throwawaylinux

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1. 1771.▲
   by throwawaylinux 5y ago

   > That exactly is the trust problem. Why would trustworthy people even try to gain power, if the public assumes that those in power are untrustworthy and corrupt? To improve society. > And why would those in power remain trustworthy w
2. 1772.▲
   by throwawaylinux 5y ago

   > Would require an architectural license Of course, the ARM tax. Is there any reason why that would be a problem for them to get? > and lots of talent and time. Well just more talent than ARM Ltd. > Getting stock Neoverse cores is
3. 1773.▲
   by throwawaylinux 5y ago

   This is the kind of fix you can get with a recall or late problem. It's not a "zip tie" it's a steel cable tie. The wood's a bit shonky but another manufacturer might have got plastic clips made instead of the wood
4. 1774.▲
   by throwawaylinux 5y ago

   Having it repeatedly drilled into you your entire life from birth that you'll never succeed without the pity and generosity of a few benevolent saviors among a sea of hateful racists who are this this all-powerful/privileged alien
5. 1775.▲
   by throwawaylinux 5y ago

   There's really very little "innovation" in the ARM ISA. Or any ISA these days. It is an API. ARMv8 is nice but it's just warmed over RISC -- actually a lot of things that differentiated previous ARM ISAs were removed to
6. 1776.▲
   by throwawaylinux 5y ago

   We could quibble about what exactly "primarily" means, but that's not the phrase he used which is "by, and for" without the qualifier. So here's two reasons to make FreeBSD for others as well: - They use a lot
7. 1777.▲
   by throwawaylinux 5y ago

   > The line you are quoting was, for the record, meant to be a tad humorous. That's the needling. And I'm sure it's considered absolutely hilarious among the people engaging in it. But what it comes down to is someone rais
8. 1778.▲
   by throwawaylinux 5y ago

   > perhaps what you're saying is Linux use masks incompetence? Why do I see so much of this snide needling from FreeBSD proponents? Small dog syndrome? It matters when you don't want to hire someone to learn a system, and someon
9. 1779.▲
   by throwawaylinux 5y ago

   > Is there some conclusive recent benchmark about this. The post uses a 2014 post about ipv6 at Facebook, which I think is far from definitive today. Especially more since it "forgot" to mention that Facebook intended to enhanc
10. 1780.▲
    by throwawaylinux 5y ago

    I find recreational travel to be the height of consumerism. It's massively polluting and wasteful. I do it a bit myself, but I'm not going to pretend I'm better than someone else becausethey wastefully buy different things w
11. 1781.▲
    by throwawaylinux 5y ago

    They really aren't. The popular narrative is that the commoners own the responsibility for imperialism "because it helped them" and this assertion tends to be taken without question. The reality is far more complicated. What
12. 1782.▲
    by throwawaylinux 5y ago

    All regulation is ostensibly about the government stepping in and "cleaning up" private behavior that is detrimental to society. Bailouts fit that description too, so they're very similar if not in name. The government steppe
13. 1783.▲
    by throwawaylinux 5y ago

    It's not details, it's the central tenet of your argument was that billionaires are rich because they extracted something and there's no free lunch. That's just now how it works. Most of the new tech billionaires got ric
14. 1784.▲
    by throwawaylinux 5y ago

    Are you really being "ostracized" for it? Lots of people I know semi retire on hobby farms. And you simply can't produce food as efficiently or cheaply as modern farming techniques, so you're in the privileged position (
15. 1785.▲
    by throwawaylinux 5y ago

    This isn't really how things work. Let's say Belon Tusk is worth $100 million and invests that into starting a submarine company. Eventually they make a working product they can sell, and that puts the value of the company at $1 b
16. 1786.▲
    by throwawaylinux 5y ago

    I like the potential your comment has even though it's wrong on every point, it is interesting to go back and understand why 386 support was removed. Since the days of 386 support, the kernel has only become much more modular and porta
17. 1787.▲
    by throwawaylinux 5y ago

    > What about Rupert Murdoch and Fox News? I don't think he's the devil either. I do know the nature of their game though. It's to divide people. They're doing a great job of it. > Anti-vaxxers are why we are still
18. 1788.▲
    by throwawaylinux 5y ago

    I'm sure clothing and footwear profits from slavery and child labor and general exporting of poor working conditions and environmental standards as many other industries have done with globalization, and however connected to the "
19. 1789.▲
    by throwawaylinux 5y ago

    Sounds like he needed some thicker skin or awareness of the terms of art in his own field! I don't think you had anything to be embarrassed about, that's what my pun was related to. Although as another aside, I know some kernel de
20. 1790.▲
    by throwawaylinux 5y ago

    And naturally those ethical standards only apply to others, not themselves.
21. 1791.▲
    by throwawaylinux 5y ago

    I wasn't invalidating it any more than they were invalidating my opinion that facebook isn't the devil with their response to telling me that is the dealbreaker. "It's that simple". Note this wasn't the poster
22. 1792.▲
    by throwawaylinux 5y ago

    Thank you for the answer, much appreciated -- a lot of people throw out comments like yours but won't back them up. I'm probably not the right fit for the job, I'm happily a lowly kernel developer with 20 years experience on
23. 1793.▲
    by throwawaylinux 5y ago

    I'm talking about the vast majority who are in fact hypocrites and are very happy to rile up hatred and anger towards others while never reflecting on their own behavior and situations. I do know one or two people who think and care ve
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    by throwawaylinux 5y ago

    > "Most corporations" don't do global surveillance on the scale Facebook does. It's that simple. It's never that simple. What corporations are okay to work for, in this unidimensional worldview? Exxon Mobil? Phil
25. 1795.▲
    by throwawaylinux 5y ago

    I know a bunch of highly skilled people who would never have trouble finding work at other companies who say they love working at Facebook. I also know a lot of people who use it and think it's a great tool for keeping in touch and com
26. 1796.▲
    by throwawaylinux 5y ago

    No, it looks good on your resume. The type of clown who would get upset at you working for Facebook is not someone you want to work for anyway so consider that another plus. Some people get extremely sanctimonious about the latest thing the
27. 1797.▲
    by throwawaylinux 5y ago

    You hire people with two years experience out of college for $400k/yr package? Is this in SV? What kind of job, what experience is needed?
28. 1798.▲
    by throwawaylinux 5y ago

    Fire, metal working, domestication of animals, sailing and navigation, democracy, mathematics, physics, chemistry, the transistor, computing, radio, flight. Probably not in the top 10 the more you think about it.
29. 1799.▲
    by throwawaylinux 5y ago

    It's not absurd to worry about it, it is absurd to say there is no safe exposure level and leave it at that. Especially because so many people smoke it is important to be informed about the actual risks of second hand smoke. If I&#x2
30. 1800.▲
    by throwawaylinux 5y ago

    I've always been lead to believe the intent of a law or regulation is what matters in the eyes of a court. The Subaru case probably violates the intent as well but maybe that would be a lot harder to prove. But the Ford case they cle