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> Yet that's what all their produced literature describes.

No, it's not. I've read it. The Well Architected stuff is actually really good about not being AWS only. These are generally good principals to keep in mind regardless of which provider you go with. And that's how it's written, and that's how AWS teaches it in person (I've actually been through their Well Architected course). Yes, they use AWS tooling to teach it, but nothing about it requires AWS.

So, no. You are completely wrong.

> It's literally a selling point. Not sure how mentioning it is FUD.

Because the pricing AWS has doesn't necessarily increase cost with increase reliability. Suggesting that you need to spend more money to increase reliability is FUD.

> It's FUD (and rightly so) to point out that your cross-platform solution is likely less production-ready and reliable than AWS (in total) as a single point of failure.

That's not what was pointed out. Rather, it was pointed out that you can get high reliability without resorting to multi-cloud and higher costs. For you to continue suggesting otherwise, you first have to start off by explaining why you think high availability can't be obtained using a single cloud provider.
> buying clockspeed can't create new bugs either

Some software does not like high clockspeeds. For example, game engine in GTA V starts acting up when framerate gets too high.
You should report your previous dentist. I’ve found dentists that are trying to make money start pushing deep cleaning despite never needing it ever.
Up until the tech lead comes along and calls it anti daily wtf for the seniors. Then the cto on top of the lead. Then ceo on top of the cto. And the rate race saga that never ends and loads of software workers sharing rooms in overpriced areas, and doing voluntary work to put on their cvs calling it open source, and mindlessly believing what every single company will tell them: we hire the best in the world. Rinse and repeat each generation.
I used all systems A LOT. Windows is clear winner for me in all aspects except community. I can do almost anything as on Linux (I do love it too, but I love Windows more) and there are many things Win exclusive (Autohotkey, Total Commander, Everything search engine...). OS X feel like Windows 95 to me (used it for about a year with great pain and hated it almost every moment).

Linux on servers (mostly because of price), Windows for regular everyday use.

Although, I admit, now Linux vs Windows is less relevant as most of the good stuff MS does is now cross-platform and Win ships with Linux kernel. I personally can't live without pwsh.
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The link you link to is "Apple has pushed a silent Mac update to remove hidden Zoom web server."

It has little to do with the functions of Windows Defender. It was a special purpose function removing one very particular file from a specific location. It was not scanning your whole system, or downloads, for malware signatures.

When you say MacOS includes software that is "almost a carbon copy of Windows Defender," are you talking about something else? I am not aware of anything that comes with MacOS that has similar features to Windows Defender.
"How does it accrue?" might be a better way of asking than "Can we start taking it right now?"
My 10 year old building is just about to do a massive patch-and-seal job. Developer put the rebar too close to the surface, then evaded all attempts to get them to pay for it.
Everyone drinks some flavor of Kool-Aid. Confirmation bias: it's the human condition. Do and think whatever whimsical thing you want to, then do the cognitive contortions later to justify it.
There are several Android stores and sideloading apps is trivial. Lots of apps choose to go around the store. Fortnite doesn't use the Play Store, for example. It's possible.
You can’t have it both ways. Either it’s widely available, or it isn’t.

If it’s already widely available then HIBP doesn’t accomplish anything. (It doesn’t anyway, since it doesn’t “shame” anybody except people who are already signed up, who only need and get their own info.) If it isn’t widely available then HIBP is helping people who are bad at collecting and using this information to do so.

We accept that from bug reports only because of the other benefits that come from releasing the info.
Was the click fraud occurring on iOS as well?
Between the two largest cities in Kenya, one the capital and one it's primary port, hardly seems like "Nowhere". Stopped in the middle of what was planned, certainly. And shutting down financing after that turned out unprofitable (or, as the article implies - The debt-load makes it unprofitable) is hardly something that you can blame China for.

I don't know what this article is trying to say. It dances around calling the initial plan a scam, yet it also implies that their backing off is somehow worse. Much as I hate to say it, it sounds like a "Damned if you do, damned if you don't" situation for China. And perhaps that's the real message that this article is trying to convey, but lacking any evidence to actually support such. Had they gone through it would have been a terrible sunk cost. Had they never oversold the infrastructure, it would have been fine - The line is replacing colonial-era lines, not adding routes that weren't viable before. But instead, they're let off the hook for setting up a hangman's noose and encouraging Kenya to put their head here.
Whether or not most capital is in pension funds (I doubt it), roughly 85% of the US stock market is owned by the richest 10%.[1]

I think it’s wrong to say these stock market gains have been enjoyed by “the people” when the richest 10% enjoyed the lion’s share of them.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_inequality_in_the_Uni...
The company I work for encloses the entire dock area with a giant overhang and there's a giant door for the semis to drive thru into the warehouse. It's totally a thing, but it costs extra. We do it because some of the products are temperature sensitive.
The developers have been granted the privilege to profit mightily, and for that they will be required to provide some public good. They already get away with providing a TINY amount of so-called "affordable" housing, which (at least in the USA) is rarely actually affordable. And these deals are often reneged on... somehow with impunity.

In return for providing this tiny proportion of "affordable" units (or sometimes for no legitimate reason at all), developers are often given a free pass on not providing adequate parking, and for vastly increasing traffic congestion... permanently degrading the standard of living for existing residents in the neighborhood.

Is it necessarily bad to remind developers of that?
We do need faster horses. Especially now since CPUs we are at the cusp of CPUs no longer in speed.
I can't be the only person who finds these kinds of so-called 'fact check' sites more sinister than the so-called biased media they're trying to spotlight.
Love it! I chased through to the GitHub repo linked at the bottom of the article and found a nice PDF facilitation guide referenced from the repo.

http://extfiles.etsy.com/DebriefingFacilitationGuide.pdf
They provide auto-update polling and patching functionality.
LXC supports user namespaces where containers are isolated from one another. LXD furthers this by remapping containers on restart (so you can change mappings). And you can "punch out" individual mappings for shared volumes and so on. Docker doesn't support this. In fact the recent expansion of the number of mappings allowed by the kernel is work done by Christian Brauner (an LXC maintainer who I collaborate with) -- this feature is so useful to LXC that they had to add the ability to have more mappings.

LXC also supports unprivileged operation (which I named "rootless mode"). Docker gained support for this very recently as an experimental feature in 19.03 (still not released), but LXC has supported it (and defaulted to it whenever possible) for years. Though, the Docker one is arguably better in some respects of lack-of-privilege (thanks to great work from Akihiro Suda and Guissupe Scrvano) but it's still new.

LXC also has put a lot more work into fundamental security work (both in-kernel and within LXC).

Disclaimer: I maintain runc, the runtime Docker uses. There is no question that LXC has better engineering in this department. I collaborate with them quite often, but they have more engineers working on fundamental problems within containers.
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The problem with gpedit is it is clickily thingy. Its pain to find something and setup. Pwsh all the way.
"I question why Rust continues to need increasingly demanding and intrusive borrow checking when C and C++ get along just fine without it."

Today, we consider C and C++ to be inherently unsafe, because nobody ever does the things you need to do to make them safe. It's time we said the same about operating systems. "Oh, just don't run anything sketchy off the web!" Except your user base won't do that.

In 2019, any OS that does not come with strong antimalware protection is inherently unsafe at any speed.

Yes, this means Windows is safer than Linux. Don't @ me.
It depends on the country, quite a few countries offer re-education for people when they're jobless.
A subsidy to Boeing? Impossible! In the land of the free, the government respects free market and never interfere. Only these nasty Europeans dare cheating with subsidies to Airbus.
You may find it informative to graph MRU/MFU - I suspect you will find that the MRU is being dumped. [1]

I personally can't decide whether I think it's a bug or not, since if the MRU is all old items there is an argument to be had that you don't want it in cache any more...but dumping 100% of it strikes me as a bug either way. :)

[1] - https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/issues/7820
When GP said unprivileged containers, they meant user namespaces (that's the terminology LXC uses). Docker doesn't default to user namespaces being used (LXC does) and within Docker it has many limitations that LXC/LXD do not. LXC/LXD can also isolate containers from each other by mapping different uid_maps, but with Docker all containers use the same mapping.

Disclaimer: I'm a maintainer of runc, the runtime Docker uses.
Or you can docker.
> Some 40% of Americans would struggle to come up with $400 for an unexpected expense.

Would you say that they are in that 40%? Or is it a different case?
There's plenty of times that extra compute capacity saves money, but not spending $5K to get a relatively small bump in clock on one chip. $5K will get you way more compute power if you just spend it another machine.
> Pieces are gradually being documented as we work out what they do

Nothing wrong with that, but it's far more important to write TESTS for the code as you understand it.

Once you have tests for a subsystem, you can rewrite, refactor and/or replace it with confidence!
That is a clickbait title. The reality is that it hasn't yet finished building a railroad to somewhere.
I would remark that allocation_classes (which is in 0.8, but not what Ubuntu ships yet AFAIK) would maybe be a better use for your fast flash storage.

Of course, if the L2ARC dies, you shrug, while if allocation_classes vdevs die, your pool is gone, so there's that tradeoff to be aware of too.
That’s a good point; I never looked at what the perf impact of disabling sendfile would be on even a moderately-loaded webserver.

It’d be really nice to see that fixed like the recent DIRECT_IO additions.
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I once insisted on these comments as part of the deliverable to an outsource team.

I got an app full of comments like:

assert(x == 3); //x should be 3 here
> with concerns rising globally that Belt and Road was loading poorer nations with unsustainable debt

So the reason the railroad wasn't completed was because the Chinese discovered that the debt was unsustainable. Seems like a rational business move. I wonder why they didn't discover this before they started building the railroad.
What you're missing is the context. This isn't the only Belt and Road project that's not everything China promised. It's one of a number that have come up recently.

This article mentions at least four others, and I've seen others in other publications (a failed power station in Kazakstan most recently).

Considering the amount of money involved in Belt and Road it makes sense for a financial publication like Bloomberg to publish this article.
If it's that easy, Amazon's store would be doing very well but it's simply not that easy.
Windows 10 started out snappy (boot and usage) and responsive and has remained so for me w/o changing any defaults and taking all updates -- IMHO the best Win yet. I'm sure there is bloat there, but if I don't see it, disk/ssd is cheap. (Resharper is the only beast that seems to cause issues.)
> then you should not buy a car

How then they go to work? I understand that in the USA public transportation is quite lacking except for a few big cities.
WTF, its not like you don't customize your linux system, is it ? Default Ubuntu is just as bad as default anything. I customize the shit out of it and lots of people do - just serach for dot files on github...
Reminds me of the mystery largest buyer of glitter: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/21/style/glitter-factory.htm...
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But in a privileged container you could still take away capabilites and/or permissions with an apparmor profile. Sometimes that happens, sometimes it does not. And when it does not, you have no way of knowing.
Yeah, we're still here.
Limits on rent increases (at levels well beyond the rate of inflation) don't have the same negative effects as rent controls.

To actually resolve the housing crisis, you need there to be sufficient profit potential that private landlords are incentivized to build more housing. Rent control forbids this. Limits on rent increases, however, don't, really. Building a new apartment complex usually takes 3-4 years from permitting to completion to move-in. If rent increases are capped at 7% annually, then by the time your new project is ready for move-in, you can count on rents having gone up by 30-40%, assuming that that's where the market-clearing price would be. And if they haven't, they'll be higher the next year, and so on, until they equilibrate.

The idea behind caps on rent increases is to slow the bleeding and minimize disruption to families - having your rent go up 7% for 5 years is a lot less of a problem than having it go up 35% in one year and getting a month to decide whether to renew your lease, because it gives you time to look for alternatives and figure out what else in your life needs to change to make the numbers work.
Many manufacturing defects affect whole batches of units.

People serious about preserving data with redundant arrays, tend to be careful to avoid using multiple drives from the same batch.

I vaguely recall a cloud backup provider losing customer data because they failed to do this. Annoyingly I can't find it on google.
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Very interesting story. Posted on 01.26.2016. On a related note, if you haven't watched recent Neuralink's presentation, I would definitely recommend: https://youtu.be/r-vbh3t7WVI
Ask HN: Is Everything Falsifiable?
If I decide to judge 'believe' (non-scientific, non-falsifiable) as probabilistic function (easy example - Pascal wager) isn't, ultimately, everything falsifiable? Including the most bizarre of the statements, ie. I believe that there are green skinned trunk people living at the edge of Antarctica.

Only after I add additional constrains, like time, space, frequency or other, I can truly talk about statement being falsifiable in relation to those constrains.

There is also, of course, Gödel.

PS. I realize roots of falsifiability are within philosophy of science and I myself try to extend definition from simple and well defined statements to complex and undefined. It's an exercise.
I simply don't believe it was real time audio that is being implied.

Technically 'called' does include voicemail, but that's not what readers are thinking.

The tech that would allow on the fly audio doesn't exist yet.

It fucks up to much and needs a human to do a lot of work to fix it if possible.

It might explain why they imply artifacts were used to hide pieces.
>hat's a minority of workplaces.

No, that's nearly every publicly traded company.

> or start your own

See, here's the Silicon Valley disconnect again. You don't just start a company outside of a place like Silicon Valley and go "hey someone give me a ton of money to do this thing so I can get a building, hire employees, buy furniture and computers, I have a vague idea and no experience!"
> I don't know what this article is trying to say. It dances around calling the initial plan a scam, yet it also implies that their backing off is somehow worse.

It kinda is a scam. If it’s not viable today, then it wasn’t viable when the project started. Now Kenya is left with the worst of both worlds. They have all the debt they took on to get the project this far, without any of the economic benefits of having finished it. They’ve also taken on the opportunity cost of not instead working on improving existing infrastructure, which they’ll now have to do anyway.

These loans are basically foreign government subsidies for Chinese construction firms. China still win even if Kenya default, because most of the debt Kenya took on went directly back to Chinese firms anyway.

China is investing in infrastructure all over the world, and really the message here is you should probably not do business with them.
Any relation to https://github.com/jscherer92/Quark ?
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The title and the content of the article are completely disconnected. The title implies China is funding false investment, but the content then goes on to explain that China is witholding funding due to concerns about debt of sovereign nations. China is concerned about being seen as acting Neo-colonialist. Which they are, but, they are smart in understanding the perception game they are playing when it's clear the these African nations cannot ever pay back the money they borrow.
The less clearly you write, the more chance you give people to read in your texts what they want to see there. And then they will feel good about you having the same opinion.

Someone expressing himself clearly would not become so famous.
Twenty years ago people would fall for a convincing email, or a social media profile with a name and photo. Eventually people started to adjust their natural assumptions about what's trustworthy.

I think the same will happen here. People will learn not to trust audio and video for anything important. Cryptographic trust will become the only strong trust.

I think corporations and governments won't have trouble making this transition. There will be stragglers that learn the lesson the hard way, but everyone will move forward eventually.

What's more concerning is the implication for news and crime, where there inherently can't be a carefully built system of authentication. Videos recorded from phones will cease to mean anything. Maybe all media will stop being admissible in court.

We had a world like that around 150 years ago; trust was purely based on people. There was no general way to capture proof of events. We'll regress to that, but maybe the world won't stop.
The reality is that although there are people out there that end up dire financial straits through no fault of their own (job loss, health issues, etc), an awful lot of people end up in poor financial condition just due to lack of impulse control.

It's not hard to do. Most people think nothing of spending $100 at the bar on a weekend, but do that every weekend, that's >$5000 which is a chunk of change even for well off people.
The thing that amazes me is just how much more bloated Windows 10 has become, compared to e.g. Vista. Even modern Linux won't really run all that well (on a desktop workload) with less than 1GB of installed RAM, but if you have that much it's incredibly snappy and smooth. Every time I have to use Windows 10 I just don't find it usable, and OS X also has its issues.
Inferno and Plan 9 sorta had this. Octopus and Plan B were both allowed picking up where you left off on some other machine.
I mostly deal with openembedded at work and I have few positive things to say about it. I'm sure Nix is much faster and nicer. Frankly it's hard to imagine that the opposite could be true.

But your example looks nothing like Json.
Nice to see Inferno posted!

Some Inferno related stuff:

- Limbo by Example: https://github.com/henesy/limbobyexample

- The Inferno Shell: http://debu.gs/entries/inferno-part-1-shell

- Try Inferno in the browser: http://tryinferno.rekka.io/

- Cat-v Inferno resources: http://doc.cat-v.org/inferno

- Experiments in Inferno/Limbo: https://github.com/caerwynj/inferno-lab/

- Inferno Programming with Limbo: https://web.archive.org/web/20160304092801/http://www.gemuse... (also on cat-v)

- Developing Limbo modules in C: https://powerman.name/doc/Inferno/c_module_en

- Simple FS example in Limbo: https://github.com/henesy/simplefs-limbo

- Inferno client for Redis: https://github.com/pete/iredis

- Inferno for Nintendo DS: https://bitbucket.org/mjl/inferno-ds/src/default/

- Inferno as an Android app: https://github.com/bhgv/Inferno-OS_Android

- Inferno replacing Android (hellaphone): https://bitbucket.org/floren/inferno/wiki/Home

- Porting Inferno to Raspberry Pi: https://github.com/yshurik/inferno-rpi
I find it useful and will upvote gray posts that I feel have been downvoted over disagreement rather than truly deserving the downvote. It's probably my most common reason for upvoting.
That blows my mind, actually, for two reasons:

1. If you're a single person, even in the Bay Area, I have no idea what you're spending that money on; and

2. In 10-20 years when those same people are no longer a "culture fit" I wonder if they'll rue their frrivolous ways.

So being poor or being close to it affects people in different ways IME. For some, this means spend as soon as you have it or it'll just go away (eg there is a noticeable uptick in large TV purchases around the EITC). Others will live ridiculously frugally. Some will be super-driven. Others almost defeatist.

In my case there was a time growing up when we were "poor". This is Australian "poor" not American "poor", which is a whole different thing. I don't mean homeless either. Just money was really really tight, as in baking bread because we couldn't afford to buy it, that sort of thing. This actually wasn't obvious to me at the time.

Many who have been "poor" IME never escape the feeling that even in times of bounty everything may still disappear tomorrow. There is much less sense of security. I really think this is one thing that many people who have always had money just don't understand. And I don't mean "wealthy". I just mean they never grew up in an environment where they had serious money worries.

Anyway, the income potential in Australia in software is substantially lower than the US. I was fortunate enough to get a job in Big Tech (NYC) some years ago. I noticed that I'd feel "bad" when I "wasted" $20 on something, like a shirt I didn't end up liking.

A few years ago I ran the numbers on how much I'd saved since coming to the US and honestly I was shocked, as in up until that point I had no idea just how little of my income I was actually spending. And this is a holdover from that psychological lack of financial security. To put this in perspective after paying all living and food expenses, my discretionary purchases and so on that I was still saving 30-40% of my gross income (including 401k). I'd say my income is pretty typical for Big Tech, nothing extraordinary.

Thing is, I actually have no idea what I'd the rest on if I decided to live paycheck to paycheck. So when I hear stories like yours I'm honestly befuddled.