Meanwhile the federal minimum wage is still $7.25/hr.

Why not raise it then?

I don’t know, ask the states that have lower wages on the books (even though federal prevails).

Why shouldn't we be concerned about it?

A society should be judged by how it treats those at the bottom and by that metric our current society is pretty awful.

? Who are you to say they deserve more than that.

I come to this website everyday. And each day I lose faith in humanity a little more.

Who are you to say that they don't?

My own lived experience tells me they deserve more.

The vast majority of people I've known who have worked for minimum wage were much harder workers and frankly just much better humans (who happened to have less privileged starts in life) than the vast majority of people I've known who are financially secure.

But even if you don't believe they deserve more inherently, it would still be dumb for us to continue to let income inequality grow at the ridiculous rates it has been over the last 40 years. This pattern never turns out well for society.

0. You are really trying to say that one group of people are “much better humans”…? I think people should fear this type of attitude. It _never_ turns out well for society when we go this route.

1. The federal minimum wage is not the solution to any of your complaints.

What makes you better than them?

This is even easier with the thiserror crate:

   #[derive(Debug, Error)
   enum AppError {
       #[error("io: {0}")]
       Io(#[from] io::Error)
   }

Automatically generates From impls like this and a Display impl that lets you describe the error case with more detail. Very very good ergonomics and completely transparent to downstream libraries.

I ended up using thiserror everywhere but `:/src/bin/`, and using eyre in there.

It's a nice compromise between being precise on your errors with your code, but allowing you to be careless at the very end of the error lifecycle since running into errors there has very few ways of going about them, and you don't want to deal with the burden of updating that error handling all the time.

I just wish support would land for `backtrace` on stable.

This is awesome. I rotated some ideas like this in my head a while ago but never had the motivation to put it together. Happy to see more types of protocols like this.

This was addressed explicitly in the video. It's far less efficient end-to-end, even though the gearing is theoretically simpler. Trains do it because diesel engines just can't produce the torque you need to move a train (at least, in the form factor of a locomotive), so they need to use electric motors.

He makes that argument but IMO it's not particularly well founded. He talks about his old Chevy Volt and guesses about the new Nissan series hybrids while ignoring Honda's current lineup of series hybrids. The Civic hybrid* meets or beats the EPA ratings on both the Corolla and Camry hybrids when on the same size wheels (18").

I agree in principal that there's efficiency to be gained by minimizing conversion losses, but Honda may be clawing that back with larger and more efficient motor-generators that only package well because no planetary gear set is required to connect everything.

* Honda hybrids do have either one or two clutches to mechanically connect the engine to the wheels at fixed ratios for highway cruising, but their city EPA numbers are still very competitive.

They keep doing negative things that influence the industry and infringe upon the freedoms of hundreds of millions of people. Yes we should keep dwelling on that.

I read the parent as sarcastic. Since the mentioned the continued negative things they do.

That IPv8 proposal that was circulating a few weeks ago was not a serious proposal (written entirely by a single person with no substantial involvement in IETF before then) and has no roadmap to any kind of adoption.

A reasonable proposal from a single person outside the IETF seems most likely to succeed.

It’s not like the IETF have any obvious success managing or deploying solutions to IP problems known for over 30 years.

It’s not like that proposal offers a solution for any of those problems.

Anubis is actually a jackal.

I stand corrected!

The Nintendo Switch runs a custom operating system codenamed HorizonOS.

I was going to say. There's no way Nintendo would be caught dead with GPL anything, even GPLv2.

I really wish people would drop the GHA model because it's so bad and insecure by design. GitLab's CI is miles better and easier to use.

True but GitLab is going to run into the same issues as GitHub, maybe even worse because GitLab doesn't have a trillion dollar multinational benefactor. Public corporation and developer tooling has never boded well, a current look at GitLab reflects this sentiment perfectly.

Which is why we should always champion FOSS for dev tooling as it's the only way a community can have a say in an industry dominated by unregulated tech behemoths.

> True but GitLab is going to run into the same issues as GitHub

Will they? Has Gitlab doubled down on "Agentic AI" and thus require 30x capacity to support current users, while being kneecapped by Azure?

Well GitLab has to deal with a board that hasn't seen exactly great returns since they went public and the situation is unlikely to get better if they continue being a public corporation. Recent leadership statements instill zero confidence on their plans to do anything meaningful.

Same problem, capitalism, but different constraints.

Agreement IBM had to make with the DoJ/etc in the 80s to open the PC platform to avoid antitrust prosecution. That was the key event.

I would argue that the key event was Columbia Data Products’s clean room implementation of the BIOS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Data_Products

That, and I’m pretty sure the DOJ had ended the antitrust suit (which was about bundling) by the time the PC was released.