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Anecdotally, I've found btrfs unreliable. Here is a comment I made a week ago:

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Personally, BTRFS feels like it has a ways to go before it's ready for prime-time.

I've had two major and one minor BTRFS-related issues that have scared me away from it.

1) One of my computers got its BTRFS filesystem into a state where it would hang when trying to mount read/write. What I suspect is that there was some filesystem thing happening in the background when I rebooted the machine. I rebooted via the GUI and there was no sign that something was happening in the background, so this was really a normal thing that a user would do. No amount of fixing was able to get it back, but I was able to boot from the installation media, mount it read-only, and copy the data elsewhere.

2) Virtually all of the Linux servers at work will randomly hang for between minutes and hours. This was eventually traced to a BTRFS-scrub process that the OS vendor schedules to run weekly. The length and impact of the hang seemed to be based on how much write activity happens - servers where all the heavy activity happens on NFS mounts saw no impact, but servers that write a lot of logs to the local filesystem would get severely crippled on a weekly basis. We've moved a bunch of our write-heavy filesystems to non-BTRFS options as a result of this.

3) This is a more minor issue, but still speaks to my experience. I had a VM that was basically a remote desktop for me to use. Generally speaking it would hang hard after a few days of uptime with no actual usage. When I reinstalled it on a non-BTRFS (sorry, can't remember which filesystem I used) filesystem it was rock solid. I have no proof that this had anything to do with BTRFS.

All of these were things that happened around a year ago, they may not be a true representation of the current state of BTRFS. But they've burned me badly, so now any use of BTRFS will be evaluated very carefully.

In contrast, I've been running ZFS on a couple of FreeBSD servers, with fairly write-heavy loads, and have had no issues that were filesystem-related. Even under severe space and memory constraints ZFS has been rock solid.

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The first problem is directly attributable to BTRFS. There is no way a filesystem should get corrupted by a simple user-initiated reboot, regardless of what the system is doing in the background.

The second problem is a combination of BTRFS and the distribution. The distribution added a weekly job which did a BTRFS scrub (IIRC), under certain workloads that would completely hang machines for minutes to hours. The time this ran seems to be based on when the OS was installed, so as luck would have it these brought production systems down during business hours.

The third problem is something I have no idea about. It could be BTRFS, it could be something completely different, I honestly have no idea.
You are absolutely right. If playing some sports that only rich can afford makes you more likely to get into an ivy league school then may be hardships should too.
Sure. Nobody claimed you could get the risk down to zero.
Tcl does not have GIL and is possibly one of the most dynamic languages that has seen nontrivial use. Guile does not have GIL. Running multiple interpreterd in different threads is a common notion in Tcl.
It didn't say no user data was accessed. It said "We have not identified any breach of customer or user data" Which likely means the attacker had access to user data but there was way to know if they did or did not access it.
Make sure to keep the amount of selfhosted services to a minimum and as simple as possible to use and maintain.

The simpler and smaller the surface of attack is, the better.
Sounds like your org used Kafka for event sourcing. This is almost always a bad idea, event sourcing and aggregate reconstruction is a nightmare IMO.

Kafka used as a pure FIFO cache for regular CRUD endpoints works fine
I recently heard of a high earning family that bought a rental/investment property in EPA, then when their kid got into the Tinsley program (school busing from EPA to Palo Alto/Menlo/Portola/Woodside) they decided to move there full time. Their kid now goes to a fancy school and they live in a development in EPA near Facebook HQ. So to all the naysayers, people are already doing crazy stuff like this to help their kids.
That's exactly what I mean though, your conclusion that Asians are better off than other minorities just because you saw a bunch of Asians in your elite college (who were most likely foreigners coming to study abroad anyway and not American citizens) is justification the left uses to disregard us lesser Asians in lower economic classes.
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It seems you haven't spent much time in a "cheap neighborhood with bad schools." I can assure you that no one there is making $X. In my city, the average household income is $38k; the state average is $74k. Almost all people, including poor people, make sacrifices and want what is best for their kids.
Personal accountability is a concept that's nonexistent with activist groups. They're comprised of people who live to pass blame for consequences that are individual's faults onto faceless entities who can be demonized and hopefully sued, or have money extorted from in the name of a cause du jour.
Not true: they make billions from cloud services.

Re: “you are the product” meme. I guess it’s a mechanism for raising awareness of privacy violation, but I really don’t like it. If you were literally the product, you would be a slave. You’re not. What they sell is your attention.

A big reason for not liking “you are the product” memes is it misses the key aspect of manipulation, which phrases like “the attention economy” capture. You are being manipulated into giving up more of your time and attention.
@dataflow

I sync my phone using Syncthing, so that's one way.
I don't really follow your logic. Bad parents are usually bad parents because they don't care about parenting or they care about other things far more than parenting - parenting just isn't their top priority. Their children's success in life is not top of mind, and some may not care how successful their kids are unless there is something in it for them. From my own personal experience, bad parents get annoyed when their kids are successful and they don't benefit directly in some way i.e. money. Or they are resentful and try to minimize your successes. Either way, bad parents think more about themselves than their kids - their kids being successful is not a reward.

If anything, perhaps it punishes good parenting. But I'm not sure it rewards bad parenting.
Think about an extreme case:

a hypothetical person who was born an autistic savant who is a musical genius. They sold out concert halls at age 9-10, playing the hardest classical music ever written. To what degree did they “earn” their skills and their genius? At a certain point you must agree that people are born with brains that are wired better, and they had no control over that. Effort should be rewarded, but luck should not. Determining how much of someone’s success was luck vs hard work is not at all easy to determine.

Through hard work and discipline, you did the best with the hardware you were given. But don’t think for a second that you wired your own brain.

Edit: and just to clarify, I think some fuzzy new metric on a standardized test will probably never summarize whether someone “earned” their score or lucked into it. My comment here is mostly a reminder to be humble.
Lots of great points to consider here and I'll boost number (2). I'm struggling not to say something unforgivably cynical here.... .... ...so let's say this: getting the 4.8% of Americans who are of Asian descent to spend their time crapping on the 12.7% of Americans who are black, or even better spend extra time crapping on the 6% of college students who are black and at 'good' universities, is just wonderful for letting the overrepresented white population run away with the education and the money. Divide and conquer for the win!
I only skimmed the write up on it, but knowing kafka fairly well, the following could potentially work better than what is included by kafka:
- push model (dependent on use case)
- filtering
- throttling/rate negotiation
- exactly once (kafka out of the box does not dedupe on the broker)
That could always be an issue. Though I try to make sure I have the minimum number of ports, and services running. But there is a possibility that something I have is exploitable still.
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Pre-rigging?

I’ve worked my ass off for nearly 30 years, as has my wife. We are both smart and very hard working and it paid off. My roots are middle class at best. My parents are immigrants and were extremely poor as children but they also worked hard and went from poverty to middle class.

I’m teaching my children to work hard and be good people and contribute to this world.

How pray tell am I benefiting from “pre-rigging”? I’ve made solid decisions throughout my life and sacrificed to be where I am today.

Now I’m being told that my children will be at a disadvantage for college because my wife and I worked hard our entire careers and succeeded. That’s hogwash. Absolute hogwash and I’m furious.
Do you ask to see a surgeon's SAT scores, and their college scores before every operation?
The adversity score is basically an acknowledgment of the fact that there is no equality of opportunity, and moreover that it’s just never going to happen on any reasonable timescale, in the US. This is an attempt to correct for the inequality of opportunity that continues to exist and, although almost certainly imperfect, I think it’s completely reasonable.
What kind of a KeePass bug would compromise your passwords by itself though? Are you imagining instead of saving your passwords it'd "accidentally" upload them to sketchyserver.com?
Its even more of a risk potentially because big companies have people full time working on keeping systems up to date and monitored. How many self hosters have a full monitoring system powerful enough to detect attacks and keep their software up to date and secured as soon as updates come out?

How many people self hosting are even qualified to run a secure system? I bet most of them are just regular devs who know just enough about linux to get something online.
It isn't right. The majority of banks are profitable, the industry is somewhere around $200B/year of profit (I think that's just retail banking, not including brokerages and stuff).

This is historically high.
A single target for all gangsters on the planet? A convenient one-stop-shop, as opposed to having to penetrate multiple different services with vastly different technology stacks and protections and to then normalize data stored in a multitude of different formats? Sounds great, for attackers.
Can you spell out how it devalues the efforts of parents to improve their children's education?
It's a tough effect to analyze effectively, given how indirect and disconnected the effect they're aiming for is from their ops. But the thing is, they're really, really cheap in relative terms. With the ones run by nation states, even a minor return is going to be an infinitesimal part of their budget with very little risk to them. Even minor successes would be more than sufficient.

I mean, the Army funded the Stargate Project[0] for nearly two decades. Social media ops have at least an advantage or two over staring at goats.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargate_Project
> Their initial equity grant has no cliff and the signing bonus was massive for somebody two years out of school: $75,000 cash in first paycheck.

* Google got rid of the cliff too.
* The $75K sign-on bonus is nothing new. These are not signals that we're having trouble hiring now.

> However I ultimately turned it down because of ethical concerns about working there combined with a sense that people would not approve of my job choice. I.e. even if I don't find what they're doing ethically questionable (and I do, although I don't think they're so bad), I didn't want to have to explain myself or defend them to everybody when I mentioned where I worked. Just my two cents as somebody who was one of the 50% of candidates who turned down the job.

Honestly, working at FB as a SWE is awesome. Like beyond awesome. If impressing other people is what you're optimizing for, you do you, but just know that you're missing out big time.
I thought this kind of attack was usually done with relatively old bugs, for which patches are often available.

If you sat on a fresh exploit, would you really waste it with automated, untargeted mass scans, which may draw a lot of attention, causing your bug to burn out quickly?
That really depends on how much diminishing you do. Either way, at the margin, you decrease the return to parental investment. At the margin, parents will invest less.
Would you like fries.com with that? It's for sale too.
The reason I am going 5mph slower in this thought experiment is because a continuous stream of cars is merging in front of me from the other lanes. (What the OP called the 'pathological case'.) They are the reason the lane is slower, and because they are not in the other lanes, those lanes will be 10% faster.

With the pathological case being so benign, the real life experience is even better. You might get a car moving in front of you once a minute, and usually a few seconds of slower accelerating or coasting is all you need.

To me the thing that really slows down traffic is people not moving left to let onramps merge. I think that's because they are afraid of missing their exit because no one is leaving gaps.
This is a great idea and someone should do it.

Specialize in storing personal data (name, address etc.)

Provide APIs that only allow gentle exfiltration of data. e.g. < 10K queries per minute/hour/day whatever.

Have alternate paths (e.g. manual procedures) when greater volumes are required (e.g. for disaster recovery testing).

Then get it audited to death by some serious security firms.
Is not eating out or taking vacations too much sacrifice?
My thoughts exactly. (I immediately remembered the old-time JMS UI. I think it was on SourceForge.)
>Then again - this would be a perfect of example of bleeding edge technology being used to "fix" a certain situation

Great!

>That is - by simply getting enough co-workers to get together and letting management know that you simply won't be having any of it.

Because no-one likes open plan offices, right?

You can show me study after study of how inefficient something might be, but your solution of gathering co-workers and talking to management presupposes that everyone is on board. That's not usually the case. Some folks may join your cause to avoid upsetting coworkers. Some may actually enjoy the setup and feel pressured to conform to their coworkers plans.

The technology solution in this case is an individual fix that doesn't affect others -- and while it may continue to allow the atrocity of open-office-planning to exist, it won't interrupt the lives of others' on a whim that everyone shares the same feelings towards something.
I'm really liking this recent uptick in Google/Mozilla/Opera development/rivalry lately. It's good for consumers. If only things happened more quickly...
Could you explain what the US system of de jure discrimination against white and asian men consists of? Genuinely curious.
They're called penal colonies, mate.
I tell everyone I can to avoid them, just based on my own personal experience. It was by far the worst process of any company I interviewed with.
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Probably more at risk too because how rigorous are you really about staying up to date on the most recent security patches? How much time and money did you actually spend setting up security infrastructure like automated security testing or vulnerability bounties? Enterprises, even many of the ones that have had data breaches, dump a ton of time and money into those areas.
I feel it's slightly better to rely on something else for the syncing (even better if you do it manually). I just feel like a password safe would have a draw immense interest from bad actors, so you marginally decrease your chances by using something else for syncing. That way if password storage code was compromised somehow, it can't do much.

Then again, a password storage solution is probably investing so much more into security that it may be actually better than using something else..
That is incorrect.

What would "well prepared" mean here anyway?
The author has complete control over it.
This is built around hypernym/hyponym hierarchy. Here are some samples to get what this is about.

Cepheid (not RR Lyrae) variable star is a kind of pulsating (not cataclysmic) variable star is a kind of intrinsic (not extrinsic) variable star is a kind of variable star is a kind of star.

Red (not O-type) giant star is a kind of giant (not supergiant) star is a kind of evolved (not main sequence) star is a kind of star.
You must be with Jewish intelligence. Guess you didn't get that throwe of passwords. Tazel M.O.W. Fuxking Jewish swine's
What was the growth rate of the region when they moved in? They chose to buy a house in an area where this kind of growth was foreseeable. For many that growth and the increasing home values that come with it was probably the reason they moved there.
Serious question: what sensitive user data is there on Stack Overflow anyway? Questions, answers and comments are all public, the content is Creative Commons licensed and even available in handy downloadable & queryable form: https://data.stackexchange.com/

As far as I can see, the primary sensitive user data they have is e-mail addresses, but (unlike, say, Reddit) most StackExchange forums don't deal with personally embarrassing material and many of if not most StackExchange users post with handles easily associated to their real names.
I don't think you understood my point. Yes, one particular risk might be higher. But you don't need to do security better or even on par with a big company. You just need your total risk of data exposure to be lower. You can bet big companies have lots of hackers trying to break into them with the newest 0-days, spearphish their employees, etc... there are so many threats you practically don't face if you're self-hosting.
After using KeePass2Android for the last 5 years I decided to donate to the author. It has truly been a useful piece of software for me.

I sync with Seafile over WebDAV.
I always viewed the working class a subset of the middle class, defined by the fact that they did some sort of physical labor for pay. I.e. as opposed to office work.
Immortality should be thought of as an abstraction, similar to infinity. You are immortal if you die without you (or anyone) noticing.
Most of Australia has 10c deposits on plastic bottles. You virtually never see them laying around outside. Its fairly common to see homeless people walking around with bags full of bottles they found in public bins or on the street.

We also have a 10c charge on plastic bags at supermarkets and you rarely see those floating around anymore and people use them multiple times now.

Coffee cups and fast food boxes are all over the side of the street unfortunately.

Its amazing what a massive difference such a tiny fee can make.
I like Chrome/Chromium's password manager. You just login the first time you open it and it autofills passwords. Don't have to install any additional software or configure anything, and it'll also autosuggest passwords you saved on websites in Android apps.

The only thing I miss sometimes is you can't manually add passwords.
The SAT is administered by College Board which is an entirely private institution.
Honestly? Yes. We take the best option available at current time, and simultaneously work on improvements.
That comment turned quickly!
A friend has a blog -- about the history of labor & work -- that he often cross-posts to Medium.

He wrote an article on his blog. A few dozen people read it over the next week -- basically all friends of his. He cross-posted it to Medium and he had 30,000 reads within the first 24 hours.

Looking at the stats on my own Medium posts how much comes via Medium and how much is external varies. On a story with 3,000 readers (which is the most I've ever had), about 10% come from Medium. Most of what I post ends up having 20-30 readers and about 50% come via Medium.
You're missing the point. The original comment in this chain comes from someone whose family made sacrifices in order to live in an area with good educational opportunities. This 'Adversity Score' would penalize them for making that sacrifice. Between two families with identical incomes, the one that chooses to curb luxuries to live in a place with a better school district would be penalized for that choice. The fact that good school districts tend to be populated by people with higher incomes is largely tangential to the point at hand.

> Almost all people, including poor people, make sacrifices and want what is best for their kids.

I don't doubt that people of all income levels want their kids to succeed. But there definitely are differences in behavior between demographics. The wealthier people are the more likely they are to use test prep across all demographics, but Asians are more likely to do so regardless of income. Asians also spend more than twice as much time studying outside of class than any other race [1]. There are differences in how much emphasis is put on education, this cannot be denied.

1. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/brown-center-chalkboard/2017/...
> After the publication of this story, Harrison contacted CNBC to say “these numbers are totally wrong.”

> “Facebook regularly ranks high on industry lists of most attractive employers,” Harrison said in a statement. “For example, in the last year we were rated as #1 on Indeed’s Top Rated Workplaces, #2 on LinkedIn’s Top Companies, and #7 on Glassdoor’s Best Places to Work. Our annual intern survey showed exceptionally strong sentiment and intent to return and we continue to see strong acceptance rates across University Recruiting.”

Perhaps it's best not to take a couple ex-recruiters word as blanket truth about company wide trends.

Of course, the article simply mentions this then goes straight back to asserting company wide morale problems, which is an interesting narrative to pursue, when that's not really what the majority of employees are feeling (which is further reflected by strong hiring numbers and low engineer attrition).
A man in China was arrested for naming two of his thieving dogs after the police
I was writing on Medium because it ranks well in Google. I wrote nearly a dozen really great articles on primarily health and dietary supplement topics. After 2 months they started to rank well and were getting daily readers, as the content was really great. Then I wrote an article on a 'research chemical' and they banned my account overnight. I lost the final edited versions of all content. They did not send me a zip with the content. They could have simply deleted the offending article(s) but instead they deleted all of them.

The thing is, the thing I wrote about isn't illegal. When you write articles on Medium keep in mind you're writing on someone else's website and they don't give a damn about you. You are subject to their opinions about what is appropriate and what isn't. I have no doubt if an alt-right voice wrote on Medium and were controversial enough in their views they'd be deplatformed.

But also the way they handle it is just rude. Fuck them.
Most companies go through this transition as they fill their niche, the raw eng talent starts to get hidden under an empire-building layer of middle management.

They've been able to hire some middle management to mind what remains. Replacing change-makers with reject managers from Netflix, etc. Not necessarily bad folks, just not going to be doing a lot of work.