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brennebeckon Mojo programming language will become open-source soon

What did you think Modular was prior to the acquisition?

I mean, I can understand not being on board with Qualcomm and thinking the stewardship may go awry, but the reason given doesn’t seem to fit a company that raised multiple rounds of funding

brennebeckon Show HN: TakoVM – Isolated model and tool execution used by enterprises

Maybe try giving useful feedback instead of repeatedly commenting ‘slop’ on posts?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#:~:text=swi...

brennebeckon Static HTML Comments

Do you happen to have a link for that? It seems pretty counterintuitive given the state of modern PC hardware.

brennebeckon Judge rejects Purdue Pharma's $4.5B opioid settlement

>The idea that opioids are addictive is a myth.

They have literal physical withdrawals. The body becomes dependent on them. What else would you call that?

brennebeckon Congressional inquiry faults Boeing and FAA failures for deadly 737 Max crashes

Shouldn’t all three bear some fault? The big company for not proactively supporting their staff to report (e.g. benefits), the pilot for doing something ethically wrong, and the regulatory body for encouraging the broken system?

brennebeckon Fewer premature babies born since Covid-19 lockdown

Here you go: https://shieldgeo.com/maternity-and-paternity-leave-in-germa...

> In addition to maternity leave, there is the option for the mother or father to take extended parental leave for up to a total of 24 months, with a parental allowance of 300 to 1200 Euros (depending on salary), paid by the government for the initial 14 months.

My brother used this for his first child, so I’m quite certain it exists.

brennebeckon Parsoid in PHP, or There and Back Again

So, remove the majority of dynamic websites from the internet, basically? I don’t see how that’s helpful. I get you’re (probably) being hyperbolic, but the fact remains that it’s a highly useful language for generating dynamic web content.

brennebeckon Every Google result now looks like an ad

Wouldn’t having strong SEO incentive competition to buy ads? Of course it also incentives them to work on SEO, but the only way to ‘get above’ a top ranking site would be to buy an ad, no?

brennebeckon Apple’s “monopsony” power, and the woman who named it

In that case wouldn’t it make sense to try to get your friends to use another group chat?

I get people love to use the iMessage groups, but every friend I have on Android create a WhatsApp group, etc. and it’s pretty trivial to use and maintain, especially with close friends.

brennebeckon Facebook crawls links in PDFs you send in Messenger

Probably Signal.

brennebeckon On Recent Controversial Events

I think you need to pick a better example. I don’t believe a CEO saying “diversity is important, but not our only goal” would be pilloried by either of the currently polarized sides, while one that said “diversity is the best” would, likely, be pilloried by one side.

brennebeckon Cortex: Deploy machine learning models in production

Couldn’t you just search ‘clojure cortex’? As this isn’t actually clojure?

brennebeckon Mark Zuckerberg misunderstands the threat of TikTok

I don’t really think Apple, Google, or Microsoft fit in that set...

brennebeckon Bats use private and social information as they hunt

Why? I get you’re being flip, but I don’t get the connection? Politically, HN tends to be more libertarian (gross generalization, obviously).

brennebeckon Firefox moving to 4 week releases

Doesn’t gentoo essentially do that for (most?) everything?

brennebeckon WeWork parent pulls IPO following pushback: sources

Not to be flip, but pretty sure the gp is referring to losses, I.e. burning vc money and not earning enough revenue to break even.

brennebeckon CDC says stop vaping as mystery lung condition spreads

The people formerly smoking cigarettes that switched have likely benefited quite a bit, or will.

brennebeckon Dqlite – High-Availability SQLite

https://github.com/canonical/dqlite/blob/master/doc/faq.md#a...

http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/io_submit.2.html

brennebeckon Chicken Hypnotism

This isn’t entirely true. Pythons will happily eat a dead mouse. In fact, it’s even common to buy and store frozen mice and rats for small pythons. In my personal experience: 1) snakes that were fed frozen mice from a young age handle it better and 2) the mice needed to be microwaved or heated in some form. Generally, only my small ball pythons were frozen fed, though. My Burmese, carpets, and greens were all live fed.

Edit: first sentence referring to python eating patterns, to clarify.

brennebeckon The Path to Dijkstra’s Handwriting (2013)

Posted elsewhere in the thread: http://lucacardelli.name/indexArtifacts.html

brennebeckon Planet: Imaging the entire Earth every day

I think the GP is pointing out that Chromium had G services, period.

brennebeckon OWASP Cheat Sheet Series

Here you go: https://haacked.com/archive/2008/11/20/anatomy-of-a-subtle-j...

brennebeckon DSVPN – VPN using TCP at port 80 and 443

I think that really depends on whether you need all traffic routed through the tunnel/vpn and what else you were trying to accomplish. For just basic system access there isn’t much advantage to vpn, but it would really depend on what you’re trying to accomplish (keep people out? Just secure your connection to another machine? Etc.).

brennebeckon It’s Never Going to Be Perfect, So Just Get It Done

Just a bit of anecdotal experience for additional thought: I did the same for years, ignoring the signs, pushing through long hours, etc. and eventually developed idiopathic epilepsy. As it’s idiopathic, there’s no known direct cause (e.g. no head trauma, no tumors, etc.), but there’s a decent amount of evidence that supports at least a strong correlation between my lifestyle (lack of sleep, overwork, etc.) and the development of the disease. And of course lack of sleep is now one of my primary triggers, but that’s also fairly common amongst epileptics once the disease is ‘active’.

Best wishes GP.

Edit: point really being: it’s mild burnout until it’s not.

brennebeckon Microsoft's Linux Kernel

Eh? ‘Most’ of MSFTs revenue comes from Windows and Office. Isn’t Azure/cloud/server less than ⅓? Not that that’s not substantial, but it’s not most.

brennebeckon Report on forced organ harvesting in China

I don’t think the harvesting alone is the main issue. I think it’s the (perceived or real) systemic abuse, e.g. the quantity. Especially if you consider, according to the article, they also have an organ donation registry. You just can’t disconnect the two issues here, they’re inextricably linked.

brennebeckon Show HN: Catj – A new way to display JSON files

While I don’t disagree with you, if you look at the comment above this you’ll see @enriquto mentions just dumping lists to a text file. Pretty sure that’s what was implied by ‘unix’: use a simple text file that is dumped to the fs that can be easily parsed by standard tools on any Unix-like.

brennebeckon Open-Source `Great Satan’ No More, Microsoft Wins over Skeptics

How much time would be considered enough? I’m not disagreeing, just an honest question. Would it need to be 50% of the company’s life, rather than ~11%? 25%?

brennebeckon Open-Source `Great Satan’ No More, Microsoft Wins over Skeptics

I think your second point is really the crux of the matter. Even an independent GitHub controls far too much of the ecosystem. There’s really no way around that in the current situation. Had they followed a similar path as Gitlab, we might not be having this discussion (regardless of an acquisition). Sourceforge is an obvious point here.

brennebeckon Open-Source `Great Satan’ No More, Microsoft Wins over Skeptics

Yup, I definitely agree. And rereading your original comment I think it’s fairly clear and I probably just misconstrued your intent: /any/ large corp buying GitHub would’ve resulted in a similar reaction and it’s just a bit stronger given some of MSFT’s history.

I mean, it’s not that difficult to make the case that their support of OSS over the last decade was specifically to buy developers’ goodwill, though I don’t think that’s the case and think GitHub was headed this way anyhow.