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  • Vqhm@lemmy.worldtolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldLinus does not fuck around
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    7 months ago

    I’ve never had a negative experience contributing to open source.

    I’ve also been to scrums where everyone is equal, and we have to be very PC, about explaining “processes” and “best practices” to people that break the build pipeline every single day. Eventually I just coded error handling and guard clauses into everything so no one could screw anything up by not following the documentation being a cowboy. That is a best practice, sure, but you’d be surprised by how people break things even after being warned not to do a very specific thing.

    A cowboy that fixes things always 24/7 can be a maverick and talk shit.

    But in todays PC world you can also be a cowboy that breaks everything always and spends weeks fixing something they themselves broke…

    I wish I could say the things Linus said instead of just putting people on a performance improvement plan.

    Sometimes being angry is appropriate. When I am I step back and try to figure out solution where the fuck up can’t happen again and no one gets hurt.

    I’ve seen people be VERY angry and even hands on working in jobs where fucking up can kill people.

    I’d rather see anger than people dying. Did Linus go too far here? Probably, but there is a time and place for anger and being direct.


  • Vqhm@lemmy.worldtolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldIt's OK if you cry
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    7 months ago

    Even a decade ago it usually meant ticking a box that you also allowed nonfree drivers.

    Even Debian allowed you to download the specific nonfree driver you needed and add it (without Internet) at imaging so post install you could connect with wifi and not just Ethernet.

    It’s come a long way. But doesn’t anyone else remember when windows did not have drivers and you’d constantly be confronted with “have disk”?

    I mean, the amount of drivers for old hardware I still have saved… Because before win10 nothing would reliability always fetch the driver you need from the net…







  • Several presidents have put tax dollars to work on medical research. For example the The U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) paved the way for money for the PreP trials in 2005.

    Obama kicked off precision medicine and gene research.

    Obama’s HITECH Act reformed HIPAA in a way that improved outcomes for patients and the industry.

    But yea, everything is black and white. Conflicts in Africa and the middle east are the only concern I could ever have.

    I especially do not care at all about any medical advancements or harm reductions.

    Everyone must survive and no one can ever be harmed or everything is lost.

    You know you sound just like the every sperm is sacred anti abortion activists.

    War = so bad we must sabotage anyone involved in war and trade all our liberties, freedoms, health, etc just to not have war!


  • Vqhm@lemmy.worldtointernet funeral@lemmy.world↷󠁿󠁿
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    8 months ago

    It’s really hit or miss. If you do any edits or answers any questions maps will try and ask you to confirm things others have suggested. But if no one else in the area does that or confirms. Then it’ll just ask you again to confirm the thing you already told it a month ago.

    I finally broke down and just asked my friends and neighbors if they could confirm that the entrance to our multilevel apartment building was at the corner with the elevator and not the back maintenance entrance so ambulances would stop going to the back and could actually get into the building!

    After 2 of them submitted that the entrance was at the front of the building google maps finally changed it. But I had been trying for months before I asked others to set it to the same exact spot on the map.




  • Hurry up and wait.

    If you’re a specialist that’s needed for a specific task you might have to travel a long way.

    You probably already have bags packed. You probably already have a limited power of attorney or will. You might write some checks out for rent/bills. You might make sure your gf/wife/dependa has some condoms ready for Jody. You might want to make sure you have childcare someone to watch your dog, someone to start or charge your car while gone or you might arrange for someone to put the car on parked status for cheaper insurance and just jump it or buy a new battery when you get back.

    You prolly make sure all your CBTs are done and maybe if you don’t already have it done you get a checklist of shit to do on base. That quickly turns into a series of quests just like that video game you hate.

    Then if you do deploy you get a call and possibly have to call some else on a phone tree and go HURRY UP AND WAIT.


  • Why?

    We’ve pretty much been at war nonstop since WWII.

    They just called it the cold war.

    Cooler heads have prevailed, for the most part, for a long time. The shock and awe overwhelming force doctrine has worked when we needed it. There’s questions on if it will work on a near peer in a new battle space featuring Internet, space, drones, and unconventional warfare.

    It’s likely a near peer would target our water and power infrastructure with hacks. It’s possible many civilians could die without even using nuclear weapons from that. It’s possible the Internet would never be the same afterwards.

    But so far cooler heads have prevailed. The military industrial complex might be great at extracting tax dollars but the idea is that all that spending will work to prevent WWIII by being prepared to fight it.

    We might have to fight that war one day. Why worry? We spend plenty of money to be prepared to do so.