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I am confused about this comment. The parent comment gave clear call stack that pointing to the problem where the glibc's sscanf implementation would strlen the input string no matter what format string you use (because it need to masquerade as a file and that requires strlen the whole input: https://github.com/bminor/glibc/blob/21c3f4b5368686ade28d90d...)

All your magic on format string doesn't change that poor behavior unless you manually add '\0' somewhere to null-terminate the input string early.

If you parse the year-month-day in 100 places of that input string, it will strlen 100 times. And now replace the "100 places" to a linear function of the input string length (strlen(input) / 11?), that is quadratic.
I think the biggest threat to poor people, would be the ridiculous housing market. It's not just in big expensive cities, it's pretty much everywhere. Only places that are being spared, are those in destitute areas with some serious emigration problems - but those things happen for a reason (no work).

In my country (Norway), the housing market has appreciated around 5.5% ANNUALLY, compared to annual wage increase of some 2.5%. In some cities, that growth is much higher - almost 8%

We have a very decent welfare system, but a spread like that will surely create a hard class-divide between owners and renters. Renters will be forced further away from the cities, having to rely on longer commutes.

Some places it's already that bad. Certain normal salaried professions can not, and will probably never, be able to own even "starter" homes (as in small apartments), because they need to spend more and more time on saving for the down-payment (15% here) - and once they've reached their original goal, the goalpost have been moved. I'm talking about professions like teachers, nurses, etc. Not even legit poor people!

Having been raised by a poor-ish single mother, I can remember that at least in the 80s/90s, there was a lot less debt around. At least here, credit cards and consumer debt wasn't being handed out like free candy, back then. You had to rely on your salary, and then either get help from family/friends, or the welfare office. My mother had too much pride for that, even though my dads side were loaded.

These days, it seems like poor people are also getting trapped in debt. Everything is driven by debt, and every bill you fall behind on, is compounded by some fee, which is applied the second you're overdue.

I can absolutely understand why many poor people feel complete helplessness and apathy.
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I get what you are saying, but you are the one that chooses which index fund to use.

Sure, one could limit this to voting rights, but most big Index funds have voting right on many companies because they own collectively many shares.

One could also limit this to "outside 401k / pension programs", etc.

But if you have a say in what a company does (or can sue them for damages as an investor), you also have a responsibility for what that company is doing.

I don't know what the right solution to this problem is, but in many companies, the shareholders tell the CEO what to do and have no liability. This encourages them to optimize for maximum profits, making smaller "Company sized" damages part of the operating expenses, but without regard for huge damages like in this case.

Which isn't fair either, since it means the damages to these people won't be payed by those who profited from them.
The Raging Evolutionary War Between Humans and Covid-19
I've always been a big fan of rocket lab (Carbon Fiber layup + Metal 3D printing + electric rocket turbo sound amazing). But this announcement seems to coincide to their SPAC merger announcement so not sure what to think of it.
One of the things I know poverty did was make me hesitate to take on a mortgage. It was such a burden to think at any moment I might not have a job and then lose everything.

I also remember being the kid who didn’t buy Nikes or the natural rubber soles to play sports on parquet, so had to do with other sports that didn’t have that requirement.

I also remember the PE teacher telling me I could not just wear short pants, I needed to get sports shorts...
I've had no problems with PlantUML's compilation time. How large are these documents?
I don't know what costs so much. But I know gathering documentation from multiple small vendors across the world, additional taxes can be more expensive than $500
As someone who came from a fairly poor background (not half as as bad as the OP to be fair) and who has managed to "break out" I can say for sure that looking back I had a ton of lucky breaks - but, and this to me is crucial, only after I stopped worrying about what might go wrong and focus on what I could do right. If I had predicated my success on somehow getting lucky I don't think I would have made it.

So to me - and not wanting to speak for the OP of course - but the way I look at this is that the simple encouragement of "I made it and you can too" is more motivating than "I made it but then again looking back I had a ton of lucky coincidences that you probably won't have so, sure, try it, but don't expect success" :)
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Streams should be used for that.. streams.

Structures should be used for structured data.
It's not worth it on older CPUs. I turned them off.

I understand browsers already have some protection against them now. I don't see the point in slowing down the entire system, either I trust the apps I have or I don't.

I don't believe a magic packet containing a melted down spectre is going to smash through my router and everything else and turn into skynet on my humble PC.
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Not everything NFT related is speculative. Use cases include things like gaming as well. Also, the majority of NFT sales are not these insane sums. A lot are happening in the $10-$200 range and it's a way for people with money to spend to support artists they like, akin to Patreon.
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> If you’re reading this, I’m pretty sure you’ve seen the following pattern over and over again

I don't think I've ever seen the pattern described there, so I guess I'm completely out of the loop here? Is that a common pattern others here see too?
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Their very public use of New Zealand launch site led me to incorrect assumption they were less married to USA.

And yes, ITAR-Free is becoming a bigger and bigger selling point both in military and space industries (also, besides ITAR, such high-profile contracts with USA entities are generally bad for you...)
Very nicely done. I'll be using this a lot!
Covid: 'People are tired of working from home'
It's also worth noting that the share of energy generated by fossil fuels can continue growing without their respective share of capacity growing, because as power demand grows we don't just build new plants for every additional watt. Instead, the ones that already exist increase their output. So though most of the new capacity is renewable, even for a bit into the future the absolute amount of power generated by fossil fuels will likely increase.
I don't really like Pocket but this is great. No more pinned tabs with stuff I want to read later.
bravo! i'll take the downvotes that this content-free comment will garner, but you just made my morning.
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otoh Intel has over the years developed a few parallel libraries / extensions that have then been deprecated, for instance Cilk Plus...
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I guess the real question is will the rise of war machines reduce or increase the likelihood of Nations going to war?
In both, the aloneness of "him" is the focus. In the first, his companions are the subject of both sentences. In the second, The fog and "he" are the focus, with his companions only mentioned as an afterthought.
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> I made it and you can too. Poverty has no color. It impacts everyone. You can't tell just by looking at someone.

I love your story. There's also a ton of people who will delight in cherry-picking your story, as justification for not expanding the social safety net. "throwaway-0987 did it, and you can too! You just need to stop being so lazy"

A few factors to consider:

- You had an aunt you could live with

- As a youth, you were wise enough to go to trade school and college

- As a youth, you were wise/careful enough to not have babies. Furthering your education would be far tougher when you have kids to take care of

- You had access to government programs such as Pell Grants, which many people would deride as being "government handouts"

- As a youth, you were wise enough to avoid crimes that would disqualify you from educational/employment opportunities in your adult life

Stories like yours are wonderful in inspiring people to make something of themselves. But it doesn't change the fact that we as a society should do more to help people who are caught in a poverty trap, especially because of poor decisions made when they were teenagers. Just because someone ran a 4-minute-mile doesn't mean it's reasonable to expect everyone to do so.

> Anyway, people think I'm 'privileged' now because I earn a lot of money, but they have no idea that I used to sleep on the floor and eat in soup lines.

As always in such discussions, privilege is on a spectrum and has many dimensions. To give an obvious example, even as a youth, you were privileged to be an American citizen, with all the rights, assistance and opportunities it entails. If you were born in the same circumstances in Mexico or Congo, you would find yourself facing a far different outcome.
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Critical security vulnerability in Snow agent. Millions of computers at risk
Snow has over 4000 enterprise customers, and their inventory agent is installed throughout their full infrastructure. The vulnerability scored 9.8 out of 10: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-27579
Making it a very critical issue that needs to be handled asap.

This issue has been there since 2012. In 2018, Snow said they patch the issue, but actually didn’t fix it at all. In 2019 antivirus engines started to flag it as malware. However, it is not until now they have confirmed the security vulnerability and they sent it out as 8.3 score instead of the actual 9.8 trying to lower the actual severity of it. They will release a new agent three weeks after initial confirmation, which is scheduled for the 17th of March (6.7.1). This is just a gigantic mess and the handling of this from Snows side is a disaster. They notified resellers and partners about this, but not the customers. We found out through the news about this issue, so I want to share it here for any other people who have not gotten any information. I have talked to people with good insight into their product teams that say this is just the tip of the iceberg and that more issues will most likely come out soon. There seems to be a workaround to disable the affected module, but my company just removed all our agents and are finally throwing them out now after many years of constant issues, useless support and buggy solution.

Any more people here affected by this, and how are you handling it?
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Also look at their node database:

http://mim.update.uu.se/nodedb

Just the sheer number of both real and emulated machines operating over the modern internet is itself worth a look.
In addition, Ford added a whole electric generator solution https://www.roadandtrack.com/new-cars/car-technology/a329701...
Dude weed lmao
Skype for Business / Lync was originally called Office Communicator and has always used SIP for client/server communications.
I do think many challenges are painted in worst possible case terms -- like Hollywood blockbusters where the stakes are always the world, of even the galaxy or the entire universe -- but by fixating on how that particular exaggeration is nearly always invariably wrong we miss the fact that, even at lower stakes, predicted catastrophes are often still plenty catastrophic. To give a quick, immediate example, though I'm currently writing from a internet connected, well heated house rather than from a scene from The Stand, 500,000+ and counting deaths in my country and many more worldwide isn't exactly something to shrug at...

I wish our collective psychology was able to accept crises as serious without resorting to raising the stakes to cosmic levels or dismissing it as not a real problem if you, personally, come out mainly ok.
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How many people will notice that there is important info hiding under replies? Twitter's UI excels at hiding that information, and at presenting it in a weird order.
Whenever floating-point numbers converted to text are not intended to be used by a human, converting the numbers to decimal is a great mistake in my opinion.

The floating-point numbers should be converted to text as hexadecimal, e.g., in C99 and later, using printf with the %a or %A conversion specifiers.

Even when a human uses the textual floating-point numbers, if they are used only for making copies or comparisons, the hexadecimal numbers are more convenient and they are free of conversion errors.
Energy consumption as it relates to the generation of latent heat at the planet surface is not a red herring though.
Deere in the Headlights as 21 states consider Right to Repair
As School Closures Near First Anniversary, a Diverse Parent Movement Demands Act