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I'd like to introduce you to my friend, the state of Georgia, for the past 20 years. Only this year, by court order, are they reintroducing a paper trail. While you're correct that Iowa has a paper trail for their caucus, it's not a concept that is ubiquitous, and has severely damaged the integrity of elections in the US, and especially in the state of Georgia.

Based on my admittedly minimal research, these are supposed to be verifiable by the voter prior to scanning the BMD printout.

Sweet, thanks for the information!

I have been voting in GA since 2008 and there hasn't been a paper trail since at least then. The voting systems they still use today were purchased and put into service in, I believe, 2002. There is literally no reason not to also have a paper trail.

I have no hard data, and this is from 2017/2018, but it is very sketchy when the secretary of state, the office which oversees elections in GA, runs for governor, doesn't resign ahead of time, doesn't allow any investigations into the electronic voting systems, doesn't push forward any paper trail requirements, and subsequently wins the election for governor. Everything Kemp did and didn't do was suspect as it relates to elections.

I have zero faith in GA election results. And until the State moves off of these electronic systems and/or installs a paper trail, and brings a sense of integrity back into the election system, I will continue to feel the elections in GA are without integrity and potentially illegitimate, no matter who wins in any given election. This is outside of any political affiliation. This is the core of our country not being properly governed and protected.

EDIT>> After some research, it looks as if GA is getting a paper trail after a court order required the state to move off the previous electronic system. Now it looks like they're installing BMDs which can be verified by the voter prior to scanning to commit their vote. Of course, there are plenty of articles relating to how hackable BMDs are as well.

This is my Fry’s as well. A very sad state.

That is a good point. I was lucky to get through the recession without being laid off, but so many others were certainly not as fortunate.

Part of the issue is that their quality of service has gone down. 10 years ago, most people who worked there were knowledgeable in their respective departments, but now it is quite often the opposite. I don’t exactly blame the workers, it could simply be that circumstances have caused training to become nonexistent.

I remember the holidays at that time with the checkout line being so long that they couldn’t keep up with even 30 registers open. Now, they have maybe two registers open at any given time and the checkout line is never more than a few customers long.

I find it sad and disconcerting. But I have to admit to being part of the problem: I haven’t bought much at Fry’s since I built my last PC 2-3 years ago. Every time we go now, it’s depressing and we end up only buying a cable or a memory card.

I migrated to Bitwarden immediately and removed all content in LastPass and deleted my LastPass account. My experience seeing companies sell out to private equity firms leads me to believe I haven't made that rash of a decision. For me, trust is usually immediately lost once a company changes hands. And when it comes to password management like this, trust is everything.

Honestly, I would have supported Bitwarden before had I known about it prior to this HN post. I appreciate the content you and everyone else has provided in this thread.

It’s a very small company and I’m the lead developer. I know exactly what is being worked on and what timelines are involved. The replies I got when I suggested all of this was something akin to “Why now and not before? Why this project and not the others?” Even though the majority of what we work on was originally developed prior to Kotlin going 1.0 and I had already laid out my reasoning. It felt like excuses due to simply not wanting to learn and maintain something new simply because they didn’t see any benefit, even though I also explained the benefits in my original suggestion.

Thanks for your thoughts, though, I’ll take them into account.

I love the idea and look/feel of Kotlin. I work to learn and use it on my own.

In the workplace, however, the problem for me are the fearful developers who think it is too difficult to maintain a multi-project code base that contains more than one language. I want to continually grow and improve and branch out, sadly I find many I work with who would rather just skate by on what they know (in this case, Java, which I helped to mentor).

I haven’t yet found a way to convince them. I feel the only way I’ll be able to use Kotlin within the workplace is by changing jobs.

Java is still a great language, and the new release model is helpful to get some of the more modern language features found in other languages sooner in the Java ecosystem. And while JEP is a fine governance model for feature development, I still find myself wanting more, sooner, than what it produces.

I welcome any thoughts or suggestions on how to convince others of the usefulness of introducing Kotlin into the workflow. The idea I attempted was that I would begin a new project with Kotlin that, to start, only I maintained — to make it easier for others to begin to absorb the language, at their own pace. It was futile and they simply don’t want to try.

Yeah the closest I can see is what genpfault posted as a reply: Archon: The Light and the Dark. Hope that's it, otherwise I can't find much, either.

Can you tell us anything else about the game? Was it a sidescroller? A fighting game (1v1)? Isometric? Any other details about the gameplay?

The real loser in this deal is us. Not only is trust lost (or already has been from other past DNS goings-on), but we, the registrants, end up paying more, financially and otherwise.

Generally speaking, the underpinnings of the Internet (protocols, certain levels of infrastructure) should always and forever be public, not-for-profit, "open-source", and not patentable, in order to protect the integrity of the system. I'm no expert, so maybe a lot of it is this way already, but DNS seems to be a bastion of for-profit greed.

All of this walks hand in hand with Net Neutrality, in my view -- governance to protect what is a fundamental human right, the free (as in freedom, and to some degree, as in beer) flow of information. And in an ideal world, objectively factual information.

Not to assume, but that sounds like a comment from someone who only uses GitHub for interacting with git. I agree that GitHub helped spread the popularity of git, but I hesitate to say with absolution that it's the only thing that makes git popular.

Anecdotally...

When I first began my git adventures, nearly 10 years ago, I was extremely apprehensive. I knew SVN. I liked SVN. I had no reason to go elsewhere. And then I tried git (albeit using a GUI at the time), and it didn't click. So I went back to SVN. Later, after being forced to use git for a project at work, I started to understand what makes it special. I finally felt I had a version control system/tool that I could trust without being so hands-on like I was with SVN. Put simply -- git _just_ works. The concepts take time to really grasp (rebase versus merge, reflog, etc), but once grasped, it becomes very easy to see why it is so popular.

I now use git locally as much as I use it with a hosted repository (GitHub, GitLab, BitBucket, etc). I use both command line and GUIs, and I thoroughly enjoy being able to trust git so completely.

I have been hearing this end-of-the-IPv4 world chatter for 10+ years now. While I understand it is a real problem, I wonder if we’ll still be talking about it in the present tense 10 years from now.

You are a good parent. Thank you. She doesn't deserve to lose out because Blizzard decided that their financial interests in China are more important than ethics and morality. I hope you both have fun there!

Yes you can, I’ve done it in the past. I don’t recall the info, but you can search for it and should find it easily.

Maybe you should re-read the comment. It reads as if you’re angry about something with little to no context as to what point you’re trying to make. Whatever works for you, I suppose.

Or PCI-Passthrough which, while not as easy to set up as it should be, works amazingly well.

Who are you arguing with?

Wow. Still kicking that can down the road, eh?

Looks like I dodged a bullet as I was close to pulling the trigger on backing the Indiegogo campaign. This proves to me that when it comes to semi-expensive hardware, it’s best to wait for some version of the product to actually exist before committing any funds. I already made that mistake backing the Airing CPAP which has yet to deliver 5.5 years after the campaign with one excuse after another. Fool me once?

It’s probably past time for crowdfunding vaporware to die.

Specific games. That’s the only reason I keep running Windows. Otherwise I would be on Linux full time.

Healthcare in the US has little that is really socialized, at least for the middle class. The ACA had NO public option, despite efforts to include it. So unless you're poor (Medicaid) or elderly (Medicare), you have no hope of anything "socialized".

Healthcare in the US is a racket -- pure and simple. It puts our health into the hands of middlemen, the insurance companies. And the funny thing is, they don't insure a damn thing. They make you pay thousands of dollars, typically, before even attempting to do their part, and even then, they will charge for preventive visits and other things that are supposed to be 100% covered irrespective of deductibles/etc. They rely on the bureaucracy of the system to force people into the path of least resistance which is to pay the bill.

The simple fact is insurance providers, hospitals, and now doctors, do not care at all about patients. They care only about money. Until we, as a people, take back control, nothing will change. I would ask doctors, what happened to "do no harm"? Financial harm is harm.

And I agree with you. It either MUST be fully capitalistic (get rid of the state boundary crap, make it easier to get affordable individual insurance, etc) or it MUST be fully socialized (single payer). There is no in between that will ever work for patients. And I'm skeptical of the fully capitalistic approach simply because it can still become a racket with price-fixing.

As an aside, part of the problem lands solely on the doctors. Far too often they roll people through like it's an assembly line. Far too often they don't even listen to the patients, especially women, and just think people are hypochondriacs. Far too often they prescribe needless medicine to treat symptoms and never try to find root cause and treat _just_ that. Of course, we have no choice but to "trust" doctors when the time comes, and that's what they and pharma banks on. The family doctor truly is a relic of the past.

EDIT> Bring on the downvotes, it's always a pleasure, Internet.

After I got past the horrible misspellings and atrocious grammar, I could appreciate what the author is saying. The author is privileged to be able to concentrate on and enjoy a particular language. That is great, for him.

Most of the rest of us have to learn and use a wide swath of languages, features, and technologies to stay a leg up in this world. We seldom have the choice to pick what we work on. Sure, we can change jobs, but inevitably it requires conforming to someone else’s opinion.

The author makes me want to go back and pick C up again. But like so many times in the past, I will probably find it needlessly painful and go right back to the more modern languages which already solved so much for me. I don’t mind standing on the shoulders of past C developers. I, for one, also do not mind learning the details of any particular modern language because, if anything, it makes me more marketable.

If only there were other dependency management build tools they could use as good examples to emulate....

Unfortunately I have no such claim code. I also don't remember receiving one and there was never a confirmation email sent. If there was one on the screen, I regret not saving it. It's sad and frustrating the lengths they are going to, to make sure they pay so very little for screwing so many people.

I received no such email and I signed up fairly quickly for the $125. I've checked my spam folder as well as everywhere else, they simply haven't sent me such an email.

Which added zero value about the book itself. But yet I’m downvoted for pointing out the stupidity. You win, Internet.

Or how about we all choose how we wish to get content, and stop implying judgment. When did reading become an us vs. them thing?