meddlepal

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by meddlepal 5y ago
You're not letting city governments get away with anything, the voters, the ones that actually show up, support these measures.
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by meddlepal 5y ago
I somewhat agree, but Java grew up in a different era when communication about these things wasn't as easy. It's hard to change the direction of something as large and widely deployed as Java. It's happening but it will take
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by meddlepal 5y ago
Thats why he said many not all.
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by meddlepal 5y ago
Azures blob service supports the first one. Its strongly consistent and has a lease/lock API. Ive seen leader election and coordination stuff built on top of it.
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by meddlepal 5y ago
Dont worry we will all eventually just be working for the military-industrial complex in some form eventually, directly or indirectly. That’s basically the end state.
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by meddlepal 5y ago
It's not a threat. It literally has to be mandatory since the decision will have large impacts on the current employees and the company. Employees need to know what they are voting on. It's not as simple as union good, company bad
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by meddlepal 5y ago
The union has access to the employees out of work hours. Why should the union get compensated time to express their position. If the Union wants to comp Amazon access to their employees and lost productivity then sure maybe, but I don'
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by meddlepal 5y ago
> This practice really should be banned, IMO. The employer is taking advantage of the fact that the employee typically needs the job to survive. I assume Amazon is paying for the time these employees have to spend in the mandatory inform
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by meddlepal 5y ago
And Tesla should be allowed every opportunity to stop them. I guess Tesla broke the law in this case, but I do not really agree with the ruling and the law. Musk should be allowed to present the possible downsides.
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by meddlepal 5y ago
Engineers circling the wagons for one of their own. If this was a CEO, politician, broadcaster, or anyone else with an ounce of notability they would probably be calling for their head.
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by meddlepal 5y ago
At a technical level it is always possible somehow but the point people are trying to make is that there should be access controls and protocols in place. The CEO should not have absolute unconstrained access in all matters.
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by meddlepal 5y ago
BTC true believers believe its a currency not a speculative asset you hold and it magically appreciates in value.
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by meddlepal 5y ago
Hard to imagine anyone but Bitcoin true believers doing this. It’s basically throwing money away if BTC continues going up
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by meddlepal 5y ago
Given enough people, loud complaining, money, and politicians ears you can get anything moved.
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by meddlepal 5y ago
Ah yes..., the things nobody really cares about except for a tiny (vocal) minority.
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by meddlepal 5y ago
Slack is not strategically interesting. They are already eating the enterprise communication market with Teams. Acquiring Slack would basically be a talent and tech hire nothing more... not worth $8B. Discord gives them something gamers kno
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by meddlepal 5y ago
A naval blockade of a nuclear power probably leads to a nuclear war. Taking Taiwan is a giant pain in the ass for China which is why it is unlikely to happen in any foreseeable future (e.g. 30-50 years). Honestly, it seems like China despit
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by meddlepal 6y ago
I'll reply to this comment when I do know
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by meddlepal 6y ago
I haven’t tried a VPN yet, but I have heard of some possible quirks due to how the networking is handled between Windows and Linux in HyperV Edit: Im switching from Fedora to a WSL setup for work in the next week. Ill report on issues I enc
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by meddlepal 6y ago
The US prison system is all about punishment not rehabilitation. Theres a very strong “lock them up and throw away the key” mentality in many Americans view of justice.
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by meddlepal 6y ago
There's definitely a few quirks. My biggest annoyance right now is https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/5762 . Note this only impacts calling the Linux go toolchain from the Windows side (via the &#x2
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by meddlepal 6y ago
You can boot the WSL vm with systemd but it requires some fiddling. That said, I've been playing around more and more with WSL2 on a secondary machine as a current primary Fedora user (for about 10 years now) and I really haven't
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by meddlepal 6y ago
Don't sell yourself out for money unless you need to. Figure out the amount of money you would like to make then if your at not getting paid that at CurrentCo go find a darling SV company, unicorn, or a FAANG+Microsoft and switch to an
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by meddlepal 6y ago
I used to really like Spark but the primary maintainer seems to go through periods of disinterest. I switched to using Javalin https://github.com/tipsy/javalin which was built by one of the top Spark committers a few y
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by meddlepal 6y ago
Yea, but that's impractical in a lot of cases where frameworks or large libraries are involved.
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by meddlepal 6y ago
Inbound marketing and developer mind share. Seamless integration between docker tooling and Azure etc etc.
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by meddlepal 6y ago
Historically this model made a lot of business sense... it was hard to distribute before the internet. The record company took the product and marketed and sold it to a broader audience than the artist or band would ever be able to reach on
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by meddlepal 6y ago
Huh? There's like several LTS vendors: Oracle, Amazon, and Azul to name a few.
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by meddlepal 6y ago
I wasn't suggesting they buy Docker's (former) compute-infra business but that it would be a good complimentary buy to Microsoft's or one of the other compute-infra player's businesses to own Docker since it is an additi
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by meddlepal 6y ago
Im still a little surprised Microsoft hasn't bought Docker (or one of the other big compute-infra players).

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