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> Can you provide a self hosted granular access permission to your RAID?

This is the second-level mistake engineers commonly make:

The right questions isn't "Can you do X". Give engineers enough time and resources and they can usually come up with a solution to do X.

The real question is "How much time and resources need to be invested to accomplish X at a satisfactory level?"

And the third-level mistake is to assume that getting something to work once is the finish line. In practice, getting something to work once is just the beginning. Getting it to a maintainable, well-documented, repeatable state is a lot more work.

Cloud services make all of this effort disappear. Type a few commands and it's good to go. Now you can take all of the engineering hours that would have gone into the DIY version and allocate them to working on the company's product instead of reinventing architecture that you could have simply paid for.

Good engineers are scarce and expensive. Using them to reinvent infrastructure that can be trivially purchased for a nominal amount is a terrible move most of the time. Even when it does make sense, the right move is to build the prototypes on AWS and then consider transitioning to self-hosted later if the numbers work out.
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Sub 3:30 marathon
Let's check back in 5 years? My guess is the complete uncertainty as to whether or not CCP will change the rules mid game completely destroying your business is going to bod well for future investment?
Another way to look at it: with the queuing system, you spend 10 minutes, and you get what you want. How many minutes will it take with the no-queue system? It’s not like the thoroughput has increased. And how likely will it be for you to get what you want after that time? Is it definite?
> A fictional TV show (even if 'based on a true story' as this one) is not the greatest source of useful anecdotes to guide your belief system, as what is shown simply reflects the beliefs of the writers rather than reality.

Eh. I'll take fiction over lifeless facts and data any day, about the only thing better is history.
I want to point out that there are people that sound or look like famous characters/actors all their life and are being, in some cases, mocked for that.

Now imagine people getting sued for being themselves.

I think there should be, at most, a protection covered by libel laws as written today and nothing more. Otherwise we risk getting into that mess.
I’m a little surprised you could just drive across the border….

Also I wonder what use a random guy with a camera would be as far as intelligence goes?
I've been using Typora which works really well imo but I don't want to spend money on a markdown editor(yet).

This looks promising. Thanks for sharing!
If I were a shareholder I'd be happy!

Seems like people get upset about decisions like this because they don't understand how these actions work.
You just moved the goal posts from "impossible" to "not economically feasible" - those aren't the same thing. I agree, economically, it's very difficult. We need governments to help with the cost, because it will be enormous. The cost of not doing it is even higher.

Also, the % of people who live in climates like yours is relatively small, so everyone who doesn't live in those places should not be using this as an excuse for inaction.
>For example, it wasn't uncommon for people to not understand why I didn't see something the way they did.

I may be extremely cynical in saying this, but I am imagining you disagreeing with someone, and them being upset by that. Then you tell them you have autism, which allows them to resolve the discomfort of being disagreed with... by allowing them to switch into smile-and-patronize mode.

Smiling and patronizing is an emotional state where you're not really listening to someone, while acting positive about the fact that they're talking. It's used on children to the endless frustration of smarter kids.
Designing Distributed Control Systems
It drives me crazy. I really don't know how other people deal with it. Like my neighbors are so unbelievably loud, its starting to get to me. (I think some cultures identify with being loud?) Or do people just accept a poorer quality of life.

Its pretty much the only reason why I think dense living is a bad idea. People are are to inconsiderate of each other to make it work I think and construction quality is too low. I hate being subjected to other people's noise. I'm a light slight sleeper so it wakes me up or it makes it hard to concentrate or even just relax. I don't want to live on some strangers schedule.

I can go on forever with a huge rant about how terrible noise is. I hate dealing with it. Talking to every person who is just way to loud is like whack a mole with noise.
I wonder how the costs compare if you choose to go outside of the big three. Hetzner, OVH, Scaleway etc are so much cheaper and the network exit costs are much lower than with AWS GCP or Azure.
In my opinion - Windows 10, by far.

MS added invasive telemetry; obliterated the concept of meaningful user preferences; UI exhibits complete lack of coherent style.

Was there anything introduced that added value?
how do u get anything done at ur job on such an extreme diet? I've tried 1000 cal deficit for 2 months and i barely slept most days due to the hunger.
Have you considered Lithium Titanate batteries? They can discharge at a temperature of -40C.
Bay Area California. December has been highs in the 40s-50s, lows 30s-40s (Fahrenheit). I definitely benefit from living in a place that's not extremely cold or hot, which reduces our energy needs.
Yup, only certain hotels are allowed to book foreigners. I tried to buy my way in once, along with some local friends' help, and we couldn't do it. I got the impression the government would shut them down if they accepted foreigners. The staff seemed friendly and understanding, and there was this "nothing I can do" attitude about it. After walking to multiple hotels in the area we gave up and slept on a friend's floor. I forget exactly where we were. It wasn't a well know city, yet it wasn't small either. I was quite surprised at the time that even with my passport in hand I wasn't allowed to stay anywhere there.
Sounds interesting. I'm wondering how it works.

I tried it on a few images and got inscrutable errors, though.
Someone isn't going to learn to program from scratch in a month to any reasonable degree, so the answer depends too much on the asker, what they know, what they have already studied.
Do you ensure that every bit of material that you read isn't written by someone who also has some really stupid and harmful beliefs about some other topic?
You can find a lot of info on material selection in this PDF:

https://gcep.stanford.edu/pdfs/qa4ScQIicx-kve2pX9D7Yg/baluc_...
> Further heat pumps are good to 25 to 30 degrees Fahrenheit, under that a gas furnace is normally used to supplement a heat pump in colder climates. Most heat pump manufacturers do not recommend operating a heat pump in below freezing conditions

Just wanted to chime in that they do make a lot of low-temp heat pumps, going down to -30f now. The efficiency drops dramatically at temps that low, the best site to look at cold-weather models is https://ashp.neep.org/#!/product_list/

If you look though, the "COP @ 5 degrees F" for a lot of models is above 2.0, which from my understanding means you'll be using 1/2 the electricity someone with baseboard (resistance) heat would. And above those temps the COP gets much higher.
You keep talking about "status seekers", but you can't define what you think they believe they're after in trying to obtain that status?

If nothing else, makes me wonder if I missed out on a "welcome packet" or something I didn't know I was supposed to get. :P
> That's literally opposite of how accounting works, if you reinvest everything, your profit is 0%.

Wrong - Profit is revenue minus costs.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profit_(accounting) and all of the other definitions on the web. Reinvesting affects cash flow but not profits.
Who knows what things will look like in 15 years. 15 years prior to now such a thing was not feasible, or would have cost 10x as much. I expect in 15 years the cost of home batteries will be much much lower, and replacement costs will be affordable. We're still in the very early stages of these products development and scale.
For people who have taken the time to read it, or taken enough time to evaluate it: is there really anything in this book that would appeal to "impatient programmers"? From what I've looked at, it seems to be a fairly typical programming book, and I fear the title might be deceptive.
This looks nice. I see that it’s been on Show HN a few times, but hasn’t gotten a lot of comments. I’m adding this to my list of apps to try out.
Your site at https://tvnfo.com/ was just the kind of example I needed, and it's also a great idea for site. I don't have time to watch much TV so this is the curation I need. Thanks!
How do you describe to kids what can we archive with programming?
I want to start a tutorial where I'll be talking about programming for kids.

I guess one important part is to let them know how fun/powerful programming can bring. So that kids will be interested and self-motivated for moving on.

Just wondering what your ideas would be.
> Also I have a lack of empathy for people rushing back to NZ for forseeable end-of-life visits. In my view, if you care about your parents a lot, you live where they are so you can be with them for more than just the last minute.

Ok I can’t take you seriously anymore. You are saying no one should ever move more than a short drive away, ever. Yeah right.
NYC landlords seem to be eager to get rid of gas because of the maintenance costs. For one, they have to use licensed gas line plumbers to service the building, and there are all sorts of safety regulations that have to be followed, all of which adds to the cost.

The city takes gas extremely seriously, as does ConEd, and the latter will shut down an installation that isn't considered safe. My apartment had a small gas leak on a gas furnace connection inside the apartment, and ConEd came and locked the gas meter. My landlord dragged his feet for more than a year because a plumber would cost him around $2,500 to inspect the equipment and do the necessary DOB paperwork. He actually chewed me out for reporting the leak to ConEd instead of going directly to him first (because then he could have used his unlicensed guys).

Other people in the building said he was trying to all the tenants to go electric — in an old Brooklyn warehouse with no insulation or modern heating. The only heating alternative he could offer was little space heaters he got off Amazon, and he refused to educate himself about heat pumps.
While a small mass produced teardrop trailer might be doable between $5-10k, it would effectively be a hard shell tent. Which is fine, but that’s the trivial part. The hard part is where to put them and who is going to provide the infrastructure for what is effectively a trailer park.

Get cities to rezone their public parks that have existing bathrooms and 90% of the problem will solved. Let’s start with Dolores Park to see how serious the HN crowd is. Start a Change.org petition for that and I’ll be first to sign.

https://www.pinterest.com/wamalinf/vintage-teardrop-trailers...
> autism is a personality trait.

> The brain size/shape is what it is which is why some people who are autistic insist in them being called autistic instead of them having autism.

> Since autism and Asperger's has its pros and cons, calling it solely a disability is myopic and, if extrapolated, outright condescending and flat out ignorant.

I think I'd be more comfortable with people calling it a disability than people calling it a personality trait... That feeds into the point that the article is addressing.
75% of the reason I live in the country is because of the reasons you listed, as is 100% of the reason I'd never live anyplace other than a single family home.
AWS actually has fantastic support, especially for a tech company. My previous company was tiny, and super cheap (they wouldn't even pay for Slack), and even at that level we never had a problem talking to real, live support people, and they were always pretty helpful.
Of course cooling NYC is what strains the electrical grid.
I don’t understand it. James Coco went mad in 15 minutes!
How does ASN.1 compare to something like binary protobuf?

I have no data to back this up, but I was under the impression ASN.1 is one of those specifications that is so large and complicated it’s essentially impossible to implement correctly; and that ASN.1 parsers are a pretty infamous source of security bugs (although I mean, most parsers seem to be).
That's awesome. Nothing better than finding a code (turning on the screen the next morning). I got into it a little later and by that time a lot of software existed at least for the c64. I use to wardial in my sparetime and I published fun findings for a local zine for my areacode. Finding endpoints connected to a modem was a treat. Nothing better than figuring out you have to connect at 7,2 baud/parity instead of standard 8,1 then you are promped with a menu.. Fun times..
As someone who lives in nyc this is wonderful news
I think the point was if you are doing something that you could otherwise do with markdown, then it really isn't that difficult. Since, for the complicated things, the answer in Markdown is simply that you can't do them.
> 5) You don’t need as much house as you’ve been lead to believe.

For living arrangements, you are mostly correct. I can exist very comfortably in about 1,000ft². Heck, even 800ft² would be comfy and cosy.

My problem involves my hobbies and domestic activities: I need a 200ft² cool room for the enormous amounts of fruits and vegetables I harvest every year, canning all that shit needs a 150ft² summer kitchen so I don’t seize up my regular kitchen with all that processing (I use that summer kitchen consistently at least six months out of the year), I need a library the size of a master bedroom (at least another 200ft²) for my books (including the movable stacks on rails), I do enough woodworking to need a garage-sized shop (500ft²) , and my IT work requires no small office (180ft² and an attached server room (80ft²) with its own cooling. Plus, I regularly use a wet sauna, which needs the same amount of room as a laundry.

So that balloons my requirements by _at least_ another 1,500ft², to say nothing of the needs of my wife.
People with subwoofers in apartment buildings are pretty loud too.
if you hadn't experienced the pain of differing versions of node, you will not understand why having a node version manager is useful.

So nothing will replace the experience of pain when learning.
I was noticing the same thing. Equally easy to pick out the major US cities. In the West, anyway ... where the lack of major oceanside cities above San Fran is especially notable. (Why is that?)
> Do you ensure that every bit of material that you read isn't written by someone who also has some really stupid and harmful beliefs about some other topic?

Everyone makes mistakes, and I've been known to rescind my references and recommendations upon making such discoveries.

In this case all it takes is simply loading the referenced page, the hogwash is front and center. Give me a break.
Seems silly if it doesn’t address heating oil. Every apartment building I’ve lived in in the past 30 years (all in NYC) has used oil for heat.
There is a huge gap between "something is better than nothing" and "all things are equally good."
Honestly, doing this all on Christmas nonetheless. This sort of thing is why I never want to be in leadership roles.
I went on a roadtrip once through the southwest US. The utter silence in many places was one of my favorite parts, as well as the many areas with flat scenery to the horizon. I would often stop at a good view – mapped or not – and just enjoy it, whether or not there was a slight wind at the time and place.

It really is something to turn off your car, walk to a good spot, and feel for a moment like you might be the last person on Earth.
I’m fairly sure anyone who wanted to abscond wouldn’t take their cellphone with them if that was the case. And yet the cases and deaths in Taiwan remain very very low for its population.
I should judge the accuracy of what someone wrote nearly a decade ago by what I think of what I think they believe today?

It's a popular enough viewpoint today, certainly, but it leads to throwing out huge swaths of perfectly good work that could be useful. Obviously, I reject it. I don't know the guy, I don't know what's happened to him or not in the past decade since he was writing on the deep truths of RV solar. I do know that the more I learn about solar from hands on operation, the more his writings reflected what I'd found through experimentation/analysis/etc. You could apply plenty of his rantings to some of the off-grid battery destroying systems presented on YouTube as Grade A Amazing builds and improve a lot on those systems.

But, if you're only willing to consider the viewpoints of those you would consider show clear thinking, which largely translates to "agrees with what I already think," you're welcome to go through life that way. I tend to find that dreadfully boring and a good way to miss an awful lot of really solid knowledge. I'm happy to learn about lead acid battery quirks from people who've lived with lead acid for half as long as I've been alive, even if I think they make some pretty dumb decisions in life. I know they question some of my decisions back.

Anyway, your mind is clearly settled and the issue is closed on this particular bit of writings. You might go find some of SunKing's rants about "max smoke charging" useful as well, if you're dealing with off grid lead, but I guarantee you won't like him much as a person either.
Was it? I’ve lived in the Northeast for over 40 years. Multiple power outages per year, including some that have lasted several days. NEVER had the natural gas go out. The gas distribution lines run compressors on gas itself, no dependency on the grid.
I believe the smartest thing you can do if you are reading this in America is to buy a house that you can afford in an area you would like to live in for more than a few years with more than 1 bedroom and rent out the additional bedrooms.

Setting aside appreciation, doing this is the closest thing to a guaranteed success imaginable. Leverage lowers your start-up costs, renting enables all your house work to be deductible, the rent itself allows you do pay down your principle faster, and most importantly you were going to live there anyway so your opportunity cost is 0.
To be fair, most things become a pain once you start doing tables. Just look at the HTML way of getting numbers aligned on a decimal point. Heaven help you if you want to align anything on an equals sign. :D
This is a really weird story. Why would people even do this? It's like a random person asking you to bring a package with you on a flight :)

Sounds like he didn't even get any training. Nor had any specific target. Was it really an intelligence agency that sent him? He was bound to get caught like this. Why would they take such a risk?

I wonder if he was perhaps a decoy for a real intelligence op? It sounds like he kept the KGB quite busy.
> “the India and China immigrants”

While factually correct, a more elegant wording to express this would be “colleagues from India and China”.
Getting failed attempts for the Arnold voices
> I've been known to rescind my references and recommendations upon making such discoveries

You understand that most everybody who was born in the first part of the 20th century or earlier believed quite a few things that we now consider pretty abhorrent.
> Heat pumps are rather inefficient according to this video

Despite the many faults with this video, the person actually mentions the efficiency of heat pumps, which are WAY higher than the efficiency of fuel burners.

> Are you not bothered by all the noise it generates?

Modern inverter based heat pumps are incredibly quiet.

> Why not just use electric heater instead of a heat pump?

Because 100% efficiency is way worse than 300-500% efficiency (i.e. the coefficient of performance of an air source heat pump).

This video is mostly talking about "air to water" heat pumps, in other words, replacing a traditional fuel fired hydronic system with a heat pump. This is not an ideal use for heat pumps. Typical hydronic systems are designed for high water temps, which means replacing directly with heat pumps will not work.

This person's argument is summed up as "we have horribly built houses and we should never improve them, so let's just overheat them so they feel comfortable". Oh and "there's a conspiracy to artificially raise the price of gas to trick us into buying heat pumps".

I've had this video on in the background. It's some amazing fear mongering.
Another way to look at it is that there is absurd amounts of empty land throughout the country. Places were undesirable and cheap, and people of moderate means bought them, improved the area, and over decades it became a desirable area.

Young people need to go to shitty places that are cheap and then make the place better. Many young people want to live in SF or NYC. Go to Detroit instead.
A lot of people place misdirected blame for unaffordable housing on themselves or others who buy, fix up, and rent out houses.

It's pretty obvious that the cause of unaffordable housing is elsewhere. But being the one to actually collect rent is a kind of guilt-by-association.
twitch.tv/j_blow - Jonathan Blow: Game engine, compiler, and game programming.
> For users who do choose to sign in, using their AWS account, there is the opportunity to create a profile, post questions and answers, and interact with the community.

Which account? My org root account? Dev account for some product? Doesn't seem to support AWS SSO.

The multi-account story is one of my least favorite things about AWS. It all just seems so kludgy.
They should have mentioned protobuf which it is closer to.

To my knowledge, there is no bad nullability in ASN.1, unlike protobuf. Good job!
Worth the read?
Have you priced LTO? They're rather staggeringly expensive for their capacity. The cycle life is excellent, but they excel in very high C-rate applications (10C-20C), which is the opposite of what you need for off-grid systems. If an off grid system is getting anywhere near C/10 discharge rates, you're going to be in the dark awfully soon.

It's old tech, it's boring, but it works fine... flooded lead acid. Don't fully discharge it in the winter, and they won't freeze. They'll cycle just fine in the cold. Well tested, proven, and unless you're full time living and heating an interior space that can be lithium-friendly, they're the right option. Disconnect all the loads and run them on float in the winter with a high, vertical, south facing panel (obviously swap that if you're in the southern hemisphere), and they'll do just fine.
Also only about half of autism cases present with differences in sensory sensitivity. Not a core feature of autism.
Because generation is the cheapest part of the electrical grid. Distribution and "overhead" cause end-user electricity prices to jump 3-5x.
Thanks, I didn't know how to phrase it, too late to go back now tho :(
For vehicles which are in nearly continuous use, the capital costs are essentially irrelevant next to fuel and maintenance, both of which are far cheaper for EVs. It might take a few years to pay for replacements.
I suppose you could make a timeline of technology development, fusion is still in the lab stage but past the conceptual and experimental stages and into the early making it practical stage with several approaches competing for first to actually achieve something useful.

What’s left isn’t just straightforward work, but a lot of finding and fixing inefficiencies and that sort of work.