bhawks

48 ms·

481.
by bhawks 6y ago
Android - anyone? Android is linux, it's init is simple and the user experience obviously successful. There is a ton here for other distros to learn and improve on.
482.
by bhawks 7y ago
The original golang codegen omitted oneof support completely on the grounds that the concept didn't apply to golang. Eventually they realized that oneof isnt an optional feature of proto - but the solution always felt rushed and bolted
483.
by bhawks 7y ago
Those numbers seem very unlikely. Ignoring that California is a nonrecourse state. If someone ended up owing 1.2 mil on a 500k house, they could walk away and only be out the house and whatever payments they had already made on the loan. Th
484.
by bhawks 7y ago
I love proto, but the textformat was an after thought. The binary format is rigorously defined, portable, extensible and optimized. The text format was reverse engineered from the c++ implementation after the fact when folks found textproto
485.
by bhawks 8y ago
Sadly it isn't even faster and requires more staff to operate. While the CT pilot program didn’t show reduced wait times at participating airports, the agency is expecting the technology will speed up lines as passengers and staffers
486.
by bhawks 8y ago
"Cuba does have a very low infant mortality rate, but pregnant women are treated with very authoritarian tactics to maintain these favorable statistics," said Tassie Katherine Hirschfeld, the chair of the department of anthropolog
487.
by bhawks 8y ago
Disappointed but not surprised that folks are down voting instead of replying. The unionization discussion focuses way too much around compensation instead of on union-employee relations. People just assume unions are all roses in this depa
488.
by bhawks 8y ago
As a child of two union parents and married to a union worker, it is clear to me that the only contact the author has had with unions is in his dreams. Unions constantly have to deal with internal corruption (and often don't...). The s
489.
by bhawks 8y ago
Also bare in mind that it's not an accident that April 15 is approximately 6 months away from general elections in November (basically couldn't be further away). Politicians' campaigns would have a different spin if folks had
490.
by bhawks 8y ago
With the ways the government (local->state->federal) spend money and manage budgets funding them (thru debt+taxes) at the absolute minimum is the only moral option. Rationale being: * Military industrial complex and associated adventu
491.
by bhawks 8y ago
Not OP but if you're looking for a way to learn CS fundamentals thru practice I would strongly recommend trying to write a Gameboy emulator. The project is challening but has a pretty rewarding feedback loop. Along the way you'll
492.
by bhawks 8y ago
Kakistocracy seems to sum them up https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakistocracy
493.
by bhawks 8y ago
But the data doesn't show that there's a bunch of rich old folks mooching on the labor of everyone else. Basically the median elderly person has enough money to pay off the median house and then nothing else. After a lifetime of w
494.
by bhawks 8y ago
Nimbyism is only a regional factor. I think we agree this is a national conversation.
495.
by bhawks 8y ago
There has been no reduction of education spending on a per-capita basis (or any other form of measurement). https://www.usgovernmentspending.com/spending_chart_1970_202... It has grown at an amazing rate (as have Medicare&#
496.
by bhawks 8y ago
Does this amount to a systemic transfer of wealth from young to old (OP's complaint?)? Student loan growth correlates to the (seemingly unbounded) rise of college costs, along with the willingness of the Government to back loans for th
497.
by bhawks 8y ago
Citation needed? Education is the 2nd largest expenditure in California: https://www.usgovernmentspending.com/piechart_2018_CA_statel... Number 1 expenditure in Texas: https://www.usgovernmentspending.com/pi
498.
by bhawks 9y ago
So then the trend is that platform owners are the only allowed browser implementors on the their platform? Platform owners' interests and public rationalizations aside, is this in the best interest of the web and its users?
499.
by bhawks 9y ago
Two points: 1. Today we have 4 browser implementors. Only one of them doesn't also own an operating system (FF). We lost opera year or two ago. I would argue that a significant factor in this shrinking landscape is the fact that Apple
500.
by bhawks 9y ago
I wish the author discussed the fact that Apple doesn't allow any other browsers to target the iOS platform. Chrome / Firefox are forced to be thin wrappers against the webkit engine instead of bringing their own technology. No ot
501.
by bhawks 9y ago
I think the proper title is: Linux Process and Threads Don't Mix. The Linux syscall interface exposes certain functionalities that are much more easy to reason about at the process level such as namespaces, capabilities, seteuid and so
502.
by bhawks 10y ago
> AKA those people with unique experiences and depth of knowledge necessary to come up with new ideas. Statements like this make it sound like you believe that the middle American working class is not capable of coming up with there own
503.
by bhawks 10y ago
Even when RMS started the GNU project his approach to (then) modern technology was at an extreme. There were no free compilers, editors, or even trivial userland tools like grep. Instead of being pragmatic, he (and others) worked to create
504.
by bhawks 10y ago
Trump's campaign does a good job at embarrassing itself - do you think they need help?