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Sounds like the same destructive behaviour that is commonly referenced as the bad 10x developer.
> One of the early questions about UAVs was what impact they would have on the implications of force. I think we've got an answer: drones are fair game since they don't have anybody in them.

I see no real problems with this.

> we would regularly have an Iranian P-3 fly very close to us even after repeated warnings. Same thing with Russian Bears. We'd usually sent up an F/A-18 or two to "escort" the visitor and would never think of shooting them down unless fired upon. Yet, if a drone gets within 1000 yards, down it goes.

This raises the interesting question of whether armies will start sending manned planes out specifically because those are much harder to shoot down. In the post-drone world, that's more provocative than it was before.
Wow this is perfect. I'm using org mode more and more for everything I do and my only concern was mobile access. Thanks so much for working on this!
Glaeser is also a big Jacobs fan, and also thinks she got the part about five story walk-ups wrong. Don't get me wrong, they are great, but given rising population, our cities need either vertical growth or horizontal growth.
This is why having control of the airspace in a given theater is so valuable.
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I also just discovered sync.com as an alternative to Dropbox. Seems pretty solid, and delivers on sync without all the additional crap Dropbox keeps layering on. E2E encryption with a good mobile app.
> Would you say that having me on the team is bad? Am I toxic?

Without knowing you, or your team, I can't know. I have worked with people like this before, (and done it myself on a few teams), and it is a mixed bag.

> There is no point in pairing me with others, I can't teach them to work like me. However I can teach them to work with the code I wrote, but not to actually solve problems like me.

Again, I don't know your team, but I would doubt there is no-one on your team you can teach. Pairing is not what I was talking - I personally really dislike it, and it doesn't suit me either.
Designing a solution, and helping teammate(s) through implementation of the designs is valuable in this context, and helps lift up other team members.

> If I weren't here they would need to put teams of people to achieve the same or worse results as me, or the work simply wouldn't have been done.

No one is a perfect engineer - the solution you design might not have been produced, but this team existed before you joined, and most likely will after you leave, and it produced solutions.

> Note that I am relatively new on the team ..

This is a key point - I have done things before that were great solutions / libraries that others could use, so I didn't sink much time into docs / comments in the code. No one would need to change the library, just the config and stuff calling it. Which was true for about 2.5 years, at which point we needed to update what should have been something minor. cue me spending a week trying to understand my own code, after someone else tried and gave up. Time is the real judge of how much impact someone has on a team, and which direction it is in.
I was responding to the Mata Hari. Ryan's recorder doesn't seem to record sound?

As I said, you always get this with 'firsts'.
Bridging into NumPy isn’t going to be useful unless it covers some AD system too (XLA?).
This is a great service. It would be great for you to take suggestions on other locations to crawl.
I would say that sexual selection one of the mechanisms of natural selection.

Natural selection is more properly distinguished from selection by domestication.
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The program does not exist for your benefit. It exists for the benefit of US companies, and allegedly by extension the citizens of the US. The extent to which it benefits you is incidental, so that sort of thing is to be expected.
I've been using a Google cloud free-tier VPS with Syncthing and it works great; I imagine Nextcloud would be similar. I do backup my instance with snapshots, which aren't free, but so far cost me about $.01 per month. Note, Syncthing doesn't actually require a server, but I still find it useful for offsite backup.
And it's worse than just maintenance cost. Do you think a good PHP dev wants to join a shop that's still on 5?
I think part of it has to do with "loss of life" and the value both sides place on that.
It's an apt analogy. A sociopath who refuses to work within a system, is accountable to nobody, and is arguably creates the very same villains that he is forced to battle.
Well, maybe if the US had a functioning health care system, I wouldn't have to fly out of the country for any medical procedures.

Unfortunately, taking a train across the Atlantic is also a no-go.

Also, quite unfortunately, the US passenger rail system sucks in general, so it's never going to be an alternative to flying, not in the next 30 years anyway.

There are no alternatives for flying.

There are, however alternatives for local transport, which are hybrid/electric buses, light rail, and generally not buying a giant F150 truck if you live in the city and don't actually need one.

So maybe we can start there instead of bashing flying.
On his actual "test" page, he claims he is not using fpscanner: https://arh.antoinevastel.com/bots/areyouheadless

> It does not use detection any of techniques presented in these blog posts (post 1,post 2) or in the Fp-Scanner library
Cheap cameras and lube... what a time to be alive
I think the instructor's response in the linked article is a reasonable defense, you don't really know that data is deleted all the way down to the file level. It is just marked as deleted and could be retrieved by someone clever enough to do so. At some point in the future it will be really deleted.

I don't think the GDPR regulatory agencies are operating at a technical level that they would make an argument that it was not a good enough deletion.

Finally I have to ask this part: assuming ES is not your primary database, how does this get around the GDPR issues? If someone wants their data erased you are supposed to erase it from wherever you store data, I suppose this means ES when it indexes a primary store and finds it has deleted data actually deletes it but if it is told to delete something it keeps it around?
Modern C++ Design is simultaneously a work of genius and a practical handbook on how not to write maintainable software. I've never seen anything like that book.
> Literally every book on project management

The real world is much sloppier than any book will ever tell you.

> is about the development cost vs maintenance cost

Absolutely true.

> how the latter beats the former

If you're believing that equivocally ((I don't think you personally are btw) then I don't think you're reading the advice the book is giving you correctly.

A shitty technical solution that gets to market quicker often (not always) can make the company more money in the long run. There is no "one right answer" here, it's all about judgement. 100+ tech DD's and counting...I've seen the whole spectrum. I've seen a $40M revenue (38% EBITDA) tech company built using a FileMaker-like tech stack (all WYSIWYG). And yes, I'm serious.
The vehicle looks like the ancestor of something out of Halo!
My question is: why didn't the author express all of this as soon as he realized it was a problem?

One would hope that the author didn't spend several weeks in silent frustration!

"Hey, all this template stuff is cool but it's going to take me a long time to sort through and understand. I'm going to need to ask a lot of questions about functions and logic. It would also be helpful if you could throw together some kind of quick and dirty documentation for X, Y, and Z classes which I already know are going to be important and it will be much faster and easier for you to write that (15 min) than for me to reverse engineer your thinking (15 hours)."
Probably.

But you can justify a significantly more restrictive rate limit for a website form intended for individual mortal humans to check their own personal email addresses for breaches.

The API has to support request frequencies for legitimate usage that are obviously exploitable at a sufficiently small scale to attract a few exploiters...
I guess you've never been to India or China if you think they're not obsessed with consumption and consumerism right now.
I am VERY happy to throw them $89/year

Is that $89/year so you can get updates each year, or does it stop working if you stop paying?

I won't rent software ("SaaS").
Doesn’t To and From metadata leak on encrypted-message apps, too? WhatsApp, Telegram and Signal use mobile phone numbers as identifiers. In many countries now, you cannot buy a SIM card unless you show the vendor proof of identity, a copy of which is then provided to the state for its records. Therefore, any state actor that can put pressure on those encrypted-messaging services can reveal which phone numbers are talking to who, and therefore who is talking to who. Sure, the message text might still be secure if the end-to-end encryption works, but the metadata is vulnerable.
> It does not use detection any of techniques presented in these blog posts (post 1,post 2) or in the Fp-Scanner library

That's from the linked test page https://arh.antoinevastel.com/bots/areyouheadless
The Julia discourse (https://discourse.julialang.org) site is a good place to engage. PRs, issues, etc. should go to the relevant package repos on Github - Zygote.jl, Cassette.jl, ForwardDiff.jl, model zoo in FluxML org and so on.

https://github.com/FluxML/Zygote.jl

https://github.com/jrevels/Cassette.jl

https://github.com/JuliaDiff/ForwardDiff.jl

https://github.com/FluxML
I have 32GB Ram on Ubuntu 18.04. Can I just turn swap off? If I do, what's the worst that will happen?
Is using react-native for Web better than having react & react-native for your UI and nicely separated business logic that is reusable for both?
If you use react native for Web, does it mean your UI will look exactly the same whether it is on the web or mobile?
Awesome comment! Especially as it relates to VMs in modern cloud environments. There really is no need for swap space, and letting them fail quickly is usually best.

Using swap space may make sense for a traditional physical, stand-alone server, where having it fail quickly doesn't really help. Or maybe for a workstation.
Gonna try it... tried OneDrive but oddly enough, Microsoft Office documents and files are a complete pain in the rear to open/save there because the microsoft apps treats it differently than just a storage device.
Put something like this in your .clj-kondo/config.edn:
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I don't think you see my point. IRS cannot be compelled to pay 80% price on every conceivable asset.

It's like telling any appraiser... Yeah you think it's worth that much? Prove it! Buy the sucker! If you did that multiple times they would go bankrupt, because sure they may be able to resell the thing if priced correctly but they need to pay for it in the first place. And to do it at the scale of IRS ... It's not a reasonable request or expectation.
There's a 3B year-old moon rock embedded in stained glass in D.C
In Russia on attempt to open https://mitm.watch I get provider's page with message "Requested IP is blocked"
My friend had a Purism, which was a frustrating experience in many ways. And it was quite expensive.

I am a very happy customer of System76. I got a Galago. Ten days later, the Darter was released. I returned the Galago, got the Darter, no problems whatsoever. And support has been excellent.

The Darter, running Pop OS is an extremely nice machine: Great keyboard, good touchpad; although a bit too sensitive while using the keyboard; good screen; and Pop OS is a beautiful and stable OS.

My daily driver had been a 2015 MBP, but the newer MBPs are extremely disappointing. The Darter provides so much more for the money.
Strongly agreed. "A folder that syncs" is the only thing I ever wanted from Dropbox, it's still the only thing that I want, and it's the only reason I pay them. Everything they've been adding for the past years is pure, useless bloat to me.

(Well, what I really want is a folder that syncs and which lets me get URLs to raw files in the cloud to share. They used to have this, then they dropped it for some silly business reasons. Tough luck, I learned to live without it. Still, throughout the decade or so I've been using their service, they added exactly zero useful things for me, and managed to lose one feature I cared about.)
Whenever I’ve used AV I have found it to be worse than useless. Only detections are false positives, uses tons of systems resources, breaks commonly used apps.

I generally agree with Tavis Ormandy[1] that AV products often just increase the attack surface. Especially for applications that already have a high security focus (e.g. browsers). I’m somewhat surprised to see so many AV believers in the HN comments section.

[1] http://blog.cmpxchg8b.com/2016/03/security-software-certific...
I would be all in on iCloud for sync if it had selective sync. What do you do for that?
Out of memory processes will be terminated automatically with only a message in the kernel log, i.e. dmesg.
Xapian. C++ based. I really like the API.
> Agreed re: using ES as primary storage (which it is NOT meant as) - as far as I can tell, it might even make you in breach of the GDPR [0].

How is GDPR compliance of having data in Elastic Search influenced by it being primary vs. secondary storage?
It looks in this case like the manager was the spaghetti wizard.
and its totally ok to fly drones over domestic private property with or without surveillance equipment, and any countermeasure is considered to be an attack or interference with an FAA sanctioned aircraft, although i think that line is blurred a bit now.

looking at the rig in the article i see what looks like a microwave array, with a lack of shielding for the biologicals mounted in the seats.
no matter how directed the RF energy there are side lobes and a back lobe, a simple porch window screen[metallic] and an earth ground will keep the operators safe. I have a feeling the photo in the article is a showtotype,and there are tweeks to the final production that address issues and are not "top secret" but are just not expostulated for the layperson.
So what happens when one side thinks an aircraft is a drone and shoots it down.

Rhetorical question of course, I just don't like the thought of getting into a war accidentally.
Wouldn't these render the Brave browser unusable on some sites?
No. Use Uber if you must go out in bad weather. It's rare you have to go out in bad weather. Amazon etc. can deliver dog food if you forget.
Adding on: there's also Vitess for anyone looking for automatic sharding for MySQL. It's not an extension but works as as middleware that operates mysql instances for you and has great support on Kubernetes. Lots of big companies as users and originated from Youtube. The system is written in Go and has unique features like table materialization and resharding ability.
I'll never understand this impulse to hard sell your already-paying customers on more shit. It's like once these companies start facing adversity, they just can't help themselves from trying to squeeze things from people who are already giving them money. It lends this sort of 'captive-audience' vibe to the whole affair.

Like, sure, publicize your higher tiers, make their value propositions such that I might say, "Huh, actually I could use that stuff." But if that stuff is appropriately displayed at the time I originally signed up, I've generally already completed that value evaluation when I made whatever initial purchase I made. I already went through and decided what features I needed or didn't need, and selected appropriately. If I didn't want the extra upload bandwidth (or whatever) when I originally signed up, I probably don't want it two weeks later.

Getting hard sells from a product you already use is almost insulting in a way. I'm already giving you money -- with today's subscription models, I'm probably giving you money every month. But that's not enough for you? It totally changes my opinion of a thing from "useful product that does what I want" to "merely a means for its owners to make money." Those are two very different outlooks. The first is collaborative: they create a product that I find useful and provide it, thereby making my life better in some small way, and I benefit them by paying for it. The second feels almost manipulative, like I have to be on guard for potential marketing tactics that don't actually benefit me in any way.

Honestly, the only thing that these sort of 'push-notification upsells' do for me is they act as small prompts for me to reconsider my attachment to the product. Each time I get one, it makes me go, "Wow, this just keeps annoying me more. Do I really use this thing enough to justify this ongoing annoyance?"
What's up with them? They now have three applications to do file syncing? Google Drive, Backup & Sync, and Drive File Stream?

I've kept using Dropbox for all these years because they never confused people like this. There was a single app that gave you a folder that synced.
> There are still some differences. NIST provides some curves and doesn't explain much about them. You can read up how DJB choose the curves. It's a very neat and tidy process that is easy to follow and very reasonable.

You're not wrong, but to paraphrase a famous quotation: No body every got fired for following Suite B.

AES, SHA-2, and the NIST curves are approved for government crypto, and are also probably in many industry regulations. If there's ever an incident and a post-mortem audit, then it's a lot easier to explain the choice of Suite B algorithms.
> I have yet to met a real developer who when left team/project/job didn't leave a massive trail of destruction

Consider yourself lucky. The ones where this doesn’t happen with are the ones that simply don’t contribute and are somehow allowed to linger with the team. When they leave it’s usually a boost to the teams productivity overall.
I'm not sure if diving deep into the page will yield results of how it's done. The page's javascript does a POST to a backend with the browser's fingerprint, and the server does all the "magic" where we can't see it. Unless there is new fingerprint info that is being sent to the server that wasn't around before, I'm skeptical about the javascript in the page revealing the full technique.
Is there support for in line images and LaTeX?

I haven’t tried org-web but this looks seriously awesome! Good work!
Same thing, software isn't static and it probably wasn't worth the ongoing engineering and support.
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OKay.. fair enough!
Unfortunately, Stackoverflow is still the quickest way to get good answers.

Expect to be shamed, downvoted, asked "why you would do that in the first place", even if your question is well formed and relevant. Your question may be closed, or marked as duplicate, or put "on hold".

Still, almost always, someone nice eventually helps.

Their "policy" to help with civility didn't work at all. Oh, and complaining about this on meta stack overflow will also get you shamed, downvoted, told that you can't take criticism.
I wonder how hard it would be to make a folder that automatically pushes itself to a git repo whenever it detects a change in its contents, I've actually been thinking about that for a bit now. The optimist in me thinks it can't be too hard, could be a nice project to do someday.
Military communications infrastructure and weapons emplacements have always been fair game, I think it makes perfect sense that the same rules would apply when those structures are flying instead of sitting on the ground.

Honestly, i find this development kind of reassuring. Whether a target has a person in it or not should be the most important criteria for whether or not attacking it is an act of war. If we applied the rules for aircraft to drones it would seem to imply that the miltaries valued "being an aircraft" over "containing a person"
What does phpStorm give you that sublime doesn't? Refactoring tools are nice and deployments configuration are nice but the tradeoff just loading the app in terms of speed can feel like minutes.
I think the point was that at one point Epstein and Cosby were as powerless as a railroadable undergrad. Dialing in the right false positive / false negative tradeoff us hard.
While I’m not liking the direction Dropbox is taking I still haven’t found anything that rivals it as general purpose online storage and meets the following requirements:

- can be used as cloud backup destination - I use Arq[0] to backup a huge music library close to 1TB in daily intervals to my Dropbox. I have never used Dropbox‘ official app.

- since my music is located in a place of my , an external drive which might as well be an NAS at some point, I‘d need to be able to set the source folder for that backup/sync workflow. Moving my library to a special sync folder, like the Dropbox folder, isn‘t an option.

- I‘d also need be able to use that storage to upload and share large files for public download occasionally. S3 could certainly do that but I‘d prefer a simpler approach that allows me to quickly upload and share files from monile and desktop environments alike. Dropbox‘ mobile app and website work quite well in that regard. I don‘t want separate services for my backup and file sharing.

- preferably cross-platform, but macOS support and good browser UX is required at the very least.

- should be affordable, certainly not more than 10 bucks monthly for at least 1 TB. S3 pricing structure is too variable. It should be a flat fee.

Is there any worthwhile alternative to Dropbox that ticks all those boxes?

[0] https://www.arqbackup.com/
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I don't know. I had ten of thousands of files once and wanted to delete them. Dropbox client hangs and then gives an error. API doesn't work with that many files, web version doesn't work either. I ended up writing a script that uses API call for every separate file and it took like 3 days to delete them all. I really don't think they handle many files well after that experience and wouldn't trust them if I needed really a lot of files in the future.
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> I see no real problems with this.

Not until someone in a Cessna dies because "we thought it was a drone!", you mean. Any weapon looks great when it's used within it's design regime.

The point is more that a world where you can shoot down drones with abandon is one in which an act of war is just one mild fuckup removed from "peace".
Point taken. However that still leaves the possibility that I no longer am able to pay taxes according to current market rates.

edit: Basically it assumes the object is available on the market, and it's available for the price I can afford to valuate it at. How does one prevent this tax scheme from being weaponized when one of those two assumptions are not valid?