Sanguinaire's comments

I'd say actively use or pro-actively license to someone else. If a company can't show that their patents are generating revenue somehow other than lawsuits, the holder should be forced to give the clarinet to a kid who is gonna use it.

I would say that Julia not only supports a REPL, but is heavily biased towards its usage - enough to be detrimental IMO.

New Zealand synthesized fuel like this in the 80's during an oil crisis, as did Nazi Germany in the 1940's. It's well-understood chemistry, just too expensive right now. Probably will remain that way until it's too late unless we can put a ~$200/t tax on carbon emissions globally.

Basically, it is CentOS but pitched at small businesses as a "validated" option when paired with HPE servers.

They shouldn't, but it's clear we're not at that stage of societal development quite yet.

It's an indication that they want the appearance of taking it seriously.

I think this episode will tell us definitely how much of GitHub is left, and how much Microsoft has infected their culture.

I'm with you in sentiment - I see Microsoft as the greasy salesman of the IT world, sucking people into their ecosystem with dirty moves. They are trying to reform their image to be less like Oracle, but it is skin deep and purely self-serving.

Google is the nutty professor with no business acumen living off the profits of one good idea - advertising. The quicker they get squeezed out, the quicker the grown-ups can get back to business. Not sure whether that is a good thing yet.

Amazon is the autistic economist brother of Microsoft; continually optimizing against the boundaries of acceptable capitalism. Not evil by any deliberate choice, just aligned permanently towards maximal returns. Take it or leave it.

Apple is a fashion company which every now and then revolutionizes the consumer tech world. Since consumers hate most of the other companies and don't have any collective negotiating power, Apple reaps a big reward, then goes back to tinkering with the aesthetics.

We can only hope, the bastards.

Yup - I stumbled into consulting in my first job and carried on doing it in my second, timesheets are the main source of misery/annoyance for me. Non-consultant, non-sales roles are hard to find for people who are technically focused but not actual software developers.

I really wish there was an option for better non-REPL usage - basically Cargo for package installation and ahead-of-time compilation, but with the Julia syntax and ethos.

I'm somewhat like you (aspiration-based notebook purchaser), but I actually did buy a remarkable - both the original and V2.

Bizarrely, I've ended up using the RM exclusively for work-related notes, and still keep all my personal ideas in a paper notebook. Aside from a subconscious desire to work through my stationery backlog, I have no idea why.

RM is nice to use and I'd definitely recommend to note-taking gadget lovers, but the software quality prevents me from calling it a more general must-buy device.

Found the Amazonian

Same here. Being in the UK means getting an F150 is pretty unlikely as I'd be worried about it fitting on some of our roads, but it is far more appealing than the cybertruck even for me as a soft, liberal tech worker.

I'm fortunate that I worked from home by default anyway, so all I've lost over the pandemic is the chance for occasional trips to the office for a catch-up with (also generally remote) colleagues.

Reading the comments here, I worry how much the WFH newcomers will have their goals of continuing dashed by the crab mentality of those who want to go back to an office.

I'm in the same boat as the person you replied to; breaking causality never made sense to me.

In the case of your explanation, what sticks out to me is the "Suppose their was a way of instantaneously communicating" part - it seems more intuitive to me that the warp bubble would not allow any communication across the threshold, effectively becoming a pocket universe.

I'd never heard of the company behind Alma before this shambles, while Greg K is pretty well known in the HPC world and as the original CentOS founder. If I had to bet, I'd say 2 years from now adoption of these will be 80/20 in favour of Rocky.

OpenSUSE is a good option, as is waiting for a stable Rocky release. Ubuntu is fine if your definition of HPC is actually mostly focused on data science and ML. For classical HPC you probably have to watch out for whatever commercial software you have and their support requirements, many proprietary packages are RPM only.

Looks fantastic, and the hardware specs appeal to me greatly - but I'm not sure there is an actual market outside the "cult of personality" bubble. A few SV wannabes will buy into this to trade off a Twitter relationship with the Oxide founders - but does anyone really see the IT teams at Daimler, Proctor & Gamble, Morgan Stanley... et al - actually going for this over HPE/Dell and AWS/Azure? We are a long way away from "Nobody ever got fired for buying from Oxide".