I like that wsl is a thing when I'm on a windows machine, but it can also serve as a reminder of the often unnecessary frictions that exist between operating systems.
When the answer to a "how do I do X on windows" question begins with "start WSL", my primary reaction is frustration because they're basically saying "there's not a good way to do that on Windows, so fire up a Linux VM".
Just to pick my most recent example, from today. I wanted to verify the signatures on some downloaded rpm files, and the rpm tools work on linux. I know, rpm files are native to a family of linux distros, so it's not surprising that the tools for retrieving and verifying their signatures don't work on windows but... it also seems reasonable to want a world where those tools can install and run on windows, straight from a PowerShell session, with no VM.
Multiply that by all the little utilities that that can't be deployed across multiple operating sytems, and it just seems like some incompatibility headaches are never really going to go away.
bluesky was made for the purpose of decentaralized social networking, by people who wanted to do that, many with a background of working on that.
Then they got an unexpected rush of users from Elon buying twitter. Many/most of those users weren't coming because of bluesky's mission of decentralization -- they mainly wanted a twitter alternative, and bluesky had built one.
Bluesky could have, at that point, let their original decentralized ideal languish in the icebox column and said "oh well, we pivoted". Their new user base would have been mostly fine with that. Silicon Valley would have been mostly fine with that. Twitter itself has that kind of abrupt pivot in its origin story.
This got me curious enough to skim the article looking for the answer to whether 3M "convinced" her. It looks like the answer is:
* They kept relevant information from her, including studies they'd done on the subject before
* They sidelined her research efforts and made her feel unwelcome there
* She grew to dread the subject and avoided staying involved with it
* "when friends asked Hansen about PFAS, she would change the subject. Still, she repeatedly told [her husband] — and herself — that the chemicals were safe."
I guess you could read that as saying 3M "convinced" her if you really wanted to, but I'd have looked for a different way to describe it. It helps to remember that article authors don't usually get to write the headline.
Context from the article I feel is necessary, here. She was pretty haunted by how it might be affecting her kids too. That's one of those "do I really want to go down this dark path" things, something which would've taken such a toll on her that she decided not to go there, now she had to focus on raising a family...
> But first, she decided to have one last blood sample tested for PFOS: her own. The results showed one of the lowest readings she’d seen in human blood. Immediately, she thought of the rats that had passed the chemical on to their pups.
> Hansen told me that, for the next 19 years, she avoided the subject of fluorochemicals with the same intensity with which she had once pursued it. She focused on raising her kids
She WAS meticulous in her research for YEARS, but ultimately held too much unquestioning trust in the company line that PFOS was safe. She got worn down and burned out... Which is pretty understandable.
At one point TFA quotes her asking her husband to walk her through the car park after work lest she be threatened by other 3M employees who now saw her as some kind of traitor, so at one time she was pretty worried about being victim of a Boeing-Type Incident.
If you want people to remain scientific, you gotta foster a culture in which it is safe to do so, and the impact of the findings matches its significance.
Try posting some CSAM somewhere and declaring that no government can censor it, and see how that goes, and who you find yourself allied with and who you find yourself alienated from as a result.
Censorship resistance is a nice principle that I agree should carry a lot of weight in a lot of situations, but it isn't everything.
agreed, and it should be great for form factors in the range of apple tvs, mac minis, soho-size network switches, NUCs. If what you want is a homelab cluster, a 19 inch rack seems needlessly large. If only this 10 (or is it 10.5?) inch rack were a more standardized form factor, with gear designed to slide right in and out of it.
"Meta AI", an AI assistant with a website at http://meta.ai/ , as opposed to "Meta AI", an artificial intelligence laboratory owned by Meta with a website at https://ai.meta.com/
When the answer to a "how do I do X on windows" question begins with "start WSL", my primary reaction is frustration because they're basically saying "there's not a good way to do that on Windows, so fire up a Linux VM".
Just to pick my most recent example, from today. I wanted to verify the signatures on some downloaded rpm files, and the rpm tools work on linux. I know, rpm files are native to a family of linux distros, so it's not surprising that the tools for retrieving and verifying their signatures don't work on windows but... it also seems reasonable to want a world where those tools can install and run on windows, straight from a PowerShell session, with no VM.
Multiply that by all the little utilities that that can't be deployed across multiple operating sytems, and it just seems like some incompatibility headaches are never really going to go away.