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xmj··on FreeBSD 12.0 is now available
This has noticeably changed in past years. More and more thinkpads, more and more dogfooding
xmj··on Sweden's cashless society is no longer a utopia
We both know the way to make this scale is visual pattern matching for identification using artificial intelligence on the blockchain.
xmj··on Bullshit Jobs
First thing I do when being fired upon is ZDV 3/11 "Gefechtsdienst aller Truppen (zu Lande)", the German soldier's bible.

Handbooks are read during downtime not primetime.

xmj··on Bullshit Jobs
> The government needs to step in and spend, spend, spend on large ventures like space travel, medical science, robotics for bullshit job insanity to end.

Isn't it hilarious that the governments are the largest purveyors of bullshit jobs and resource extraction?

xmj··on Ask HN: What are you currently self hosting?
awesome
xmj··on The Final Days of a Tax Haven
>I don't see a rational reason why such tax havens should exist in the first place.

From Wikipedia:

An oasis (/oʊˈeɪsɪs/; plural: oases /oʊˈeɪsiːz/) is an isolated area in a desert, typically surrounding a spring or similar water source, such as a pond or small lake.

xmj··on The Final Days of a Tax Haven
>I know that'll make me unpopular with a certain vocal minority but those folks haven't ever bought me so much as a cup of coffee so I think I'll live.

Great attitude, sir. But who will build the roads? ;)

xmj··on If your pay is not yours to keep, then neither is the tax
Are you saying poor people shouldn't use roads?
xmj··on If your pay is not yours to keep, then neither is the tax
I hold title to the roads because I paid for them, whether voluntarily or at gunpoint makes no difference.
xmj··on Medical Device CEO Catches Stranger After Hours, Prompting Espionage Charges
Me, in airports.
xmj··on Ask HN: People who completed a bootcamp 3+ years ago: what are you doing now?
If three years after a bootcamp you're spending that much time on HN it probably did not go fantastically.
xmj··on Theresa May says the internet must now be regulated after London terror attack
>That in turn may be because historically the level of abuse in the UK has been lower

This must be why persecuted religions fled from UK to US :-D

xmj··on To Understand 'Brexit,' Look to Britain’s Tabloids
To understand Trump, look at the NYT.
xmj··on Same Stats, Different Graphs: Datasets with Varied Appearance and Identical Stats
The most regularly encountered house price at sale would be the mode.

Median is the value at which 50% of houses trade higher as well as lower.

xmj··on N.S.A Halts Collection of Americans’ Emails About Foreign Targets
Where are you going to sue the government... in a government court?
xmj··on Trump Wants Tax Plan to Cut Corporate Rate to 15%
Then why insist on dividends, and not have companies reinvest?
xmj··on Trump Wants Tax Plan to Cut Corporate Rate to 15%
Realistically what do you think shareholders do with payouts?
xmj··on Comprehensive and biased comparison of OpenBSD and FreeBSD [pdf]
Support for Intel's Broadwell / Skylake range is actively being developed in the `drm-next` branch found at https://github.com/FreeBSDDesktop/freebsd-base-graphics/

Current effort is to reduce the difference between "upstream" FreeBSD (being 12.0-CURRENT) and the project branch, and make the code ready for merging into head.

TrueOS merges that `drm-next` work on an ongoing basis. Likewise, if you're on HardenedBSD, there are binary updates via hbsd-update, or if you'd rather compile things, clone the `hardened/current/drm-next` branch from https://github.com/hardenedbsd/hardenedbsd-playground.

xmj··on Ask HN: Looking to freelancing as a source of income
"Enough."

None of that through Upwork and all of it through personal connections.

xmj··on BSDploy – FreeBSD jail provisioning
Did you ever get sshuttle ported to FreeBSD?
xmj··on Microsoft chatbot is taught to swear on Twitter
> They almost have to teach it good vs evil (morals)

Be careful what you wish for.

The same group of people who taught AI to troll will find a way to turn the morals upside down.

With logic.

xmj··on Wrestling With Inclusion at LambdaConf
This form of "sarcasm" is best countered with following it through to its logical conclusion.
xmj··on Wrestling With Inclusion at LambdaConf
Right on.
xmj··on Wrestling With Inclusion at LambdaConf
Does your "Code of Belief" require enforcing?

I have few redundant personnel of my thought police I could rent out to you.

xmj··on Wrestling With Inclusion at LambdaConf
The emotional child's guide to political discussion comes to mind:

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/2b/78/f2/2b78f2e25...

xmj··on Wrestling With Inclusion at LambdaConf
How many "problematic" views will you "no-platform" until your "safe space" is a personal hugbox with n=1?

Get over yourself a little and you'll see that the above is the ultimate consequence of your choices to exclude people.

xmj··on Wrestling With Inclusion at LambdaConf
> Well today in "tech", if you openly support a republican candidate, good luck being invited at tech events or conferences as a speaker.

Don't worry. Tech is currently undergoing yet another tectonic shift, with the difference that this time it goes into the right direction.

xmj··on Wrestling With Inclusion at LambdaConf
> The Americans have a whole load of case law around First Amendment rights, it would be worth familiarizing yourself with that for a few hundred years worth of considered thought.

The First Amendment cannot prevent social ostracization.

xmj··on Wrestling With Inclusion at LambdaConf
Go to a Trump rally and tell this to a "Black Lives Matter" supporter, I dare you.
xmj··on Wrestling With Inclusion at LambdaConf
> Curtis Yarvin is a professed fascist who has written about his belief that some races are more suited to slavery than others.

Having read a good deal of his unqualified reservations, I wonder if you can source this quote for me please?

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