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Re:Get All Your Sources on Monday October 30, 2023 @03:36AM (#38066628)
Nixos is a perfect toy for techies with too much free time. Decades ago it would *BSD, Gentoo, Arch and so on.

Opensuse with snapshots and some repo magic, can do 99% of functionality, without learning yet another abstraction layer. But dealing with RPMs is very unsexy.

Last paragraph is very scary. US president holds a button that can destroy the world. Great responsibility! It must be an intelligent person of highest personal integrity!
> And if they do come back, they’re likely expecting an average pay bump of 25%, Wong added

Single tech position gets like 100 applications, thousands of its remote. I think this guy is out of reality!

Devs in countries like Poland are now thriving, many of those jobs moved into cheaper regions!

This is how statutory rape works. Consent is invalidated by a law!

If person are intoxicated, they are prevented from resisting. So even if they give a verbal consent, this consent is invalidated by section 261 (a)(3), because they were prevented from resisting.

We can apply this "critical thinking" on wacky conspiracies like "flat earth theory". But do not dare to question anything more serious!
Re:USB Power Delivery for Hobby Projects on Sunday October 29, 2023 @08:53AM (#38058113)
I really hate USB PD for hobby project. You are getting into territory of cheap Chinese power adapters and voltage regulators, with high risk of fire! It is very easy and cheap, to find power bricks for any voltage, with much much better quality!
357 bytes for bootstrap compiler binary is VERY impressive!
> The application and evaluation processes for women and men are identical and do not distinguish between them. The Center for European Policy Analysis reports that Latvia has “comparatively good female representation within the Latvian National Armed Forces.” At present, women make up 16.5% of the army’s 6,700 military personnel.

They could easily boost that number by conscripting women. My "military service" in nearby country consisted mostly of wiping arses of elderly patients in hospital. Anyone can do that!

California Penal Code section 261 (a)(3)

> If a person is prevented from resisting by an intoxicating or anesthetic substance, or a controlled substance, and this condition was known, or reasonably should have been known by the accused.

Look up statutory rape, duress... If you want some actual cases, search at relevant forums. I am really not going to give legal advice here.

You were right maybe 20 years ago. But now many judicial precedents t say otherwise!

> Drunk but conscious people are very much able to consent

"Conscious" is highly individual state. I would strongly recommend you to look up current situation, it may prevent a very nasty situation, where judge has a different opinion!

Most guys I know take god knows what drugs, mixed with vodka and Redbull... Far from shining beacon of "consciousness". But they are still able to walk and talk, and somehow get home...

> The 55-year-old social worker now spends her weekends on the dancefloors of illegal.... “Recently, I met a younger man with an amazing body. It was probably the best sex of my life.”

In dating app you can filter out old people. So this old person would not have a chance there!

Her only chance is in night club, where she can rape drunken guys! People who drink alcohol can not give a consent! And that guy wery likely regrets it, when he wakes up in the morning!

I don't get the panic. It is legal to drug children, no need for such underhanded tactic!

It is also legal to tie down newborns, cut their genitals and give them BJ! Some child in NY got herpes this way and died!