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901.
by mfer 7y ago
> "Adversarial interoperability" is what happens when you decide to abandon consent as a governing principle for interoperating, because it prevents progress. Whose consent is needed? Open source projects who grumble about amaz
902.
by mfer 7y ago
From the keybase update: > As a bonus, their profile pic will get covered in Poo. This is in reference to accounts that have been blocked. If more people see this than the person who blocked it’ll be ripe for abuse. This seems entirely u
903.
by mfer 7y ago
Isn’t Google basically an add company (if you go by their revenue). A search engine provided by a media company or ad company. I’m curious what people think the debate is between these.
904.
by mfer 7y ago
There are two paths we can take to change this. Some should go down each of the paths. 1. Regulation. People organizing to stop monopolies and cartel behavior like this. 2. Competition. Both in the form of news aggregator systems and search
905.
by mfer 7y ago
The tools, habits, and existing links haven't been updated. godoc.org don't point people to the new site. The "replacement" experience is a little broken.
906.
by mfer 7y ago
> user contributions licensed under cc by-sa 4.0 with attribution required. I was just thinking about how everyone ignores the license for the code on SO. The code and way it's used is flawed.
907.
by mfer 7y ago
TIOBE notes that it is looking at popularity. This is different than use. Go didn't loose a bunch of users. In the ways TIOBE measures popularity... it lost some popularity.
908.
by mfer 7y ago
Go modules are in the post Rob Pike era. Russ Cox is how the sole lead of Go and this was his project
909.
by mfer 7y ago
Side note, I just noticed that https://godoc.org does not support Go modules with major versions being incremented (e.g., ending in `/v2`). The new pkg.go.dev does but not the existing godoc.org. This echos some of the othe
910.
by mfer 7y ago
There are many cases MVS and updated don’t work for. For example, if you have a dependency on a package inside kubernetes because it doesn’t follow semver. You can’t pin to minor updates and use ‘go get -u’ Control has been taken away from
911.
by mfer 7y ago
I totally respect that. I also know that many (most) aren’t like that. There are a variety of reasons like some not having time. What can they do? The experience for those is often more time consuming than in the past. This decreases their
912.
by mfer 7y ago
> A lot of package managers were "organically grown" Many of the package managers we have now are thought out. Some replaced existing ones while others were crafted by people who had worked on dependency management in the past.
913.
by mfer 7y ago
How do you know about security fixes (or even relevant bug fixes) in dependencies? How do you know about them in transitive rather than direct dependencies? If you don't know to update how will you get the fixes?
914.
by mfer 7y ago
Both Red Monk and TIOBE [1] are noting a decrease in the popularity of Go. Red Monk wondered aloud if this had to do with the way the Go modules / dep situation happened [2]. I wonder if the posts lately are an attempt to win people ov
915.
by mfer 7y ago
> The answer is that we learned from Dep that the general Bundler/Cargo/Dep approach includes some decisions that make software engineering more complex and more challenging. Are those documented anywhere? Are they detailed, di
916.
by mfer 7y ago
To use an analogy... when people were smoking a lot of people got lung cancer. Doctors can try to treat that and many people died. Access to health care did not mean that everyone who got care was cured of their lung cancer. Instead, people
917.
by mfer 7y ago
I'll start with one example. The rising suicide rate. Since 2010 there has been a large increase in teen girl suicide rate. A significant cause of this is social media and smart phones. This has to do with bullying, comparisons, and ot
918.
by mfer 7y ago
In the past 10 years there has been a 2.5x increase in teen girl suicide rates. Those kids can either get healthcare through their parents employers or though other means if their parents can't provide it. Those kids have access to hea
919.
by mfer 7y ago
> Don't you think these things are directly related? From what I've read there isn't a strong relation between them. Some of it is obvious. The system has been roughly the same for many years but the change happened to men
920.
by mfer 7y ago
> And while suicides, drug overdoses and alcoholism were the main causes It looks like there is increasing mental health issues that aren't being addressed. This seems to get blown past too quickly. We tend to look at the medical si
921.
by mfer 7y ago
My local newspaper has started to write articles about the fancy homes in the area. It's harder to avoid these kinds of things. Some of this comes down to ethics. Am I making something that will hurt people? When I took engineering cla
922.
by mfer 7y ago
There was research work that showed a causation between smart phones/social media and increased loneliness and depression rates. I wonder how we can increase awareness and ethical decision making around our industries actions.
923.
by mfer 7y ago
Security and privacy are two different but related things. Security can help some privacy issues such as encryption stopping others from snooping. It does not include first party privacy issues though. Facebook has a history of privacy issu
924.
by mfer 7y ago
> We provide our clients a three-legged stool of branding, lead generation, sponsored and native content that allows them to “get the word out” to thousands of prospective clients and partners in the Drone space, explore financing option
925.
by mfer 7y ago
There are security angles to this that it's the governments job to consider. For example, there is the case of sole source of components from a company or country and there is the case of back doors from countries that are known to spy
926.
by mfer 7y ago
What if we pulled all the belief systems out of public schools. Including the non-traditional religion ones held by by some scientists that are not observable. Is this about belief systems, traditional religions, or something else? I ask me
927.
by mfer 7y ago
Sabine Hossenfelder, a theoretical physicist known for being outspoken, recently blogged about how it's been a long time since something new was theorized and then observed [1]. Some things scientists talk about have had experiments ru
928.
by mfer 7y ago
Maybe and sort of. Alphabet is a conglomerate, right. Alphabet is the parent company that owns Google, LLC. I'm personally surprised to see talk of the data crossing the Google / Alphabet company boundary. That makes it cross comp
929.
by mfer 7y ago
From the original WSJ article... > Staffers across Alphabet Inc., Google’s parent, have access to the patient information, documents show, including some employees of Google Brain, a research science division credited with some of the c
930.
by mfer 7y ago
I see, the problem is with the Go templating syntax. So, more context... Helm was designed to support more than one templating system. The problem was that the majority of people were ok with Go templates so no one contributed support for o

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