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krakensden··on A Year of Tech Solidarity
No, we're too rich.
krakensden··on “We have obtained fully functional JTAG for Intel CSME via USB DCI”
AMD and ARM have 'TrustZone', which is not the same, but if you don't trust it maybe you're in trouble.
krakensden··on Corporate Unpersoning
Is it really true that there is no censorship at the dns level? The creeps at the daily stormer seem to have been run off the internet, it seems sort of like the reason dns has been 'safe' in the past is that people didn't lobby the dns providers.
krakensden··on Soylent can no longer ship to Canada
Nutrition science has an ugly history of wrongness and capture by industry. I am also extremely wary of psychology, which puttered along doing bad work for decades before the current replication crisis. We could all have a foodfight about Economics for fifty years.

There is a bunch of foundational stuff in science that is great, but like any human endeavour, there is also plenty of garbage and nonsense.

krakensden··on Study finds putting people in prison increases re-offence rate vs. probation
People call Texas' climate harsh all the time, it's pretty darn hot there in the summer.
krakensden··on Nothing Is Too Strange for Cities Wooing Amazon to Build There
Probably not, most cities in the US purposefully restrict growth, and most of the affordable ones are only affordable through lack of demand and the slack from white flight, decades ago. Texas is the big exception, they have a ton of cheap land and very few rules.
krakensden··on Allocation Efficiency in High-Performance Go Services
The interface problem seems like something the compiler team should fix or mitigate. I worry this post is going to cause a lot of premature restrictionism.
krakensden··on Apple Scales Back Its Ambitions for a Self-Driving Car
I see the Waymo cars puttering around. The existence proof is there.
krakensden··on Instagram photos reveal predictive markers of depression
And in 10 years, this will be a part of your Citizen Score.

I should burn this nickname and be more diligent about persona management. Or get off social media entirely.

krakensden··on Mercedes kills their only electric car
People seem pretty enthused about it in meatspace, if not online.
krakensden··on Why I’m Frustrated with Go
People say this, but it isn't really true- you could use the sort.Interface interface like everyone else. Consumer wants to use your custom map with their custom type? Make sure it supports Less.

Speaking of sort.Interface, people say they want generics, but I think there is an implicit ask for operator overloading, too. Or the code they are asking to not write is probably still going to be there.

krakensden··on The Decline of Investment in San Francisco Startups
The higher the %, the more expensive the market rate apartments have to be, which creates its own pressures. It also seems that every time a developer caves, no one is satisfied, and people are back demanding a higher number.
krakensden··on Concourse CI
The really important things for me are, Concourse has no text boxes to edit in your browser, so it is possible to version and automate the configuration of your automation, and all Concourse resources (plugin equivalents) are zero dependency- so you can have multiple versions in one pipeline, and no accidentally breaking everything to get one new feature.
krakensden··on Concourse CI
The version of Garden it uses basically just shells out to Docker. Run 'top' on a busy Concourse worker, it's fun.
krakensden··on Concourse CI
100+ jobs will break your browser. RabbitMQ has been complaining about it for a while.
krakensden··on Remacs – A community-driven port of Emacs to Rust
Requirements.txt + virtualenv, everything is fine.

Really, significantly easier to not screw up in a large org than bundler, because dependencies don't leak by default.

krakensden··on Concourse CI
The standalone binaries work great, you don't need BOSH or cloudfoundry.
krakensden··on As opioid overdoses exact a higher price, communities ponder who should be saved
Medicare Part D is the bit of law involved. Here is a randomly googled column with some history from a reputable paper: http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-medica...
krakensden··on On being the employee who “needs improvement”
If you're worried about that, make them public. Middle managers are easier to get than programmers, so you may have leverage walking up the chain to your boss's boss.
krakensden··on Despite money and effort, homelessness in SF as bad as ever
San Francisco was like this before the current tech boom, too- http://www.salon.com/1999/11/03/sf/ it dates back to the 1980s- http://projects.sfchronicle.com/sf-homeless/overview/

Really nothing to do with YC.

krakensden··on On average, skipping college and investing tuition costs nets a higher return
As a culture, we really need to stop telling 17 year olds to not worry about money, go to college, and figure something out. There is always someone ready with a romantic appeal to a classical education, and it is so frustrating for me.

Wasting four years is a huge cost. Years, decades of debt is a huge cost. Going to college with no plan about money? The costs are assured.

Plus, the degrees people are actually getting aren't necessarily worth all that much to the educational romantics. Business administration is what it is.

krakensden··on What Comes After SaaS?
That's the story of Asus too, I think- they started as a supplier to Dell.
krakensden··on Maybe Skip SHA-3
Hash functions have a pigeonhole principle problem, but that is also the point.
krakensden··on The US has forgotten how to do infrastructure
It's worth noting the article was written in response to this lament https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/5/24/15681560/g... about cancelling a federal report on the topic.
krakensden··on Fiat Chrysler to Modify 100K Vehicles After Accusations of Emissions Cheating
I've never actually seen it, but I expect the same thing for most aftermarket things that are frowned on- fix it tickets & fines.
krakensden··on Let employees work from home
Yup. I'm still sad about that.
krakensden··on AMD Unveils “EPYC” CPUs Featuring Up to 32 Cores and 64 Threads for the Datacenter
I've worked with companies running MySQL with a terabyte of ram. Fun times.
krakensden··on Snap Inc. Reports First Quarter 2017 Results
Death of the open web. It isn't google per se, it's that there is no knowledge/interest of the things outside of the Facebook garden.
krakensden··on New in Debian stable Stretch: nftables
Plus, current iptables runs on top of nftables, doesn't it?
krakensden··on A critique of trends in tech
I use the basic safety razor from Maggards: https://www.maggardrazors.com/product/maggard-razors-basic-s...
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