rhoyerboat's comments

the general issue is that the feature rich web browser contains libraries wrapped around basically every leaf and stem of windows, mac and *nix desktop interface family forests.

(if your building on say, a completely fresh stage3 gentoo system, that equals some pretty good linker load. cairo comes to mind as a huge culprit, whether its webkit or mozilla.)

;) Maybe given Bezos' character, the endowment and the fleet upgrade is actually, well aside from being more cost effective for a lot of reasons .. also .. his best vehicle for scoring some long term points against the Saudis, since they 'didn't hack his phone, or whatever.

those people are abusing disqus across practically every site that uses it which ive visited in recent memory. wish they could get a handle on it, its a pretty useful plugin except for the apparent shitpot security. maybe its up to site moderators and they don't do the work, maybe the disqus audience is particularly vulnerable to soc.eng .. w/e, bummer.

recently I started working on a module for nginx and have developed a full-blown crush on the module loader and its relationship with core functionality. haven't seen anything else quite like it, in C, that is. major newb talkin'

also plan9, its nice to read some kernel code that hasn't been tortured by practical requirements for decades.

ah- i meant i don't like those guys ' who rebuilt downtown Seattle in their own image.. (it's silly, I know, but I hate to write corp names as proper nouns once they start to abuse peoples trust, and HN is filtering the asterisks I would have used on another medium. ... i mean a$$azon is openly monopolistic.. that works.)

On my part, I prefer Linode now simply because I won't support a company as openly monopolistic as .. those guys .. if I can avoid it. Also, maybe a little superficial loyalty. Linode was the first provider I found with KVM support when it was a new feature in QEMU, but that reasoning is long expired.

as a student who didn't understand why I was getting it right more often when I wasn't showing my work, the assignment of credit based on this frustrated my education immensely.

figured out, a decade later, doing remedial math to get into calculus, that i was just a touch dyslexic. it had made me vulnerable to some seemingly algorithmic multiple-choice test trickery in their remedial math program, and explained where the requirements to show work had helped me to develop the wrong answer, so many times in high school.

understanding this and being able to give myself a pass where i could expect to transpose some variables .. i was actually sort-of talented and more importantly, i actually enjoyed it ..

In the US we ban marketing tobacco and alcohol to minors, if that is largely okay with everyone, we should consider extending it to ban marketing -anything- to minors.

When I hear someone say 'the system,' I wish they would be more specific.

I think a small group of corporations being in direct control of the mass dissemination of corporation serving behavioral role models and information is a problem that needs to be addressed in order ensure the quality of freedom in the marketplace.

Taking the oceanic volumes of weapons grade, artificial psychological pressure off the kids seems like a great place to start.

if a citizen speaks about censorship in a society that censors speech, can anyone confirm that they make a sound?

assuming the cure isn't open-source/ otherwise impossible to patent and is basically garage-fab easy. ~84K for a course of hep C meds? insulin costing ~6k per patient per year? i see an incredible incentive to provide a more cost-effective treatment yes, but also see that drug companies have incredible incentives to suppress research they cannot control.

Without waxing too poetic about it, its like .. are you deliberately not hitting the nail on the head? ;)

> Perhaps there's a relationship between the perceived need for a scientific sounding explanation and compatibility with traditional medicine for a particular idea.

I think there is a chemical reward system in play in order to even want to seek information, of any quality. Even in its most utterly click-baity, priori, emotionally contrived or pseudo-scientific form...(needing something "science.")

It isn't as deep of a reward system as the one engaged where you are totally in awe of natures order and discover the capacity to produce information and thus direct some control over it through planning...(demonstrable compatibility.)(its too bad the click-bait people aren't selling better dope.)

That biology produces complex molecules which are even 'compatible between organisms in plant and animal is pretty awe inspiring. And, that the control of human intention has any control over nature, electrochemically or otherwise, likewise so.

A couple movies come to mind: https://topdocumentaryfilms.com/pleasure-finding-things-out/ https://topdocumentaryfilms.com/botany-desire/

Agreed, but, perhaps, as a management strategy, it may help some teams transition. Since after all, for folks with careers in manual provisioning, devops truly is a new frame of mind.. swapping words in titles around is just part of operations development? :)

Based on all the positivity in these comments, it does seem like the UK has at least a more laid back, sort of entry-level culture making hiring decisions than the US does at the moment... awesome ;)

this story has my attention because .. idk .. something about privilege. In my imagination this smells like an old train-hopper moving into his chosen retirement community.. not saying he was sober when he did it but I bet hes been walking this through, in his head, for years. Meanwhile, some package thieves in the bay can't even get themselves arrested to stay warm without getting shot in the process. This guy knows what they are doing wrong, and that's privilege.

rather than restricting the software from commercialization by license it explicitly commercializes everything on behalf of the user ..

I'm partially being snarky. By offering opt-in backwards-compatibility 'ye olde establishment. Also intending to offer a path forward for businesses already relying on the business model, for users expecting products relying on the business model. I know I'm playing with a pipe-dream-sci-fi-quantum leap in the relationship between the end-user and the internet ..

... so I'm trying to be snarky and also fair and thus hopefully incentivize existing entities to implement the protocol and use it in order to take bites out of big data in manageable bits without setting everything on immediate fire. The folks who write apps with a bent on data-mining may be open to something more provider independent in order to draw in users.

also .. half-baked early adopter: .. you are a streaming content author or have an online shop and want your content to be redistributed, and are willing to make some metadata deals in order to do so. you are peered with dozens of indexes and some of them require different participation levels, maybe you have shipping partnerships, you work with some online labels or other profit-sharing outlets and this useful metadata associated with traffic that content has generated in your PO box is requested by these partners. So, the parts of your "forward-proxy-cache" that were relevant in these transactions would want appropriate taxonomy in order to facilitate ongoing partnership. I see users on the internet who like targeted adds, I know people in reality who like shopping.. I dream of a world where they all get better hobbies but I'm not trying to judge. ;)

personal forward-proxy.. a reckless way of putting it, also s'/sold/shared/' where users are hopefully suddenly tuned into the reality that once something is copied out into the public domain..

sort of been on my mind lately because like you say, should be easy ;) snapshot of current thinking:

-some open pit data mining/management protocol exists and scrapes data out of your own personal forward proxy / metal that lives on the edge of fat bandwidth, you can do whatever you want with it, autogenerate bookmarks and forum interaction tags if you want (hadn't thought of that,) .. including not store it, because the software that stores it is part of a personally owned open source platform that is also providing all the cloud services that you normally go to third parties to obtain

..so..

-the basics are baked in, its got your social media/self-promotional pages that are interoperable with others, an online store, search/index peers are essentially friends on social networks.. its gets foggy, how much granularity? what sort of resource commit to the forward cache? anonymization routines? regional compliance issues? capability to sell dataset(?) like, who would actually use it?

.. etc ..

-if something like this were actually to organize i think it would be best visualized as some sort of platform in support of some server-farm co-op. also i keep thinking of openstack being overkill, somehow, and am likely wrong.

-for a personal user on a watered down feature-set that isn't supporting a large organization and still elects to own their own bare metal, it would be like .. two netbooks in a post-office-box housing place that has fiber ..

I don't like the author's attitude but I find the article at least tangential to something worth considering. Flawed communications as a social issue are larger in scope than technology alone. False equivalence is dangerous. If I was going to make an argument to support anything positive that I find in the article, I would frame it like this..

Popular presentations: coding=hacking=glamour hacking=crime=glamour

Less popular presentations: work=money=glamour creativity+work=glamour+money

Never mind the assumption that glamour is desirable. I'll just pretend that glamour represents any positive outcome, but be very strict about that being a local declaration on its' way to the garbage collector real fast.

I bumped into a guy I had just met on freenode, playing WoW Classic. He was using the same handle and starting the same conversations.. really I probably could have guessed who it was without the handle, lol- guy just has a certain tone and range of topics. It was nice to see someone IRC culture pushing moderated discussion in /trade, but it also illustrates why I don't spend much time on IRC anymore. So many people going in loosely predictable circles, and I'd be one of them, until some angry and drunk incel or political sock-puppet shows up to try out whatever misanthropic chat script. As if getting booted for being annoying and disingenuous is some kind of gold-star accolade. And for that to be the interesting part - ugh. I enjoyed IRC a lot more when I would have had a tall glass of whisky to go along with it. IMHO its still the best social network on the internet, too bad that isn't saying much. It's great for languages including the non-programming ones still, for sure. And reading that one russian guy tell stories about being a kid among the intelligentsia and politburo of the late CCCP era - wow I don't know where else I was going to get any related personal experience about that. Pretty cool.

... been dragging this acronym as a definition around since the 90's, of course its probably way older. A hippie is a, "highly intelligent person, pursuing infinite enlightenment."

When considering to open my mouth a little about free speech and China, I think of all the human-rights negative consumerism I partake of with or without much guilt. Stomach-shuddering just a little bit, I probably keep my mouth mostly shut.