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by alrs 10y ago
Remote control sterilization[1]. Using India's poor for medical experiments[2]. [1] http://time.com/2963130/the-future-of-birth-control-remote-c... [2] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-
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by alrs 10y ago
I have, and I've found ways to be involved in civil society throughout my adult life without needing to write a grant, record board minutes, or negotiate an ED comp package.
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by alrs 10y ago
501(c)3 organizations exist for two reasons: 1. Funnel money to cronies or to support your useless relatives by buying them directorships. 2. Destroy social movements by tangling up the leaders in grant-writing and administrivia. https:&#x
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Audi Engineer Had Smoking Dieselgate Gun in His Safe, Pulls It in Court(forbes.com)
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by alrs 10y ago
I suspect that if this made it to the front page there would be an identifiable dip in btc due to algorithmic trading.
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by alrs 10y ago
There were Linux distros that could upgrade across releases twenty(!) years ago. There is so much opportunity in infrastructure right now, so it strikes me as weird that CoreOS took a bunch of VC money to go off on an extended Linux-From-Sc
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by alrs 10y ago
Of course people want it, but can they have it? The world has yet to see a successful distributed block project.
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by alrs 10y ago
The next question that needs to be answered at CoreOS: "Why, exactly, are we maintaining our own Linux distro when the Go binaries that we're writing can mostly ignore userspace?"
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by alrs 10y ago
I understand they don't hand out Internet points for this sort of thing anymore: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11816821
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by alrs 10y ago
$1B would have been better, but this is a dream come true for the people who take infrastructure and security seriously. We've got Amy Pascal's head on a spike, now we have the same for the Yahoo deal. Please, may this be the year
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by alrs 10y ago
If you ask nice, I bet you could get Ari Lerner to give you getbeehive.com. https://github.com/auser/beehive
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by alrs 10y ago
"Don't eat too much" is a tautology, and "mostly plants" has been debunked.
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by alrs 10y ago
There's always a hedge afoot. Apple had OS 7 running on Intel as early as 1992. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_project
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by alrs 10y ago
Anyone who thinks Trump is the problem is missing the mark: An imperial presidency with an unchecked intelligence apparatus is a systemic problem that inevitably led to this. If one person can pervert a system, that system sucks.
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by alrs 10y ago
My frustration with Mozilla deprecating everything I need in Firefox has made it impossible for me to trust them as stewards of a language. Hopefully this contributes to a decoupling of Rust from Mozilla. (EDIT: Am I incorrect that they are
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by alrs 10y ago
If you're game for watching Go, Erlang, Rust, Clojure, and Hakell fans pontificate about languge theory all the way to the right side of your screen, be my guest. Enjoy your Saturday night.
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by alrs 10y ago
You're asking three questions: 1. What is wrong with the language syntax? 2. What is wrong with the implementation? 3. What is wrong with the community (other people's code, libraries, packaging, docs)? Question 1 would lead to a
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by alrs 10y ago
This, minus HDMI, plus POE, and I'd be in swoon city.
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by alrs 10y ago
Python 3.5 will land in stable when Stretch becomes the new stable some time later this year, I'd be surprised if anyone went to work backporting with a new stable around the corner.
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by alrs 10y ago
Not if you want to get security updates and run a binary that was compiled against the libraries on your system. If you start compiling Python yourself you need to start following mailing lists to keep up on security updates and running bui
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by alrs 10y ago
It's par-for-the-course to "brew install" random stuff on a dev box. You lose a lot when you ditch distro-packaged Python and start relying on varying third-party schemes to drop something that may-or-may not be getting secur
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by alrs 10y ago
Mac-first development strikes again: pycage requires Python 3.5, which hasn't landed in Debian stable yet. Bummer.
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by alrs 10y ago
I'd use an object store that can scale horizontally, and has. https://github.com/openstack/swift3
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by alrs 10y ago
Physically impossible to run a PB-scale Minio cluster: it's limited to 16 hard drives. See my comment above.
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by alrs 10y ago
Before anyone gets excited, know that Minio only just started supporting clusters of multiple machines, and that it is severely limited: "As with Minio in stand-alone mode, distributed Minio has a per tenant limit of minimum 4 and ma
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by alrs 10y ago
I have some pet not-hip technologies that I'm occasionally defending. I always try to not sound like one of the OS/2 dead-enders circa 1998. If you swap the names of the technologies, this reads like a straight-outta-the-90s USENE
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by alrs 10y ago
No support for 3 makes sense. This is all about building an off-ramp to put Python behind them.
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by alrs 10y ago
Because they want to get off of Python completely, and forever. They're not looking for speed, they're looking to ditch the liability of supporting Python and its ecosystem.
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by alrs 10y ago
If Openstack were to belong to anyone it would be Rackspace, not Redhat. It hasn't belonged to anyone for a very long time. I'd put money on Openstack (minus Swift) being an entirely legacy project by 2020.
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by alrs 10y ago
In my early sysadmin years I knew absolutely nothing about algorithms while untangling infrastructure messes spawned by the educated. Most of the good ops people were scratch-and-dent smart people who came to the field without the benefit o

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