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My first thought on reading the headline was "what Linux still did that in 2015"? I thought I read somewhere years ago that Sun, BSD and GNU rm all had checks in them to spot the / or /* and refuse to run. According to this SE page[1] GNU even has an option to tell rm "no I really do want to blow away my whole root" by using "--no-preserve-root".

Apparently the "fix" only applies to the root user. The article is about a regular user who recursively lost everything he owned starting at /.

Ouch!

[1] https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/19547/how-far-can-y...
the ads aren't directly in the product, but that data ends up trying to provide you with "relevant" ads, just like the Android phone itself.

Are people honestly not creeped out when you get ads from other people's phones?
How is AWS not being consumer facing relevant? Both Google and Amazon started out being consumer facing and now have a cloud division. Their cloud divisions not being consumer facing is irrelevant.
Yes. But since you have a bright spot in the center of the larger image and you only have a limited number of baseline between pairs of telescopes there will be all kinds of artefacts in the outer portion of that large image. So it get's cropped away. (Most of it is actually never even computed).
What are the chances of the startup becoming successful and not turning evil?
Now I'm really curious if Quantum Entanglement will work if you send one of the entangled particles into a black hole.
USMC, 86-94. As an NCO, I was issued a handgun because my MOS called for it. The Corps has different doctrine than the Army. Issuing a handgun makes plenty of sense in certain environments. I did lots of "jungle time", as it were, so our mission was different. Marines do many different things than the Army. Loads of patrols for drug interdiction, for example. Never saw American soldiers on these. Ditto patrolling in PI for insurgents. Everyone armed to the teeth for these. When you're in Thailand or the PI and you're miles from re-supply and helos cannot see you for the canopy, you are humping tons of crap that you normally wouldn't, although my base loadout always included a handgun, no matter the environment. Also please remember that back when I was in, and even now, the Corps gets the crappy end of the stick where gear is concerned. Most of our stuff was Army hand-me-downs. The Corps uses Blue, not Green dollars. All of our vehicles were prior Navy or Army. Quite a few of our weapons were also. They were all retrofitted with new parts (spring kits, etc.), but we had largely older gear. We were still using the AN/PRC-77 radios back then, which is a Vietnam-era radio kit.

Editing to answer forgotten point: The new 6MM AR-pattern rifles weigh no more than their 5.56 counterparts empty, and very little difference loaded. The size and weight of the ammo is likewise negligible. These are being tested by the US at the moment in certain theaters and are well liked. They are being considered as DM rifles, which makes perfect sense. The US is taking a page out of Russia's book to have a DM per squad. This should have been done ages ago. For little weight gain, you add serious capability. The 6MM is no slouch, and has the best ballistic coefficient of any round in the inventory. The facts are out there to read. It's all very interesting.
Amazon the company does, obviously. The only actual fight will be how much Amazon ends up paying to the nations of the amazon to use the name. (i suspect it will be zero)
Agreed on every count. In LA, where I am, drivers leave only 2-3 car lengths following distance even when traveling over 100/120kmh. It's incredibly dangerous, and one can't really even try to leave proper following distance because someone will just think "that's an open space" and merge in, putting everyone in danger. It's the __default__ behavior and it enrages me.

Social stigma is great; but I write to my state and federal representatives every quarter of the year about this specific issue. I want distracted driving to be treated as an equal offense to driving drunk.

At the very least, real enforcement and stiffer fines need to happen in order for any changes to take place.
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But that would be 6 whys.
Seriously, how do you use rm -rf anywhere in a script without copious if statements? It's quite easy to avoid this mistake.
I feel similarly; I started my career at a BigCo, didn't get much out of it, joined a fairly young company, with (1) more responsibility than someone of my tenure should reasonably have due to (2) high tolerance for failure and (3) they didn't have headcount for the specialized role I was doing. Going back to a BigCo, the experience there was utterly invaluable. I realized that my first go round I had absolutely no idea what I should even be trying to get out of it. This time's different.

There's huge value to getting the lay of the land.
What's a better one?
Then don't buy such a device which clearly doesn't meet your needs. Why should every personal computing device on the planet be tailored to your requirements, at the cost of safety for the majority of other users? Most people don't use PiHole, they use Adblock or uBlock which are not affected by this. It's not as though they are taking away your ability to use adblocking technology.
I once worked somewhere that purchased an individual printer for every user. Talk about a nightmare in costs and consumables. The idea was people would gather around shared workgroup copiers/printers like a watercooler and waste time.

Anyways, having hundreds of these in an office lead to some interesting WiFi scans.
Come on, this is just silly. Can you please leave these ones unposted?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Gift and estate taxes are linked. They kick in only when you exceed the lifetime exemption, which is currently $11.2 million for individuals and $22.4 million for married couples.
I think its more like '9/11 Never Forget' than 'Fuck Bernie Sanders'

And who cares anyways. Its their repo. If you don't like it fork it.
I like to call this "pulling oneself up by one's bootstraps at Andover," with apologies for singling out Andover.
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With a couple able to transfer over $22 mil without estate taxes. Not many people have that issue as the driving factor.
You won't get to do those things at BigCo likely until you've done it at a startup.
I mean, just because nobody explicitly inquires about something doesn't mean it's irrelevant. If you got a gift from an old friend (or even a happy birthday message) and then somehow found out it was only because someone else had pressured them into doing that, would it mean the same thing to you as if it had been their own independent decision? Most people wouldn't...
I decided I’m building and hosting my dev blog on Netlify now instead of anywhere else. This post honestly helped me get there.
The math is excluding compounding. A simplified look (payment due at end of 15 years) is around 6.3% annually https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=2.5%5E(1%2F15)&assumpt...

The math including payments is a bit more complex and will depend on how much you are paying during the loan term. I.e. if you paid 2.4x on day one and 0.1x the final day looks a lot different from 0.1x on day one and 2.4x the last day due to the time value of money.
If a student with an ISA doesn't get a good job after graduation, the school gets nothing (or not much).

If the student does get a good job, the school gets paid more.

Thus the school is highly incentivized to make sure that their graduating students are highly employable.

This is very different from the other systems where the school gets paid no matter what happens after graduation.
It's an issue because when your parents were young they didn't need a handout to survive. Nowadays the young are unable to offer themselves the same lifestyle their parents had and that's partly because housing cost is through the roof(pun intended) and partly because our wage has not followed with inflation.
Are markets fair, efficient, omniscient, and/or rational?

What alternatives exist for defining value?

What do we mean by value?
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Build build build. I don't mean a little side project like you're already doing. I mean build something substantial. Clone something on the App Store. Write your own Twitter client. Create a replacement for a SASS product you admire. Whatever, doesn't matter.

Why? Because you need experience and you aren't going to get that looking for a new job. You need the experience first so you can get that new job. Once you have demonstrable skills, try to pick up a freelance client or two. Then you can decide if you like freelancing or want to apply for a salaried position.
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I don't see any reason why not.

There are reasons that some people don't trust the cloud but I don't you'd have trouble convincing regulators that it's OK. (e.g. they use GovCloud, Bridgewater does everything in AWS, etc.)
They are being paid more than minimum wage. Even after the worth less than natives (less paperwork) they are still paid more than the McDonald's in town would pay. It is hard work with long days.

Of course I can only report on the farmers I know. They only employ legal workers (or at least that is all they will admit to...), illegal workers probably make much less.
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TLDs for things, not TLDs for trademarks.
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Yup the PRC's approach so far has been to force the rest of the world of kowtow, company by company, to their ridiculous petulant insecurities and autocratic fascism. That way they get the best of both worlds - a connection to a wide world the paranoid, boot-black politburo need not fear.
This use case wouldn't get approved. It's very hard getting an exception and this doesn't come close to meriting it.

Preventing cell phone calls could have dire consequences in an emergency, and stopping kids from looking at porn doesn't remotely merit taking that risk.
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Good on you for admitting your mistakes and making a change to avoid making the same one again.

Sometimes I'll get so fed up with people that, at a stoplight, I'll actually get off my bike and knock on their windows and tell them to put the phone down. All black visor and gear makes one intimidating enough for them to stop for a few hundred yards. Better than nothing, I suppose.
technically yes, there's nothing special about www and no actual reason that a TLD can't be resolved directly.

However, icann policy forbids 'dotless' domains, and most browsers will probably default to doing a web search if you enter a word that doesn't look like a domain in the address bar.
Actual title rather than subtitle would make a lot more sense: "The Need for Speed Limits"

There is almost no discussion of the symbiotic growth of the two.
Looks nice, but can we put "people are" on some kind of ban list for headline phrases?
GNU rm only catches "/". The Steam issue was for /* which is expanded by the shell.
Is libsoduim written in a low level language like c or did they compile javascript down to webassembly somehow? It wasn't clear from the article. At least my reading of it.
This will make a bunch of startup's life really hard. I think it makes it harder to justify investing in your own ML pipeline or even building your own models for many use cases.
Are you saying you think there should be restrictions on the ideological content of what people should be allowed to create?
One thing that hasn't changed, though, in comparisons of wealth, is the size of one's house.

While a high-ranking official or royalty in the middle ages couldn't travel anywhere in 24 hours, if you look at their house(s), many of them compare favorably to what the ultra-rich are able to purchase/build today in square feet (though today, the wealthy - and the lesser folk - have better materials to build with when it comes to insulation, plus central HVAC and other amenities of course). They also had an equivalent amount of hired labor (perhaps in some cases, even more, because they didn't have amenities we take for granted today, like indoor running water).

But just in raw square footage under roof, some of those places that are still standing today are pretty amazing, and would be amazing to own today (provided you could afford the maintenance and upkeep). This holds almost as far back in history as you want to go.

Height, though - we have them beat, there. An ultra-wealthy person, if they wanted to (there are few today that I have read about) - could have a modern skyscraper built for a home (or renovate one into a personal home, provided zoning allows for it - which I am sure, if you are wealthy enough, you can get a waiver for).
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TMForum are developing an end to end standard for model dev and management, unfortunately it's closed but I really think that standardised components (feature store, model store, model registry) and model non functionals (identity, use history, status) with standardised API's are pretty necessary. BTW : deployed to prod is only 50% of the story; someone poor fool has to manage (and account for) these things in life!
> A tax on students

It would take all of about two decades, maybe less, for program spending to spiral out of control. And the only way to solve it would be to expand the tax to non-students.
Good point. If I'm going to discuss use of government force, I should distinguish between civil and criminal action taken on the part of the government.

This discussion does take me past my knowledge boundaries, though I believe failure to pay child support can also be "criminal". The main reason I'm not confident (and used quotes) in what I'm saying here is that there's a difference between criminalizing failure to pay a debt itself, and criminalizing various kinds of fraud that go into hiding money that would otherwise be garnished by court order. This difference can be complicated legally and I just don't know enough about it to have a meaningful discussion.

Seizing someone's assets in response to a failure to pay debt does eventually require law enforcement, so I do stand behind my claim that government force is ultimately to collect money based on foolish lending and borrowing practices, under draconian non dischargeable conditions.
So whose device is it anyway? I don't want to use my ISP's lying DNS resolver.
> But Amazon the company has not overtaken all the above.

That might be true, but I don't think it's a foregone conclusion. I think it's entirely possible that depending on how you measure it, Amazon the company has overtaken all the above.

Edit: And to be slightly less waffling, I think it's entirely possible it's overtaken them in some of the most obvious ways to measure, such as (global) public consciousness and word association.
The implicit yield points you're talking about is sleep or wait (noop in other terms). It's also not exactly a yield, it calls the scheduler to tell it to schedule (meaning the scheduler could decide to run again the exact same goroutine that noop-ed). Finally, goroutines are not just cooperative, they also run in parallel in a pool of threads.
Yeah, no kidding. The presentation in the American conference is much more insightful and gives a stronger perspective. And the EU conference didn't even show the image until 8 minutes in.
Now that I use another revolver the NXDOMAIN problem is fixed.
> And we've been conditioned since we were kids to feel it's rude to ask why more than once or twice.

That's why "5 Whys" is so important -- to re-kindle the intellectual curiosity that is snuffed out in children.
I looked at this for a fun car to use at the weekends twice a month but it wasn't cost effective.

To rent for a weekend:

- Rental: £300 (dependent on the car, but £300 was the cheapest)
- Fuel: £100

To do it twice a month, between April and October would cost £5,600. Instead I picked up a fantastic car for just under £10,000 with less than 50,000 miles on it.

Man Maths has me at (over 12 months):

- Depreciation: £500
- Maintenance: £1500 (includ. tires)
- Insurance and tax: £750
- Fuel: £1000

which is £3,750 v.s. £5,600.
I think another correction to the diminishing value of stock options and longer IPO horizon is that insane hours are less common now, even at the peril of the success of the median startup. It's also a result of the tight tech labor market and the wealth divide between new startup comp and FAANG comp. Why should I would disproportionate hours if there's another job with a more certain outcome that does not require this.

Curious if others have seen a drop in hours expected from your average startup (separate discussion if longer hours is a key ingredient and overall a good thing).
Thanks.
Commissioners aren't even proper politicians : they get to power without election, without ever needing to convince the public, most often without even being known from the public. Nevertheless the decisions they make must be implemented in national laws by elected MPs. Hence you can imagine how despised and hated they are.
I typically work ~8-4, with some occasional time in the evenings. So, yes.
It is recommended to take a 15 minute break every two hours of driving. This is especially important if one is driving long distance.
Even if this was rewritten in Lua, I'm pretty sure that you'd have to figure out how to get it under the token limit before you had to worry about running in 512k RAM.
Absolutely not. We said our updater using HTTP is secure, since the updates are cryptographically signed, like APT.

The first download is HTTPS-all-the-way since a long time: search engines get you the HTTPS version of videolan.org that redirects you to HTTPS-only mirrors (not controlled by us).

However, as we do not control the mirrors and the mirrors content, this is not secure, but so far, there is no solution (until universal SRI).
Yup, totally. Was just curious if someone had made this process just a little bit easier.
Malice is certainly possible, but someone simply making a mistake is another easily plausible cause. Many sites don't correctly redirect all URLs to from http to https.
Just like incest and bankruptcy, dynastic wealth transfer is shameful when we plebes do it, yet it's perfectly acceptable for American presidential candidates and the royal families of Europe.
You reach down, grab your bootstraps and pull, marveling at how quickly you rise, all the while ignorant to the fact you're riding in an elevator.
No idea how much cars cost in Germany let alone Europe only what the Germans told me.

I don’t think they sell the 520i in the US, at least I can’t find them. Here’s a 540i for $62k and I guarantee I could negotiate it to less than $60 with a 6.5% tax.[1] M5s here are over 100k.
550i are about 90k.

No chance of a 550d touring coming stateside, I can’t compare prices. Diesel wagon with 4 turbos wow!!

[1]https://www.bmwofgwinnettplace.com/detail-2019-bmw-5_series-...
Another one that doesn't respect line breaks

What is the reason why all those lightweight markup languages don't preserve plain text line breaks by default without special formatting?

It would be much easier to use if they did, if I hit enter in plain text it's for a reason

I like BBCode, and that one preserves your line breaks too
On salary (not hourly) this is a useless question.

Say they make 100k/yr. With 40hr weeks that's roughly $50/hr. With 60 hour weeks and 1.5x base pay, you could say it's $20/hr. It's all the same.

What you seem to be asking for is for companies to pay you the same, just say your base is lower so they can pay you 1.5x you base for appearances sake.

Now, optics aside, if you take an offer with an expectation of 40 hrs / week and they make you work 60, then sure. That's exploitation. But if the expectations are clear upfront, "base pay" is just legalese.
Leuchtterm 1917 is a nice choice and isn't adorned with "BuJo" noise. I like the one with the dot grid.
The most important factor to succeed in the US (and indeed, many other places); rich parents.

Sure, it's always been the case, but the trend is heading in the wrong direction ("wrong", that is, if you don't like rich parents being the key to success).
I'm really not happy to see this. This further entrenches people into Google's AI platform where all the input data will be harvested for ad revenue and even further profiling of human data. Laws enshrining natural rights of privacy of personal data can't come soon enough.
> Is the VLC paid by EADS and/or French intelligence to enable man in the middle to inject malware in keeping HTTP in clear-text available?

When you will stop doing those kind of accusations all the time, maybe some people will listen to you. Until then, not so much.
What an ignorant article, technology addiction is nothing like heroin or other drug addiction and does a disservice to those who are actually addicted to substances.

When was the last time someone died because of technology withdrawals? Please get a sense of perspective before posting such uninformed drivel.
Every time I see mention of this, I am reminded of the short story about the struggling butterfly:

http://instructor.mstc.edu/instructor/swallerm/Struggle%20-%...

Are parents doing a long term disservice to their children by doing this? I don't know. What I do know is that after highschool, a self-sustained budget became a real thing, real fast. I reckoned that a lot of my friends and peers received this so called drip feed of e-transfers from their parents. My parents were middle-class; not poor by any means, but they believed in "tough love" and strengthening through struggle. It was indeed a rougher ride, but I'm thankful for the outcome. Perhaps there is something intrinsic about paying your own way. But I believe I might be starting to see the subtle differences emerge from the two groups now that I'm in my early thirties among my circle of friends
Or maybe just `set -o nounset`
From my testing with iPhones, the stupid behaviour goes away on an 802.11r-enabled network. I noticed the same issues on a legacy network but that all went away after enabling 11r.
Is it possible to resolve this? Parents are going to want to help their children over others; people without that help will feel resentful. Seems like a consequence of human nature, and changing the tax incentives won't ameliorate what is essentially an emotional problem. (The issue isn't parents helping their kids, the issue is the reaction to it)
I/O is exactly the kind of stuff that should happen smoothly in goroutines or go blocks. It's kind of the quintessential case because I/O has a lot of sleeps and waits (noop or stalls in other terms).

When you're downloading a big file for example, I'm not an expert of that but I expect that there's gonna be a lot of cpu stalls in there. Same for the network adaptor and disk.
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I'm not quite sure what you are asking? Are you asking if a bank/credit union (e.g. Ally, MITFCU) could go serverless? Assuming that is your question, here is my response:

Maybe. Note that there is more to the bank than the customer site. On the backend you have processing of incoming and outgoing ACH/wire transfers, data storage and retrieval for loan origination and collections, ATM processing, processing of branch transactions, and fielding support calls. That's just what I have come up with in the last 30 seconds. I'm sure larger banks do a lot more (e.g. check processing).

All of these systems could, to some extent, be architected around some form of event system that runs functions. That's how some fintech companies approach these problems. If I were making the decision, I would weigh the costs of deployment/management with the potential savings in compute usage. Deploying a single monolith, or a handful of microservices is much easier (to me) than dealing with a plethora of "nanoservices".