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I've got mixed feelings on this. If you give a good engineer enough time, he/she can figure out anything -- but there's a shortage of good engineers in the world these days -- and often a shortage of time.

We once had a senior guy that claimed he was "devops" and worked with redhat, but didn't understand the bash shell, nor what "export" meant. It would be one thing if he said he didn't know unix/linux and was learning because he had been working in windows all of his life, but he was as fraudulent as they come.

It would have been fine had he been acknowledging this, and seeking me, or others out for help, but instead he started sending his PR's to junior people for approval, who just simply assumed his code worked.

It worked great until a prod deployment failed, and I was the one who had to spend a late Friday night figuring out why it failed. Turns out if the guy had just run the script, he would have seen it fail instantly.
Fair enough, but in many cases some attendees attend only by inertia and would be better off declining instead anyway. Which is probably good overall if the meeting is indeed "stupid".
guy gets more and more into the scam game. probably using the last ice storm to project huge windfalls.
One thing that you'll see happen is, something is supplied with an example or test key and at some point somebody who doesn't understand what's going on need a "Private key". Huh. Where can I get a "Private key"? Oh, here's one, I'll use that. Sometimes it's in the context where it was found, but sometimes far away from that.

For example, back in March 2020, somebody on m.d.s.policy wondered why seemingly unrelated Web PKI certs had the same private key. So I stared at the certs and I came to the following conclusion:

This company Paessler makes a Windows tool called PRTG with a web interface. It is supplied with a demo certificate. So you set up the tool on a Windows server and it basically works, but the certificate isn't trustworthy.

Some people will click "Ignore" and press on. This is horribly insecure but what's new?

However, some people will decide they need to get a Certificate. Getting a certificate requires a Private Key. Fortunately, PRTG is supplied with a Private Key so no need to go learn how to make one yourself.

So, the people who made PRTG didn't screw up here in the sense that they really did make a test or demo key, and from their point of view obviously it isn't sensitive since everybody has the same key.

Unfortunately their users may not realise and come to depend on this key as "their" private key, and so in this sense it is sensitive, just not for the people who made it.

--

Regardless of who minted the key you have, and whether they understood its importance, in the Web PKI the correct thing to do is always the same and should be pretty easy:

Revoke the certificates for these public keys. Email contacts or Instructions are here: https://ccadb-public.secure.force.com/ccadb/AllProblemReport...

For Let's Encrypt you can actually do this mechanically, their API will accept proof you know the private key as grounds to revoke the certificate even though that's not listed above.

If the CA refuses to revoke a certificate you've genuinely proved you have the key for (follow any instructions carefully) or just goes silent with no action for a prolonged period, report this problem to m.d.s.policy yourself. You should not need to send the private key itself to anybody as "proof" you have it, the whole point of private keys is that you can prove you know this key without revealing it.
You are absolutely on the right path, IMHO... in my market we have a lot of land, but the zoning of it is such that it is arduous to build. Likewise, what can be built profitably is not necessarily affordable for buyer. I see gaps at every price point - the first time buyer has to either buy a poorly built new construction that they can barely afford, or they have to buy older construction where they may not have the equity or capital to property maintain. At the top of market, IE: luxury, builders are hesitant to build without a ready buyer because of the massive outlay, especially knowing that those buyers are very selective. Middle of the market you end up with properties that smell of builders trying to push up price and perceived amenities while being very careful to not push up their costs. So you end up with nice houses on terrible lots, or you end up with cheap construction with a varnish of granite and stainless steel appliances to make it look better than it is.
I would be interested in talking about it if you or anyone else came up with it. I find the seal very aesthetically pleasing.
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I don't think it's a stretch to say that the primary maintainer, the person who wrote the (extremely slapdash) build scripts and knows exactly why it's copying folders during the build process, is going to get the changes done faster than someone who is not knowledgeable with the tools and codebase? Writing code isn't painting fences, it's like asking me to replace a set of levers on an industrial piping system, except at least then the specifications of the prior levers would be available and there would be documentation for the whole thing.
I recall Energy Footprint of Blockchain Consensus Mechanisms
Beyond Proof-of-Work [1] showing Polkadot comparative to visa in energy efficiency, and Tezos and Hedera significantly more energy efficient than visa, and Eth. 2.0 optimistically more energy efficient than visa.

Platform | Per transaction (kW h/tx)
Eth. 2.0 | 0.00009 – 0.00286 (High throughput projection)
Eth. 2.0 | 0.01823 – 0.55713 (Low throughput projection)
Algorand | 0.00017 – 0.00534
Cardano | 0.01239 – 0.37854
Polkadot | 0.00378 – 0.11556
Tezos | 0.00036 – 0.01096
Hedera | 0.00002 – 0.00004
Bitcoin | 360.39300 – 3691.40700
VisaNet | 0.00358

[1] http://blockchain.cs.ucl.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/UC...
Yeah, kind of crazy that we’ll put that kind of pressure on students when this is in many ways out of their control. If someone happened to pick or be given a path that’s a dead end…
Post paid plans are credit. It’s allowing you to consume goods, then pay for them after the fact.

Sure, it’s short term credit (sub 30 days), but it’s still credit.
In regards to bike-rider behavior on roads, of course cyclists appear "misbehaved" on roads. The roads are not designed for cyclists, so we have to fight with the design of the transport network to get anywhere

Car-oriented transport infrastructure has been a terrible mistake. Don't blame the cyclists for trying to salvage something from the wreckage.
Don't think it's just about coolness.

In .NET there is usually one way to do things, the MS way. You don't have options. Whatever MS prescribes is practiced by most enterprise shops. I remember arguing for something closer to MVC (several open source solutions) when ASP.NET forms was the way to do things. It wasn't until ASP.NET MVC came out that enterprise shops came on board.

I still see a lot of documentation that shows Visual Studio screenshots. How am I supposed to do that on Linux? .NET still feels like a Windows first solution. You will not find official docs for Python, Node or Go using OS-specific IDE or editor screenshots.
I bet those groups pay well though
So the alternative to making the bikes take a detour was that there would be more congestion, not that the road would be closed to cars entirely?

It sure doesn't sound like the "bike special interests" were the ones being unreasonable here.
This continually comes up.

It doesn't matter. The people who don't already agree aren't on Hacker News.
There is a significant difference between recreational level exercise and work-every-day-because-you-have-no-other-method that's burning potentially >1000 calories per day and measurably increasing your food bill.
Nothing wrong with having children. It’s an honorable, self-sacrificing choice.
It would construct a page that includes a part that's genuinely verified (so the browser displays the verified image) and a part that's malicious, but arrange it so that it looks like the verification goes with the malicious part.
A lot of Americans are morbidly afraid of their children being away from adult supervision for more than a minute. I think suggesting 10 year olds ride a bike instead of taking a car or bus might infuriate more than a few people.
You can just check out Roslyn code and compare it with FSC code. Trust me, compiler code quality/complexity is the main cause.
E-scooters might be a way in. They're not as fast or as safe (to the rider), but they're practical in way e-bikes aren't due to portability. You can carry one into the office and charge it under your desk. And they lack the cultural baggage of cycling. And it's possible to look suave on one in a way that bicycles make difficult.
I like that e-bikes are getting more people on two-wheeled transportation.

I dislike that people are effectively riding motorcycles on dedicated bike paths.

I especially dislike that companies get to profit from cluttering public spaces with bicycle and scooter litter.

My hope is that long-term we get the e-bikes into the street where they belong and combine that with traffic calming measures to make scooter commuting feasible from a safety perspective.
In Sydney they have been adding cycle lanes to a lot of roads. I don’t bike because Sydney drivers are terrible. But it’s a real half measure. They need to aggressively push out drivers I think.
No they are not. It is just some sort of internet legend going around right now. If I had to play the odds I would consider RSA more secure than curves simply because RSA has been solid for much longer than the current curves have existed.
Just had this happen to me with my Microsoft/Minecraft account. I had migrated my mojang account 2 days ago and today I was told that apparently they "detected some activity that violates our Microsoft Services Agreement" and locked my account. They did not explain what the violation was and apparently it would magically go away if I verified my phone number (which they did not have before).

Never doing any buissness with ms again.
Speed limits are not enforced in my corner of the country and the limits are way too low; it’s regular to do 85 in a 45. I’m additionally dubious of the ability of police to actually catch a speeding cyclist; when I was a college kid I easily outran the campus bike cops simply by being in good shape.
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If you pay Canonical you get 10 years for Ubuntu LTS, about the same as paying Microsoft for Windows Server/Enterprise.
The difference is that if Google blocks your account you might lose access to a hundred sites where you were using it for login. If a forum owner blocks your account you only use that one account.

I've never used "sign in with Google" for anything.
Constraint Systems – 22 interfaces for creating and editing images and text
The Computer History Museum has some oral histories from folks who worked in this era. They don't have the 8086 design team, but they have different panels featuring people from the 8080, Z80, and 680x0 design teams. (Some from an 8086 marketing team too)
Without grants, those people would just not have a job in the field.
To be pedantic, Python has exactly zero official package managers. Nothing in packaging is “official” (well maybe distutils is but it’s also officially deprecated).
Not everyone has the same UI tastes _shrug_. There's no need to turn this into a bikeshed on UI tastes.
It doesn't have some AT capable "serial" port avaiable? A bit surprising.
A poor choice in C indeed, but languages like Haskell or (it seems, don't know much about it myself) TCL are practically made for it. Debugging "own control flow operators" is nothing very special there, mostly because control flow operators themselves aren't very special in those languages.

From another way to look at it, nobody seems to bat an eye when using things like items.forEach() in, say, Node.js, even if this sort of thing is arguably much uglier to do in JavaScript vs. a "first class" functional language where common control flow operators are often just plain functions themselves.
PDF should be replaced since it is absurdly complex, yet HTML cannot do it. The important requirement is for multiplatform print-oriented rendering, HTML is far too free-flowing and differs too much between viewers. Any replacement must have this basic property.
Design your own crypto exchange
This is from 2011? Before fzf [0] was a thing, I imagine...

0: https://github.com/junegunn/fzf
We just hired some new guys who had never developed in the language we use. They had some Java, Python and PHP background.

Sent them on a course and within a couple of weeks they were committing stuff with minimal review needed in terms of language things.

It's now been a year and they're still learning about our code base. For me it took about two-three years before I felt comfortable on my own in the most-used areas.
There are use cases for lz4, I've had one in an embedded project. Slowish SoC (i.MX6 DualLite IIRC), relatively fast storage (eMMC - these tend to perform better than regular MMC). I measured boot time for the available kernel compression options and lz4 won by 100-200 ms or so compared to the next best option, which may have been gzip. It didn't make a big dent in overall boot time, but not bad for just setting an option. zstd, if available, which it wasn't, would have gotten a marginally worse result probably. IIRC, lzma was slower than uncompressed.
I'm glad I asked. It's been a very long time since I've done statistics. I'll definitely put more time into refreshing the basics.

Are these questions asked on a computer? As in do you allow the applicants to program it up and show you a working version, or do you have to perform it there on the spot on the blackboard?
i think this is a valid use-case for web3. wallet addresses avoid the PII implications that I’ve seen a lot of people mention.
I don't think this is true. I lived in SF for a while (assumedly this meets your definition of built up), and there's plenty of space.

The key is that cars don't belong in most places anyway. A residential street can easily be design as a 10mph one way cobblestone road with calming measures, freeing up the "other direction" side of the street for a 2-way bike lane and expanded sidewalks. Larger roads can be redesigned similarly for bike/transit with cars filling in particular niches like delivery of bulk items, etc.
That and they often work at night when it’s extremely unsafe to bike
> Pinterest makes it obnoxiously difficult to view any image hosted on its platform without signing up for an account.

Newspaper site results are similarly useless: click on search result, get "this article is for subscribers only."
Rolling stops are fine, I have no problem with that. That's a good effort, gives you time to really examine the area.
Don't blast through at full speed even if it looks clear. That's a bad unsafe habbit.
Not sure how common this is in other places but in Massachusetts a fair number of rail trails have sprung up over the past few decades--often over considerable opposition in some town or another. Some, like the Minuteman, were explicitly "bikeways" (although pedestrians and, for a time at least, rollerblades are also common). Others have always been pitched as mixed use.

In any case, it's pretty much a non-starter to prohibit at least conventional bikes or pedestrians even though, on the more crowded and narrower paths, I'll avoid them during busy times as a walker.
Of course if someone wants to cheat at this they can, even with those deterrents. It's a fun cat and mouse game for the cheater, less so for the developer. :) I'd recommend reading Greg Gaffer's articles. He gets into a lot of detail on this in networked multiplayer games. https://gafferongames.com
I often criticize designs for being overcomplicated. I wouldn't level that criticism towards this seal, though, and I don't have the skill to make it.
Except the road conditions totally changed. At the beginning of the pandemic, you had hardly any traffic anywhere. No more were people being slowed down to 25mph on the freeway by a traffic jam. You could easily cruise 60mph into the city for a long time. Suddenly, a morning wreck meant someone crashed at 60 instead of 25.
delta is a beast

“ Researchers found the effectiveness of the Pfizer vaccines against delta variant infections was 93% a month after the second dose and fell to 53% after four months. “

“… AstraZeneca vaccine’s performance against the Delta variant, which found around a 33% efficacy rate.“
can anyone explain me the intuition of naming these types decentralized and distributed?

Both seem decentralized and distributed
I know the author is trying to be cute, but this:

> the sole real seat of power is the office of the presidency

is plainly wrong. The president still can lose their majority in parliament, they still can have an hostile prime minister, and they still don’t control the judges. There are many examples of the 3 powers slipping away from the president at various times after De Gaulle. A minority president is also becoming more and more likely as the candidates struggle and the parties keep shooting themselves in their respective feet. Not a great start.

> The key difference of course is that in the US the President cannot dissolve Congress at his or her leisure.

Dissolving the parliament, whilst a possibility, is politically very risky and quite often works against whoever is doing the dissolving (there are many historical examples in France and elsewhere). It is a threat, but a hollow one. It is quite similar to the motions of non confidence in that respect.

> It was the last time a French parliament truly exercised its powers, on the cusp of losing them all.

The parliament, of course, did not do itself any favour with the constant bickering, instability, and general ineffectiveness in the couple of years and decades before that point. Not that long before that parliament itself committed democratic suicide with Pétain. It’s a bit hypocritical to lament the shifting of the political centre of gravity in the context.

> People know it is the only election that really matters, and they use it as an opportunity to count themselves, that is, the relative size and power of their parties or factions, and yes, to protest.

This is also very debatable. Of course, some people think this, and it is reinforced by the popularity contest that the presidential elections have become. However, the cabinet is responsible for most policies, and who ends up there is determined by the legislative elections. The cabinet is useless only when act as the president’s foot soldiers, but they don’t necessarily have to.

Anyway. The article mixes interesting takes and information with questionable interpretations.
Is the list of victims on the “About” page?
Count me in as another WindowServer casualty. Can't believe it's 2021 and MacOS can't handle a 4K external monitor without grinding to a halt...
So youre saying lets say me as a programmer, loosing my both hands (car crash OuTside of work) or whatever that would prevent me from working indefinitely i can count on that company to take care of me and my needs until end of my life like a good familly would? But a decent one, not minimum of social or money from insurance.

Or if i need 3 years off/break because i need to think about my life (lol) theyre gonna welcome it and still pay me?

Youre speaking about working for someone for life hoping that you'll get apprieciated and get a piece of cake.

Or boss of your "famillial" values company is so loyal to you that if he gets 10 mil extra more he'll split it evenly according to workload everyone in company put in to get to that place? I truly doubt it. For sure there are exceptions, but in 19 out of 20 cases the head of "family company" would put 9 mil in "family" pocket and spread 1 mil... If they would. Probably you would get some generous bonus, but thats it. Lets not be naive.

Family is family, it should be unconditional love, i dont see that working in any company.

Btw. Startups are well known to pay lower and give you options for future stocks...
And let me know which multigenerettional company would let you take over their business... Considering theres a lot of heirs to get them or the company is big enough to be publicly traded.

Bulding effective team yes, tribe culture (wouldnt pass for me, but ok) yes, but not family. Companies are there to make money and owner takes the most because they (usually) take the biggest risk.

If youre extrovert then what you wrote can work for you, but thats it. It will not work for any introvert, because we rarely look for "family" at work.

Game studios... Well known for crunch time, over hours and a lot of promises... I know a lot of devs who says its like working on assembly line, no thank you unless its extremely well paid or interestong... Check it, in stackoverflow yearly stats the game devs are least happy/optimistoc about their work and future. But theres no need for that "family" style :)
I think it's charitable to say there are even two fully useful evasive actions on a bike. An absolutely tiny contact patch and low weight mean that there's simply not enough traction for any sort of aggressive change in direction or speed without ending up off the bike.

What's pernicious about this is, that under normal circumstances most people won't have ridden a bike past these limits, maybe ever, so the first time you realize your bike can go from well behaved to on the pavement instantly is the worst time for it to happen.
I’m not sure why responsible riders wouldn’t want to see huge groups of riders asserting their equal right to public space?

Critical Mass helped spur NYC’s bike lane growth. If you’re against direct action that’s fine, but it’s hard for me to see what works better in initiating long term transformation than direct action protests like Critical Mass.
In the context of regulating or evaluating company behavior, yes, it would not make sense to consider human bodies as the planetary environment.