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We need more courageous people like Quinn and the two guys and I like to think I might have the guts too, but it's hard to predict. I applaud them for doing the right thing and hope I never get in a situation like that where I have to stand up be a barrier between a harasser and its victim.

I didn't learn about the UploadVR (where Robert works) drama from May before today, but I'm genuinely curious and want to ask if someone who has witnessed harassment at work like that can shed some light.

http://nymag.com/selectall/2017/05/uploadvr-sued-for-sexual-...

I know pop culture sexualises everything and fails to educate on matters of sex at the same time, but commenting on your female coworker's body in a meeting with others and saying you have to excuse yourself to go masturbate is something I never heard of happening in even the most dominantly male places.

How prevalent is this in the workplace? I mean, sexual attraction is a natural and sometimes useful thing to have, but humans are defined by not acting on each and every primal instinct.

Where do people acquire those behavioral patterns? Bad influence in the family or fraternity? Or is it porn consumption and subsequent belief that everybody is submissive when you're the boss (UploadVR executive)? I guess what I'm asking is what kinds of all-male activities to avoid if I don't want the bad influence.

The gist is that googling those two words revealed how Robert might have acquired his personal demons. I find that important to paint a more complete picture instead of only looking at what he did under the influence. It's an explanation for the defect he carries around, but ultimately he has control over the triggers that activate the behavior, so I fully agree with you that he cannot be excused and am sorry if you thought I was trying to excuse the behavior.

Nobody's saying being drunk is an excuse to do things or gives you permission.

Some people have repressed thoughts, feelings, etc. that they might act on when dis-inhibited. I recall one coworker being drunk and going from happy to angry repeatedly and another one pouring out his heart to me about his unhappy marriage. I discarded those events and never asked them about it, but I imagine that if this is what happens in a purely vocal way, then someone drunk acting in ways they only didn't before because they were sober means there are deeper issues only hidden and controlled by the rational mind prevailing during sober times. This is why those that went through something like the 12 steps become fearful of getting drunk/high again, since they recall their destructive side. Some people have "demons" they only release if dis-inhibited by being drunk or irrational due to a primal instinct in control.

This means some people should never drink at all.

Being drunk doesn't absolve you of your crimes, it means you should stay sober if you don't live alone on the moon. Especially if you know you will act a certain way.

I hadn't heard of Scoble for years so I googled "scoble abuse", and the first result is something he supposedly wrote about being groomed and abused by his coach while he was a kid (http://archive.is/AN19H). Can't find the Facebook post this suggests was written by Robert and I don't know anything about the website it was posted on. But if it's true, then it gives you a way to trace back how Robert Scoble became an abuser. It also reflects on his substance abuse issues and if true shows that society fails to help victims and puts them on a path to become future perpetrators.

I've used https://github.com/jaspervdj/patat for the same purpose in the past. Nice to see there are more options.

If Zircon is a proper microkernel system, then it ought to have such guarantees. But it's too early to tell anything about Zircon and at what end of the microkernel spectrum it will land.

FreeBSD has a stable kernel ABI for each release and is allowed to break it in a new version. This allows nVidia to have an easier time providing binary drivers on FreeBSD.

The constant churn in some of the driver stacks like graphics leaves us with long stretches of serious regressions. So while 4.14 can be perfectly stable in all regards and you might appreciate the new features in general code, it's not unusual that something in your graphics drivers gets broken and stays that way for a year or longer. For example Intel's DRM stack wasn't flawless but didn't have as many regressions before they introduced atomic modesetting in 4.2. From there on it's been hit and miss. 4.9 is fine, 4.12 is fine and 4.13 is pretty bad. I have one machine where I'm forced to stay at 4.1-lts. It's atomic modesetting, fences, etc. that caused many gpu regressions.

What I'm getting at is that there's no stable driver API or ABI and we're forced to suffer through regressions caused by development to support new graphics stack features or new GPUs, while one's "old" GPU was fully supported and stable in earlier kernels. With more and of the desktop and applications using the GPU for compositing, it's very easy to hang your Wayland or Xorg session for seconds until the driver recovers. This is on top of the many DMAR issues.

I don't like using an LTS kernel but I do need stable drivers because without those I cannot use the computer and neither can industrial embedded machines. I admit that it's highly likely that the high churn in the graphics drivers is the cause and it can be singled out, because I don't remember any regression in other drivers. I say it's time to rethink the development model of Linux kernel drm drivers.

You're forgetting SML# which uses MassiveThreads library and despite the name isn't for .Net.

http://www.pllab.riec.tohoku.ac.jp/smlsharp/

https://github.com/smlsharp/smlsharp

https://github.com/massivethreads/massivethreads

It was conceived at Tohoku University for use in Japan's high performance computing projects. SML# uses LLVM as a backend, has a nice FFI and EDSLs for SQL and JSON and a non-moving GC. All stemming from the use case it's designed for.