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I must be missing something because even by the command in their own blogpost, I see more commits from redhat.com and google.com than oracle.com. And if I try to poke around myself for things like device-agnostic networking code (e.g. the IPv4 stack, multipart TCP, etc.) the disparity increase in Red Hat's favor.

It was fairly recently that I discovered people in my state were trying to book camping trips (and RV trips) 6 months in advance (and then just not going if they couldn't) because there are a few reservable spots that everybody wants to get. It baffles me that even living near a national forest, most people aren't just driving into it and finding an empty spot to camp. Even with all the unpleasantness, people seem to think they MUST book go to a crowded place where all the nature has been cleared away to make room for someone to park their tent trailer night after night. I take friends camping with me and show them spots I just found myself in the forest and they're amazed at how quiet, beautiful, and easy it is to just decide at the last minute we're gonna go pitch a tent in the forest.

It seems to me that a lot of the things people think are expensive are things that they unnecessarily insist on relying on someone else for, and / or that they do not lower their demand for regardless of the price. Well then, of course it's expensive.

Backend dev. I enjoy implementing UNIX shells or simple lisps. Sometimes I'll pick an RFC I also want to learn about and implement that protocol as a client / server / both.

Can you help me with the definition, then? I can't find that word in any of my dictionaries and search engines are suggesting I mean "non-transferable" which is not a property of land in NYC.

Unless there's a definition, saying that this property calls for heavy state intervention is indeed a bold claim.

My gut feeling is this doesn't entirely explain it, but any tenant is also more work than no tenant, so they may not want to do the work of signing a new lease and dealing with the work it will trigger for less than you're making per-head on your current tenants.

There's probably also a fear that if you let a new tenant in for lower rent, this might lower the rent other people expect and the problem starts snowballing.

So then where does Turbo C++ 3.0 fit in? My copy is (C) 1992, but it was still being sold in 1999, alongside what I'm pretty sure I remember as Turbo C++ 4.5 that targeted versions of Windows that were not out in 1991...

Boy, remembering that really digs up some nostalgia...

edit: I see the "Borland C++" wikipedia page present it as the successor, but the "Turbo C++" wikipedia page describes it as the hobbyist counterpart. The release dates and version numbers line up really well, so that makes sense. I was a hobbyist at the time.

Oh I agree, and yet it seems that an astonishingly small portion of crypto transactions are actually decentralized, or as currency. Until that changes, every conversation I have on the matter seems to end with "no bro, you'll see."

Logic didn't seem to have been a thing in the Daniel Shaver shooting, which happened in this state. I thought the bodycam footage was a pretty clear illustration of a terrified and confused unarmed victim doing his best to follow unclear instructions being shot by a cop who, in the end, clearly had some facts wrong. And the cop was then acquitted, got re-hired and given a pension because he had a disabling case of PTSD from the incident. Imagine what a state like that could get away with if video wasn't even public, or how easily a cop could get away with intimidating people who are even 8+ feet away.

I wouldn't be quick to trust this law if I lived in Arizona and tended to be harassed by police.

Well to be clear, this isn't for a date, this is a common occurrence with my wife. It really is "do you want to do this tonight or don't you". It could be, "I had a big event today so the last thing I want to do is help cook", it could be "I ate a lot and I'm not hungry". I still don't know if she wants to eat out tonight.

I've been told I'm a very literal person and that's why I have this problem. But I have no idea how to intentionally be non-literal... I will frequently ask someone a yes or no question (e.g. do you want to go out for dinner) and they will tell me a fact that would explain their answer (e.g. she had a big lunch at a work event). So... That's a no?

The explanations like banner blindness, etc. make sense to me, but I think there's still a problem in our society or species in general that people simply do not read things thoroughly. And when confronted with a problem, instead of going back and reading things thoroughly, they blame someone else.

How many of us software engineers have had this exact experience: Someone runs into an issue with your software that can't be papered over because of inherent complexity, and they report the problem to you. You tell them the solution, and they tell you it should be documented. You tell them it is documented, and you even tell them where. They tell you it should be more prominent.

I've had this happen where the warning was in bright red, bold letters at top in a separate box that said "WARNING!" but even after I sent them the link telling them it was documented, they still didn't see it.

I'm sure this banner could improved. I'm not sure the problem could have ever been avoided or solved entirely.

Some department head got patted on the back, and a bunch of "analysts" burned 10 times what it should have taken to put this together. They're all getting salaries, good retirement benefits, and the satisfying feeling of having ended child exploitation (or at least telling people that).

I've lost count of all the problems I've had with medical billing. I can't understand an argument against public pricing because it seems like a clear win if you believe in free market dynamics or progressive reformation of the health care system. But it seems to me the system is just rotten to the core anyway. It makes even my Libertarian self want single-payer healthcare, but I have no expectation the set of people currently working in the system would do anything but keep it rotten.

In the most recent case I tried to get a written quote for procedures because of past problems. I was given the run-around until all I could get was a verbal quote over the phone. But if that wasn't good enough, my only recourse was to delay getting a suspicious lump examined. I was then charged more than I was quoted, and I was even billed for procedures they didn't do. I actually heard one of the employees say "I added that because I thought he was using insurance". Still - hours of phone calls over several weeks before they would even bill me correctly without adding tests that they had no results from. And even then - more expensive than they told me because the person I was transferred to over the phone was in a different state than the clinic I called in the first place.

Absolutely rotten.

I also think it's unlikely, but California did at one point revoke a tax exemption and applied that decision retroactively, expecting interest on unpaid taxes that the law at the time said you didn't owe. As I recall, this wasn't considered ex-post-facto simply because being fined for under paying taxes isn't the same thing as convicting someone as a crime, so the rule of law doesn't have to work the same way. You can take any constitutional protection and someone will come up with an argument in their head for why it doesn't apply to things they don't like.

I get the intention, but companies lose data all the time that they never had a good reason or consent to collect and store in the first place. I don't believe anyone's careful enough to erase a need for informed consent.

You can send them written notes afterwards and ask for confirmation. Depending on the meeting you can also just say you want to record to make sure you get your notes right, and if they refuse you can ask them to be the one to put things in writing later for you to confirm.

And how many different companies should I work at before I conclude that the industry in general could use a change and that it's not me that needs to make changes?

I certainly don't, and I would like them even less if multiple companies were sticking them in my hand at a trade show. I think generally the tech industry could do with less focus on alcohol. I don't drink, but I used to be okay with going to socialize with coworkers at a happy hour. But it doesn't take very long to tire of leadership talking about inclusivity, and then only planning alcohol-focused team events, when they all know I'm not into it. But more to the point: a lot of harmful stuff happens to your team when everyone is drunk. It's hard to work with someone who threw up in your Uber the night before. I don't know why some companies keep rolling those dice.

FamilySearch has a mobile app called "Get Involved" that does OCR and just has you confirm that it did it correctly. I used to do a lot of manual indexing for them when it was mostly based on sharing physical copies of documents, but I really struggled to read anything once it switched to mobile. Now the OCR is pretty good and just once in a while needs a human to recognize some weirder handwriting using cultural clues.

Yeah FamilySearch also has a lot of links and relationships with other organizations, so it's a good starting point to tie a lot of other resources together. Once you get enough stuff put together to get hints of recently digitized records that match your tree, the research almost does itself, and you're just acting as the human in the loop making sure the connections it makes are well-founded.

And "peer reviewed" is a big key here. I don't use RSA because someone certified the protocol's authors, I use it because the details have been so heavily looked into by the whole industry and accepted by virtually everyone.

I see - my bad. Ignore the first paragraph, then. Second half still applies I think :D

I literally said "X is not really a concern" and you come back with "Who cares about X?" and something about drinking the blood out of skulls? Whoa. Slow down a sec.

I don't see anyone rooting for AOO to die. The only reason I see here for people to care about keeping up with LibreOffice see that AOO got a much better known brand and clearly haven't done as much with it, causing people to try out an open-source office suite and have a subpar experience with FOSS.

Others have mentioned the Attic, but I think the other crucial thing to be aware of here is that to the Apache Software Foundation, it's all about community. When a project wants to graduate from the Incubator and become a top-level project, no one asks what cutting-edge technology and new innovation is available for download, they ask about the health of the community. Are there enough active contributors? Do they come from a diverse set of employers? Is the mailing list traffic stable? Are you actually making releases and getting people to vote on things? There's no rule about how much work has to be in each release. That may, as you say, lead to bureaucratic ghost towns where the technological innovation has stopped, but that's why. That innovation is up to the individual communities. And as long as the community is there, Apache governance will not just barge in and tell you you're done.

I was on the PMC for a project that is now in the Attic. The project had been dead for a long time already. There was a discussion about killing it - only one company still had any interest and even they weren't actively doing anything. Apache wanted to see 3 active PMC members, so I volunteered to be one of the 3 if other people were interested, but then the next time they asked it was clear that no one was actually going to do anything. No releases. No mailing list traffic. No votes. THAT was what killed the project. The project had basically stopped innovating soon after graduating to a top-level project and had been that way for years - but there WAS active maintenance and an active mailing list of users. And Apache is fine with it - it is, as they say, a natural part of the life cycle of a project to go into maintenance mode.

As long as people are responding on the OpenOffice mailing list and releases are happening, Apache can consider that community alive. That they're not keeping up with LibreOffice or making major releases is not really a big concern. If the community really dies, yeah that's what the Attic is for.

That said if they don't plan to change, I'd love to see the community endorse LibreOffice as a successor.

If it should, it's a lot more complicated than that. "Open source" isn't a boolean where as long as you share your source you're compliant. Licenses usually require that a copyright notice be redistributed along with any source code and / or attribution in other ways, sometimes they require details of any modifications, etc. They're not doing that.

There are warnings on my bleach bottles saying not to mix with things. But that didn't stop my wife from doing it once. Generally people don't RTFM even if you put it on the bottle in big red letters.

edit: Just to be clear, though, I agree with you - people should educate themselves and the fact that people won't make a point of educating themselves is the problem. I've had multiple experiences where I paused to look up if it was safe to mix medications that were being given to my kids, or if it was safe to use a human first aid ointment on a pet. Sometimes the answer is 'No!' but the general reaction is usually "Oh I wouldn't worry about it".

I fold up the outer envelope and mail and stuff it into the inner one and send that. They can dispose of their own junk for me.

I thought my wife understood what I did. But she saw a marketing video about how we were reimagining everything and changing the world and she latched on to that instead. I'll allow it.

If one has a hacker mindset that extends outside of startups and technology, knots are pretty dang useful. I use them all the time in DIY projects, camping, etc.

Walking through even the financial district these days, it's not at all unusual for people to be stepping over unconscious bodies on the sidewalk, and to see homeless people walking around with syringes tucked behind their ear. In fact when I was in a higher-end office building a few weeks ago no one was wearing a mask indoors, and they put masks on to go outside, presumably because of the smells and things you're exposed to there. It's like COVID isn't even the dirtiest thing they're afraid of anymore.