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Different forms of human organisation seem to find their own specialised elements of esssential waste. Essential in the sense that they're necessary for function, waste in that in a strictly rational sense, they're inefficient.

Market-based corporations develop planned obsolescence, redundant marketing, feature churn, and style-over-function in mass market appeal.

Government bureaux tend to be adversarially structured against political adversaries, internal, partisan, or foreign.

Militaries are structured around political, cultural, and martial requirements, as well as an environment of infrequent but extreme risks. "Hurry up and wait", inefficiencies of troops and materiel, and actions which lack apparent consistency from the front-line tactical to the general headquarters strategic level are common.

And in religious organisations, you'll find that a number of social functions (see Max Weber on the sociology of religion) such as trust, group-cohesion, longevity, tradition, uniformity of faith and doctrine, etc., create structures and behaviours which don't make sense on first blush, but which do seem to have at least some logic when viewed at scale in both space, time, and population.

I find it interesting that it is religions and academic institutions which seem to be among the most long-lived. They greatly outlive virtually all commercial enterprises, and all but the most durable governments. Arguably cities might be another contender.
Per the edits on your previous posts, I read this more as "and I'll pivot to only supporting animated gifs!"
I have attempted to move to Firefox twice: once 12 years ago and once 8 years ago (probably, I don't really remember exact time). I know, Firefox has come a long, long, long way since then, but the same were also promised 8 years ago, and it turn out Firefox cannot handle my use case well to the point of almost being unusable. (That said, my use case are definitely not normal)

It's a lot of effort to move everything: current session, bookmarks, extensions, sync (which mean I need to move on my 5+ devices at once). I have been bitten twice -- not sure if I want to risk it again. No matter how much people are saying how good it is now, it's hard to muster up the effort to move again.

EDIT: Perhaps I wasn't clear enough. Back when Firefox was saying it's as fast as Chrome without being multi-process. They were saying that it's better. I tried. I moved. I got f*cked up. I move back. Twice. You'd excuse me if I no longer believe what the Firefox dev were saying about their browser.
We already have a token in the protocol and this is indeed a viable way to help drop invalid traffic. However, none of us are really experienced enough with the networking stack of the linux kernel (nor are these things very well documented) to craft a conntrack module or an XDP program to parse the header and keep track of the assigned tokens. Dropping these any later than the nftables stage is just not enough as we already do that.

We have a small team who work on this project during our free times and most of us just don’t currently have the time to dig into conntrack/nftables/xdp.
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It would be great if WhatsApp group chats would allow a participant to mute another participant. I want to hide the antivax messages posted by a crazy parent in my kid's school group.
I like when they embed views (e.g. PowerBI) in it, but as soon as you click off it to see a message and click back, it has to reload it all. It's like IE6 - a pre-tabs browsing experience.
Why do you consider this a bad thing?
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Jeez, I've uploaded hundreds of images over the years to embed directly in forum posts.

As to migrating... I know you can download all the pictures in your account. But is there any way to include the corresponding top (or most recent) referrer so you know the places you need to go to update URL's?
I agree. Here is one : https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DD6Ud9BWAAAwVsM.jpg
>like lets say they had a meeting where they discuss the latest frameworks or technologies, they'd love it!

I hate those meetings.
In RL you'd be able to catch and identify the thief. Digital... a bit different I'm afraid. Online - you'll struggle to prove with 100% certainty who did it. Anything else apart from proof is propaganda/assumptions. Not facts.

What makes you think those accounts were really from China and not from Australia, Taiwan or even Iran? Anyone can do it with a tiny botnet/a few ssh's into consumer routers or by buying less popular browser addons.

My point was this is not news worthy by any measure. It's just bashing for the sake of bashing.
If you want to make it news worthy, tell me you indentified 1k or 2 of aged twitter accounts that spwe propaganda. Not 1 week accounts.
I have read several reviews where people comment that, "driving is way better without the complications of an ICE and a transmission between you and the road". Instant torque changes your relationship with speed: it is ground, tires, suspension, torque and you. Before, there was a complicated interplay of RPMs, turbo spin up, clutch adjustment, gear ratios, etc between you and the suspension.
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This is an interesting point I like to bring up. The incredible integrated suffering of the NK people at some point will surpass a single (theoretical) turning point event that MacArthur envisioned.

Of course, the ends don’t justify the means, lest one uses this reasoning to destroy everyone you feel is about to do great harm, we are only gifted with hindsight.
And he's kept going although his mom disappeared (read: died) doing it in 2015.
I run a service that lets browser extension developers take payments in their extensions without needing to run their own servers* and it's been frustrating watching the MV3 rollout. The documentation isn't good, there are unresolved issues, and every developer making an extension adopts it because Google says that's the new thing everyone has to use.

And sigh, I hope uBlock Origin continues to work — the web sucks without it. Maybe Mozilla could hire the devs and integrate it into Firefox.

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Multi device or not it’s still impossible to have a shared / imported history between iOS and Android, it’s impossible to export chat history, etc.

Sure some people don’t find their chat history valuable. I do though and so do many others, it contains valuable information and memories. Is it the end of the world if it disappears? No, but it still sucks.

One day we will have a popular open protocol and client for instant messaging. One day…
> it'll drive people away from Chrome and nip what's looking increasingly like a monopoly in the bud by driving users to browsers that do support ad blocking

I certainly hope so. I showed Firefox and uBlock Origin to all my friends and they loved it, especially the fact it blocks YouTube ads. Lots of people simply don't know about this.
It is a standard practice to have a "login server" and a separate "game server". The login server generates the token, and notifies the game server to accept it. The login server handles a queue, and can throttle login attempts. The login server can handle load balancing for multiple game servers, redirecting logged in players to different game servers. Its possible to run multiple login servers too, and restrict the access to specific login servers geographically and to run them with different providers.
It's not just the equipment. It's also the corporate culture behind it.

If we in the US magically changed all the technology from Europe's or Japan's rail system with ours, but not the people running them and their culture, in Europe and Japan they'd have their now crappy trains on crappy tracks to dilapidated stations running on time and the US would have its now super-advanced trains running late and missing stops. If we changed the people instead but not the equipment, the US would start running its trains on time and Europe's and Japan's would run late.

Think of that next time someone tries to solve a social problem like the environment with technology. If I had to pick one, I'd take a culture of stewardship over technological solutions any day. I'd rather have both, but regarding living sustainably, American culture needs fixing, not technology. Our technological innovations exacerbate our cultural problems because technology augments the values of the people and culture wielding it. In the US, that means waste.
It could have something to do with the old British definition of billion, which is a million million (10^12) and different to the new (American) one (10^9).

(1000 + 250) million seems to also be simple maths but maybe that's also to clarify this.
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Okay, yeah, I agree that the more important part in procedural generation is to be able to produce a large population of interesting artifacts. The means to get there can involve more or less randomness (it can be a small seed input, a set of parameters, or a random sequence of numbers).

Even something like Mandelbrot or Julia sets (or similar fractals) are fully deterministic algorithms, but the choice of the position and scale (quite a small initial input) is sufficient to generate a large variety of interesting results => procedural generation.

The procedure must be making some kind of sequence of choices that leads to a set of diverging final outcomes. The choices can be prescribed by some kind of input value, or determined by a PRNG of the generation procedure itself (also actually a deterministic sequence).

However, not everything made by a computed program should be called "procedurally generated". Word docs are not a result of procedural generation. Arithmetic operators and sorting algorithms are not procedural generation techniques by themselves (although they can be used in procedural generation as building blocks).
Hmm. Never tried to use journald at any reasonable scale beyond tens of servers. Good to know its characteristics.

To be honest I wasn’t looking for a long term log management system and that is why Journald even came up in mind. If it could aggregate logs from several servers and retain them for a week while expiring older logs to an archive source, it’s sufficient for my needs.
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Honestly, so many things could go wrong here. I’m a programmer and I’d have to google how to “do” the above.

If anything, this makes me want to sign up for IMGZ. Maybe the above comment should be on IMGZ landing page.
As a 13yo visiting Paris in the early 80's, the lineup of TGVs at the Gare de Lyon was on my bucket list. We were passed by one after leaving Paris for Geneva, puttering along in our combi van; blink and you would have missed it.

Only thing maybe cooler was standing on an original GWR platform when a diesel InterCity 125 HST went through at speed.

More recently took the Hikari from Tokyo to Kyoto and back on my JR Pass which was a blast.
Haven’t played with the logs part of Grafana recently, but would it work on top of say Clickhouse? I thought it was more tuned for the Loki use case… is it not?
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if there was one Nigerian prince who transferred 1 million dollars to a person's account that would set a bad precedent for all the gullible folks out there.
> Other than the fact that it's owned by Facebook, I don't see any issues.

That's a pretty big issue for me - whilst the original team were in place, I had a degree of trust for them, but since their departure (and the stories as to why), I trust it less and less.

Unfortunately, for me and everyone I know - it's either iMessage or Whatsapp (depending on your choice of phone).
It depends on how you define safety. And, I think the comparison, here, isn't being made to sitting on a couch (which carries its own health risks) but to other professional sports, or maybe its being compared to the safety of even amateur competition across sports. Elite physical competition always carries some risks of injury (even death) - those have to be balanced against the benefits of competing.

Definitely there are more dangerous sports that we would consider safe (American football, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, etc.), where "safe" is defined as "would encourage, or not admonish, our children from pursuing".
I could see the police saying you did it intentionally to thwart them, but again, it’s not illegal to wear body armor in case the police shoot you. Suspicious, sure. But not illegal. This is exactly the same thing, except from AI, instead of bullets. Suspicious, yes, but not illegal.
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the 2 links cover a bit of ground, if those are the only 2 cherry-picked criticisms it would seem to validate the rest?
Sorry, I'd completely missed that you wrote "notebook"!
It doesn't seem like you're consciously doing it but this comment falls to the exact same fallacy. That is, the party and their enforcers would be happy to agree.

Yes, there's a very noisy mainority both online and abroad that will make you believe so.

It's far from representative of the culture(s) and views of people in China, though.
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That last sentiment would be very nice indeed, but I fear this is what we'll get instead:

https://xkcd.com/927/
"Odd that an academic paper would fail to mention ..." is a perfectly valid criticism/observation that has its place in any academic discussion.

The only people derailing the discussion, as usual, are the sheep bleating "whataboutism". "whataboutism" is the dumbest term that has invaded the Internet in the past decade.

And the sheep have now flagged a totally harmless comment.
The fact that Imgur doesn't care to link to Medialab in their statement makes it even more sketchy.

Normal procedure seems to be that each company links to the other companys statement on the deal.

Also, are we sure they're not "joining Medialab", most Silicon Vally type companies always state that their joining some other company. Not Imgur, nope straight up acquired, which is at least honest.
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ideally it would render stereoscopically but I imagine since most 3D applications control the camera themselves this will be difficult to make work across all things. 3D using css may work since it is up to the browser how it gets rendered.
Well, the conclusions seem to suggest they have passive safety.

"The affected Megapacks failed safely despite total loss."
> For example, typical solar inverter systems don't have isolation between the AC and DC sides. That means any chafed wire can be deadly. They do at least have leakage detection, but set at a 300mA level, which probably won't save your life.

This is very yikes. I just installed such a system.

Do you know any way to test if that's a problem? And is it possible to fix without opening the inverter?
Society pays significantly more for a gallon of oil than water. Water can cost less than a cent in some municipalities. Building a pipeline would increase that cost 100x easily
I don't know about the TGV and other high speed trains, but in normal trains you can move from one compartment to the other.

So I stand by what I said and I claim once again that you only need one ill intentioned person with a firearm and everybody on board is basically done, they'd move across compartments and off everybody.

There are thousands of trains which all have that same vulnerability, so a coordinated attack would have a toll much higher than everything seen before.

People have a blindspot, they'd claim that such attack would never take place because the "production value" is not the same as explosive attacks.

I don't think hoping that ill intentioned people hold "production value" as rigorous parameter when planning an attack is a valuable strategy
If your credit card data is stolen, you can reverse the charges and in the worst case get a new card, canceling the old one. You will be made whole very quickly. If your data is stolen, you have very little recourse. Honestly of all the things to be worried about, stolen credit card details is probably one of the least of my concerns. Besides, he's using a payment service where he doesn't even see the credit card details, so you wouldn't be sharing your credit card details, just a token for charging. And if he fraudulently charges the card, you reverse it. Your credit card details are still safe.

My personal data is worth a lot more to me than credit card details.
I'm not disputing that the image may not add anything to the article but if a 10MiB GIF image can crash your browser maybe you should look at other vendors. I'm on Firefox Developer Edition with approximately 100 tabs open and didn't notice that image as a resource hog.
Duckduckgo had been running similar ads on Texas billboards. Not specifically regarding ads, but about the value of not being tracked. Offline anti-ads may be the means to get around the FAANG wall.
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I did a PhD in physics in the mid 90's. It was fantastic. The people, the parties, the science, the girlfriends, not sure if I mentioned the parties.

Learning to do science was fantastic, teaching was awesome. I really loved the uni environment.

I started to do some well-paid consulting for IBM and when I first heard about the pay of someone more or less my age, I realized that I have to make hard choices.
I also started to get involved with the university politics and realized that there are plenty of people who want to assess dominance over a stack of paper, because they have it and you do not.

I went to industry to see plenty of great people, plenty of politics - but the politics was on a x100 scale, for a x5 or so pay long term.

I will always cherish my PhD years, they were fantastic. I am also glad I ultimately moved to industry because I have the same stress level for a more comfortable life.

One thing I really, really miss is teaching.
Behavior-based blocks take care of those largely. I think only Facebook is reliably staying ahead?
Even more worrying, there is no guarantee that it will ever work again in the future. MAD is not effective against people who actually want to bring about armageddon/rapture/whatever. Humanity was lucky all contenders acted in a fundamentally similar cultural framework where survival was paramount.
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That seems to be more about the actual music than the method of delivery. It may be true a lot of the time, but I think it says more about someones music taste than the format.

Of course, there are reasons to listen to vinyl beyond "more work", that was bad wording on my part. The point I was trying to make there was the myth that vinyl was of a higher measurable quality than other formats.

Raw measurable quality isn't everything, thats certainly not my point, but there will be those that believe the myth and use it to inflate their ego. No doubt people do this with FLAC as well, and thats no better, but at least its true to some degree.
Ill intentioned people would move across compartments and off everybody with a firearm.
Because that's what Elastic is positioning Elasticsearch for. If you look at the features being added these last few years, so much is about time series stuff — aggregation, time-based partitioning, warm/cold storage, etc. Relatively little focus on structured search.
Does Telegram have proper E2E encryption for chats by default?
Yes - it's the worst here, because they're trying to surface so many products in Teams for some reason.
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cool. so an excel sheet decided google to be the clear winner in present feature comparison set and instead of helping the community in bridging the gap, they decide to go with the flow. cool. i am fine with my ff
The lack of meaningful taxes on gasoline to prevent wide swaths of the population from buying F150s and other large vehicles to pick up kids from school clearly shows where the US stands.
What personal data are you putting on an image hosting service?
It's interesting that Ubuntu and RHEL went with very different choices here. Ubuntu decided to patch OpenSSL, so this means if you're relying on the old behaviour (weird, but certainly possible) that's an unexpected change. RHEL decided to explicitly remove trust in DST Root CA X3 even though it isn't actually expired quite yet, which seems less likely to have surprising consequences but does involve taking a patch to the upstream although likely that patch gets removed in a month or two when upstream removes this expired root CA.

On the surface the Ubuntu plan is riskier, but, it also carries a richer reward. The old OpenSSL behaviour is silly, even if you wanted that, wanting it is silly, and most likely you had no idea it does this so changing it just makes the library do what you assumed it already did. Ubuntu may eat a handful of "Why did you break our weird software?" tickets now, but avoid several more of these incidents for long-term support over coming months and years, depending on how willing they are to support these older systems for $$$.

For admins who have frequent patching either mean it's less likely they run into trouble later this week, and even if they don't patch production (a reasonable caution) knowing that this fix worked in non-production and is available means it's a shorter route from "it broke" to "we applied the patch and fixed it" when it does blow up.
The general perception of Arizona is that of a desert. But did you know that Arizona has ski resorts? The Rocky Mountains extend into Arizona and they get snow in the winter. >90% of Arizona's water comes from snow melt.
No, a merge works very differently.

A merge is a commit with two parent commits, pointing to a new tree that contains the blobs from both parents. It does not modify any blobs, nor does it modify the parent commits. The full history of all activity is retained.

A merge conflict is a case where both trees changed the same blob since their common ancestor. In this case, you have to make a new blob yourself (the "resolution") for use in the merge commit's tree, instead of using one of the parent blobs.

Squash is "Remove all commits from C_newest to C_oldest, and create a new commit using C_newest tree". Rebases just run another git action for every commit in a sequence, e.g. cherry-pick.
Interesting, I did a PhD in experimental physics in the UK and we only had two dropouts during my time. The group increased size from 8 students when I joined to about 25 when I officially finished (about 5.5 years later, long story)

What's more interesting, to me at least, is that I was one of the very few that didn't continue down the academic science path. Though to be fair most have since left it and I think only 5 have stuck with it, but still an impressive amount of postdocs