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by mustache_kimono 1y ago
> it has a very non-open development model - development happens behind closed doors, no process to accept outside contributions, chuck a source code dump over the fence some time after each binary release. Mostly agree re: your entire p
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by mustache_kimono 1y ago
> It should be a matter of right. I think that's a fine point to make, but I also think it's unlikely to be politically feasible, any time soon, in the US. You may have been perfectly capable of making this decision, but, in
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by mustache_kimono 1y ago
> I am going to re-insist on the idea that parental consent is going to play a big role in practice in US healthcare practices, if only for financial reasons. Oh agreed. If, for no other reason, that is how the politics, even on the Ame
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by mustache_kimono 1y ago
> And pretending that (in the United States of America of all places) teens can just walk up to their doctors super easily and get surgery done somehow. You should see some of the background evidence on this. NY Times did a podcast seri
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by mustache_kimono 1y ago
> But if you really are honestly curious and unbiased, M. K. Anderson wrote a well-researched article for Protean in 2022. Wow. I've read that article and if you think that was unbiased or even-handed... There is a tech blogger w
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by mustache_kimono 1y ago
> he doesn't go out of his way to avoid these controversies. Science journalist covering the science of perhaps the most salient social issue of our time? Don't get me wrong -- there are other really important stories which are
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by mustache_kimono 1y ago
> Doxxing people off-platform used to be against the ToS. When people began reporting him for that, Bluesky amended their ToS. Even by the loosest definition what Singal did was not doxxing? For instance, Alejandra Caraballo, like it or
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by mustache_kimono 1y ago
> Well, no, he did clearly break the TOS back when he originally joined. Care to explain? The links in the article re: potential violations are mostly BS.
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by mustache_kimono 1y ago
> However, as time has gone by, Bluesky’s traffic has declined (X’s has as well) and some of its users have become increasingly upset at its moderation decisions, including allowing U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance and anti-trans writer Je
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Russinovich: From Blue Screens to Orange Crabs: Microsoft's Rusty Revolution [video](youtube.com)
8 points by mustache_kimono 1y ago|1 comments
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by mustache_kimono 1y ago
> Signal has solved the identity part, now encourage others to build apps on it. Doesn't the fact that nobody has built apps on it indicate the license (AGPL 3) is a real issue for its ecosystem?
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by mustache_kimono 1y ago
> More specifically, it's nice to be polite, which Linus usually is. Haha. Um what?
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by mustache_kimono 1y ago
> Some would really prefer to at least be able to get some attention (and perhaps a paid job) this way. Not that I agree, but people seem to be giving uutils lots of attention right now? A. HN front page vs. B. obscure JS framework? I&
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by mustache_kimono 1y ago
> Isn't that an unfalsifiable statement Sounds pretty axiomatic: Rust is not to blame for someone else's choice to ship beta software?
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by mustache_kimono 1y ago
> Rust is trying to systemically improve safety and reliability of programs, so the degree to which it succeeds is Rust's problem. GNU coreutils first shipped in what, the 1980s? It's so old that it would be very hard to find
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by mustache_kimono 1y ago
> Rather, the opposition is to re-implementing "working" software I understand the argument, and its sounds good as far as most things go, but it misses an important fact: In OSS, you can and should find your own bliss. If you
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by mustache_kimono 1y ago
> this is gonna cause more pushback regarding the rust in the kernel movement. Only among those that don't understand that, if this is a problem, then it is Canonical problem, not a Rust problem. To give another example, Canonical i
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by mustache_kimono 1y ago
Reminds me of Brendan Gregg's "CPU Utilization is Wrong" but this blog fails to discuss that blog's key point that CPU utilization is a measure of whether or not the CPU is busy, including whether the CPU is waiting [0].
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by mustache_kimono 1y ago
>> I can think of non-religious reasons to want to avoid legal fights with Oracle. Oh, certainly, but that's really not the problem posed right now. Oracle's own lawyers have said they see no problem with the combination, a
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Abstract Machine Models (2022)(dr-knz.net)
86 points by mustache_kimono 1y ago|8 comments
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by mustache_kimono 1y ago
> Damn. I was enjoying not having to deal with the fun of ZFS and DKMS, but it seems like now bcachefs will be in the same boat, either dealing with DKMS and occasional breakage or sticking with the kernel version that slowly gets more a
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by mustache_kimono 1y ago
> What do you need this accurate time for? Securities regulation?: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/signals-and-threads/id...
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by mustache_kimono 1y ago
> Debian's done a pretty good job here. I meant I bet Debian has broke desktops with a simple `apt update`. Whereas show me where rustup has broken a desktop?
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by mustache_kimono 1y ago
> I trust Debian to vet and package things in a way that won't break my desktop. Um, has there been some instance where rustup broke a desktop? And I'm assuming Debian has actually delivered on this worst case scenario?
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by mustache_kimono 1y ago
> curl | sh is literally the #1 recommended and most common way to install the rust development toolchain Rust provides a uniform way to install on any Unix you say? Compared to polyglot boarding house which is Linux package managemen
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by mustache_kimono 1y ago
> Most Europeans are allergic to anything that even smells like a commercial promise of a better tomorrow. "Hype" is universally used as a term to ridicule anyone who dares to be excited about something new, something different
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Daniel Heinemeier Hansson: "American Hype"(world.hey.com)
2 points by mustache_kimono 1y ago|7 comments
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by mustache_kimono 1y ago
> .. [I]t is not at all about performance, but performance is the canary in the coalmine: it is a direct translation of the essential vs accidental complexity problem. This is all nice color on my commentary, but it fails to address the
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by mustache_kimono 1y ago
> At least for Casey his case is less that everyone should be Carmack or Abrash but that programmers often through their poor design choices prematurely pessimise their code when they don’t need too. I think this is far enough since Case
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by mustache_kimono 1y ago
> it is about a perceived explosion in complexity both in terms of number of developers & in terms of allocated hardware, without an accompanying explosion in actual end user software complexity. Do we want software to be more comple

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