my understanding is that they can hold you for a couple days without charges for your insubordination but as a citizen they have to let you back into the country or officially arrest you, try to get an actual warrant, etc.

they can just break the law

There is no law when entering the country. They can do everything they want, or making up anything they'll imagine.

> The phrase "Chinese Mainland" when used in English comes loaded with the suggestion that Taiwan is rightfully part of China — it is an unavoidable implication.

I'm really curious - what people did you get this idea from? I've never heard this before. I have heard "mainland China" to mean, specifically, "China, not Hong Kong or Macau", from:

- Taiwanese people

- Hong Kong people

- Mainland Chinese people

- Taiwanese-americans

- Chinese-americans (immigrated from the mainland)

It's just mainland China (大陆）. I have never met Chinese or Taiwanese people who feel this is a politically loaded term.

US ftth in my experience (att + gfiber) are ONT and router/wap as separate boxes and you are free to byo routerbox but have to use their ONT.

Supposedly some of the major US providers (at least AT&T) have dropped a bunch of the obnoxious, ineffectual security stuff in the XGS-PON networks. There are plenty of reports online of people quite successfully running an entirely third-party stacks using adorable SFP+-format ONTs without anything that would credibly be called hacking.

> home-built, source-code edited Qt 4.7.4

That's scarier than the containter craziness you mention

> That’s not empowerment – it’s fragmentation

> This isn’t resilience, it’s entropy

> That’s not openness, that’s abdication

> Just fork it” hides power, it doesn’t challenge it

> is not about obedience to maintainers. It’s about stewardship of commons.

> the goal isn’t endless new projects. It’s shared infrastructure

It's Not A Blog Post — It's Moralizing Slop

Half the comments on this forum itself have this incessant it's not X, it's y" pattern.

i would think humans would start writing in a way that doesn't scream ai generated writing by now, or perhaps the internet is truly dead

I really can't understand the mindset of prompt-blogging.

> In the future we'll question why we didn't move to WASM as the universal executable format sooner

I hope not, my laptop is slow enough as it is.

If you have requirements for high performance then the traditional C++ "ownership model" (I would say a better description is "ownership strategy") is definitely "slow". It's pretty "safe" in that you usually aren't going to leak a bunch with it but bull allocations, arenas, and freelists are all potentially faster. And you wouldn't use them if they were slower since they're (usually) more to deal with.

But even in software using these strategies, they probably will be using different ownership strategies in different parts of the code. Once you're writing high performance code, you will use specific strategies that give you the best results. But it's completey domain specific.

There's a big gap between "national firewalls shouldn't exist" and "country should invade/"liberate" another country to prevent national firewall (or insert other disliked policy)".

So to respond directly:

> Why should anybody trust them with another country?

They should not and should not need to trust them with another country

> would it be okay for china to liberate the USA

no, it wouldn't. But if China felt that the USA gov't was like, not cool, they could impose sanctions or not trade with USA.

The Austin train you are talking about is heavy rail. Not to be confused with Austin light rail which is Coming Soon (TM).

It's still more reliable than the busses. I think it's pretty fun.

I'm not sure how you'd measure the effectiveness of light rail/trams vs buses - a hybrid of average journey duration, number of passengers, and I suppose some ROI type metric?

Either way personally priority bus lanes feel significantly more flexible and cheaper to implement than LR/trams...but that's just a personal opinion.

But time I spend asking is time I could have been writing exactly what I wanted in the first place, if I already did the planning to understand what I wanted. Once I know what I want, it doesn't take that long, usually.

Which is why it's so great for prototyping, because it can create something during the planning, when you haven't planned out quite what you want yet.