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Indeed. This seems like a very severe limitation. If the computer gets rebooted, either due to updates or power-loss, you effectively lose access to the machine until you can get to it physically.

So for me, his solution only works for computers for which you want casual SSH access to. Which would be the minority of my computers.
Package managers and distro maintainers are not typically the end-users I have in mind.

But if you can't see these groups as different then that's fine, but lets just leave it at that I, an end user was forced to adopt a set of system changes that I had no influence over because of RedHat's continued aspiration to put 'Linux on the desktop' when that had in fact happened ages ago.

That you feel that adoption only happens because something is 'so awesome' is putting the horse behind the cart, stuff gets adopted all the time when better alternatives are available, all it takes is enough clout behind the push and it's a done deal.

If technical merits were the deciding factor DR-Dos and OS/2 would still be around today instead of their lesser alternatives.
We as a collective have the patterns of an addict. Most of us are catching on the idea that something isn't right about our disconnection from nature, our way of life, our sociopathic/exploitative treatment of other organisms. Yet, we can't stop because we have gotten used to this way of life and more people are wanting it because they are tired of being left out. I don't blame them yet I wish I could show them that fulfillment doesn't come from money after a certain basic threshold of health and comfort are achieved.
> Help make the web usable with Javascript deactivated.

I don't quite understand why that is a goal in itself. If it's due to accessibility why not ask to "Help make the web more usable for people with disabilities"? Maybe I'm missing something here.
Sounds like a recipe to score yourself a free FBI visit
You are not understanding my logic
Please stop equating rights with privileges.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennials

1982 - 1996, that is more than ten years. But the people in that range would have shared formative experiences during the '00s. Thus the moniker millenials.
Except now we know the consequences and have the experience and moreover have alternatives (even in simple management, mitigation terms) which might not existed five decades ago.
> Though of course we can not infer that life is rare across any given set of universes if we determine we're alone in this one, because we don't know how other universes would be configured.

Not necessarily, you could assume a universal prior distribution over possible universes and count how many of those that have life have more than one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomonoff%27s_theory_of_induc...

This might be a sort of a "last tool of science", a way to discover the laws of our universe without observing them.
Though I'd read a pretty good write up of their AdWords tactics recently and learned a fair bit:
https://marketingexamples.com/seo/step-by-step-keyword-resea...
He did take pains to specify it was just his experience. And even the fragment you quoted tries to be diplomatic by saying "it _seems_ to be"
I believe the 10 minute mark has to do with being able to insert additional ads into the video, so if your video is close to 10 minutes it pays off to "round it up".
I thought the main idea behind it was that it was supposed to be easier to develop for. Are there savings there that make up for the aws costs?
Indeed. What reputation? A lot of tourists are shopping for price, the only reputation that matters is that of the booking site they use - the visitors want to trust that the site doesn't peddle total low-end garbage. Hotels are a commodity.
If we really want easy, we’d all be writing ColdFusion or Visual Basic.
A polite suggestion, but this is not currently possible.

The Tor Project recently added a consensus flag which can globally disable single hop client connections as a DDoS mitigation approach. It is currently enabled. (DoSRefuseSingleHopClientRendezvous)
I think that's reaching. That's not just 'slim', that's vanishingly small, so small that such a factor would never make it to consideration in a case such as this. The real truth is that it was the first time that France had a name on a website that had international recognition and they didn't want to lose that.
At what level should I know it? There is a famous essay “I pencil” that posits no one person knows how to create a pencil (http://www.joshharness.com/2012/10/nobody-knows-how-to-make-...)
The scale is larger, but figuring out how to move people around when an airline stops flying either through a strike or bankruptcy is not uncommon. As long as they can get people out of the vacation town and into a larger EU city, flights back to the UK become relatively easy.

Years ago I showed up a Croatian airport to head home after a few weeks vacation and during that time the Croatian airline (pilots I guess) had gone on strike. It was a bit hectic, but eventually we were put on an unbranded private jet to Frankfurt. From there getting back to the US was no big deal.
I do. My argument is here: https://www.fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/blockchain.md
>BIGGEST THREAT: «We never delete your funny cat pictures, we love them too much»

I don't know, seems like a GDPR violation to me ;-).
Stallman doesn't want to run proprietary software on his computer, and that includes proprietary Javascript.
I'm confused why one poster's response has been generalized to an "everyone".

Also, I don't think this poster was at all saying that anyone should bend to their idiosyncracies, merely pointing out that the situation may not be as simple as "just sleep with an eye mask".
> It's like renting a car 365 days out of the year instead of purchasing, it only makes sense if you only need it sporadically.

Spot on! Great analogy.
It's the classic I've seen used in jokes and comic strips - entry is free; once you enter, you discover that leaving costs money.
While in most cases I would agree, in this case I have to disagree. I think serverless has been a good idea implemented badly in every instance.
> the Igbo are clearly a merchant minority

Do you actually have anything to back this up that isn't a cursory read of Wikipedia? Who exactly of the over four hundred ethnic groups in Nigeria do you think is the majority to the Igbo "minority"? How on earth are you classifying populations in diaspora to people who, again, are living in their own country?

> they’ve clearly been subjects of mob mass killings, aka pogroms as well as government sponsored mass killings based on their ethnic identity

Ethnic discrimination does not automatically equal "merchant minority" (or a minority at all, in fact). The ethnic discrimination against the Igbo in Nigeria is a more complex situation than "foreigners bad" or "minorities different"; it's rooted more in colonialism than in anything else. Which is understandably difficult for people in the West to understand, but it would probably be easier if they stopped trying to fit everything into the boxes they know and actually engaged with what was before them.

> If you guessed the ethnic makeup of Nigerians based on US or British populations you’d think Igbo were at least half of the population, not a minority.

And the other half would almost entirely be Yoruba, but I don't see you leaping to call the Yoruba a merchant minority.
Is she getting 'interference' and 'de-coherence' mixed up..?
From the discussion: https://twitter.com/_gregmeyer/status/1175812382209167361?s=... supremacy is doing any computation that's provably hard on classical machines.
Vaclav Smil: ‘Growth must end. Our economist friends don’t seem to realise that’
Yup. I mean London was covered in smog, just like Beijing is now. Not a big leap to expect a replay to some degree.
One of my grandad struggles to deal with word, the other installed skype and found grey market dealers for some goods
Not sure how that work? The computer just stands there, with no one around, and “please enter password for user joe” appears? Or same thing happens on a shared computer while another user is logged in - what next?

I mean, sure one can code this, but I cannot imagine many situations where it will be useful. I think if you want cronjobs, you just have to use service users.
A lot of non-free software is written in Javascript and runs on webpages. If you want to avoid using non-free software you have to disable Javascript on many websites.

Ideally the Javascript would be freed, but making it optional might be a more feasible goal.
I’m sure if you find a nice farmer you can also pick up a chicken, manually snap it’s neck (seen it done before, my grandfather had a farm) and cook it yourself...
I think the importance of the OLPC was that it showed that a general computing device could be assembled for a BOM of around $100. It was an extraordinary challenge that tackled the growing concerns around the "digital divide". It didn't succeed and that's okay, because it reset expectations of what cheap general computing could be -- tolerable and good enough. It definitely paved the way for later experiments like netbooks and the rPi.

I think one of the very overlooked experimental parts of the OLPC was the innovative attempts to finance it via the buy-1-get-1 project. I think that was also an experimental failure as well, but showed there was a demand among techies for cheapo computing devices they could tinker with.

The Raspberry Pi project seems to have learned a ton of hard lessons from both OLPC and the UK's previous dives into educational computing in the 80s, synthesized them and become wildly and unexpectedly successful. Which drives to the point that maybe the OLPC would have been more successful had it just been generally available on the market at say $110 per unit.

For point of reference. The Raspberry Pi Zero has better compute specs than the original OLPC did for $5. I wonder what kind of "laptop" could be assembled for a BOM of say...$35?
> because most of the time it's capital controlled by people with more money than sense.

For that you go to Softbank.

> If we taxed people sensibly and spread it around, then there would be a lot more capital available to the average person wishing to start a business.

I don't see how that would work over and beyond what we do today: have government secured funds with strings attached. Given the choice I'd take VC or PE based capital over a government backed fund.

You can't 'spread it around' without taxing more. VC/PE is cheap: it is money on which taxes have already been paid and if it does not work then it's their loss, not society's loss.

Besides that the average amount of capital required to start a company is very low these days, but still much higher than the amount at which these government funds typically kick in unless they are co-investing in a larger ticket.
I recently saved a company from serverless: development had completely stalled, continuous delivery was insanely inefficient (you couldn't deploy your set of functions at once because of dependencies), vendor lock-in made it a pain to develop locally (cognito in particular), CI testing was also a big pain (serverless-offline), the project also had reached the endpoint limit so basically they had to split the project (it wasn't even in production at the time ...) a dev implemented an aggregator for serverless config so that they could keep on working locally ... An epic disaster, we all thought there was no way this company wouldn't die, the founder developed suicidal thoughts and I could only understand him.

All my congratulations to the "Agile leading company" that provided a 800€/day consultant (probably going to read this) who just followed the tutorial to setup a new project on serverless without any web framework, because you know, "it's the future", and "i like to sleep at night", after they and some of the team had been brainwashed by an AWS event (my initial review concluded with "I admire the courage to start a project without a framework" which was replied with "what is a framework ?"). A waste of hundreds of thousands bucks, but that was not the only mistake : they had 100% code coverage from tests but all tests like all the runtime code was wrapped in huge try...except blocks, I have never seen a team talk as much about "Clean Code" and have such a pile of debt. The Agile company consultant called in recently and said they were sorry, that actually Lambda wasn't good for the use case, and that the consultant was now senior and twice the price.

The company now deploys with Ansible and Docker with compose and practicing what I call eXtreme DevOps (one ephemeral deployment per branch on branchname.ci.example.com), development is back on track, new versions every week... They also trashed the serverless code in favor of a Django Rest Framework app that I coded in 3.5 hours during a night after being there for 2-3 weeks (it was the 6th or 7th week that development had stalled "refactoring" "making lambda happ" "trying to have a local environment"), basically presented it to the team the next day at the retro (where we could see nothing creating value was actually moving forward) and said: make your serverless thing work, or let the frontend people choose what they want to build on : a backend code that became an unusable pile of debt or a backend code that works, presents a self-documented REST API, with an administration interface that they needed, and save the company by creating value instead of "just trying to fit into the proprietary framework that is serverless lambda".
Part of the problem around light rail is that it's so broad. Just looking at the range of meanings of light rail in Philly, I have no idea how anyone talking about "light rail" could say that their argument applies to all of the forms it could take.

Also I can confirm that Philly's combination of light and heavy rail will get you from many places in the city and suburbs to downtown faster than driving. Buses do an adequate job of last mile in the suburbs but even several miles outside the city there's still a good fraction of the population within a half mile of a rail stop. My point is that this system exists because rail lines were built through the middle of nowhere by the steel industry 100+ years ago. The tracks, rail cars, stations, and signals have all been replaced but the right-of-way remained. The author focused too much on the method of transit and not the long-term strategic benefits of a city owning a dedicated transit route to allow for future growth.

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It's to avoid the use of non-free javascript, which is mostly taken for granted.
Exactly. This guy nails it. The serverless paradigm is a managed service, so you are paying extra for that management. Serverless also is built for automated connectivity within the AWS ecosystem, i.e. as a nerve center for all of AWS's nifty gizmos. This is why Amazon places such an emphasis on training certified solutions architects who know what works best for each situation.
Maybe those short meetings loose some of the nuance of the longer written discussion and lead to worse decisions.

I'm reminded of Amazon's supposed culture of well-written memos ahead of meetings.
This is the case in nearly every developing country. It’s the same in developed countries, except instead of haggling, the menu at the tourist restaurant just says £18 for a burger.

Personally I have no problem paying a tourist premium in developing countries. One could even argue that “westerners” have a moral obligation to pay more for the same service, in exchange for all the advantages afforded to us by the exchange rate.
That's good because the cultural norm of automatically repeating comes from the expectation that the other person will interrupt once they have something to say.

Actually, repeaters might have it right - not even once in memory has someone who failed to understand me said "I don't get it," after I finished talking, everyone just nods and says "mm-hmm." It would not be irrational to assume the listener didn't get it until being presented with evidence otherwise.
Serverless is just good old vendor lock-in disguised as an interesting idea. Some people are going to have a fun time migrating their lambdas off AWS in a few years.
No, it depends on the sector. Big supermarkets, for example, pay later, as do a lot of businesses where actual turnaround of goods is involved; but service companies typically have a more flexible cashflow and can easily do 30 days.

In Italy the situation was so bad that it was not uncommon to get 180 days from big accounts. The State set an awful example by allowing 12 months on its own bills, and often wouldn't pay for years if at all (what are you going to do, sue them? The average lawsuit takes more than 2 years...). In the last decade, several acts of Parliament were passed to actually force national and local administrations to settle their bills - and a lot of them were still outstanding a year after that. About two years ago, the government passed a law forcing all businesses and administrations to pay in 30 days by default (with some exceptions, of course). Whether this is actually being enforced, I don't know (I don't live there) but in theory it should allow smaller businesses to be a bit more confident when signing contracts and asking to get paid.
I try to deflect these types of statement with humor when possible. Comments about time are meet with the Gandalf quote, "A wizard is never late, [...] nor is he early; he arrives precisely when he means to."

"Got a hair cut?" "Nope, I got all of them cut."
Dark matter interacts gravitationally with normal matter. If it exists and if it can be directed and controlled, it could be used to make stuff lighter or heavier. Big ifs. I'm not holding my breath.
Show HN: Memeforth – a “Forth” based on text manipulation and text-based memes
> Mr. Hayes thinks it’s a matter of airplane etiquette: Passengers should go with the collective good. “If everyone else has it closed, why do you have to be the one person?” he says. “I personally think it’s a bit selfish.”

I think some people are just wired like this. I think that everyone else having it closed gives them more reason to leave theirs open.

Personally, I love looking out the windows the whole flight. I get to turn my brain off and just look at clouds. That being said, I was raised to be aware of others' needs and if I sense it bothers someone I draw the shade down.
I work in a French start-up with a lot of grandes écoles engineers, and a good deal tier-1 at that (Telecom ParisTech and Supelec mostly). So let's no over-generalize.

There's a culture of risk aversion in France, and it pushes a lot of people toward big corps as they're seen as safer. But they can also be a trap: be comfortable costing for most of your career, safely ticked inside the borg. But if you go through a big restructuring past your 50s you'll be toast, and have a real hard time recovering (if you can). Personally I prefer environment that force you to keep in shape and fit. I fear I would let me cost in a big company...

For the copy/paste business school driven start-ups, I'm sure there are a lot of them (not in my field, but it's hard core tech and capital intensive, not a good match for "pipo" people) but the issue there maybe the relative lack of start-ups founded by techies?
> I find the fact that we are more digitally connected than ever before but correspondingly more socially isolated quite troubling.

Those two would seem to go hand-in-hand naturally to me.
Pro-Trump “I Love America” Facebook Page, Is Run by Ukrainians
Here's a page from the UK government

https://www.gov.uk/late-commercial-payments-interest-debt-re...
So WeWork is a property management company which charges less than established players in a very mature market. Explain the valuation then.
Hint : they're not our friends.
HCL anti-union tech works
I loved my XO. I used it for writing Forth code to relive the BASIC hacking of my youth. Great in that niche :-)

I don't think I ever had fun with it after booting Linux though...
Why won’t local backups be sufficient against ransomware? Is it because of privilege escalation attacks?

I was under impression that even with zero days, using modern distribution and auto updates will minimize the amount of time the system is vulnerable, so for most of time, it will be sufficient.
> PSA: porting an existing application one-to-one to serverless almost never goes as expected.

Came here to post this and agree 100%. Moving to Serverless requires evaluating the entire stack, including the server side language choice, and how the client handles API calls.

Often a move to serverless is better accomplished gradually in stages than the quick "lift and shift" that AWS like to talk about so much. Sometimes you can simply plop your existing app down in Lambdas and it runs just fine, but this is the exception not the rule.
> It's concerning how typical the hype machine is in IT.

Software engineering is still a young discipline. Probably half of the people have less than 4 years of experience. They learned from other employees that also had less than 4 years of experience. And that can be repeated for 10 generations of developers.

We are learning, and re-learning the same lessons again and again. Everything seems new and better and then we are surprised when it's not a silver bullet.

Software and cloud vendors do not help. They are the first ones to hype their new language, framework or platform. Technology lock-in is a goal for tech companies offering hardware or services.

> This is not engineering with objectives in mind

Curriculum driven development is a thing. And I cannot blame developers for it when the industry hires you and sets your salary based on it.

We need to be more mature and, as you suggest, think about our technical and business goals when choosing a technology instead of letting providers lock us in their latest tech.
>Their devs essentially started removing support for other init systems in GNOME under the pretense of reducing maintenance load.

I'm no fan of systemd, but this is nonsense. Of course it reduces maintenance load. And AFAIK GNOME relies on components in the systemd ecosystem, which can be implemented by a 3rd party in a compatible manner.

And you are not forced to use GNOME, or KDE, or Xfce, or any of the wide range of window managers etc. Also Pulseaudio runs on TOP of ALSA, and what other sound servers are you referring to ?

Bottom line is, beggars can't be choosers. If the maintainers of your preferred distro chooses a technology you do not like, you can vote with your feet, and if all distros opt for that same technology, you simply have to accept that.

I have no doubt something better than systemd will come along in the next 4-8 years and start replacing it, and then we will have the same discussions with people who have grown accustomed to systemd arguing against this new PUSH of a 'new and shiny' thing.
How to Deploy a Ceph Storage to Bare Virtual Machines
So this is something I created, it's a forth in that it's a stack based language and shares some of the syntax, but there are many features that forth has that this doesn't, and it's implemented quite differently, but I still call it Memeforth.

Just figured I'd share, hopefully it isn't too broken or awful. I'm not a professional software dev or anything, just a hobbyist, and came up with this as a bit of a joke and it turned into something sorta real.
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>But most small suppliers are so in thrall to the huge company they supply that they won't even ask for that money.

You are contradicting yourself by stating that it is understood that suppliers will get squeezed on payment terms and/or risk getting terminated if they don't stay in their lane; then you state that they should issue demands on late payments. In reality, SME's are not in thrall of mega-corps, they are just doing whatever it requires to maintain the status quo and keep the symbiotic relationship alive, even if it means giving up some rights and being on unequal terms; it is crazy, but that is how it is.