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> The term “peak oil” didn’t always refer to demand. It started with the premise that the world’s supply of crude was finite. Eventually no matter how hard drillers tried, they wouldn’t be able to pull more oil out of the ground

This is false. The hypothesis was not that there was a hard limit on rate of extraction, but that the economics of extraction would result int a production peak due to what was economically profitably extractable. Demand was always a part of the consideration, though the original papers and predictions didn't so much consider decreasing demand due to new alternatives.
@pabs3 it would helpful if the title used "phantom electrical load"

I initially thought this might have been about phantom partitions or data or functionality not under the control of the owner/user.
This is a complete lie. Almost every relevant building in the UK is or has been assessed is undertakening remedial work on this and other fire safety matters.

The amount of lies and misinformation in this thread is beyond belief
Like scaling and fault tolerance? :)
I've got a PhD in theoretical particle physics. During my undergrad years I was very interested in interpretations of quantum mechanics. I was swayed by Bohmian interpretation and decided to try to "convert" problems and solutions of a standard QM-101 course into that Bohmian language. The first several chapters went well, but I got stuck on particle indistinguishably - I couldn't find any adequate explanation as to how to get, say, fermions with Bohm trajectories. Almost 20 years have passed since - I've been returning to discussions of Bohmian interpretation here and there - but no one so far have given me what I'm looking for. The indistinguishably question is just getting ignored or brushed off as insignificant (yeah Pauli exclusion principle is "insignificant").
Interesting, I hadn't seen this before. I find it hard to believe, as Argon2 does psuedorandom access over a large array. As soon as this array gets larger than the local GPU cache (much smaller than CPU cache), we should get pretty good protection. What have I missed?

In particular, in terms of ASIC attacks, bcrypt and other non-memory-hard KDFs have extremely efficient implementations. Silicon is cheap, computation is cheap, memory access is extremely expensive- both in terms of time and power usage.
The business model for infra software is to get (aqui)hired by a company with a service business model.
I’m hearing about mostly instant SEPA payments but I’ve never seen them personally. DBank to DKB takes a few days, DKB to ING, the same, to bunq or N26... First direct in the UK to a EUR account. My limited anecdotal experience is “mostly delayed by at least a day.” am I really an outlier?
Take this post with a hint of bias as it's written by a Red Hat'er - if you ask an employee what the "next thing" is, I wouldn't be surprised to hear "podman" (which is an opinionated docker clone)

The number of Docker Desktop installations and the popularity of local Kubernetes tools (think KinD, k3d) show that "Docker got boring" which is an aspiration for infrastructure tooling.
Other than picking up the FPS (which I don't believe requires Experience specifically) what is missing?

All Experience adds to Ansel is "easier sharing" of the screenshots: https://developer.nvidia.com/Ansel
Very fair points! I guess it primarily depends on whether the service was developed in-house or acquired. FB is all acquisitions.
> It would result in people getting stuck on stairs and getting trampled

This logic is absurd. Who came up with this "advice" is a complete idiot, second after a person approving a highrise with a single staircase, and even no external escape stairs.

Even without a flammable cladding, you can get as short as minutes for how quick a fire can structurally compromise a even a very well fire proofed, and and better engineered highrise building.

I believe, immediate evacuation was a norm in pretty much every country I lived in.
You seem pretty dismissive of the article, which does present significant evidence of corporate malfeasance.
do you have a tablet or an e-reader? maybe having a separate device and only allowing yourself to read articles on it might stop you from reading as many random articles online.

when i used pocket a few years ago i found that it was too easy add an article if I had the browser extension installed so i removed that and only added articles by going to the website, which meant i would usually think a bit more about whether I really wanted to read it or not.

ive just bought an android eink tablet and im going to start saving articles using a browser extension to save the article as epub or text, and then use syncthing to sync it to the tablet and read them there.

another thing that might help is to use an rss reader since you won't see a sidebar of other articles like you would on a website that might distract you
A "trusted MITM" is just that, a trusted MITM...You kind of accept the compromises that come with such a setup.

A CA that can issue a certificate to a third-party without the consent of the domain owner is not a trusted CA by definition.

In other words the issue in Kazakhstan should probably not be viewed as a technical issue...authoritarian governments will always get their way if the only recourse against them is a technical solution. In the case of Kazakhstan, they are forcing their citizens to accept the compromised CA, that is not a technical problem to solve.
I don’t think there is anything wrong with their margins - their costs are way below anyone else’s. I think the rationale behind Starlink is to soak up their excess capacity while the market demand for space access grows in response to their increasingly low prices.

But I agree that in general, “real world” infrastructure is low margin, I think that’s because it’s completely undifferentiated and has become a commodity
> We have a crazy system where people purchase “long-leases” for their flats

"Purchasing" one of these "long-leases" strikes me as doublespeak, a gimmick no different from prepaying 99 years of rent. Ownership doesn't expire.

Why on earth would one do this?
Nitpick: Minima is already plural.
It is essentially “the most one can do with Hilbert’s Programme”.

Actually Hilbert’s Programme was shattered when his great hope (the proof of the consistency and completeness of Mathematics FINITISTICALLY) was proved impossible (actually inconsistent).

But from the point of view of mechanizing Maths, it is more or less equivalent.
Alec Mwali is a shady affiliate manager who has tried to get me to post fake reviews for companies he represented in the past. Not surprised to see his name show up in a post about shady affiliate business. (Documented my experience with him here: https://reviewsignal.com/blog/2016/04/22/dirty-slimy-shady-s...)
Over the years I have exchanged messages and worked with many of the speakers at this conference, but I have never had the opportunity to meet any of them in real life. It is so nice to finally see their faces and hear their voices. Thanks, Covid, I suppose.
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sure but of all the times ive rolled up to an EV not once has one stepped on it! i can only assume its fear of watching their battery go to 0 in 60 seconds
HashiCorp's Nomad is decent, but I don't think Docker competes with k8s at this point.
Libra seems increasingly like a regulator-lightning-rod that Facebook never actually intend to be successful but that keeps prying eyes away from other parts of their business.
On January 20th, 12:01pm, these people will go back to work.
It depends on what that infrastructure is. Docker owes its existence to the OS not providing an adequate interface to create lighter containers than 00's style virtual machines. They chose to be imported and used as part of the stack by kubernetes instead of offering a better solution, which was clearly where kubernetes was headed. This one is less of a model question, than a market position question.

Elastic, on the other hand, is a very specialized application and the main issue they've had is having to compete with cloud providers (MongoDB also shares this problem). It's a very different problem, and both companies (Elastic and Mongo) seem to be finding ways to compete and cooperate. Elastic on Amazon is a great gateway drug to Elasticco's offerings.
It's not nonsense economics because it's proven to work. Islamic finance heavily encourages proper economic growth through correct risk sharing. Want to open a business? Get VC funding and grow the company, if it succeeds, all parties profit, if it fails, all parties share the risk. This is in line with capitalism, just without the immoral and parasitic practices that make it unstable, as we see today.

It's worth pointing out that the SEC banned short selling during the 2008 economic crisis, I wonder why. Not to mention that without interest bearing loans and selling debt for debt, there wouldn't have been a 2008 crisis to begin with.

The solution is less taxation, while removing the parasitic practices that underly the economy today.
A counter-argument:

The military presence to protect oil supplies is not just to protect US supplies. Even before self sufficiency, the US did not import much oil from the middle east - 5x more came from Canada than all the Persian Gulf for example: https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=727

The reason is to protect world supplies, not just US supplies. A cutoff in gulf supplies would have a huge impact on world oil prices and hence economies, and would also impact US oil prices since oil is a (mostly) fungible commodity. So there are still self-interest reasons to maintain a presence even if the country is self sufficient in oil.
> LinkedIn is the only social network where it's not acceptable to question these weird posts. Only politically correct, somewhat career-related content is allowed, and only positive responses are appropriate. Everyone is inspired and blessed and productive. It's a big circlejerk.

This! You've articulated perfectly my feelings. It's useful for jobs but my god is it a TERRIBLE social network in terms of any kind of real engagement. I never ever post, or engage with posts, as there are so many layers of fakery, agendas, motivational bs etc buried in everything I see. I find the self-improvement, positive psychology, self-marketing thing you see all over it just so cringe-worthy. I can't bear it

I find the overall experience of LinkedIn terrible too. So over complicated as a site, such a deluge of information and noise . I feel like you could delete 90% of it and have a better product.

Linked in a useful dumpster fire of a website. Its kind of an odd case in that way.
no, locked machines are stripped or sold for parts. there’s no reason for this other than institutional control of users, while furthering apples overall corporate mantra of planned obsolescence.
I was able to do this with my TCL/Roku TV a few months back. My curiosity got the best of me with the announcement of their latest OS, so I upgraded to see what the new features were like. Now I am stuck in the ecosystem, as the downgrade feature is completely disabled (even from a USB stick, with no internet connection, after a factory reset). Luckily, I use a Pihole as my DNS on my router, but still. Super annoying.
I've delved into this somewhat in an attempt to get some badly-behaved USB cameras under control— the situation is not pretty, especially for USB 3 hubs. I ended up resorting us using a hub that had an internal jumper for disabling bus power, and then just using an external relay to toggle power to the hub itself and all attached devices.

This has worked fairly well, though it exposes some other interesting problems which I suspect are deeper issues in the Linux kernel, where "replugging" the same device hundreds of times over the course of days of runtime eventually exhausts some internal resource, causing the port to go completely dead until you unbind/bind the xhci device.

Note that if you're not on RPi or some other device with easily usable GPIO to control the relay, you can use any FTDI cable as 4x GPIO, and there are lots of cheap 5V relay breakout boards available.
The NVIDIA Shield TV can be configured to disable individual USB ports.
I never used emacs beyond simple text editing. I’ve seen people do quite a lot of cool stuff with emacs though so I do want to start using it. Are there any good tutorials to look at? I’m mostly interested in the software dev pipeline.
Yea. The difficulty related to the fact the companies verifying the buildings had understandable difficulty finding insurers to underwrite their opinion.

There are plenty of other scandals with which I am familiar where buildings have had huge amounts of completely unjustified work done under bad advice
After the fall of the Roman Empire, technology that could survive in decentralized state survived. That’s why this occurs to me.
Yes. The image standard for containers is called OCI and there are several ways to use them outside of Docker.
After they released local kubernetes support for the docker mac client, I've stopped using docker swarm completely. Although to be fair, I didn't use it all that frequently anyways.

If your language runtime supports testcontainers (https://www.testcontainers.org/) I would strongly suggest using that over docker compose. Docker compose is so lacking in features that I would just write bash scripts to setup/tear down container dependencies. But testcontainer removes the need to write bash scripts and provides some basic orchestration features that make it an absolute breeze to use.
> Why would it be good to free currency from government regulation?

Obviously this is a huuuuge question, but it's such a good one.

The simplest compact answer, at least to me (and it may in fact be an oversimplification) goes something like this:

* Nearly invariably (and with a decreasing number of exceptions as technology advances), states which have control over both sides of the economic equation (ie, monetary concerns as well as national finance) find themselves unable to resist devolving into empire, and a specific type of empire called a "welfare-warfare" state, where the money supply is carefully controlled in such a way as to produce just enough support (often through pseudoscientific 'macro-economic' analysis and 'unemployment' prevention) to preclude revolution, while also projecting military power on poorer parts of the world in order to capture resources in a misguided effort to service the never-ending debt that accompanies the fiat money system.

In this view (and to be clear, it's one I hold), states with these powers (a clear conflict of interest, IMO) will continue to plunder the earth and attempt to enslave its people indefinitely, and can only be practically stopped by the economic adjustment that comes from the introduction of a hard currency (which causes the cycle of debt service to become impossibly onerous, even for an empire state).

* For a less oversimplified version, I might recommend Ron Paul's book "End the Fed", which is an introduction to the history of hard-money economics and can be read in a day or two.

* For an even less oversimplified version, you'll need to delve into the "Chicago School" and / or "Austrian School" of economics. Milton Friedman and Ludwig Von Mises are probably the best known scholars of each.
Open code or core?

OpenFaaS has been a struggle even since it was started, even with a large community and many commercial end-users, none pay for support, services or sponsor.

Most of the time saying that Open Source isn't sustainable results in some smarty dropping Elastic or some other massive VC-backed company in like GitLab. It's not helpful.
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I think the benefit is to be able configure fwd’ing rules, I believe.
I don’t understand all the drama. I remember when everyone complained that docker was too monolithic and controlled by one company. In response they spun out a spec (OCI), an implementation of that spec (runc), then their entire freaking runtime (containerd). They focused on making Docker more of a developer tool with Docker for Mac and Windows.

Kubernetes continues to use OCI, runc and containerd - so basically the parts of Docker the kubernetes community asked for.

Yet here we are commenting on their demise as a business, blaming it on their “not being nice” and “not listening to their community”. It’s bullshit. We should be discussing how the longstanding tension over the role of Docker in the Kubernetes was finally resolved, in large parts through the successful efforts of the oci, runc and containerd projects which Docker started and shepherded to mass adoption.

Let’s take a step back and look at who is pushing this narrative about Docker, and how they benefit. I can’t help but notice whenever this drama pops up, a Red Hat employee is involved. Maybe it’s time for Red Hat to give up on old grudges and give credit where credit is due? Just a thought.

Docker may have failed as a business but it’s ridiculous to blame it on their lack of openness when their number one problem was being too open and trying too hard to get everyone to love them. Basically the opposite of what this blog post claims.
This completely ignores the economics of commodity pricing. Oil is the ultimate commodity so the price of a barrel of a particular grade of crude is essentially the same around the globe. Thus if demand outside the US drives prices up, US suppliers will export instead of selling domestically until prices equilabrate. Thus the US protects oil shipping from Saudi to China in order to improve the stability of US prices (and to reduce the incentive for China to expand its military reserve in the Gulf — which has expanded over the last 2-3 years as the us has signaled its intent to pull back.

In fact the US is “net” self sufficient: the same issues (plus differing grades and the geography of shipping) cause the US to simultaneously import and export. Driving actual imports to zero would be more expensive.

Finally, fracking appears to “spoil” the wells: cheaper and faster but in the end you get less of the reserve than you could more conventionally. I say “appears” as this analysis has only surfaced recently (though I believe the big frackers knew this already)
Faroe Islands: Inside the under-sea tunnel network
Remember Pentium’s division bug (on mobile so cannot cooy-paste). We need some king of certificate of proof, not just some black-box which answers “OK”, “NOT-OK”.
It might be that we need those machines for some practical purpose.
Knowledge Representation in Sanskrit and Artificial Intelligence (1985)
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Taxation to pay 1. “your fair share of the public commons”, which all big businesses benefit from, is very different from 2. taxation to reduce poverty, which is also different from 3. taxation to eliminate rich people.

Am I wrong in sensing that you believe in a bit of #3?
It’s a real shame “Yolo” and “shut down everything” are the only options!
I think the classic "the network treats censorship as damage and routes around it" applies here.

Designing a device to connect to something over the internet even if the network it's connected to behaves strangely isn't random or stupid; it's just in conflict with your goals. Incidentally, last time I ran into a network with legally mandated filtering, I checked whether a google image search for "tits" worked. It did.
After seeing the extremes to which you're trying to spin what happened

"Musk antics delayed reopening"

What a hoot.

I have a feeling that you might actually have an extreme ideological bent youre not even aware of.
Phew, thanks for that. That article got me all agitated, thinking a core piece of tech I use is on its death bed with no alternatives.
Thanks for the suggestions! It definitively helps!
Wow, Al Sievers at the physics department at Cornell was looking for evidence of two level systems in the 1990s. It seemed obvious that they should exist but proved elusive until now.
Every time there’s drama about Docker being mean, it’s almost always a Red Hat employee behind it... Like this article, and the OP blog post. Maybe just a coincidence.
Last I checked most places were still arguing over who'd pay for it. Here's a story from Oct 2020 showing London largest housing association haven't started yet:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-51851900

I'd be happy to be corrected. What percentage has been fixed?
Yes. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25164540
Thanks for the links.
Eye opening for me is that hosting costs around 2.4 million and 55.6 million is for salaries and wages.
That seems a bit out of proportion "just" for Wikipedia. You can easily employ 500 people for that(depending on the country up to 1000). I am really happy for them, in the end they create so much more value than what people choose to give back, but my next donation goes to an organisation with tougher financials.
Organizationally they were part of the Emerging Technologies Group, not the Firefox Group.

And contrary to popular belief, there were no plans to replace Gecko with Servo wholesale, so I don’t really think it is accurate to think of it as “core” to Firefox.
Yeah Hilbert’s Program wasn't actually set back by the incompleteness theorems in the first place, it was all FUD.
Why is the Porsche referred to as a turbo if it is electric?
Nice idea, and nicely done.

This is where an endless list does NOT work. I want to know the total # results for my search, so I can better decide judge if I should add more words to the search query.

My workflow would be to compare a bunch of saved choices, would be nice to make it easy to add bunch to a cart/list of some sort then
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To me this article conflates the removal of a piece of legacy hard-coding (dockershim) with the overall death of Docker.

That removal doesn't mean that Docker won't be used as part of Kubernetes clusters any more, Docker/Mirantis have committed to creating a CRI plugin for Docker.

But realistically Docker the product is primarily a developer tool and I don't see that going away. Docker for Windows/Mac is the easiest way to use containers, without having (mostly) to worry about low-level implementation details.

Whether that can be translated to a successful business model, is another question :)
Found this press release on that thread:

https://twitter.com/robbhurstCPA/status/1335599094371241989/...

Why not discuss it instead of dismissing it out of hand?
I agree that it should not act like a game launcher and make you login. But IMO Ansel and shadow play make it worth while.
@StavrosK the code still very much WIP, but you can take a look at the links I posted on this issue:
https://github.com/skorokithakis/shortuuid/issues/50

I'm making some choices very specific to my use case (truncated to length 7, and use of a prefix), so not directly PR-able, but can followup in January if you find this useful.

(Going to have to figure out how to test with all Djangos and DB backends to be sure it works)
Ad-tech as a bubble overdue for a bursting
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It is possible using a "Certification Authority Authorization" (CAA) DNS record to specify which CA is allowed to sign certs for your domain and using DNSSEC you get a separate channel of trust.
However CAA (and DNSSEC) is rarely used, so most likely the MITM-part will just block lookups.
The regex is perhaps still clearer (and in general more powerful), but that Excel method is a catastrophe, not the way it has to be done.

=MID(B1, FIND("-",B1)+1, 2)
Their collaboration work on integration with WSL 1 and 2 has been fantastic.