Readit Newsrhoyerboat commented on Jeff Bezos Commits $10B to Address Climate Change nytimes.com/2020/02/17/te... · Posted by u/gok
He's also switching majority (I'm unsure as to the amount and the timeframe of his delivery trucks to electric). With pressure from someone like Bezos putting vehicle fleets on electric, that could put the US on the path to build a much needed electric vehicle infrastructure.
;) Maybe given Bezos' character, the endowment and the fleet upgrade is actually, well aside from being more cost effective for a lot of reasons .. also .. his best vehicle for scoring some long term points against the Saudis, since they 'didn't hack his phone, or whatever.
rhoyerboat commented on Amish Hackers (2009) kk.org/thetechnium/amish-... · Posted by u/newswasboring
The comment section of the article is filled with funny bot spam, worth a glance for a chuckle. Guys advertising "whatsapp hacking" services with a "customer" replying to the ad vouching for them.
those people are abusing disqus across practically every site that uses it which ive visited in recent memory. wish they could get a handle on it, its a pretty useful plugin except for the apparent shitpot security. maybe its up to site moderators and they don't do the work, maybe the disqus audience is particularly vulnerable to soc.eng .. w/e, bummer.
rhoyerboat commented on To become a good C programmer (2011) fabiensanglard.net/c/... · Posted by u/6581
This is a great list of books - at least, I found the same ones were the most excellent. Also I really learnt a lot from 21st Century C (The author here said they wanted to stick to C89, which is fair enough.)
>To read great C code will help tremendously.
But then he just gives examples of games I don't know and am not really interested in. Anyone know some non-game C that is, I suppose, well-known and wonderfully-written?
Also, am learning about writing APIs, any good books or talks about that people could recommend, or examples of particularly good ones in C? (I'm particularly interested in maths/graphics-type stuff.) Thanks!
recently I started working on a module for nginx and have developed a full-blown crush on the module loader and its relationship with core functionality. haven't seen anything else quite like it, in C, that is. major newb talkin'
also plan9, its nice to read some kernel code that hasn't been tortured by practical requirements for decades.
rhoyerboat commented on Linode launches free DDoS protection linode.com/press_release/... · Posted by u/hanru
I like Linode and DO and have my issues with the big cloud players, but I don’t see them as monopolistic at all? There are multiple highly competitive offerings in the market, each competing on features and cost. You have lots of choice and even vendor lock in is somewhat mitigable if you want to put the effort in.
ah- i meant i don't like those guys ' who rebuilt downtown Seattle in their own image.. (it's silly, I know, but I hate to write corp names as proper nouns once they start to abuse peoples trust, and HN is filtering the asterisks I would have used on another medium. ... i mean a$$azon is openly monopolistic.. that works.)
rhoyerboat commented on Linode launches free DDoS protection linode.com/press_release/... · Posted by u/hanru
Serious question: why would I want to use Linode over GCP or AWS? Asking as someone who hasn’t really dabbled with smaller cloud providers. Is it cost? Support? Developer tooling?
On my part, I prefer Linode now simply because I won't support a company as openly monopolistic as .. those guys .. if I can avoid it. Also, maybe a little superficial loyalty. Linode was the first provider I found with KVM support when it was a new feature in QEMU, but that reasoning is long expired.
rhoyerboat commented on Why Won’t My Child Show Any Work? artofproblemsolving.com/n... · Posted by u/ALEXISGENIUS
as a student who didn't understand why I was getting it right more often when I wasn't showing my work, the assignment of credit based on this frustrated my education immensely.
figured out, a decade later, doing remedial math to get into calculus, that i was just a touch dyslexic. it had made me vulnerable to some seemingly algorithmic multiple-choice test trickery in their remedial math program, and explained where the requirements to show work had helped me to develop the wrong answer, so many times in high school.
understanding this and being able to give myself a pass where i could expect to transpose some variables .. i was actually sort-of talented and more importantly, i actually enjoyed it ..
rhoyerboat commented on DevDegree: Work at Shopify and get a free CS degree in parallel devdegree.ca/... · Posted by u/PandawanFr
> the system
So we are going to absolve all 18 year olds of decision making because of 'the system'?
As an 18 year old I was keenly aware of debt. My college experience was going to a local school while working 20-30 hours/week and living at home. All because we didn't have much money, and I wanted to take as few loans as possible.
So maybe this persons parents and primary school failed them, but I don't buy it was the system.
In the US we ban marketing tobacco and alcohol to minors, if that is largely okay with everyone, we should consider extending it to ban marketing -anything- to minors.
When I hear someone say 'the system,' I wish they would be more specific.
I think a small group of corporations being in direct control of the mass dissemination of corporation serving behavioral role models and information is a problem that needs to be addressed in order ensure the quality of freedom in the marketplace.
Taking the oceanic volumes of weapons grade, artificial psychological pressure off the kids seems like a great place to start.
> the citizen at least knows they're being censored
Since your argument revolve around this, do you know if this is correct? As in, people in China does not know they're being censored?
if a citizen speaks about censorship in a society that censors speech, can anyone confirm that they make a sound?
Firefox is further slowed down by using more and more Rust based code - Rust is known to compile slowly. However I would say this is a good tradeoff, since Rust brings much more safety to one of the most safety-critical applications on a typical desktop.
(if your building on say, a completely fresh stage3 gentoo system, that equals some pretty good linker load. cairo comes to mind as a huge culprit, whether its webkit or mozilla.)