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by geofft 5y ago
The CEO has a job, too, and that job is set by the board and/or the company's owners. And the most important job of the CEO is to be a good leader. Was your CEO within his legal rights to ask you to do the job? Sure, assuming it w
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by geofft 5y ago
Well, hold up, let's clarify what's meant by "do wrong." A lot of people deeply involved with the free software and open source movement(s), including people who worked at the FSF, had been unhappy with him as a leader f
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by geofft 5y ago
Isn't "adequate" the key word there, though? We do have an alternative that works in theory - if everyone wore an N95 (or knockoff, even!) mask at all times in public, indoors and outdoors, and if all restaurants did takeout
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by geofft 5y ago
Yes, but if the proposal is "everyone takes ivermectin and they get the vaccine when vaccines are available locally," that's strictly more profitable for pharma companies than "everyone gets the vaccine when vaccines a
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by geofft 5y ago
What I mean is that it would be hard to collectively keep a secret that ivermectin works. Your acquaintance's doctor happened to prescribe it - but I'm guessing most doctors would not. So this pharma exec (or researcher, or whomev
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by geofft 5y ago
> If ivermectin - a $3 treatment - proves to be effective then the emergency use Authorization for novel Covid therapies goes out the window. No, they don't, because the vaccines still prevent you from getting infected in the firs
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by geofft 5y ago
Assuming it works, you have to take ivermectin constantly, and the pro-ivermectin studies generally only say that it reduces mortality / severe outcomes, not thy it significantly prevents infection or transmission. So if the world goes
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by geofft 5y ago
Actually never mind, those commands don't know anything about true colors (> 256). I think you want to check for $COLORTERM according to https://gist.github.com/XVilka/8346728 ?
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by geofft 5y ago
What is the output of "echo $TERM" and "tput colors"?
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by geofft 5y ago
"Cancelled" isn't a sufficiently precise term to be meaningful in this context. I doubt many people would have voluntarily booked him for a comedy tour or whatever, six months ago, and my corner of the world (liberals and lef
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by geofft 5y ago
But you more or less have to get on the ballot at all, which is much easier if you're endorsed by a party. That requires connections, is aided by corruption, and doesn't require a public vote. During the most recent NYC gubernator
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by geofft 5y ago
You might want to take a look at https://discuss.python.org/t/what-to-do-about-gpus-and-the-b... if you haven't seen it - there's a practical problem that hosting built GPU code on PyPI is very difficult.
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by geofft 5y ago
Again, how does any of that tell you whether a high-priority issue exists in the old version of the code that you're running , as opposed to in the latest release?
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by geofft 5y ago
I understand where the phrase is from. I am saying the rule is not as absolute as you think it is. Linus himself breaks userspace on occasion where it is warranted.
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by geofft 5y ago
Different people have different opinions on things. Different communities have different values. And in general, people who live in a big city tend to have a lot of trust in institutions (governmental and otherwise) and in prioritizing the
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by geofft 5y ago
It is a mantra that web browser teams heed. That's why the HTML living standard is the absolute mess it is. "We don't break userspace" is not an absolute rule, and has plenty of exceptions in practice, including securi
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by geofft 5y ago
$ curl -SsfI https://www.credit-suisse.com/media/assets/corporate/docs/about-us/investor-relations/financial-disclosures/results/csg-special-committee-bod-report-archegos.pdf | g
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by geofft 5y ago
Yes, and also, this is an extraordinarily complex design to implement and get right. Java more or less failed in contexts where it was expected to actually enforce those boundaries reliably - untrusted applets on the web. It's working
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by geofft 5y ago
How do you get informed about whether a high-priority issue exists? In particular, who is auditing the old version of the code that you happen to be running to make sure it doesn't have vulnerabilities that are now gone after a non-sec
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by geofft 5y ago
Anyone can upload anything to PyPI. This is kind of like saying that you detected malicious packages on GitHub - the question is whether anyone actually ran it. They say that the packages were downloaded 30,000 times, but automated proces
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by geofft 5y ago
Genuine question - why wasn't it cheaper for that company to drop you as a customer?
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by geofft 5y ago
Not the person you're replying to, but I think there's a whole lot of mistaken assumptions in this comment. There is one employer in the world that will reliably give me work I care about and am happy to work on for its own sake,
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by geofft 5y ago
Stripe or Square? Visually similar words and in similar lines of business but definitely different companies.
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by geofft 5y ago
I support this, and I suspect a more practical thing is that humane slaughterhouses will gain in popularity. A lot of the problem in our current era is how thoroughly you can outsource the job - but humanity has a large history of farmers&#
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by geofft 5y ago
Birds poop on car windshields all the time, so how come when I do it, it's "public indecency"? If that's true then nature is immoral. Why is this cop presuming that humans are uniquely superior to recognize this over all
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by geofft 5y ago
You're not wrong, and the answer is that this sort of thing needs to impact their bottom line somehow - either because customers insist on it as part of a purchase checklist, or because the legal system will actually go after violation
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by geofft 5y ago
> Barry Goodwin, an economist at North Carolina State University, estimated the extra costs at 15% more per animal for a farm with 1,000 breeding pigs. > If half the pork supply was suddenly lost in California, bacon prices would j
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by geofft 5y ago
Correct, it has no impact on the internals of Git, which was my point. Git's internals are used by both the kernel development workflow and the GitHub-style workflow, and Linus designed it well. The conversation is about the user ex
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by geofft 5y ago
This isn't about "understanding the issue at hand," this is about UX development. Linux is, very intentionally, a piece of software which does not have "easy to understand for non-experts" in its design goals. You g
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by geofft 5y ago
Why is Python not portable, as in, on which systems is "build Python and then use that to run Meson" not a reasonable option? The CI for boson seems like it runs on platforms where Python definitely is available, but also I notice

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