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Comment Re: I'd say the sooner Trump is impeached the bett (Score 1) 282

I voted against Biden in the Primary. But as POTUS he surrounded himself with competent people AND LISTENED TO THEM.

Yes he and they made sime bad choices (Afghanistan withdrawal, tepid Ukraine support) but not strategic damage and coupled with some very good decisions (block China access to GPUs, energy policy)

Comment Re:Not enough (Score 1) 112

It is a good example, because its someone who was never in the US being charged, tried and jailed in the US for an alleged crime against a British company.

Dual criminality means that the act that they are being extradited for is also an offence under UK law. It does NOT mean that they actually broke UK law. And in the case I am thinking of, they were never prosecuted in the UK. Thge UK-US extradition act is also severely lopsided, with a firm case having to be presented to extradite from the US, but only reasonable suspicion being required to extradite from the UK.

Comment Re:Huh? (Score 1) 121

That is part of the English language, used extensively in England, and not pronounced the way its spelled.

Literally just picking a few place names from where I used to live in the UK, and you get:

Happisburgh - dates back a thousand years.

Wymondham - dates back approximately 1,500 years, and originates from an Anglo-Saxon name.

Costessey - originates from around 600AD, and again originates from an Anglo-Saxon name.

Comment Re:Not enough (Score 4, Informative) 112

Note that the US has, multiple times, extradited people from the UK in order to try them in the US, for actions done in the UK - simply because they breached US laws and somewhere in the chain there was a US connection.

The US loves fining foreign companies as well, including major banks like HSBC, for breaching US law.

The US has also confiscated transactions between two Europeans who carried out a transaction in two countries outside the US, simply because they breached the US embargo on Cuba and the transaction was done across the SWIFT network.

In other words, the US loves to do what it complains about here.

Comment Re: Isn't that the point? (Score 2) 70

I think you vastly underestimate how many devs there are working for companies basically independently.

Ive been working as a developer for about 20 years now, and in IT for 30 - the first time I actually joined a “team” was less than a decade ago, before then I always worked as an individual developer for small companies (who usually had 2 or 3 devs, all working independently on stuff).

I would safely say that the number of devs who have no one checking their code, doing reviews, or engaging in standups is way higher than the number of devs doing those things.

What you describe is the ideal, something which has become pervasive in software dev circles as “the only way”, but it ignores that theres a huge body of devs out there that simply dont have that. Cant have a code review if the only other dev in your company works in a completely different language to you

Comment Re: Isn't that the point? (Score 1) 70

There are loads of developers out there who currently rely on IDE features (that have been around for at least 15 years by this point) to write code that they dont understand, or simply copy and paste from other codebases or websites.

Committing code you dont explicitly know how works is well embedded in many software development circles these days.

Comment Regulatory agencies gutted (Score 4, Insightful) 129

Didnt SCOTUS just gut regulatory agencies from doing things like this? Doesnt Congress have to pass laws for the agencies to implement? Or is that just anything the Dema wanted to regulate?

EOs like this shouldnt be worth the price of the paper they are written on

Comment Re:What does this mean? (Score 1) 20

All the functional checks are done in the producer and consumer client code - the only thing any Confluent hosted tier does is check to see whether the schema-encoded Kafka message contains a schema ID that matches one for that topic, it does absolutely no data validation otherwise.

So, if you have a bad client, you can publish data to a topic which does not validate against any schema, but the topic will accept it so long as the schema ID presented is valid. The entire thing is based on trust.

You can do much better validation than their implementation, essentially, and lose nothing.

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