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Exactly this. I have divorced parents who each remarried.

I have a mother who makes so much effort to make sure she stays in our lives. Calling/Facetiming every week at minimum. And she has visited at least once or twice a year the past five years. And we visit at least once a year if possible.

By contrast, I have a father who has literally done nothing to try to visit us in five years. It was always us making the effort, taking time and money away from ourselves, for them. And we got very little in return. We have been given very little respect by them despite showering them with undeserved respect. Every time we visit, it's like they're acting out their own Seinfeld episode -- literally worth nothing except waiting for the next opportune moment to be sarcastic "gotcha" asshats.

Some people would say, one shouldn't look for a return, that it should be all about giving. Those people must never have been burned in their lives. For me, reciprocation is the bedrock of a relationship. Any relationship. It doesn't have to always be equitable, but time and effort must be shown. Otherwise, I'm out.

Even though many providers now have end-to-end encryption with web interfaces for messaging, Apple has maintained that it can't be done securely. We shall see if they have changed their minds.

I had two of the Sculpt keyboards die within about 6 months. Maybe I got a bad batch, but I'm not buying that one again.

I like the article. I just wish the senior software engineer also included teaching humility. The article isn't written with any ego, so I commend the author, but it would be ideal for any mentor to also teach what to do when being wrong, making a mistake, costing the company money, etc.

No offense meant, and I appreciate the anecdote, but I don’t feel that skill level in the technology should indicate the usefulness of the technology. I’m trying to understand more objectively than that.

Serious questions...

What does mercurial offer that git doesn’t? Is the transition to git difficult for projects currently housed in a mercurial repository?

I live and vote in Georgia. It is insanely atrocious here using 20 year old voting machines with absolutely no paper trail.

We had a Secretary of State, whose job it is to secure and maintain the integrity of voting, run for governor but never stepped down from his office due to an obvious conflict of interest, insisted everything was fine, and of course he won.

How can we even remotely trust voting in my state when the impropriety is so thick, we can’t breathe. To this day, I do not trust his election or any in Georgia.

I’ll be happy to give it a go in a VM to start :)

All I want is an OS that has as few of the weaknesses as possible and all the best things about all the current major operating systems; examples: Flagship gaming support from Windows, Stability and flexibility from Linux, and Design principles from MacOS.

Each of those three operating systems have some weaknesses that makes me jump between them quite often. Things like: Forced updates in Windows 10, certain lack of hardware, application, and game support in Linux, and MacOS "requiring" Apple hardware (I know about hackintoshes, built some in my day, but they always felt like a house of cards).

There are plenty of other strengths and weaknesses to each of them, I just feel as if I'm always giving up something awesome and gaining something painful when switching. One would think by now we would have more competitors (and I consider the various distributions/desktop environments of Linux as a single competitor to Windows and MacOS), trying out new ways of user experiences, and/or trying to bring together what makes each of them great into a single source. Of course, so much is driven on ROI and developer buy-in, so I understand the reality and complexity.

The above is my dream :)

It won't be that bad, it'll just be with us around so our child at least knows to behave and adhere to what we've taught.

When I said not allowed access, it's limited to Roblox. Will still have a Minecraft Realm, still have access to the Internet in various ways, but we have to govern it with a more common sense approach.

That only works if the child hasn't yet figured out that all they need to do is create a new gmail account and get another Roblox account set up. Then they can do whatever they want.

Kids are smart these days, so we've taken the tact of having the PC in the common room and only allowed access if we're in there.

And it's even worse because Roblox support is pure crap. Not only does it take a minimum of 3 days to reach anyone, they also have nothing in place to verify an account holder in case the account was compromised. They require the original email address and cannot verify in any other way.

We had to completely ban Roblox as well, even using OpenDNS to block it, but that just led to the use of other networks.

We're now not letting any internet access without us being right there in the same room. We're done with Roblox and its ilk. By the time our child will be allowed access again, it will be a distant memory in the context of later teen life.

Not sure if you're being ironic, or are one who simply doesn't read anything but headlines. Hopefully it's the former.

> Everyone realizes that.

Based on some of the posts in this thread, I disagree.

Agreed, mostly. Riak was used in one of the first implementations of AT&T Messages (Web) as a secondary-index and key-value store. It performed so horribly that the whole thing ended up being rewritten using Oracle. The truth is, Riak was designed for basic key-value storage. Everything else they added on worked pretty badly, especially their javascript integration.

All that being said, I do not blame Erlang for Riak. I blame Basho. Their support was clueless, and their platform simply didn't perform as advertised.

Speaker said something very innocuous to the everyday, reasonable and sane observer, but someone took offense because they're too sensitive and is using some Code of Conduct as their "reasoning."

While I completely agree there is aggression in the tech world, and much of it aimed at women, this context-less nit-picking is getting out of hand. CoC's shouldn't be used as a weapon against well-meaning people who actually did nothing wrong.

There once was a time when a whole display was $999. How the times have changed...

No, 7:30pm Pacific, 10:30pm eastern.

Scrubbed until tomorrow.

While I agree that much of the time they do try to rule based on law, it is clear that precedent is being looked at as mere suggestions by this new court. I wonder what the score will be when the challenges to Roe hit their bench.

I said they’re experimenting with Windows simply being a desktop environment on top of Linux. Only the Linux kernel would be involved. NTOSKRNL wouldn’t be present. I suspect if they’re trying to get native Windows apps to run, some call translation layer would have to exist (similar to what WINE provides).

Perhaps it is a bold claim, I haven’t seen it first hand. And it certainly has me hoping it goes much further than experimentation. I’d love to have a Windows environment on top of ext4 or zfs and the Linux kernel.

And that’s really not an argument against the idea. Time zones are a construct that isn’t necessary any more. And it literally wastes people’s time with unnecessary legislation, unnecessary calculations, and unnecessary notions of displaced relativity.

As I originally said, though, mine is an unpopular opinion.

Easily solved with technology that allows a person to specify when they're available. We've had such technology for decades in the form of presence.

Why? Because our preconceived notions of a "day" is that it must mean the sun has risen and set. I get past this pretty easily by imagining I'm in space where I would have to divorce that from my mind.

We already have that problem now.

Interestingly, I have it on good authority from someone who works at MS that they are experimenting exactly with that: Windows as a desktop environment running on top of Linux.

I know my opinion is unpopular, but I sure would love it if the world would simply rid itself of timezones and stick to a singular time. Does it _really_ matter if it's broad daylight at 0200 Earth Standard Time? Circadian rhythms aren't affected if people still go to sleep at night and wake up at day. It standardizes time relativity on a single scale. And it saves us software engineers a lot of headache.

I suspect he means the WSL given the context of the previous sentence.

Articles like this always make me feel like I missed out on all the geek going on in the late 70s, 80s, and early 90s. Of course I was a toddler when Xerox PARC was demonstrating their UI to Steve Jobs, and was in middle school when Linus was posting about his "(free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones."

So as I enter mid-life, I realize just how much I missed either not being old enough, not paying attention enough, or not having the means to get in the game. These stories of tech history, if nothing else, provide motivation for those, like myself, to get into the game and work on something useful -- and most of all something fun.

Maybe, but I would like to see more than the one source. HN is becoming filled with people who tend to make such generalized statements without much to back it up. Your link helps, so thank you! I would love to see more data and less speculation around here :)