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What's that you say? Off topic? Yea I agree, but...

As a systems and network administrator I know that the vast majority of outages are human initiated. Maintenance gone bad. Simple mistakes such as unplugging the wrong cable. Stupid stuff. Sometimes thresholds such as disk usage or other resources get exceeded or a part just wears out and breaks, but usually it's us stupid humans fucking something up with our own hands where it would have been just fine if you had left it alone.

So there's your servers are houseplants advice. Stop touching them. Stop doing stuff. Leave it alone.

Of course that's impossible. We have to get new plants installed and have to find that equilibrium they like to thrive.

But when you find it, leave them the fuck alone and don't break it.
> and/or bio-based avgas.

Bio-based is a minefield of a few ways to have it reasonably ok'ish (mostly if it's stuff that would otherwise be waste) and countless ways to produce more emissions than before. The latter is usually what happens...
> I’ve never been in a hotel room without a window

You might not be able to extrapolate your own experience over all hotels, there are countless of hotels without windows, and it's surely not illegal everywhere.
> are much more willing to accept apartments.

That's the problem. Apartment is inhumane by default. No privacy, no private space. They shouldn't accept them.
Over-connectivity and singular authority over network - that is doing the internet Zuckerberg fashion.
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> It certainly was true during the dot com bust when people moved out in droves.

Buy during crisis when no one wants a particular asset, sell after the crisis when it becomes hot.

Rinse and repeat.
I am using "personal cloud" to refer to the set of "cloud services" that I am hosting myself on my own server. The advantage of having the server is that my devices have a central syncing hub, and the advantage of hosting myself is no need to trust third parties. There are obviously disadvantages, like having to host it myself.
Actually, what OP is proposing is federation, like e-Mail.

Some people do pay for their e-Mail providers today...
I do agree that housing as an asset is a bad idea. I regularly think that if you gave everybody a rent free room, society would be wildly different. People are running around to pay rent doing insane stuff just to get by. It's humanly painful.
The Amazon Rain Forest
Own as in own a garage, I wouldn't want to live there though.
We need to boycott Cloudflare and others like them. They are pretending to protect websites, but in fact they create a walled garden where they decide who gets in.

People who use privacy tooling are left out, people from poorer countries are left out (due to bad IP range reputation), and legit bots scraping websites are left out.

If you need DDOS protection, use network-level mitigations from your host and basic rate limiting. If you need to protect your admin area from bruteforce and known vulns, restrict it to localhost queries and use SSH tunneling with public-key auth. If you need geo-replication, think again, you probably don't: make your pages lighter (why JS? why custom fonts?) and reduce the number of queries at all costs (the biggest slowing factor on high-latency links).

You don't need Cloudflare, even for a popular international website. Designing your website properly will make it more user-friendly and faster to load. From anywhere in the world, it should be fully rendered before any similar Cloudflare-powered page could load the JS spyware blocking access to the content.
I don't know enough to say; all I remember from the few interactions I've had with SQL over my long programming career is that it's intellectually unsavory as a whole.

I do think NIL should be EQ to NIL in Lisp.
One of the things I like about Terraform and Pulumi and the non-vendor-specific ones is the cross-cloud features. My very basic Terraform use from the article has a machine set up on Hetzner cloud and an S3 bucket on AWS, for example.
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Cool project! I would be cautious with the sentence „See what’s inside your Docker“. Aside from the broader term „container image“, I would think you could get mail from Docker (as I’m the company) for using their name while you’re not Docker.
This is a misleading graph that cherry-picks the data to support an ideological conclusion.

Better graph:

https://mmsa.org/2017/05/percent-of-bachelor-degrees-women-b...
I'm in my mid-30s, and I find this a little bit offensive. There is absolutely a difference in the action potential I need to buy a house vs what my parents dealt with - this is patently not just twentysomethings being upset.
So, BMW amiibos?

Sport team season ticket holders getting exclusive digital jerseys to wear? College students getting a code to unlock digital shirt of their alma mater?

Brand affiliation as an identity marker in a virtual space makes sense.
>Prices are going up! Buy now before it’s out of control and you miss out!
Prices are down! Buy now to get a great deal!

Hurry up and buy now, in a few months a new crisis can come and we'll lose the opportunity to make nice profits.
In the Fauci emails, a reply from a scientist, in the beginning of the pandemic, states a "recipe" on how the virus could have been changed in a lab
Well, Prague, like Paris, London, Barcelona, etc. suffers the curse of being a touristic hotspot so it's difficult to compete with all the AirBnBs that rake in that sweet tourist $$$. I'm sure the rest of Czech republic that has less tourists are a lot more affordable.
It has to be said that Matt's explanation in that video is wrong. N-spheres are just spheres, it's the cubes which get "spiky", like sea-urchins. (It's a rare case where reading the Youtube comments is a good idea.)
It's probably worth a bug report to the TBB team so that they can investigate why fingerprints would be different. Having a unique fingerprint across instances is the very goal of TBB.
It's called MMOs and VRChat. Especially WoW in the 2000s were more metaverse than anything will come from Facebook.
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It's partly personal preference and partly which areas you frequent, I guess. I like the 19th/early 20th century apartment buildings, family houses that weren't built in recent homogenous developments are usually nice as well. Places like Jižní město (less artsy than the article's examples, but still brutalist) are irredeemably ugly though, so if that's your experience of Prague...
Oh wow - thanks for that. Wasn't expecting much of an actual answer
A likely cause is a lack of secured issuing endpoints.

It should be noted that these certificates do contain two different country identifiers: one of which is in the signed data, and one of which is the applied signature. According to what I picked up from the thread where this issue was first reported, a significant amount of these forged certificates were signed by one country's keys, but had a different country identifier in the signed data.

It is therefore likely that, if any, only one country has had it's private key material leaked. But above compromised key materials, a more likely possibility would be compromised issuing endpoints; the infrastructure for these certificates was built and implemented in several months under high pressure to achieve, and government IT projects don't always excel in security.
Why? The report explains the position quite well - lacking other data, finding a progenitor virus is the most likely to confirm a natural origin.
The photos in the article look very similar to the Czech embassy in Berlin, definitely one of the more interesting buildings in Berlin, especially compared to the more modern, and more bland buildings which are being built today:

https://goo.gl/maps/uYXymgc9bfbZ9Pu69
Meh? Everything you described has been occurring over the internet for 30ish years already. We didn’t need Facebook or VR for it.
Article is misleading - you will soon be able to use a Facebook _work_ account in addition to a Facebook _personal_ account. No one said the requirement is going away.
I literally did this just yesterdayy, in production, too. Thankfully it was a greenfield deployment and the customers weren't really using the system yet.

I went in there to adjust some data so that one of our dev users could re-publish some data which would then be synchronized to another database(update foo set published = false) and I couldn't understand that it wouldn't update in the UI.

I ended up telling him I'd have to get back to him, and the issue didn't dawn on me until the app logs started spitting out errors about not being able to retrieve a connection from the pool. YIL about pending transactions in DBeaver.
It’s difficult with helium because the atom is so small that it can effectively penetrate the gaps in the atomic structure of almost any solid material given time. Even solid iridium can have small amounts of helium leach through.

Re ultrasonics - for some MEMS devices yes this can absolutely break things, but because the devices are so small, the resonant frequencies can often be in the hundreds of KHz or even MHz and most ultrasound transducers only produce sub 100khz frequencies
What's the configuration here? 1 server-client and 1 client? Or are you actually running 2 server-clients?
To me Roku seems like they are trying to modernize the TV cable industry rather than revolutionize it. They are following a different business model than most modern tech companies.
another good argument for people from low income families who may may have trouble staying in college due to subpar living conditions which affect their grades.

i’ve read people’s comments on some other forums (not here) blaming poor people for not studying or trying hard enough and that is the reason they are poor. which is obviously crazy to think that about everyone who comes from the lower class is lazy or not trying hard enough.

i am thinking about a lot commuters, who live at home because they can’t afford a dorm or an off campus apartment. i’ve met many people who would just stop going to college or lose multiple days only to find out the only car in the family broke and that persons grades were hurting so they later on ended up dropping out.

always good to understand where people may be coming from
> The games are going to come first.

Adult content also had a role in the rise of VHS cassettes and the early internet.
"Welcome to our walled garden, please don't eat from the tree of knowledge"
< Smartwatches aren't new in the same way smartglasses will be new.

My whole point is about execution, rather than something being 'new'.

It's not about being first or introducing something 'entirely' new, it's about the overall execution of the concept which then leads to mass adoption and who ever does that properly with a 'killer app' and ecosystem behind it, wins.

Can you tell me who currently leads in the smartwatches market?
Could you tell what's your company? I don't believe in hype and so keen on great companies flying under the radar.
This is a step in the right direction for security/privacy, and I appreciate the effort, but ultimately you have no real control over your device if you are forced to use the proprietary OS that came with the phone. (Unfortunately this is the case with most Android phones, aside from the Google Pixel series, which allow custom versions of Android, like open-source GrapheneOS, to be installed.)

Fortunately, as of now, it seems most Android OEMs allow you to disable their bloatware with adb, but there's no reason they have to allow this, and they could easily block it with a software update.
I share your feeling, but most people i know who grew up in the big cities don't even have any form of connection with or appreciation for nature. It's just not part of their "natural environment".

Nation States and corporations have rendered the western world so meaningless and painful that most of us will do anything to get out of it for a while... whether it's via drugs or VR or whatever means at our disposal.
Nice! I may even have looked at that when I was getting started on this project. The two things that jump out at me as "not as easy" are private docker repos and cron jobs. I know that you can run cron images for Docker, but I didn't want the extra layer of indirection.
Of course.

We definitely don't need fb. VR though, is another mode. We don't necessarily need it, but having it does give us something new.
FYI, in America and most English speaking part of the world, they consider the former Warsaw Pact nations like Czech Republic Eastern Europe, and insisting that no, it's "central europe" will make them a bit confused and, frankly, sounds very small.

So if your goal is to communicate with English speakers, I'd stick to "Eastern Europe".

(Please don't respond with some argument about balancing a cutout of Europe on a needle, etc., I'm talking about using words instrumentally.)
Monzo offers a similar thing, where you can generate a link to send someone to request money. They also have a feature where you can discover nearby users and send money that way. I've found it to be very useful for splitting bills when out with colleagues etc
There is no international oversight of nuclear weapons.
Most people don't want that though, and that is why VR was a bust (compared to last century's dreams I mean).
The bytecode is specifically designed so that it maps directly to the output.

// The third phase operates primarily using a bytecode interpreter; it
// generates a program in "FizzBuzz bytecode", for which each byte of
// bytecode generates one byte of output. The bytecode language is
// designed so that it can be interpreted using SIMD instructions; 32
// bytes of bytecode can be loaded from memory, interpreted, and have
// its output stored back into memory using just four machine
// instructions.

// The bytecode format is very simple (in order to allow it to be
// interpreted in just a couple of machine instructions):
// - A negative byte represents a literal character (e.g. to produce
// a literal 'F', you use the bytecode -'F', i.e. -70 = 0xba)
// - A byte 0..7 represents the hundreds..billions digit of the line
// number respectively, and asserts that the hundreds digit of the
// line number is even
// - A byte 8..15 represents the hundreds..billions digit of the line
// number respectively, and asserts that the hundreds digit of the
// line number is odd

// %ymm2 holds the bytecode for outputting the hundreds and more
// significant digits of a line number. The most significant digits of
// this can be obtained by converting LINENO_TOP from high-decimal to
// the corresponding bytecode, which is accomplished by subtracting
// from 198 (i.e. 256 - 10 - '0'). The constant parts of LINENO_TOP
// are 198 minus the bytecode for outputting the hundreds to billions
// digit of a number; this makes it possible for a single endian
// shuffle to deal with all 16 of the mid and high digits at once.
Vigilante surveillance: the rise of Beijing’s neighbourhood patrols
FYI: the most effective voluntary diet technique that I've heard of is journalling. Just write down what you eat each day, review it periodically and adjust the portions, and you'll lose weight.

Cutting a soda here and a donut there really adds up. Skipping a day of snacks too. No need to count calories, etc.

(I personally lost most of the weight I needed via ketoacidosis at 6 pounds per week, but HN frowns on recommending that.)
> A "country" doesn't "decide" to make an asset class appreciate or depreciate.

Look up negative gearing in Australia
G20 Leaders Endorse Plan to Block Corporations from Sheltering Profits
it’s strange, i think it’s because the fact the we work with computers all day, to others it’s play time because it doesn’t remind them of fixing bugs or working with spreadsheets all day
I wouldn't call it an ignorant rant per se, unless the author has not spent much time in an Oculus headset.

I had a dev kit in 2013, forgot about it and now have a Quest 2.

Will it take over the world? I'm not sure yet but it is a breathtaking improvement in the past decade IMO.

If I had a sufficiently advanced, light headset, that could mimic all the functions of my smartphone in VR/AR, I can tell you I would ditch my smartphone and probably never look back.

So it's a rant but I'm not sure what about: has the author spent much time in VR lately? Is it Zuckerbergs idea of VR in terms of the sci-fi fictional "metaverse" that bugs them?

I mean the author could be right about this being a flop.. but I'm not sure who it will be a flop for - us or Meta.
No, all investment has to give same expected return(for the same risk) to be counted as investment.
"Roku is really crap to use"

I have used Google TV, Fire TV, Apple TV and Roku. I have used Roku both as a separate device and built into a TV. Out of them all I prefer to use the Roku. I even sold an Apple TV which was given to me and used part of the sale to replace it with a Roku Premiere+ which I found to be a much better experience.
Maybe Charlie Munger can design planned communities for us.
The parent comment asserted that FizzBuzz should never branch. This would require it to not have any backwards control flow, and thus require full unrolling of an infinite sequence. Hence the infeasibility.
I read this three times and I'm still not sure what your point is.
Well, we assume the bottom half of housing, or say, the bottom 60% of housing, would be in the bottom 60% of the nation in terms of desirability. But that doesn't mean it's undesirable or bad housing -- certainly it's not viewed as bad by all those people living there -- that's like 170 million people.
Speaking of insane defaults: I've been working with azure for my latest project at work, using azure app services, which allow you to create "deployment slots" for different deployments(dev, staging, prod or just other customers).

When dealing with azure app services on the command line, you specify the slot with the `-s <slot>` flag.. but if you don't, it defaults to the production slot.

I'm really not sure what kind of moron though that was a good default, because the az CLI doesn't ask you for confirmation for anything. If you run `az webapp restart` you just restarted the production system.
> You log in with your VR headset, create your avatar (that can look like anything you want) and spend all your time in there because it’s so much better than your pathetic real life.

All your time ... or rather until the skin on your face gets irritated due to weiring the headset with a microatmosphere within. Man, this must be a bummer returning to your dystopic shitty apartment. We already consider social media interaction as kin to regular drug consumption (stimulants I suppose) then that experience will be sort of a come down hang over.

> The metaverse is already here, and it’s called the internet.

I beg to differ - experiencing a virtual reality through a comfortable 3D head set is more immersive and exciting.

> Mark Zuckerberg is touting open protocols and interoperability.

"Open" probably just means that they will openly document their APIs.
It is always your own software the one you want to rewrite, because "the second time you'll get it right".
What is it about "balancing a cutout of Europe on a needle"? That has nothing to do with anything. The Warsaw Pact existed for four decades. The Holy Roman Empire existed for a millennium. Guess which one shaped the country more. The important thing is that it used to have one of the communist governments that GGP talked about.
Anecdotally, an acquaintance of mine had to put down a ~$US10K non-refundable deposit (several monthly wages back then, even for her way-above-average income at that time) to just be allowed to compete for a rented flat in Prague with other prospective tenants...more than twenty years ago. So well before any AirBnB or anything like that.
Agreed.

I don't think any of these things are substitutes for each other. A book about the arctic is not an alternative to a visit. It's a substitute for another book, maybe.

The main way VFR competes with other stuff is competition for time, in the sense that TV, social media and such are.
right? or why can’t he just build some space stuff like the rest of the billionaires lol
Your comment's... https://stratechery.com/2021/meta/ in a nutshell.

But: As evidenced by the Gaming industry and the Entertainment industry ($150b+ combined rev), folks do want to escape from their usual environment.

If you're Facebook, and your mission's to connect the world, then metaverse sounds like one plausible solution to make that happen.
Facebook’s new name Meta means dead in Hebrew
Hmm, what do you mean? You don't have to use either of those with Harbormaster.
Ofc.

Nobody thinks he's cool in this world, so he'll just spam "new worlds" until somebody thinks he's cool in one of them.
I think it depends... I really dislike brutalist architecture but I have seen same concrete buildings that I really liked. I remember university library where I used to spend a lot of time reading - it was made from raw concrete but in more modern style: huge windows (basically all glass wall), the concrete was contrasted with wood and some bright colors (orange carpets if I remember correctly) - it was really pleasant to be there, it felt sunny and somehow "natural".
How is it an “unfair” advantage? It’s just an advantage. It’s not like getting a good nights sleep is something that requires an exorbitant amount of money.
Very good note. There should be (in the sense that treaties were signed), just not that those treaties are ratified by important countries (and therefore enforced). IAEA is weaker than WHO (relatively speaking), as I know the only reduction treaties (it's a series) that are successful is between US and Russia (nuclear arms successor of the Soviet Union), which is only two of nine who openly have nuclear weapons, not to mention the (around) five alleged-but-never-admitted nuclear states, and many more that may have dormant technical capability that can be used when it really gone bad.

(edited because I forgot about New START)
> That version of the virus can't be massively different from Cov-19.

Yes it can. Labs specifically study, and propagate, mutations. A lab can do in years what might take nature decades. If it did originate from a lab, we very likely would never find a close enough progenitor in nature to know where things started (what strain the lab started with).
Wtf. We really live in different worlds. Most programs you use in your desktop are not "toolbars-forms-dialogs-and-buttons" ? What exactly do you use ? Braille interface ?
If they're doing that, eventually people will not really bother with the physical car - the prices for the physical car on the used markets would likely plummet (unless ownership is always tied to the metaverse one)
VR has been a bust because decent VR requires a heavy thing attached to your head, basically an empty room in your house, and a computer that (at least pre-covid auto prices) cost more than many of the cars on the road in the United States.

My friend has had a vive for years, he has an entire room dedicated to it so you can actually walk around. Its being driven by a several thousand dollar computer and makes the room unusable for anything else as you have to keep the floor vacant so you can actually walk around. If I had a room to spare, and 5-6k dollars to drop, I'd have it but when you're taking home about $500 a week and don't have an empty room...

The cheaper options, where you're just sitting on your couch, aren't nearly as engaging or interesting (at least to me). Another thing to consider is how many people wear glasses, and how poorly these things work while wearing glasses because they mask them into your face and/or fog. If I want to get custom lens inserts, I'm looking at another $300-500 cost every 12-18 months (that's assuming any can actually accommodate my astigmatism and the prism requirements I need).
The numbers in the article seem wrong. The median family income in 1965 was ~$6,900 (https://www2.census.gov/prod2/popscan/p60-049.pdf) and the median home price in 1965 was certainly less than $100k, probably more in the area of $25k.