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Rust (the video game) lost all EU server data w/o restore https://twitter.com/playrust/status/1369611688539009025
That's a fair assessment! We are indeed a startup, and definitely have limited resources. What I meant is that this is one of our top concerns that we constantly think about and deploy (our limited) resources on! We are definitely not where we want to be just yet!
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Yes. One danger of infrequently-invalidated or never-invalidated data is that it can turn into a ticking time bomb.

For example you may introduce a bug in the code path for calculating the fresh value that causes an error.

That code may not execute for months and months since the cache is warm and up and running. Until one day it is restarted and you find out the problems it was masking.

Pro tip: don't get greedy with cache TTL, define and enforce a low value that you can tolerate. In many use cases you can easily afford to re-compute once per 5 or 10 or 30 minutes.
Absolutely none of this changes the undeniable fact that "storage" is incapable of meeting the demands of baseload power generation currently provided by Nuclear and fossil fuels.

We aren't anywhere close and won't be for many years which is why it's so absolutely ridiculous how green activists implicitly endorse using coal, natural gas and other fossil fuels which kill tens of thousands of people every year and are cooking the planet, when we have nuclear, which kills no one, and does not contribute substantively to climate change.

It's almost like the activists care more about posturing and magical thinking than they do "saving the planet"...
Backups are a reliability tool, yes.

A backup on its own is of little worth if unused.

When a backup is used to re-enable something, then the amount of time disabled may be decreased. When it is, this is reliability- we keep things usable and in function, more than not.
I like orgmode and emacs and wish to convert more activities into orgmode.

One thing I found tricky was switching computers or getting a new computer can be very disruptive to the emacs/orgmode workflow because of the amount of customizations that build over years of using a specific orgmode workflow. Apps, on the other hand, are very portable between devices (phone, table, laptop).

Are there easy solutions to make emacs and orgmode set ups more portable between machines?
dito. Our other account only needed one text message, for mine it took 3 ...and the opt-out did not work until I reloaded the page. Worked fine for the first acc though.
> That never worked with tape.

80’s thrash metal and tapes go together really well. The cutting, trebly sound of tapes really works with the staccato, percussive sounds of bands like Slayer, Megadeth, Metallica, etc.

There’s been a resurgence of bands putting out limited runs on cassette. I think a lot of this is nostalgia (often from people too young for much exposure to tape). Cassette sound quality is definitely inferior, but that can be adopted as part of the overall sound.
Rust (the video game) lost all EU server data with without restore
> Restores are tested quarterly.

Probably this is the most important part of your plan. It's not the backup that matters; it's the restore. And if you don't practice it from time to time, it's probably not going to work when you need it.
git init && git commit --allow-empty -m "Hello World" && git log --pretty=format:%s -n 1

I need more interesting hobbies (than doing a lot of random git man page reading for various reasons).
ok, most 'sending a resume' involves going through a job portal of some sort, doing some work to fill out some stuff, uploading your resume, making a cover letter etc.

If they give me interviews for the 3 that I perfectly match, which most companies do for me, and take home assignments which often happen, I might have basically a full week of stuff to do. At that point I don't want to put out the effort to to go to an interview for a job that on the face of it looks less likely to hire me than one of the other three.

If I see no jobs that perfectly match me then I drop to the close match jobs, but if I see jobs that perfectly match me I don't do the work for the close match jobs.

on edit: and of course what if the company is already only a close match, there is one technology I don't match for the actual job, but then you add a fake tech on top, suddenly I don't match two things.

basically this idea means that you help sort out some of the honest qualified people for your position because they will evaluate the job posting as being less relevant to them than otherwise.
I’m not sure about that. The goal is to make something. I’ve come to appreciate Joe Gebbia’s description of art school as likely superior to my STEM education.
Philips decided on it because it would make the case closer in size to cassette tapes, and they already had a factory capable of producing it. I guess 12 cm would have required more retooling, which would cost them some of their advantage over Sony.

Source: https://www.classicfm.com/discover-music/why-is-a-cd-74-minu...

"Philips engineer Kees A. Schouhamer Immink writes that Philips were pushing for the CD to be close in size to the cassette tape, whereas Sony were pushing for a slightly larger 12cm disc, partially because they knew that Philips already had a factory capable of producing 11.5cm CDs and if they could decide on 12cm as the industry standard then they would erase Philips' head start in manufacturing."
> This is an almost inextricably linked effect of allowing anyone who thinks (or wishes) they have the skills to compete for a $250K/yr job.

250k+ jobs just have whiteboarding. Google, facebook, amazon ect don't have take homes.

I've seen take homes mostly from smaller shops. Netflix might be an exception in the FAANGs with take homes

> because I don’t see any workable alternatives that don’t introduce other, likely worse, forms of credential-checking.

what do you think of compensating candidates for their time?
well you wouldn't need the plastic case if you built it into the toaster, nor the battery or horn. Just the PCB. Maybe a small fan to draw air into the detector. Newer smoke detectors don't have the radioactive source — they use photodiodes now.
One common thread among Tesla owners; TM3 owner here; is that while the car will do the driving and such a good number of owners are actively looking for edge cases. Seems everyone wants to be a tester. Plus I figure the majority of Tesla owners are a bit more jaded than many expect. Many of us have had our cars for nearly three years and all we really have seen is party tricks.

In my experience the software developer in me looks at every odd action or lack thereof in the frame of, why this and not that and how do I think it should have performed.

Now there is a big claim out there we will all be able to opt into the new FSD beta and I truly want to give it a whirl.
I recorded radio shows and other stuff to hundreds of compact cassettes as a kid. Years later, my parents insisted on throwing them all away because I didn't listen to them anyway. They'd be a goldmine now. They were all chrome tapes!
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Weird. That’s definitely not okay.

Just as a counter anecdote, though, I got the email from T-Mobile explaining the change a couple weeks ago, and I was able to click a link in the email which took me straight to the opt-out page (I did have to log in), and I unchecked all the toggles. It all worked and was not difficult.

So I wonder what broke between the time I did it and the time you did. (I did it on a Mac in Safari so I’m thinking the usual “only works in Chrome” isn’t the answer)
It seems most likely that they actually aren't proficient in React, which is not really surprising to me.
IdentityServer 4 is another product of note in the .Net ecosystem.
My Dad was a consumer audio technology enthusiast at the time so we always had the latest (CD then minidisc). There was a weird doldrums period between the release of the CD and Napster (iPod even) for creating and sharing music and mixtapes. It seemed that we would be stuck in a perpetual 5-10 year new technology release cycle. Cassette tape remained the best way to share music as CD burners were not readily available and hardly anyone used minidisc.
That is one kind, yes.
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This happened to me with Hired back in ~2014. They put Ruby / Rails on my resume because I'd used Django.

I don't know how common the practice is but it's made me leery of external recruiters and placement services ever since.
That is a very meta occurrence of a flaw in C++. They could have unchecked wrapping addition or they indexed off the end of their array.
You can reach me on my username on the gnu org domain
now do a pcie reset and vfio without the bs!
Depends. checkin to a vc repo?
In which language is the C# compiler written?
They’re going to copy the text out into their own template regardless of the format and will probably insist on doc or docx.
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We switched from Keycloak-on-CentOS to Keycloak-in-Docker, and it made configuration & updating so much easier. It is no longer necessary to fight with JBoss xml config, but there are nicely defined env vars to configure exactly the things that are interesting to anyone who uses Keycloak, instead of random Java stuff.
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I'm glad you can google "energy storage" and click on one of the first links but literally none of these are currently capable of replacing baseload nuclear and fossil fuel energy generation.

You can listen to the people who work in this industry and have studied it deeply or you can keep googling furiously for webpages that support your magical thinking.
The lottery question is a lot more difficult for some than others. I've been asking it of myself my entire life and took a year off working on two separate occasions and never even got close to answering it. Traveling certainly did nothing to help answer it either.
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I'm interested in a lot of these responses because they don't reflect my experience - I wonder if that's the result of sampling bias (e.g. people with good travel experiences are drawn to this thread) or if I'm the aberration.

Granted, I didn't quit my job, but after graduate school I moved to Germany from the US and took a job consulting. For three years I lived in places like Berlin, Madrid, Split...etc for 3-9 months at a time. There were enjoyable things about it, sure, but I really underestimated how difficult it was to discard your entire social circle and start over. A few years ago I moved back to the US, in a city where a lot of my friends had moved to, and it was probably the most positive decision I've ever made in my life.

I also feel like my time abroad didn't "broaden my horizons" all that much, and I find myself skeptical about the claims that international travel makes you a better person. I think what you get out of travel is heavily based on how you decide to relate to places and people, and merely leaving your country does not guarantee this will change.
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> The point is that manufacturers must now consider this cost in their calculations, rather than pass all the consequences on to the consumer without caring.

If this was the goal, then simply taxing fossil fuels and other polluting sources would be the ideal and simple solution. How high would the taxes need to be? However high it takes to get pollution levels down to where they need to be. The actual cost of a new item would be properly reflected in the price, and therefore incentivize the purchasing of reusable and repairable items, which would incentivize manufacturers making reusable and repairable items.

Of course, that would bring the world’s economy to a half, as governments’ expectations and calculations are assumed on continuously increasing consumption.
I only had to deal with administering it once, and I didn't like the experience but also could have imagined the company picking so many things that would have been worse/more awkward to manage.

I get a little intimidated by Ory's multi-app approach to all of it (who wants to deploy & manage 4 containers/VMs versus 1 with Keycloak?), but I know I need to give it a proper chance one of these days. Hydra seems to be a very polished entrant in the space.
> Another goal I set for myself is try to economically sustain myself in the host country without relying on a pay-check from a foreign company. (this is really hard and I often fail in this)

This makes sense but how do you sustain yourself if it's hard and you often fail at it? Living extremely frugally?

I can see the excitement in this but I admit this is not for everyone.
ORMs and SQL at least have the same goal which is to join datasets and perform operations on them.

SaaS platforms build _filter languages_ that are (sometimes vaguely) inspired by SQL. I really wish there was a standard among filter languages that was optimized for interactive search. Interactive search is different from application search because in interactive search you don't know what fields there are so you are mostly counting on substring matches. But you still want to be able to include multiple substring matches (AND) and exclude things as you find them that aren't what you're looking for (AND NOT).

I think Google's search language is one of the best filter languages out there in terms of simplicity/effectiveness. Splunk's language is good as well (but maybe they're just making up for it in good typeahead support).

I'd like a standard for Google's search language with implementations for in-memory filtering in every major programming language and implementations for generating SQL from the filter for every major programming language.

Until this happens there's not really much hope for standardizing on filters across applications.
Thanks, I didn't know about this.

I've been trying in vain to find something similar for MySQL. I think Lambdas are the killer feature that's missing from databases, you'd basically be able to handle all cache-invalidation / notification systems etc easily from the database layer, it would drastically simplify large numbers of common CRUD web-app problems.
I don't think the second shoe of big fines has adequately dropped to be able to determine how much of an effect GDPR actually has.
Because they don’t want your direct contact information in there, for one thing.
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In repair shops, one used now and then to see a sign running something like

Hourly rates:

$30
$60 if you watch
$120 if you help
Living longer would help. Changing society would help more. If you can engineer society towards some obsession with expanding through the universe, we could probably travel to the stars in our lifetimes. It'll be slow, shitty, dangerous travel though.
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That's pretty neat, thank you! I'll give that a go.

I suppose radio target links function a bit like inline tags, in a way, in that wrapping a string in <<<angle brackets>>> and C-c'ing it turns every use of that string in the file into a C-o'able link to the original radio target. Definitely not as featureful as proper :tags: but also has it's uses...
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References: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhihu

https://www.caixinglobal.com/2021-03-08/qa-site-zhihu-to-tes...
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I had the same experience with the toggle on my iPhone, except that after toggling it a few times I refreshed the page and _it disappeared entirely_. No idea if I have opted out or not. Truly terrible design.
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One thing that is missing from this list is open source language specific libraries. Projects such as https://oauthlib.readthedocs.io/en/latest/oauth2/server.html and https://github.com/doorkeeper-gem/doorkeeper

Depending on your use case, for example if you only have one application, you might be better off running something embedded in your app, or independent but using the same runtime/deployment environment. Then, when you are ready to add another app or integration, you should be able to introduce a standalone auth system more easily if appropriate (because all your auth interactions should be relatively standardized). I'm a big fan of standalone auth systems as a way to simplify access control and give a single view of a user/customer, but you can also succeed using open source embedded libraries.

When the moment comes to introduce a standalone system, you should consider a few dimensions (this list pulled from a previous comment of mine: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26360048 ):

* open source or not
* standalone application or library/framework you integrate
* self hosted or SaaS
* authentication, authorization, user management or all three?
* standards coverage
* SSO support
* integrations with other auth tech (LDAP)
* which OAuth grants are supported
* cost
* operational complexity/support for your deployment environment
* specific features if needed (for example, customization of the look and feel with themes, or customization of the login flow with something like Keycloak's plugin system)
* documentation and developer experience

These dimensions all matter to varying degrees depending on your team and needs.

Disclosure: I work for https://fusionauth.io/ which has open source supporting libraries and docs, but which is itself not open source.

EDIT: added cost, operational complexity and customization to the list.
I’ve found some are very good at what they do but many more are just going for raw body count.
> fraudulent behavior needs to be punished systematically since the erosion of trust will eventually destroy a market

Can you expand on the quote from Gulliver's Travels? It's been decades since I read it and I can't think of where in the book it could have been from, I don't remember much economics being in the book...
He said he doesn't have to backup servers, not that he doesn't have backup servers.
Any credibility to the study released by this Dr. Steven Quay? He seems to have uncovered ample evidence, that in the case of COVID19, it was leaked from a lab.

"A Bayesian analysis concludes beyond a reasonable doubt that SARS-CoV-2 is not a natural zoonosis but instead is laboratory derived"

- https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/new-study-by-dr-ste...

The first 12 pages of the PDF read like a sci-fy thriller. Link to the PDF (scroll down the page a bit):

- https://zenodo.org/record/4477081
Your provider can roughly know your location. They probably know your age and sex. They know what names you request from their DNS. They can know what you request from an unencrypted website. They can know when you are most actively using their service. If you are using some streaming service they offer to their customers, they can know all about how you use it. They know your IP at any given moment.

All of this together makes for very useful data to advertisers even if they can't obviously link it to any specific viewer. They can group people together based on common characteristics (age group x in city y likes to do this at time z), which the article calls "audience categories". If paying advertisers want to know which category a visiting user likely belongs to, T-Mobile can offer them a way to request category information for a given IP at a given time.
This article doesn't seem to state what it is about bats that leads them to be "disease reservoirs".

EDIT: Removed speculation
Tapes were fun. I grew up playing in bands. Demos were all recorded to cassette and shared among band members for reference or maybe passed on to clubs. I was right at the tail end of this, when CD burners became cheap and then we were expected to deliver demos as a cd.
When I was fresh out of college, a recruiter altered my university grades. I literally asked to see the paper they were holding and told them it wasn’t right.

They offered me the job.
Now days recruiters are lazy, they just put the word "DevOps" in and call it the day.
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> They are probably used to closed-minded arrogant Westeners whining aloud about not getting their cornflakes. Unfortunately.

Others have pointed out that lots of cultures have this problem: I read a Chinese newspaper article a few years ago about mainland Chinese bring suitcases full of instant noodles to eat when traveling abroad.

But while there are certainly Westerners like that, I don't think they were the cause of my problem. First of all, lunch and dinner on these tours was typically "Chinese" food, but something which was clearly targeted at a Western palate (which was perhaps even more frustrating). I think ironically, it was probably people who did want to try "authentic" cuisine -- or thought they did -- who were causing some of my problems. My guess is that they had people say they wanted "authentic cuisine", but when given actually authentic cuisine, didn't like it -- it didn't taste like the "authentic" cuisine in the Chinese restaurants at home.

Secondly, it probably does help people to deal with the new thing if they have something familiar. If you want to try something new but have never been outside the US, "three genuine Chinese meals a day for two weeks" is really throwing you in in the deep end. "Western breakfast and pseudo-Chinese lunch and dinner" probably is a much better way for those kinds of people to experience something new.
Timmer, the Philips CEO at the time, is on record [0] saying it had to do with the max recording length.

He claims Sony's CEO liked one particular recording of Beethoven's 9th so much, he insisted it had to fit on a CD. And this particular recording was 74mins, 33 seconds.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kytmE4mrXWM, Dutch

edit: It was not Timmer, but Kees Immink and Hans Mons @ 8:25
In that light, a cache is a form of partition, so it can be available xor consistent with its source.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAP_theorem
Curious if anyone has pulled this off with kids? I have three kids under 7, and I'd love to do this for a year but wonder about logistics.
Varnish has a keep time that allows you to hold a 'dead' object for ttl+X for exactly this reason. You server it for so many seconds whilst under load while a single origin request goes and grabs the data. It's a really solid way to shed load and avoid dropping so many connections at once and then getting slammed on retry.
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