> It is a call for more communication and understanding of different opinions.
It's a poorly argued rationalization for antisocial behavior from someone with a bad case of engineer's disease.
> Since I’ve posted it this article got flagged and unflagged multiple times, the first flag appeared within minutes (i.e. the user pressing the button did not even have a chance to read the article).
You don't have to eat the whole apple to know it's bad.
> I wonder what made people so aggressive and short-tempered about different points of view recently.
It might have something to do with the ongoing pandemic. I'm really not interested in yet another article from someone who's too precious to be vaccinated.
The message in your profile implies that the account is using HN primarily for political and ideological battle. That's not allowed, and we ban accounts that do it, regardless of their politics or ideology, because it's not what this site is for and it destroys what it is for. So please don't do that either. More explanation here:
+ You don‘t want to see or understand another viewpoint,
+ You did not even read the piece before flipping into hating it,
+ You hold a quite irrational emotional view on other people’s private health decisions (how come?),
+ You don’t dare to post under your real account,
+ You still believe „others“ to be antisocial.
I wish people like you would finally go back to Reddit, which seems to align more with your emotional frequencies and your intellect. You might find the aggressive narrow-minded echo chamber you seek there.
This community, in contrast, has always existed for intellectually curious people.
You've unfortunately broken the site guidelines badly as well, in this post and in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29837328. This is not at all a good way to defend this place for its intended purpose.
> Back in college, I would go to house parties and bars and do everything that everyone else was doing; the only difference is that I would have a Coke in my hand instead of a Rum & Coke.
I have found that I get fewer questions about my drink if I have the bartender put a lime in the Coke.
> My guess is that the customer here is asking because of a mandate to prefer open source solutions wherever possible.
I don't think that HPC or the DoE have anything close to such a mandate. My guess is that the request comes from a a user who wants to try compiling their code with gfortran.
NERSC is part of DOE’s Office of Science. Nuclear weapon development is done by DOE’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), which sponsors labs like Lawrence Livermore and Los Alamos. It definitely isn’t NERSC, NNSA has its own dedicated supercomputers for weapons work.
This is extremely polite while still being direct, I really like things like this.
It makes clear that there is a way they can help, with enough attitude to make clear that the other person is dealing with individuals rather than some magic free subcontractor.
Ah, I disagree. Saying "F2018 conformance will be fixed" implies that the GCC acknowledges "F2018 conformance" is a thing that needs to worked be on and not just a ruse by Bill to get free work done.
The maintainers responded well: they ignored Bill's weird framing and countered his entitlement politely.
Can't really argue with that, I found the actual responses very polite as well. I absolutely criticize nothing.
I don't think "F2018 conformance will be fixed faster if..." implies that there is any actual timeline at all, especially to the presumed target audience. Maybe that's what I'm seeing, that phrasing to me means WONTFIX unless the other party takes some kind of action.
The reason I like it is because it actually specifies what the other party can do to take action without calling them out. Calling them out is still certainly entirely fine. But if the goal is to get a purchase order issued from a negotiation perspective I think it makes sense to basically say "sure, we're willing to work on this seriously if you contribute", which then turns obviously to "I don't code" or "here's your patch", which then obviously turns to them contributing one way or another.
Patience and personal morale justifies a lot though IMO, the maintainers are of course under no obligation to care about any of that one bit, Bill could always have just patched the code and not worried about upstream. Embarrassing.
> AWS then stopped providing service to Parler due to the content they were hosting exposed by this action. Well within their rights! But they excuse the same sort of content hosed by Twitter....
It's a poorly argued rationalization for antisocial behavior from someone with a bad case of engineer's disease.
> Since I’ve posted it this article got flagged and unflagged multiple times, the first flag appeared within minutes (i.e. the user pressing the button did not even have a chance to read the article).
You don't have to eat the whole apple to know it's bad.
> I wonder what made people so aggressive and short-tempered about different points of view recently.
It might have something to do with the ongoing pandemic. I'm really not interested in yet another article from someone who's too precious to be vaccinated.