I don’t know. I know the news is often flooded with companies reversing their remote work policies, but I’ve had no issue staying remote since 2020. Maybe my anecdotal experience is unique, but I happily moved “to the sticks” in 2022. I’ve never been the only one at work, either. One guy I work with even has his own farm in rural upstate NY.
Still, I recognize it’s a gamble and I recognize some would prefer not to risk it. But I think more people are willing to do it than you might initially think.
I think your question at the end is a good one for discussion. But let’s be honest, even “conservatives” in the U.S. aren’t fighting for small government. It’s barely given lip service, and only when they’re trying to justify gutting government funding. They’re often the ones pushing for authoritarian measures and flirting with outright Nazis at this rate.
I say this as someone who misses the principled “small government” conservative. I didn’t agree with them in a great many ways, but at least I respected them.
Often when I see people advocating for small government, they mostly mean cutting things that they don't use. It's always about cutting welfare, or ending this or that subsidy. Why does (in my country at least) it seem that the "small government" types are the ones that want to criminalise protest, destroy privacy and encryption and make us scan our faces to watch porn (whatever you feel about the subject, can we atleast agree that that is a step to far?). Heck our "small governments" types are trying to get the face of everyone with driver's license in a police database.
These policies are antithetical to everything the current GOP stands for. Voting for them will not address your issues. Just about everything you’ve said is considered opinions of “the left”. So, pushing the Democratic Party more to the left seems like the logical choice.
I’d rather suggest a third-party. Look what happened to Bernie Sanders when he tried to push it to the left. Both the Democrats and Republicans are beholden to corporate interest. I’m in no way going to vote for the Republican but I’m not going to vote for the Democrat either. If they want my vote, they have to earn my vote.
I’m quite intrigued by the number of SWEs you’ve trained through an apprenticeship. I think there’s often this tension between those who have been trained at some university and now have a CS degree and those who have “learned on the job” or by some other means. I think that tension also exists elsewhere in other careers - it is not unique to software.
I’d like to think the reality is more nuanced and complicated. Everyone has their preferences for learning. But I wish apprenticeships weren’t so undervalued and under appreciated. This is how we often trained specialized experts for thousands of years. I don’t mean to suggest it doesn’t have its own problems, but I think if it became more normalized it would be an overall positive change.
There definitely is that kind of tension between the two camps. Generally though it's safe to assume a CS degree is optimized to prepare a student to become a CS professor or researcher. A CS graduate typically seems to graduate about 2/5ths of the way through my program, needing 300 extra hours to be at the same level as my graduates. This is not true for all of them, just most of the ones I've interviewed. There's definitely been some though who are way ahead of my students, usually because they went to an extraordinary university and also put in a lot of extra time outside of their coursework.
It's not cheap though, I do it as a charity. I've recently started my own business, so as of this summer I'm able to actually pay them which is epic. Still the program as a whole operates at a loss. So I do it because I want to pay it forward.
I’m actually extremely impressed. I want one. I haven’t worked in a data center in years, but I’d be tempted to do it again just to get my hands on one.
I wish they’d sell a tabletop version for hobbyists, but realize this is probably a distraction. But… the problem with a lot of these systems (including the old Sun boxes and things like ibm mainframes and the AS/400) is that they sound cool but there’s no real way for the typical new developer to “get into them” for fun and, as a result, you lose the chance for some developer selling it to their company based on his experience with the things.
Apparently (I don't remember it, although I probably did read the Byte magazine at the time) there was a rumor in the early 1980s that IBM's PC was going to be a shrunken 370, called the 380. [1][2]
I wish IBM would shrink their LinuxONE Rockhopper 4 Rack Mount down to at least an "under the desktop" model. To my knowledge, IBM still makes quality products and has excellent customer service. They have fun names too (Rockhopper and Emperor are types of penguins!) and they even have 3D models of their rack mount cloud computers with shadows. [3] In fact, when I first read about Oxide a year or two ago, I searched for "IBM cloud server", and left it at that. So IBM, could you please send someone from the LinuxONE down to Boca Raton to create our new PC? :) Thanks!
I own a Turing Pi 2 but the hardware it is running on is proprietary. The switch isn't managed. The manament software is very archaic. Yes, it is modular and stackable and probably thousands of times more hobbyist friendly than Oxide but so is edge computing in general.
For example, this form factor looks really nice for a “hobbyist edition” or “evaluation edition”: https://zimacube.zimaboard.com/. I would probably buy an Oxide rack like this as soon as pre-orders were announced.
They won't even tell you how much a rack will cost. Infuriating typically B2B "talk to Sales so we can decide exactly how much we can get out of you and segment the market on the fly" approach persists even here, it seems.
I wouldn’t expect anything else for a full rack in this segment: it’s going to be tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars, and big enough that there will be some inevitable negotiation about prices.
That doesn't mean you can't have a thin spec builder and a pricing page, even if what that mostly gets used for is devs putting together a comparison of that to a cloud deployment or similar and taking that to the procurement department to argue it's worth opening the conversation.
Same here. I really want to work on one of these. I got in the industry at the tail end of the time when people used Sun and DEC gear. I got to use just a little bit of it and it seemed so much more "put together" then PC stuff is even now.
Oxide feels like it'll be that "integrated" experience, but with the added benefit of software freedom.
I think it’s hard to describe any country in foreign affairs “good”. Typically, we expect nations to pursue their best interests. Still, we (the U.S.) we’re probably as close to being the “good” guys as a nation could be during WW2. I’m not really convinced we continued to be afterwards.
But we have been the “law and order” and “free trade” guys. That doesn’t necessarily mean “good”, and I question whether our commitment to free trade was anything other than a way to put pressure on the USSR’s economy. Still, “law and order” can at least guarantee a measure of peace.
But I think with Iraq we burned that reputation away - it’s gone. Now we’re just some bitter friendless policeman with too many guns who’s really just riding out of what’s left of the momentum produced by our past global position.
If you’re a fan of Chrome-based browsers, you could also just use Vivaldi. They have a built-in email and calendar client. There you go, email and calendar integration into your web-browsing experience. If you’re going to do it, go all the way.
In one sense I agree with you. I don’t usually like to claim something is self-evident, but nonetheless, I think it’s clear to most that there is a great deal of variety in skill, intelligence, and virtue across the average human population. I think it’s also true that we should strive to have those who are the most knowledgeable and the most virtuous to lead. That would include a degree of humility, so that those in charge may also listen to the advice of more knowledgeable experts in certain fields.
On the other hand, I’m not really sure I’d place the blame same as you do. In fact, a focus on equity is meant to eliminate the factors that get in the way of meritocratic hierarchies (such as inherited wealth, for instance). I’ll admit, I would rather we pursue justice to eliminate the source of these factors, but the powerful are not interested.
Either way, I’m not sure what the answer is. Democracy in all its forms is imperfect, and even terrible at times. But there aren’t really any good alternatives in the real and imperfect world of imperfect human beings. Philosopher kings are great on paper and on paper only. So that always brings me back to better education, less corruption, democracy, and a culture of respect towards those more virtuous and to experts in their respective fields.
> I don’t usually like to claim something is self-evident
> Democracy in all its forms is imperfect, and even terrible at times. But there aren’t really any good alternatives in the real and imperfect world of imperfect human beings.
Hmmmm.
> Philosopher kings are great on paper and on paper only.
Hmmm.
> So that always brings me back to better education
This isn’t the first time I’ve heard of something like this. I learned some disturbing things about HOAs while living in one. Some people think I’m strange or dramatic, but I refuse to ever live in one again. I realize not everyone has that luxury - the article mentioned the “sun belt” states, but it was exceedingly difficult to find a home outside of an HOA in the Midwest, too.
If you don’t pay my taxes or my mortgage, you get no say on what color I can paint my shudders. And the only ones who can kick me out are the bank (until I’m done paying) or Uncle Sam, not the bored authoritarian neighbor down the road who doesn’t like that I don’t have an immaculate yard or doesn’t approve of my mailbox.
So many of us Americans pretend to care about property and liberty until suddenly it possibly puts a small dent in own your property’s value.
I wouldn't think a person would struggle to find a HOA-free house in the midwest. If you were to pick a random house on the market in a random neighborhood in Detroit or Chicago, or Kansas City, odds are you wouldn't pick one in an HOA.
You might struggle if you're looking to buy a new house in a brand new subdivision.
Preowned homes are unaffordable at the moment (lack of supply, interest rates, buyers with low interest rate mortgages who don’t want to move), leaving new homes in HOAs the only option for all but the most well heeled buyer.
(have also had poor experiences with HOAs and refuse to live in one)
Conservativism isn't anarchy. It's about pushing government down to local levels where the impacted have the best ability to change the policies if they aren't liked/wanted.
I'd say an HAO def fits that bill. I've been in both chill HOAs and draconian ones. If you don't like it, join the board and motivate all the other like minded folks and get things changed.
Sure.. I believe in breaking cities up to be smaller and more manageable. For example, my neighborhood in my city of Portland ought to be its own city because we have little in common with the politics of the rest of the city. That is why there is a political process we can follow to do that. Its called incorporation and has happened many times before all over the country. Cities are not fixed in stone. We don't need a new organization to do what cities used to.
Moreover, your analogy falls apart because HOAs are not governments and the people aren't protected from them the way they are a government. As much as I disagree with the city of Portland politically, I can post whatever messages I want outside my non HOA home and the city can do jack shit about it, because, as an American government they are unable to patrol my speech.
If HOAs were governments then I would have a different opinion (I would be somewhat in favor). However they are not.
As a final point of difference. A foundational principle of conservative governance is that governments are formed for and BY the people. However, HOAs are formed by development companies typically. Corporations are not people (and are not legally treated as such, despite widespread belief). Corporations have no right to form a government that the future residents cannot modify. HOAs are much harder to get rid of than a city. Thus, we have an example of an alleged American government that was never formed by a group of residents and cannot be modified or eliminated by them. That's problematic and un American
Because it's about power and control. Many associations will say it's to preserve the value and look of their communities, but when you get down to the actual people serving on these boards, conservative or liberal, they do it for the power.
I’d never heard this about Warren Buffet and so looked it up out of curiosity. I’m going to be honest, I hesitate to call it “smallish” for the average American (around 6500 sq ft). But I’ll admit it’s smaller and more modest than most homes owned by billionaires. At least according to my brief search, it’s the only house he owns, too.
Still, I recognize it’s a gamble and I recognize some would prefer not to risk it. But I think more people are willing to do it than you might initially think.