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I too get that IBM wants to milk Red Hat for as much as it as worth. I'd argue Red Hat was lost before that even. It used the good old M$ EEE trick with its the most direct OS competitors (CoreOS/CentOS).
Hail Rocky Linux and Canonical Ubuntu. Red Hat has lost its way.
DISCLAIMER: I worked at Red Hat via an acquisition for a few years.
The fact is if someone wants to run a Linux host for 10 years with security patches they can with Ubuntu. They cannot with CentOS Stream. Yes, they could switch to RHEL and pay for security patches but RHEL is a different OS than CentOS Stream.
Ubuntu LTS has an additional 5 years of security support through Extended Security Maintenance thus giving LTS releases a full 10 year lifecycle. https://ubuntu.com/about/release-cycle
5 years is half of the Ubuntu LTS and the previous CentOS Linux lifecycle. This is why many consider CentOS Stream to be a significant departure from CentOS Linux. Not saying it is a bad OS but it is no longer a free Linux operating system with long term support.
where did you hear that CentOS Stream didn't receive security patches? That is false...
It's not false under the context of long term support which is why I highlighted so in the OP. How long will each CentOS Stream release be supported? How long with each CentOS Stream release receive security patches?
Thank you to Canonical for keeping Ubuntu a free and open source operating system with long term support! With the death of CentOS (replaced by an unstable upstream of RHEL) it means a lot to the Linux community.
200wpm and 90% accuracy is my result from typing tests while using vi-tutor. In real world scenario I would type slower (closer to 120wpm) to be sure I spell and punctuate without having to backspace or use autocorrect.
My experience learning a new keyboard layout was at age 19 an I was not typing for more than a few hours a day.
It takes much longer to both break old habits and form new ones from older ages. If you have been typing for 20+ years in QWERTY and use a keyboard everyday professionally learning a new layout will likely be a very hard and frustrating task. Every time you switch back to QWERTY you are basically reversing the practice you have put in. If you are typing for a profession you likely won't want to suffer months of half your former typing speed or less until you catch up.
Colemak user since I taught myself one summer (2012) by spending the first 20 minutes after waking up typing in vim-tutor. I made the switch because I could not stop looking at the keys on QWERTY keyboards no matter what I tried even with blank keys I would look down out of habit. I tried Dvorak and it felt so unnatural. The common key letters for commands were completely in foreign places that I could not get used to at all. After 2 wks of barely getting past 30 wpm on Dvorak I switched to colemak I was able to beat my QWERTY typing speed after only 2 wks of studying and now I can type 200+ words per minutes with over 90% accuracy thinking about spelling slows be down more than anything else.
If you are under 30 I suggest you give an alt keyboard layout a shot. Older than that and the time to learn Colemak/Dvorak vs just improving your QWERTY speed/accuracy might not be worth it.
I recently left Red Hat (Feb 2021). I joined from the CoreOS acquisition in 2018. For the most part I enjoyed working at Red Hat. Honestly the real reason I left because of GME but there where a few things that convinced me to move:
1) Killing CentOS/CoreOS. Replacing these two stable OSs with unstable upstreams in CentOS Stream/Fedora CoreOS.
2) So many container tools that have overlapping tasks yet perform in completely different manners (podman, buildah, cri-o, skopeo, tekton, openshift, quay, libpod). Interoperability between all these projects was a constant struggle.
3) Forced usage of IRC. I shouldn't have to run my own bouncer to get features like history, push notifications, identity services. I cannot comprehend how in 2021 at a major corporation I would receive irc messages from usernames like "cloudpizza9000" or "m0use" and be expected to know who these people are and take things seriously enough to work together. It seemed like I was in a 90s chat room with a bunch of strangers.
Chat will become the primary method of communication and will be where most work gets done. Other systems will exist sure eventually hackers will build tools for them to be interfaced with via chat clients. This has been happening for many years. Old people need to get over it and stop writing blog posts that basically sound like anti-email rants from 1998.
Rightwing posters on FB/Twitter/HN: "It is our right to organize an coup on your platform!!!1"
Start your own goddamn website! Zuck and Jack don't owe you anything.
Zuck > Jack
If this isn't over by summer 2021 it's time to quarantine the olds an allow the rest of citizens to return to normal life. We gave it a year. we can't go on expecting younger folks to give up all social life, development, sex and so on so old people can sit on Facebook alone at home or in nursing homes.
The holier than thou these ideas are bad and we must deplatform them from the left is getting old quick.
The sense of entitlement to other people's servers and code by the right is just as annoying.
90% of this issue could be solved by forcing social media companies to clearly identify when an account is a bot or follow mainly by bots.
Beta version of software often ignore users that may have visual or motoric impairment. Plus much of the web is hositle to disabled folks already (like youtube not having closed captions on many popular videos) it's not a good argument against flutter imo.
A uninformative rant about a software beta. Personally I am tired of these sort of posts that scream about how everything new is terrible because it doesn't have X feature that is super important for "accessibility".
No not every application framework needs to be the same so that your vim extension can work properly.
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I'd say it would take a cold day in hell before Linus would work at M$ but since 2016 it seems anything is possible.
This is constantly brought up on HN in the WFH threads.
Your employer cannot arbitrarily reduce your salary. The reduction has to be agreed upon by the employee or the employer has to terminate employment and rehire to reduce salary.
Very few big tech companies will update salary for a intra country move. It seems to happen most often when an employee relocates to a new country rather than a new state. This is because the new country requires a different work agreement and must follow different labor laws.
Facebook would be #1 in online advertising and we'd be using Bing on our Windows Phones.
A ton of amazing engineers and founders are born in India, China, and South East Asia also many from Eastern Europe and Russia. How would limiting the migration of these people help the USA or companies founded in the USA?
NATO is a military alliance between democratic and semi-democratic governments it does not represent a framework for any sort of education based immigration system.
Newsom said the American presidency, "sounds like the worst job ever."
Not everyone seeks more power. Maybe Newsom is happy to lead a nation-state without a minority party blocking every initiative he would ever put forward.
Disgusting that the America govt does nothing while every other major power is able to get prescription drug prices under control.
To everyone that thinks no ports, Qi only iPhones are the future. What if you want to use your phone while it chargers? Charge your phone in the car?
I think we are another 10 years at least from having a device that could last long enough off a single charge to warrant occasionally leaving it on a pad over night as the main charging method.
How is this comment flamebait? First time that I have really thought you missed the boat.
Please don't censor people just because they criticize HN or the community.
Trump and Bloomberg are running in completely different primaries. While the GOP base might find a billionaire palpable the Democratic base is not so friendly to big business or wall street. There is no uniting force in the Dem party like the Evangelical vote. That veibn said I still I donated another $27 dollars to Bernie.
These billionaire politicians need a reality check about the viability of beating Trump and especially from the left. Bloomberg would lose a significant amount of progressive voters just by nature of his extreme wealth, he has controversial past with policing policies that targeted minorities, and his main policy outside of stop and frisk was a soda tax. This is a vanity project not a serious campaign for president.
The Constitution allowed slavery to exist. Literally humans owning other humans. It's a document to care about if you are a rich white landowner. If you are anybody else in the USA it's just another law document.
Your politics are not superior. If your state, community, or legislature makes moves toward gun control it's anyone's civic duty to support or oppose based on their own beliefs not where they live.