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> My only complaints are that Linux can be tedious

After using Linux daily over 10 years now, this is exactly how I feel about Windows now. I instantly get frustrated any time I have to use Windows.

Removing the Xfinity data cap would increase my bill by 60%. It is outrageous.

Komagome is my favorite Yamanote line jingle: https://youtu.be/-GF_dku3Mgo?t=131

Ettus Research USRPs (Universal Software Radio Peripheral) are popular in academia and defense, especially the B200 series. Their software and FPGA designs are open source, and the schematics for most devices are available online.

What is quartz used for beyond oscillators?

There is too much overloading of terms these days. I saw LoRA, thought LoRa, and wondered why someone would spell GNU Radio as Gradio.

I thought you had to supplement Vitamin K along with Vitamin D? Otherwise it can increase atherosclerosis.

> I just don't think it's right to have to pay.

So you don't want to watch ads and don't want to pay for premium. What do you propose Youtube should do to make money to run the platform?

Only option right now is a Lenovo Y700. Not OLED, but it has a great looking 120 Hz screen, fast processor, and premium feel. However, it only comes in a Chinese version, so I ended up creating "unsecure" networks and accounts (Youtube, Reddit, etc) to use with it.

Apple tried to use the courts but failed. The California Appeal's court granted the publishers a protection order against revealing their sources: https://www.eff.org/cases/apple-v-does

That's great for Geminis and Libras, but what if you're a Sagittarius?

Perhaps the unspoken argument is that client-side scanning will be made into a best practice, and websites and apps that don't implement it will be exposed to liability.

I approve.

Buddy, I never said anything about the subsequent balloons. Don’t try to deflect from the point you know I’m making: the first balloon was clearly not a weather balloon.

I'm amazed anyone still buys China's "weather balloon" lie. A weather balloon that large and expensive is a major project. It would have a project leader, project webpage, articles and conference papers, sharing of data, government permits for operation, and all kinds of other artifacts that China could trivially point out proving it was a weather balloon. Instead, China has consistently refused to even give a single name or company associated with it. It is the most secretive "weather balloon" I have ever seen.

The US OPM breach.

My first experience with programming was creating my own fader for AOL. Great times.

> If the air force were somehow broadcasting several megawatts of broad spectrum noise over a populated area, somebody would have noticed.

Interesting that you think modern jamming works that way. It doesn't.

I hear ya. I want to be able to just ask how to configure something on my Linux system instead of stumbling through man pages, stack exchange, and random websites hoping I am used the right verbiage to describe what I want to do. Or to have it write some boilerplate code for me while I focus on my domain specific implementation and testing.

My area is tightly coupled to a few OSS projects, so we tend to attract people that are active contributors. I've never been let down in the in-person interview by someone with a strong github resume.

> 1) It's a toy. There are like two files and and ~100 lines in total. In which case, the repo is meaningless.

I don't see it that way at all. Short programs can be very meaningful. For example, I wrote a python program that generates Verilog code for a rational rate resampler that is under 100 lines. That would be very useful to discuss in an interview.

> 2) There's a fuckton of code. In which case, you are absolutely not reading it. You can't. You have no context, nor do you have the time. Reading code is Hard. You absolutely are not going to spend several hours inspecting some rando's code. So what's the point?

I absolutely read the code. I'm not digesting every line, but I take a look at the general structure and try to get a feel for it. If I can clone it and get it to run easily, even better. I can do this because I'm an expert in my field, and we only interview people with relevant experience and skills.

> You can get the same amount of information from reading the resume and a 30 minute phone screen.

Not for me. I've had people BS their resume and the phone screen and then fail miserably in the in-person interview. I've yet to have someone who had a strong github resume not ace the in-person interview too.

> No one gives a fuck about your social media (eg StackOverflow, GitHub, Kaggle, etc)

This is just plain wrong. When doing interviews at my previous company, we always looked at their github repo if provided.

Socialism has a somewhat agreed upon base set of principles and comes in a thousand different flavors, but at the end of the day every large scale attempt has ended up with an authoritarian state and either failed or converted to Capitalism. So whenever you say Socialism is a failure, you end up hearing "Well THAT wasn't really Socialism!" Same with Agile.

Do you have an example of this you can share?

I made the switch! Vorta works very well.

The pro-CCP crowd all over Reddit has been saying it for years. The typical arguments are that there is zero evidence and the US is being anti-competitive and discriminatory.

There is no requirement under the Chinese National Intelligence Law for intelligence agencies to go through courts for access. There is no due process for those affected. That law also compels companies and citizens to actively assist intelligence agencies.

> Country of origin is irrelelvant.

Country of origin is still very relevant. China has National Security Laws that compel companies and citizens to provide access to and actively help their intelligence agencies. The CCP right now can lawfully order TikTok to push a version with a backdoor and then gaslight the US about its existence if found, e.g. oh that was just an innocent software bug. Or to secretly provide user data and lie about providing it.

Exactly. Critical infrastructure needs a strategic reserve.

It is amazing how consistently garbage PSN speed tests have been for over a decade. I remember the results being wildly off on my PS3, PS4, and now PS5.