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> build their kernels configured for 64K page sizes [...] Presumably they do this for performance on large systems, at the cost of less efficient memory usage.

My guess is that they do that to enable a larger amount of memory (very relevant on servers, which are RedHat's main target market). AFAIK, both the LPA (large physical address) and LVA (large virtual address) extensions, which allow using 52 bits instead of 48 bits for the memory address, require using the 64K page size.
Yes and no. At a smaller company? Probably. But after a certain point many companies realize their interview process is a mess or sloppy and bring someone in to standardize it/spend time standardizing it.

Will the DevOps team that interviews for 1 role a year working on a very specific platform still have a wonky interview process that might but something the manager put together or just feels like asking? Sure but on average the company will have their shit together.

If they haven't done this then it is reflective of the culture. Why didnt they do this? Do they not really care about recruiting? The experience potential new hires have during the interview process? Do they just not think its important? Those are all things that are reflective of the culture.
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> Also none of your kid's friends will know or want to play it

Kids I know have enjoyed it.

> the game looks and feels like something from Aliexpress

https://media1.tenor.com/images/883860f55cb3da5a24413c972dfc...

I personally disagree about the (subjective) looks at least with texture packs (https://content.minetest.net/packages/?type=txp&sort=score&o...), but I’d say the feel was part of the charm when I played Roblox as a kid. There were and now probably are more of polished games like Phantom Forces, but my favorites always included unpolished ones like the old disaster survival games with shops of dozens if not hundreds of copypasta items from little half-broken handheld video game players and RC toys to the essential [anti-]gravity coil to hot sauce that made you run faster to freeze guns that let you entrap innocent bystanders in blocks of ice. And every few waves of disaster some slightly retextured blocky noob character would be spawned in the sky and fall down only for rapid unscheduled disassembly because its physics engine joints were broken, and if you were unlucky its spherical head would fly into and one-hit kill you on contact. The games felt like something a kid could make, and I tried to, but I couldn’t see the source for any I enjoyed and I never learned nearly as much as I did when given root on an (airgapped) old spare computer revived with Puppy Linux and loaded with Pygame, including example games which I learned to code by modifying. Later my favorite Roblox games became Armored Patrol and Urban Patrol, which had no micro transactions and used the physics engines to great effect — as long as you learned to enjoy being flung into the sky far enough to see the world unload, or finding the similarities between its mapgen and modern art. As I did:

https://ibb.co/dKFght1
https://ibb.co/CtxZ6wF
https://ibb.co/2YqJWdL
https://ibb.co/nP0m8kd
They give plenty of info for free..type in phone number and get their full name, age, current and previous addresses, people they associate with. Everything except criminal record which once you have a name in most US stated you can then go to the local court website and get that info. Why pay anything?
The management works like this:

Every open3ABox has an open websocket connection to my server. I do the monitoring over this connection and for updates and support I tell the box over the websocket connection to forward a port via ssh to my server. The port will be automatically closed by the open3ABox after three hours.

This means no constantly open port and an encrypted connection where only my server is allowed to do a remote function execution (get monitoring values, open port, etc.) on the box.
> Where would you find sufficient investable assets?

The land itself, all of the resources in and on it, the industries that operate within the borders, etc.

We don't necessarily need to set aside 200k per capita, but it would be wise to not be at -70k per capita and growing fast, in my opinion.

> A sovereign wealth fund similar to Norway in the US would contain a large fraction of all wealth globally.

If the rest of the world operated on similar principles we would inevitably reach a balance. Regardless, the US would have to clear an enormous sum of debt before we could realistically start filling up the piggy bank.
Of course you should write simply. But of course, the context matters. For example, when writing mathematical texts, somehow being able to convey pure ideas is the ideal. Poetry is not needed in that context, it is confusing, as the beauty is in the ideas conveyed, not in the words used to convey it. In such a context, for example using the expression "vector space" counts as writing simply, while in a general context it does not.
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Because you’re talking about rare edge cases to getting rich.

If you think you can just invest or sell some NFT for millions, do it. Why wouldn’t you?

Search for these niches and loopholes that “rain money” and in the mean time, keep a job around.
What happens when every plausible idea is an inference away?
same, I stopped doing whiteboarding. I have people solve some domain knowledge exercise (like their specific platform or IDE or package manager, stuff that would actually spend the company time on a day to day basis). Most companies could get away with that, even "big tech" can because their employees leave after 2 years too, before they are even eligible to join some other teams at some companies.
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Why? Different people have different risk aversions.

Gambling with stonks and crypto is for those of us with low risk aversion and plenty to risk.
Yes, the extensions are AGPL also.
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Yep, complaining about Duolingo suggests to me that someone thinks any single resource is going to be a silver bullet. Otherwise it’s meaningless to complain that a single resource isn’t a silver bullet.

I used Duolingo to reach a place where I could read books in Spanish, and then I switched to books. It can’t be that bad.

The best tools are the ones you use. If Duolingo is the tool that compels you to advance your practice, then it’s de facto better than the ones that don’t compel you that you never use.
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Or instead of
>It follows that any struggle against the abuse of language is a sentimental archaism

You could say

Struggling against the abuse of language is like being emotionally trapped in the past.

There is no reason to use two rarely used words (sentimental, archaism) in that sentence.
A whole datacenter on fire, come on, what are the odds?

Oh, wait! Nevermind...
Uff, φ is all sold out :smh:
U.S. had its coldest February in more than 30 years
What a fun bit of history.

Incidentally, I was looking into the possibility of hosting my own MUD a while back and it seemed rather complicated for someone without web deployment experience. I do wish there was a simpler way to do it and customize your own world for a few friends to play around in. I guess we could just invade a less-active MUD but it seems more up our alley to roll our own so we can make a few extra areas ourselves and so on.
Of course. But you can't just say you can't afford it. Fire doesn't care that you couldn't afford a smoke detector.

If you can't afford a recovery plan then what you can't actually afford is the service that needs the recovery plan that you can't afford to develop and test.

All costs, including of switching away if it fails, have to be considered as the sticker price.
Sometimes it's the lesser of two evils. I'm working on ClickHouse SQLAlchemy driver support to enable better integration with Superset. Superset talks to a bunch of backends and chose SQLAlchemy as the API. It has many of the problems you mention, though since it's read-only there are perhaps fewer of them. Superset does workarounds on top, but they don't have to worry about basic stuff like listing table metadata, distinguishing between tables and views, etc.

Using an ORM seems like a reasonable choice for multi-platform use cases or at least some of them. The alternative would be to implement something more or less from scratch.
This is entirely correct. Even phones are these days too thin to fit good cameras, thus the bump.
It's not going to pass SafetyNet without workarounds using Magisk Hide.
You will laugh, but a year ago I made same service in open source:
https://github.com/leits/MeetingBar/
Can somebody add [video] to the title?
When not given a file, cat will just read from stdin, so you can use "cat > file.c", write some text, and send EOF with ^D when you're done.

Obviously, there's no way to go back and edit anything mid-stream, you have to write the whole thing out in one shot.
Sometimes a client sends me some code to put in my version for future updates. But other than that, I don't work with contributions.

It's more the feeling for me, yes :)
An anti-competitive company doesn't make contributions to open source projects that are only tangentially related to their own product, nor does it let you integrate arbitrary software with their product.

Epic, on the other hand, doesn't allow any form of reviews on their store and routinely forces developers into a one-year exclusivity period before they're allowed to sell anywhere else. Tim Sweeney himself even said he doesn't think Epic is capable of offering anything new and can only compete through exclusivity deals [0]. If that's not a damning review of the company's competitive practices, I don't know what is.

[0] https://twitter.com/TimSweeneyEpic/status/114368034400623411...
How do you probe for these skills? Are there any questions that help you to identify them?
[video - poor audio] maybe

edit: That comment was snide, my heart goes out to the OVH team, the message within the video was good, forthright & honest. I hope it will be well received by their customers - just a shame it's a bit difficult to listen to!
Depends on the schema changes. If you (1) change/remove existing keys from existing types, you need as well a migration which runs before the app starts. If you (2) add new keys to existing types or add new types you don't need migrations. That's the beauty of NoSql or in particular Mongo which most forget, you just write to the db and Mongo creates key, collections and dbs on the fly if not there yet. But again, only do this if you have validations before in place. Otherwise you end up will all these people complaining without having a full understanding of type safety and where to deal with it.

Case 1 should be always prepared well or better avoided if possible. It doesn't matter if you have sql or nosql, they're just more complex and with a big production database some longer downtime is to be expected if the changes/migrations affect large parts.
You can read more about it here: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/2765
I couldn't help but read this as 'AltaVista.com'. Might be intentional, but I love it either way. :)
Or you could switch to renting a seedbox and using plex/jellyfin
At the risk of being censured for a "shallow dismissal", I read here a very long-winded and partial call to prioritise within a technical field the suggestions of graduates of "the university of life" over those with technical expertise ("book learning").

What it implies - as these things often do - is that those with a rationalist approach leapt somehow fully-formed into adult life without experiencing anything negative that might have helped build character and "wisdom".

Ironically, the studies it draws on that reveal bias are not "afro-feminist" folk-wisdom but people doing actual academic research.

That work in some cases may well be motivated by the researchers being from particular backgrounds - e.g. marginalised communities - and will clearly be informed by the lived experience of people from diverse backgrounds, but surely in a respectable field its worth will always be measured in what it brings to the discussion that is actually new and verifiable, not what moral-authority-by-demographic-disadvantage the researcher claims?
The issue really is wages have been flat for nearly 50 years.

https://www.epi.org/publication/charting-wage-stagnation/

We need to fix wages, not provide handouts. I'm for helping people that need but UBI isn't the way to do that.
I use bsdtar for a similar purpose. It’s part of the fantastic libarchive[1] project and supports every format I’ve thrown at it so far.

[1] https://www.libarchive.org/
This is just a guess, but having read the FCC regs in the past, maybe it's because it's so much easier to be complaint when your link is unencrypted (and your rf standard published).
Is it true that OVH has literally all data in that single datacenter?
> As for running your own servers, that too can fail meaning you still need a migration strategy (even just to new hardware) and you need to be testing it constantly.

That's what DR is for. We have a main bare metal site and a secondary site. Throw a couple of spare servers / switches / PDUs / Hard Drives / whatever in that space too.

Cloud options need to be better and more effective than that.

> And no, the benefit of a cloud provider isn't that normal stuff is easy or cheap but that otherwise impossible stuff can be attempted.

A virtual server is a virtual server. A container is a container. The only thing the cloud offers me is the ability to change my CapEx spends into OpEx spends. Otherwise I have to hope that the vendor won't do me dirty, and will leave me in a stable, workable place 3+ years from now.

The bare metal colo operations will. Long track record of stability at everywhere I've been. Barring act of god or otherwise unusual circumstances I know my tier 4 colo will be there next year, and the year after. Will GCP be around?
Netflix limits the number of streamers on an account. That should allow for account sharing.
PG is complaining about most complicated writing, which is not beautiful. It uses too many words and the wrong words, like "purchase" instead of "buy" and "utilize" instead of "use". It has complex phrases that add nothing. Github's blog post about fixing a security weakness [0] is a recent example:

"On the evening of March 8, we invalidated all authenticated sessions on GitHub.com created prior to 12:03 UTC on March 8 out of an abundance of caution to protect users from an extremely rare, but potentially serious, security vulnerability affecting a very small number of GitHub.com sessions."

"Out of an abundance of caution" adds only the smell of a desperate attempt to reassure the reader. The sentence would be much better without it.

I like rich language where it is useful or fitting but, usually, I only want to know what the writer is communicating.

Hmm. You may be right.
No. OVH has 27(-1) datacenters.
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They had a fire.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26407323
AFAIK there're opensource decompressors for rar files. Except for RAR6 which are definitely not very common.
Just imagine if cloud provider gave you same problems, and moving from GCP to AWS ment 5 years and billion dollars project.
Isn't that already implied by the title?
No, they have 26 left https://www.ovh.com/world/us/about-us/datacenters.xml
The raw video link is https://www.ovh.com/fr/images/sbg/Octave-Klaba-speaking-en-v...
Hey I really like this. I have been listening to this on repeat. Thanks!!
> Modern reactor designs physically CAN'T explode.

You have a few gigawatt water heater, and an extremely large pressure vessel.

Modern reactors physically can explode, with, or without positive void reactivity coefficient.

I urge you to disable the control system on any working PWR reactor, and stand by to test your hypothesis.

Rapid power excursions with, or without coolant inside come from many phenomena, not just void reactivity coefficients.
Sure, but the higher the pressure to sign soon, the more urgent it is to hire someone. I once signed a contract where there was even a fine if I wouldn't show up on the first working day. After I started it turned out there were 10 guys before me in the last 12 months ;) Needless to say, the work culture was horrible.

> “ Not enough clarity about your role” - normal for growing startups.

Everybody claims this, even Bigcorp. I think it's an okay point but the more unclear, the more likely it is that there is a constant pressure about the role.
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It's always frustrating whenever a game sells so-called "convenience" items. It always tells me the game devs are basically saying "Yeah, we purposed made the user experience bad so that people would pay to make it better"

Things like "free" MMORPG's that have miniscule inventory space, but then charge something like $10 for expanded storage.

I'd much rather see an extended free trial, like 60 days or something, and then ask players to pay $10 to keep playing with reasonable "convenience" built-in. Then just charge for expanded content on top of the base game. Elder Scrolls Online isn't a bad example (though also not great) where things like storage aren't completely unreasonable for free players, and they charge for expansions, and those who commit to a monthly fee get some in-game currency to buy those expansion without spending more money.
I think it's pretty common that when people get married it becomes our money instead of my and your money.
I don't see that happening. They would have to offer support for the new product and most of my marketing is word of mouth nowadays. Should work out just fine ;)
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Volunteers do free work to make all of the language content so it shouldn't be.
> many hosts have a preconfigured ready-to-rock Wordpress image for less technical users.

I used one, and it was kept up to date by the hosting provider, and everything was great until it got hacked. And then the hosting company suspended my account, unless I bought some expensive security solution or fixed my site myself and proved it was safe. I ended up rebuilding the site as a static site and changing hosts. Anecdotal, but I won't bother with a self-hosted Wordpress again. It wasn't a noname hosting provider, either.
That release is quite outdated. They added a lot of stuff to filter spam, voting ring detectors, and other moderation stuff. Anyway, as far as I know, everything is still saved to the file system.
I completely agree with you.. Your point in the other thread about the compound benefits of giving now articulated much better what I was also trying to say :-)
GP comment was a particular accusation of collusion with the government versus check on the government. I’d been responding more narrowly to that, rather than the “is the press net harmful” question you’re posing.

Having studied and earned money from journalism, giving me familiarity with the education and the professional newsroom, I’m skeptical of journalism skeptics.

The existence of big journalism (particularly getting paid to investigate and shine a light) seems to bring an important check-and-balance on big religion, big enterprise, and big government it’s unclear how else to systematically achieve.

Zuckerberg’s boosterism aside, it seems The Fifth Estate has not yet shown itself able to achieve the same scope, depth, and truth ratio, of coverage as a well-funded newsroom.
Thanks for the feedback. It definitely isn't for everyone. As mentioned in the note, we priced it a bit higher to validate that we were delivering enough value to our users. So far, we have users who get enough value out of it to pay for it.

We also have a much larger vision for this product, but we need to start somewhere. Bringing Google Calendar into the menu bar is the first step in bringing all the platforms we use for work together.
if he was personally trying to guarantee quick response times to customers, then that sounds like his priorities are right.

Especially at a "small startup", this is a good sign. Makes me think there was more work than employees which is why the CEO was interviewing and doing customer support.
tl;dr UPS maintenance was performed by a vendor the day before the fire. Fire department used a thermal camera to isolate source of fire, it seemed to originate with 2 UPSes, one of which was the recently maintained UPS
> Consistent lack of interest or low morale from interviewers

This one in particular pisses me off, especially if it’s late in the interviewing cycle. I interviewed with a certain YC startup recently and it was a long form programming exercise with two observers watching me work without really interacting much, where one of them was not even paying attention at all for their time (I know because they told me they were “rushing to get code out right now haha”). Come on, seriously? They rejected me because I didn’t do a good enough job I guess, or was deemed a poor culture fit idk, hope they found the “rockstar” they were after!
Nope. 27 in the world, 10 in France, 1 caught fire, 2 others are stopped for inspection.

https://www.ovh.com/world/us/about-us/datacenters.xml
Even the study's critics, though, agree that topsoil is endangered. "To me, it's not important whether it's exactly a third," says Anna Cates, Minnesota's state soil health specialist. "Maybe it's twenty percent, maybe it's forty percent. There's a lot of topsoil gone from the hills."

I think this the most important piece from the article. Most are in agreement that topsoil is disappearing. I've heard claims from farmer Joel Salatin that if we continue our current farming practices we have only about 50 harvests until the soil turns to unfertile mud. If you are interested in topsoil production/restoration, his farm, Polyface farms, seems to have a good strategy for continuous fertilization of soil.

http://www.polyfacefarms.com/
What a stupid rumor thanks for clarifying
I personally value opinion very little. For me, the quality of a news source is my primary concern, both in factual correctness and minimizing bias. With a collective such as traditional news organizations, at least historically they lived and died by their reputation for quality. Fact checkers finding a single poor article affected the reputation of everyone writing within that organization. This makes it much easier for consumers to figure out which institution to trust.

Now with the internet, anyone can publish. Unfortunately it has become infeasible to fact check every single person. Even fact checking one individual often doesn't pay off, you spend a ton of time checking them, only to get a very small stream of information.

This is the primary problem with self-publishing. Because of this I've pretty much given up on reading most self-published material. Unless the author comes from a well regarded institution or otherwise there is an easier way for me to judge accuracy I'm just not interested.

No doubt this viewpoint will offend most people here, but to me this is the biggest problem society now faces. Probably even more dangerous than pure opinion, is content that is mostly factually correct, but contains a small lie. This sort of biased content or intentional misinformation is both very hard to identify, and the very effective at propagating lies.

These days I mostly use academic journals, as peer review is at least some form of quality checking. I do also use a few select large news sources, though with less trust. I've given up on medium articles and similar.
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