In general it might be a bad idea to prospect dystopian sci-fi novels for VC pitching decks. Like, are there no adults in the room anymore.
Pitch them to Elon Musk instead. That's all he seems to care about.
Readit Newsvinceguidry commented on I'm switching to Python and actually liking it cesarsotovalero.net/blog/... · Posted by u/cesarsotovalero
When did Python go out of fashion? This is the second article I've seen talking about it as if it's some kind abomination.
I get that it's not the shiny new thing, but I don't understand people hating on it. Is this just junior devs who never learned it, or is there some new language out that I missed? (And please don't tell me Javascript....)
There are massive numbers of devs who would never even think of trying to code in a dynamically-typed language, even though the big players all have gradual typing. They don't know what they're missing.
Classic case of "you're pretentious", "no, you're pretentious". It's exhausting how often we reach for the word "pretentious" when we have bitter feelings about one person's opinion of another person or their work.
I just used it because he did. My real feeling was exhaustion. More of those comments than comments about the subject matter of the post. Like going to a swimming meet as a pro and finding it full of kids instead.
> we got some spray paint and wrote messages all over the building ... he said the county got on his ass about it.
No surprise, messages in spray paint are generally discouraged. Had you drawn a mural, it may have been treated differently.
> All the land around a bus station is typically city-owned, I wouldn't give it a week before a work detail is despatched to remove it.
When the bus stop is on a gravel road next to a field, as depicted in the article, I doubt the land is city-owned. But yeah, no surprise, the city doesn't want you to dump your stuff on their land, and they'll remove it.
Edit: from the google maps picture, it's not even on a gravel road, it's next to gravel parking for a small building. What municipality is going to give you shit for putting a sculpture next to your parking lot, unless the sculpture is obviously dangerous, offensive, or subverting building codes (if your sculpture is occupiable space, it needs to meet building codes)
In the US, the land in between the sidewalk and the road is city-owned. As is the sidewalk.
it's pretentiousness thinly disguised as modesty.
trust me.
What I find pretentious is the legion of commenters who can't find anything better to comment on and instead pretend they're smart by nitpicking some stylistic choice in the most low-effort way possible.
Eh, depends where the bus stop is. Around me, the transit busses don't have marked stops, and will stop anywhere on the route, and there's no sidewalk, so landowners can put up art/sculpture at the edge of their parcel or the road easement, if they want. School busses stop at specific places, but many landowners have put up shelters for students to wait underneath. In town, there are bus stops and city managed sidewalk; you can't block the sidewalk, but a landowner could put up art at the edge of the sidewalk. Commercial signs are regulated regardless of where installed, but a sculpture such as this isn't commercial.
Your city may be different, of course, but I wouldn't expect this to cause a problem, if installed by permission of the owner, in most cities. HOAs might throw a fit, they like to do that.
This sculpture isn't particularly tall, but height restrictions are popular. A sculpture that does not appear to be stable, or appears particularly flammable might be reviewable as well. There's no utility connections, so there's no need to review those.
The night the bar I went to shut down, we got some spray paint and wrote messages all over the building. Few weeks later they're having an estate sale. I notice it was painted over. Asked the owner, he said the county got on his ass about it.
All the land around a bus station is typically city-owned, I wouldn't give it a week before a work detail is despatched to remove it.
Try that here and city regulators will be all over your ass, smh.
I was surprised to see “AAAA”. I didn’t know there were 4 As now.
“AAAA Game Studio shits out another unoptimized clunker” seems a paradoxical statement to me. I would have thought “AAAA” meant “highly resourced” game company. Does it just mean high revenue? Lots of players?
The more money you throw at an effort, the more gets flushed out as waste, and the harder it is to maintain quality. Pretty universal across business.
vinceguidry commented on Systemd has been a complete, utter, unmitigated success blog.tjll.net/the-systemd... · Posted by u/Mond_
> It's not just an init system, it's everything below the userland. And a lot of those components are very poorly designed. And it's this big ball of mush where if you use one component, thy must use them all. It's so bad Arch does not support replacing systemd, like at all. You're totally on your own.
It's true, it's not only an init system anymore, it's also a service manager, a network manager, a DNS cache and resolver, a proper logging system (as in, with metadata, all in one place) and more.
Despite being opposed to it in the beginning, probably because it was immature at the time, I grew to love it even on Gentoo - my desktop and server OS of choice - which gives you OpenRC as a fully supported alternative:
- on my desktop, laptop and work VMs, it just works, with varying adoption of its components and services started, lazily activated if unneeded
- on my server, it simply makes sense for service auto-restart: OpenRC still requires you to manually enable support for service auto-restart ( https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/OpenRC/supervise-daemon#General... ), a feature that comes built-in in systemd and without extra complexity or components, and with predictable outcomes given the unit file
- almost all modern DEs rely on systemd, because it generally improved their session handling, sandboxing, brought user (rootless) services and other features
And generally, I think the biggest win is creating a system service management platform that can be used by all distros in the same way, without having to know 5+ init systems, having different scripts for the same service for each distro. I can basically work on my own devices, on work devices, on cloud VMs, on IoT devices, and have the same behavior, across different distros and hardware.
It's an improvement, I'll give you that much. But it's moved in the opposite direction and seeks to reduce freedom, not give more of it. I should be able to run my own DNS cache, network manager, service manager if I want to. Systemd makes that all but impossible.
Also, I tend to think that maintaining these interactions going might be a way to let more information into Naughty Korea and might actually have a positive influence in the long run.