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by geofft 5y ago
The US is fairly self-contradictory about the legitimacy of taking up arms against your own government. It isn't a new problem - see the Whiskey Rebellion. I think there's very little principled about it. About fifty years ago, th
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by geofft 5y ago
It's not grounds for being fired because there are no grounds for being fired. You can be fired for depositing your first paycheck in a bank that starts with the letter A, if your boss wants. There is a specific set of things for whi
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by geofft 5y ago
"Defund the police" is frustrating because that slogan got coopted by moderates who wanted to sound supportive but didn't actually believe in it - it was intended to mean literally what it says on the tin. See this NYT opinio
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by geofft 5y ago
This article identifies three problems with meme activism, all different: - Sometimes, meme activism is too effective at the goal the activists want, as in the case of Andrew Yang or Black Lives Matter. (At other times it is effective, but
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by geofft 5y ago
Right - there's two parts of "open source" as the term is commonly used, open source as in the license, and open source as in the community. We look skeptically on companies whose "open source" involvement involves
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by geofft 5y ago
That's why I said these are two different cases of the same pattern, not the exact same thing. You're right that they are not the same thing. But we found a working solution to the previous problem: gay people get to be gay, and p
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by geofft 5y ago
Then we shouldn't let people accumulate billions of dollars in the first place! They can do (and in fact do) so much more damage with billions of dollars in ways other than charitable giving.
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by geofft 5y ago
I'm not sure I agree with the premise myself, but I find the argument plausible: if it goes into a new charitable organization today, that's $10B off his taxable income this year, whether or not the money goes to actual efforts th
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by geofft 5y ago
> Second, trans activists can not understand that there is a huge number of women who are not comfortable with the fact that anyone can say they identify as a woman and do things like observe them naked. How is this argument different
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by geofft 5y ago
> Python is slow. Like, really slow. On average, you’ll need about 2–10 times longer to complete a task with Python than with any other language. This doesn't seem true in my experience. First off, I'm glad the author phrased
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by geofft 5y ago
Not really, because the blue-supremacist newspapers won't publish any of the other perspectives - they're also going to say that the blue man cannot survive in a society with orange people. You won't hear any of the stories w
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by geofft 5y ago
It's p-hacking for prejudice, though. Let's say that there are two races, orange and blue. Alice is orange and goes to a majority-blue church and gets mistreated because of her race. Bob is blue and goes to a majority-orange churc
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by geofft 5y ago
As someone on the other side of this, I'm sympathetic and genuinely do try to debug problems, but, off the top of my head, a) I don't actually have the same level of access to our cluster as our users do. There are datasets and ev
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by geofft 5y ago
My logic is that you shouldn't rely on those platforms, not that you shouldn't try to have the discussions. If YouTube decides that all discussion of the coronavirus in any form - truthful or otherwise - is bad for their ad reve
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by geofft 5y ago
That exactly matches the philosophy of this organization: https://www.memorysafety.org/about/ > We recognize the amount of work it will take to move significant portions of the Internet’s C and C++ software infrast
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by geofft 5y ago
That just makes it worse, doesn't it? Why have we let a private corporation that's stuffing ads on everything and has a bizarre view of fair use become the location of record for all video in our society? We have an entire agency
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by geofft 5y ago
This feels like a really silly question, but why are these sorts of scientific discussions happening on Facebook and YouTube instead of, like, a journal or conference or mailing list or something? Like, independent of the particular thing t
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by geofft 5y ago
https://www.resetera.com/threads/you-can-now-play-snes-games... has a bunch of screenshots of unmodified SNES games in widescreen (though they don't work perfectly) https://arstechnica.com/gaming
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by geofft 5y ago
Li et al., "An Incremental Path Towards a Safer OS Kernel," HotOS 2021 (two weeks ago), is an academic paper arguing that putting Rust into an existing kernel will deliver you much more than microscopic gains and will yield better
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by geofft 5y ago
The Rust community tries extremely hard not to shame other languages, projects, and communities. If you're talking about ideology, you will not see any ideology from the Rust project saying "This other language sucks." You&
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by geofft 5y ago
There is absolutely a profit motive involved! The less time you spend dealing with segfaults and inexplicable double-frees because you have no idea where the first free is, the more time you can spend working on features that impact the
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by geofft 5y ago
If your schedule is busy enough, you may literally not have half an hour free between now and the half hour being booked. Calendar UIs are pretty good at making it clear whether you're finding an open one-hour slot and less good at mak
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by geofft 5y ago
"Juneteenth" has been used for the celebration for over a century, and the name by which various sub-federal governments have recognized it, and I think a law recognizing a particular holiday probably should not rename the holiday
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by geofft 5y ago
Near where I grew up there's a state prison called Angola, built in 1880 on the site of an old plantation called Angola. The slave quarters were repurposed as the original prisoner quarters. Mostly-black prisoners raise cotton and oth
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by geofft 5y ago
That's what actually happened, though. The guy's VPN company acquired Freenode in 2017: https://freenode.net/news/pia-fn He only attempted to take operational control last month.
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by geofft 5y ago
It seems clear enough that the money came from the sale of Private Internet Access. (It wouldn't surprise me if some other portion of that money had a causal role in causing 'rasengan to get the blessing of one of the pretenders t
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by geofft 5y ago
The past few years have shown that if you say "Free speech!" and "Cancel culture!" and "Blockchain!" loud enough, you'll get an audience, no need for any substance behind it - and the more dramatic your ac
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by geofft 5y ago
Even more context: they no longer have staff that understands the IRCd that they're currently running (because they quit and started Libera) and they no longer are in the good graces of any of the other folks who could help them: http
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by geofft 5y ago
> If users experiencing issues with the ambee library in this package, they will knock on my door. And I'm not willing to support that or accept that burden. Especially as I don't see a good repacking reason in this case. Use
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by geofft 5y ago
While I don't disagree with you, the problem the author is saying is that end users don't realize that, and contact the author directly even when they are using an out-of-date package from a distribution, and the author doesn&#x

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