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Oh yeah, my point of view is entirely based on my experience with small to medium sized companies, and there especially developers can be the instigators in sudden complexity multipliers.

I tried my best not to rag on devops as I am always incredibly impressed by these systems and what can be achieved and automated. It absolutely has it's place.

It's just that all the technology that big companies use become trendy and then end up used at small companies too. Small companies don't realise that the tools aren't solving the problems they have, and they don't understand the vendor lock ins and dependencies that they've introduced into their platform for no real gain.

This happens in all kinds of ways, not just devops. Your example of developers using the microservice pattern is exactly that. When I see a developer recommend microservices my mind flashes forward to all of the extra complexity that entails and how we've just turned a small monolith on one server into 6 pieces of software across distributed servers. Great for big companies, too much complexity for small companies.
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Yes.

> So, SourceHut is not hosted in anyone's cloud. I own all of the hardware outright and colocate most of it in a local datacenter.

> I just built a new server for git.sr.ht, and boy is she a beaut. It cost me about $5.5K as a one-time upfront cost, and now I just pay for power, bandwidth, and space, which runs about $650/mo for all of my servers (10+).

> Ran back of the napkin numbers with AWS's price estimator for a server of equivalent specs, and without even considering bandwidth usage it'd cost me almost TEN GRAND PER MONTH to host JUST that server alone on AWS.

> AWS is how techbro startups pile up and BURN their investor money.

https://cmpwn.com/@sir/103496073614106505
Had to look up what you meant by "TotalBiscuit". Apparently he was somebody who died of cancer, was diagnosed at 30 but had a history of cancer in his family.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TotalBiscuit
Have you ever had any success with this method; did you ever get anyone (sooner or later) to understand he had been deluded?
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Would have been more fitting to use

Algorhyme

I think that I shall never see
A graph more lovely than a tree.
A tree whose crucial property
Is loop-free connectivity.
A tree that must be sure to span
So packets can reach every LAN.
First, the root must be selected.
By ID, it is elected.
Least-cost paths from root are traced.
In the tree, these paths are placed.
A mesh is made by folks like me,
Then bridges find a spanning tree.
-Radia Perlman
That's the same product. It was renamed to Meet.
They are distinct languages from the same language family, which are understood by speakers of the other language, but not spoken. Czechs understand Slovaks and vice versa, but both are talking in their own languages, and speaking the other language can't be done properly without studying it.
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Do you have any data on the form their mind is creating to hold these theories "true"? The form could be factual data (lists of things) supporting or disproving their theory, creative imagery (internally seen things) obscuring what is normally viewed as reality, or perhaps sound or voices in the form of hallucinations (internally heard things).

After armchair analyzing this for nearly 4 years, I'm pretty sure Trump is a "bigly visualizer" and has some ability? to make others see what he is seeing, while at the same time filtering facts that thinking mind might normally bring.

To clarify, when I mean facts I mean non-imagery or non- sound/vibration based data forms: words, labels, conditionals, etc., which are used to form a process which may be followed by another to arrive at the same "conclusion" to what is currently being seen through our collective awareness.

It would seem about 43% or more of the population of the United States is infected with a means of operation which eliminates or completely disables critical thinking mechanisms and relies exclusively on internal fabricated imagery or audio for their measure of "truth".

Maybe narcissism has gone mainstream here.
Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud (but not Meet).

For the last item, personal accounts (only?) default to send and receive video at lower resolution (360p). So if you meant that the quality is lower, you can set it on both sides to 720p.

Edit: I don’t think Meet remembers those settings though, so you have to do it every time (and show your family members how to do so).
Hah, when I wrote my comment above I didn't even consider the possibility of using the same salt everywhere.

I suppose the goal here is privacy, not information security, so it's okay.
Matt and Trey usually have an interesting side project on the go; where South Park pays the bills, shows like The Book of Mormon and Sassy Justice are their creative expression.
We attempt to do this (as well as the main specs, independent of browser) with our Frontend Focus publication: https://frontendfoc.us/ – however, you can follow each of the key browsers (especially as there are so few of them now!) directly on Twitter or via blogs as ivank has linked here.
> With AWS I could just set up a multi-availability-zone RDS deployment for the database and an auto-scaling group for the web tier and be confident that AWS will recover the system from most failures

"Confident"? "Most" failures? Are you merely hopeful that the probability of a bad failure is low, or are you able to test the AWS resiliency techniques you mention and to ensure that they stay working? At what cost?
Long standing aggressions between these groups sort of stops that.
The toughest issue here, IMO, is being able to sign and authenticate a document without proprietary DRM. Been thinking about this a lot.
Didn't some economists claim exactly that?

"economic man, is the portrayal of humans as agents who are consistently rational, narrowly self-interested, and who pursue their subjectively-defined ends optimally"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_economicus
> The only "public utility type services" Google provides is phone service

I guess my implicit suggestion that email services be regarded as a type of public utility was a bit convoluted. But gmail is surely a close enough parallel to postal services of old (traditionally a public utility) to be regarded as such. Legislation has simply not caught up with technological developments.
amen to this, if there's anything that's present across the political spectrum: hubris and joylessness
What's funny about that?
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But does it? A quick Google says that the Nile River, Niger, Benue, Congo and Zambezi are navigable.

And European rivers are in many cases only navigable because they were canal'd and dredged. One thing that really struck me on my first trip to Europe was how small some of its historically famous rivers really were. In my mind a navigable river was the size of the St. Lawrence or the Mississippi.
nice to see a User Port.
I strongly disagree. That theory (before Snowden) was never in the same category as flat earth, QAnon, lizard people, faked moon landings and the like.
> This works in a courtroom.

Does it though?

Suppose there is a theft at a company. The police go to the company's security team and get the surveillance footage. Presumably admissible.

If it was an inside job, the surveillance footage could be a deepfake showing someone else committing the crime. Or maybe it's real surveillance footage. Without some way to distinguish the two, how do you know?
This is so sad. Dan always found time to talk to you, whether it was at the local NYC meetup or one of the monster Kubecons. No matter how small your company, he tried to get everyone to be active in the community.

I have a quick Dan story. I saw him after a Kubecon keynote and I joked that he should have sent me the slides for review, because the numbers for diversity grants he showed on stage were great, but the total was wrong. Later that day, I saw him again at the evening party. I think it was in Austin, the crazy one where it snowed. He told me, still embarrassed, that he had checked and the numbers were wrong. Then, he handed me a couple of extra tickets for drinks. I think I'll pour one for him now.
> still relatively unsafe with strict mode enabled

Is it? I have been using Typescript more and more these last few years, and lately haven't really experienced any issues where it's type system failed me.

To clarify, I'm not trying to argue against your point, genuinely curious to learn if fp-ts can really improve my code quality in production.
Unfortunately, your hope is unfounded. My spouse is a physician and when coughing (acute bronchitis) could not get a test without job consequences (being forced to take 10 days off and reschedule all patients regardless of the outcome of the test). There has been an exposure in a neighboring ward through a fellow healthcare worker and tests are not being made available broadly. Remember, in the US healthcare workers generally have to go through insurance to get approved for tests, etc., even though they work in healthcare -- they're not at this time provided anything more than the general public in terms of diagnostics. (At least spouse gets free masks at work, haha...)
Yeah but that's what capex based stuff (like buying and colocating) is: planning for scale. With AWS you think you need a robust DB and shit and you've made a decision that can be undone in minutes.

You think you want Elasticache? It's a fifteen minute operation. In that time your devops guy isn't going to have even downloaded the binary and figured out the docs.
Collider did some deepfake vids with celebrity impressionists which I thought were funny: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_6Tumd8EQI
If no one can testify about the video’s provenance, then it simply won’t be admitted into evidence. If someone commits perjury in order to get the video admitted, the jurors will be the least of the problems.
No, but the person on the over end does.

Someone always pays.
My last gig spent way too much on AWS, as percentage of own revenue.

Years earlier, old brick & mortar company brought in tech consultants to rapidly pivot to e-commerce, who then farmed out most of the work to InfoSys.

My team's own spend was ridiculous. Our hottest data set, which could easily fit in RAM, was on DynamoDB. So much "event sourcing" and CloudWatch. Because you needed all those logs for troubleshooting such a brittle system, right?

And since our core function was the recommendation engine, of course we hoarded and munged data like gnomes, with almost no value add, result negative ROI. (+70% of our "lift" was from the customer's own "recently viewed" list. The highest cost recommendations accounted for less than 3% of "lift".)

There was some director level push to migrate from AWS to Google. Which meant first Kubernetes and then Google. Such fun.

There was next to zero consideration of questioning assumptions. Like unwinding the unholy tar pit of mainframe era batch processing mentality fork lifted onto cloud era web services hotness.

And I don't think they could question their assumptions. The skills and experience of the traditional brick & mortar types simply couldn't.

This "consultants ruin everything" story has played out across all industries.
Or that we need a licence to drive them. Personally I think there should be the equivalent to a driver's licence for both ebikes and scooters.

But it would kill the industry if it was enforced now, so I hope we will get it later once people actually got the taste for it and want to continue using them even if they need to get a licence.
Nintendo did this with the GameBoy boot logo. It doesn't stand up in court.
It's my understanding that this hole will be filled with pidfd. It's now upstream but there are no glibc bindings yet. https://lwn.net/Articles/801319/
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But the modem is not made by Huawei. Its model number is G-140W-UD and it's made by Shanghai Nokia-Bell Co.,Ltd.

Could it be from the ISP-side devices?
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But why a poem and why THIS poem?
Hm. For a seasonal virus what would the definition of "diminishing" be?
Not that I'm disagreeing with you in any way, but it's worth recognizing that imperative languages typically do pattern matching and type constraining in a declarative manner. So one could make an argument that what you're saying is only true because imperative languages are not forbidden from employing FP. If a language uses declarative constructs, then it's not a wholly imperative language.
Exactly. The service was used to distribute malware and it got blocked by google and co.

There was a similar story last month about someone running a URL shortener. It started being used to obfuscate links to porn and scams. Then it got blocked by twitter/facebook and that's the end of the road for the service.
None of that however makes you more likely to be right about 1930 Germany social structures and behavior. It does give you some insight into stay at home situation and such.

> possibly because he was treating a woman like his equal

This for example is complete speculation. Him being Jew and him being undisciplined (his bad grades in math were totally due to that) had likely to do with it a lot more.
A few comments in this thread rub me the wrong way. E.g.:

> It should be illegal.

> How is this not regulated?

No one forces you to use these services. They're voluntary.

Imagine you're looking for storage for some stuff.

One company advertises a storage service, which is free, but there's a clause in the contract that says, "We can take your stuff at any time, for any reason, no backsies."

Would you trust your stuff to that storage company?

No, you wouldn't. That's insane.

But somehow you rub a computer on it and everybody loses their common sense.

- - - -

Folks are naive (in re: computers) so you can either: 1) educate them, or 2) exploit them. FAANG et. al. choose to exploit their users, quite ruthlessly too IMO. A few companies actually try to educate their users (a very few. Adafruit, Wolfram, ... who else? I'm sure there are more but I'm drawing a blank right now. Basically any company that's built around teaching people what computers are and how to use computers, rather than farming "lusers".)

- - - -

To me the weird thing is how many people choose to be exploited peasants rather than educated Users.

It's extra-weird to me when the peasants start jumping up and down shouting "Rabble rabble!" instead of just using some other non-exploitative system.

(But then most folks' behaviour has never made sense to me, come to think of it. So what do I know? "Nationalize FAANG!" "Rabble rabble!")
There is a temporal component here. As an ancestor commenter said, "you can't catch it again right away" (emphasis added). We do not know (because we cannot know) if reinfection is possible after two years, for instance, because we have not had the virus for two years yet.
Thanks for clarifying!

And I guess one could still implement an LSP in the user mode while supporting DuplicateHandle directly, without all the WSADuplicateSocket stuff, by having a service with all the custom logic, and returning pipes into this service as socket handles. That's basically what a microkernel would do as well, right?
I've tried a few times and comprehensively failed. Now if topics like this come up in social settings (not that those happen anymore) I simply state my disagreement with their views and change the subject to something less confrontational.
So you're quitting the "quitting..." articles and writing a comment to everyone about why the 80+ people who upvoted the article are wrong to find it interesting? And that the author wasted their time?

If nothing else, the article felt genuine and coming from a place of them feeling a loss at having something they valued change so dramatically that it lost all value. I think we all feel that constantly in various ways with internet platforms and trends and can at least identify with where they're coming from. Even if we disagree with the specifics.
I have yet to move a single customer to Amazon that fired the FTE who was managing on-prem infrastructure and chalked it up to a cost-savings move. . The idea of cutting headcount is a fallacy. In small shops the guy that was managing on-prem infrastructure is now doing that (because it turns out you still need switches and phones and routers and firewalls even if you host things in AWS) as well as managing the AWS infrastructure. In large shops you're typically replacing "cheap" headcount (the guy who racked servers) with someone significantly more expensive (a team of cloud architects).
This is a textbook display of virtue signaling amongst the English speaking elite of India.
I've been using it for several months and I can say it is faster and better than Octotree, good job to the developer!
Perhaps bittorrent clients don't mention specific sites but there's no end of related projects that do, e.g. expand the three "Supported ___ Trackers" lists on https://github.com/Jackett/Jackett

I'm not aware of any notices filed against that specific project.
Yeah, that was the first thought that crossed my mind when Snowden happened: not "oh shit, they are listening!" (I knew that before, for a very loose definition of "to know"), but "oh shit, advocates of crazy conspiracy theories will cite this as precedent for decades".
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The second point is also debatable:

> Job of the CIA is to exactly prevent such a thing, they did not.

This is not a proof that 9/11 was an inside job. Alternative interpretation: they did not do their job well enough.
A colonoscopy requires sedation (typically, in the US; this practice is not universal) and also has a non-trivial chance of complications like bleeding, from perforation of sensitive tissue. Also if the doctor finds polyps they will remove them (usually by hot wire constriction), which means you now have minor surgery to recover from. So it’s not like a “check-up” where they just look up your nose with a light pen.
Clearly is a pretty strong term. I'm sure skeptics arguing against Galileo would have used string words like "clearly" to dismiss his ideas.
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Like what?
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No, not all. Or at least, no, I don't see it that way. But this is getting deep into the weeds of semantics. The key is that coercion is typically defined to mean the initiation of some kind of physical aggression (or threat of it). I'd recommend Stephan Kinsella's "Against Intellectual Property" if you want a more philosophical take on it. But beware, he is a student of an unorthodox branch of economics, so depending on your flexibility, you may or may not dismiss it immediately as nutty mumbo jumbo.

I think the important bit here is that my outlook does not require such an obvious inconsistency.