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Comment There are always 2 sides to a story (Score 1, Insightful) 77

The reporting is really short on details. Was this guy a van lifer type? An RV is considered your primary or "second" home for legal purposes. That means you can have a loaded firearm inside the RV and CA can't do anything about it.

Last time I checked (I left Commifornia a while ago), CA required you to carry firearms unloaded in vehicles, in a place that is not accessible to the operator. EG, unload your weapon and put it in the trunk. Smart people have lock boxes inside their vehicle to store their unloaded weapon.

If this guy was from another state, a standard capacity magazine for a vanilla 9mm handgun would violate CA rules. I also question what their definition of "armor piercing" ammunition is, because the details are important.

Again, from another state, if he had a pack of "green tip" M855 ammunition, it would be perfectly legal, in the communist state of California, not.

I could easily construct a narrative where he was perfectly within his rights, I could easily construct a narrative where he was uninformed and following the laws of his local municipality, but was unaware of the rules of where he was visiting.

My point is that SF and media want to paint people as mass murderers when in fact it could be a 4th amendment overreach. Innocent until proven guilty in a court of law tried by one's peers. It'll be hard to find people who aren't brainwashed by the media and incitement of fear by poor leadership, to be on his jury. If it goes to court, his lawyer would be smart to ask for a change of venue to some place a little more level headed.

Comment This has to do with search engine integration (Score 2) 33

Companies like RedHat and Oracle operate walled garden knowledge bases, they have arranged their filtering to allow search engines to index (read) the entire contents of these paywalled knowledge bases. A normal internet user just gets the abstract of the document, but search engines are able to fetch and index the entire document.

The problem seems to describe the ability for someone to read the entire contents of the paywalled document, not just view the abstract.

It's a clever workaround, when in fact these agreements exist only for SEO to drive customers to their sales funnel. It benefits nobody on the wider internet for search engines to have access to these paywalled gardens, it only benefits their existing customers.

I can't count the number of times that some "answer" to a question has popped up with a pointer to RedHat's site, I just ignore these results now. Besides, their article freshness is like old milk, StackOverflow and related sites are far more appropriate and they are free!

Comment Re:for Windows 10? (Score 4, Interesting) 32

In fact, it does *require* hyper-V. This salient fact, and that WSL2 requires hyper-v also, is lost in translation. On Windows 11 once you enable hyper-V you take a huge hit in terms of virtualization. Hyper-v is a type 1 hypervisor and runs before Windows loads, so Windows and Linux run as siblings on Hyper-V. The downside to Hyper-V is that Microsoft hasn't put any real effort into making it a "consumer" platform so if you enable Hyper-V client utilities on Windows 11 and try to use it for running VMs on Windows, you are stuck with a set of limited resolutions that render via software through RDP. This is a terrible user experience in comparison to hypervisors like Virtualbox.

Virtualbox is a type 2 hypervisor that runs on TOP of Windows, so with Hyper-V enabled it's really doing nested virtualization and it doesn't play well with Hyper-V, resulting in VERY slow performance.

If you want a good user experience with Virtualbox, you either must forgo Hyper-V (and WSL2, WSLg, and WSA) and use Virtualbox on top of vanilla Windows, or stick to Windows 10 (for the best experience) without Hyper-V (Windows 10 doesn't have WSLg or WSA, so you really have no reason to enable Hyper-V).

Comment As a former employee.... (Score 3, Interesting) 17

I had to take this damn training EVERY year and complete quizzes that ensured I knew exactly what was allowed and disallowed under the law. The amount of training we had to take every year amounted to probably 1 week of work, it was insane and the thing I hated most about working for Oracle.

The sub-standard pay and siloed org ceilings were other reasons I don't work there anymore...

Comment Not surprised, given my interview with them... (Score 3, Interesting) 32

I interviewed for a DBA position, they had 1 half-time DBA who was picked for the role because he knew the most about MySQL. All the technical questions were soft balls given my experience. They declined to make me an offer, even though they had no DBAs on staff. They outsourced any technical stuff to a 3rd party. At the end, it was clear they (the team who did the interviewing) were actually seeking a Google cloud SRE and not a MySQL DBA.

The overall impression is that they did not have a strong technical leadership and the company at-willed entire groups arbitrarily and regularly (they fired entire groups of staff at a time without any real plan). I'm glad that the interview process didn't proceed, because I got a better offer at my next interview at a company that's way more stable and much more mature.

Patreon's pitch was that they wanted to build a walled garden for creators to keep content in, so they would stop uploading videos to Youtube and relying on other media companies to house the content which was exclusively for Patreon subscribers.

Comment Another scam land grab? (Score 1) 166

They are putting the NFTs up for sale prior to any material work being done on the restaurant, does that sound like anything else?

What stops these folks from selling out their 3,275 NFTs and doing the proverbial "take the money and run"?

They are obviously using the NFT sale as a means to "finance" the restaurant, if not planning an outright rug pull. What better way to hype the NFT sale than to get a bunch of left leaning reporters in SF to write scathing articles about your questionable plan?

Comment Apple is out of touch (Score 5, Informative) 44

Has Apple actually researched what FB/Meta pays top talent? At E6 level you're talking $350k of stock refreshes PER YEAR. These $180k offerings vested over 4 years are not going to retain top talent, they will just be bargaining chips when talent moves to another company.

The compensation at top tech firms is really just insane, I really can't fathom making that kind of money...

Comment Did Reuters get the quote wrong (bad writing)? (Score 0) 100

Reuters said: Frances Haugen testified in a congressional hearing that "for more than five hours Facebook wasn't used to deepen divides, destabilize democracies and make young girls and women feel bad about their bodies."

IOW, Facebook *wasn't* used to perpetrate all sorts of bad things. The way that sentence is written it says Facebook is innocent.

Did they really mess up the writing that bad or was she really defending Facebook? The context from the rest of the article (and headline) seems to indicate the opposite of that statement.

If "wasn't" instead of "was" is actually intended, then why would she be a whistleblower?

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