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I too am very disturbed by the historic records of Stallman's bad behavior. Was he ever forced to take sensitivity training or anything, or did everyone just ignore it?

I don't know what the correct standard is for an organizational leader when it comes to this stuff, but I don't understand why they need to inflate Stallman saying "presented herself as entirely willing" to him saying she was "entirely willing".

More or less this. Gummiboot is nearly pointless, and ntpd and resolved have both caused problems for me. As an init system, systemd is fine, but shipping these bad components while giving them the systemd "seal of approval" is dumb.

On the other hand, I've had no issues with logind and gdm. I've been interested in trying S6 but given it's quite easy to substitute out the bad parts of systemd, so I just haven't bothered.

Probably the biggest problem with systemd is that it's hurting BSD. Then again, gnome devs are having enough trouble getting things working on Linux... also binary format journals are so dumb. How have they not changed that?

It sounds like you're not that into it. Plus the assumption that people should spend their free time trying to make more money is weird despite being taken for granted around here. It's one heck of a doublethink, if you consider the combination of aspirational self-improvement talk with bald careerism.

Maybe your personal projects shouldn't involve programming?

failing NYTimes casts FUD on vaporware Frontpage of HN sounds about right

Still no EFI install media?

Primarily whether it's a good idea and whether it's supported, ie isn't someone's side project they'll abandon in 6 months.

But is it faster than Rust?

How's the EFI support on this in comparison to other BSDs?

In my opinion, the big rub for using Go in scientific computing is the lack of a REPL. The nature of Go essentially requires it to compile. On the plus side, compilation is very fast so iterating small code changes is practical. But it's still not nearly as nice as typing commands into the prompt and seeing what happens.

Beyond that, Go is easy and performant. It's great for paralellizing workflows via concurrency and compiling tools for distribution. So if you know what you want to do and need to scale up, it could be a great choice.

I've gone from 255 (BMI 33) down to 185 (BMI 24), back to 205, had an illness and got up to 225, now back to 210. I resent the article acting like this long-term weight loss is somehow a freak occurrence.

I just watch what I eat and exercise. Many people with obesity just don't like to exercise, but I love it. This is a natural advantage I have. But I also go on days when I don't feel like going, skip office snacks, and so on. It's neither magical nor impractical.

Ultimately, obesity has been normalized and people don't really care. This is going to be hard to change, either hard on society in funding education and support resources, or hard on the obese in cutting them off from health care and other Draconian measures.

I can't help but feel it's a bit of a fishing expedition to determine political alignment.

What's frustrating is that I like to get exposed to a variety of viewpoints, but YouTube very aggressively (as far as I can tell) puts users into left/right boxes, as opposed to just serving content that is historically or politically themed.

I'd be very surprised if it turned out YouTube was NOT intentionally pushing people to anger-addictive extremist content, especially right-wing content, because it's a product that encourages the viewing habits their metrics prioritize.

The point of the article was that, even when there is no reason to do so because location and identity are identical, Google STILL gives differently ranked results. Please read more carefully.

And I've been using DDG for a bit now and have found it perfectly useable.

Once we've rewritten everything in go. More realistically, once the language is stable and known enough that these things become uninteresting.

All the security changes, plus 7nm chips should be widely available and will hopefully bring a price decrease.

It's funny that this is happening right when I've decided that Wayland is old and busted and Arcan is the new hotness.

Let's face it, everyone is sick of Linux cruft and is waiting on Redox to clean things up. Everything will come soon.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aneutronic_fusion Nothing is impossible, but some things are highly improbable. I'm all for research, but we should be realistic in our expectations.

It's literally beyond chemistry, the radiation changes the chemical makeup of the materials.

Fusion was, and for the foreseeable future will be, a boondoggle. In the US it was a cold-war-era arms race program intended to scare the USSR and have them overextend, and now the Chinese are using it for propaganda and scientific Keyensianism.

The fact is, fusion generates neutron radiation that destroys the reaction vessel, making it an unviable technology. Nobody takes it seriously as a source of energy, aside from uninformed people. As cool as the idea of controlled fusion is, it is and will remain science fiction.

A guy at work thought msg was a neurotoxin. I'm like, "uh, no, it's an amino acid,a normal constituent of every protein you eat..." This is a guy with a master's in a technical field. I honestly don't know how we got here.

Sometimes it's just dumb. Nitrides are no more hazardous than maillard reaction products like acrylamide, yet we're sabotaging our pastrami because of it. Totally irrational.

Having a culture where people consider organic Pop tarts to be somehow healthy is a problem. It's superstition and leads nowhere good.

Are you literally comparing guar gum with rape?

I'd check the boot drive on another machine and see if something messed up your fstab.

I'll admit that I don't have much experience with generics, but can't we get done what we're trying to get done just by letting builtin operators get overloaded, then making an interface for those functions and using the interface? From what I've seen, it appears the main point is to let various types that can all get "+" applied to them get handled with one function. But defining the interface is the contract and the interface is any type that fulfills it, so...? What am I missing?