thrwawy74 (u/thrwawy74)

thrwawy74 commented on How to make fancy road trip maps with R and OpenStreetMap andrewheiss.com/blog/2023... · Posted by u/sebg

tinus_hn · 3 years ago

So your job is to create an undercover network to allow them to escape the clutches of evil republicans. I can certainly imagine that you don’t want to take responsibility for this drivel at work.

thrwawy74 · 3 years ago

Traveling to other states for work is done at the gov expense (for our line of work). If there are extenuating circumstances to remove someone and bring them home quickly, we still have to abide by federal travel regulation to get them home. Otherwise they're stranded in another state trying to arrange airfare or a car + hotel(s) which can be very expensive on short notice:

https://www.gsa.gov/policy-regulations/regulations/federal-t...

My understanding is in Florida you can be arrested for dressing in opposition to the gender you were assigned at birth. If witnessed by a child this can be considered a sex crime, for which sex crimes involving children in Florida are eligible for the death penalty. Do I think this is likely to happen? Yes. The past 4-6 years have demonstrated we keep /hoping/ for de-escalation, but then examples are made that get national attention and evil things become normalized. Can and 'will happen' are subjective, but they did recently make it legal to seize trans kids.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/desantis-signs-florida-ban-...

I'm part of an employee advocacy group. It is my role to be sensitive and address concerns some may consider isolated or minute. Things we never thought we'd have to discuss at work are now being discussed to keep (management), employees, and families aware of risks and safe.

What is your definition of evil?

thrwawy74 commented on Red Hat dropping support for LibreOffice lwn.net/ml/fedora-devel/2... · Posted by u/5e92cb50239222b

piaste · 3 years ago

What do you mean by "monitoring security spaces"? Are you frequently refreshing the bug boards of every library your applications and OS uses?

thrwawy74 · 3 years ago

I'm very interested in some sort of daemon that regularly scans for vulnerable binaries/libraries and produces desktop notifications about this and/or hosts a web interface to review issues. I do use clamav for malicious files, but bug advisories/vulnerabilities are another area I wish I could make convenient to monitor for personal computing. I've seen things like Splunk reports in enterprise settings, but not for personal 'digital hygiene'

Anybody have a list of open source solutions here?

thrwawy74 commented on Brazil develops tropical wheat and predicts self-sufficiency in 5 years ukragroconsult.com/en/new... · Posted by u/unboxedvariable

marcodiego · 3 years ago

There are a few things that would make Brazil a lot more stable economically (and even socially and politically) if we achieved self-sufficiency:

Fossil fuels: Currently, Brazil is self-sufficient in oil, but we export petrol to buy back refined fuels (gasoline and diesel). If we were self-sufficient in fossil fuels we would be much more immune to inflation every time OPEC decides to reduce oil output.

Wheat: We are the top of the world exporting foods. We produce 6x our current need. Nevertheless, we still need imported wheat. Ukraine war and dollar variations literary affect our bread.

Fertilizers: The largest world food producer needs imported fertilizers. The irony: our main supplier is Russia. This basically prevents Brazil taking any side in the conflict and affects our (and our buyers) food prices as much as wheat.

Achieving self-sufficiency in these three areas would be like a second independence for us (first was when we got free from Portugal).

thrwawy74 · 3 years ago

I found this compelling but I'm still seeing how objective it is as we carry out this timeline: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wi_nFz1CJSI

thrwawy74 commented on How to make fancy road trip maps with R and OpenStreetMap andrewheiss.com/blog/2023... · Posted by u/sebg

jay3ss · 3 years ago

For what it's worth, I didn't think that was edgy. Sometimes it's a good idea to think about worse case scenarios

thrwawy74 · 3 years ago

It's legit the focus of where I work :c (gestures broadly to everything)

thrwawy74 commented on How to make fancy road trip maps with R and OpenStreetMap andrewheiss.com/blog/2023... · Posted by u/sebg

tinus_hn · 3 years ago

So edgy that you’re only posting it using a throwaway account. Stop trolling.

thrwawy74 · 3 years ago

Is this edgy? I work in the gov and last week drafted a policy to inform and quickly relocate staff in such states based on their public-facing potential for harm. Quite a lot of our staff is in Florida right now, and legislation continues to roll through.. It's quite real to me. Also I just cycle through throwaway accounts because when I attached my comments to a username I began to self-censor how I speak. The lack of a username helps me think.

thrwawy74 commented on California spent $17B on homelessness – it’s not working wsj.com/articles/californ... · Posted by u/mfiguiere

atdrummond · 3 years ago

I don’t think the feds are to blame.

SF and similar CA cities have set up a program that encourages people to move there because it makes being “homeless” an actual possible lifestyle choice. Even an enjoyable one.

thrwawy74 · 3 years ago

Hmm. I wonder if you could say "if someone becomes homeless in your locality, your locality has failed them". And then rate localities/states by their net loss of citizens that have fallen "outside society". Then begin incentivizing communities to fix these problems. There's only so much a local community can do with limited funds, but while I'm sure the majority of homeless in California are Californian... I would love other states to take ownership of citizens they export/extrude. :s

thrwawy74 commented on How to make fancy road trip maps with R and OpenStreetMap andrewheiss.com/blog/2023... · Posted by u/sebg

trabant00 · 3 years ago

I can't believe how even a topic about open maps API gets turned into politics. And then gets voted to the top. What was HN saying about Twitter's algorithm? Something about polarization, divisiveness, outrage, etc? It's not algorithms, it's you. You're making online discussion miserable for everybody.

thrwawy74 · 3 years ago

This is objectively useful: Now we can build an underground railroad for getting LGBT folks out of Florida and similar states.

thrwawy74 commented on Federal judge: Border searches of cell phones require a warrant eff.org/deeplinks/2023/05... · Posted by u/panarky

LastTrain · 3 years ago

You are almost entirely wrong, of course. Visitors in the US do indeed have rights.

thrwawy74 · 3 years ago

For comradery, I'm loving where this is going. I do wish we more consciously accepted that all persons have inherent rights. Looking forward to a world gov that tries to do good things someday... a la Bicentennial Man.

thrwawy74 commented on NASA's Laser Link Boasts Record-Breaking 200 Gbps Speed spectrum.ieee.org/laser-c... · Posted by u/mfiguiere

thrwawy74 · 3 years ago

I get that this is aimed at major backhauls, I'm just frustrated that for the next 10 years we'll be talking about greater and greater bandwidth and not lesser latency. Consumer internet is going to suck for a long time.

thrwawy74 commented on Apple is rewriting Foundation in Swift github.com/apple/swift-fo... · Posted by u/hnand

jb1991 · 3 years ago

While it’s true that the language is really only useful on just Apple platforms, it is still quite an amazing language. I have professionally used about half a dozen languages over the last many years, written hundreds of thousands of lines each in all those languages, and swift is a true breath of fresh air. It checks all the boxes for me, very concise and elegant to write, yet very strictly statically typed. A nice upgrade to OO programming with use of protocols, with strong encouragement to use functional programming here and there as well. Runs reasonably fast, on par with Go or Java. Overall just really nice ergonomics. named parameters and a wide variety of other seemingly minor syntactical characteristics act as a meaningful upgrade to make the overall process of writing code much more enjoyable for me.

The fact that Apple provides all these incredible platform specific frameworks and libraries for graphics, audio, games, GPU kernel programming, and more, it’s just the icing.

thrwawy74 · 3 years ago

It's Microsoft's Powershell, but for Apple's OS.