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Vista, after a few service packs, was somewhat usable, but still a performance hog. It felt like an early alpha build of Win7 (once that came out).
There is a tension between delivery speed and operational safety. The faster you deploy new service code, the faster you can take down your service because of a bug that slipped past your automated tests. This is why one-box deployments and traffic shifting and feature flags exist (which are increasingly config-driven).

And if you have multiple instances of your service running (e.g. regional endpoints), and you care about availability, then you'll be deploying sequentially to each endpoint and watching for anomalies before moving to the next endpoint.

There is still immense value in dynamic config in these scenarios.
Sure, though my use case would look more like treating multiple destination devices as one logical AND, and running the backup only when all are present. I wouldn't need any guarantees w/r/t which files land on which device or the order they're written to, only that if sum(destination device storage) > size of folder to be backed up, everything from the folder makes it onto one of the devices.
They’re IBM, of course they will squander it. How do you think they went from king of the hill to grumbling behemoth that is constantly behind the times?

As someone who has worked at a company like that before I can foresee continual IBM management changes until you get the right combination of buiness minded leadership that will can everything at Redhat that isn’t directly related to developing what they consider obvious money makers.
> an incremental rebuild [...] should not take a significant amount of time.

> But actually a config change is just as dangerous as a code change, and the same level of testing is usually appropriate

Points well made, unarguably so

> In my experience many - perhaps most - production outages tend to be caused by "config changes".

I have no comparable experience but it sounds all too plausible and I shall bear that strongly in mind henceforth.

> "Config" tends to not be treated the same way [as code] [...]

From there to the end is brilliant. Thanks so much for such an excellent response. I'm going to print this out and keep it.
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Perhaps it depends on location? Where I live (Michigan, US) I feel like an anachronistic rebel having soap bars at the sinks in our home instead of liquid soap dispensers. I think the perceived lack of cleanliness is one of the main reasons (along with the Bath and Bodyworks marketing machine).
>I see G2A mentioned, but kind of wish they'd list okay but similar services or if they're shady as well.

No matter how non-shady any secondary market attempts to operate, the systems that would have to exist for them to actually reduce these problems would require business cooperation with the very companies that seek to kill the First Sale Doctrine through technical means.
Understandable, as IBM has always targeted the enterprise solutions market. Having control over (I think still?) the most popular enterprise linux installation is a nice add to their business.

It opens greater flexibility for their servers, as they have 'ownership' of the distro now. Possible bid for a speed benchmark as a selling point? Some of the giants out there are going to be hard to beat for that though...

I don't know that they are doing this specifically for the cloud market.
G2A lies about quite a lot, though.

Also, they have no way to check the status of the keys. So, if a user doesn't report an issue, they'll never know about it. Given that the article says that most users don't notice keys being revoked, it wouldn't be surprising at all if the majority of issues never get reported.
You know that old quote about getting a man to understand something his salary depends on him not understanding?
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Perhaps but don't draw any conclusions from this animal because it's been trained by humans. Its behavior is not natural.
The built-in firewall does exactly that. It may not do that for things that only listen on localhost, though.
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IP address is poor targeting. Small businesses will want to target a geographic region of their local city & surrounding areas.

While small businesses don't sound as awesome & big as Coke, there are a lot of small businesses.

Edit - my IP address has put me in another state that's over a 6 hour drive away before. I wouldn't find that useful when targeting local people for my store.
Literally impossible to have joy from SOAP
Ah, too bad. It's the crappiest of the bunch UX-wise, but nothing comes close to it feature-wise.

I don't use it to read (I have an e-reader for that purpose), but I'd be lost without Calibre for ebook management.
Presumably because power tools are high value goods that are often stolen by addicts to pay for their addictions. Then they make their way up the value chain. It doesn't really make sense though - they're not really fungible, they're pretty hard to transact with, and converting them to cash is tricky (how are you going to find a steady stream of buyers?).

Tide detergent is also used as currency, and it's better than power tools as a currency in all regards.
ibm has 350k employees.
Does this work in the Tor browser to launch the zoom client and expose your identity?

edited: after some research it is clear that this would work in the Tor browser. So if you are logged into Zoom using your real ID a malicious Tor site could launch the client and harvest your name. And if you are only using the browser bundle (and not routing all traffic through Tor) Zoom and/or Zoom+government could use this to expose the real IP of tor users.
Why don't use the compilable language? Nobody think about resources these days.
I understand if the purchase were illegal but the article/g2a says is very low amounts and punishable.

Not sure I'd trust the word of the company in question, especially when they try to bribe people to post articles in favor of their company.

https://twitter.com/SomeIndieGames/status/114820168714175692...
I do not agree with your assertion. Bullying is similar to spam and other unwanted messages. You can never get 100% protection, but you can get pretty far.

Things like Whatsapp not giving you a way to prevent you from being added to a group (until very recently) are fixable. Victims could not even prevent themselves from being constantly added to the "Jimmy go kill yourself" group.

If I translate your post to spam filtering all efforts there are useless and everyone should disable their spam filters, because either you receive spam or you don't.
I'm a bit confused, so CORS doesn't apply when trying to load an image?

If they set CORS to allow interaction from anywhere, why use an image and not load data with js?
Ask HN: How can I automate ordering lunch for my team in NYC?
Every week, my team has a company-provided lunch. Since we are a startup and don't have an office manager, I have become the one responsible for ordering. It's not a big deal--it only takes 15 minutes or so--but it's a distraction that I wish to automate.

My current process is finding a new restaurant on Caviar, sending a Slack message to the team asking for their orders, and placing the order. Anyone know of a good app that automates this process, or solved this experience somehow?
I think you're giving too much agency to pre-teens. At grade 4, "what they would really like to do in life" was read comics. Unless you're suggesting that we only let the older students make their own choices, at which point it's far too late, and kids have already been picked on for a decade.

I can only imagine the ostracization if children were allowed to opt out of classes based up on classmates - you'd be left with the one picked-on kid all alone because no one wanted to be in their class.
I will agree with that but only if you put air quotes around “clever”.

There is a point beyond which accurate documentation is more difficult than improving the code to negate some of that documentation. That makes the code cleverer still (without air quotes). This is not far off from St Antoine de Exupery’s comments on perfection being achieved when there is nothing left to take away.
This makes me very sad. The 12-inch MacBook has been my daily driver for more than a year now and I can't imagine myself going back to anything else.
My point? My point is there were 3,656 less loaded firearms in airplanes last year in the United States than there would have been without TSA, and 20-something thousand 'dangerous devices' total kept off the flights.

That's 3,656 less chances of a hijacking, or accidental discharges depressurizing a cabin and causing an emergency landing. Really, the number of chances is likely higher than that considering many of those instances likely came with one or more connecting flights.
> In my dreams Red Hat's culture overtakes IBM's and this becomes a successful reverse takeover, but this is only a dream.

We in Houston hoped that this would happen when United Airlines acquired our hometown Continental Airlines, with Continental's CEO becoming CEO of the combined airline. Let's just say we weren't entirely thrilled with how it actually worked out.
Cmd-backtick technically works, but is its own mess. It doesn't have a preview mechanism like Cmd-tab/Alt-tab, so you bring a bunch of windows forward that _stay_ forward while you look for the one you want. Then you have to go back and bring forward the windows you just covered up so you can see what you wanted.

I wind up installing Contexts on my Macs, which changes Cmd-tab to behave just like Windows' Alt-tab.
I think there's some confusion here: your company just got bought, which means that you stopped being independent.
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Or perhaps the animal is so under-stimulated that it is trying to get a repeat on something it finds interesting. It could be just trying to reset the situation in hopes that it will happen again.
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What's the antibody response? Can someone else pick up the mantle of wrapping Fedora in an Enterprise offering?
and the purchase was made on the costs of employees performance. a major reduction of people movements, bonus, enchanges, etc. happened at the exact cost of the declared purchased (internally it was reported 18bi, now it is published 34bi). whole european workforce was impacted.
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Quite a few keys are bought with stolen CCs. So when this is discovered the developer is on the hook for the charge back and penalties. This can be costly to smaller developers. So they lose less money if you just steal their game.

As in G2A is not accountable for fees and penalties if a user fraudulently sells a key.

G2A recently got busted by trying to get positive stories posted without attribution https://twitter.com/SomeIndieGames/status/114820168714175692...
Where/how did you gain this understanding?
I still don't see how the State of New York can claim jurisdiction. I mean, it can "claim it" but good luck getting Bitfinex and Tether to comply.
> old school IBM values

I think I prefer "old school IBM values" to whatever they've morphed into in the last ~20 years. They got a bunch of bad press lately for mass terminating, in an obviously shameless manner, "older" employees.
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It was real unfortunate that most of the Native Americans had already been disarmed, otherwise it would have probably played out very differently. It's definitely a dark stain on the US.
What do the developers lose if their keys are purchased with stolen credit cards? If it’s about chargebacks, can’t they just disable the keys involved?
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I came to the comments to learn new ideas and I found one, thank you.

Indeed I was wondering why completing tasks is absolutely unsatisfying for me: it's because I wish I would have done them (earlier).
This specific whale is famous in Norway

Edit: Found an English article on it here https://www.newsinenglish.no/2019/05/03/white-whale-now-name...
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There's probably pressure for species to not have longer lifespans. Youthful thinking and fresh perspectives are important. Wise old perspectives can get deeply ingrained and can't be changed easily. The free market for example experiences similar phenomenon where a new startup will outcompete a big old corporation. An industry that moves quicker (tech) evolves faster than one that doesn't (healthcare).
As far as medications go, Nardil (Phenelzine) is noted as being the best drug, though for numerous reasons it isn't prescribed much anymore.
Brushing with an abrasive does make a significant difference. The fluoride also has a significant effect on reducing tooth decay. The other parts aren't too important (flavour and mouthfeel). You can definitely get away with using other abrasives, but it won't be as pleasant.
Surely even huge multinationals have a need to target their denture glue adverts to people who need denture glue?
Could be, could be. I hadn’t thought of that.
> For B, is your preferred solution that games are sold at US prices worldwide? Who does this benefit?

For one, me in Europe xD

Joking aside though, stuff made in expensive countries is usually too expensive in cheaper countries.

The only difference is that, once you make a game for an expensive country, there's no added cost to selling it (for a lower price) in cheaper countries as well; so devs try just that.

I don't have a preferred solution to this; I just think that trying to impose their own restrictions on international trade is certainly the wrong solution. (Yes, governments do this, that's not my point)
Interesting. I think I understand: The account teams at the bank are now trying ensure they get the mainstream of revenue from IBM (+RH) (because they are the same entity financially?). So essentially, the "independence" is not "real" when money comes into play?
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You don't get the same flexibility, but they take care of backups, updates, and security.
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What do you mean by "it won't end well"? Seems like it's going to end up pretty well for your bank, given that the two teams are fighting for your business. Let the best team win?
You're right about the DAWs, though last time I checked, REAPER on Windows uses some standard Win32 controls in its dialogs, which helps. Also, REAPER has rich enough plugin support that a couple of plugins have been written to hack screen reader support into REAPER. In particular, check out the open-source OSARA [1] project. This work-around isn't feasible for making plugins accessible, since those plugins are generally not as hackable as REAPER itself. I don't know about other DAWs.

[1]: https://osara.reaperaccessibility.com/
How well does bacteria live on a bar of soap?
Are you living in the US? I live in Singapore and my ISP encourages me to host my own stuff. With a static IP and 1GBit/500MBit there's enough bandwidth available.
A liquid soap dispenser bottle sits there for weeks with all its complex surface area touched by umpteen dirty hands, never in itself getting washed, but a bar of soap comes self contained in a neat wrapper all of its own which is automatically shed with every use. I wouldn't use anything else.
Firstly: do you think this is particularly patronizing? I don't think that discussing burn-out and how people come across in that state is so.

Secondly: the GP is, by any reasonable standard, pretty dang patronizing in and of itself. Stuff like:

>> You will not need a magnifying glass to read a mish-mash of ASCII math symbols to figure out whether someone built a death ray, or just a milk shaker.

Is that elevating the discourse? I think the reason folks are willing to overlook this is because they think it's socially acceptable to hurl insults when they dislike the flavor of the syntax rather than actually offering concrete complaints. Folks in the various responses have mocked perk, its users, and diagnosed the author with various illnesses.

> or maybe in how you've said it.

I don't have much of a stake in Perl 6. I think it's interesting. What I am invested in is reminding folks that good notations require investment of time to read. That's the case for every other applied science, but because of the pervasive scorn directed by the world at computer science, folks view any effort put into programming as wasted.

I'm not trying to give you a reason to use Perl 6, so there is no surprise you didn't find it. I'm trying to reflect back these learned behaviors and show how arbitrary and thoughtless they are.
In my experience in corporate companies a lot of "older" employees get laid off because they stagnate and their job performance either plateaus or declines, and they refuse to learn new things.
There's a lot of market timing in that number. 2018q4 had huge volatility in the stock market. Market dropped 10% during October.
Right but if you dont want to see that 34B disappear into nothing you dont want to disregard Red Hats feedback. I hope they just ensure Red Hat gets resources they need and step back.

Pretty sure Microsoft is doing that with GitHub to a reasonable extent. Seems to me now that GitHub has more resources they can do much more than they could prior.
Not an option if your employer uses Zoom for all of its internal and customer-facing meetings.
I'm going with these guys - nothing to disclose and can't comment on them yet as the switch hasn't happened - but according to the comparison site I used I'm going to be saving £400 a year or so :-o

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I don't think there are any.

However, you easily can install alternative readers on Kobo ereaders, see here for a list of some hacks:

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=295612
Looks like someone's allergic to commie talk, eh?
Don't worry, that's not what they're saying. All of the countries in that article do pay for healthcare. It's just that the US pays an imperial shit-ton, and doesn't get all that much for it.
So no, not for for free. And the people working in the sector should probably make more if anything. Just investors and CEOs might have to make less to make this system resemble anything like the meritocracy that people like to pretend it is.
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Respectfully, I think you are being overly optimistic. I worked at a company acquired by HP several years ago. They bought us because we were beating them, and yet, they still thought they knew better, and intefered.
You can guess how things ended up.

I am certain IBM will think they know better than Red Hat, and will intefere. It is in their culture. The HPs and IBMs of the world no longer innovate. They acquire innovation and sqaunder it.
G2A sounds like one of those sleazy companies that knows people are using their product to perform fraudulent sales, earns profits from those fraudulent sales, even encourages them, and then tries to hide behind the "common carrier" defense, ala Megaupload. There's a complex argument in these situations about principles of freedom, who's to blame, whether technology or laws and regulations should be used to solve the problem, etc. At the end of the day, we all know that they're sleazy, though, just like Kim Dotcom. There's no moral defense, only legal tactics. Patronizing sites like this makes you part of the problem, unless and until they start eating the fraud costs themselves or otherwise make an honest effort to prevent it. Things like the Steam code friend-account bot show how instead they intentionally commit the fraud.

That said, I also think the regional pricing needs to go. If publishers want to charge me more so they can subsidize cheap sales in another market, they're free to do that, but they don't get my sympathy when that backfires on them. G2A is still sleazy for facilitating it, but the publishers created that problem themselves.
"A cure for the common platform"
That's not really an answer to the question.
> IMO it's both counterproductive and futile to keep national markets separated.

I tend to agree in general (also for films, songs...), but for expensive items like games the problem becomes that you then have to charge, in developing markets, prices that are simply too high. That incentivises piracy, which then eats up profits from your developED markets too.
I have long, curly hair and stopped using shampoo and conditioner many years ago. Similar to your experience of adjusting to no soap over the first month or so, I went through that with my hair. Eventually my hair oils normalized and now I only use shampoo/conditioner if I get grease in it or something else that water alone can't handle. The natural oils do a great job on their own controlling frizz.
Redhat has a 20year history as a public company, it's very unlikely that there'd be a big surprise in due diligence.
Here's the paper they mentioned: https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01959581v3/document
$116.68 right before the announcement! The $172 was the immediate jump.

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/RHT/chart?p=RHT
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It would also make it accessible to all of the hackers that are more than using to exploit shitty apps implemented in PHP5.

(I am half-trolling. I know that it is possible to write insecure code in any language, but the mix of PHP + popular codebases + "you can run anywhere you want" is a recipe for disaster)
> I really hope IBM can keep their fingers out of Red Hat

They won't, they've never let any acquisition be "independent" for any real length of time.
Could you further explain the CORS bypass? Why do they have to do the image hack if CORS if they open up CORS on the local server? At that point couldn't they retrieve data via JS instead?
IBM is large bureaucracy.
Large bureaucracy's have a lot of managers.

Managers prioritize their bonuses over long term interests of companies they work for.

It would be strange and/or abnormal (as far as big co. goes), for IBM managers not to try fuck with Read Hat.
This is all true, but it's not much effort to rinse and lather the soap a bit to make sure it's clear of grime as well.
> The desire to meddle is irresistible, especially if they see the "independent" company go in a direction the mother company doesn't like.

Yep, often times the upper management thinks "wow what a successful company", then sees why said company is so successful after the merger and thinks "we're the best, we gotta make them just like us and they'll be even more successful", and the meddling begins.

It also helps management get bonuses for helping "integrate" the acquired company with the parent one, helping "boost efficiency" and "reducing overhead" or some other way of glossing over "we destroyed what made them attractive and successful".
Replacing all the IEEE 754 hardware with posits won't fix this, though.

If you don't care about performance, then the actual solution has no dependency on hardware:

1. Replace the default format for numbers with a decimal point in suitably high level languages with a infinite precision format.

2. Teach people using other languages about floating point and how they may want to use integers instead.

The end. No multi-generation hardware transition required.

IMO, IEEE 754 is an exceptionally good format. It has real problems, but they aren't widely known to people unfamiliar with floats (e.g. 1.0 + 2.0 != 3.0 isn't one of them).
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