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Jakt's #1 design goal is memory safety. The very first paragraph of Alumina's docs says that it intentionally keeps C-style memory-unsafety. For systems programming languages, that makes them philosophically quite at odds with each other.

Were there similarities besides "syntax inspired by Rust"?
Speak for yourself, mate. I'm 62 and just getting going after 22 years of programming. Now learning Kotlin, Swift and Go while developing my own app for mobile and web. Age is a state of mind so long is you keep minimally physically active. I discovered recently, whilst dieting, that eating once a day improves mental clarity and energy. Try it.
Ah my bad , I totally misread your initial comment because I swapped the two subjects. I’ll go back and edit my comments to mention that.
I have not noticed any speed issues with my system or the Firefox Snap package - it loads almost instantly. (recently fresh install of 22.04)

It does however break my add-ons, so I will probably remove it and install it via PPA.
You said that people don't write spaghetti on purpose. And I said that lacking in certain qualities makes people write spaghetti code unwillingly and without realizing it.
It was the heat from negative PR that did it.

The heat, they were clearly prepared to weather. However, if one or many of their high-profile clients threatened to pull out, that would have been very difficult to sell to their investors as a good thing.
Manning has a couple of nice books on streaming systems and event processing; in your particular case I think you are going to like this one:

https://www.manning.com/books/event-processing-in-action
I've never even heard of Kiwifarms until now. Judging by your comment I can see why. Sadly, I think this will be a "Streisand effect" moment and will likely draw more attention to this site.
I think one of the things that makes this contrived diversification poor, is that producers are hell bent on taking existing characters and stories and changing it up in a way that's somehow more permanent that just a simple reinterpretation. I'm sure there's plenty of productions of Shakespeare plays where they mixed up the casting.

Old things are going to be a product of their times and there's an easy solution to all of this: Write new material.
> Endless reminder that having multiple layers of moderation protects free speech, it doesn't restrict it.

Perhaps. I'm skeptical of concentrations of power wherever it is: government, Cloudflare, Facebook, etc. At least the former is theoretically accountable for choices.

Also, Cloudflare asserts their position is that they largely do not want to restrict speech beyond that government baseline and they won't act themselves against speech. Here they claim they are forced to (and they probably were).
They really don't? They really really don't? So people involved in this campaign have hit their goal by getting CF to drop KF, and they won't do any more of these sorts of campaigns in the future against any other targets?

Are you sure? Because somehow I doubt it.
I hate that auto companies are trying to copy Tesla’s awful product design philosophy of controlling everything via a screen and software. It’s the worst thing to happen to the industry since its inception in my opinion.

1. We’re now introducing so many brand new problems to automobiles or tremendously exacerbating existing ones. I’m referring to problems inherent to all complex software. Bugs, updates causing various regressions, fragility, a whole new set of attack vectors for hackers, [insert 1000 other problems here].

2. Consumers are unable to appreciate craftsmanship and engineering prowess of creating physical interfaces (dials, buttons, materials, textures, precise stitching and assembly). People love and definitely pay for craftsmanship in things like mechanical keyboards and mechanical watches. We used to be able to enjoy this in cars too, but that’s rapidly fading.

3. It’s just so distracting and time consuming (and therefore dangerous) using a touch screen. Touch screens only make sense on devices that you’re expected to focus your eyes on. That’s why they work on phones but not to replace physical keys of a keyboard, for example.
What would you arrest them for?
Samsung Loses a Ton of User Data – Offers Nothing to Victims
Right and the only ones that should be able to ruthlessly defame anyone is the New York Times, MSNBC and Fox News.

The ramifications of this are dire. This is about a power grab of total control of what we say online.

We already saw the abuse of what a small cabal of insiders can determine is real: they determined that the Hunter Biden laptop was fake when in reality that was a political position that was wrong.

The "lets protect the trans" is just a trojan horse to take down disfavorable political speech everywhere.
I hadn’t heard of kiwi farms, but I did used to follow the cwcki. Yeah, bad from the start.
I was really hoping I wouldn't get this kind of response because I'm really not trying to be combative or make any kind of point about the relative volume of calls for violence on different sides of the political spectrum. And I have no interest in screencapping a zillion messages over years of having been an internet degenerate to try and prove to you that some non-zero amount of it exists, via a tit-for-tat conversation on what's fake, what's an isolated instance, what's a false equivalence blah blah blah. It's tiresome, and I've watched it play out more times than is probably good for my mental health.

Plus, none of it is relevant anyway because there are so many people poisoning the well with fake personas that are misrepresenting their political enemies for more "evidence" that their group is in the right.

(Ugh, this is bringing to mind a Reddit rabbithole where some person claimed to be ex-AHS-ingroup, and that AHS people were posting CP under fake conservative accounts on conservative boards, and then AHS people claimed that this person was never in the AHS Discords, or that they didn't exist, or the screenshots were fake, and that ACTUALLY it was conservatives posting CP under fake leftist accounts on leftist boards, and OMG HOW DO THESE PEOPLE SPEND EVEN MORE TIME ON THE INTERNET THAN ME I NEED TO STEP BACK FROM THE COMPUTER. And no, I didn't walk away feeling like I had any idea what had actually happened.)

In any case, it's my belief that all ingroups have people within them that aren't operating under their purported values (religion, politics, public servants, etc.). I also believe that the people who have the most power to effect change are the people willing to call out those within their own ingroups who are violating their group's purported principles. E.g. cops gotta call out cops, men gotta call out men, Israelis gotta call out Israelis and Palestinians gotta call out Palestinians. And yes, leftists gotta call out leftists.

I ALSO think that we need more coalition between groups with overlap on certain high-value beliefs and initiatives, and that it's easier to form that unity when people aren't using bad faith arguments to defend the more toxic members of their ingroup.
I work lying down - easier on the lower back than sitting. Prop my head up with a couple of pillows, use a half-round, fairly firm pillow on my lap, rest the laptop keyboard on that at a 45. I used to use one of those mechanical contraptions with the 3 adjustable legs on each side. That works, but the laptop can also fall out of it: I had to add heavy-duty Velcro strips to the laptop and stand. No problems like that with the half-round pillow.
Ivy (YC W23) is hiring software engineers to help unify ML
Yeah it's worth keeping in mind value != money, either.
Some might take that as a criticism, but when it comes to the creative and performing arts I'm an unabashed elitist snob, and it's a perspective I recommend.
I don’t know about you but I’m more likely to pay money to a company that deplatforms content appropriately over one that does not.
> What are Australia and Canada doing in there? Australia has… Atlassian?

There are plenty of wellknown tech/software companies originating in Australia. Xero, Freelancer, Canva, REA Group, MYOB, Airtasker, BigCommerce, Afterpay...

Many foreign software companies have development teams in Aus as well. Google, Zendesk, Square, Squarespace spring to mind.

https://www.smartcompany.com.au/technology/the-top-50-tech-c...
"A comparison of idempotence and immutability" [immutable infrastructure]
https://devops.stackexchange.com/questions/2484/a-comparison...

Ansible Glossary > Idempotency
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/reference_appendices... :

> Idempotency: An operation is idempotent if the result of performing it once is exactly the same as the result of performing it repeatedly without any intervening actions
Unit tests can have the opposite problem; if they never fail they’re not contributing and you still have to maintain them.

They are not the most productive way to get end to end automated test coverage.
What? It’s a legitimate question. Companies set up automated phone trees to reduce costs, at the expense of frustrating customers. It would seem relatively simple to send any account info entered on the phone to whichever operator ends up pulling up the customer on the computer.
Yes, but what they didn’t say in that statement is they were attempting to correct the issue post-incident to cover their tracks before the owners got together and gave testimony. They kept telling drivers it was a one off issue that no one had experienced, while in reality many had been affected. They even offered significant payoffs to some. It was well past negligence and into active harm.

When advised cars were bricking on the highway, the report states “Porsche did not consider this a safety concern”
Whose profile?
I totally understand that reading, and I completely agree with you that it's consistent with their business goals and operating principles. I was just calling it out to the (admittedly minority) of folks in these comments that seem to view them as some sort of moral savior who's making these calls for the good of society.
> Communist ideology has nothing to do with murder. It is 100% an economic ideology, and primarily about equality.

"Revolutionary violence" is a key principle of Marxist-Leninist ideology:

> At the outset of his revolutionary career, Lenin embraced a doctrine of organized violence that would attack capitalism from above and below, the revolutionary leaders to create new structures of governance while inciting and focusing the concentrated fury of the masses on the destruction of the old. Prior to the revolution he vigorously defended this doctrine both against those who would implement violence prematurely, without developing its mass or organized character, and those who would reject violence altogether. Once in power he initiated the fission of Russian society, using state structures specifically designed to implement violence - the political police, the army, the armed grain collection detachments - to lead the masses against large segments of the population whom he labeled 'enemies of the regime'. From November 1917 to March 1921 he pursued a policy (retroactively named 'War Communism') of mass, relatively indiscriminate violence against the bourgeoisie, capitalists large and small, much of the peasantry and, indeed, anyone who violated any of his many decrees.

Witte, J. (1993). Violence in Lenin’s thought and practice: The spark and the conflagration. Terrorism and Political Violence, 5(3), 135–203. doi:10.1080/09546559308427223
It’s illegal in California, where they’re headquartered. In their version of the law, intent matters:

“…You intended to cause that person to reasonably fear for their or their family’s safety.” [1]

Regardless, federally in the US, doxxing can be considered a form of harassment, which is generally illegal.

[1] https://www.aerlawgroup.com/blog/fact-or-fiction-doxing-some...
Ovarit took part in the harassment campaign, so hopefully they go next. Don't know if Cloudflare hosts them though.

Edit:

And 4chan is always bigger but more diffuse. Hard to say who's more of a pest.

Edit edit:

I think the important lesson here is that direct targeting of fascist employees and ex-employees of enablers is very much a live tactic. It worked, it works, it will continue to work.
If you don't feel you can program anymore, then you can move into management, UX, or analytics.

That's what I plan to do, I'm not 50 yet but I am starting to feel tired of programming, or at least the kind of programming I do at work.

I am starting to move into management and focus on people both our developers and our users. Going that route also pays better if that is important to you. So there are many options even at 50 and beyond.
What's regrettable isn't that twitter bans an ex-president, what's regrettable is that we've allowed corporations to capture the public square on the internet to the extent that they can de-facto ban the ex-president from discussion.

Where does twitter get all of its money from? Not directly from users, but instead from ads. They are not directly beholden to the interests of their customers but instead other corporations.
Ok then if that's the standard where's our evidence.
Gotta get into the nootropics and Vyvanse like the kids then.

Though I think weightlifting turns out to work better than almost all of them. And checking if you have sleep apnea.
Waterfall absolutely was practiced. Budgets always overrun and developers had to work overtime to meet deadlines completing all the tasks that weren't mentioned in the plan.
Where/how do you host NextCloud? I was looking into it the other night, but felt some apprehension of “yet another thing to manage”
Left some more comments on this down-thread, but I really meant it neutrally. I don't know if I agree with you that it's how things SHOULD work, but it certainly is how they DO work.
Near is almost certainly not dead. There is no evidence of his death, he’s been seen alive by fellow foreign devs active in SE Asia and interacting with Hector’s Asahi Linux streams and Hector’s VTuber accounts, and he did not appear on any canonical government (Japanese or US) death lists.
Throw a rope over those powerlines then pull a heavy steel chain across them
Just say that you want Kiwifarms deleted from the internet. There is nothing tenuous or uncertain about that stance, if you own it openly. Hiding behind concern over a false and un-serious threat is a coward's strategy.
Excellent; since you're concerned about it, it should be quite easy to provide that evidence, right? Personally, I would settle for quotes with private information redacted (usually I'd ask for archive.org copies or such, but in the case of doxxing I agree that's not ideal).
> You do not want the government to be the sole arbitrator of what content should be online.

No, we want the government to clandestinely meet every week with representatives of major internet companies and instruct them who to ban and what information to suppress, while pretending it's independent action of the same companies driven by their love of free speech. Or maybe we don't want that, but who cares - it's what we've got.
most of the people in the 1970’s didn’t get to the time Sep 2022!
Me too, but I don't see what that changes.
Some people are just unable to stop. My wife was like that in her small business. Her mindset was something like: I can't watch TV, I'm wasting money I could be earning. Even if there's no work right now, you can always do business development. It can become a trap.
This sounds interesting - do you have a write-up about your setup? Or a blog article that’s similar?
Prestige can be a kind of non-monetary compensation, but one which is generally difficult to measure, especially for rank-and-file employees.
> Recruiting people does not work by doing laundry lists of questions asked by HR drones that don’t understand context or demand 10 years of experience in a technology that’s 8 years old. Five rounds of interviews, tests and exams where people have to recite algorithms by heart are pretty pointless.

I second that sentiment.

I've worked in places small and autonomous enough that the office manager would handle the admin of posting a job ad, passing on the CVs to the person who knew what their team was looking for in a colleague - note, a colleague, not a "new hire". The absence of an HR filtering layer left hiring decisions to those it most directly affected, but with the admin side handled by office managers (or in some cases COOs).

I've also worked in far larger places with heavyweight HR departments. Frustrating and backed by corporate policy (and as declared to shareholders) regarding recruitment processes. The question "Why can’t hiring be agile?" is worth exploring, I think.
Mark my words. Before this decade is up Apple will launch AR glasses that will be the next big thing.
That happens to the California Central Valley on a semi-regular basis. They intentionally let the floodwaters go to protect the cities.

Next year they get a large snowfall with an early spring warming and it will happen again.

California is just hostile to human life I suppose.
> Waterfall is not practiced

Is this anecdotal or what? "I want the citations."
Feel like there is more to this story than just a single tweet. What exactly was lobbied and under which grounds?
I use the second-to-latest LTS Ubuntu, and did the same when I upgraded. That said, the overhead to getting non-annoying Ubuntu increases with each version. It feels like someone there is creating make-work; like people need a job and just randomly change things, without making them better.

Installing latest LTS Ubuntu involves going through this whole annoying process all over again.

That's not to mention the sketchy app-stores, cross-sells, etc. It's a lot less sketchy than Windows or Android, but it's not a good direction. No, I don't want an app store. No, I don't want to send data to Ubuntu. No, I don't want cloud services, accounts, and whatnot.

Come to think of it, an up-sell I would pay for is an option to download Ubuntu without all this crap. I understand they need to stay in business, and I wish they'd do so without annoying me.
So many devs are just aiming for that FAANG job, no thanks. There is a whole world of awesome and interesting companies that are not FAANG.
”Unmasking” is merely code for “doxing someone we don’t like.” Someone’s full legal name is all you really need to look them up on people-finder websites, which IMO are the real problem and in urgent need of regulation.
Related:

Interview with Wayne Ratliff, author of dBASE (1986) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22382346 - Feb 2020 (16 comments)
How about stop the violence and harassment?

It's not just a message or speech. It involves IRL stocking, harassment, and violence against people they target based on hate and discrimination.
No "we" can't
There are established ways that we as a society, determine what to tolerate.

Most people would say the legal system is the correct avenue for this.
I agree with you, and I think that refusing to establish a firm line is what opened them up to this campaign.

If they had said, "we believe everyone should be respected, and any time a site coordinates harassment, we will remove it from our service," I would have had a lot more respect for them. If they had said, "we host content from Nazis and Communists, and we are not proud of it, but this is an infrastructure service and everyone is welcome," I would have had a lot more respect for them.
> Apple has less than 10% of the PC market. What do you think the rest of them are running?

If you didn't pay for your copy of Windows (which you most likely didn't, far more likely it was provided to you in another way, such as OEM or your employer), you are not Microsoft's customer.

Likewise, if you got the free license from upgrading, you're also not their customer.

Pirated Windows? Not their customer.

Bought one of those $20 license keys? Still not their customer.

Actually bought a Windows key directly from them? Okay, you're their customer. You're in the minority.
Depends on motivation level.

Extremist types do have a tradeoff between security and visibility because they need to grow the size and/or quality of their network or watch it shrink due to boredom or demotivation. conversely people who monitor extremism want o limit its growth, but not so aggressively that extremists significantly up their game and monitors have to start researching infrastructure from scratch.
If anyone wants to hear Kiwifarm’s response they have a telegram here https://t.me/kiwifarms/19
This still happens under agile too. It’s not like a process magically fixes things. Most of the issues I read from SWE in regards to agile is that they are often neglected in both decision making and the ability to hold leadership accountable.

No amount of agileness is going to save you from a miss managed team.
very inspiring, I'm an EE major and have started learning all the CS side golang/c++/python/javascript coding skills, some of my colleagues are un-retired and in their earlier 70s and are still coding and debugging too.

I feel both CS and EE can last very long to later stage of life, as long as you enjoy it as a profession.
Obligatory mention of my new book, Shareware Heroes: The renegades who redefined gaming at the dawn of the internet
https://sharewareheroes.com

It tells the stories behind some of these games, and many others.
Mate Rimac
Typical weasel word announcement from a big company bending over backwards to satisfy the prevailing voices of a political narrative. This has nothing to do with 'free speech' or 'due process'. It is about ensuring a brand stays appealing. I say this because they weren't specific about the credibility of any 'threats' made. They invented an enemy and then used it to justify suppressing Kiwifarms --as a whole--. Very convenient since it allows them to dismiss ignoring their supposed values while satisfying the legions of mad people who want them to act a certain way.

I also want to point out that Kiwifarms is not an organization. As far as I'm aware: they are a simple, public forum. This means that talking about what 'Kiwifarms' has done is misleading since it only applies to what some users are posting. It would be like saying Facebook are terrorists because sometimes terrorist groups try to use the site for propaganda and recruiting. You need to differentiate between the actions of a user/s and the site. In the case of Facebook they are allowed to stay up and remove offending content on the basis that this is the nature of public communities. This is actually standard practice for websites who may also receive copyrighted material. Otherwise someone could easily take down a website by posting copyrighted material.

If there really was a 'life threatening situation' Kiwifarms should have been allowed to handle this themselves. By either removing the content or taking whatever action they felt necessary. But Cloudflare didn't do this. They provide a service that fundamentally undermines the integrity of the Internet. Makes it less resilient. And now the hens have come home to roast: they are dictating how others should run their sites. Eat a massive bag of dicks, cloudflare.
Woah.
I personally wish that Cloudflare had taken action sooner, but I understood the position. I disagreed with it, because as a free and private entity, Cloudflare can choose to serve whoever they wish (so long as they do not discriminate against legally "protected classes"), and as such, I'd prefer to see them refuse a customer that blatantly courts hate speech, but I understood their commitment to free speech.

This decision seems hard. Crime prevention forces should have stepped in already to protect people. But cops protect and serve capital, not people, so the police response will be weak and ineffective until capital becomes upset. Like Cloudflare, I'm also not comfortable with decisions of public safety being handled by corporations, but the police aren't interested, so here we are.