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  • I'm all for personal freedoms but you're getting a service you pay no money for and then get pissed that they are getting the money out of you another way. Sound like people being petty.

  • Think that issue gets resolved quickly as no one really has the power in tenure anymore. If everyone only has a few years a cycle or two of stalemates will eventually lead to both sides having to work together or try and win the entire house.

  • More like reasonable term limits.

    Two terms for each position seems reasonable so you can be asked to continue or asked to leave. This allows you to run on a policy, implement it and then fix it or things that need to be tweaked and then get out.

  • I think the fact the EU steuggles as much as it does in the near future they would be at best a weaker China. Lots of bodies but sub par military capabilities. The benefit we get in the US is that we'd only need to come in as support and military guidance rather than sending a lot of troops. They will still suck at doing things as it will be military by committee so in cases with countries like Russia they will most likely defer to the US to just run things.

  • I'll believe it when i see it. The amount of lost funds from multi millionaires and billionaires would easily pay for the staff required and yet they don't do it. It has always felt like an intentional act ignoring the wealthy to keep money in the US. Cheat on taxes as long as you keep your business woth us.

  • I don’t think it matters what tools you use as long as it works.

    That would be true if other systems and services depend on them. Would have been nice to come out with a standard and designed systemd around that standard. Then you pick the tool you want that follows the standard rather than be tied into systemd.

    Worth noting is that a process not managed by pid 1 isn’t really a thing you want generally

    I would disagree. A compromised Docker doesn't mean i have access to things managed by PID1. The entire control model is based around moving your publicly available services further away from something with the highest level of access. Be it users or processes.

  • The place i grew up cable wasn't very common. Power and phone on poles, everyone lived far apart and there was only a foot or two of soil before you hit bedrock. The phone lines sucked so much that dialing into BBS and eventually dialup internet was problematic.

    I ended up working a summer for an ISP where we used point to point radios to connect to towers 20-40 miles across a lake. Was amazing when people started getting 10mbps. This was all before cellular tethering and satellite was viable options.

  • Their complaint was that people bitch about systemd. The issue people have is that systemd does too much.

  • And systemd is far more resources intensive than runit. Wasn't really the point.

    Kind of nice to not have a bug in my container service possibly have access to pid 1.

  • Personally I'd like my container/vm/chroot handled by something detached from pid 1. I get that much of the overal systemd project is separate blocks of code but it's the fact they are bound together that it becomes an issue. I would have loved for the systemd team yo first publish a set of APIs that all their components would us and allow the same integration while being completely different projects.

  • That is pretty cool.

    But its also another example of systemd doing stuff other services already did (see lxc).

  • Some teams in my office use gitlab while most other use bit bucket and we have meetings where people want to discuss migrating to just one. I get so excited...

    ...until i hear they want to move everyone to bitbucket.

  • Last time i moved i got cold called by Comcast to sign up for Internet. I asked them the price, they gave some deal. I asked what will be the price in 2 years when the contract was up. "Oh, well that really depends on what services you sign up for." I tell them i want only Internet at this given speed and i will never sign up for anything else.

    ...the woman on the phone just stopped talking. I asked can she not tell me the price after all the specials run out and i get my last bill in the contract. She said "i dont know what you want me to say."

    Apparently they dont want people to know how screwed you are with Internet. I told the woman that i was going to write a letter letting them know that her inability to answer a simple question was the reason i was not going with their service. She hung up on me. Sent the letter and i got a call a few weeks later asking ifni wanted a super crazy deal they "never give to anyone." I asked my question again and they couldn't tell me my final bill so i hung up and reported the number as spam to my phone carrier.

  • I don't remember where this quote is from but i think it's useful.

    We are not friends. Our interaction is because I'm paid to be here.

    Something like that. I'm all for having comradery and if you happen to be friends then that's great. But often times, and i know I've fallen victim to this, we work too much and dont have social lives that exist outside of work.

  • Because if your social life is tied to work you'll stick around longer during the day and potentially do more work. You'll also opt to stay at a job that pays less or has worse benefits because it means leaving your friends.

  • You don't have to actually do a real project. It's more about doing a task that requires you to create outside the hand holding.

    After 15 years of OS and embedded systems development I learned web dev by creating a SaaS for my HOA's property manager to communicate with tenants. Node, React, MongoDB, docker, iOS and Android apps. Did the project look good? Nope. Did I have to dig into manuals and debug for weeks, yep. But I easily stepped into a new role in an industry I had never worked in because I really learned the tech stack. Actually using the app wasn't necessary, just that I actually had to create things requiring me to design around the technology I was learning.

    Pick a problem in your life and solve it. Doesn't need to become something you sell or publish or even use after you're done learning. But the point is to actually use your skills.

  • I'm saying that the work they would be doing in two days isn't the same as solving an actual problem. The way to really learn a language/framework/library is to actually use it in a real project. You run into pitfalls, you get compile errors and have to figure out how to debug in said tech, you find out how extentions to the tech work so you can create your own. Making a Todo Front End isn't going to cover the vast majority of the stuff I'd expect one to know or experience when you say you "know" a language/framework/library/etc.

  • Oh i know, was joking mostly. At that point i had half a dozen languages under my belt and for tutoring purposes i was good to go.

  • To be fair, i did cover the Fortran 95 spec in a weekend, but i was motivated to tutor aerospace engineerings as there were far more females there than in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.