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The key is transparency make sure you front load your presentation with a lot of this is still in development, its early days but we think this has a lot of potential. Make the presentation about your key value add don't get side tracked with what you want it to do when its 100%.

Make sure you are the one demoing it as soon as the client touches it they will brake it and you will panic. If it brakes the worst thing you can do is panic it looks like its a big fuckup just laugh it off and cary on with what you can show the client will realise you know its early days and understand you are still working on it.

Then focus on business explain you have a solid start that needs a good bit of polish and are starting to build out the business explain your business value and how you intend to work with them around any issues. Explain that getting in at the ground level will allow them to take part in the development and shaping the final product to meet their business needs exactly.

Finally talk about your business plan / critical path where you are now, known issues and where you want the project to be in the future, don't lead with this.

> Do we enjoy being held for ransom?

Yes, one of the main goals of the world bank and western global economic policy after world war 2 is to create an interconnected world where countries like Germany are dependant on Russia in the hopes that this forces peace talks by making war more costly. The idea is that they are also dependent on us and we can sanction countries like Russia or Iran or North Korea into working with us instead of fighting us.

The issue with this policy is that we need to make the first move in good faith but if countries don't return honestly then our sanctions remove luxury goods like McDonalds while their counter sanctions remove necessities like heating. The second part of the issue is that once sanctions have been applied there no second step and the sanctioned country will just ally itself with other sanctioned countries as a matter of necessity thus pushing them further away from us and closer to all out war.

To protect our selves we need to be self sufficient in these matters which makes the whole thing not work as we will have no leverage other than war.

> All it takes is a few black-boxes and the privacy of Mullvad uses (connected to a M247 location) is worse-off than not bothering with a VPN.

In my country they log everything if they did setup black boxes to analyse timing in an attempt to de-anonymise then they could potentially log everything which is what they definitely do without a VPN, how am I worse off?

Matthew is not upfront with their readers about these risks.

75 tweets in 26 minutes isn't a lot tbh thats less than 500 bytes a minute an upset teen could easily do double that.

True the lack of docker support is a pretty big deal breaker if you use docker a lot. Freebsd jails have been a unique selling point for freebsd for years but I think linux containers have caught up and dockers ease of use and community support is unmatched.

I don't use docker much so its not an issue for me. I could probably setup jails for the stuff I use docker for but I'm lazy so I have a debian virtual machine running on bhyve that runs any docker stuff I want. My preference is freebsd but im not precious ill use what ever tool fits the job best.

> I miss a p2p application with torrent packaging and Kademlia like per-file advertising and discovery, where I could point it to my hefty NAS directory of random things and they could be wired to released torrents.

That was the problem with p2p no one bothered to actually package their releases instead just slinging it onto the internet no care given as to if it was complete or even correctly labeled.

Sites like pirate bay had everything, torrents are a super fast and error resistant way to distribute content its the perfect system. The problem was that the content is illegal so it was nuked by companies with more money and power than any one can fight against.

The problem has never been technical or distribution the issue is the law.

> Google’s unauthorized digitizing of copyright-protected works, creation of a search functionality, and display of snippets from those works are non-infringing fair uses. The purpose of the copying is highly transformative, the public display of text is limited, and the revelations do not provide a significant market substitute for the protected aspects of the originals.

So is digitizing a copyright vhs and hosting it via torrents also fair use? Its transformative, the public display of the video is limited, there is no market for vhs.

I don't get it whats the difference other than Google having deeper pockets than me?

on fedora its systemctl instead of service because they are all systemd up, other distros might use something other than systemd and a compatibility hook is entirely dependant on the distro deciding it cares about backwards compatibility which isn't the case for fedora or debian at least in comparison to freebsd you can still build work the old school way.

> Not a ports experts but the difference between ports and Gentoo portage does not really seem that big, certainly nothing of FreeBSD itself makes it more suitable to working with ports than a Linux kernel.

As far as I know gentoo portage is based on freebsd's ports. Where Gentoo has different kernels (linux or freebsd) and an ever changing userland, FreeBSD has consistency they make a complete operating system they don't bolt stuff together like Linux distros do. The holistic approach of freebsd results in a more cohesive and considered environment linux doesn't have this.

The difference is not that one has the command pkg and the other portage but how the entire environment has been considered to work with ports.

> Linux definitely does scale up and down, maybe FreeBSD scales down a bit smaller than Linux

In my experience they both scale the same, it makes sense that they would both watch each other and implement any improvements they seen since they are both open source.

> I guess "native" ZFS is the closest it comes to a UVP

If you are looking for a killer feature that destroys linux you aren't going to find it they are both very similar, its like looking for a UVP for Fedora vs Gentoo vs Debian they all do pretty much the same thing but in different ways. I use Fedora on desktop and Debian on servers as they both seem to be well suited to those environments, I could just change one to work like the other but why bother? Same is true of FreeBSD.

In my experience FreeBSD performance and security are great but not significantly better than linux. ZFS support on freebsd seems better than linux certainly its been supported a lot longer, bhyve works really well for virtualising freebsd and linux never tried it with windows.

The biggest strength is the ports / package manager works better than anything I have tried on linux and it sticks to unix principles closer than linux.

The biggest weakness for freebsd is docker and mono support is very poor. There is a desktop distro but in general any gui stuff linux beats freebsd hands down I only use freebsd for server stuff.

I use it for production web servers, backup / storage servers, routers, virtualisation servers. I find its rock solid and more consistent than linux.

Consistency, I have been using linux for 20+ years but if its not redhat or debian based I couldn't tell you how to start or stop services etc as its always different from the unix standard and every other linux. FreeBSD is unix it doesn't try to be that and something else at the same time.

Lots of people and places use freebsd like netflix. I only see the popularity of freebsd increasing as linux moves more and more away from unix.

I just bought one because they are cheap, I dunno what to do with it.

Its not like star trek you can't just ask for a toy car and you get it. There is a lot of setup leveling and tweaking of supports and the first layer of print to get the print looking clean or even printing at all.

Printing takes hours like 6+ for anything remotely complicated. It will probably take you two or three goes printing a thing until you get results you are happy with. Once its printed you then need to clean up the print removing support etc.

What material you print in will also massively change your results / chances of success. You may need to encase the printer to control the environment temperature, wind and toxic fumes depending on the material need to be accounted for.

The stuff on thingyverse all looks cool but it's all cool gimmicks if you want to do something useful you need to know how to 3d model.

TLDR: It's all a bit of a faff but if you are the type of person that likes to build their own computer its a lot of fun, being able to download a car felt awesome. The toy car has surprising detail and despite being made in PLA the easiest plastic to use its again surprisingly strong.

Ease of use 4/10. If you can't 3d model its fairly useless 1/10. If you can 3d model its so much faster and easier to get complicated parts 8/10.

Assuming you do two 40 hour jobs thats 80 hours a week, its easy to do this for a few months and think this is easy I can do this forever.

You might be able to work an 80 hour week consistently but your work may not be as consistent or capable. What happens when some one else on your team makes a mistake which requires you to work over time to make up the difference at which point where do you find the time on top of your 80 hour work week?

If you are able to consistently perform at that sort of level you can make more money by finding one job that pays more than two jobs.

> Those rejections hit hard and the fact that I am not qualified enough (as they told me), just makes me question my existence even more.

Don't listen to feedback from employers when you are looking for a job. They can't tell you the truth without putting them selves in possible legal hot water so they just say the first excuse they can think off to fob you off.

At the end of the day the feed back from company A is completely irrelevant for company B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J... You just have to accept that it's a numbers game and you need numbers in the hundreds to find a decent employer.

> Yeah, so I tried (looking for jobs), I failed (getting a new job), and now

and now nothing? or keep trying until you get the results you want? Thats you'r only options, you decide which one you choose. You can see I tried as an excuse to not keep trying or you can just see it as the grind necessary to get what you want. You got a job in the past by trying but it wont work this time because? what? Doesn't make a lot of sense to me, let's say you only got that job as a fluke it was a 1 in 1000 chance? Theres more than a thousand jobs on linked in but you'r telling us its not possible?

Im not saying its easy Im saying it's really hard, you have done it in the past and now you are making excuses for why you can't do it again.

> The media put a lot of focus on tuition fees, but they weren't high up the Lib Dem agenda

Lib Dems target students and young people who are generally more liberal, their main selling point to them was tuition fees. Young people got them to government and they immediately turned on their voters.

inb4 it was the Russians as retaliation for nord stream. As a brit im still glad the US blew it up.

edit: Should have read the article before shit posting.

Thats the point.

I handed in my notice today I have been with the company for 7 years and am nearly doubling my pay by going else where. Last time I got a significant promotion or raise was because I got another job, stuck with the company put in the work got nothing else. Now im quitting again suddenly im the most valued member of the team and they are going to move heaven and earth to make it work.

I don't like having to threaten my boss with quitting in order to get anywhere.

My friend starts looking after 2 years and makes a boat load more than me. Loyalty and hard work just don't get you paid, knowing your market value does.

> in a democracy you are not lorded over by party functionaires

Every democracy in the world is ruled by party politics, left right, blue green these are parties not policies. Politicians all go to the same private school thats heavily financed by their party.

The term checks and balances is a very American thing no other democracy has it and America is not even a democracy its a republic. For example the only check and balance on the UK parliament is the unelected house of lords who get their place because they are born into an oligarchy, besides that the only other check is the crown.

> The solution to empowering individuals is accountability. We should be given tools that let us keep each other in check.

Funny the commies had the same solution for their starving population.

> Or do you also enjoy having run out of ideas?

This has never happened for me the closest I have gotten is that I have to give the client to option of sticking to our initial plan or change it for the expense of more time and money.

I wouldn't really call that being stuck with a problem tho, its more the client is stuck with a decision they don't want to make.

> 186 Being stuck in problem solving

Is this a real thing? I have never known there to be a technical problem in work that I wasn't able to solve, all of my problems have been from ever changing requirements and clients refusing to give detail.

Is there a role for me that maximises technical complexity and minimises managements role?

> How does HN deal with team members who have trouble slowing down and communicating their thoughts well?

At my work we have these "catch up" meetings where theres no agenda, time limits or minutes for our meetings. Every one in the team puts down tools and we take turns ranting about what ever is on our mind at that point, after 2-3 hours the meeting is over and we all go back to work with less time or understanding.

> The average citizen cares about their energy bill and putting food on the table more than some idealistic notion of standing up to bullies.

If that where true we would all be Nazi.

> Scoping and planning is hard, specially with limited info, and you can't reasonably allocate 10x the resources to your project just to have a decent slack in the critical path.

Why not? If you don't have an accurate understanding of the problem you NEED to allocate extra time to gain that understanding or redevelop as the requirements emerge.

> emergent technical requirements that dev teams didn't managed to see beforehand

What? So developers that see poor breifs and ask for more time to manage that lack of information can't be given that time but then its the developers problem for not asking for more time to manage that?

Your developers don't have a crystal ball!

It's high time that Management stop blaming developers for the things managers control.

Your employer writes the contract and they write it specifically to remove as many rights from you as possible.

Thats the definition of employment you sacrifice your freedom for money so you can buy food and a roof over your head.

In the UK if a contract infringes on your rights then the contract as a whole is void but most employers will still write up illegal contracts to pressure their employees. Most employees don't know what their rights are and if they do they don't know that legally they can't sign away their rights so the contract doesn't matter, but even if the employee knew all their rights its cheaper and easier to get a new job than fight it in court.

In other countries like the US you can sign away your rights apparently Canada is the same, this is metal to me that some one could legal sign them selves into slavery in the USA and Canada and no one has a problem with that?

Cigarettes are for old people all the cool kids use vapes. Check mate statistics!

> But instead, social media is filled with racist, homophobic, sexist jerks who constantly say things that hurt other people and reinforce stereotypes. So..

Thats all politically correct its just the oppositions political parties idea of politically correct.

They claim that being politically correct is not learned by children.

> they enforce "political correctness" of speech without being told

but then claims that they have learned the difference

> When I was a kid "gay" was one of our go-to pejoratives for almost anything uncool. With my kid's cohort, it's not acceptable because they don't think being gay is insulting.

Obviously they are different kids growing up in different times with different political climates that have learned a different political correctness but both have learned what is considered politically correct from society.

The point "So what are your kids pejoratives?" simply points out that the kids are not born with an inherent knowledge of pejoratives being harmful but have simply learned different pejoratives from their parents and society.