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No, you really don't want to experience them. Transiting them by any means is an exercise in frustration. Cars and trucks clog the asphalt. Sidewalks are few and not interconnected. Two shops might be next to each other, but you have to drive between them because walking is like Frogger brought to life. So you waste your day sitting at red lights, being honked at, and wishing you were anywhere else.
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Can you cite some of those declarations?
I'm waiting for AR glasses tech to catch up with my imagination. It will fix my presbyopia (along with zoom and magnify functions) and do nifty things like dim oncoming headlights and highlight potential road hazards. I have no idea how far off this is, but I'm starting to wonder if I'll see it in my lifetime based on how weak current AR solutions are.
> I think it's a mistake to refer to any of this as "glob expansion"

Since we are being pedantic regarding the terms, while I can't really find "glob expansion" in the Bash manual either, it documents a bunch of "glob" settings: "noglob", "GLOBIGNORE", "dotglob", "extglob"...[1]

FWIW, I expected to find these in the Bash info page on Ubuntu, but curiously, "info bash" does not show up the info page (just the fallback manpage) — "info find" does work. Whatever happened to (tex)info pages?

[1]https://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/gnu/bash/manual/bash....
That's impressive. Was he a player entity with the visual of a flag, or was he immobile and useless?
Look also at Heron's automatic door, 1st century AD.

Lighting a pyre changed the water pressure in a container, which then used basic hydraulic concepts to open a temple door. It is imagined that it would be used to imitate magic. Light the fire after a sacrifice and suddenly a higher power would open the door to the temple.

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Availability_bias

Twitter used to go down so frequently the "fail whale" was a whole cultural thing.

Big AWS outages are rare, but hardly new.

https://www.theregister.com/2017/03/01/aws_s3_outage/

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/10/amazo...
Just to nitpick right back at you, if Assange had not published his journalism and its source materials you'd never had heard of him and he would not qualify as famous. So that makes him a world famous journalist.

The idea that Trump is famous for playing golf is risible is your point but it does not apply here. There is nothing else that gained Assange fame other than publishing more scoops than any other journalist ever has. by orders of magnitude. Your nitpick is like trying to claim Tiger Woods is world famous for being the victim of domestic violence who also happens to play golf.
I have a few successful colleagues (former) and friends at amazon.

I don't think anyone I know who works there or has worked there liked the culture at all. For most, it's just an aspirational resume building step - it looks great to be a former Amazon employee but I don't think many really see it as a great place to go and stay.
>Many companies spend enough on AWS to buy an entire rack of hardware at a different data center every month and pay 2-3 employees to manage it. That hardware would be up to 100X as fast and powerful as what they rent at AWS and bandwidth would be almost free. That's a really distorted market. The amortized costs should not be this different.

I think the issue here is that it's not zero-cost to switch. Your processes will adapt to some implicit assumptions that aren't true outside AWS, Azure, or whatever vendor you locked yourself into.

If we somehow managed to have a completely standardized interface here, the market would be more competitive.
Denmark started limiting use of lead shot hunting in the mid-1980'ies, eventually leading to a total ban in the mid 90'ies. After some initial resistance, it seems it has since become accepted. No statistically significant increase in woundings have been observed, nor any statistically significant increase in hunter injuries due to ricochets either.

See https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30506141/
Visions of the future is really important here. That's kind of lost prominence in tech writing these days. (Did we all decide we had a big enough dose of the future for now? There's a lot of existing tech that's mind-blowing, and still hard to catch up with, I guess)

I'd probably start with Isaac Arthur.
Plenty of people get extradited from the US to face charges abroad. Sacoolas is more an exception than a rule. Likely the only reason why she would not be extradited is because she's a "diplomat" (aka a spook or the wife of a spook). It kinda sucks that the US protects members of its intelligence services from criminal charges abroad, but the fact that it does that is kinda irrelevant to whether other, unrelated extraditions should go forward.

I have to admit though it would be interesting if the UK played a game of tit for tat here. We will extradite Assange, but only after you send us Sacoolas. But they probably won't because Assange being prosecuted is also in their national interest, whereas Sacoolas facing her charges has little bearing on UK national interests.
I was just thinking to myself that they dont make software like this anymore. But then I saw the latest release info. Wonderful.

>Stable release 3.3.2 / November 4, 2021; 36 days ago
The vocabulary has changed somewhat, but the culture wars have been going on for a long time.
A particular note on the famous "Collateral Murder" video that Wikileaks released. Despite many saying this shows cold blooded murder or something similar even a cursory look at the wikipedia page[1] shows the context was that the military men thought they saw a group with several people having weapons (in this case AK-47s and RPGs, something Assange himself agreed with) and combined with the fact there was a firefight nearby decided these people are terrorists and thus killed them. Not to deter from any legal consequences this seems to be an accident stemming from incorrect identification and the drone operators acted thinking this group were terrorists, not that they just randomly killed these people for fun like many people believe.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,_2007,_Baghdad_airstri...
I mostly agree, but this is a double-edged sword. I recently had a 6 hour outage due to lots and lots of waiting on a fix from our managed database provider. Had we been running the DB ourselves, I would have had the permissions to monitor the DB and caught the issue early (it was a pretty trivial thing to monitor). If we had gone down, I would have been able to run my restore within an hour, rather than 6. And lastly, self-hosted performance was much better than it's been with a managed DB.
Youtube has everything now, including channels with Popular Mechanics reviews and project builds.

Also, I recommend people who have space buy old issues of Unix Magazine and Unix Review, which were interesting for both historical and technical reasons (lots of pro scripts.)

Byte was a great general purpose magazine, but was also too thick (ads) for most people to archive.
Going back to the land of the free!

USA the country with the most jailed in the world, even China with 5x more population

It is baffling how they keep lecturing the world
The politics of the Zionists (and Arabs) were pretty fluid before the Holocaust.
Chaim Arlosoroff, a future Zionist leader, carried on a love affair with a German Catholic who eventually married the Nazi party’s chief propagandist.

The Zionist movement, both its left and right-wing factions, collaborated with the Nazis in attempts either to save German Jewry or insinuate themselves into the good graces of Hitler in the event of German victory in the War.
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Bias is underfitting.
Do you have any books you’ve run across since then? I just finished reading “The Art of Dreaming” and I’m interested in a more philosophical (perhaps less fantastical) treatise on Castañedism.
The learned helplessness in the cloud is stupefying, so many outages and downtime that could have been avoided by a competent admin.
> I would argue though that if you modify your preferences frequently, you are indeed an irrational person. E.g. buying a pack of cigarettes and always regretting it later.

Would you say that someone who is constantly struggling with their body fitness versus what they would like the level to be be is irrational?
> Instead of dictating facts, you start a dialogue and ask questions that encourage critical thinking. If you are empathic, patient, and non-threatening, they sometimes (sometimes!) start making realizations on their own that change their opinion.

Check out Street Epistemology if you haven't already, as this is exactly what they're doing. They ask random people on the street if they'd like to pick a belief and discuss it. Any belief is acceptable, often it is politics or religion, but sometimes people want to talk about ghosts, or seat belt laws, or karma, or whatever. If the person is interested, they ask questions to try to get them to think about why they hold the belief, how confident they are, and if that may or may not be justified.

There are a ton of videos on YouTube of these conversations and many of them are fun to watch. They really do get people to think about things, and most of the time the people leave still on friendly terms, which is a difficult thing to do when questioning people's beliefs.

https://streetepistemology.com/
That war hawk has been openly calling for Assange to "answer for what he's done" for years; ever since he showed people just how bought she is with her own campaign manager's emails.

And on this "who has lied more" chart, we can see Hillary is up there in the hundred of verified lies area, while Assange and Wikileaks are on 0 verified lies.
It isn't exactly ignore, they just all have to be ratified by the Senate. Otherwise it is just the executive branch making an agreement.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_Clause
Your own lack of knowledge about how to make the cloud work properly doesn't mean it's completely useless. The "old school" knowledge is still very useful in building and troubleshooting cloud-based infrastructure. You're creating a false dichotomy.
This is ridiculous.

Assange is alleged to have cooperated with a member of the US forces to release gigabytes of diplomatic cables etc. - which is possibly a crime.

In all but rare cases, you absolutely do not have the right to break into systems of national security and release arbitrary information under the guise of 'journalism'.

His extradition is perfectly rational, legal and judicially legitimate.

The Abu Garib whistleblower didn't face criminal charges, and has been relocated and protected by US Justice System, because he did the right thing, not the wrong thing.

Assange will face a trial like everyone else, he is not above the law.

While I think he's probably not guilty in this scenario, there is evidence made public that possibly points to criminality, I'm looking forward to seeing the facts of the case.
Wikileaks, which Assange leads, is more than just an editor and/or publisher.

WikiLeaks helped arrange Snowden’s escape to Russia from Hong Kong. A WikiLeaks editor also accompanied Snowden to Russia, staying with him during his 39-day enforced stay at a Moscow airport and living with him for three months after Russia granted Snowden asylum.

As a reminder, the post you show isn't when the aggression against Wikileaks escalated. You reminder is not true.
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One problem facing on-prem orgs today is the sad state of commodity server hardware; poor quality control, buggy firmware (and vendors who won’t help), BMCs with massive attack surfaces (that have already claimed one VPN provider), and commodity network switches that can push lots of packets but aren’t terribly flexible for people who are pushing more challenging payloads around their DC (video, etc).

"Hyperscalers" like Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook and Google build their own hardware and are able to avoid many of these problems. Unfortunately, none of this stuff is available off the shelf to mere mortals.

There’s a startup trying to fix this problem (Oxide) which I think is launching their racks next year. Will be interesting to see what happens.
It's interesting to me that he's able to make a living doing solely this, apparently since 1994 (according to his about page). Good for him.
Even if that was the case at any point, I doubt that currently he's still willing to be a martyr. He now has children and a partner that I imagine he'd like to spend time with.
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https://www.standard.net/news/health-news/2021/dec/09/study-...

That was the public health/pharma messaging from a few weeks ago. The link is getting too obvious to ignore so that's shifted to "Well it happens but it isn't a big deal" recently.
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I look at this, and I can't shake the feeling that it's overly complicated. to_inner, to_owner, Box::pin...
Call it what you want. But I think international rules and his rights, were respected reasonably well. Only charges he faced for very long time were for rape. If he kept his zipper closed, while going against US gov, he could freely travel and argue political imprisonment as a journalist. He would be now drinking vodka with Snowden.
I find most cloud users still have to panic at 3am when there is a cloud outage because usually there are knobs to tweak in their application to mitigate the outage. For example, do a region failover, turn off some feature that depends on dynamodb, or push an emergency release to make the application server handle spurious 403 errors from an Amazon backend.

Since Amazon failure modes are so varied, it's impossible to make the above tweaks fully automated. There'll always be a new way the cloud can misbehave, and often your service can at least maintain partial service by being nimble enough.
Bend before others. In other words, they aren't follower members of a block. That says nothing about citizens or what exactly these countries are doing.
"Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations."

George Orwell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gg43E_AOQko
It looks like this is just Pilocarpine, which has been used for decades to treat glaucoma, available at pharmacies everywhere, and is commonly used (perhaps off label) to shrink pupils. I wonder what if anything they changed compared to the generic version?

I've been using Pilocarpine off label to shrink my pupils at night after ICL surgery (an alternative to lasik) to solve debilitating halos caused by my pupils growing larger than the implanted lens.

In my experience, it does increase close range vision (at some minor expense to long range vision). That said, it also gives a mild headache, and blurs your vision substantially for the first 5-15 minutes after use. I don't really see the appeal of using it daily unless you really have to.
My last outage was a power outage on a sunny day that lasted slightly longer than our battery backups. Without economies of scale, installing/maintaining extra generators for a small self-managed data center is prohibitively expensive.

There's always a service provider somewhere in the chain who can drop the ball.
> oh boy! Time to rethink this whole cloud thing!

The problem isn't the cloud, the problem is all of the web properties going down all at once, exacerbated by the fact that AWS charges a premium for any viable cross-region / multi-cloud architecture (given its relatively high egress fees). This is discounting the inter-dependence among AWS services themselves, some of which aren't multi-region (afaik).
Raphael Poss did a really insightful talk on how to gracefully panic[0]; this gives try catch like functionality, though should be used sparingly IMO.

- [0] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=c78U0MZ4b_c
even more psychotic: the real world but you get to kill anyone you want, and violence and death is basically the main focus of everything that happens in the world.
Spoiler: They are. AWS and Amazon both used Log4j exploitable from the homepage (/) of both sites through headers.

Source: me
Much was made of upholding the promise to withdraw troops from the Middle East in the last US election. You can bet Collateral Murder and a number of other Wikileaks publications helped sway public opinion of the US military presence in the Middle East
@moderators, probably it's just dang, because dang yo

stop censoring things you don't like

and let people downvote if they feel what i say is on the subject or not

i don't use personal attacks, i never insult, i stay polite, i provide arguments

comment on my message and provide counter arguments

* click on flag *

means you are just trying to censor my arguments

you can also ban accounts, we can also create new accounts

you can bad IPs, we can also use new ones

you can censor ideas, we can also counter argument

we can do everything you can't do

because you use the flag button rather than your brain

that's not an attack, that's a fact, i wouldn't see *flagged" otherwise

flagged for what? for disobeying your mindset?

of flagged because i get to see what's your goal?

i get to see what you want to promote

only just to pump your portfolio

the agenda is the asteroid we can't see, or perhaps, we can see, or perhaps it's gonna happen, no matter if we can or can't see ;)

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interesting how they quickly gave up on using "metaverse" in their propaganda
they got caught, boomers trying to regain the influence they long lost, or perhaps never had on the internet

yeah, whenever i seen this "metaverse" being advertised everywhere, i couldn't help but cringe.. cringe at them, for being boomers

i see no difference with the 'web3' word
Uh, yes it does. Do not take my word for it, here is CDC saying it: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/clinical-consideration...
> A second example is LEOS, (Legislation Editing Open Software), the software used across the Commission to draft legal texts. Originally written for the Commission, LEOS is now being developed in close collaboration with Germany, Spain and Greece.

Totally useless. We need less government-generated opressive legislative junk, not ways to make its production easier.

Governments doesn't make anything useful that can be useful to companies or citizens. Most of its services have no competition (or competition isn't allowed) and don't operate on sound economic principles, so there's little use for their software outside of government.
Can't speak to their particular config, but at least LivePatch for Ubuntu can apply most updates without the need to restart.
That might be relevant if Assange wasn't doing it at the behest of Russia
That's an interesting position to take, because I imagine if a team of developers decided to invent the internet in a vacuum today, it'd be a hell of a lot more secure than the "let's hope nobody uses this protocol maliciously" attitude prevalent in the early days of the internet.

Not that that is a bad thing, but just something to think about.
The time zone issues sound fun:

> A visit to Mount Athos also involves literal time travel. The monasteries there still go by Byzantine time, in which the day begins at sunset, not midnight, so the time zone changes literally every day. Visitors may have to set their watches back by as much as seven hours as they cross the border. And don't forget to change the date as well. Mount Athos never adopted the new-fangled 16th-century Gregorian calendar; they still use the Julian calendar of the Roman Empire, which lags 13 days behind. It's almost two weeks ago there!
I found this in another thread and it sounds like you might enjoy it also:

https://sandimetz.com/blog/2016/1/20/the-wrong-abstraction
U.K. Court: Julian Assange Can Be Extradited to the U.S.
I don't even work at FAANG but even we have our own in-house grown compute platforms with layers and layers of abstractions and enormous complexity which were built over several years by hundreds of engineers. These don't resemble public cloud or open source solutions at all, ideas are similar at best. You can have a lot of real world small company knowledge but the moment you walk through the door this experience is worthless, all that counts is how fast you can adapt and how good your understanding of the basics is.

Look at some of the code that was open sourced by Yahoo years ago. Other large engineering organizations today have technology which far exceeds the complexity of what was made public by Yahoo a decade ago. Unfortunately Yahoo is pretty much the only example of a large company open sourcing big portions of their platform code.
I'm very pro-vaccine, but you're wrong on this one:

> The vaccine was associated with an excess risk of myocarditis (1 to 5 events per 100,000 persons)

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa2110475

(updated to link directly to the paper)
So no matter what the US does criminal against its own or international law (yeah I know, US give a fuck about Geneva conventions and also Den Haag.. another shame) - if they declared it "secret data" they can declare a foreign journalist helping in uncovering that crime himself committing crimes and require extradition? Just so backwards...

Yeah I know, we can argue endless forever about the details, real lawyers too.. but to be honest on a higher level: It is such a shame for the US as a country claiming "democracy", "freedom" and more to go on with this ridiculous show trail, just such a ridiculous shame.

For the UK the same, of course.

Just read that overspecific prepared weasel language... I cannot stand it.

> But in their ruling on Friday, they sided with the US authorities after a near-unprecedented package of assurances were put forward that Assange would not face those strictest measures either pre-trial or post-conviction unless he committed an act in the future that required them.

We all know what will happen.. as a Westerner ashamed myself :(
I love this trend of PS5/Unreal engine flexing for movies/music.

The Radiohead art exhibit was amazing. They do an interactive art piece with "How to Disappear Completely", "Pyramid Song" and "You and whose Army".

Serious amount of work goes into these, I'm sure and it's great to use the console for something other than FIFA.
If you have to have 5 9's starting with any cloud service is pretty tough sell at this point. You can build that type of system ontop of them. But it takes a willingness to also build your own and use competing services adding even more complexity. The BYO or competing services bit is so you can keep the lights on even when the cloud eats it, not if. Part of 5 9's is planning for catastrophic failure. Things like 'what if the load balancer/router/backhaul/dns burns out, you have a spare on hand? Then what happens to services where you had them sticky?' Even then what if both the primary and secondary are out? What then? Lots of planning and making sure you know what to do when each of those cases happen.

The nice bit though is many services can go down. Yeah it stings a bit (money, reputation, time, etc). But overall it is not that big of deal.

But for the places where you can not go down. Tons of planning and tons of backup plans with backup plans, and a different style of producing code.
Nobody would use Rust if it weren't.

To be fair, a subset of C++20 ist fine by me, but that's not the sort of C++ I'm dealing with (for more than 15 years). Or to put it in other words: C++ isn't suitable for most of the people writing C++ code (except everybody 'posting in the internet' of course).
And this is the root problem as that's equivalent to running software as root.
It doesn't sound like the "cloud" is working for anyone right now innit?