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After having to configure Druid clusters and their many many service configuration files, I've started just immediately reaching for templating & code-generators to build all of the disparate configuration artifacts the moment that I feel annoyed by redundant information in multiple places.

I love the idea of Terraform, but find that the language only goes part way, and is itself pretty idiosyncratic. It's pretty nice, though, if you move up by another step of abstraction and write code to generate your HCL. If you get lispy about it, then you can have infrastructure defined as data, generated by code, that is also data...
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Ugh that name

Nybody want to

NUke them from high orbit?
Probably not. Most places where base64 is used are no cleaner than they ever were. XML is not perfectly 8-bit clean and neither are HTTP cookies. You could probably replace base64 with more optimized yenc-style encodings in many situations but it's probably not worth the hassle.
Building a personal whitelist is almost a right of passage.

One personal annoyance is sites that use things like CloudFront and regularly change the host without assigning a vanity CNAME so you cannot simply whitelist *.cdn.example.com.
This isn’t about computer scripts, btw.

> Dr Davis is talking about solving Linear A, the undeciphered language of the ancient Minoan civilisation of Crete that flourished around 1700 BCE to 1490 BCE.
The article does not imply that chaos is inherently good or efficient.

When I look at big, 'good', codebases, I'm always amazed at how much complexity there is at every level, and wonder why it can't all just be clean and orderly.

The trade off between performance, bureaucratic code and leaky abstractions seems to be ever-present.

I can never make an API 'fit' that elusive ideal of what it should be, there are always bits of dangling weirdness.

Try for example doing anything in Unicode; it's as though there are permanent grey areas and ambiguities. There's always the corner case that someone, somewhere in some corner of the world will either break it, or be without the ability to 'spell their name' or whatever.

I don't think this is about arbitrarily crap code.
>Exactly. I can't wait until I can do this with my own drone--though maybe I shouldn't hold my breath for the open source package because it seems to have military applications right now.

I produce 3D models from photogrammetry from drones for the Engineering & Construction industry in Australia. The free software to use is VisualSFM.

I recommend flying your drone over your target in a sort of 4-circle Venn diagram, with the overlapping center the actual subject you want to scan. Have the drone pointing inward to the center of each circle while flying, the camera being at a ~55deg angle. You're essentially circle-strafing in 4 circles with a little overlapping bit in the middle.

Take video footage of the whole trip and extract individual frames... can't remember if VisualSFM does that for you or not.
The timber sizes are different because you are buying planed timer, rough timber would have the exact dimensions you are looking for. So a 2x4 rough is really 2x4"
Still, when you travel with trains in US, it's like traveling back in time compared to Europe and Asia.
I'm reminded of Lovecraft's 'the color out of space'. It's fascinating to try and imagine what that's like.
The size of the moon, relative to the Australian mainland
> Have you ever actually taken Amtrak?

Yes I have and your statement is correct. Amtrak is almost entirely dysfunctional but rail as a concept is not dysfunctional and actually works in many other countries.

It's like healthcare, which is an absolute shitshow in the US, however in the rest of the developed world it's not a shitshow.

Likewise with the military.

What is it about the US that makes so many fundamental services needed for the functioning of society into shitshows?
About 2 decades back when I was naive, I would have agreed with you. I have since then looked critically at the healthcare system.

>This assumes widespread bad faith, when I think the situation is much different.

There is really widespread bad faith and there is widespread incompetence. A near complete lack of integrity. ( there are always the physician/practitioner who is the exception, but they are rare.)

>Doing nothing seems like giving up.

This point to the competence aspect. In many situations doing nothing is precisely what is needed. In many types of cancer this is what is to be done. (I cannot be certain but this seems to be the case). Aggressive early treatment appears to endanger the patient more than inaction. No treatment is also 'doing something' and not to be confused with 'we-do-not-care' type of inaction.
> Leaked CCP files reveal crimes against humanity (reddit.com)

Given a link to a Reddit article that merely links a www.nytimes.com I expect a flag asap.

Which is exactly what I assume the OP troll/Propagandaest wanted, else they would have linked the original article with the proper title.
So, who is brave enough — or powerful enough — to actually try to really do anything about this problem?

China is the ultimate “too big to fail” problem, right?
I missed that cookies aren't 8-bit clean. That's unfortunate.
I have found that downvotes and flags tend to appear on them within a second or two of submitting, which does suggest automated suppression, whether by HN or just by bots.
The neat thing about vampire taps is that you don't need to disconnect the cable so it could be done on a running bus topology network without interruption. If you did it right...
I open a new tab, and with Alt-E then S bring up the Settings, scroll to the end and click Advanced. Then click Content Settings, and there are areas in there for images, javascript, and cookies where one can set permanent exceptions as well as on/off settings. I don't see it for iframes. Am I misunderstanding anything?
I remember Metro-X. It supported several video cards Xfree86 didn't support back then so if you wanted to use newer video cards you had to "acquire" a copy of Metro-X. What's weird it wasn't the only proprietary software commonly used back then. Before drivers for Sound Blaster 16 cards were mainlined in the 2.x kernel we had to use Open Sound System which was commercial software made by this company called 4Front that had a free version.
The link to the proof is https://www.simonellismaths.com/blog/new-maths (the link in he article says "post" instead of "blog"). It's standard modulo arithmetic, but it's nice to see a rediscovery by a kid.
Interestingly enough browsing HN every so often is my version of this.
> Assumption: Many systems (modulo email) are 8-bit clean nowadays.

Your assumption is flawed. Most of the 'systems' that were not 8-bit clean (and resulted in the various 'encodings' being required) remain just as 'not 8-bit clean' today as they were then.
In the stock market, watch what they know, not what they do
It sounds like the affected Roku doesn't sanitize the bluetooth input and/or incorrectly trusts a bluetooth connection with a certain formatting. Yikes.
Agreed - I used to take NY to Baltimore a few times a month. Typically I had a few co workers with me. So let’s do the math: if we shared a car and left at 8:30, we’d spend .. what $30 in tolls round trip? Another $50 in gas..one of us would drive and the other two could take calls or work on their computer. If we took Amtrak, we’d have to add an extra half hour to get the station and park, each one of us would spend $150 in round trip tickets, another $20 each in parking, etc and we’d be shushed the whole way down so calls were out and half the time the internet didn’t work. If it’s just one person going alone, I can see the case because you can actually focus on work... but ironically the more people in your party the worse the benefit of rail gets.
Probably because you don't get that much parallax in real life, but you would if it were the size of a small model.
Including this one, which was already at zero by the time I could refresh the page from submitting.
> Even when taken sade, or plain, the flavour profile depends on the roast; the medium-to-darker beans of the Turkish variety produce coffee with an earthy taste, smoky notes and thick texture. When you drain your cup, you will see fine grains coating the bottom. The effects soon hit. Emperors of the world, beware.

It's my understanding that lighter roasts have more caffeine, because it gets destroyed at high temperatures. Also, lighter roasts are more palatable when made very strong. Or conversely, darker roasts taste OK when made weaker.
Amtrak's lack of profitablity isn't the issue per se.The lead here is who ultimately benefits. These subsidizes don't benefit the masses. They are an entitlement for those who don't need entitling.
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I think modern HDD and SSD manufacturers have been pretty honest about the actual capacity of their drives. They have no way of knowing what kind of filesystem you will be putting on the drive and how much overhead it has, or whether you might be putting it in a RAID 1 array (which cuts the effective capacity per drive according to the number of drives in the array).

The number of bytes they specify is the actual number of bytes available to your operating system. It seems like a pretty fair measurement.

The 1000 vs. 1024 thing is an unfortunate point of confusion. Terms like kibibyte and such were an attempt to solve it, but they never took off. (If you were to ask me which number a kilobyte or kibibyte was, I would have to go look it up!)

Even if we did use the kilo vs. kibi terms, HDD and SSD manufacturers are the ones who are getting it right. As the article you linked notes:

> 1 kibibyte (KiB) = 2^10 bytes = 1024 bytes

> The kibibyte is closely related to the kilobyte. The latter term is often used in some contexts as a synonym for kibibyte, but formally refers to 10^3 bytes = 1000 bytes, as the prefix kilo is defined in the International System of Units.

The same applies as you go up in the units. One mega-anything is 1,000,000 of those things, giga- is 1,000,000,000, and tera- is 1,000,000,000,000 things.

So a one-terabyte HDD or SSD should have a true capacity of 1,000,000,000,000 bytes, before any operating system or RAID overhead. Of course its actual physical capacity has to be higher, to support remapping of failing sectors or flash blocks and such. But that's all hidden by the drive controller.

I think it's the memory people who got this wrong, by co-opting a "kilobyte" to mean 1024 bytes, contrary to the standard definition. It was a handy coincidence of terminology at the time, but the error was amplified as we got into multiples of that size.

And then the operating system and utility people (or many of them) completely messed up by using the power-of-two definitions for disk/flash storage instead of the correct power-of-ten definitions.

This is why, for example, every single Amazon listing of a 1TB drive (HDD, SSD, flash card) which honestly provides the correct 1,000,000,000,000 bytes of storage to the OS will have at least one review complaining:

> Claims to have 1TB but only has 931GB as reported by my operating system.

The "missing" 69GB isn't due to formatting or any misdoing on the part of the drive manufacturer, it's because the OS is using the wrong units.
Real-time alerting and monitor system, for both physical equipment (e.g. https://www.arundo.com/thejourney/equipment-monitoring-alarm...) and human behaviors (e.g. https://eng.uber.com/anomaly-detection/)
Hans Bethe explains in astounding articulate detail how John guided their final Atom Bomb design : https://youtu.be/Y2jiQXI6nrE?t=33m34s
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I took the train from Dearborn, MI to Chicago in 2010, figuring I could work on the train and use the additional two hours of travel time versus the 4 hours and change driving.

It took 10 hours. Could've gone to Chicago, turned around and headed home, and still had time to grab dinner. That was enough to turn me off to long-distance train travel. All these years later I'm curious again, but still very dubious.
Amtrak isn’t infrastructure though. It is a “business” that operates on rail infrastructure. Rail is treated like highways by the real businesses that actually make money using it.
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If you want to learn how to do x looking at and understanding completed examples of x seems like an obvious prerequisite.
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Completely true. And funny, because any actor who memorizes lines could tell you that.

Seriously -- if you memorize lines in your apartment and you've got them down pat, then you show up to your class/theater/set/audition and suddenly you have difficulty remembering them.

Because -- and this is common knowledge in acting -- your brain has subconsciously associated the lines with your apartment.

Which is why, once you've memorized the lines at home, you then take a walk and practice and re-memorize them again. Then while you're on the subway you practice and fix them again. And when you show up early to your class/theater/set/audition you spend 10 minutes practicing them again, to associate them with the space where you're performing.

You just have to. It's how memorization works. For whatever reason, it's associated with your mental location.

Same reason that when plays are on tour, they try to have a full rehearsal run-through in each new theater before a performance. You need to associate your memory with the new theater and fix your mistakes during rehearsal, not during performance.
I think the GPL grants rights of redistributing GPL-licensed software to "anyone with the software", not "anyone who makes a derivative work and owns it".
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This did not used to be the case. The mid-century expansion of the highway system coincided with massive disinvestment in the rail system, which had carried the country out of international backwater-dom. Many of this country's small and medium-sized towns would not exist without the now-defunct, often-demolished train stations that they used to be built around or nearby (including my hometown).
Interesting. If you were given the copy on a computer owned by your employer, is it your copy or theirs?
Which Linux distributions configure any browsers (reliably, by default, without me having to know extra stuff) so that it cannot read or write files from any directories the user has access to (allowing, say, only /tmp and ~/Downloads and ~/.cache or the like), and so that if it makes inappropriate system calls (any except those on a whitelist) they fail?

As a longtime (and grateful) Debian user, I remain impressed with OpenBSD's relative lack of privilege escalation bugs in the base system, and "only 2 remote holes in the default install [since about 1996]": we can have different views of course but their constant auditing and general approach to correctness and security over adding features does make me feel better. :) Not trying to start a flamewar though (that would be bad; I fear I might be talking like a fanboy now...).

I appreciate your comment.
"reducto absurd" isn't true if you are a millennial without kids in a good career. We subsidize schools and aren't planning on kids.
Thanks to all replies for the tips.
> anyone remember xf86config stuff?

Wow, yeah. I also remember the YaST X configuration tool that shipped with SuSE.
> It doesn't use the standard localization setting. It has its own, but half of Firefox doesn't even seem to use that, because even though my System Preferences is English, and my Firefox language preference is English, and even my Firefox content preference is English, it's showing half the UI in Japanese still. The context menu is half English and half Japanese!

That sounds totally unexpected. Can you open a bug https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi including the details from your about:support page?

Something sounds broken and I'd expect a fix.
That's borderline insulting. When a service is down, it does not "improve customer experience".
One reason that steel and concrete work so well together, with concrete handling the compression loads and steel handling the traction loads, is that they have a very similar thermal expansion coefficient. Thus, when the temperature changes both components expand or contract at the same rate. Just think of what would happen if they didn't.
I don't know that an F1 car does have more features.

Your Camry probably has: 1) cruise control; 2) electric windows; 3) windows!; 4) airbags; 5) air conditioning and heating; 6) indicators; 7) headlights; 8) sound system; 9); 10) quiet exhaust; 11) way better pollution control; 12) way better mileage; 13) seats 5......
It would be a contradiction to choose a profession where you put yourself in harm's way to defend society's values of a just and free society and then try to pick away at justice or freedom in the name of personal safety. Oh, and: most cops know that the overwhelming majority of gun owners will never be a danger to them.
Discovery channel is apparently following them. bit.ly/2psxTAs
Here is a blog article I wrote introducing the package. https://www.arundo.com/arundo_tech_blog/adtk-open-source-tim...
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(IANAL, but) Yes, you'd use the AGPL because it basically maximizes user freedom. It doesn't stop people from running services for a living with the licensed code _and_ it protects the original authors and service users from exploitation.

It's just the GPL with an extra clause and that's a good thing.
I actually think we do a great disservice to people who are dealing with trauma by using alcohol because we stigmatize it instead of treating it like what it is: self-medication.

It is just another thing a lot of people do to cope with stress, pain, unhappiness etc.

In some ways it's effective, unfortunately it can also come with a lot of nasty side effects like hangovers, damaged relationships, etc.

When you view alcohol as a medication you can then compare it to other medications. The pharmaceutical antidepressants, anxiolytics etc. are far from perfect, but they almost universally have less dangerous side effects than heavy alcohol usage. If someone's using alcohol to cope there's nothing intrinsically immoral or shameful about that, but if the side effects are manifesting there's probably a better medication out there.
This is not an original line of argument and in the absence of substance it’s especially unlikely to be more successful than decades of earlier failed iterations. Rather than calling people mediocre it would be far more productive to learn why other people have come to different conclusions about the languages you like.
Maybe these recent developments in the Chinese culture and psyche can be described as Han superiority complex much like Nazism. Victim mentality, belief in one's racial superiority, and willingness to do away with any ethnicities and cultures unlike your own. Maybe we need a term for this so we can identify and talk about it. Hanzism?
It'll never work in the US. Outside of a handle of locations, we just don't have the population density. On the coasts maybe, but even high-speed rail is just too slow for the west and mid-west.

The sweet spot for rail seems to be journeys of 100-300 miles... lots of even major US cities don't have another major city in that radius.
The example of the child being asked to clean his room reminds me a great deal of a bad engineer being asked to clean up his code.
Same here. Found it in high school and was blown away by the cleverness of the dialogues. Didn't understand everything else, but the chapter on TNT opened my eyes to how simple rewriting rules could be used to perform computation, and that insight was an important reason for my studying theoretical computer science later. It's a book that helped me dream.

I reread it years later. The dialogues didn't age well, but the rest of the book is still great.
Short flights are fine until they’re canceled and you go to the rental car counter and they charge you $500 for a day rental because, hey, supply and demand amirite?
Maybe it was intermittent or very slow before taking it down to fix the issue.