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Configuration isn't code isn't data. Data belongs in a database. Code belongs in a codebase. Configuration doesn't. Ideally config should be reduced down to keys and values and stored anywhere where it's easy to push to the environment where the code runs. I don't understand the immense expansion and proliferation of the config layer. I never touch code anymore. All I handle is config and tooling around it. YAML engineering.

Better configuration doesn't mean more ways to treat config like code, or data like config, or god forbid, code. It means treating config like config and code like code. Gitops just makes me sad. Truth should only flow in one direction. The first time I had to write a script to utilize the GitHub API to auto-update a code repo I died a little inside.
Some interesting arguments are presented in this article but there are a couple of pretty important issues this workflow totally elides. First of all, where are code reviews? If you're committing directly to master, does that mean every commit has to get reviewed before it can be merged? So in fact you are creating a new branch for every commit and then merging it into master (presumably amending to address review comments). So now you are back at square one. Secondly, how do people work concurrently without constantly pulling/merging? I suppose you could argue it's better to resolve small conflicts frequently than to address them all at once, but surely there are times when a developer needs to be able to work unfettered.

Overall I like the idea of working incrementally and ensuring that every commit adds value. I'm just not sure about the specific git workflow presented here.
The Ultimate Guide to AWS Step Functions
Yes indeed. And where's the panic? Where's the calls to sports cars from the city center? People get killed on Berlin's Ku'damm on the regular by these maniac drivers. (I am not joking or being sarcastic. Germany treats this as murders, and the drivers are on trial for murder.)

In Berlin there's a low-key idea to ban all cars from city center though: https://www.berlin.de/tourismus/infos/verkehr/nachrichten/63...

(Too bad Madrid rolled their progress back...)
The full context:

> A hard disk owned by presidential candidate Joe Biden’s son was supposedly stolen or hacked – also because Hunter Biden used an easy to guess password (Hunter02). Gevers is familiar with leaked databases of old passwords and searched these for Hunter Biden’s data. After analysing these old databases, he felt that the information was incorrect. Hunter Biden used other passwords. Gevers: ‘I could tell that it wasn’t his password.’

So this is not truth. But what I don’t know is if Gevers just read that online from a jokester, or if Trump’s people are actually claiming this.
You can't roll coal, either.
Not sure how to react. Mostly very pessimistic about this whole thing. When I originally learned about this years ago, I assumed this just going to be some sort of stunt to pump money out of local economy. I guess time will show.
I'm really surprised how ridiculously easy this was (really bad password, no 2FA) and how Twitter didn't force Trump to have better security when so much is on the line with his account.
I agree with this from personal experience - LSD makes you feel more productive, but actual tasks that require concentration are more difficult. I would not recommend it for healthy people.

However, I strongly recommend it for people who struggle with chronic depression or anxiety. Microdosing is a way to break rumination, the asshole uncle of meditation whose constant shitty thoughts in the back of your mind are the fuel that keep you feeling depressed or anxious.

LSD Microdosing is the Aspirin (and I use that word very intentionally, it is not a cure, it is relief) that lets you start to interrupt that cycle, which will give you back enough of your life that you can start to make other more long-lasting changes
"oh, ok"

the internet was such a better place in the 90s. now if someone gets your password in 2020 they can basically destroy your credit and social reputation
>Vaguely better moods associated with increased confusion.

Better mood: "I feel better because I've overcome the fear of LSD!" (also...adrenaline)

Ensuing confusion as the adrenaline subsides: "Why was there a fear in the first place? Am I doing it wrong? I don't feel like this was as scary as it was supposed to be. Did I take actual LSD? Maybe it was just a placebo that some jerk sold me! Maybe I didn't take enough? I have been working out lately and I ate an apple the other day. I should take a tiny bit more to find out. Wait, why am I so worried about all of this? I'm typically so chill. Was I drugged??"

Meanwhile, the rest of the team is staring at you waiting for your opinion on the new landing page, starting to look a little confused/worried - perpetuating your inner fears as you are now surrounded by confused, concerned people.

Don't do drugs kids. Why? Not because the drugs themselves are that bad (some are), but because there is so much social stigma around them that it is really hard to take a drug without psyching yourself out.

Or do drugs and enjoy the chaotic ride directly into homelessness as you find ways to rationalize it as "reduced rent living, a back-to-the-earth lifestyle, and non-materialism" to your friends - if you still have any.

Option 3: Continue reading articles on the internet that random internet strangers wrote explaining their experiences with drugs and ponder whether or not you should try them yourself

Edit: Y'all saying my post is just FUD. I think you have seriously misunderstood my tone and intent. The point is this article and ensuing discussion is about other people's experiences doing a thing that is "scary". Literally the entire topic and approach is built because people already have a lot of fear, uncertainty and doubt on the subject.

My point isn't even about LSD directly, but about engaging in activities that have a very strong social stigma attached to them. If you think X is scary, then you have already built up years of conditioning to believe that X thing is a no-no - that FUD is intrinsic, and not my doing. The above train of thought is common for someone who start tip-toeing into drugs for the first time. They are usually completely fine physically. Great even. But frequently this leads to a little soul-searching and rethinking things in their lives. Which is a huge reason to do drugs for many people.

Source: Have used a variety of drugs and know many people who have as well.

TL;DR: You will most likely be fine, but shaken up by your own mind as you break past a mental barrier that you didn't know existed or why it exists in the first place. And the process of breaking past that barrier can disrupt your familiar routines and comforts, including: your job, home situation, and social life. None of this is inherently a "bad" thing. It is your life. Maybe losing that comfy SV paycheck is just what you need to grow personally, but how do I, or any else know what you need in your life? We don't. The three options I lay out are essentially me saying...":shrug_emoji: some people do well with drugs, other don't. Do what you want"
The password was maga2020 infinite_facepalm.gif
No, but I'm curious about why you would think that the current political climate would disfavor people with military service.

There are always those who loudly support the military and those who loudly oppose it, but as far as I can tell the current political climate isn't really about the military one way or the other.
There's no evidence in this story, I'd take it with a grain of salt.
Microsoft Edge Browser on Linux: Surprisingly Good
Thanks for the pointer. Here's an interesting article on using the Estonian client cert:

https://wandernauta.nl/2015/08/27/estonian-id-with-nginx-and...
A lot of big names in the Nix community work for Tweag, including Eelco Dolstra who did the initial Nix/NixOS thesis.
The photonic processor in question can only process some maximum M number of bits worth of signal in a given time T though. To have a throughput of better than M/T you need more time or more/better processors (i.e., for large enough inputs the runtime isn't actually O(1) ).

What I was pointing out is that digital implementations have this exact same property -- if the input is bounded in the sense that there are a maximum number of bits being fed into your digital computer then the maximum runtime is a constant equal to the maximum runtime for any of those finite inputs -- i.e., the runtime is O(1) for the inputs you're actually able to provide (the exact same inputs you could provide to the photonic processor to achieve a constant-time Fourier transform). To scale up beyond that threshold you still need more time or more/better processors.
You would prefer a diesel engine, which could run on rendered biomass if need be.
You forgot the special character for extra security. it was maga2020!
* maga2020!
I think the story is implying that it wasn't his actual password:

>Gevers is familiar with leaked databases of old passwords and searched these for Hunter Biden’s data. After analysing these old databases, he felt that the information was incorrect. Hunter Biden used other passwords. Gevers: ‘I could tell that it wasn’t his password.’

It's much more insane to me that the President of the United States has a twitter account with no 2FA and the password 'maga2020'.
wait, really? there is no two factor auth on his account? Actually, someone observed that while he was debating last time with Biden his account was tweeting. So it is sort of make sense - the password is likely shared which makes two factor auth hard.
"ORDERED the NUKES on BEIJING! We have the best weapons, we use them!" -- is something I wouldn't say.
I can't tell if this is the Onion or not
DDR4 Memory Information in Linux
"Today, I'm releasing an Executive Order that the age of consent is retroactively lowered to 13. #MAGA"
With such a simple password, how many people have been in there monitoring direct messages and the president's activities on the platform? This is unbelievable.
i agree with above comment. there are fields where multiple masters might help, but not in tech.

degrees are for getting the HR recruiter person to like your resume enough that they pass it on to the hiring manager. period. that's it. 1 bachelors, 1 masters, you're done.

the only possible argument for another masters is if you plan to do it at at a place like MIT or Stanford, which is a strong signal on a resume.

edit: and/or, you likely plan to remove your first master's from your resume upon completion of the second (in which case you really value the education the second master's would give you). that said, i cannot speak to visa-related issues so my comments might not apply in such cases.
Sorry, I just can't believe that the first person to guess Trump's (surely the most valuable target in the world for hackers) password as 'maga2020' would be a white hat. This looks like a hoax to me.
On the Service object side, the method is to set loadBalancerIP in the spec.

The implementing side for Services has to then do the appropriate operations to either get you that IP, or fail creation of Service. On GCP, if you set loadBalancerIP to IP of a persistent, unattached public IP you own, it will automatically attach to it. I expect similar behaviour on AWS and others.
I've never watched babylon 5, so I can't comment too much on it.

a common trope in sci-fi is that jumpgates (or something similar) were built by some ancient super-advanced civilization, while the current civilization understands them to the minimum extent necessary to actually use them. this is a good way to sidestep the issue, since any inconsistencies can plausibly be the result of missing knowledge in-universe.

as to "whether it's still sci-fi", imo it depends a bit more on the setting. if FTL has already existed for 100+ years, it makes sense for it to be a background detail. on the other hand, if you have a story where FTL was discovered recently and it doesn't profoundly impact the plot, I would consider that to be pretty bad sci-fi.

like I said, this is just how I personally categorize things. to me, sci-fi is not just lasers in space. it's a genre where science/technology drives the plot, rather than being made up after the fact to justify the plot you want to have. it can still be sci-fi if the tech is totally implausible from a modern physics perspective; it just needs to be consistent.

star wars is usually my go-to example of "not sci-fi". there are no consistent rules for how anything works in-universe. all the technology works in whatever way is necessary to justify the current scene and will likely contradict itself later for a different scene. it's still a very enjoyable franchise, just not what I would consider sci-fi. a show like the expanse is almost the opposite. there's some unrealistic stuff in there, but it's internally consistent. once you nail down what's possible given "the rules" in-universe, the plot almost writes itself.
> Do you think every desk job other than software is just rote mechanical behavior that happens at desks

Well, certainly a lot of it. Data entry, check processing, etc. These are the jobs software is doing away with specifically because it is clever.
Can we really stay it is better until there are long term studies?
The Swiss tradition of having lots of referendums isn't very old. Actually up until the 1970s it was hardly done, partly because the government had a habit of ignoring them and not implementing them properly. Around 50 years ago the press put pressure on politicians to get more serious about it, and the number of referendums has gone up a lot over time as a consequence.

The Brexit vote is an excellent example of giving people participation in government. By the way, as you seem to be under the charming impression that members of Parliament are intellectually superior to the people who vote them in, you'll be pleased to know the UK now has a massive majority of MPs in favour of implementing Brexit properly. As their opinions are more valid than everyone else's, including yours, you presumably must now concede that Brexit is a superb idea.
Yes and no. Problem is the media which cherry-picks the one thing in a thousand good people say which can be misconstrued as sounding bad and then amplifying it to the world to profit off hate-clicks. By that standard Eric is in the same boat as the rest of us. We're all idiots no smarter than our worst moment since coming online.
Why wouldn’t they switch to chromium?
He also sells snake oil
This guy has cracked Trumps password before. Incredible... I would have expected such a password to be cracked much sooner. Maybe no one is actually trying to get into Trumps twitter account?
Yeah... I honestly don't see the appeal of nickel.

It is sold as "You use this to generate configuration in other formats like JSON"... but why? Why would I want to use some language other than the target format to configure things? Why am I making my configuration a 2 step process? And even if I bought all of those reasons, why wouldn't I just use a general purpose language instead? Why have some esoteric language dialect whose only purpose is... making configuration files?

I'd much rather use Bash, python, perl, javascript, typescript, groovy, Java, kotlin, C++, C, Rust, erlang, php, awk, pascal, go, Nim, Nix, VB, Hax, coffeescript etc. Really, take your pick. Any well established language seems like a much better approach than something like this.
It's not particularly expensive, btw.

If you go to Amazon and, even with heavy discounts, none of the products have even the smallest UPS built in.

$300 is actually a great price for a NAS, because at that price you're looking for only an exclosure on the open retail market.
But like, how? Mounting a volume in read/write mode on more than one machine is obviously going to corrupt it
Except it is still better than those "modern" projects. I use a lot of editors in parallel, and Emacs has the best UX by a landslide. (I have 3000 lines of config in addition to using Doom, but that is what emacs is about in the first place.)
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Perhaps "fiction" is the wrong way to look at it, because the exercise has value.

I think of it this way: every business's financial model is a collection of numbers, some empirical (and hopefully correct) and some estimated.

The thing about a startup is that there are few empirical numbers (but they are critical, you have to understand your burn rate and what affects it) and the estimated numbers are poor estimates. The evolution of the size of the error bars on those estimates is probably more important than the size itself. If you are very early on, you should be using these to help you focus information gathering on the most impactful areas.
Coincidentally I found my old minidisc player just last week while sorting my box of old gadgets. I brought it to the car since I have a bunch of mix discs that turned out to have aged well. Mine runs off of a single AA battery, and after at least 10-15 years with no use it still had a charge. The Sony UI certainly was no Ipod...
I wonder if this is the NES-clone company you're mentioning is the same one that also lobbied for imported cell-phones to be taxed harder, and of course tried to prevent Apple from selling the iPhone in Brazil by registering its trademark.
Could Google give it some money à la firefox so that hey, it's an competitive market !
NPR officially jumps the shark on the 2020 election
> Gevers said the ease with which he accessed Trump’s account suggested the president was not using basic security measures like two-step verification.

I am gobsmacked that Twitter allowed his account to continue without some kind of additional security measures like 2FA or geo-IP checking. This is a guy that could literally start World War III by sending a tweet like, "Eat shit, China! Missiles on their way!" And Twitter didn't think it should be locked down beyond a simple password!?!
Prosthetics haven't solved the bandwidth problem i.e. how do you connect them to the nervous system.
"Anyone in the know: what would it take to implement a "container over tor"? I am not currently a tor user, but absolutely would if I could integrate it with my current workflow (using the temporary containers addon)."

This is my every-six-months wish/rant on this subject ...

What we need is the ability to 'jail' a GUI browser process.

It is too resource intensive to spin up an actual virtual machine to run a browser window/tab. However, a facility like 'jail' (or zones or, perhaps even Docker) that simply chroots a new process with its own network interface, etc., does not have any of that expense.

It really is just a fancy chroot and the expense is limited to the overhead of just the process you're running.

If you could 'jail' a GUI application, you could have a browser window that was not merely its own cookie domain or history domain, but that was on an entirely different network and it's own chroot.
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Honest question: why use a unikernel on bare metal?

I can see the lure on top of an hypervisor. You already have an actual kernel running which you can use it to administer the machine. Why pay the performance price of a full kernel in your vm if you are only going to run one application ?

On bare metal however, you will probably need to bundle a ton of things if you don't want to end up with an unmanageable device. That leaves the performance gain of compiling everything together or actually disposable devices (maybe for embedded?) as potential use cases I can envision. Is there more ?
IMO anyone using internet must be taught about Passwords and how non guessable strong password can prevent(to some extent) these kind of attacks (cracking the account).
Agreed. If the password was that simple it would have hacked a while back
I always assumed it was pronounced O-Auth, like T-Shirt
Delete this garbage
My daily commute takes me from sea level (well, 1 meter above) to 66 meters above sea level. It's not uncommon that I have obligations at around 79 meters above sea level. Both of those climbs are single hills that don't let up, and are on major commuting routes in my city - a city in which biking is almost at an Amsterdam-level of bike usage.

Sure, it's tougher than a flat road. But if you're in any kind of shape it shouldn't take too big of a toll out of you. During lockdown I spent months without going on that commute, and without keeping myself in shape by other means, and when starting back up again I didn't miss a beat.

A small hill (which I consider ~60-80 meter differences) shouldn't scare people much.

EDIT: I should also add that I ride on a heavy mountain bike. The intention was to use it as a commuter and to ride trails, but it's almost exclusively been used as a commuter.
Well, since this survey does in fact include "nonfree" javascript it would imply the authors don't subscribe to that mindset but mentioned it out of respect to those who do.

I'm not sure how much this inhibits Emacs. It's architected in a certain way and there's decades of elisp code one wouldn't want to throw away. IMO this is the biggest limiting factor. Most big fundamental improvements would mean giving a lot of stuff up.

Not a huge fan of "free" software absolutists but just haven't seen this come into play too much with Emacs.
† None of those would matter if Google had competition.
Isn't this enough of a crime for some prison time? Is there some exception for registered researchers or something?
> Microsoft just released its new Chromium-based browser on Linux. Believe it or not, it's quite good.!

Believe it or not, I don't care.
Its best to consider the findings here as hypotheses for further testing brother than results. Look at just how many factors were measured - I didn't realize this during my first skim through but for example the "positive mood" reported is just one out of over 20 subjective measures they evaluated, and consider they only had 20 something people in the trials. You're going to start finding results just by chance when you test that many things.

Uncharitably, you might call it p hacking
I had to do the conversion, 15k-20kWh/100km ~ 250-330Wh/mi.

My Focus EV 2017 has a lifetime of about 275Wh/mi (and I have a lead foot).
Will Trump win the next election?
I'm afraid he won't.
Acela's average speed is 82 mph between NYC and Boston. 66 mph between NYC and DC. When you add the time to get to/from the stations my point makes a lot of sense.

If you remember the history, many of the existing rail lines were built before the suburban explosion post WWII. To make Acela go faster, the route would need straighter track which would require buying a lot of expensive, already developed, land.
Note cards are great, but I think a really big factor with a good spaced repetition system is to be able to essentially pick the best card to show you at any time. Based upon your history, which card you are most likely to have forgotten and need a refresher on, and would be most beneficial to show you next.

This would be practically impossible with a physical system. In addition to the fact that your memory of a new cards fades faster than cards you saw a long time ago; taking the time to approximate such a system would be a large burden that software can just handle for you.
I have noticed this as well.

Also "Covid", for example, doesn't seem to be in the vocab.
You will never be able to convince the American public that the government should control their email, web, social acconts etc. And unfortunately all of these companies are US based and can out fund the EUs lawyers
I recall there being a story about Obama either not being able to use his first choice of phone or else there having had to have been made some sort of accommodation to allow him to at the beginning of his first term.

(I think it was an iPhone vs Blackberry thing)

I haven’t looked into this story too deeply but I find it incredible on its face. If it is true then it’s an absolute shock and a wonder of wonders why it wasn’t compromised sooner.