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by kbrwn 5y ago
I too get that IBM wants to milk Red Hat for as much as it as worth. I'd argue Red Hat was lost before that even. It used the good old M$ EEE trick with its the most direct OS competitors (CoreOS/CentOS). Hail Rocky Linux and Cano
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by kbrwn 5y ago
The fact is if someone wants to run a Linux host for 10 years with security patches they can with Ubuntu. They cannot with CentOS Stream. Yes, they could switch to RHEL and pay for security patches but RHEL is a different OS than CentOS Str
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by kbrwn 5y ago
Ubuntu LTS has an additional 5 years of security support through Extended Security Maintenance thus giving LTS releases a full 10 year lifecycle. https://ubuntu.com/about/release-cycle
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by kbrwn 5y ago
5 years is half of the Ubuntu LTS and the previous CentOS Linux lifecycle. This is why many consider CentOS Stream to be a significant departure from CentOS Linux. Not saying it is a bad OS but it is no longer a free Linux operating system
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by kbrwn 5y ago
> where did you hear that CentOS Stream didn't receive security patches? That is false... It's not false under the context of long term support which is why I highlighted so in the OP. How long will each CentOS Stream release b
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by kbrwn 5y ago
Thank you to Canonical for keeping Ubuntu a free and open source operating system with long term support! With the death of CentOS (replaced by an unstable upstream of RHEL) it means a lot to the Linux community.
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by kbrwn 5y ago
200wpm and 90% accuracy is my result from typing tests while using vi-tutor. In real world scenario I would type slower (closer to 120wpm) to be sure I spell and punctuate without having to backspace or use autocorrect.
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by kbrwn 5y ago
My experience learning a new keyboard layout was at age 19 an I was not typing for more than a few hours a day. It takes much longer to both break old habits and form new ones from older ages. If you have been typing for 20+ years in QWERTY
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by kbrwn 5y ago
Colemak user since I taught myself one summer (2012) by spending the first 20 minutes after waking up typing in vim-tutor. I made the switch because I could not stop looking at the keys on QWERTY keyboards no matter what I tried even with b
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by kbrwn 6y ago
I recently left Red Hat (Feb 2021). I joined from the CoreOS acquisition in 2018. For the most part I enjoyed working at Red Hat. Honestly the real reason I left because of GME but there where a few things that convinced me to move: 1) Kill
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by kbrwn 6y ago
Chat will become the primary method of communication and will be where most work gets done. Other systems will exist sure eventually hackers will build tools for them to be interfaced with via chat clients. This has been happening for many
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by kbrwn 6y ago
Rightwing posters on FB/Twitter/HN: "It is our right to organize an coup on your platform!!!1" Start your own goddamn website! Zuck and Jack don't owe you anything.
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by kbrwn 6y ago
Zuck > Jack
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by kbrwn 6y ago
If this isn't over by summer 2021 it's time to quarantine the olds an allow the rest of citizens to return to normal life. We gave it a year. we can't go on expecting younger folks to give up all social life, development, sex
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by kbrwn 6y ago
The holier than thou these ideas are bad and we must deplatform them from the left is getting old quick. The sense of entitlement to other people's servers and code by the right is just as annoying. 90% of this issue could be solved b
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by kbrwn 6y ago
Beta version of software often ignore users that may have visual or motoric impairment. Plus much of the web is hositle to disabled folks already (like youtube not having closed captions on many popular videos) it's not a good argument
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by kbrwn 6y ago
A uninformative rant about a software beta. Personally I am tired of these sort of posts that scream about how everything new is terrible because it doesn't have X feature that is super important for "accessibility". No not e
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by kbrwn 6y ago
SQL
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by kbrwn 6y ago
hires* I'd say it would take a cold day in hell before Linus would work at M$ but since 2016 it seems anything is possible.
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by kbrwn 6y ago
This is constantly brought up on HN in the WFH threads. Your employer cannot arbitrarily reduce your salary. The reduction has to be agreed upon by the employee or the employer has to terminate employment and rehire to reduce salary. Very f
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by kbrwn 6y ago
Facebook would be #1 in online advertising and we'd be using Bing on our Windows Phones.
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by kbrwn 6y ago
A ton of amazing engineers and founders are born in India, China, and South East Asia also many from Eastern Europe and Russia. How would limiting the migration of these people help the USA or companies founded in the USA? NATO is a militar
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by kbrwn 6y ago
Newsom said the American presidency, "sounds like the worst job ever." Not everyone seeks more power. Maybe Newsom is happy to lead a nation-state without a minority party blocking every initiative he would ever put forward.
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by kbrwn 7y ago
Disgusting that the America govt does nothing while every other major power is able to get prescription drug prices under control.
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by kbrwn 7y ago
To everyone that thinks no ports, Qi only iPhones are the future. What if you want to use your phone while it chargers? Charge your phone in the car? I think we are another 10 years at least from having a device that could last long enough
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by kbrwn 7y ago
How is this comment flamebait? First time that I have really thought you missed the boat. Please don't censor people just because they criticize HN or the community.
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by kbrwn 7y ago
Trump and Bloomberg are running in completely different primaries. While the GOP base might find a billionaire palpable the Democratic base is not so friendly to big business or wall street. There is no uniting force in the Dem party like t
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by kbrwn 7y ago
These billionaire politicians need a reality check about the viability of beating Trump and especially from the left. Bloomberg would lose a significant amount of progressive voters just by nature of his extreme wealth, he has controversial
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by kbrwn 7y ago
The Constitution allowed slavery to exist. Literally humans owning other humans. It's a document to care about if you are a rich white landowner. If you are anybody else in the USA it's just another law document.
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by kbrwn 7y ago
Your politics are not superior. If your state, community, or legislature makes moves toward gun control it's anyone's civic duty to support or oppose based on their own beliefs not where they live.

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