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I'm a big fan of GitBucket - It's like GitHub-in-a-WARfile https://gitbucket.github.io/

I'm sure this is redundant, but since no one has mentioned yet: "The Phoenix Project" and "The Unicorn Project" are awesome books for this, and I recommend them both in audiobook.

Yup - Every darn time. Reminds me of "How it feels to learn JavaScript in 2016" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12628921

I've been in parks and restaurants and seen whole families all on their phones. Last weekend I walked my dog around the park path, and was literally the _only_ person there who was not walking with their phone held in front of them.

The Black Mirror / Surrogates dystopia is already here, and most people can't get enough of it.

Sorry about that; apparently this is why we can't have nice things. I just wanted to reply to the original downvoted comment, but when I couldn't because it got flagged, that triggered my contrarian response here.

But I don't think it's such a ridiculous digression from the subject at hand - The original article was just a "water is wet" study saying that the more antibodies you have floating around in your blood the better able you are to fight off a virus. When you have that kind of article people will naturally digress in their discussions. And with COVID, dystopia is never far off-topic. (Just depends on your politics whether you see it more like V for Vendetta, or more like Pandemic or maybe Omega Man.)

@brobdingnagians raised a question on genetic discrimination based on COVID-suceptability, which of course got downvoted into oblivion. But this is indeed an issue and a tough gray line to walk as technology continues to advance. (It's probably more like a fractal than a line.)

Do we end up in GATTACA, 1984, Brave New World, Dune, Black Mirror, or some combination? Maybe we figure out how to dodge most of those bullets and end up in Star Trek?

In the US, the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 (GINA) may be of some tiny value on the particular point raised.

Obligatory joke: https://twitter.com/fireship_dev/status/1383835506664906756

This reminds me of "The Tale of the Slave" from "Anarchy, State, and Utopia" https://fee.org/articles/the-tale-of-the-slave/

And closed as "opinion-based."

I've found VSCode and dotnet 5/core be amazingly liberating from the the slow bloated mess that is Visual Studio and the old .NET Framework. This is the way it should have always been, but I'm happy we finally got here.

African or European swallows?

See?

Yeah, I think you and a lot of other people misinterpreted my comment, since it was oddly one of my most-downvoted-ever.

My "systemK" joke was indeed implying what you said, that systemd is "a key place in the stack where you would need to be super careful." (Almost Kernel-like.)

And my question was legitimate, although poorly-researched. Answering myself: CVE-2021-33910 only affects systemd, not all FUSE in general.

systemd? More like systemK! But seriously, are non-systemd systems not vulnerable to the FUSE portion of this? (CVE-2021-33910)

It was no more of a rant than yours. But you disagree so you downvote and flag.

Ironically, someone (6f8986c3) replied to this claiming to be Jewish and sharing his experiences...and his post was flagged and removed... In a thread about censorship.

> Unless they're breaking the law

http://www.hasjamesclapperbeenindictedyet.com/

I incorrectly confused this with another book: The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind By Gustave Le Bon in 1896

[PDF] https://socialsciences.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/lebon/Cro...

My favorite line from the show (which diverges significantly from the book, but I thought both were good in their own way) was when Bernard is stuck in the savage lands without his Soma, and cries "Is this what you people feel like all the time?!"

Wait, you think Yale is underfunded...?

> have on the brain

I see what you did there...

Many downvotes, but no cited refutations; TDS is strong as ever.

I edited my previous to be more on-topic, but oh geez, this is a whole different thing and I'll take the bait.

Are you referring to Donald Trump? (There, invoked.) He's a moron and there's plenty to criticize him on. Which is why it's bizarre to see this particular false[0][1] narrative thrown around so much even to this day. If you watch (TDS trigger warning; transcripts in [0][1]) what he actually said[2] and the immediate followup and clarification[3], we can definitely agree that he's not a great communicator, but I think that whole thing got taken out of context in a very dishonest way.

[0] https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/jul/11/joe-biden/... [1] https://www.politifact.com/article/2020/apr/24/context-what-... [2] https://youtu.be/PsQnfpfIa_o?t=26m20s (1 min) [3] https://youtu.be/PsQnfpfIa_o?t=30m35s (30 sec)

I have come here to chew bubble gum and kick ass, and I'm all outta bubble gum.

> Intravenous bleach suggested by someone we trusted

What are you even talking about?

Edit: To clarify, I don't think 100% fatal medical advice is a good analogy for good-faith testimony relating to a "piping system that allegedly flooded a few local homes."

Maybe something more like "Hey I'm not a licensed doctor, but in my experience double-fisting twinkies leads to weight gain."

This type of thing is why I like shows like https://unfilter.show/ that not only are "independent" but also provide some meta-commentary on the production of the news stories themselves, rather than just using the headline to jump off onto whatever rant they feel like.

A hard problem, but back in 2008, Microsoft Photosynth could stitch together a user’s collection of images into a 3-D model. I remember seeing a detailed model of the exterior of the Notre Dame cathedral.

For people who have physical access to a property, I wonder if you could use a variant of SLAM like the robot vacs - maybe hack one of those laser tape measures to plug into your phone as you walk around the house.

> Sometimes I just think mainstream media is such an unreliable source of information I am wondering if there are any point reading them at all

Bingo. I forget the name for this law/effect, but at some point everyone runs across a story in the mainstream news about which you happen to be more knowledgeable than the author/reporter/"expert guest" and the veil is lifted for a moment and you think "wow they really don't have any idea what they're talking about!" But then they go on to trust the opinion of these same outlets on economics or foreign policy, etc.

> other than to gather the flow of current society sentiment.

Even this I wouldn't trust. Perhaps if you treat it loosely as "the zeitgeist of manufactured consent" or "what They want you to think is the current society sentiment"

Pay attention to spelling, grammar and Oxford commas.

I knew what this was before even clicking. Remy is the best!