throwaway19937

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by throwaway19937 5y ago
> It is a call for more communication and understanding of different opinions. It's a poorly argued rationalization for antisocial behavior from someone with a bad case of engineer's disease. > Since I’ve posted it this arti
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by throwaway19937 5y ago
> Back in college, I would go to house parties and bars and do everything that everyone else was doing; the only difference is that I would have a Coke in my hand instead of a Rum & Coke. I have found that I get fewer questions about
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by throwaway19937 5y ago
( https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/3882 ) has a dated (2000) example of metaclass usage in Python 2.
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by throwaway19937 5y ago
Are you willing to name the company? The ability to move that fast is an attractive quality for an employer.
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by throwaway19937 5y ago
> My guess is that the customer here is asking because of a mandate to prefer open source solutions wherever possible. I don't think that HPC or the DoE have anything close to such a mandate. My guess is that the request comes from
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by throwaway19937 5y ago
I think the customer is NERSC ( https://docs.nersc.gov/); the commands in the bug report match those described at ( https://docs.nersc.gov/development/compilers/base/ ).
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by throwaway19937 5y ago
I would respond with "F2018 conformance will be fixed sooner if you help."
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by throwaway19937 5y ago
I flagged it because it's a Well, Actually ( https://tirania.org/blog/archive/2011/Feb-17.html ) that makes an unsupported claim.
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by throwaway19937 5y ago
Never assume malice when machine learning will suffice as an explanation.
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by throwaway19937 5y ago
> AWS then stopped providing service to Parler due to the content they were hosting exposed by this action. Well within their rights! But they excuse the same sort of content hosed by Twitter.... AWS cut off Parler after several months o
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by throwaway19937 5y ago
Every other automated system regularly screws up - why would Facebook be any different?
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by throwaway19937 5y ago
Both agencies have a long history of illegal domestic surveillance. The NSA's warrantless surveillance program ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA_warrantless_surveillance_(... ) and the CIA's Operation CHAOS (
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by throwaway19937 5y ago
TL;DR the author thinks _GNU_SOURCE should be defined in the build system instead of in source files. She doesn't give a rationale.
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by throwaway19937 5y ago
> However, the manager of the other group should get some management training. He did a piss poor job at communicating. All it would've taken is explaining the group's prioritization and roadmap and the OP would've not lef
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by throwaway19937 5y ago
> I'm working on migrating our apps to the parent company's VM launching and deploy platform. Should be fairly straightforward, I think. Unfortunately, the deploy tooling isn't entirely compatible with our app so I ask th
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by throwaway19937 5y ago
If it's an enterprise ( https://zwischenzugs.com/2018/10/02/why-are-enterprises-so-s... ) the latter will be a much easier sell to management. Paying for support is a given but contributing developer time
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by throwaway19937 5y ago
> Correct me if I’m wrong, but aren’t there open source licenses that don’t permit unauthorized distribution? If so, couldn’t they safely release the source code without worrying about competition from forks? They would still be faced wi
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by throwaway19937 5y ago
> If information security people would spend the same amount of time they are spending complaining about this vulnerability trying to educate their organisations on the importance of supporting open source solutions they depend on we wou
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by throwaway19937 5y ago
> The company that created Java went out of business and was sold to Oracle for a fraction of its original worth. So Java was a business failure -- or at least I'd be interested to see someone defend Java as a business success. Sun
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by throwaway19937 5y ago
Another possible reason is that the user can load help pages or search results even if the primary browser is broken, has a corrupt install, etc.
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by throwaway19937 5y ago
Python also makes breaking changes in minor releases; 3.5 introduced async/await and 3.7 made them reserved keywords.
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by throwaway19937 5y ago
TL;DR don't waste your time. This is a transcript of a Robert C. Martin (Uncle Bob) talk with some substitutions made (SmallTalk -> Haskell, Ruby -> Rust, and others). The original talk was mediocre; the changes haven't impr
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by throwaway19937 5y ago
You can join the French Foreign Legion; there's an 80% attrition rate ( https://www.wearethemighty.com/mighty-culture/french-foreign... ),
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by throwaway19937 5y ago
If you liked this essay then you would probably enjoy his autobiography Born Standing Up [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Born_Standing_Up
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by throwaway19937 5y ago
> Personally I'd like to see more runtimes with some concept of capabilities. As a user, I'd like to be able to say "this package cannot make outbound calls" rather than doing so at the program or host grain via layer
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by throwaway19937 5y ago
These aren't conflicting beliefs. It's perfectly reasonable to believe that JavaScript has an inadequate standard library and recognize that other ecosystems can have dependency issues.
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by throwaway19937 5y ago
> Presumably if I am alone in my passion for the subject then no-one will ever comment/reply/email/express their agreement. You don't have to wait for others to agree with you. Part of activism is making other people
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by throwaway19937 5y ago
Have you read Game of Mates( https://gameofmates.com/ )? It discusses crony capitalism in Australia and has some concrete policy recommendations. If you're looking for other references on activism the Radical Book Club (
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by throwaway19937 5y ago
> 1. Open VS, wait a minute. 2. New Project 3. Run, wait 10 minutes for dependencies to download. 4. Want to use Sublime Text or VS Code, haha lol. You're playing on hard mode; try using Visual Studio for everything.
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by throwaway19937 5y ago
You could call it the Fifth Circle ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferno_(Dante)#Fifth_Circle_(... ) of Hell as a service.

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