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I suppose it makes sense if you're issuing semantically versioned releases of each module and you want the GitHub releases to match, but the trend of turning everything into its own module until there's nothing left can be very frustrating. This seems very common in JavaScript and Rust.

Rust at least compensates for it in its generated docs. PureScript OTOH... Sometimes modules are literally just one type or one function, and the docs don't consolidate them. Whyyyyyyyy.


It's not even technically accurate. At the very least it's a draw :)



Wow, they run an entire web server just for slides?


They're not just slides. Some of the slides have code that you can click to run: http://talks.golang.org/2012/concurrency.slide


My lack of knowledge resulted in downvotes. Thanks for the reply.


Wow. You have to use a whole web browser just to view slides ?


The web is almost perfect for a presentation.


When you are Google and your slides generate traffic why not right?


If you don't care about executing the code, you can save the slides to a PDF. I did this in Chrome many times and it works well.



You must not have gotten the memo: Google exposed some of their corporate systems to everyone, therefore VPNs are now useless and have always been useless.

:)


Agreed. Trusting VPNs to be totally secure, especially on a big organization like a hospital, seems insane. At the surgery level, you want to make sure the malware infected laptop or some open wireless access point doesn't come up with more creative surgeries.


So how do you like the PayPal campus?

;)


Generally, there's a good chance that most of these kinds of "Wtf?" logic errors are on the part of the journalist, not the person being interviewed. In the U.S, journalists don't send drafts over for comments, and rarely change published material, so there's little opportunity to get misleading stuff corrected.


Chipotle's "No more GMO food" announcement was the worst "great news" I'd heard in a long time. It was clearly just for PR and nothing else. It's good to see some sanity--this obsession with "clean/pristine nature" which has no rational basis has to stop.

Related TED talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/pamela_ronald_the_case_for_enginee...


It has a very rational basis - the 'clean nature' fad is a reaction to various food manufacturers deliberately producing cheap but bad food, for a long time.

Now, that doesn't mean it's always the correct reaction. But it's a simpler proposition than 'you must thoughorly research each individual ingredient in everything you eat'.


Why use Gitmo as an example when there are plenty of other areas where you can bash Obama, like continuing many of the Executive Order programs? At least he genuinely tried to shut down Gitmo and was blocked from doing so.

I think believing a single person/president/whatever can fix all problems is wishful thinking, and indeed a system in which that was possible would likely not be a democracy.

Start by blaming all the representatives who pushed for or voted against ending the programs you don't like, and voting accordingly. Look at the voting histories of candidates rather than what they say. Look at who funds the candidates , not at what the candidates say. Actually, listen to everything other than what candidates say during election season; the game is set up in such a way that you will always be disappointed if you simply believe what is said, no matter the candidate.


There are plenty of other examples where he's let me down, and plenty of good he's done, but the fact remains that Gitmo is still running.

He's literally the leader of the armed forces, he has all the power he needs to shut that place down any time he wants.


This is factually and legally incorrect. The President cannot use any federal funds to modify the prison at Gitmo, or to transfer prisoners. This was part of the budget in I believe 2012, and has been every year since. (Should you need citations I will find them when I return home later.)

Point is that shutting down Gitmo was something the Administration attempted to do and that Congress forcefully blocked.


Obama has been President since 2008. The fact is he pissed around while he had the ability to close gitmo at the beginning of his presidency, and has blamed his failure on the rethuglicans as a convenient scapegoat.


The POTUS has, and I quote, the following:

"The President...shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment."

Article II, Section 2, Clause 1

They are detainees of the USA. He has full power to bestow each and every one of them a full unequivocal presidential pardon for all crimes accused and committed against the US. No if's, and's, or but's.


Pardon isn't on the table, his plan was to move them to a mainland US prison. I don't think he's ever said anything other than the people there are dangerous. Which, based on the way they were captured and held for over a decade without charges or rights, is kinda disgusting in itself that he supports that.


Extremes should not be remedied with extremes.


You're right. Those presidential pardons are reserved for important people.


Side note: Presidential pardons are the ultimate answer to any argument for "torture the terrorist to stop the nuclear bomb" scare-stories.

If you aren't willing to gamble that you'll need/get a Presidential pardon, then you clearly don't know enough to justify what you're about to do to the suspect.


Maybe if he threatened to pardon them they might get trials?

That'd be a little less extreme, and a little more, I dunno, constitutional?


> He's literally the leader of the armed forces, he has all the power he needs to shut that place down any time he wants.

Actually, the Congress governs the armed forces; the Constitutional designation of the President as Commander-in-Chief simply means limits the Congress, in adopting rules governing the military, from appointing someone else as supreme commander of the military within those rules.

The President isn't the King of the military, or anything else.


Let me tell you a story..Mr Lincoln did not free the slaves...Congress did by enforcing martial law until the South Legislatures passed new state Constitutions and allowed Blacks to vote..time taken ten years after CW ended.

Gitmo does not get closed by one lone person..it takes Congress


It turns out a lot of the processing is offloaded to proprietary drivers on the EdgeRouter board. It's great for running their stock firmware, but not so great running OpenBSD. Ended up going with the new PC Engines apu1d4 board (http://www.pcengines.ch/apu.htm) rather than a Soekris. I believe it's the best of the options for an OpenBSD router.


I've been using the APU board with great success at home for a good while. I upgraded from the Alix board to make full use of my 1G/1G broadband.

Doing some speed tests I've seen speeds fluctuate around 500/700. Never really reached 1Gbit on any public speed test yet but it's helluva lot better than my old alix router.

I love the fact that the APU has an open bootloader, and as far as I can remember it was cheaper than what is mentioned of soekris here. I seem to remember the whole package costing me around 100 eur.


I'm running pfSense on the apu1d4 at home and all is well.


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