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If you use the Amazon Kubernetes service or similar at Google or Azure (EKS, GKE, AKS) you can pretty much let them manage your VMs. With Terraform it’s a breeze, start with the defaults and try different setups.
The intended target audience (serious adult LEGO fans or parents buying for their kids rooms) will want the logo prominently featured. It adds authenticity and therefore significant value.
The best gifts are the ones that you can't consume / eat / drink. So some object that every-time I look at it, it reminds me of the person who bought it for me.
And if any one of them would have gone on for 13 years people would be sick of the damn thing.
Weird gaps of understanding in the introduction. Services don't control pods, services provide a virtual IP that goes to any of the selected pods. Control is done via Deployment, StatefulSet or DaemonSet. ReplicaSet is technically correct, but a bit advanced for an introduction.
The story of Thrasybulus' message is a great one. Highly unlikely to be true as told but it has such great resonance through 2,500 years :-)
What is a real currency? Is USD real? If so, why?

The mining of the USD is oil extraction, especially in war-torn or human rights abusing countries. Why aren't we talking how the US economy is based on extracting and selling and speculating the very thing burning our planet? Not even counting the numerous wars it created.

I don't think the BTC hash function has a hard requirement on using energy from fossil fuels, does it?
> It didn't really matter if the old owner was around to support.

why?
Oh interesting. I had no idea
Zoom allows annotation and drawing on top of a shared screen - actual shared screen, not a separate "whiteboard"

This means I can circle a word or append a box to a diagram on a pdf my colleague is screensharing with me.

I can have non-technical meetings on whatever.

But annotation over shared screens is 100% the feature that keeps me on Zoom for all tech work
> This means that the general public has access to the source code which makes it tick, and that anyone can modify it or improve it to suit their needs.

But most of the OS code is maintained in such a way that only a small group of motivated users would be willing to fiddle with the build infrastructure necessary to even attempt modifying any of the core functionality.

That, along with the long wait times of recompiling, is functionally equivalent to burying entire process of "modifying or improving to suit needs" behind a blockchain. E.g., you have to walk awkwardly through a tarpit to arrive at the modification. (Hint for Blockchain Fans-- that's a bad thing here.)

It would be neat if there were a distro that shipped with all the build desiderata in place. So that I could at least go into ls.c or whatever and add a printf "all your base are belong to us" line and have it just incrementally recompile that single command.

Bonus points for a browser repo that could do that. Let me add a menu option that reads, "Poop" in less than ten seconds. (Btw-- how are incremental builds for browsers? If someone wants to printf their way through a bug, what's the recompile latency like?)

Edit: clarification
Take a few weeks holiday to the EU and solicit it while there; I believe the GDPR would apply to you in that case.
I don't remember much segmentation.

The people who played Quake moved to Quake 2 and Quake 3 and Half-Life, for the most part. It's just that of the three Quakes, Quake has the most long-lived single-player experience.

Half-Life was competing against Quake 2, which was a year old by the time Half-Life came out. I think the general consensus is that Half-Life is just a much better game than Quake 2. Quake 2 had a much better competitive multiplayer experience than Half-Life (my opinion), but Half-Life was much more fun for casual play. The players that moved from Quake to Quake 2 moved to Half-Life.

Steam wasn't a major factor early in Half-Life's release cycle. Half-Life was released in 1998, and Steam didn't come out until 2003. Before then, you'd update Quake, Quake 2, and Half-Life the same way... you'd see a news article on Planet Quake or Planet Half-Life about a new patch and download it, or you'd connect to a server and you'd get an error message. Quake did get updates for a fairly long time, considering... QuakeWorld 2.33 came out in December 1998, when Half-Life was already out. Quake 2 got updates for a while as well, but the online experience of Quake 3 was far superior, and Quake 2's single-player campaign just wasn't great, so not many people cared about Quake 2 updates late in the game's lifecycle.

> Back in the day Quake series was the big games, not Counterstrike. ID Softwares lack of investment opened up the door for Valve.

> It was theirs to loose and they lost it.

Half-Life was just a better game, overall, than Quake 2. It wasn't a lack of investment.

There are various theories revolving around the major "personalities" at ID Software, but I think it's enough to just say that Quake 2 was not as good as Half-Life.
sharing the account probably had the least security issues, considering the alternative is probably a proxy data processor & relayer. with respect to security the question is whether this proxy is the mom or some 3rd party provider. but I assume some automation is desired, in which case there are some companies that attempt to create such solutions but I cannot think of recommendations.
Humidity is indeed the problem! You can live with dry heat but humidity just makes it hard to breathe and it’s such an oppressive, overwhelming presence. And it’s expensive to dehumidify a room via any of the conventional means.
Correct - many modpacks are still on 1.7 or 1.12 anyway.
They have. And this is where the "decentralized storage of video will replace youtube" argument comes from that apparently the person I replied to have never seen. As you mention, this is completely impractical except for the very few people who are willing to spend the enormous overhead for this sort of hosting.
I guess if it comes to that, I would say the only reason home ownership is measured in such a way and thus a meaningful metric, as a percentage of the population rather total number of units which sounds silly already, is to measure the easiness for the young to build a life. Ownership rates bears little to no meaning if we are considering it in the frame of investment wherever you are.
> The "top scoring site" loaded over 60mb of CSS.

This is why my 100GB mobile data plan runs out in 3 days.
But I do understand ptx's confusion in this thread.

After reading through all the tweets and replies, especially this one https://twitter.com/_strlght/status/1467460142279143428 where @arkivanov replies they have the same clause in their contract, this one being 19.4, my belief is that there are other clauses besides this one (19.4.1.. or 19.5 onwards) that place even more restrictions.

I think we need to see the entire section 19 to be able to judge.
> inaccessible to the state without a warrant

I don't think that's quite accurate; I think it's true that the state can't compel access without a warrant, but in general shopkeepers quite like policemen, and will share their footage vountarily.
Step 1, get out of depression. Wellbutrin helped me immensely.
The improved error messages are nice. Maybe Python could go further and offer a fix option so that `python -fix code.py` makes the changes it thinks are needed for the code to be valid.
The quality of the switches in logitech product in the past few years has become laughable. I am currently using a 8 years old 502 because the newer one I got broke after nine months...
Gravitons haven't been discovered yet, if they do exist they're probably as difficult to find as their counterpart AWS instances.
Crypto is not binary.

The vast majority Og people will likely use a custodian for their crypto. For them it will feel like banking feels now.

Just like coinbase provide a visa card with collateral i your crypto.

So essentially these questions really are answered -- it is not an all or nothing. We will keep, eg. Visa to facilitate retailer transactions with collateral in, eg., bitcoin. Bow you can dispute and everything and you pay in crypto.
My biggest gripe is how underwhelming Purism and system76 laptop hardware is relative to even Thinkpads and Framework, let alone MacBooks. I was strongly considering a system76 Lemur Pro early this year, but ultimately landed on a Thinkpad X1 Nano instead because of how much better of a screen the Nano is equipped with and its 16:10 screen ratio among other things.
It's not relevant.

It was not made by humans, that is sci-fi.

If there was a leak, then the lab simply found it first, most likely had no idea what they actually found, and it was only a question of time before people would contract it naturally.

It's plausible there was a lab leak as well as natural contraction.
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I think that's the typical curve of advancement. You expect it to move with noticeable linear speed, but actually what one usually perceives is that short term changes are surprisingly small, while long term changes are surprisingly large.

I mean - I took 25 years from first non-exploding V2 flight to the first moon landing. Given it took them 7 years just to build the turbo pump in the engine 25 years is quite a short time to get from a munitions deployment platform to a human space program.

I think there is stagnation in some areas, probably because everyone was been interested in finding out what you can do with the internet, but I think we've now reached the stage where it's part of daily plumbing and not exciting and new anymore, and perhaps more brainpower will be available to figure out what fancy things we can design with this ephemeral super computing capacity.
That’s a pretty interesting edge case.

Now that you’ve said this I do remember Richard Dawkins making that argument. That’s pretty compelling.
This is likely the solid-state glass battery that he filed a patent for last year [0].

Oh, and he did win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2019[1].

[0] https://thedriven.io/2020/04/06/li-ion-co-inventor-patents-g...
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_B._Goodenough
And eventually maybe it'll all converge back to the rational way to do things: a base set of shared libraries provided by the OS that maintain strict ABI compatibility, and everything else static.
Looks nice!

Suggestion: currently the examples page [0] only shows the output.
Maybe show both the input and the output there, so people can see what they need to put in a file to get that result?

Edit: I created a PR [1] to show you what I mean.

[0] https://arnaud.at/raito/#/examples

[1] https://github.com/arnaudsm/raito/pull/1
Somewhat related, a few weeks ago I managed to fix a Microsoft Sculpt Ergonomic mouse which I've been using for about 3 years.

I would have to click a few times before it would register one click. Very annoying. Just like in this post, the problem was the switches. But in my case, the switches were micro switches. Not knowing where to order the correct parts and having no soldering skills, I decided to pry open the micro switch. Luckily it was possible.

Taking the metal cap off, inside the switch there was a rubber membrane and a flexible metal disk. The disk was similar to a jar lid. The edges would touch the circuit board, and pushing the center of the metal disk, it would make it touch some conductive part of the board and it would "close the circuit".

The problem was that the flexible metal disk inside the micro switch was dirty. Oxidized, probably. I cleaned it, put the switch back together and the mouse works perfectly.
Yes, and with a far smaller carbon footprint than blockchain-based messaging.
Given the comment elsewhere that having multiple people on a project wasn't possible because they'd not meet their goals then, presumably the old owners were more than busy with their new tasks and helping others wasn't a priority.
There was a comment on the recent Blender 3.0 thread posted here wondering why there isn't an equivalent program for audio. This looks very polished and much more approachable compared to Ardour or LMMS, and seems like a good candidate. But one feature I really wish my dream "Blender for audio" had would be the convenient device view that Ableton and Bitwig offer for working quickly with effects. It's so much faster than the type of effect chains offered by DAWs like FL and makes it fun to mess around and experiment with effects-based synthesis. Looking at the screenshots and videos it looks like Zrythm doesn't have this feature, although I understand how tedious it would be to implement because you would essentially have to write your own effects or create wrappers around others to expose an interface that can fit in a device view. Probably not high on the list of priorities for a work in progress DAW
You need the phone in an unlocked state to access the data though. There are tools[0] for brute forcing the PIN out there, which is why if you want to avoid such an attack you should a strong passphrase rather than a pin and turn off bio-metric auth.

[0] https://www.grayshift.com/graykey/
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I was with you up until here:

> A diesel generator is by far the cheapest way to generate that much power.

Natural Gas generators (like the OP’s) are much cheaper.
> I've always thought that if a company claims rights over what you do outside worktime

A lot of people are assuming this was done separate from his job, but that doesn't appear to be the case.

Badoo/Bumble isn't trying to claim ownership of other projects he did, just the ones that were closely related to his Badoo/Bumble work during his employment.
Mao was starving the Chinese into the sixties, sixty years ago. Soviets maintained a massive system of forced labour into the fifties. So whatever moral progress modern world achieved it is pretty recent, and imho remains shaky, based largely on the fact that we're too wealthy thanks to tech to bother with more brutal forms forms of exploitation.
It can be crazy, in your opinion, but the fact is fractional reserve banking has been a standard practice in banking since the invention of banking. I don't know of any country where it's illegal. Whether it would be legal for crypto-exchanges, which typically don't have a banking license, to engage in fractional reserve banking I don't know. Even if it was illegal in the US, it could be legal in Cayman Islands, or elsewhere, and the result would be the same—an inflated supply of bitcoins circulating around the world. Also a lot of exchanges don't seem to be regulated at all. The ones that are regulated could just get a banking license.
The uptime is probably much better in cities than in rural areas. In Portugal, having run home servers both in a city and rural locations the difference is immense. I get more uptime out of a city server with no UPS than a rural server with a UPS that can power the server for ~30min. There are more long outages in rural areas than even transient outages in the city.
> We need, as a society, an ID document. In the UK, we end up making it up through the use of a passport/DL and a combination of various other official letters.

A voluntary national ID could be useful, something that effectively the same as a driving licence, but available to all U.K. residents without cost. Not sure I agree we _need_ it, existing documents work surprisingly well.

> Young adults end up carrying their passports just so they can prove their age to go drinking - do you not see that this is a problem?

They can get a provisional driving licence instead, it cheaper than a passport. There’s also no requirement to use an in-date passport. Bars and pubs will happy accept an expired passport with it corner snipped, as long as the photo is recognisable.

> idea that an ID card is somehow anti-democratic is ridiculous and, frankly, far fetched.

I never made this claim. Democracies are just as capable of committing atrocities as totalitarian states, they just tend to do less frequently and with better PR. I personally think people should think seriously about who they hand their identity data too, examine what benefits it might provide, but also consider how it could be abused in the future. I like the fact that most databases in the U.K. are difficult to integrate because there’s no clear single identifier for a person, joining data requires a degree of fuzzy matching and creates opportunities to challenge government agencies.

> Fraud, in the UK, takes place on an industrial scale.

I’m well aware of the scale of fraud in the U.K., I’ve spent years developing systems to prevent it, and run full on into the issues caused by a lack of national ID. However I still believe the trade-off is worth it. I’ve seen to many examples private organisations effectively running a shadow judicial system that can prevent and individual from accessing essentials societal services, like banking, with no oversight or appeals process. A national ID would just make it easier to build these systems, and innocent people who get caught up will pay the price (for a fraudster, getting caught is just the cost of business, they go in with their eyes wide open).

The ultimate goal of society is not to produce the most efficient economic system. There are trade-offs to be made, and achieving zero fraud is far more problematic that having some fraud.
I'm referring to this part of the article:

> In the b1.8 update [September 2011], the terrain generator was subject to a rewrite aimed to make the code simpler, and make the terrain more realistic. ... at the time it caused quite a controversy, a thread on the Minecraft Forums decried the new terrain as "boring".

What does "realistic" mean to you? Are you looking at it like a geologist? If we follow rland's idea to completion, Minecraft players should look for kimberlite pipes to find diamonds, etc.

I'm certain some people would love virtual prospecting like this. But I strongly doubt the game would be as popular.
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> I agree that etherium is not a classic pyramid scheme, but for me it fits many criteria so I feel like it's a fair simple description accessible to anyone

I think you can only say this if you believe that the services provided by the Ethereum network are only valuable to individuals perusing illegitimate activities. Do you really think that there is not any legitimate use for Ethereum?

> I don't think etherium is necessarily a bad investment if you have no moral or are not well informed

Is it immoral to invest in Ethereum if you truly believe in the promise of the technology? Are you saying that anyone who believes in the promise of the technology is ill informed?
I would still be wary about committing to Docker Swarm, even Mirantis' home page is pushing Kubernetes.
Good point. I believe he mentioned something about doing an additional video where he wants to put the whole challenge into context, by comparing it to Windows from the point of view of a novice user.
I like to drop this link when this topic comes up and also recommend reading anything by Vernor Vinge. My favorite is Across Realtime.

https://longnow.org/seminars/02007/feb/15/what-if-the-singul...
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Should be (2017). 2014 is the date of the anecdote at the beginning of the article.
Same, except I use an STM32 and an esp8266 piggy-backed to it. But I would definitely prefer hard-wired over wifi for anything with an uptime requirement.
I think your reaction is a typical one I see; but it leads to burnout as people spend some time and realize that the vast majority of the problems left are Really Hard Problems with a sociological element. We’ve solved all of the big problems that can be solved by a small team; most “innovation” these days is just folks reinventing a wheel they didn’t know existed (which speaks to the Really Hard Problem of even knowing when real innovation has happened or are just the bombastic claims of a charlatan, and there not being enough hours in the day to differentiate between the two at scale.)
We can do keyword spotting with microcontrollers now. All kinds of techniques like quantization and tree pruning are squeezing down more capable NLP models further and further. There is dedicated analog hardware being developed for in-memory compute (ReRAM, photonic). TinyML/AIoT is shaping up to be one of the most society-defining technologies of this decade.
Digging straight down is a speedrun strategy of last resort for modern versions. The typical progression to enter the Nether is to start by getting 7 iron (3 for an iron pick, 3 for a bucket, 1 for a flint and steel). You want to get that, grab some food, and be in the nether at around 3 minutes.

Doing that by digging down is not really feasible. There are two main routes.

In the village route, you spawn next do a village with a blacksmith. You get some iron or an iron pick from the blacksmith, kill the iron golem for the remaining iron, grab some wheat and then find a nearby lava pool or completable ruined portal. There are variations where you can trade with a villager for a bucket, but by then most speedrunners would have already reset.

The second and more typical modern route is using ocean. You locate a shipwreck which gives you iron and food. Then you find a ravine that has magma blocks (indicating there's lava underneath) and use that to build your portal. To my knowledge this isn't viable in 1.18's world gen though.

When speedrunners do go underground in the overworld, they'll usually try to find a cave first to find exposed iron and lava. Digging down is the last choice.
I can see why you might think that on a first impression, but I genuinely think you’d be surprised! (Book has been discussed on HN quite a few times, e.g., https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25717949.)
“ it is very hard to see in the pile of punitive-only measures.”

Aka unreasonable. Which sort of makes the point. But also - it’s tough for me to be civil when your argument is, “why isn’t anyone taking my feelings into account?”, when that has literally never been the standard for anything related to a common good. I don’t care how you feel about being allowed to drive drunk, because it’s dangerous to others. I don’t care if you don’t want to allow minorities to live in your neighborhood, they have the right to live wherever they want. And I don’t care if you don’t want to get one more vaccination on top of the 5+ we require for work and/or school, it is part of participating in a functional society.

If no one hears you “crying out for help”, think of how the people whose lives have been affected by this disease feel, knowing that there are people who COULD be helping but don’t want to.
There are some that are direct. Cryptocurrencies do provide novel features for users. Whether those features are desirable or beneficial enough to justify the huge price of these tokens (and further growth) is something people disagree on. I also think that ETH does provide novel capabilities with distributed computation. But again, the cost is enormous. This makes it hard for many people to buy the idea that the whole web will transition to this model.

For auth though, I agree with you. The only thing new here is that a lot of people have public/private key pairs that never had them before. Maybe this means that adoption is easier but I'm skeptical that this is a meaningful difference over existing signature-based authentication systems.
You should go and talk to some actual police officers trying to investigate actual crimes. I’ve talked to quite a few when working for a company that specialised in dealing with CCTV, and I was trying sell stuff to the police.

I can tell you with some confidence that U.K. CCTV infrastructure, both state run and private, is a complete joke, and almost completely useless. Try giving an officer CCTV footage of a bike being stolen, and you’ll quickly discover how useless it is.
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