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New comment by quicklyfrozen in "Jaywalking decriminalization, 100 years after the auto industry made it a crime"

quicklyfrozen — Mon, 21 Dec 2020 23:46:38 +0000

That's not a realistic goal. Even at 20 MPH, a well timed jump from between parked cars could leave someone closer then your reaction time.

New comment by quicklyfrozen in "Rocky Linux: A CentOS replacement by the CentOS founder"

quicklyfrozen — Thu, 17 Dec 2020 23:46:30 +0000

They do specifically mention that some fixes may come to RHEL first.

I'm sure they'll try not to break binary compatibility, but as it appears to be somewhat experimental and targeted to developers, breaking updates may occur. Isn't that the point of this distro -- so such testing can take place before updates are rolled into RHEL?

So, fine for a developer workstation, but I don't see how it can be stable enough to use in production.

New comment by quicklyfrozen in "Rocky Linux: A CentOS replacement by the CentOS founder"

quicklyfrozen — Thu, 17 Dec 2020 01:34:32 +0000

CentOS will be useless as a replacement for RHEL. Without the guarantee of binary compatibility, any CentOS Stream update may break your locally installed applications.

And I only recall CentOS significantly trailing RHEL at the major version updates (e.g. 6 and 7). Other updates seem pretty timely, and the major version lag doesn't leave me vulnerable.

I can see this being useful for developers who are building something that needs to be compatible with the next major release of RHEL, but I'm not sure who else it will be useful for.

New comment by quicklyfrozen in "Rocky Linux: A CentOS replacement by the CentOS founder"

quicklyfrozen — Thu, 17 Dec 2020 01:23:20 +0000

That's the whole point -- it's continually receiving updates that never break binary compatibility with existing apps/packages. For example, it's a safe target for vendors to target with binary packages, whereas CentOS stream won't be.

New comment by quicklyfrozen in "Rocky Linux: A CentOS replacement by the CentOS founder"

quicklyfrozen — Thu, 17 Dec 2020 01:11:27 +0000

rpmbuild will download the sources listed in the spec file, apply the patches, and execute the build instructions to produce RPM and SRPM packages. The SRPM will contain the "as built" source tree.

For dracut, the spec file defines the source as http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/dracut/dracut-049...

New comment by quicklyfrozen in "Rocky Linux: A CentOS replacement by the CentOS founder"

quicklyfrozen — Wed, 16 Dec 2020 23:29:18 +0000

The RPM SPEC file in that repo will have a pointer to the actual upstream sources for the package. This is a typical scenario -- they are not re-hosting all of the sources to build a Linux distro, just the build steps needed to pull, patch, and build upstream sources.

New comment by quicklyfrozen in "Eric Engstrom, co-creator of DirectX, has died"

quicklyfrozen — Mon, 14 Dec 2020 22:54:45 +0000

I know someone who ended up hospitalized from accidentally taking two over-the-counter meds that both contained Tylenol. It just doesn't take that much to cause damage.

New comment by quicklyfrozen in "New UK police speed gun can read license plates from half a mile away at night"

quicklyfrozen — Sun, 13 Dec 2020 08:12:09 +0000

Geoff doesn't count :-)

New comment by quicklyfrozen in "Who Americans spend their time with, by age"

quicklyfrozen — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 21:33:42 +0000

From what I've seen with older relatives, if you're able to stay mobile, you'll stay mobile longer and have a better quality of life. I don't think it's impossible to have housing and shops together and still have parking within a reasonable distance -- for example a town center with parking lots a couple blocks from the main street.

New comment by quicklyfrozen in "Wall Street Begins Trading Water Futures as a Commodity"

quicklyfrozen — Thu, 10 Dec 2020 23:26:57 +0000

We don't do it directly, but there are certainly municipal water supplies that are downstream of other town's waste water treatment plants.

New comment by quicklyfrozen in "Mushrooms Can Eat Plastic, Petroleum and CO2 (2018)"

quicklyfrozen — Thu, 03 Dec 2020 23:41:47 +0000

Personally I find paper wrapped items from the local deli fine, but I'd be pretty skeptical of any food products shipped only in paper -- too easy to contaminate.

New comment by quicklyfrozen in "Warner Bros. Will Send Entire 2021 Slate to HBO Max and Theaters"

quicklyfrozen — Thu, 03 Dec 2020 20:37:30 +0000

Yeah, I agree that the sound system in the theater is painful (do they think we are all deaf?).

New comment by quicklyfrozen in "Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack"

quicklyfrozen — Tue, 01 Dec 2020 22:42:09 +0000

I'm assuming that third parties are a lot more likely to join an external channel on a platform they're already using (and are more likely to be responsive as well).

I think all the existing integration are examples of an indirect network effect -- companies wouldn't invest in providing them if there weren't already users on the platform.

New comment by quicklyfrozen in "Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack"

quicklyfrozen — Tue, 01 Dec 2020 22:04:06 +0000

The number may be crazy, but Slack does benefit from network effects. For example, my company has many bots/integrations with other systems, years of institutional knowledge, and connections with multiple external vendors.

Switching would be painful so there'd have to be some pretty compelling reasons. (And who's got time to recreate all our custom emojis? :-))

New comment by quicklyfrozen in "Amazon EC2 Mac Instances"

quicklyfrozen — Tue, 01 Dec 2020 21:41:19 +0000

It's a lot easier to click a button on the AWS console then to get approval to buy new capital equipment, or to get approval to use a new vendor (for which we'd likely need legal review, security audits, etc.).

New comment by quicklyfrozen in "The SEC “Modernizes” the Accredited Investor Definition"

quicklyfrozen — Thu, 19 Nov 2020 23:56:10 +0000

Not everyone understands the principle of the nest egg.

New comment by quicklyfrozen in "CDC advises Americans not to travel for Thanksgiving"

quicklyfrozen — Thu, 19 Nov 2020 19:07:29 +0000

Being social and connected with our family unit is also deeply embedded in our DNA.

New comment by quicklyfrozen in "‘Extremely aggressive’ internet censorship spreads in the world’s democracies"

quicklyfrozen — Thu, 19 Nov 2020 00:51:36 +0000

Honestly clicking on the article just leads to paywalls or ad laden disasters that just consume my CPU (or complain if I have an ad blocker).

HN just works, so it's a lot less work just to read the discussion here.

New comment by quicklyfrozen in "Software development: should we stop? Maybe we should"

quicklyfrozen — Wed, 18 Nov 2020 18:03:23 +0000

I've seen the exact same scenario play out with an e-commerce site using MySQL.

New comment by quicklyfrozen in "To find great remote employees, prioritize candidates with strong writing skills"

quicklyfrozen — Wed, 18 Nov 2020 17:59:59 +0000

As an IC you probably have more time to fully read emails, esp. those from your management chain.

I like to lay out the decisions I'm going to make if I don't get feedback, if possible. That seems to prompt feedback when feedback is required -- it seems the human desire to fix mistakes is stronger then it is to answer open ended questions. It likely gives the reader some context as to why you need the information as well.