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A better analogy would be "man who invented much about modern walls, invented JavaMortar, and has built infrastructure around maintaining the open source wall in question, can maintain wall he's been maintaining."

Really rolls off the tongue

Aww, I loved GNN. Free email and nntp I believe were the most compelling things about it.

Kinda hard to make a competitor if you can't scrape the web because curl hasn't been blessed

Except increasingly the world will access it via drm aware browsers because their banks require it, and the open web audience will subsequently dwindle.

The Halloween memos called this "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish". Google didn't just ignore the moves that provided M$ dominance.

A guy gave a $3100 dollars to a political cause of his choice that was on the ballot, and people with this ideology drove him out of the company he founded that fought very hard for internet freedoms.

Since then, Mozilla/Firefox has largely become irrelevant and absolutely no longer has the same privacy concerns and respects.

He donated money in opposition of a law he didn't want to pass. He didn't take anyone's rights away.

I maintain that banning the sharing of prime numbers is outside of the powers of a legitimate government, regardless.

> That's the reality that drove the formation of these agencies.

I said federal agencies are inefficient. You argued they were created for a reason. This isn't exactly an argument.

And nerves makes it easy to do IoT stuff / almost-embedded

I've always found "you don't understand, it took a really long time" to be an incredible copout

Google used it in flaxformers since 2021 apparently

> encryption be banned

You want a law that says we can't share prime numbers?

Now do US taxes

What about putting yourself in such miserable conditions that you will forget human decency and commit the non-petty crime of violating everyone's constitutional rights?

You're claiming that a federal agency is useful because of efficiency. My sides.

Brendan Eich getting fired was like watching the original internet get murdered by progressives. Everything since then has been about how I thought that would go.

> I'm worried people might die. The only solution is to kill lots of people.

You know that, when productivity goes down, people that can barely survive already will die. Right?

I met Fernand at the first ElixirConf. Lovely dude, had a lot of fun hanging out. Chatted a few times since then, always a treat. I use his software 100 days a year

Kant's categorical imperative

Yeah then also there's partisan. I didn't figure anyone that needed to go beyond 150 nodes would fail to learn this stuff, but I appreciate you mentioning it so I don't accidentally drive-by convince someone there's an upper limit rather than engineering tradeoffs :)

Erlang/elixir is a very nice middle ground situation where you can build "monolithically" but also inherently be building services that are isolated, and you can scale to 50-150 nodes before getting any more complicated.

150 nodes is a lot. I love the beam.

"you can run a company for nearly a decade while spending a great deal on lawyers talking to the government the whole time and still have no clue if your business is legal"

Everyone buying a book expects to profit at least as much as the cost of the book from it

ratpoison! That was my first tiling wm and no one could use my desktop casually anymore. I didn't mind :)

My dad ran a robotics engineering company after being vp of engineering for a company Siemens bought that did factory automation (conveyors first, then of course robots). Playing doom in his office while he overworked into the night is when I learned about computer networking mostly...I follow in his footsteps in the overwork)

Anyway, in automotive manufacturing right now frequently the industrial automation firm is told they will be paid net 240. This is insanity. It leads to unnecessarily long projects as the firms have to figure out how to cash flow enormous expenses.

In the meantime, inexperienced competitors regularly fixed bid quote something that cannot be safely and timely built for the quoted budget, ignoring profit. They win the project and they're worn down to a nub and either go under or deliver to avoid being sued into oblivion, so it's a horrific race to the bottom.

The latter behaviour I witness regularly in the software consultancy industry and it's a bothersome thing.

I had a South African friend in middle and high school. They fled the country when it became popular to put a tire around a white person's neck, full it with gasoline, and light it. Mandela's wife promoted doing this.

They gained American citizenship. She became my African American friend. Everyone told me I was terrible for talking that way.

"the eich"

The obvious acronym was NADS but we live in a generation of quislings

My wife showed me that eating a spoon of peanut butter reliably cures the hiccups early in our marriage .

Yes but read the tree of thoughts paper

Not exactly an answer, but you should check out https://www.noagendashow.net/.

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