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>Everyone's servers were exposed to heartbleed

No just my Webserver/HAProxy. The difference is, don't expose services that are not meant to face the Inet directly.

Production-Type Webservers are, SSH, VPN, HAProxy etc are.

Databases, devel-webservers, NFS, Samba are not!

Sure even the best hardened Service can have vulnerabilities, but that's how life is, better have a door with a key than one without, even when someone is capable to open your door with a Lock-pick.
One way of seeing the Nazi treatment of Jews and ethnic Slavs is as colonialism brought a little bit too close to home, against people who looked too similar to the colonizers. When directed against white people in Europe, forced labor, mass executions, and an ideology of superiority felt as abhorrent as they should have felt, but didn't, when directed against dark-skinned people on other continents.

(Sure, the Irish had to become white and all, but it's plausible that invisible differences, or differences only visible to race scientists, do not afford as much emotional distance from brutality as visible ones.)
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I said I am against making flat pricing or universal coverage a legal requirement.

I'm not against any company implementing a flat pricing scheme or universal coverage.

> It also not even close to the first postal company, Royal Mail was incorporated almost a hundred years before.

The London Penny Post was an important early innovator, and privately owned.

"The new Penny Post was influential in establishing a model system and pattern for the various Provincial English Penny Posts in the years that followed. It was the first postal system to use hand-stamps to postmark the mail to indicate the place and time of the mailing and that its postage had been prepaid. The success of the Penny Post would also threaten the interests of the Duke of York who profited directly from the existing general post office. It also compromised the business interests of porters and private couriers."

"Before the emergence of the Penny Post the profits of the existing General Post Office were assigned by Parliament in 1663 to the Duke of York, who now had similar designs on Dockwra's lucrative Penny Post. As the Penny Post proved to be a great success and a potential new source of constant revenue the English government and the Duke of York at the time fined Dockwra £100 for contempt, claiming it infringed the monopoly of the General Post Office, and took control of the Penny Post's operations in 1682, bringing that enterprise to an end.[3] Less than a month later the London Penny Post was made a branch of the General Post Office. For compensation of his losses Dockwra obtained a pension of £500 a year after the Revolution of 1688."

The Penny Post successfully competed with the Royal Mail. And then the government took over the cash cow.
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Yet its still valid data in that its trivial to calculate the theoretical maximum peak accel based on the possibly independent peak accels of the individual axes.

If in theory the max peak acceleration could never exceed 2 G then there's no point in continuing the study. If the theoretical max peak accel could be 57 G then there's a point in continuing the study.

The whole problem is irrelevant anyway. The problem isn't one individual sled journey, the problem is thousands of competitors taking thousands of rides over many years, so "tens of millions". They are competitive with each other having small std deviations in performance so each sled ride is roughly the same. Tiny reliable cameras have been a thing for a century as have mechanical timers. Simply bolt a half pound telemetry package to every sled that snaps a single random point of data via camera or some weird linkage to clutches and springs. Then run a data analysis and make statistical predictions. You wouldn't even need a 1960s mainframe to run the statistical analysis. This would have been something near BAU for mid-century aeronautical engineers, for example. I'm sure something similar was implemented during the test program for the F-86 or maybe P-51.
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> At no other time in human history has one nation been as powerful and influential as America was

Imperial Britannia says otherwise.

Before that Spain/ottermans/muhgals.

But, to tackle your main point. The USA is suffering from two things: a crisis of self identity, and a yawning prosperity gap.

The whole point of america is that a pennyless immigrant can land in some backwater of the USA, work hard and become a millionaire. But that can't happen now(if it ever could is another matter).

America worked because you had the freedom to get a new job, raise a family and live in relative comfort, even if you didn't go to further education. None of that really holds true anymore.

This is being played on by those in power (both left and right). Unless and until measurable changes happen, the USA will continue to have civil unrest.

What will make that change? someone/somepeople uniting and sorting out some of the endemic social problems. be that jobs, health care or addiction. The biggest barrier to that is the default position of polarisation. (Us vs them)
It's pretty funny that named arguments were, for a long time, a feature present only in Objective-C of all the languages I tried (and I tried many).

It was one of the features of Objective-C I liked and I missed in any other language. I also think they were one of the reasons many developers disliked the language.

When Swift was introduced, it got named parameters from Objective-C and now they are getting more "mainstream", entering in a language much more widespread than the former two.
The argument here is that it's all shell games otherwise if the money isn't set aside - e.g. look at the broader trend with social security's solvency. With the way public funding has trended, it would not surprise me if any unfunded programs simply ran out of cash at some point.

There isn't an easy answer to balance the needs of existing liabilities (pension commitments) with financial operations - the problem with the USPS was (I believe) the catch-up funding required to meet funding requirements, and not the actual funding itself.
I can't watch right now but does he do a decently bipartisan take on it?

At the time the requirement to fund pensions through 2050ish was passed it got support from republicans who wanted to make life financially harder for USPS and democrats who wanted to guarantee that employees (union employees, so making sure they get a good deal is even more important) would be provided for and that USPS couldn't weasel out of it's obligations as part of a future bailout, perhaps by a congress that would have given employees the shaft.
> Little known fact: if you buy anything on Amazon, DuckDuckGo gets to know exactly (the precise item) you bought as part of the Amazon affiliate program.

This isn't specific to DuckDuckGo in any way whatsoever. This happens for ANY affiliate. I've used the Amazon affiliate program, and every month I would get reports of the exact items people were purchasing. I couldn't link those purchases to any particular individual, mind you, but I could see exact items.
It's probably reliable, since it's very easy to fit wooden arrows through small holes in the middle of a metal coin, even when they "apparently do not fit".
I imagine that when you are playing at the top of your game, everything seems like a game and that's the way you talk about it. Buffet is solely focussed on winning bets, that's how he got to where he is. People like Buffet fill a slot that is at the very foundation of capitalism. If you are terrified of rich, powerful business people you are in the wrong economic model. So far we are yet to find a better model, IMO.
That's true but you can always lease the entire car. If you only lease the battery you can't just let the lease expire because you still have to find a new owner for the car and if the car has a reputation of needing battery replacements then you might have trouble finding a buyer.
Met a guy on Omegle this way and we've been playing games together for 8 years now. Would be interesting to try this and find people close by!
Quick, he doesn't agree with us, cancel him!
We are still paying for full prime and I have not seen 2 day shipping in ages.
Japan is one of the easiest countries for skilled people to immigrate to. No quota, no requirement to try to hire locally first, fast-track visa (few weeks), as little as 1 year to get permanent residency.

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With deliveries up in volume due to the pandemic, it is a failure of leadership that the USPS didn't get more funding and support.

This is the time you want more deliveries over in person interactions, of course people will ship more, but they are expected to roll with the support of a time without such a spike in demand. Essentially these are holiday level volume numbers with regular time funding.

As a taxpayer, I want money I pay going to the USPS, it is extremely valuable infrastructure for the last mile, small business and big business as seen here with Amazon.

Without the USPS, and the Universal Postal Union (UPU) [1], shipping would be much more expensive. It really is a sort of loss leader service that fuels so many other economic network effects. The UPU and USPS are some of the best ever public services created and one area where the world gets along, anyone attacking it should be immediately ejected from power.

Any infrastructure bill should include shoring up the USPS and expanding it, possibly including banking again and financial services that can be attained by the unbankable. USPS is required infrastructure, the lack of care about it is short-sighted and inexcusable.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Postal_Union
Did you read the article? Do you work for Amazon perhaps?

Amazon is not the only ecommerce company in existence.

The article clearly states in its 3rd paragraph that packages (not junk mail) from other senders are being delayed in favor of Amazon packages:

"...willfully delaying thousands of first-class and priority parcels so that fourth-class Amazon parcels can go out for delivery instead"
I don't know. perhaps, but they've shown a large willingness to force the hardware players to enforce security mechanisms that can't really be avoided nicely (ex: cinavia, there are ways to avoid it, but very few on disc based players)
Cleese's 1987 monologue on "extremism" is delightful and well worth the two minutes it takes to watch:

What we never hear about extremism is its advantages. Well the biggest advantage of extremism is that it makes you feel good because it provides you with enemies. Let me explain. The great thing about having enemies is that you can pretend that all the badness in the whole world is in your enemies and all the goodness in the whole world is in you. Attractive isn't it? So if you have a lot of anger and resentment in you anyway, and you therefore enjoy abusing people, then you can pretend that you're only doing it because these enemies of yours are such very bad persons, and that if it wasn't for them you'd actually be good-natured and courteous and rational all the time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLNhPMQnWu4
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Agreed; all large, very traditional, very legacy waterfall projects I participated in had:

* Unit testing immediately upon developing any component.

* System & Integration testing starting at some point during development - overlapping phases

* User/Client Acceptance testing also overlapping with end of development (but with planned fix cycles)

* Performance testing... unfortunately depends heavily on the project and its perceived performance but usually in the latter third. Well managed projects see it as "Performance Testing & Tuning", and plan for several iterative cycles of testing and improving performance. Poorly managed projects see it as "Performance checklist" and have a single cycle with no time for tuning.

This is as old-school methodology as it gets, and yet it's been consistently refined and works well when managed well and in right situation/client. A lot of multi-year back-office ERP or infra work for large corporations or public sector inherently needs to adopt similar approach because it's just the nature of client environment. At highest of high levels it's about 5 gantt chart phases with heavy, heavy overlapping and lots of cycles for fixing/improving.

A two-stage dev + test without even an arrow from test to back... I have no idea how that'd work in either theory or practice. Waterfall doesn't have to ignore realities of the world... it just is suited to different realities than Agile.
Smart businesses do all the time. read "Innovator's Dilemma" If they don't, someone else would. Apple cannibalized the ipod with the iphone. Netflix cannibalized mail-in DVDs with streaming. Facebook did their desktop with mobile.
This needs an option to allow users to delete their own account.
at the end of the article:

> So much water is now being used that ground water levels in Helmand are estimated to be falling by 3m a year.
The fear is that pretty soon the water will simply run out.
"Maybe this boom will not last longer than 10 years," says Orzala Nemat, who runs the Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, the country's biggest think tank.
Lets be real here, EV is 50-70% cheaper to drive, its not very different, it just burns bit smaller hole into your wallet.
And you probably won't be installing new battery to a 12 year old 1st gen EV that is worth less than new battery.
>Vandalism is not a good public service.

It is, better than to steal the data, you know what a really bad service is? Let your Database wide open, and expose your customers data (maybe?) for everyone to read.
Eric’s podcast is amazing. He gets very deep on subjects I would have never thought would be interesting at first blush.

Definitely worth a listen if you have not heard him before.
We're in the process of monetizing an open-source project as well (Klaro - https://github.com/kiprotect/klaro). The project started as a "weekend hack" for our own website and became quite popular over time, to the points that it's used on thousands of websites already. We plan to keep the client software (i.e. the part that runs in the browser) open-source and feature-complete. We want to charge for backend services (managing consent data, scanning websites) and comfort features like a graphical configuration editor. That way we hope to enable users to still get great free value from the open-source version while allowing us to raise money for the development.

Contrary to some other voices here we had great community contributions to our project right from the start: For example, almost all translations are contributed by the community and even some of the non-trivial features have been built by community contributors. That said it's a rather simple Javascript project and we try to keep it as accessible as possible. We have another open-source project (KIProtect - https://github.com/kiprotect/kiprotect - just open-sourced it last week actually) which is way more complex and that we also want to monetize, we'll see how many contributions we'll get for that.
Canceling the wrong humor and or statements is a theme in autocratic behavior and I think if you cannot see how media scraps content that could even remotely seen as sexist/racist/controversial, you have to be willfully blind to it. People doing it aren't progressives, they are just the next generation of conservatives. The article actually gives an example. What about that?

I don't know what Lewis C.K. did, I thought he was on the other "side" of that argument actually.
Well okay, we can stop exploring space when we dismantle the entire industrialized world.
This, absolutely this. If you don't have anyone on your team with sysadmin / DevOps experience then EB is an option. However when it breaks, and it does, it's a nightmare to get working again.

Terraform is a nightmare to learn for the first time but once you've wrapped your head around it, it's a thousand times better than EB. If Terraform is too complex for your needs then use CloudFormation directly instead of EB.
imo this looks more like kotlin. that said, there are several projects for running php on the jvm (quercus, jphp, ...).
Given agile is 20 years old and most of those tools are somewhat younger, it is obviously possible to use other techniques to manage development and deployment without having to tick the 'at scale' type boxes that are so loved by the current batch of web deployment models.
"If you need to eat a frog, do it in the morning; if you need to eat two, start with the bigger one" (paraphrased)
Python has had named arguments for a long time (since v1.4), which is arguably more widespread than PHP or Swift.
You acknowledge the state of apartheid in Israel, so why is it mysterious to you that people might have reasons for being against Israel other than it being a Jewish state?
What happens if you divide by zero on a mechanical calculator?
seconding riffraff, the second book is a much easier and more entertaining read, I'd definitely give it a shot.
Of course it is, and not just in Afghanistan. The US is at risk (https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/8/140819-ground...), and even Europe is not safe (https://eos.org/articles/southern-europes-groundwater-use-wi...).

To make it worse: when groundwater gets depleted, there is a very real risk that the soil on top collapses/compresses, so even if there were enough rain the aquifers would physically be unable to retain the water (https://www.usgs.gov/special-topic/water-science-school/scie....
Does your argument apply to the provision of a military?
While you're right, I don't think that's something commonly used. I definitely can't remember the last time I wrote code where this would be useful.

That might be because usage of associative arrays is more or less discouraged in modern PHP in favor of value objects (especially with property promotion in PHP8). Main reason for that is that this usage is horrible for IDEs and static analysis. Way too easy to rename a parameter and create a runtime error. Typing is also enforced at usage instead of creation, and you have to repeat the type information in every function signature.
If you're going to offer a pension, a guaranteed amount of money in the future, then you should be making sure you can pay it; guaranteed. If making sure you can keep that promise is too burdensome, then you should not be making that promise.
i think a better analogy would be [programming techniques as "musical ideas", programming languages as instruments]. you can pick an instrument that fits what want to do, or build a new one if you know how :)
CDC already said masks including N95 have ZERO effectiveness against viruses. The N95 can only stop particles larger than 3.0 microns Covid is 0.125 microns. So the truth is you are rejecting science and using the same playbook you used to try and smear vaccine choice activists. Do you need a lead injection? My body my choice. Informed concent. Nazis forced injections on jews.
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Yeah, a few people joined the discord and asked for this as well. I'm going to try to have it added by the end of the week.
Note that I use past tense in my post above.

Also unless you work at Google or have done extensive research: I think you are still wrong.
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Would you rather have bankrupt cities and states? Because that is where we are headed and we are stomping on the accelerator just as fast as we can.
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I didn't read (or skim) the article, but there are recent examples. Chechen vets coming back to Russia and forming into what Russia calls "OPGs" Organized Criminal Groups. Now that I think about it, Mexico has this without the colonial wars in the form of cartel enforcers.

Then we had the US vet running around South America this year and embarrassing the US.

There are several examples of ex-troops assassinating presidents.

The French Foreign Legion started trouble in France when bored after multiple deployments.

I can think of probably a 100 examples.
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As far as I can tell, before the deal USPS did math along the lines of “10% of our trucks deliver packages and 90% letters” so then they laid out the pricing for packages. But then did a deal with Amazon so that now the trucks are 30% packages.

Not projecting into the future and instead trying to hold the pricing ceteris paribus was either a major oversight or corruption
It also said:

"Reflecting on the cartoon's reception, Larson suggested he had erred in making one of the tools resemble a saw, which misled many readers into believing that to understand the cartoon's message, they needed to decipher the identities of the other three tools."

and that mirrored exactly my train of thought looking at the cartoon.
There were different standards, And I don't believe Microsoft Mail or Outlook Express defaulted to this at the time -- Outlook certainly changed practice and dated from late '97 / early '98 ("Office 97" refers to the nominal release year).

But other platforms/ communities differed, with Lotus Notes (big in some corporate accounts) being an especially notable case with its own butt-ugly quote/reply convention.

In the Unix world, Usenet, and among derived / affiliated tools (Eudora Mail, Netscape Mail, others), yes, bottom-posting dominated.
Knee implants, significant negative hormonal changes for men over 50 miles/wk. Repetitive stress injuries are no joke.

OP is probably not aware that the Olympics does not have ultra-marathon type events which are generally very unhealthy for participants, only a 10K and a marathon (and shorter sprints of course)
Bringing up Israel in causes that have nothing to do with Israel politics is antisemitism. The way your question is formulated suggests you think it's OK to toss Israel to any discourse unrelated to Palestinian cause, and is highly problematic.

Every time there is a broad popular movement, all kind of people come out of the woods and try to freeride their sometimes less than noble cause on that. Certainly the cause with BLM: you see people making it about socialism, "anti-imperialism", and of course the good old fallback of anti-semitism.
> meant to be a service (congress has to approve rate increases), but it's treated like a business.

This is exactly the way a utility works.
This is clearly an unpopular opinion, but yes. If you need socialization to do business, then you're building a social network, or a social club. I don't think that generals in the army make small talk before giving orders. Yes, of course, there is going to be some personal chatter, but the ability to give orders does not depend on it. They can get down to brass tacks, and can work well with people they dislike personally.

I understand that businesses are NOT the military. But, I'm perplexed that business leaders are seeking out peoople they have a good rapport with rather than people that are effective. These will not always be opposites, of course, but I would think that effectiveness would always matter more than rapport.

Perhaps the problem is that in business there is no higher calling. It's all just about making money, and so there is generally not something worth setting aside your ego for.