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I strongly encourage watching Bill Gurley's talk from the All-In Summit about whenever Congress gets involved with regulations and technology.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9cO3-MLHOM

This is a welcome addition, companies spend time and effort building cameras with tracking and portrait mode etc..

I just feel this feature comes a bit too late where there was a scramble during the pandemic to get webcams as everything suddenly went remote.

Would have been good to have shipped this feature back then instead of buying 3rd party apps that provided this feature.

They said the same thing in the 90s about getting Bangalored.

Yet all the FAANGs and other startups are still headquartered in the US.

I wish there were regulations around those blinding Xenon lights as well.

They're blinding from both front and back :(

Emacs Enthusiasts unite https://youtu.be/urcL86UpqZc

Yes, Wayland with KDE on Fedora 37, daily drive it.

Mostly stable, with minior issues. Responsiveness of Wayland is much better than X11.

Zoom screensaring doesn't work with the native client. I usually join using the web client where screensaring works. Usually I join via both, the native client handles video and virtual backgrounds better. None of this is Wayland/KDEs fault and is on Zoom still not supporting Wayland correctly.

The mainframe exists because IBM and the devs respect the time and investments made by its customers.

There are efforts made to make sure code doesn't break and migrations are put in place.

Sadly only Microsoft and a few others share this attitude, and its likely why these companies and their products will be around forever.

This is so true!

There's many different varieties of rice. The various regions of India use different varieites based on the type of food they cook.

I found this site that describes it if anyone's interested: https://sproutmonk.com/types-of-rice-in-india/

My first IDE was Visual Basic 6, before that it was QBasic which was bundled with the Win95 CD.

VB6 was just incredible with what you could glue together so quickly and easily.

>This collection of software will remain locked at its specific version throughout the lifespan of that Enterprise Linux distribution release – which is often 10 years or more.

Is this 10 year assumption true?

Are people running 10 year old versions of operating systems today in non-safety or non-high security aspects?

10 years ago today is when the following were roughly released:

- Linux 3.8.

- RHEL 6.4 with Linux 2.6.32-358

- RHEL 7 was Beta with Linux 3.10.0

Are these still alive out there?

Not in Nebraska but in the Texas Triangle, thinking of getting Solar panels and was wondering about hail as well.

We get hail here, but haven't seen baseball sized hail yet.

Anyone have any insights on this?

>The secret sauce is a pseudo-signal provided by bash, called EXIT, that you can trap; commands or functions trapped on it will execute when the script exits for any reason.

"Secret Sauce", why is this secret at all.

Nothing against the author who's helping the ecosystem here, but is there an authoritative guide on Bash that anyone can recommend?

Hopefully something that's portable between Mac & Linux.

The web is full of contradictory guides and shellcheck seems to be the last line of defense.

- https://github.com/koalaman/shellcheck

Just wanted to say, I appreciate your responses to various threads in this article.

Its absurd that Apple decided adding a direct port for a second monitor needs a "Pro" MacBook.

My sister was given a M2 and had to use external dongles which then needed DisplayLink to be installed.

None of this is necessary.

Its absurd that these products whose companies get bought for Billion+ can't have a team of 3-5 engineers focused on performance.

I understand that you have lots of people building features but I'm sure the performance engineering efforts can be focused on the fundamental platform layers which are seen in most flame-graphs.

Its also exactly these companies that grill you on performance and leet-code type problems but ship nothing like what they interview for.

Looking forward to the improvements to Teams, just so that it'll put more pressure on Slack both on the business front and technical front.

Slack has been slacking (pun intended) on performance for a long time now, I'm honestly not sure what exactly it is that they're working on but nothing that I use daily is improved.

Bit of an aside, but is there anyone making the absolute barebones EV? Like the Toyota Land-Cruiser of EVs?

No self-driving, just four wheels, motor and battery pack with whatever is needed to pass safety and standard regulations.

Anyone know how we can provide features and sponsor them for KDE 6.

I've wanted to pin virtual desktops to a specific monitor (same as i3) and be able to independently switch virtual desktops on each monitor.

Its a widely requested feature which hasn't landed, I was hoping to get this on their radar and if necessary pay for this feature. Its something that's been bothering me since KDE 3 days.

>(iii) you have not enabled all filtering features available in GitHub Copilot

I was trying to find out what these exact filtering settings are but I land at this page [1].

The other links just download the Product Specific terms PDF again.

Not sure if this is an oversight or intentionally intended to be circular.

[1] https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/configuring-github-copilo...

We're not using any ML based machine generated source code.

The remaining use of OSS code has attributions.

Yes, thank you this is exactly what I was looking out for in the announcement.

Was looking for a way to instruct CodePilot to abide by the following rules:

- Only use Apache v2, MIT or BSD licensed work for its recommendations. (Or a specific license set)

- Only use code trained on public repositories.

- Provide code attributions of the source code where the recommendations originate from.

I'm not sure if the last point is possible given these GPT type architectures but it would really help during code reviews.

This is a nuanced discussion, the linked article may evoke snap responses.

I strongly recommend readers to read the GitHub issue discussions and Russ Cox's three blog posts.

yq has a merge function that gojq does not.

We use both tools equally where ease of use is the primary driving factor.

Mesos always had these notions of two level scheduling that let you build your own orchestration.

Aurora, Marathon, etc... would add the flavor of Orchestration that's needed. Mesos provided the resources requested.

https://mesos.apache.org/documentation/latest/architecture/

> And you're letting go roughly X% of people at all levels. Some L9s were gonna have to go, same as some L4s were gonna go. No one is immune from a layoff. Indeed having people that are immune is legally problematic.

You have a valid point here, the Airtable data shows 5 VPs were also let go.

Because most L9's at Google have created significant contributions to the industry, these are folks like David Patterson (created RISC), Rob Pike (created Golang) etc...

Foundational work that affects Google's bottom lines but also the rest of the industry. Its this work done earlier that even allowed these glorified managers to be employed and have their ridiculous salaries.

Its frankly shocking that some VP+ can come in and fire a Distinguished Engineer. Its the equivalent of pissing on the shoulder of a titan. Totally deplorable that this is allowed or tolerated.

Incredible, Google laid off a L9 Distinguished Software Engineer.

I wonder what the calculus there was. I didn't even think it was possible to layoff anyone of that caliber.

Who decides that a L9 is going to be cut. Some VP who joined after the L9? The Board? The founders? Did the CEO make enough contributions to decide this cut?

I'm still stunned.

Elon Musk very famously didn't go to University of Waterloo and instead went to Queens, despite Waterloo being a higher ranked technical university.

Mainly due to lack of women.

IronWarrior is the Engineering Student Paper at UWaterloo.

https://iwarrior.uwaterloo.ca/2013/09/21/24233/elon-musk-and...

I just downloaded the client and created my "JamiID".

How does this JamiID work?

Is this JamiID that I created forever mine?

If my friends create their JamiID, will the search just list them?

Do I need to import any JamiID's? How does discovery work for these JamiID's?

I'm seriously looking into Jami for "conference" calls with a small set of family members, it should be just point and click.

Perhaps UK Citizens should get their government to sort out their declining GDP instead of creating bullshit laws around sharing Netflix passwords.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-21/brexit-ha...