davecb42.bsky.social
Dave Collier-Brown, once of the (late, lamented) Sun Microsystems
Systems programmer and author
Nom de Guerre: DCB
Blog
https://leaflessca.wordpress.com/
Github
https://
github.com/davecb
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidcollierbr
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Well, consider Gandhi's Dharasana Satyagraha, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dharasa...
This was _by no means_ the first time the British beat up Ghandi et all.
To be fair, I really wouldn't enjoy being beaten with lathies (:-))
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They're rubber-coated bullets: they're still bullets.
I recommend you call them "rubber-coated bullets" instead of "rubber bullets". The latter suggest they can't harm you (!)
See also en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_...
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Repost: It's sorta noisy in Bluesky (:-))
@AltAltNPS Can you provide a collection of some sort of videos and verifiable statements, for reporters in countries that are not kowtowing to Mr Trump.
Like the Globe and Mail in Toronto, for example! They just got gas-lit by US-based "legacy" media.
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@AltAltNPS Can you provide a collection of some sort of videos and verifiable statements for reporters in countries that are not kowtowing to Mr Trump.
Like to supply the Globe and Mail, for example! They just got gas-lit by US-based "legacy" media. See www.theglobeandmail.com/world/galler...
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Whisper in his ear, "constructive dismissal"
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I'm beavering away in Canada, building dams to defend us. What can I do to help you?
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Anything an alien can do?
[email protected], in Toronto.
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Happily,if you move Gaithersburg to Canada (:-))
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In Canada, the issuers of the illegal orders, such as those in the Somalia Affair, have been held accountable. The penalties range from dismissal from service to lengthy imprisonment.
The rules for police and civilians are theoretically the same. Seek Legal Advice.
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Doesn't anyone in the 'States ever _arrest_ anyone? If someone asked me to release confidential- or secret-level information to them without them having a security clearance, it would be bad. The regimental police would have them in handcuffs and on their way to the RCMP, right quickly.
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Actually civil contempt is scarier: no trial, you just go to jail until you answer. There is no fixed maximum duration, as it's considered "coercive" rather than punitive. The person "holds the keys to their own cell", by complying.
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We occasionally get problems with local police forces in Canada. If that happens, one calls the OPP or RCMP. I don't know if that is the case in the 'States
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Hmmn, the "character limit" here makes even a satirical reply take 414 more characters than are allowed (:-))a
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I'm afraid there are: exactly the same legal avenue that allowed the US to imprison citizens of Japanese descent during WWII, specifically including George Takei, of Star Trek fame.
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Ask about:
Deemed Rehabilitation: Automatically granted if enough time has passed since completing your sentence (typically 5-10 years depending on severity)
Individual Rehabilitation: You can apply for this if at least 5 years have passed since completing your sentence
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Hmmn, that doesn't sound right, you were probably a minor, ad it was probably a long time ago. Ask Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada
www.canada.ca/en/immigrati...
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Alas, figuring out even the AWS side is hard, meaning I’ve probably got it wrong (:-()
Do you or your sales side have a cost comparison that I could steal from?
My current (ill-)logic is in page 4 of drive.google.com/file/d/1MzSD...
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If AWS costs $W per vCpu per year, that will be five times the price of each Dell-type cpu in a rack and Y times the $Z for each 0xide vCpu I mentioned before."
To be followed later with another line comparing outpost racks and regular AWS.
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5/4 😉
Mind you, this still requires a process and some rigour to keep the unwary from getting surprises, and to manage the migration from old to new, but it keeps linkers and especially dynamic linkers from whipping the rug out from underneath old programs.
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4/4 You arrange to have both version in the library, with the old interface having a 1.x version number and the newer one a 2.x. Older compiled programs keep using 1.x unless you specifically tell them not to, while new programs use 2.x.
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3/4 This was then re-invented _again_ by the Gnu libc team.
To brutally oversimplify, if you are changing the definition of strcpy() in the C library to make it faster but break on overlapping strings, ...
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2/4 Hey! David J. Brown at Sun ([email protected]) had a solution for evolving library interfaces so that you could update things without breaking all the old code. He had independently reinvented the Multics technique described by Paul Stachour at cacm.acm.org/practice/you...
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1/4 In the episode, you folks talk about the tension between keeping things the same, and fixing things. If one worries too much about the first, you can get into backwards-compatibility hell.
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I've noticed in Canada, and I suspect it's true also of the US, that the right _concentrates_ on attacking anything good that the left does. Bad things get a few tweets, neutral things get a few more, but if Justin Trudeau, the current Prime Minister, does anything good, its a twit-storm.