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> The point I'm trying to make is that the desktop will continue to lose relevance, while web based apps become prevalent. To a point where it's not "this doesn't run on Linux" but rather "I'll use whatever is in reach" (since all you need is Chrome), which as of now happens to be Windows mostly. So it's shifting from Linux being unable to serve your needs to it simply not being the default, or not being what people are used to. Which is something that shouldn't be underestimated when trying to predict how things are going to play out in the long run.

Ok, in this scenario, why would I choose Linux? Linux is literally irrelevant if "all you need is Chrome" (among the more dystopian futures I can imagine for computing, btw). Chrome is the platform then and everything is just a Chromebook. In this scenario no one reaches for Linux, they just buy some horrible proprietary locked down no-user-serviceable-parts thing like they do with phones and personal computing is declared dead.

I don't buy that that is true anyway. People have been predicting the death of desktop PCs for a long time too and it still hasn't happened. Cloud is just the latest in the thin-client/fat-client cycle of hyped up computer industry bullshit as far as I'm concerned.
It’s a hassle, but is it a ~10$ hassle because for most people the unsubsidized price is not going to seem reasonable.

Bike shares have comparable utility with vastly lower costs, and often can’t break even.
Making an open office kitchen unappealing with 2 words: microwave fish
I also wonder why health insurance should be allowed as an employee benefit.

It's an excellent way of reducing worker mobility.
Did you customize the allow domains?
The odds of you understanding all of the constraints and moving variables in play, and doing situation analysis better than the seasoned ops team at a multibillion dollar company are pretty low. Maybe hold off on the armchair quarterbacking.
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Auto-update would be convenient indeed. That said, Developer Edition is really very stable, so while I see why you would not want that, it's not that bad a stop-gap measure until unbranded builds auto-update.
You might consider reaching out to that family and exploring if you can be friends without the relationship that brought them into your orbit. No downside to asking.
NB: "toe"

https://grammarist.com/usage/toe-the-line/
I don't think the differences are that extreme. I used this site: https://pvwatts.nrel.gov/ to get annual energy output for a 4KW system.
Houston 5,737 kWh/Year
Boston 5,214 kWh/Year
Seattle 4,389 kWh/Year
However, Intel closed the fab business here years ago, when they decided to reduce expenses even further by moving production to Malaysia. They are still around with some software-related projects.

Our Costa Rican economy is, more than ever before, based on providing services: customer support, technical support, financial services, web and games development, digital arts, ecotourism, etc.
Is it not the job of the server not the browser to configure cors?
We don't know if the pickup was being operated by Bird or a subcontractor. My guess is that it was. I see people picking these things up in pickups and vans, and they don't look at all professional, but they look like they work for Bird (or the other companies in the sector).
Insulation can be dangerous. Too much around an electrical wire, and the house goes up like a sparkler on the Fourth of July.

Then there's condensation, and the beams weaken, and collapse.

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What's really going on is fossil fuels were not only cheap, and not only free, but a waste product less than 100 years ago.

Sure! It burns!

The point of life is not to burn alive, stupid.

It really should be free, as you are making land arable when you remove all the water out of it, and drain water, even septic water, into a plain as it filters it all out.

Also there's a lot to be said about keeping the oil in a well. You can flow it through a really nice network, and if you are good enough, not only is it a source of compute with very little energy, with out M87 Imaging, you could likely pre-bent graphene or silicon per expected humanitarian trends, such as internet demarcs or even the deterioration of your cardiac history.

We can't do that because Marxists are evil. Pure evil. As in, they will purposefully tear all that up just to prove that they are right, they are the only ones who are right, and America sucks.

So here's my mandate to Marxists everywhere.

Give me bountiful fruit only.

Or I put you in a mild to extreme medical coma, and warehouse you in Micro Plumb Island.

If you get your ass on your shoulders, I have all tectonic activity under PID control. A few nods and a winks to just the thin air of Ultra Wide Broadband, and the collective people you angered your entire existence pushes all the disease and evil of the world right between your eyes and into your brain pan.

Spoiler Alert!

You won't die.

Not for a hundred hundred hundred years... ... ...

TTFN!

-J-

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We are saying essentially the same thing, just that what's there isn't all bad, just not good enough and ignores a group of people because we've decided that we don't like people who are on drugs.
Let's say I'm a terrible baseball owner, and I'm completely out of available cash because I'm still paying a 1.2 million dollar contract. I literally cannot get a single extra dollar from anywhere.

Having that contract on my books prevents me from calling up 2 rookies this season, because I'm unable to pay their salaries. Yes, I'm technically buying them from "myself" by pulling them from my team's MiLB affiliates, but we're just arguing the semantics of what "buying" means here, not what the going rate of a rookie is ($555,555 USD in 2019)
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The way I wrote that comes off as more dismissive than I intended. I think it’s quirky in the sense that there is a wide variance in styles of accomplishing things in (base) R, so something that appears perfectly natural to me can look foreign to someone else. I think this is partly the user base and partly the language itself, and of course the two are interdependent. To me, it’s a joy to write R code because of it’s flexibility and power, but I often have dreaded sharing it with others (especially as a beginner). It’s easy to look at someone else’s R scripts and think “this is horrifying”. By the way, this is referring more to scientific/statistical workflows—for more general purpose data science in R, the Tidyverse (or even just the pipe operator %>% around which the Tidyverse is built) goes a long, long ways towards helping people write expressive but readable code.

By contrast, Python feels a bit too rigid/standardized. Everyone’s code looks like it was copy+pasted from a book of truth somewhere. This is good for sharing and engineering, not as good for expressing mathematical ideas.

So whereas R has evolved organically over decades and Python is for everyone (and alternatives like MATLAB or SAS are first and foremost software for industry rather than languages), Julia seems to be thoughtfully purpose-built to be a modern language for numerical/scientific computing. It polishes off the rough edges and blends some of the best features of each language. Again, this is just an impression from someone who already thinks in R but is learning both Python/Julia.

More to your point, maybe Julia is at a stage of development where it’s good for both students (for developing computational and mathematical thinking) and experts (for slinging concise but performant code), but not yet the rank-and-file users looking to just get things done.
Here are two in microservice shape, ready-to-use and ready-to-deploy I am aware of:

https://github.com/checkr/flagr

https://github.com/markphelps/flipt
I knew that localhost could be accessed, but the fact that local IP addresses on the LAN can be accessed is actually quite surprising to me. I suppose it makes sense, but it definitely makes me much more concerned with the security of local devices on my home and office networks now.

Are there any best-practices for keeping things locally safe (i.e. LAN devices like printers, testing boxes, tvs etc.) , beyond just treating them the same way you would an external facing machine?
Eevee is a gpu only renderer.
Unless the person you're replying to thinks you are personally currently maintaining such equipment, that's a general 'you'.

"And even if there weren't, if you've been thinking of the airgap as a "solution" and not keeping up with patches, ..."

Nobody here is going to say airgap and done, but out in the wild they will certainly deprioritize updates on airgapped equipment.
Looking at the Technical Report [1], I am confused...

First bullet under Root Causes:

"The server-side teams whose systems (e.g., Autograph) generate signatures knew the certificate was expiring, but did not see a problem because they had reason to believe that signing certificate dates were not checked by the client."

So, if I understand correctly, the assumed process was: Root signs Intermediate --> Intermediate signs Add-on (whether Intermediate is valid or not) --> FF only validates the End-entity is within date range.

Is this the correct procedure? You're telling me that the intended behavior is that FF allows add-ons signed by an expired cert? If that is the case, then what is the point of the signing system in the first place?

Additionally, third paragraph under Recommendations:

"Second, if we are committed to the current PKI and add-on signing approach, [...]"

'_If_ we are committed' is non-absolute. Is the FF team actually set on this approach?

1: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Add-ons/Expired-Certificate-Technic...

Edit: clarifications
Part of this is the fact that Costa Rica is an energy exporter.

Handling consumption peaks means either using fossil fuels, or vastly over producing electricity during non-peak hours (which in a free market can cause odd incentives such as negative energy prices). CR as an energy exporter, they generally produce way more than the country consumes, so they get to handle the peaks in a way that is unique to places that have energy importing neighbors.

I will add, this electricity is produced by a government run monopoly that keeps prices extremely high, which has chocked out much of the manufacturing done in the area.

Even tradition, old school Costa Rican brands which supply the local market have been moving to Nicaragua and Panama (Jack's snacks for example)

Still, the achievement is great news and commendable.
Because it's far from being thirty seconds (as seen in the post by ploxiln here):

http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1967.htm

The most interesting quote regarding these "safer" interfaces from the report:

"The design of the Bounds checking interfaces, though well-intentioned, suffers from far too many problems to correct. Using the APIs has been seen to lead to worse quality, less secure software than relying on established approaches or modern technologies. ... Therefore, we propose that Annex K be either removed from the next revision of the C standard, or deprecated and then removed."
You are probably conflating window insulation with window air leaks. The best windows generally available are R-5 at best on initial installation and degrade over time as The argon leaks. They are also extremely expensive. Not a very good investment.

But most energy losses in older buildings are from leaking air not thermal conductance. So upgrading to R-1 but sealed and we'll installed Windows can do a lot without having to spend 50k.

Also, you can use thermal shutters that have MUCH higher R-value than even top of the line windows.
The path to profitability seems to flow through lowering costs - especially depreciation:

> Bird’s largest cost per ride is depreciation, or the decline in value of its scooters. Depreciation, as calculated by the company, is a four-week trailing figure taking the total depreciation expense for that time and dividing it by the total number of rides, a person familiar with the matter said. Currently, that figure ranges from $0.94 to $1.17 per ride, or about a quarter of revenue for each ride, Bird says. ...

These numbers appear to apply to Bird Zero and Bird One, not the older scooters which presumably have even higher depreciations.

The article doesn't appear to break this down further, but it seems a big part of depreciation might be loss/theft/vandalism. That's unlikely to decline because better quality scooters are put into service. If anything, it seems the move to more robust (and expensive) platforms might make the scooters even more attractive to thieves.
9. We had difficulty accessing our own systems because of the outage and the bypass procedure wasn’t well trained on.

Suggestion for future, learned from bitter experience: separate your control plane from your data plane. In this case, make sure that the tools you use to manage your infrastructure don't depend on that infrastructure being functional.

That way you won't have to remember how to use a bypass procedure -- it will just be your normal procedure.
Nuclear energy always has and will be a purely political thing. Without state funding no private or public company would have taken on the potential future risks of harnessing the same power that laid waste to two cities and forced the Japanese Empire into decades of submission.

Sadly we live in a world were future risks are ignored and lessons from the past, be it nuclear bombs or warfare in general, are forgotten and ignored.
I don’t really think there is any intended malice. I could see this being a way to remove an entire class of support issues. Having run a number of software services I could see them getting a ton of support requests that are “my computer died, how do I get my passwords back” and then they have to explain that if you use a standalone vault then the user is responsible for backing it up.
Why would the landlord spend money on insulation to save you money on your electric bill?

There's the problem.
Same here. Back to free and it'll stay that way. They seem more interested in mining and selling the data than improving the user experience and features for the suppliers of the data.
Anyone remember browserver posted to HN 7 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4366555
Correct, the application acquires data from hardware and allows the user to access it from their own JavaScript code. This is useful for automated test, report generation, debugging, things like that. Crashing is bad for customer relations. :) V8 has performed well in that regard, no complaints there. I just don't see why it has to be so massive.
So, that's cool and all. I love green tech. And I hate fossil fuels. Buuuuuuut, aren't we going to have the same issue with supplies of lithium that we are having with fossil fuels? Unless we have a dramatic shift in renewable battery tech, we're still painting ourselves into a corner with the giant battery trent.
I think the GP means that as far as incidents occurring, so far as care is (or was) taken to prevent them and learn from them, then that's all one can really reasonably ask for. The first incident falls under that heading and 'is fine' in a 'life happens' sense.

The following incident comes across as reckless and avoidable as there should have been procedures to safely test the rollback (and perhaps there were, but a perfect storm allowed it fail in prod). Lacking details about how the second incident came to be or how they will be prevented going forward places the second incident as 'not fine'.

This information is what the GP comment is asking for.

Compare this PM with Cloudflare's PM, where they detail how they tested rules, what safeguards were in place, how the incident came to be, and how they intend to prevent similar incidents; the impression given here is that they will put up more fire alarms and fire extinguishers but do little fire prevention.
They are upgrading the windows in this neighborhood. First they kick you out, do the work, then charge the next tenant (rent + 1000).
Sure, in an emergency situation making someone uncomfortable is a pretty minor concern. I commented specifically because you said "works in most situations, not just a traumatic one". I think it's worth considering that adopting this strategy for non-emergency situations could well create trauma for the person being touched.
I meant that as examples of concrete simple things (that aren’t functions, types, sets or any other not fully understood concept) with composition rules
that could be modeled in a category.

Categories might be drawn using arrows and circles. But that’s just notation.
I figured there was some new language Cairo with a next gen garbage collector.
World's Longest Palindrome
Thank you for taking the time to respond to my questions.
I believe the high potential of causing a follow-up incident was left out of the post (or maybe I missed it?).

I hope that lessons are learned from this operational event, and invest towards building metrics and tooling that allows you to, first of all, prevent issues, and second, shorten the outage/mitigation times in the future.

I'm happy you guys are being open about the issue, and taking feedback from people outside your company. I definitely applaud this.
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>> 6. Putting in place an emergency ability to take the Cloudflare Dashboard and API off Cloudflare's edge.

> If so, and if this would have prevented the dashboard outage even during the WAF fiasco

It wouldn't prevent the initial dashboard outage. However, in a similar situation where the main issue can't be resolved quickly, it would allow them to restore dashboard access.
> The question of console vs PC is still widely debated, with no clear winner.

In terms of graphical computing power, there's no debate. All the current-gen consoles will get absolutely demolished by a 3-year-old mid-grade gaming computer.

The only things a console will beat a PC on is the upfront price of the machine (which ends up being meaningless as the console game stores don't have the killer sales Steam is known for) and exclusives. If you prefer a controller over mouse/keyboard, you can use a controller on a PC. If you prefer to game on a 50+ inch TV rather than a monitor, you can either plug your computer into your TV, or use a SteamLink, or get the SteamLink RPi app.
It’s going away on the scale of billions of years. Personally, I think it’s much better to use it for space exploration than unusually expensive electrical power.

Now if was even vaguely cost competitive with battery backed up wind and solar then that’s a reasonable argument, but until then I just don’t see the point.
Pycel: Compiling Excel spreadsheets to Python and making pretty pictures
Exactly, this is why steam boiler engines became obsolete, because you can burn gas at a much higher temperature than boiling water.

Lower temp can only be viable if you reduce the work needed to run the engine, and can still output the needed work/energy.

This is related to why work and heat are both measured in joules.
I think there is a tipping point in complexity where Excel needs to be replaced by something else. In the IT world I've seen businesses that have essentially created bespoke ERP applications for themselves by evolving a web of interlinked Excel files over years.

A food distributor I worked for was handling their upstream vendors, warehouse inventories, truck inventories, customer list, order history, deliveries, invoicing, and more this way. These businesses suffer because the "Excel ERP" is constantly breaking or losing data, and no one knows how it really works anymore.

The food distributor eventually migrated to an actual ERP made for their industry, and the amount of effort and stress saved at all levels of the company was massive.
Hey to be fair they just innovated a feature that looks exactly like Relive.

I don't see how that could possibly be connected to 86ing Relive though.
Irsching Power Station in Germany has a mixture of 770 MW peaking capacity (not suitable for routine use) and 1429 MW of idled high efficiency combined cycle gas turbine capacity. The latter type of unit is suitable for directly replacing coal fired plants. CCGT units have enabled the United States to rapidly replace coal fired power with gas fired power over the past decade. Replacing coal with gas isn't enough to reach climate goals, of course, but it certainly is better than continued coal use. Also, even CCGT installations not intended for peaking can respond faster to changing net demand than coal plants can, which makes them a better complementary source for renewables.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irsching_Power_Station

There are another 1200+ megawatts of mostly-idle CCGT capacity at the Knapsack and Herdecke sites:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-20/merkel-s-...
Really appreciate the detail and operational insights in this post-mortem. Great work. Also appreciate the heads up and detailed explanation of the issues with backtracking in regexes. Turns out we use those expensive patterns in a few places.
> Using a serverless architecture almost always implied getting married to your provider

I don’t disagree but I’ve made a web app with aws serverless. Frontend on s3, Backend Python flask on serverless and MySQL server (haven’t tried RDS serverless yet). Works fine, had a compiled library that did not work but all standard stuff. No marriage. :)
Node.js WebSocket Crashes Server – Dev Won't Pull Patch: Who Is Right?
Zoom got around the CORS restriction by requesting an _image_ which is not subject to CORS. So there are some limitations of what can be done and how you can access things. But you could certainly use this technique to do some simple IP/port scanning on a user's local network.
But during the day is exactly when you less need batteries, since the sun is shining on the solar panels...
When you look at it as a cost as a % of their salary, it's not as bad as what you look at what the Mets paid per WAR.

It's a probably a bad contract overall, and the NY sports media effect is why it gets the hyperbole boost. If nothing else, it's a really fun example of how value is determined (as it relates to baseball players).
China imports from US plunge 31% in June amid tariff war
The fact that you bought your own for $2500 means their business model is a failure.

If you spent $2500 on Bird subscriptions and rides then that means that the business model is successful at least in your case.

Your comments directly prove the previous poster's thesis.

EDIT:

And yes, Bird has realized the failure in their previous business model of renting scooters, and will be SELLING scooters directly (which in my opinion is a much better business model)

https://shop.bird.co/pdp.html

Alas, "Delivering in US and Europe summer 2019" means that they have lost out on $2500 worth of business from goobynight (and from the market segment represented by goobynight).
Blockstack
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