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Judging by our primitive visits to Mars at best we could hope for some sort of wreckage or abandoned one-way technology.

If we look at our visits to the ocean depths, we only leave real time traces of our presence.

Assuming we aren’t the aliens and that aliens didn’t seed our planet with life, then if they did visit they didn’t find it compelling enough to stay for very long.
I've been saying this for decades at this point, but there is still the occasional snafu. We bought a TomTom GPS, and their MyDrive Connect map updater won't run on wine. Some error with vulkan and a Win32 extension.

Now I have to admit the GPS device itself is also pretty low-quality, so probably I should just return it to the store, but still... What were they smoking? No 3D accelerated map updates for me, I guess.
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That's a completely different model for 200V+ operation.

As a home-gamer, this one works for me. :'D
The problem is that at orbital velocity, the debris that hits the target will break off pieces of the target, and then you just have more debris.
I mean there's definitely left leaning banned sources too, like Alternet.
The political appetite among EU citizens for an EU army (at least from my understanding) is not there.

One of the leading brexiteer cries was: "The EU wants to make an Army", so that should tell you that the concept is greatly disliked since it's a core argument _against the EU itself_.

I live in Sweden now and there is a growing anti-EU sentiment here. How do you explain to someone who doesn't like NATO and the concept of the EU that they should join an EU army?
A missile (like a hellfire 2) will cost you $130,000. Then you need something to fire it from, like a $130m F-22 Raptor.

This drone can probably be had for < $10,000 and it can be set it off from the boot of a car by a 10 year old with minimal training.
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Not everybody has. And even in the 'normal' world, banks refuse quite a lot of people and businesses.

So no, we don't have bank accounts.
The funny part is that what they actually need is much stronger than merely "bulletproof," if only it had been invented.
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I'm thinking something like a non-Newtonian gel in a foil wrap
One should expect that with improvements in software and hosting, the cost-value-ratio improves. Does not seem to be the case here, which is strange.
I don’t understand the hate here.
Wikipedia clearly states that the point of donations is to create an endowment. They need to get enough money for their principal to generate enough money to ensure the project can live even in case of black swan events. [1]

They are still a long way from being independent from donors given their growth in projects, paid contributors (employees) and therefore expenses.

If you don’t agree with their governance or even specific ways they spend their money, stop donating, it is not like they are forcing you. You can even write an article an share it but don’t try to take shortcut like I feel it is done here. Money is a necessary ressource to survive, and if an entity have a lot of capital or spend plenty on projects or useful human ressources doesn’t imply evilness.

[1] : https://www.investopedia.com/terms/e/endowment.asp
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India is not part of NATO... I only meant the comment for NATO countries.

For India it does makes a lot of sense.
Cookie banners are the worst thing to hit the web since ads. I hope at some point this will all be a thing of the past.

> industry statistics show that only 3% of users actually want to agree

I'm sure 99.9% of people are tired of having to click anything the moment they visit a site.
It actually kind of exists: in Chrome and Firefox, you can block all third-party cookies, which are mostly ads and tracking, and keep those from the site itself, which are likely more useful. This doesn't remove the stupid banners though.
> I'm not sure to what extent I should consider this to be problematic.

Okay, I'll help you: By doing this shit, the US is losing goodwill and Germans will align more with Russia, e.g. by building pipelines instead of buying US gas.

Russia is a long-term threat to the expansion plans of the EU and is hindering us at creating a true union across all of Europe.

The US is a threat to our economy. China is becoming our biggest economic partner. We cannot trust them, but by doing shit like this, the US shows time and time again, that we cannot trust them either.

China and Russia are ultimately not to blame for the big migration crisis caused by ISIS filling the power vacuum left behind in Iraq and Syria. This is causing real consequences for us over here.

So Germany is more and more pushed towards aligning with Russia and China. Of course culturally we are much closer to the US. We condemn what these countries do to their own people. But in the end unfortunately, the US is stupid enough to make itself look worse and worse, when it comes to outcomes for our own people.

This cannot be what the US wants. Once you have fully lost Germany, you are basically done in Europe and can go look East and see if you can hold on to Korea, Japan and Australia.

I think, it would be much easier for the US to stop doing shit like this and keep the countries, which already kind of think like you, and would want you to stay number 1.
I consider it a feature
When you pay for Windows you are the product.
When you don't pay for Linux, Linux is the product.
The only thing that keeps me in Windows is the VPN connection to work.
> 2. iCloud - Turn it on, sign up for the appropriate storage plan, it basically just works, and I can access my photos from all of my devices. Obviously only useful if you're in the Apple ecosystem.

Note iCloud photos are not E2EE, and while data mining and tagging for your device occurs locally, Apple can and has demonstrated they will read your photos without your explicit permission. This happened to me when I raised a support case about a photos app bug on iOS, leading to them reviewing my icloud photos without asking first. I never got a response asking why they went in without permission.
There is no big differences for the database in these numbers. Wikipedia doesn't save lives here. They can have different shards for read only data and doesn't need to process millions of different signals every second. And worth to mention that site growth is predictable.
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> How is this different

Price.
> At this point, the class begins in earnest. In particular, students are primed and ready to examine the role of Asian immigrants and the broader AAPI community within the creation of our present-day sci-tech infrastructure.

That's obviously very fashionable, but what is the use in filtering by the imaginary ethnicity "Asian"? Why not just study what happened? Why go out of our way to look at things in a racist way?
> The fact that the BBC have chosen to add consent options [...] is a hint that they’re trying to confuse the user.

Yes, just another dark pattern which you see so often with those cookie banners.
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>This makes it sound like it was some sort of an unique event.

I don't think unique events are generally described as inevitable?
Wikipedia is hosted on ordinary rackmount servers at a handful of colocation facilities: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_servers

It does not significantly use cloud services, and as you can see by the picture of their racks, they use standard 1 RU pizzaboxes. Their workload is highly scalable horizontally, and doesn't even need much in the way of expensive "enterprise" hardware such a SAN arrays: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Wi...

If you buy beige box rackmount hardware with basic compute and CPU, it's pretty easy to spend less than $250K per rack, and the hardware can be kept for 5+ years. That's about 50K per rack per year. Double that for opex, and assume twenty racks distributed across a a handful of sites for capacity and availability. That's just $2M per annum.

Keep in mind they're a high-profile charity, so they get discounts and tax breaks.

(I'm not saying that's all there is to Wikipedia! There's software development, management, finance, etc... I'm just saying that the infrastructure alone is probably less than you think.)

PS: English Wikipedia gets about 250M page views per day, which is only about 3,000 per second. If they used an efficient language instead of PHP, that's well within the capability of a single modern server! There have been comments along these lines made in other forums, and the response was that it would cost more to rewrite the software than the maintain the hardware required for PHP. I don't remember the numbers, but I vaguely remember tens of millions for a rewrite, a high risk of breaking issues, and a significantly lower hardware cost.
Lots of adblockers support blocking those consent boxes, too.
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Pretty much, the only difference is that dishwasher salt might dissolve easier in water, but it doesn't matter much, it's still just table salt.
The extension you want is called Cookie Autodelete.

Then, it simply doesn't matter what you leave on. The extension deletes all identifiers from the site 15 seconds after tab close.
>I’m Danish and this is a big scandal, but the reality is, when the US asks you dance like the vassal state you are.

Don't fret over it. The Swedes had to build up BS charges against Assange on the US behalf...
> Is someone out there really thinking “ah man, if only advertisements were more relevant!”?

To be fair, people who prefer personalized ads do exist. Some of them are not aware this involves not only tracking but also profiling them.
> I think it's fair to say that server costs and global reach of Wikipedia is up, and factor in some ambitious goals the current expenditure is not too unreasonable.

I'd definitely want an analysis on the server costs. Compared to ten years ago you can get vastly better servers per dollar and about ten times the bandwidth per dollar.
Going against the consensus of the thread and say - Osaka should do the interviews. Yes, they’re harrowing and no, I don’t have to do anything as difficult in my job. Nevertheless, it’s necessary in modern sport. One of the reasons the top sports stars are paid so much is because of the strong connection they have with their fans. These “para-social” relationships form when a fan feels that they’re friends with the sportsperson, even if the relationship is obviously one sided. When such fans see their “friend” lose a game, they want to connect with them and see how they’re feeling. Watching an interview half an hour after the game, when the loss is still raw strengthens the relationship between star and fan.

These interviews grow the number of people intensely invested in the sport, the kind of people who will travel long distances and pay large sums to attend games. These are the lifeblood of the game. Stopping these interviews would undoubtedly improve the mental health of players, but might also shrink the sport. Osaka might not be personally affected by smaller fan following or prize pools because she’s won plenty and has endorsements, but hundreds of other players don’t. Those players are willing to put the needs of the fans before their own, so the sport as a whole can grow and they can get a part of that.

Lastly, Osaka always has the option of handling the interview like Marshawn Lynch.
I actually like Edge. Although it looks like the Windows Marketing team have recently taken a renewed interest in this old victim of theirs and have managed to take over product management and strategy.

- Fancy looking but essentially dumbed down "fly-out" menus rather than full page versions of downloads, history, etc. Very buggy and slow too. Cannot disable.

- Pinterest integration, pricewatch integration, more along these lines to come.

- The ability to disable the various "Search Bing" options was recently removed. These buttons are now also positioned in such a way that they're easy to click accidentally.

- Each release consists of more new features, but also more bugs and more instability. Even without extensions I've been getting an insane amount of crashes lately and no way to find out what happened.

One other thing that has been bugging me since the beginning, is the fact that MS365 Business Standard accounts are the only type that cannot use the browser's synchronisation functionality. Considering even free outlook.com accounts can sync it is actually a little bit insulting.

Edge is actually really good otherwise. It has some nice tiny features that Chrome still lacks, it's faster than Chrome, its devtools are the same as Chrome's, it can use Chrome extensions if you like. Integrations with VSCode are also being worked on that I'm actually excited about.

This shit they're pulling lately is starting to become rather tiresome, though, and I'd hate to have to leave this browser behind because of that. I'd also have no idea which alternative to turn to.
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By what definition is Russia a nation state?
It is actually a foresaw of the apple store (apps). Because, if compatibility (software compatibility) it's broken between devices, apps can't be profited as when the system is software "stable".
Apple wearables are terrible, sorry. What use is a watch that I have to reload every night and can't be used decently on it's own?

Anyone who has worn a decent, say, polar or garmin, sports watch for more than a day will be amazed and terrified to discover how bad apple wearables are. A good touchscreen is all they have to offer.
This is not a battle you can win.

Choose a better one.
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There's literally no threat from the Russian state to the neighboring Scandinavian countries - aside from that played to sell protection and arms. Russia is no USSR, and has nothing to do with the neighboring Scandinavian countries.

If anything, it's the opposite: the neighboring countries, Scandinavian or not, as used as a proxy pressure to Russia.
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Yes, around 106k USD, but this exemption applies only to EARNED income. The definition of earned income is quite narrow. This can cause a massive headache.

The way the US deals with taxation abroad is a travesty. I for one will be renouncing my citizenship because of it. Few countries deal with emigration in a perfectly hassle-free way, but the US makes living a life in any other country impossible if at any point you rely on income that isn't bog standard salary.
It's standard divide and conquer strategy.

The US are much bigger in every way than any European country. That suits them and ensures the US' dominance.
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I have some endpoints like so:

/analytics/aggregate
/monitor/run
/job/xyz

These all run one-off processes and then return standard out over HTML. Currently this works with Node's child_process spawning a process and collecting std out.

I want to remove the Node dependency entirely by running the Bash script directly. I would just shuttle query parameters from the URL into the script as arguments. I think (hope) there is a way to do this like SQL parameterized queries, where arbitrary input can't escape from its placeholder and execute other commands.

Is there an existing HTTP server that supports this? What pitfalls would I run into? Is the whole idea stupid and I should just keep using Node?
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wtf... What did Russia do to the Scandinavians? Why are you always afraid of Russia?
Yes, the canon solution was a (partial) transfiguration attack which was submitted in 36 flavours (deduplicated as "string through air").
Why is it so hard to understand that entire Financial system is based on scam?
Does anyone here understand how value is stoled by rich and how their cost of investment/loans are different then almost anyone here? I can't even mention "naked shorting" and more
It may also be faster for small N, as the big O notation swallows the constant factor. It’s not accidental that standard lib’s sort algorithms will fall back to simple insertion sort at the end of recursion when n is small. (Though please correct me if I’m wrong, I’ve only once digged into the sort algorithm’s code in cpp and java’s std lib)
Why is that? Is the ISS in such a low orbit that any junk in the same orbit will slow down from the drag and de-orbit itself?
> How often is numerical (which is the only knowledge you can really automate this way) knowledge updated?

Numerical knowledge is not the only knowledge that is stored there.

I'm going to go with update rate of often. It has a higher edit rate than english wikipedia does.

> How often is said knowledge dependent on cultural idiosyncracies?

Sometimes that is true, other times it isn't. The system is used where it makes sense, and not used where it doesn't.

> How much effort is the code maintenance of the specialised editing system? How much effort is maintainance of the centralised infrastructure.

There is certainly some. I wouldn't say its dominating, but it certainly exists. There is plenty of centralized infrastructure for other things too.

Prior to the introduction of wikidata, more complex fragile systems existed to try and keep things in sync in a more manual fashion. They also had a cost.

> How much effort is it really to change the data in multiple places, given that enough eyes every bug is shallow?

A lot. And we don't have that many eyes in lots of languages. There's a lot after all: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:SiteMatrix

> What are the oppirtunity costs of not being able to properly distribute and share articles because they are suddenly tied to a very specific codebase

Not sure what this has to do with it. Articles are written in a custom markup language. That's already tying it to a specific code base quite heavily. The wikidata dependency is pretty trivial, and there are open apis to get info out of wikidata, and regularly made dumps of all the data in wikidata if you want to copy it. If that's not good enough, just copy the rendered version instead of the source.

> How much infrastructure cost do I have because I can't get volunteers to host my data

I'm not sure what you're talking about. Wikipedia was never hosted in some magical peer-to-peer fashion on volunteer web servers, nor is there any situation where it is likely to be hosted that way. The goals of (near) instant update time, as well as some central quality control and user blocking, makes distributed hosting pretty impossible.
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The problem of picking one thing is that obviously if the thing getting picked isn't in your favour you generally have a legitimate case in calling bias.

...unless there's a random element to it, so that at the time of picking a method the pickers have no way of knowing what party it will swing in favour of. Then there's no way to claim they made a biased choice, as long as the expectation of the randomness is zero.
Yes. Not instantly but on average it's not a particularly long wait. Even just dipping down there in a non-circular orbit causes a lot of drag.
I've heard the latest Surface lineup and the XPS 13 have trackpads that seriously rival Apple's. Up until a few years ago, however, it was true that nothing came close to Apple.

Although personally, the lack of a touchscreen on any of Apple's laptops is much more of a dealbreaker for me and despite working remotely, I really don't use a trackpad for work all that often. I imagine RSI would be unavoidable if you used it constantly, wouldn't it?
Softball is played in more countries than the USA, albeit rarely professionally. It isn't unusually to see softballs for sale in your local Decathlon.
Why? Not motivated by money still means they can generate income and even grow. They might not personally become rich, and they are ok with that. What's the problem?
Spot on. I love my friends, but I don't love learning a new set of bullshit rules every time I socialize with them.
When I look at the IT industry, I see deflation that has been going on for at least 50 years. Every year you can buy more computer for less money.

Yet, people keep buying computers. Why?

I would argue deflation has been the most significant driver of the IT industry in the last 30 years and in turn has been one of the greatest drivers of prosperity in that same period. As computers become cheaper, more people can afford more them and more value is added to society.

On the other side you have inflation that kills savings. And since most people save with a goal in mind, not because it's fun and exciting, the higher the inflation, the longer they will have to save before they reach that goal.
This is exactly it. Also the reason why IA64 failed, and we're using amd's x86-64 instead.

In more recent times, the argument is less relevant because the compatibility layer is software-side, see the mostly painless x86 -> ARM transition by Apple.
It is not true that we are "mostly exempt": only earned income (a narrow definition) is exempt.

And while it is true that many other countries have versions of taxing citizens living abroad for some time or under certain conditions (like having assets at home or conditions that deem the stay abroad "temporary"), there are only two countries in the world that have no mechanisms for stopping this taxation once one has truly and surely severed financial ties: the US, and Eritrea.
I would say that depends on how intensely you are being watched. Traffic analysis and timestamp correlation are a powerful tool.

Small traffic bursts going out, slightly larger ones coming in: surfing, reading the front page. (Or new post page.) Small traffic burst going out, lots of traffic coming in: loading an active topic thread page. Slightly bigger traffic burst going out, lots of traffic coming back in: posting a comment to an active, non-trivial thread.

Number of packets (and total outgoing bytes) are useful for bucketing the size of the comment posted. Short comments should fit into a single payload packet. Longer comments obviously have their payload split across multiple packets, and by counting the total bytes sent, you have a decent estimate to the size of the comment posted.

Combine comment timestamps with their lengths and you can infer quite a bit.
France has a lot more principles than any of its bordering countries. I'm so glad that it is in the EU.
Eventually it should be a sensible choice. The goal is for crypto (not bitcoin) to be more economically sensible to run credit card style infrastructure. Clearly, this is not currently true but I expect it will improve to the point where most services use some aspect of crypto because it makes sense economically.
Space debris isn't a new problem or something that's coming entirely out of the blue. NASA has almost certainly built it into the plans and engineering to keep ISS going for years and years. The fact they do maneuvers, keep meticulous track of large debris, etc. is a great sign that the systems they have in place are working. I'd honestly be more worried about the political capitol and will to spend money on the space program drying up more than debris strikes.
Conversely, as soon as one mobster whacks a competing mobster with one of these drones, the public might decide that drones in residential areas are not okay anymore. Suicide drones don't care about registration schemes.