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My understanding is that there are not very many ex-Joyent folks at MNX.io, there's just a few, many more are at Oxide.

for one would love to have people help me with the new Installer[0] and with the package Forge[1]

Those repos really need some basic high-level information about what they are and how they work, the Forge doesn't even have a README.

[0] https://github.com/Toasterson/illumos-installer

[1] https://github.com/toasterson/forge

Joyent is still around

They are but they're no longer contributing to illumos...

I agree SELinux is awesome.

SELinux can be frustrating without the proper background about what it is, how it works, and how it helps you. There is a surprising amount of tooling for it actually.

Relevant: https://stopdisablingselinux.com/

Every RHEL server we ever provisioned (dev, testing, prod, vm, physical, etc) had it enabled, everyone who blindly disables it is lazy.

A lot of people disregard the creative aspect of programming, even if you're feeling great, some days creativity comes, some days it doesn't.

In the company I work for, which is horribly ran, a lot of the projects I work on have a bus factor of 1 - which is me. So, me taking a sick day, or even vacation can throw off one of the many arbitrary or poorly planned deadlines.

I haven't found a good answer to this, but I find it helps me to have a good routine such that no matter how dead tired or sick I am, I can engage the routine and get _something_ done.

The HDMI Forum, a nonprofit corporation, is comprised of members whose primary interests are to further the development of HDMI technology.

AMD graphics card and Linux users are unable to leverage 4K@120Hz or 5K@240Hz via HDMI 2.1

The issue initially arose back in 2021 when the forum decided to restrict public access

AMD and the X.Org Foundation have worked with The HDMI Forum to try to come up with a solution — to no avail.

AMD Linux engineers worked to develop an internal code and sought approval from the forum, which resulted in the rejection.

I think their non-profit status should be looked into...

This font is beautiful, thanks for sharing.

My company sells systems to DMVs, during some small talk one of the folks from the DMV said that they keep having retirees come back after retiring, the main reason: Healthcare. Working at the DMV is obviously a pretty easy job (compared to say... a roofer or even retail) so they just go back to work to save on Health Insurance. The DMV gladly hires them back too, they have the experience, know how things work, show up and do their job, etc.

I feel really bad for young people out there trying to get their foot in the door somewhere.

If they gave you too much info, you could bypass them and just apply directly to the job.

This and I have done so on a few occasions too.

I did for a while in the 2010s but eventually found it too fragile and risky, started booting linux off a removable drive then eventually booting linux and just virtualizing windows, way less risky and I don't care about games so it was fine.

Last 6 years at Google

no matter how well the interviews go I get rejection

Wow... It used to be that having Google on your resume was the easy road to getting hired...

The end users of such cards are often not aware of the source, there's usually resellers that supply them who are always trying to save a buck here or there.

We have customers who use smartcards and we often need to read or write to them, during on-boarding they often have no clue what version or spec they are using and it often results in trial-and-error after they send us a few cards with little-to-no markings on them.

Weren't Oxide using CockroachDB?

corporations are just really bad at building incentives for long-term thinking.

Most corporations are really bad at long-term anything. CEOs want every quarter to be more profitable than the last, mostly everything else is irrelevant.

Was wondering this for OP as well, I've used a database as a queue for small projects in the past and it was fine.

I'm in the same boat. It's a hard adjustment because I used those side projects for learning new things, improving understanding of things I used at work and now that time has vaporized.

When using a struct, RustRover will offer to populate all the properties. VScode will auto complete them one at a time.

I've only used this a couple of times but if you paste a block of JSON into a file it will offer to create a new struct implementation from the JSON.

That's two things that come to mind

That's because it kinda is a social network. You can "follow" people after all.

I was using (and paying for) Clion and using that Rust for quite a while, when RustRover came out I switched to it and stopped paying for Clion (There was no option to pay for RustRover) then randomly one day, a week or so ago, I could no longer launch RustRover as I now needed a license. I was trying to open up an old project before a meeting to discuss some details but couldn't use RustRover to do it (I didn't have time to purchase it before the meeting.) So I opened it in Sublime Text (which I also pay for) to get the info I needed.

I was annoyed about the inability to access my own project, without warning, so I tried VSCode instead of buying RustRover. It's missing a few things (or I just don't know how to do them in VSCode yet) but I don't suspect it will ever lock me out of my own project without warning and it seems good enough so I'm going to stick with it until I can't.

I don't have an issue for paying for software but am not a fan of the way JetBrains went about it for RustRover.

At first I wondered: "What dystopian hellscape is this?" then I realized... this isn't _that_ different from a video game, just potentially more realistic. Still, I hate it.

What the trans people I know want is to be recognized as having the gender that fits with them. You wouldn't call a cis woman a 'female' in normal conversation, so why call trans-women 'males' when there's already two good ways to refer to them, 'trans women' when it matters or 'women' when it doesn't.

But you seem to refuse to do that.

I don't understand why I am expected to partake in their delusion.

* How should I rate myself? Here's a reference. 10 means you are the world expert, maybe invented the thing I just described. 9 means you literally wrote the book. 8 means...and so on.

This is exactly what I'd do, ask what constitutes a "10", and if the interviewer can't answer that question why are they even asking?

"Further observations ruled out a collision in 2029, as well as in 2036 and 2068, though they will still be close encounters."

Since we know it's going to come back around, couldn't we hit it with a couple of hydrogen bombs on it's way past us to ensure that it's knocked far off course for it's next orbit?

And the nagging everywhere.

This. Oh my god this.

Wren looked interesting: https://wren.io/