Stranger43

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by Stranger43 6mo ago
And completely understandable once you understand the narratives of both system. An autocrat is supposed to be "Powerful" beyond all else and typically aren't required to be accountable to anyone so as long as the narrative o
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by Stranger43 10mo ago
We saw how fast and decisively modern states can move doing covid, so what is being suggested here is that at the end of the day the current leadership of the EU(especially some of the more US loyal smaller states) is not really ready to be
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by Stranger43 10mo ago
Lets talk numbers, rather then just sling cheap unfounded allegations The problem with the way they talk at the big conferences is that there is almost no link between the rhetoric of existential crisis and the bills being passed at the nat
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by Stranger43 10mo ago
No nor does it have logistical capability to deliver even half of the equipment currently being promised/discussed within a time-frame of less then 5-10year. It's all dependent on the national government voluntarily following the
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by Stranger43 10mo ago
The reluctance of the EU leadership to so anything materially significant about anything they claim to care about is kind of telling. It's either that the leadership is so caught up in their own ivory tower bubble of pure rhetoric to r
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by Stranger43 10mo ago
Well either that or completely privatize the infrastructure needed to operate those cars like multi-lane roads and parking lots with no mandatory minimums for road width and parking lot size.
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by Stranger43 10mo ago
I think you underestimate what can be done with actual code because the devops industry seems entirely code averse and seem to prefer a "infrastructure as data" paradigm instead and not even using good well tested/understood
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by Stranger43 10mo ago
But why does it have to be the case that the leadership of an opensource project have to emulate the desperation and authoritarianism of a potentially stagnant tech sector. I don't think it's malevolence from the mozilla leadershi
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by Stranger43 11mo ago
Taking the moral argument aside the fact that the largest best funded navy run by the wealthiest country have to call in airstrikes against barely(if at all) armed fishing vessels, that may or may not be smugglers, rather then board arrest
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by Stranger43 11mo ago
I think a fundamental lack of understanding/humility is the core of this conflict along with Mozilla's long and storied history of creating controversies/problems out of thin air. The Mozilla leadership seems to have a unfort
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by Stranger43 11mo ago
Why do we want them to donate money rather then time/people.
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by Stranger43 11mo ago
Why would we even want that, the whole point is to break the monoculture and single vendor dependency not to create an new mostly irrelevant one to be stuffed with has-been and rejects from the national levels the way most of EU's big
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by Stranger43 2y ago
But doesn't the codeless "infrastructure as code" kind of smell like cargo cult practices, i mean there might be places where having your infrastructure defined as data is a really good thing, but at least in my work i keep h
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by Stranger43 2y ago
Blaming crowdstikes QA might feel good but the problem is that no company in the history of the world have been good enough at QA for it not to be reckless to allow day one patching of critical systems, or for that matter to allow single ve
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by Stranger43 2y ago
The problem is that without tools and processes to systematically validate those result's people might be perfectly happy about completely inaccurate results. I know i have had to correct one in three excel sheet i have ever gone over
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by Stranger43 2y ago
If crowdsource QA department is all that stands between you and days of no operations then you chose to live with the near certainty that you will have days rather then hours of unplanned company wide downtime. And if you cannot actually ab
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by Stranger43 2y ago
Things have definitely gotten better. The problem with the linux desktop was usually that most hardware companies were either not spending any time/effort on non-windows drivers/compatibility or when they did it was a tiny fractio
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by Stranger43 2y ago
All of those are product that creates huge risks when deployed to mission critical environments and this is exactly the problem. The entire wintel ecosystem depends on people putting their heads in the sand and repeating "nobody ever g
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by Stranger43 2y ago
Even Excel is beginning to be regarded as a dangerous piece of software that gives the illusion of power while silently bankrupting departments who depend on the idea that large spreadsheets is an accurate and reliable way to analyze large&
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by Stranger43 2y ago
The liquidation is the company being stripped of assets, who then gets sold of to highest bidder in order to pay the creditors, some of those assets might very well be fully operational business units that someone else(a competitor or the g
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by Stranger43 2y ago
Going directly after the executives would at the very least be better theater then letting a company pay the government with the governments own money. It probably wont fix the issue but this kind of non-action is why most people have lost
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by Stranger43 2y ago
And even if they do fail it's rarely the end as the bankruptcy process do totally allow for the critical/valuable aspects of an company to continue under new ownership, and the state could easily ensure that that process happens b
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by Stranger43 2y ago
The solution is probably going to involve dropping our dangerous utopian ideals about how complexity and deviation from perfection is problems that must be solved by any means necessary. The world is a complex place where nearly nothing fit
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by Stranger43 2y ago
And your property rights come from the contract you have with the state. It's all in the formal and informal contract that govern society, and you can(as most suburbanites have) sign away all of the "control" that you seem to
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by Stranger43 2y ago
To be honest OP is kind of making the same mistake in assuming that the only real alternatives is "new data science products" and old school scripting exists as valuable tools. The extend people goes to to not recognize how much
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by Stranger43 2y ago
That's again a false argument, made a complete lie by the existence of Home Ownership associations and other contract covenants. Rights come from your contract with whoever hold power not "property ownership" There is yes som
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by Stranger43 2y ago
In a lot of ways this is a problem creating itself. The reason Home Ownership is desirable is that the pricing of houses go up faster then both inflation and depreciation caused by wear decreases the utility value of a dwelling, and the rea
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by Stranger43 2y ago
And here we see this strange thing that data science people does in forgetting that 6TB is small change for any SQL server worth it's salt. Just dump it into Oracle, postgre, mssql, or mysql and be amazed by the kind of things you can
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by Stranger43 2y ago
It's not not always been the case that the unions were the weaker non-state actor, in fact they used to rival political parties and business cartels in their ablity to lobby/negotiate. And in some countries that power havent compl
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by Stranger43 2y ago
Yep but that's again a dogmatic view as there is hints that anti-unionization measures are the kind of cost cutting that kills companies rather then the kind that makes them huge successes.

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