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  • From a developer standpoint you’re taking someone’s baby, cloning it into a language they don’t understand and deprecating the original. Worse, if you’re not actually interested in taking over the project you’ve now made it abandonware because the original developer lost heart and the person looking for commit counts on GitHub has moved on.

    Obviously these extremes don’t always apply, but a lot of open source relies on people taking a personal interest. If you destroy that, you might just destroy the project.




  • I live in Minneapolis bud. You will be actively shouted down for even mentioning that you considered reporting a crime because “the police might shoot them”. Additionally, all property crimes here must now be reported to 311 (not the police) which is purely to get you a case number for insurance. They don’t pursue them.

    As for GDP, yeah man, urban areas are blue. It’s not because they’re better, it’s because poor people congregate there for public services.




  • Crime stats depend on people reporting crimes. Something that is actively discouraged in blue states. You don’t need a six figure salary when the cost of living is low. California has the 5th highest infant mortality rate in th country. Not everyone needs to pay a few years wages to a paper mill for a diploma they’ll never use in their trade. California, Texas, New York and Florida have the four largest economies in the US. This hardly follows party lines.





  • Of the future? They’re a duplicate of what Apple was doing with software as far back as the mid 90s.

    Every ounce of performance we squeeze out of our hardware is replaced with pounds of bloat like this.

    It’s fine for a utility or something you’ll hardly ever need to use, but running every day software like this is a complete waste.





  • Thinking about this further…

    I can purchase 10GE fiber, at home, for $299/mo.

    I can purchase a solid 16 bay Supermixro server for around $5k

    16TB drives are $168. There’s $3,700 left so let’s buy 21 drives (336TB, 235TB usable under raidz3 zfs). We’ll leave that last $170 for … electricity.

    Leasing all of this from a regular hosting provider woul be much more cost effective. I work for one, what the heck are you doing man?