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I'm using git bug, so I don't care at all about some delays to sync my issues.

I'm not using GH actions, only Cirrus, Travis and Appveyor, which can be triggered manually if the API service is down also.

https://github.com/MichaelMure/git-bug
This kind of depends whether you have something urgent work to handle through Github. Been waiting for over an hour so I could continue my work but Github PR-functionality hasn't shown latest changes because of the currently happening outage so I cannot. Really, really annoying and wastes partially my planned work for the day.

(of course I'm working on other stuff in the meantime but splices focus unnecessarily)
I think that was still a bug in Windows XP.
Was about to say the same, but it's working now
Overtime makes us less productive
... and more interesting thoughts from Mark Layton. A lot of this seems to be backed by research in Microsoft and there are other studies that found similar to be true.

If that's the case, why do we still see, especially startups, work their people beyond what is reasonable?
Shameless plug: https://github.com/MichaelMure/git-bug

Yes I realize the irony of pushing a project hosted on github when it's down.
Good point, although it's also hard to justify Vim's 18MB vs Ed's 52K.

Look's like Vim is just too bloated for the modern minimalism focused user.
More than 75% of all vulnerabilities reside in indirect dependencies
This is pretty cool, and being able to make a FIDO2 device that I can just keep at home next to the PC is pretty appealing. I already have a Yubikey in my keychain for carrying with me, but the keychain isn't at my desk, so having a second one would be pretty great.

It would be amazing if this supported FIDO2 resident mode, it could store thousands of credentials (Yubikeys can only do 25 non-thousand credentials).
Thanks for the links.

"but there did seem to be some results showing that pain can be reduced in some circumstances"

Even though that sounds not more deep than placebo.

Apart from that I am also open to crystal therapie. You know, the world is quite made up of quants and crystals can focus and polarize quants .. so if someone has some claim with more substance than that and wants to do a scientific research about it, why not.
But so far I have seen only esoteric "research".
Glupteba malware leverages blockchain as a communications channel
Here's a story from 2012 about how the Fore management recalls the history of the company, complete with words like "tech superstars" and "multibillion dollar success".

https://www.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/news/2012/07/12/fore-...
Sorry... we probably should have put a CDN in front of our humble Linode box earlier. Here's a cache link:

https://web.archive.org/web/20200629103627/https://nimbleind...

Edit: Cloudflare seems to be working now. Wow, that was really easy to setup.
Console is one of those things that as an iOS developer drive me nuts. It's absolutely a piece of trash. While Xcode drives me nuts as well, its at least usable (and 12 so far is much improved; although it only took 12 releases to make code completion work). It's like Apple decided to budget $XXXB to make things, and then decided that there was no additional money for Console.

One decent programmer could make Console a useful app.
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As a Russian national sharing most of anti-Putin sentiments I can tell that Guardian tends to provide an oversimplified picture of Russia.
Most importantly this very article misses the fact that there were many actors in Russian political theatre at the time when Putin became prime minister.
For instance, the article tells nothing about the involvement of oligarch Boris Berezovsky in the coup.
But yes, I get your point, reading fairy tales is far more entertaining than reading chronicles.
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I have in fact an Amiga 4000/060 running Debian unstable as of now.

There are new hardware accelerators being developed such as the Vampire which will provide a faster basis for running Linux on Amiga/m68k:

> https://www.apollo-accelerators.com/

Currently, I'm using mainly QEMU for development. QEMU's m68k emulation has received tons of improvements thanks to the heavy use of the Debian/m68k project.

In fact, all the package builders for m68k are currently QEMU-based and building the whole Debian archive on QEMU has been proven to be the best quality testing of QEMU ;-).
There's already one news on front page https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23675864

Can we merge them? Mods
from another article in the more reputable FT (https://www.ft.com/content/a1da90e8-8869-4740-b5eb-d8c6339d8...)

> The company, which originally intended to offer affordable internet services to the remotest parts of the planet, has 74 satellites in orbit and plans for several hundred more. OneWeb also has a significant advantage in that it has priority on broadcast spectrum over SpaceX’s Starlink, a rival low-earth satellite internet service, people close to the subject said.

In April, OneWeb approached the UK government for a £500m loan as part of a wider $2.2bn financing from private investors. However, the government has decided on an equity investment to preserve its influence. The company is regulated by the UK’s Ofcom, but its management is largely American. Its satellites are also manufactured in Florida in a joint venture with Airbus. It has promised to repatriate manufacturing to the UK.

The government’s potential participation in a OneWeb bid has been the focus of fierce opposition in some parts of the space industry, which had hoped to win positions on a Galileo-style navigation project. Critics have dismissed the low-earth technology as unproven and fraught with risk.

However, a deciding factor appears to have been support from US defence officials who have told the government they do not want the UK to develop a replica of the GPS system. A low-earth navigation service would complement the US system and offer extra resilience to US allies, say several parties close to the subject.

----

so yeah, as always, it's actually more complicated than it seems.

this is why i usually tend to steer far away from the guardian or other general purpose newspapers, they never offer the full picture.
Are the GEC/Marconi management out of work and destitute now?

I'm going to guess they got multimillion pay packets and that the personal cost to themselves was probably negative (ie they made money) but would be interested to hear otherwise.
That's not really true. Kernel development users PRs, but they're implemented as mailing list threads. They also do code reviews which are implemented as... mailing list threads. It's the most decentralised and vendor-agnostic implementation we can have right now.
Funny, my keyboard (Microsoft Sculpt) actually has the broken bar printed on the key `7`.

Both the ThinkPad P53 keyboard and the Logitech K850 have the solid bar printed on the key.
> If I make a deploy that turns out to be buggy

Unless your deploy reconfigures some networking component that makes a large part of your network inaccessible. Then you need to fix the network issue before you can rollback to a previous version. That may require someone driving up to a datacenter and logging into a racked server.

And then you may need to restore data if the network misconfiguration caused data to be corrupted somehow (I admit this is getting a bit worst-possible-case-scenario) and, if the data got crossed - that one client could see data from another - you'll need to prevent access until you are sure everything is where it should be.

Finally, depending on your scale, the deploy of a new version can take a long time by itself. People often deploy new features deactivated, then, when the whole fleet is updated, activate features to different groups and monitor for breaking behavior change.
It would be nice if they offered a “free” charger with the purchase of a new device, if requested.

Am I being cynical if I believe that essentially everybody would take it, even if they didn’t really have a need for one?
Ask HN: What is the Hacker News tech stack?
As mentioned in another comment, you can get very fast m68k hardware with the Vampire accelerators these days which actually implement additional instructions and are therefore called 68080 by its developers.
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Yep, sorry about that. Here's a cache link:

https://web.archive.org/web/20200629103627/https://nimbleind...
Germany seems to care more than other EU countries about such things like CE. They don't have trouble turning away imports based just because it's shipped to private customers.

Just ask people trying to receive PinePhones in Germany.

You don't have a german manual? Bye bye, try again later.
I don't believe darkness being positive is the odd one out. Even major media has "darkness = good" not as a subverise but integral trope (see, for example, darkness).

I don't agree with your assessment of Batman and I would point out that Batman isn't regarded as evil in popular media (and even if he was, Superman was evil plenty of times, see Superman Red Son)

Lastly, I would mention that in hero types, a internal struggle is usually desired to counterbalance or embolden external conflict. Even superman has internal conflicts.
I dunno about that. Plants evolved under the influence of the moon.
Product Management Mental Models
I have tried to look at the documentation for certbot and the amount effort they put into optimizing the fastpath makes it incredibly difficult to do things manually. The documentation is absolutely awful. Certbot uses .pem files which are practically useless to any JVM based application. So now you got to add your --deploy-hook and add a custom script to convert everything. Don't use any of the blessed DNS providers? Again write your own authentication and cleanup hooks. Suddenly your simple certbot setup involves 3 different scripts that have to be tailored to your specific situation. Sure there are nice blog posts that go through the entire thing but the official documentation basically pretends that your use case doesn't even exist because everyone is running Apache and Nginx, right guys?
I found this [0] as one of the questions asked earlier -

>> Ask HN: Is Hackernews still using the file system as database?

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14371189
Well, you have to congratulate the management team at FORE - they even pointed out that ATM might be on the way out during the acquisition process and Marconi still bought them.
> Seems like telling on yourself. Compare the results: the software available on Linux distributions vs. the Windows freeware market.

Obvious choice? WINE wasn't invented because Linux had a great software library.

> And what if that developer isn't trustworthy in some way?

Then you probably shouldn't use their software at all. But that isn't necessarily realistic, which is why I also advocate for sandboxed applications by default, something mobile got right.

> Just one example, but I've sometimes gotten updates for Firefox on Arch Linux before the official binaries got released.

Sure, maybe that happens sometimes for big and popular projects, but there are a lot of more niche projects where what is in the repo is years out of date. Hell, I have to get qbittorrent-nox from a PPA to be up to date and that isn't even very niche.
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> But please note that Apple does this after years of pressure from EU and are one of the last companies to do so.

I have no idea what you’re talking about. When exactly did the EU ask Apple not to include the charger in the box?

I’m very doubtful of this claim.
It is usually unlikely that a file will be removed between stat and dlopen, such errors occur rarely. Even more rarely when the file happens to be a systems lib or plugin lib. Some errors occur rarely enough that it isn't worth worrying about.
One important factor that this statement doesn't take into account is that you can only approximate understanding what the other person is going to understand when they read what you expressed. This becomes harder when it's more than one person receiving the message.
I mean, it's definitely corrupt, but it's hard to unstate the extent to which the current UK government is animated by the idea that everything is easy and you just need to think radically and differently.

As someone who favours radical and different thinking, I feel like screaming "But you also need to be _right_!".
It's funny how I find Win98 more user friendly and logical than Win10. Just look at the start menu where thing are sorted in folders. No ads optimizations anywhere. Just an annoying shortcut on the desktop for MS Internet.

Is it possible to make a program like the sheep.exe nowadays? It is awesome.
Look into Spacemacs - it addresses a lot of what you want.

It understands file extensions and automatically downloads curated sets of packages for what you're editing (no more arcane copying and pasting)

The key bindings are set up so that pressing the first part of a key chord brings up all the things the next part of the key chord could be in the mini buffer
They did not „already pay for it“.

Think of the EU like a gym. Only because the gym bought a treadmill with your membership fees from last year, does not mean you get to keep access to that treadmill once you decide to terminate your gym membership.
Whoa somebody has been up to no good. 5 States were putting covid patients in nursing homes and leaving event centers empty. Just wow.
I used HEY for a week, but I’m going back to Gmail
A lot of the time when people have trouble with charging cables, it's caused by pocket lint in the phone's charging port, so maybe try that? I use a bent paperclip, but I'm sure there are more gentle ways.
>However, the government has decided on an equity investment //

Presumably a choice to invest in a private company would go through parliamentary debate, or have public study papers. Can anyone link them?
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I'm sure these down times are more about infrastructure problems than just database updates and I'm also sure that this infrastructure is a little more complexe than your site.
Due to it's structure, Europe experiences wildly different weather, climate and culture. Every german state has slightly different average weather. The north is more often exposed to rain and extreme temperatures, the south has a more temperate climate, etc. Just because it's smaller than some arbitrarily sized state in the US doesn't mean a place can't be diverse.
What you're describing is essentially a recommendation system with an understanding of natural language. There's a lot of research going into it, but it's still a very difficult problem to solve.
It's an article about a book that surely will cover that info if you buy and read it.
Mail hn@ycombinator.com to talk to the mods (see footer).
Europe has 400 camps and 47 000 refugees (pg 106 Necropolitics A. Mbembe) so they need to activate the imaginary split between themselves and the failing Empire in hopes they can recuperate enough power to step into it and take charge.
If they make the investment, it is more than just show.

But I have my doubts about the end result of this endeavor as well.
Any chance that prior to acquisition there was more focus on stability —- because it was assumed there would be a buyer —- than upgrading to the latest version of Rails and adding features?
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The EU should put on their big boy pants and forge their own path independent of the US .. WW2 and the cold war are relics of the past.
I worry about Russian nuclear materials disappearing into the black market. We have no deal with them. And they are run in a very ramshackle manner.
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If you enjoyed this article, there's an entire collection of Haruki Murakami's writing on running titled "What I Talk About When I Talk About Running" - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2195464.What_I_Talk_Abou...
If only removing your account from Amazon was as hassle free.
It's definitely one-sided reporting. The UK has an ironclad military alliance with the US and can expect to rely on GPS. Getting centimetres-resolution navigation right now is not a strategic necessity: why not fund the local firm doing something unproven and different but potentially valuable?
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Creative wordplay in the subtitle smells too much like bias!
Looks awesome! Might need to give godot a try :)
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This makes me want to know how quickly this type of growth happens. Is it on the order of seconds? Minutes? Hours? Days? Is this why when you learn something, take a break, come back later and everything makes more sense happens?
Sue for what? Britain agreed to exclude non-EU countries from the PRS service and governance of the system, in fact I'm sure we were one of the countries insisting on it in order to secure our companies involvement, but then we decided not to be an EU country any more. There's no point blaming anyone else for the obvious consequences of that. Anyway we're only excluded from some aspects of the project, not all of it.

Of course I'd prefer that Britain stay a strong part of the project, but I think that about our involvement in all of the EU's projects we used to be a key part of, not just Galileo. That's a big part of why I didn't want to leave the EU, but I lost that argument and we're leaving, and that's fine. It was a democratic decision and I'm content to abide by it.

What's disappointing is the bile and fury from so many Brexiteers about having to accept the painful but inevitable consequences of that. To them I say buck up, this is the path you chose. There's no point whining about it now.
I'm more inclined to believe this is due to the increased reporting and attention to the status rather than an actual increase in downtime.

However, I have no hard data to suggest that, only my experience as someone who's had to manage and maintain reports like this.
That is exactly how GitHub is architectured. There have been a lot of time I've been to able to push/pull but GitHub pages was down or their web backend was down.

Bitbucket is the worst in this regard.
Sadly the current start menu is far from normal. Normal would a simple menuized view of a folder hierarchy, what we have is some abomination tied into the Windows Store in mysterious ways that cause it to break under a wide variety of circumstances in such a way that an in-place reinstall is the only sure-fire fix.
USB-C has the spring contacts inside the easily replaced cable, whereas lightning has the spring contacts inside the not-so-easily fixed phone.

So all else equal, USB-C is objectively the better design.
Absolutely. all surveys should have data before an event. Otherwise there is no benchmark to compare your results to.
> There are new hardware accelerators being developed such as the Vampire which will provide a faster basis for running Linux on Amiga/m68k:

That's very impressive... I'd known people had been doing Amiga accelerators for a while, but not that sophisticated.

Also very cool that they use a custom Amiga style mouse pointer on the website. (Viewed the site on an OSX machine and I'll admit to the double take I did...)
Must be a Perl thing - even Epsilon’s website is a cgi one.
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It's easy to change your mind when you can just pretend that you'd always thought that, and nobody's game to call you on it.
For the love of God, please fix the title already! (Missing a space.)
If I remember correctly OpenVMS was programmed in something else also.

It would have been interesting if one of the PC operating systems had decided to use one of those languages.

So, no C, no interest in 'I need a C replacement language', enterprise software is boring, so no COBOL replacement. Plus, I know of at least one vendor who did develop something but it is kept in-house.

I did expect someone to develop yet another REXX to address this need.
> there can damn sure be extra taxes on junk mail.

I'd imagine this would actually be quite difficult on first amendment grounds if you start filtering by sender / message contents and would sweep in things like paychecks if you don't.
I don't think individual Chinese are rafting your goods individually over the pond.
It's a project that requires significant ongoing costs for maintenance and running.

The UK has decided that it won't pay towards that any more and will subsequently lose access to the non-public parts. Which seems pretty reasonable?
Can Tokyo show us how to solve Britain’s housing shortage?
Syndicated, non pay-wall version:

https://investmentmoneycnn.com/wp/lex-in-depth-examining-the...
They have a track record of not listening to scientists.
Whoops, you're right. Thanks for catching it.
unless your expectation is that the EU is equally dumb than thats not a valid bargain tactic. they should probably poke the bear with russia and see if US will come to help. In any case UK will have to go to the US hat in hand with free trade agreements and UK thought EU was bad wait till they start playing with the US.
> intended to mitigate the UK’s loss of access to the EU’s Galileo satellite navigation system.

I thought Galileo was an open system? Quoting Wikipedia “ The EU's stance is that Galileo is a neutral technology, available to all countries and everyone.”
- Personal Status

- Round Avatars (all catgirl ears are now cut off)

- Collapsing of some similar messages on the Dashboard into one (i missed some things because of this)

- Not just one, but several redesigns (im old)

- The whole "marketplace" functionality (imitation of an app store)

- The "explore" and "trending" functionality (i see this like a Facebook feed)

Not sure about others, but i used GitHub as a git host and issue/MR tracker. All the other stuff is just distraction in my eyes.
You can plug it back in yourself.
Thank you! I'm looking for a simple and convenient solution as well.
...and competent enough to execute on it.
Also in Sweden no flats have numbers (like the rest of the world) only the person surname on the flat door. Thus finding the correct flat in buildings with different parts and courtyards is difficult especially when people have the same surname
What’s really wonderful is when Github goes down I get a flurry of people broadcasting on Slack channels that they can’t work and all their builds are failing, and I’m wondering What they want me to do about it. Should I get out and push? Call Bill Gates? Tweet Trump? When Github doesn’t work that’s your excuse to go get coffee, grab a pint, browse Hacker News, etc. - people should be happy with GitHub goes down. (Or self-host gitea and work from that if your so determined to keep on)
What I am doing, and I find it to work really well is to have a yubikey nano (https://www.yubico.com/product/yubikey-5-nano) in one of the front USB ports of my PC case. Super easy to reach and takes no room at all.
The article is a book review. What do you think of the book that is being reviewed? Does it go into enough detail, and get its facts straight?
The sounds from the UI are really satisfying :)