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I think you are being rather unfair to the poster. I don't think (s)he is advocating an American style system exist in NZ; only that traveling is made much harder by the lack of it (and exactly how that is made difficult).

In fact, I think the "mom and pop" shops could do a win-win by investing in expanding capacity and providing better service to tourists.

Of course, that is slightly difficult if they don't want tourists. But in that case, it should be made clear to visitors...don't dupe them into coming to your country and then provide terrible service just because you can get away with it.

BTW America is not a "wasteland" by any means. Sure, there are many parts that are like that, but there are an equal number of incredibly beautiful natural sanctuaries. Actually I'm not even sure what you mean by that term.
Human ingenuity never stops amazing me.
Nah, it turns out the switch is using an OS derived from their custom, proprietary 3DS OS.

They run the FreeBSD network stack in another process in user land, hence the copyright claim.
ddrescue is excellent.
Yeah and the NSA likely has all Clinton's deleted emails.

Will they ever see the light of day? Nope.
What about writing a block into the middle of a file?
What does Starbucks pay? Or are their employees just naturally unhappy, if not grumpy?
I don't really agree that Terraform re-invents wheels. In fact it feels like a lot of the things you cite as issues are actually due to Terraform being pretty innovative. There's not much like it for "version-controlled" infrastructure, so the team and community are learning as they go, and can't be expected to come up with perfect solutions right away. I agree the looping hacks are very ugly, really dislike the whole split and join everywhere thing.

As for DSL vs. programming languages, the halting problem provides a pretty compelling argument in favor of limiting your system if you want to have "verifiable convergence". Personally I'm a huge fan of HCL too. It fixes a lot of what's bad about YAML and TOML and has a built in pretty printer.
If laws were codified in a machine-friendly format, automatic code analysis could alert lawmakers and the public to ambiguity, conflicts, redundancy, unused code, opportunities for optimization and verbosity.
> Not to be too cheeky, but do you have any evidence to support your claim that we would have more monopolies without government intervention?

I just posted elsewhere in these comments on that, but basically: Hearst, US Steel, Microsoft, plus lots of potential abuse that is prevented. (You're implying that tariffs supported the US Steel monopoly - I won't argue. But it didn't create the monopoly, and it didn't create the market abuse)

> And I don't think anyone can seriously argue that the threat of antitrust action by the government is what has limited the existence of monopolies.

I certainly will. I've watched Microsoft dance about (including funding Apple) when they were scared. Before them IBM did the dance. BSD exists because AT&T was prevented from selling UNIX directly. I see Google doing the dance, and Amazon is in the wings. Syngenta was going to merge with Monsanto, but didn't, and not because they suddenly thought it was a bad deal. Bayer and Monsanto are now looking to merge, and they are figuring out what businesses to spin off to avoid being stopped by monopoly concerns. You can go through the big mergers over the past 20 years (at least) and see how they've worked to avoid being hit with govt restrictions.

The govt even allows you to be a monopoly, all through your own market prowess...but prevents (or tries to) you from using that monopoly to spread into related areas. Absent that oversight completely free market capitalism would have ground innovation to a halt because the barriers to entry in most industries would be crippling. Investors wouldn't want to invest in competitors because it'd be a terrible risk rather than a basic risk.

> It seems self evident to me

Indeed, it is self evident to you. Not to everyone.
unityByFreedom says: " Trump's complaint holds no more water than an average Joe claiming "Obama ordered a wiretap on me"."

No, because at any time Obama could have terminated the process and asked for legislation to dismantle the means.
Definitely this. I have found many times that I'm an offender of these "bad practices", and usually that's because a certain pattern I learned way back in the beginnings of my Linux days still hangs around.

Embarrassingly, it took me a long time before I started reaching for man pages instead of Google. That has probably has had the biggest effect on tightening up my command line fu.

find is another tool that seems to get only one specific use case that ignores its rather large and useful toolset.
Lol if you can't afford a real piano :))
I've had a bottle of (Effen) vodka sitting in my freezer for the past 5 years. Saving it for a good time. Still hasn't frozen! I didn't think any vodka could freeze!
Thanks for the info, I wasn't aware of the speed limiting, that does sound rather useless.
I used to work in Social Services. There are, without a doubt, people that abuse the system.

But you have a lot more confidence in their ability to be sneaky than I do. The average person is not very good at lying without getting caught. The average person that lacks any initiative or follow through is worse.
That was great. Moreover, it gave me an idea. Oracle has been going after Android in patent suits. Joyent had patents on Solaris-based technology for cloud-style stuff Oracle might be interested in. Joyent was acquired by Samsung, a major Android vendor. I wonder if part of Samsung's motivation was countering Oracle with the I.P. Joyent had.
Jurors don't interpret law and judges have a well-organised system for exception handling.

The legal system is massively reliable. By the time something reaches an appeal court, you're already into 5th 9 territory. You can live an entire life under it, moving through it, completely surrounded by it, and never have to see it or think about it.
Same, the Thinkpad's crappy monitor is a great unintentional feature.
>The script with no specified options will query ARIN and a pool of BGP route servers.

To what end?
Strong towns makes a compelling argument that the reason we've invested so poorly in infrastructure that we can't possibly hope to maintain is that we don't conduct government business using accrual accounting. I wonder - do local governments anywhere use accrual accounting? It would be so much harder for government to spend money we don't have with good accounting practices in place, which leads me to believe that this is uncommon.
This 'whistleblower' resigned from the NSA in 2001. Yawn.
Hugo + Digital Ocean [0]. I find it a powerful low cost combination with a lot of flexibility.

- [0] https://www.robinwieruch.de/own-website-in-five-days/
yes it totally is.

A company culture of openly admitting mistakes, knowing that your team-mates will not play the blame game, means that problems will be reported quickly.

In a "conventional" culture, an engineer who makes a mistake (and who will be fired for making that mistake) is incentivised to cover up the mistake and hope that the blame falls elsewhere.

In an open culture, the engineer who makes a mistake is incentivised to immediately raise the alarm.

So while the chances of a mistake happening are the same (we're all human), the chances of it being caught quickly and dealt with quickly are better in an open culture.
That seems pretty intuitive to me:

Grab the first N bytes vs. grab everything starting from the Nth byte.
Related topic: https://news.vice.com/video/schoolgirls-for-sale-in-japan
It all makes sense now! This is much more pertinent than the code if you don't know much about the subject matter.
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pv is probably more useful:

$ dd if=/dev/urandom count=1000 bs=1000000 | pv -s 1000000000 > foo
214MiB 0:00:16 [13.1MiB/s] [========================>
] 22% ETA 0:00:55

Compare to ^T:

$ dd if=/dev/urandom of=foo count=1000 bs=1000000
load: 1.76 cmd: dd 80097 running 0.00u 0.89s
11+0 records in
11+0 records out
11000000 bytes transferred in 0.947316 secs (11611752 bytes/sec)
load: 1.76 cmd: dd 80097 running 0.00u 1.68s
22+0 records in
22+0 records out
22000000 bytes transferred in 1.746013 secs (12600134 bytes/sec)
load: 1.76 cmd: dd 80097 running 0.00u 2.28s
31+0 records in
31+0 records out
31000000 bytes transferred in 2.392392 secs (12957742 bytes/sec)
load: 1.76 cmd: dd 80097 running 0.00u 2.83s
38+0 records in
38+0 records out
....
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Yep! See this: http://askubuntu.com/questions/751193/what-is-the-difference...

Basically, you can use cp wherever you use dd, as long as you're not changing any low-level parameters (e.g. starting 500 bytes into the file or something).
Or if an API works for you, https://ipinfo.io

$ curl ipinfo.io/8.8.8.8
{
"ip": "8.8.8.8",
"hostname": "google-public-dns-a.google.com",
"city": "Mountain View",
"region": "California",
"country": "US",
"loc": "37.3860,-122.0840",
"org": "AS15169 Google Inc.",
"postal": "94035",
"phone": "650"
}

$ curl ipinfo.io/8.8.8.8/org
AS15169 Google Inc.

And ASN details are available on the web, eg https://ipinfo.io/AS15169
Ya know, America is a huge place. We have vast tracts of unspoiled nature larger than many New Zealands put together. Sorry if this sounds defensive but it is. I think parent gets it, but for anyone who thinks tourism in America is only some consumer mass product... that is just wrong. The scope of America's wilderness is staggering. It always amuses me when "people" think they have to leave the country to see some unspoiled wilderness.
> you're playing semantics here for literally no point other than to be a pedant on the Internet

Physics insists on precise terminology for a reason. It's not just pedantry.

> JUST AS COOL AND INTERESTING is a clump of matter that fits inside its own Schwarzschild radius, that's inside a universe-sized black hole

The only difference is that the clump of matter contains matter, while the universe-sized black hole can be idealized as vacuum (or at least as being so much lower in density than the clump of matter that this density can be ignored when you're analyzing the clump of matter). But that has nothing to do with any properties related to black holes. See below.

> Such an object seems to me that it still has all of the interesting properties of a black hole, while existing inside of a black hole.

And my point is that this is not correct, as a matter of physics, not words. There are no "interesting properties of a black hole" which change in any way when you cross the boundary from the universe-sized vacuum region to the clump of matter region. The only property that changes is the density of stress-energy. As far as any "interesting properties of a black hole" are concerned, there is just one region.

Here's another way to put it: when you think of the clump of matter inside the universe-sized black hole as "fitting inside its own Schwarzschild radius", you are calculating the Schwarzschild radius based on the mass of the clump of matter. But that calculation only has physical meaning if the clump of matter is isolated--i.e., if it is not inside the universe-sized black hole. If the clump of matter is inside the universe-sized black hole, then the only Schwarzschild radius that has physical meaning is the one you get by plugging in the total mass of the universe plus the clump of matter. (And even that is only meaningful if the "universe" in question is not expanding, as I've posted elsewhere in this thread.) So if you are thinking of the clump of matter as being a black hole because it fits inside its own Schwarzschild radius, you are thinking of it wrong, as a matter of physics. That's why the term "black hole" is not appropriate to describe it. It's not just a matter of words.
If it was that hard to hit things we'd never accidentally crash orbital landers, and yet this happens all the time.

The amount of fuel needed to park it in a perfect orbit is more than to park it in a sloppy, potentially decaying one.
We see precipitous price drops all around us. Like the price of data storage (hard disk), bandwidth or transistors. Local price drops are even more common, for example the price of coal at the gate of some mines. There are some houses in Italy and Detroit with a price tag of zero.
Dennis Kucinich, a Democrat, said that a phone call he had was secretly recorded and played back to him by a reporter 2 years later [0]

Who in the intelligence community gets to decide what phone calls are leaked?

[0] http://thehill.com/media/323846-dennis-kucinich-on-trumps-wi...
One of the charms of dd is its hilarious syntax. And, used properly, it's a bit of a swiss army knife for a few different disk operations.
I want to do this so bad, but the two things that keep me running X are my browser and mpv. Oh, and viewing PDFs.
Research paper suggests a certain change in existing statistical mechanics
tl;dr super hip docker overlay network cluster devopsifier learns to ARP cache after several days of intermittent service fail.

excuse my cynicism but this is why keeping up with the latest cool things doesn't necissarily mean a better sysadmin^W excuse me 'cloud devops engineer'
(Disclaimer: Developer on the project)

We recently release SimAirport via Steam's Early Access program. The game was initially riddled with bugs, probably released about 2+ weeks or so too early, but after >= daily patching over the last 2 weeks it's finally yielding pretty solid gameplay.

If you enjoyed the old Bullfrog games, the Roller Coaster Tycoon series, or Prison Architect in modern times (huge inspiration), then you'd probably SimAirport too.

We're in Early Access, so go easy on us! You'll still hit bugs for sure, but we [hopefully] don't have any major game stoppers at this point. There's no tutorial, some so experience with similar games is helpful, but we've got a lot of players with 20, 30, and way upwards of 40 hours in just the short <2 weeks since we initially released.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/598330
benoit benoit benoit <- funky melody

So, will you be adding recording and playback?

edit: not that you have to, but it's a fun musical toy, and I always yearn for the ability to loop when readily available nice sounds abound.
>> So while the chances of a mistake happening are the same (we're all human)

...and that's the point I was making in my comment
Yes, there's plenty of evidence for that, I'm not disputing that fact. However, even the most casual search you can find studies testing the effects of cannabinoids in vitro on different cancer types. As I said, the effects are different for each - they respond to different receptors (CB1 and CB2) and have effects ranging from nothing, to halting growth, to promoting cell death and reducing tumour size. The reasons why such differences exist are yet to be researched as far as I can tell though.
"Who in their right mind goes around serving up seizures..."

I agree violence should be met with appropriate justice.

Circumstances and context are rarely as cut and dried as your honest question. For example, there are some people alive that I'd rather they not be. Without context only a psychopath would think that. But if I add "9/11 victim" as context? Then you not only get it, you're on board.

It's the same here. On the surface it's shocking and offensive, but when you learn of prior behavior it becomes reasonable to doubt a reporter that hid his direct participation in news stories he was reporting. It seems more likely to me the victim seeks fame and fortune rather than justice.

The medium is relevant due to state lines. This is a Federal offense, where the guilty party goes to big boy prison and never gets a good job interview again. For what is widely viewed as an Internet prank. Pretty sure there's a Simpson episode with a similar prank too.

Disabled people have many precautions they take just to get thru each day. Many are required by law to report their medical status on a regular basis. It's not a stretch to ask if any precautions were taken in this case because if none were and a doctor had advised the victim differently there is less merit here.
A more appropriate headline, from another news source: "NSA Whistleblower Binney: Trump No Exception to Surveillance State". Might be perfect if you point out Binney has been talking about this for almost two decades now somewhere in the headline, but that one is long as it is.
Care to point to a book that talks about these acronyms. They are not in comer or Stevens both which are networking bibles
There are, and will always be, people whom may not be able to find societal-defined utility or whom cannot support themselves. And, for the forseeable future, there will tend to be a general labor oversupply (overpopulation + auomation) which creates a need for basic income... the top 1% can't hoard most wealth while others suffer in squalor and oppressive wage-slavery.
You can do whatever you want. You can even replicate AWS.
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"You are not just the consumer, you are also the product."
Stop being so condescending.
Is this how Maxmind gets their data?
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Suggested: Read Charles Murray's book on the topic. (yes, that Murray)

He pencils it out to something pretty close to 1:1, maybe something like 15% nominal spend increase, but with (theoretically) much greater utility for all concerned.
Hitchhiking is pretty safe for some slices of the population. Riskier (but probably still safeish for others). 6'2" white dude with a few lbs of muscle -- safer. Small individual who someone might try to take advantage of? Less safe, but I bet the driving is riskier than anything else that might happen. I have hitched backed to my car a few times after trekking on the AT. Many hikers rely on hitching to get around.
We certainly haven't tested it. Right now all extraterrestrial bodies and even empty space are international commons by the terms of th UN outer space treaty, which has been ratified by all space-going powers. However a nation can withdraw from the treaty with 1-yr notice, so this is of questionable value in predicting what will happen when we can make economic use of these resources.
Actually, that's not completley true. pv will detect the file size if you use the shell to read a file into it, like pv < file.
Another reason to consider growing slower and hiring considerately: it's too easy to think scaling fast and hiring a bunch of people is a panacea for success when it may ruin teamwork, morale and culture. There are situations to scale big and fast, but there is no one-sized-fits-all recipe.
It's strange that I can't find anything on implementing a CAS register this way. It seems like a relatively straightforward combination of single-decree paxos and the ABD algorithm. Of course, reasoning about distributed algorithms is never simple, and this still isn't...
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> while it likely would have prevented these three bugs

Isn't that the point of the parent's comment?
What's an orbital lander?

Landing is very hard. Getting into a medium-high orbit is not. Such an orbit might be sloppy, but it won't decay.

Yes I know about the mars climate orbiter, but that was a very low orbit because of the use of aerobraking, and it was small enough that extra fuel would more easily go unnoticed.
> All that I know is we were able to afford the infrastructure originally under a higher tax regime.

Actually, we couldn't.

Cities can actually afford their infrastructure--they're dense enough.

The problem is that we built a whole bunch of suburbs that people moved into. Suburbs can't afford their infrastructure once they quit growing. And, if they drain the critical mass out of the city, they also make the city not able to afford its infrastructure.
Finally! I was waiting for bytes crate. Really need it for vectored I/O in my project. Super happy
"Slavery". That sort of system requires a fair amount of legal and propaganda support. Our election system gives the old slave states a boost. And our more bigoted politicians are constantly rehashing and reusing the propaganda to justify their actions. So while slavery itself is gone, the weighted legal system and propaganda are still in place doing what they do. It's a safe bet that much of the Flint water crisis is due to the water system being for "those people".
"This is a strange program of obscure provenance that somehow, still manages to survive in the 21st century."

-> links to wikipedia page with direct discription of lineage back to 5th ed research unix

"That weird bs=4M argument in the dd version isn’t actually doing anything special—all it’s doing is instructing the dd command to use a 4 MB buffer size while copying. But who cares? Why not just let the command figure out the right buffer size automatically?"

Um -

a) it is 'doing the special thing' of changing the block size (not buffer size)

b) Because the command probably doesn't figure out the right size automatically, much like your 'cat' example above which also doesn't

c) And this can mean massive performance differences between invocations

> Another reason to prefer the cat variant is that it lets you actually string together a normal shell pipeline. For instance, if you want progress information with cat you can combine it with the pv command

Umm:

dd if=file bs=some-optimal-block-size | rest-of-pipeline

that was hard.

>If you want to create a file of a certain size, you can do so using other standard programs like head. For instance, here are two ways to create a 100 MB file containing all zeroes:

$ uname -sr
OpenBSD 6.0
$ head -c 10MB /dev/zero
head: unknown option -- c
usage: head [-count | -n count] [file ...]

well.. guess that wasn't so 'standard' after all..
I must be using some nonstandard version...

$ man head |sed -ne 47,51p
HISTORY
The head utility first appeared in 1BSD.

AUTHORS
Bill Joy, August 24, 1977.
$ sed -ne 4p /usr/src/usr.bin/head/head.c
* Copyright (c) 1980, 1987 Regents of the University of California.

Hmm..

> So if you find yourself doing that a lot, I won’t blame you for reaching for dd. But otherwise, try to stick to more standard Unix tools.

Like 'pv'?

edit: added formatting, sector size note, head manpage/head.c stuffs.. apologies.
What, is someone suggesting moving a 200KM asteroid closer to the earth? With what? A really big H-bomb?

It might be nice to go take a look, and it may be useful someday, but short of fusion drives, we're not going to be moving asteroid-sized hunks of iron around the Solar System.
For anyone interested in a minimalist track laying game, I've had a lot of fun with Mini Metro. It's available on both iOS and Android.

The goal is to transport as many passengers as possible, so it has a little competitiveness in it.
Sounds like a project for Cody's Lab (self-contained biome):

https://youtu.be/We_6Sloh90s
Unfortunately not!
I'm using base16 ocean-dark theme and it's pretty similar.
I recently watched and enjoyed this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkdPjbaLngE

where he describes the hack of the Nintendo Switch, because they shipped an old version of Webkit. It's pretty impressive to see how "just" Javascript can jump from browser to native.
So if you were using a use-once-and-destroy VM to do some Edge security testing, they could blow threw everything and get you anyway. The fact that there are vulnerabilities in each of three layers they needed to hit is unsurprising, but having one guy find all three is more incredible to me than Barcelona's recent come back against PSG.