celeduc

I'll make a concerted effort not to feed the trolls, but categorically false statements must be either confronted or removed.

Cool, I must be writing from Uranus then.

"mistakes were made"

"rest of the world" being you, apparently.

Timing a market that's absolutely sure to collapse is notoriously difficult.

No need, Bayer AG has been poisoning and murdering humans for 158 years and has developed complete resistance to being held accountable.

Build times matter a lot. I've spent a lot of my career working to reduce build and test cycles to improve productivity. Rust is the one environment where no matter how much time we threw at the problem it never got better.

System programming isn't a dark art, it's just programming with programmers as an audience. Application programming focuses on end-users who may not be programmers. I've done both.

I've used and developed on X11 since 1990. I'm well aware of its numerous limitations and I'm glad new technology such as Wayland is being developed to replace it. But it wasn't "a mistake".

Firstly, yes, Grindr is mostly men looking for sex, but they're not all homosexuals and they're not all looking for sex; many are just there to flirt, others to troll. But Grindr is definitely gathering and selling lists: it's what they do.

Secondly, with the word "services" you're implying that the users are whores.

Thirdly, there are an infinite number of ways that Grindr could protect its users through the design of their app: from purely technical measures such as end-to-end encryption, or through careful informed consent about shared data and protection of people who are legally or functionally incapable of such consent.

But from your statements you just want to blame the users because you disapprove of them. I'm sure you can do better than that.

> "the big mistakes from Unix, besides the X Window System"

The entire X11 system was "a mistake". Got it, we should have stuck to 7-bit text on a VT-100 because that was utter perfection.

With that compelling intro I lost any interest in any other arguments the author presented.

"Intent monitoring" is a euphemism for detecting the presence of the "wrong kind of people". It's not fictional at all.

Genocidal policies are usually quite popular with the local majority.

Slave labour.

Slave labor is super profitable.

*Unlimited resources

Typical human brain cells, they just want to play retro video games.

Mike's "friend" is awfully judgemental.

Or they got a fat kickback

Toyota bet on hydrogen and lost. Now they're doing subtractive marketing on the remote controls which modern carmakers have eliminated altogether.

> Even several years later, Rambo is still furious at the bar for giving Watkins his credit card receipt. “Who owns that place? They gave her my personal information,” he fumed.

That's my favorite part.

Wait 'til you hear about the baseband on your phone.

"Hello, Verizon sales department for deep packet inspection, header manipulation, and active surveillance, how can I help you?"

It would be weird if it "just happened" for no particular reason. They weren't forced to do so.

It's a bait and switch and it's a sellout, which is pretty hilarious: a scam and a betrayal. And why not?

Sounds like Zucker and Tim Apple made a deal.

51% attacks have been performed on some smaller PoW chains, specifically Ethereum Classic. It's not that hard. https://www.crypto51.app/

1) Being a native English speaker doesn't guarantee anyone knows how to write. 2) The vernacular style may be characteristic but it is not inferior, just unfamiliar.

What sold me on Ruby/Rails in the first place was its comprehensive test and deployment framework that worked out-of-the-box without having to make too many choices or develop those things independently. That was truly revolutionary.

But everything else eventually caught up and surpassed the Ruby/Rails ecosystem on the requirements->deployment pipeline, and did a lot of other things better.

I have a real soft spot for Ruby but I won't be back.

"Extra Oracle stuff" sounds like a great reason to avoid it.

I can confirm that it is also a problem here in Spain https://www.elmundotoday.com/2021/10/la-falta-de-camioneros-... and there was a huge backlog in licensing even before the pandemic. (Driver licensing here is a shitshow in any case.)

But then Spain didn't tell drivers from all over Europe that they are undesirable and unwanted, create a "hostile environment" for them and their families, and then dissolve our trading relationship with our most important partners.

Drivers also don't enjoy gambling with uncertain paperwork, peeing in bottles and crapping next to hedgerows as they wait for endless border queues, so why would they choose those routes when instead they can drive somewhere else where they're not hated, resented and officially unwelcome?

I totally expected it to be written bottom-up.