You are obviously too busy trolling people online. I can't possibly take your threat seriously unless you demonstrate something credible about yourself. Why don't you call me and leave a voice message to explain how exactly you plan to put me down. Obviously, I don't intend to make your job easy by giving away my phone number.

I'm not even going to entertain you with an original insult anymore, so here it is: I don’t want to talk to you no more, you empty-headed animal-food-trough wiper. I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelt of elderberries.

I finally figured out what you are. You are actually a Russian pretending to be support white supremacy, and you only know enough English to throw around a few keywords like Federal government state university loan but the sentences are completely made up. You don't even insult people properly in English, and you are such a disgrace.

You either start being nice to people on the Internet or you may stay quietly in your frozen shit-hole eating potatoes.

You never needed a Federal student loan, did you? Even the ability to get a loan---not a free ride---is white privilege. You witless cunt whose trousers have not been washed in years and your breath reeks of marmite.

If in the Griggs vs Duke Power 1971 case, that Duke Power is prohibited from requiring high school diploma which was disproportionally disadvantageous for blacks, then how can businesses now defend their practice of requiring college degrees which is even more arbitrary and harder to justify for business purpose? It's widely known that college degree is a white privilege much more than high school diploma. I think businesses are just in an ignorant bliss ripe for a lawsuit to slap them back into sense.

Etching is caused by the detergent, not by the dishwasher. I guess you could blame the dishwasher for prolonging glassware's exposure to the detergent during the 2 hour cycle as opposed to just a few seconds if you wash it by hand, but if you select your detergent carefully, etching is preventable.

Josephine Cochrane invented the modern dishwasher because her maids kept breaking her fine chinas and crystals. She would be sad to know that you think the technology is not doing a good job.

I don't know what to make of this. Either people are too lazy to even load a dishwasher and just litter the plates all over their house, or maybe there really is not much robots can do for us because our basic needs are already fulfilled by simple household appliances.

About finding the right person to fire, I suspect that this is an unfortunate but complex choreograph of events such that no single person is at fault, and everyone is doing their jobs.

Junior programmer did the right thing about unit testing: wipe the database between tests to ensure consistent result no matter the order the test cases are run. Senior programmer did the right thing and wrote detailed documentation. The management needed a paper trail for production credential, and the documentation is probably the only SOX compliant way the company has, so the management did the right thing and stored production credential in a SOX compliant way. Production backup is not working but someone is actually working on getting it to work, and they are having trouble with replication and consistency; they want data integrity assurances rather than having backups that could have silent data corruptions.

Everyone is doing their jobs in good faith, and probably doing it well. I think the disaster could have been prevented if someone looked beyond their job responsibility and noticed potential problems, but such busybody could readily cause ire in a hierarchical organization. I think the best thing a company can do is to encourage people to be nosy and speak up. The CEO has to make this part of their corporate culture.

Maybe we will come to discover that the systems of galaxies form a life form of its own, perhaps using gravitational waves as a means to signal information like how our nervous system works. It maintains its sustenance by incorporating and rejecting galaxies in and out of the system. As such, the intergalactic life form satisfies the very primitive definitions of life, but it is not life as we know it.

That is a despicable, sinister attack on Chelsea Manning's character as well as those of the transexuals in general. What makes you believe you have a higher moral ground? Do you believe you are a righteous person in the eyes of God (Romans 3:23)? If not, why can't we afford the same grace we received from God and pay it onward to our neighbors (Matthew 18:21-35), even if our neighbor is a transexual?

To counter the previous AC post, many ordinary people are named after famous historical figures that people admire. In Latin America, "Jesus" (hey-soos) is a common name. Of course, none of that indicates mental illness.

I've had similar ideas and looked into it a few times in the past, so I can see a few reasons why this is not done. First, if you are working with raw video, then the bandwidth requirement is going to be the bottleneck, and you're not better off offloading the shader to GPU. In order to make good use of GPU, you have to integrate video encoding and decoding into your GPU pipeline as well, and that takes specialized drivers to do. I don't see any way to do it with OpenGL/OpenCL. If it's doable and makes sense to do, it is unlikely to come out of a hobbyist project because of the technical hurdles.

The likely place for an open source project like this to originate is a startup company selling cloud video rendering service using a stash of cheap Raspberry Pis. A company like that may or may not exist already, but it still hinges on whether they are willing to open source their software.

Grades exist to provide feedback for the teacher to assess the teaching method. If most students do poorly, that indicates there is a systematic failure in the teaching method or the way grades are evaluated, neither are desirable. Minimum standard exists to avoid spending disproportional amount of effort catering to the long tail. After all, teachers have limited time and resource, so the education system has to maintain a certain efficiency. Maybe these students have to figure out on their own what method of learning works for them rather than putting all the burden on the teacher.

Of course all of these are fairly ideological, assuming that both the teacher and the students carry out their responsibilities in earnest. It's easy to become cynical after seeing many bad examples. I think we tend to confuse the mean and the end. Grades are a mean to an end which is learning, not the other way around. If the goal is not set right, all the effort to fix the system would become wasted.

According to the Information for Maintainers of GNU Software, a package becomes adopted by GNU FSF when a maintainer volunteers to do so. They could bring in a package they didn't write, as long as the package source has a GPL compatible license. It's also not required to transfer the source code copyright to FSF.

Libreboot was derived from Coreboot by removing the proprietary blobs. Leah volunteered to be a GNU package maintainer and started recruiting developers to work on Libreboot, and not for long decided to step down as a maintainer. There is no rule forbidding Leah from continuing to work on Libreboot without being associated with GNU/FSF. She is entitled to stop volunteering for GNU anytime for no reason whatsoever.

What Richard Stallman says is that a GNU package could be orphaned by its maintainer and often remain a GNU package until a new maintainer picks it up, but in this case he was compelled to make a special exemption to excise Libreboot from GNU. GNU/FSF's role is a librarian/publisher, and the maintainers are more like curators. It makes no sense for a package to "leave GNU" just because the curator stopped volunteering.

Right, I think it's useful for managers to have a technical background.

Although I'm not a manager, just served as tech lead on some projects, the kind of issues we've dealt with is more about should we have written this code in the first place. Using your websocket example, the develop might be working on acknowledgement of batched and out of order updates and allow individual ones to be retransmitted if lost or corrupted. I would point out websocket is over TCP, so the transmission is reliable and in order. The developer would argue that a future product might use a lossy datagram socket. I say don't worry about it. The reordering and loss detection could be based on sorting which is O(n log n), but we wouldn't even need this code.