@freemo I think the measures I outlined above do take rights concerns into consideration, and I'm aware of at least a couple attempts to implement some - that immediately were treated as non-starters.
I agree with "getting into the heads of both sides", but I think political gridlock on this is solidly due to the industry lobbies. They should have some say, but it outweighs the desires of the many by quite a bit, and that's undemocratic at the least.
@freemo "ban guns" is so polarizing, as is "stop the mass shootings". I'd like to see several other moderate, broadly popular and acceptable, measures be put in place at the federal level.
Unfortunately those things can't get traction due to the gun lobby. And the next stop on the argument train is "ban some guns".
@freemo the discussion around "gun control" in this country is so disappointing to me. There are a number of things we could do that would reduce gun deaths (improve background checks in multiple ways, purchase cool-down periods, require safety measures, require training - maybe provide training in High School). All short of, "ban guns".
I try to avoid energy drinks - I drink plenty of black coffee. This Alani Nu "cosmic stardust" stuff though... It's great.
Exercise, dehydration, and lack of sleep were conspiring to make me feel unproductive this afternoon. Now I'm feeling fantastic, and having fun being productive and rocking out to some music.
Common phases of bash script development:
1. Working out a one-liner interactively at the CLI
2. C-x C-e and then saving the one-liner into a file
3. Reformatting for linebreaks and legibility
4. Hoisting literal values into variables
5. Adding comments & print_usage()
6. Handling runtime configuration (config file, exported env vars, getopts)
7. Logging, verbosity, error handling & reporting
8. Restructuring for performance, legibility, logic
9. Promote logical flow to a different language
#BSides SATX posted some videos from last year - very appreciative of their work. Here's mine - a "why and how to setup a log4shell range in the cloud".
Me before today: #k3d and #k3s are basically the same.
Today: let's add an external node to this on demand so I can do big things!
Me today: dang, k3s and k3d are different in important ways 😥
#kubernetes
US friends, take note. I went to vote in Berlin today and this was the line in front of the polling station. “But wait! There is no line!” Indeed. There is no line because there need not be one. Because it’s about how polling is organised. If you are standing in a line for hours in order to exercise your democratic rights, it’s because someone wants you to.#polling #democracy #righttovote
🦀 GitHub and Rust
"So..... The short answer is that we built our own search engine from scratch, in Rust ....."
https://github.blog/2023-02-06-the-technology-behind-githubs-new-code-search/
Your daily #Pratchett
"The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they've found it."
Terry Pratchett, Monstrous Regiment
@feld when I was young I let myself spend time modifying everything on my Linux desktop and I thought it was fun. I was learning a ton because I was new. At some point I kept modifying things but I wasn't learning much anymore. Then I got to a point where I felt like I was wasting time by having to modify things.
I got a MBP and the hardware and software were great! I didn't have to modify stuff! Which was good because mostly I couldn't.
Almost a decade later the performance was terrible. OS X outgrew my laptop (which was my daily driver). I went back to Debian Testing.
And I had lost the desire to modify things. Debian matured a little, yes, but I had also lost that habit of modifying everything. I just setup the basics and go and it is exactly what I need. Linux was what I needed and I wasn't wasting time.
I agree that OS X is a pretty great user experience though.
Computer science guy, electrical engineer, US Air Force officer, jogger, likes teaching programming, aka KC0BFV.
Likes programming in: Rust, Python, JavaScript, C
Reluctantly uses: Roku's BrightScript, C++, anything