication is extremely important.