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by zaphar 3y ago
Why on earth would you want to continue working for someone who would ask you to do that? The union won't make that person any better. Union or no union you are better off going somewhere else.
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by zaphar 3y ago
Sure they do. But their agency doesn't eliminate yours. You can't control what your employer does. You can control what you do. So the correct thing is to exercise your own agency in response to theirs.
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by zaphar 3y ago
You are correct! But we are discussing why I personally would vote against one at an employer. It would take an otherwise reasonable and enjoyable employer and turn them into a place I no longer want to work.
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by zaphar 3y ago
You don't have to join but you usually still have to pay the dues. So you both have no vote on how that money get's spent but are also forced to give it to them anyway.
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by zaphar 3y ago
While I personally think Police are necessary in a well functioning society, I will argue that Police unions are a large contributing factor behind the poor reputation Police have gotten lately. They have blocked much needed reforms, protec
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by zaphar 3y ago
Right now if I don't like the working conditions I leave for a place that has better conditions. I've never had to take a long unpaid break because I don't stick around long enough to burn out. I've done exactly this mul
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by zaphar 3y ago
I don't get to pick unions. I get to pick my community support structures. Who I marry, which church,friend group,local community group I join? Those are all voluntary. Unions are not voluntary so they can't really be a community
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by zaphar 3y ago
Unions are forced participation. I am not forced to participate in political parties or religious organizations. In theory a Union could be purely voluntary in which case cool. I'll opt out. But then the Union loses most of it's l
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by zaphar 3y ago
Union's do much more than just negotiate things with your employer. They lobby elected representatives. They donate money to political groups or candidates for office. I have more dimensions to me than just what I do for a job. The col
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by zaphar 3y ago
Software engineer is not the only job I've every had. I've been the janitor sweeping floors, I've been the guy on the assembly line. I've literally supported my family by working day labor with no certainty of continued
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by zaphar 3y ago
I don't know whether we deserve a union or not. I do know that I emphatically do not want or need one. I make the amount of money I need. I have my pick of jobs if I feel undervalued by the place I work. Under no circumstances do I wan
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by zaphar 3y ago
Bad records aren't supposed to be ignored. They are supposed to be looked at by a human who can determine what to do. Failing the way NATS did means that all future flight plan data including for planes already in the sky are not lon
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by zaphar 3y ago
I'm no aviation safety controls expert but it seems to me that there are two types of controls that should be in place: 1. Process controls: What do we do when this breaks for any reason. 2. Engineering controls: What can we do to keep
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by zaphar 3y ago
When a senior engineer comes to that person and says. You can stop paying hashicorp money. We found a free alternative and are no longer using their product. That person will happily and joyfully jettison the contract. I've been that s
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by zaphar 3y ago
That credibility largely only applies to a certain group of people. The license change tanked that credibility with that group of people. Hashicorp did a classic misstep for open source based companies and as a may have lost the mindshare a
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by zaphar 3y ago
If I am a cloud provider and maintain a Terraform binding I now have a strong reason to target OpenTF over HashiTF as they inevitably begin to diverge. It's hard to see how Hashicorp survives trying to compete over a consortiom of comp
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by zaphar 3y ago
I've written non-trivial code in both Erlang and Go. Beam doesn't have anything to do with supervisors that's an OTP thing. mailboxes can be simulated with channels and there are conceptual similarities. process monitoring an
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by zaphar 3y ago
This is an important point. Sometimes when you need to do a major rearchitecture of a system it can help to choose a language that is more appropriate to that architecture. The Elixir/Erlang ecosystem has a better story for Actor Model
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by zaphar 3y ago
They do have a really compelling conccurent processing story though, which is what most people mean when they say it's better at IO.
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by zaphar 3y ago
The go runtime has similar capabilities as the BEAM runtime when it comes to concurrent workloads. Go has the benefit of being a typesafe compiled language which gives it speed benefits. But using either one of them instead of Java is proba
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by zaphar 3y ago
Oh definitely. You could control it with the `Accept: text/html` http header too so you can use the same endpoint. But as I said, you need to take that into consideration if you adopt htmx.
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by zaphar 3y ago
Impossible is a strong word. I've looked at their API and I can certainly imagine ways to do everything you list above in HTMX. I would need to build and use it in anger to know if it's a good way to do so but I can imagine scenar
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by zaphar 3y ago
Alternatively, his ego is too big for his own good. Intelligence without experience combined with a large ego can present as stupidity to onlookers. A little bit of wisdom would have done him a lot of good.
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by zaphar 3y ago
Where does starting anew come into it? I didn't say anything about starting anew.
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by zaphar 3y ago
A fork is really expensive. When the choice is use something else or fork GnuStep then use something else wins the overwhelming majority of the time.
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by zaphar 3y ago
It is highly unlikely that Android, Chrome, and Analytics can be viable businesses on their own. I can perhaps see a viable path for analytics if a lot of things go their way but those three are almost entirely successful because they are s
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by zaphar 3y ago
I think there is a pretty strong case that "having enough" is very much a moving target and now matter how much many people have it's not "enough". I see a lot of evidence that it's impossible to have a system
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by zaphar 3y ago
Are they? Based on my observations of the modern world they seem to have been remakably accurate actually. Scarily accurate in fact. What observations/predictions did you note that are completely wrong?
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by zaphar 3y ago
This could be totally well intentioned and completely honest but no one would believe it anyway. Oracle has burnt so many bridges I'm not sure it could ever recover reputationally from it. It's always about more than just the tech
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by zaphar 3y ago
Neither Haskell or Rust use inheritance for this though. They use Typeclasses or Traits respectively. Those have the nice property that they solve the specific problem of satisfying an interface for something without the accompanying prob

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