WSL also has threading issues and os issues. This will be fixed in later versions. I went back to cygwin because its faster. Cygwin is great, WSL might over take it someday, you can also follow the WSL github to see whats going on. But for now, Cygwin is much faster.

Irc has emoji support now.

It appears if you login with your microsoft account, it will sync your windows, microsoft, chrome, (maybe firefox) accounts, syncing your passwords, payment info, addresses to your microsoft account if you login in.

Mine loaded my chrome profile, then offered to "sync" it with my microsoft account.

Many states have certified online colleges for people who work at affordable costs, around 5-6K per year.

Clearly affordable and easy to pay off, and geared at careers needing people.

Western Governours College has degrees in IT/Tech, teaching, healthcare, business and even offer masters degrees.
https://www.wgu.edu/washington...

I've worked at multiple companies where a VP goes with a vendor, buying 10s of millions of dollars of network gear, then goes to work for them after a year or 2, after the hardware is deployed.

Theres always seems to be some kickbacks, wouldn't doubt some GM execs went to go work for those manufacturing/robot vendors after buying billions in equipment.

Google chat. thank goodness we can still use it! Oh....

I experienced that with some cisco engineers who really had no tech background, had the paperwork, but couldnt do basic works. We had to fire that H1B Indian NOC and find a different one. We also had to ask basic tech questions of engineers to make sure they could do simple things like SSH. How one gets a Cisco certification and not know how to ssh smells like fraud.

I was hoping the 20K would be from accreddited not paper mills. South America is trying to steal doctors from other countries for kinda the same reason, its gotton so bad, Cuba wont let doctors travel with their families, because they wont come back after a better life and not kicking pack a large part of your pay.

I was speaking too some of the H1B engineers and the said the company they worked for had mandatory hygiene classes. The more American H1B's that lived in the western countires tended to not have the hygiene issues. The restrooms where so bad at ATT some people filed HR complaints, that's why we got moved out of the building after a few months, the employees would refused to use shit covered bathrooms. ATT was the only place I worked at that like that, at many companies never experienced or seen that again, but I've heard others mention the hygiene issues with some H1B's. So Dont judge all H1Bs, and this was many many years ago.

I worked at ATT Wireless when number portability was released, and people could finally switch cell phone providers and keep their number. The VP of finance fired the entire department running the software/services and brought in Mindtree (i think) to replace the workers. He had a couple hundred H1B's working months in advance of the migration.

The Migration failed horribly. ATT Wireless missed the deadline, hundreds of people lost their jobs, and ATT wireless couldn't enact number portability quick enough and was fined millions of dollars a day.

My engineering department was moved into the same building as the H1B's, and it was a nightmare. I've worked with H1B's over the years, but never experienced the mess of the restrooms and building. Working at other companies with H1B's and Indian Nocs, and no issues, so no idea why ATT and Mindtree was so horrible. My experience with H1B's have been mixed, some cheap companies pushing Cisco certified engineers who didn't even know how to use SSH to talented skilled programmers who became citizens. So I do think some H1B's are being used as an excuse that no US workers can be found, theres always unemployeed looking for work, when I know some engineers who took 3-6 months, and a Storage engineer who took a year to find a storage architect job. YMMV.

Also up here in Seattle, there are entire blocks of apartment buildings around Microsoft that Indian consulting companies rent out, and put 3-5 H1B's to an apartment, they live dirt cheap, its rather depressing to see how they live. Its not like theres not enough engineers around this area, we have Amazon, Google, Facebook, ATT, TMobile, Verizon, Apple, Blackberry, Tableu, and a zillion other tech companies here. Lots of us citizens looking for work. Last time I needed a job, I just posted what I wanted on craigslist in internet jobs, and had a recruiter calling me with what I wanted. But I admit I'm lucky, I had telecom experience in a telecom town.

So is cleaning up H1B abuse good? Sure. Companies posting for database admins with 10+ years experience, programing, and paying 7 dollars an hour, so they can post "cant find any workers!" to hire H1B workers, is a scam. And that should be ended.

Also, I like the 20K for PHD/Masters H1B, those people will demand high wages, and should help boost up wages for everyone. (I hope)

Its always been the same issue, over and over and over. If you need sources for 3rd party closed drivers, you cant update the kernel without them.

This needs to be fixed. This will fix everything, older android can be updated, linux systems like phones and tablets can be updated, forever.

Physicists said the Em Drive was "Impossible" then NASA tested it and it worked.

https://www.cnet.com/news/theo...

https://www.space.com/40682-em...

Looking at the pdf presentation in the OP's link, he went somewhere that some people do not want to be discussed, Gender differences and gender preferences.

Instead of refuting his argument, it's easier to call him a sexist bigot and just discredit him that way.

Appears he's making the statement, historically men did dominate the field, but didn't primarily exclude women, and when women started joining they won Nobels. But many fields of study appears to have gender differences, and that sexism wasn't the cause, but gender preference.

He states his theory, cultural Marxism re-writing history to promote oppression as the reason women did not contribute. Along the same lines of re-shaping history to push the narative that exploration and advancements were performed by men who raped, murdered, stole land and murdered indigenous people.

The problem is the virial CoC being spread around projects. The CoC is already being used as a weapon against people in a "Wrong Think" and making news.

The "For the Children" nanny mentality that a CoC needs to be in place to protect people from a group of people, when its being used as a club against immediately after Linus accepts it, shows the problem with it. The CoC is already a problem and being reported on, this is already way political. We are talking about it because its political.

Less than 24 hours after passing the CoC, a person tried to get a contributor removed.

Why do we even have to know the sexual orientation, gender or race of programmers and engineers? Other than language difficulties from non-english as their first language speakers causing misunderstanding, here really shouldn't be any drama. Even stupid jokes should be excluded, its a technical list.

But when a code of conduct lists people to protect, it starts a once side argument. How about don't be an asshole to everyone, why does the CoC have to state a list of people that you shouldn't be an asshole too? This is is nothing but political propaganda and those politics should stay off technical lists.

All this "cis white males" are the enemy being pushed around is no better than someone pushing "color hair LGBTQ+" stereotypes need to be protected.

This "Us vs Them" is what these types code of conducts promote. If you have to list people to protect instead of language, you picked out a group of people as offenders and make the others victims. The Tribal nature of silicon valley that whites straight males are the enemy and then put into code of conduct is wrong, and it's being spread around projects is petty and a way to try to get back at people.

  "Be Excellent to each other" shouldn't be written to imply "This means you, white cis males!".

Just because the world is divided in left vs right, worse than ever, we in tech should be above this tribal nature, not going towards it at full speed.

You get into the habit of using facebook single sign on for a majority of web pages and apps, then you find out facebook buys financial banking data to tie to your account, then they get voting data, surfing history, contacts. Nobody knew back then that facebook would buy companies up, gobble data, to have such indepth view into everyones lives. Its not a cute and fun social networking site anymore.