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New comment by meddlepal in "54% of San Francisco homes are in buildings that would be illegal to build today"

meddlepal — Thu, 01 Apr 2021 21:44:23 +0000

You're not letting city governments get away with anything, the voters, the ones that actually show up, support these measures.

New comment by meddlepal in "A categorized list of all Java and JVM features since JDK 8 to 16"

meddlepal — Thu, 01 Apr 2021 18:56:20 +0000

I somewhat agree, but Java grew up in a different era when communication about these things wasn't as easy. It's hard to change the direction of something as large and widely deployed as Java. It's happening but it will take time and its always going to dealing with its legacy as there just so much of it out there.

New comment by meddlepal in "Covid 'fuse' may have been lit weeks or months before the 'bomb' in Wuhan market"

meddlepal — Wed, 31 Mar 2021 13:06:28 +0000

Thats why he said many not all.

New comment by meddlepal in "Kafka without ZooKeeper"

meddlepal — Wed, 31 Mar 2021 06:54:16 +0000

Azures blob service supports the first one. Its strongly consistent and has a lease/lock API. Ive seen leader election and coordination stuff built on top of it.

New comment by meddlepal in "Boston Dynamics Unveils New Robot for Warehouse Automation"

meddlepal — Tue, 30 Mar 2021 17:09:37 +0000

Dont worry we will all eventually just be working for the military-industrial complex in some form eventually, directly or indirectly. That’s basically the end state.

New comment by meddlepal in "Amazon union vote count begins this week for Alabama warehouse"

meddlepal — Mon, 29 Mar 2021 21:58:53 +0000

It's not a threat. It literally has to be mandatory since the decision will have large impacts on the current employees and the company. Employees need to know what they are voting on. It's not as simple as union good, company bad and you're being disingenuous painting it as such.

New comment by meddlepal in "Amazon union vote count begins this week for Alabama warehouse"

meddlepal — Mon, 29 Mar 2021 21:34:40 +0000

The union has access to the employees out of work hours.

Why should the union get compensated time to express their position. If the Union wants to comp Amazon access to their employees and lost productivity then sure maybe, but I don't see that being proposed. It's always Amazon who must "give" something.

New comment by meddlepal in "Amazon union vote count begins this week for Alabama warehouse"

meddlepal — Mon, 29 Mar 2021 21:27:27 +0000

> This practice really should be banned, IMO. The employer is taking advantage of the fact that the employee typically needs the job to survive.

I assume Amazon is paying for the time these employees have to spend in the mandatory information sessions? I don't see the problem.

Amazon MUST get the opportunity to present its case even if anti-union is not a popular stance. If the deal offered by Amazon is so bad then what is the harm? We should not be shielding people from information because we don't believe they're smart enough to see through it... that reeks of elitist paternalistic thinking.

New comment by meddlepal in "Elon Musk’s anti-union tweet from 2018 must be deleted: U.S. labor board"

meddlepal — Sat, 27 Mar 2021 01:15:21 +0000

And Tesla should be allowed every opportunity to stop them.

I guess Tesla broke the law in this case, but I do not really agree with the ruling and the law. Musk should be allowed to present the possible downsides.

New comment by meddlepal in "Red Hat Pulls Free Software Foundation Funding over Richard Stallman's Return"

meddlepal — Fri, 26 Mar 2021 22:18:23 +0000

Engineers circling the wagons for one of their own. If this was a CEO, politician, broadcaster, or anyone else with an ounce of notability they would probably be calling for their head.

New comment by meddlepal in "Reddit’s most popular subreddits go private in protest against ‘censorship’"

meddlepal — Wed, 24 Mar 2021 19:34:48 +0000

At a technical level it is always possible somehow but the point people are trying to make is that there should be access controls and protocols in place. The CEO should not have absolute unconstrained access in all matters.

New comment by meddlepal in "Tesla cars can be bought in Bitcoin"

meddlepal — Wed, 24 Mar 2021 15:35:51 +0000

BTC true believers believe its a currency not a speculative asset you hold and it magically appreciates in value.

New comment by meddlepal in "Tesla cars can be bought in Bitcoin"

meddlepal — Wed, 24 Mar 2021 13:53:18 +0000

Hard to imagine anyone but Bitcoin true believers doing this. It’s basically throwing money away if BTC continues going up

New comment by meddlepal in "They Just Moved to Austin. Now They Want to End One of Its Traditions"

meddlepal — Wed, 24 Mar 2021 04:43:37 +0000

Given enough people, loud complaining, money, and politicians ears you can get anything moved.

New comment by meddlepal in "Microsoft in talks to buy Discord for more than $10B"

meddlepal — Tue, 23 Mar 2021 05:04:24 +0000

Ah yes..., the things nobody really cares about except for a tiny (vocal) minority.

New comment by meddlepal in "Microsoft in talks to buy Discord for more than $10B"

meddlepal — Tue, 23 Mar 2021 03:45:58 +0000

Slack is not strategically interesting. They are already eating the enterprise communication market with Teams. Acquiring Slack would basically be a talent and tech hire nothing more... not worth $8B.

Discord gives them something gamers know and love and could be paired with Xbox. Gives them a huge competitive edge against Sony, especially if they intend to build a cross-play centric platform between Windows and Xbox.

New comment by meddlepal in "AMD Expected to Become TSMC's Second Largest Customer"

meddlepal — Sun, 21 Mar 2021 23:47:50 +0000

A naval blockade of a nuclear power probably leads to a nuclear war.

Taking Taiwan is a giant pain in the ass for China which is why it is unlikely to happen in any foreseeable future (e.g. 30-50 years). Honestly, it seems like China despite its words sometimes is perfectly content with the current status quo so long as Taiwan doesn't try to foment political unrest on the mainland.

New comment by meddlepal in "Docker for Mac M1 RC"

meddlepal — Fri, 19 Mar 2021 15:48:16 +0000

I'll reply to this comment when I do know

New comment by meddlepal in "Docker for Mac M1 RC"

meddlepal — Fri, 19 Mar 2021 14:52:08 +0000

I haven’t tried a VPN yet, but I have heard of some possible quirks due to how the networking is handled between Windows and Linux in HyperV

Edit: Im switching from Fedora to a WSL setup for work in the next week. Ill report on issues I encounter in that migration. I suspect VPN will come up because one of the key reasons im switching off Fedora to Windows+WSL is due to corporate VPN requirements.

New comment by meddlepal in "Out of prison after 30 years and people telling him to find forms on the web"

meddlepal — Fri, 19 Mar 2021 13:17:42 +0000

The US prison system is all about punishment not rehabilitation.

Theres a very strong “lock them up and throw away the key” mentality in many Americans view of justice.