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> There's something so insidiously, backhandedly condescending about tech workers pining for the simplicity of an honest day's job that drives me nuts.

I worked with the county doing road construction and logging for seven years, then was a teacher for a couple years after that. Now I work at a cushy FAANG job.

I still miss both of my previous jobs often. Construction wasn't super meaningful, but there was a focus on making quality artifacts that isn't really the same in software. (Software is too complex, too large, and has too many constraints.) Working with physical implements is nice. I miss knowing the weather more intimately, and being physically exhausted at the end of the day.

Teaching was very meaningful, but emotionally exhausting. If the pay hadn't been terrible and if I had found a supportive administration, I'd probably be happier teaching. I miss working with children, being a part of a community.

Having worked these sort of jobs and having enjoyed them, I don't think it's condescending at all. I think there may be a bit of ignorance there. If you didn't grow up doing physical labor (I grew up on a farm) then you likely will have a hard time adapting to physical exertion/pain. And you have to recognize that you'll likely encounter physical injuries, especially later in your career. (In my shortish stint, I managed to injure my shoulder, and it still affects me). But if SWEs still like the idea, then they should give it a shot for a year. Software will still be there.
How come in the post WoW era no MMO has ever been even remotely as close as the old MMOs, like Tibia or Ultima, to fulfilling the promise of a shared, persistent, virtual world?
My fear is it just becomes another side show. Ethereum is going to become ebay. Yeah you can trade rare coins but it’s mostly just trash changing hands and clogging up the mail system.
> - Java's memory model with atomic concurrency parallelism over shared memory which needs a VM and GC to work

Do you have a link that explains this bit?
I'm also a fan. I think Java fell out of favor about a decade ago as hipsters rushed towards Node and Rails. Meanwhile the Java pros have been delivering incremental improvements to an already mature and stable system that is Spring and now with Boot not only is it a venerable battle tested solution but with the Starters it's downright joyful to use. Year after year it's seen steady progress leveraging a 30 year old ecosystem with no drama and no craziness surrounding the newer stacks.
> CORS protect against the scenario where a malicious site tricks an unmodified browser to make a cross-site request to a legitimate site. If the user has an authentication cookie for the legitimate site, the cookies will be sent along with the request. So the malicious site can perform transactions in the legitimate site on behalf of the user, despite not having direct access to the authentication cookie.

Can you please give an example of this?
Note that Wyze uses Dahua hardware, and then they provide their own firmware.

You can see an exact matchup in their models of cameras, if you carefully compare the hardware.

So, beyond the OEM listings above, there are other vendors selling into the market who just take existing hardware from Chinese vendors, and then resell that.
This is rather silly (and not in the way intended).

The goal of the paper is to demonstrate a strong linear correlation which arises without a trivial confounder (such as age influencing both reading age and shoe size in children). However, the confounder in the case of storks (country land area influences number of storks and absolute number of births) IS trivial.
Of course. You don't need to be part of the industry to know if some food is safe for consumption.
I would rather make it clear that the cryptoeconomy will not bail out fiat currencies when they fail. The first government to get a fat stack of Bitcoin probably wins. Game theory intensifies.
Shitty non-cloud cameras on their own network segment isolated from the internet, and use a VPN to remote in to view/manage them. This mitigates the firmwares' lack of security and prevents remote hacking (or makes it more difficult) as ideally there should be no way for an outbound connection to be made from this segment.
I made two points since i know many add exceptions for some parties when defining theft. Care to reply to the second point?
Vaadin is very nice but I would only recommend it when you can afford to keep the state server side. Vaadin works best when you can use sticky sessions
Might be worth it to try the RTSP firmware[1], you could always save that locally on your network?

1: https://support.wyze.com/hc/en-us/articles/360026245231-Wyze...
> I moved to a tech stack with less moving parts and slower-moving major change.

Could you please share what tech stack is this? Frankly speaking, I also consider finding something more stable and slow-paced as a continuation of my software career at this point.
I’m curious, does anyone know Thomas, or how did they amass 100M in ETH? The websites provide absolutely no identity of anyone involved (as is very common for crypto). The Twitter account is 4 months old.

No mention of the person or the Arrow company on the internet previous to this episode seems to exist. Other than looking at the chain records, how should we believe that any of these stories are true?
When you have to shorten the phrase "getting the rug pulled out from under you" because it's such a common occurrence, your financial system might have a problem.
Whether it's the merchant or the bank that's left holding the bag often depends on the particulars like whether it was a chip or a magstripe transaction, but the larger point is that in card-not-present scenarios you can't pay once without also exposing secrets that allow whoever gets them to make subsequent transactions without your permission.

Better would be to have whatever secret authorizes spend (private key) be separate from the account identifier (public key) and to push money, rather than sharing a symmetric secret which authorizes whoever has it to pull money.
The submission for the previous post didn't get much traction here, so I'm seeing it for the first time. I'm pretty sure that "YYYYYYY" (ugh, Medium tries to hijack copy) is still named later in the post.

A few people have commented to the effect that this is a tempest in a teapot, but the phenomenon of copyleft trolling is news to me. It's fundamentally contrary to the spirit of Creative Commons and like-minded licenses, and has a chilling effect on their use. Cory claims that another of Pixsy's clients, Marco Verch, single-handedly shuttered a Dutch charity.

I've never paid much attention to the Creative Commons version numbers. I sure will now.
That’s just because no one speaks sumerian any more.
There’s a couple attempts at running 64-bit in DOS. It usually has no benefits for old code and very little new 64-bit is being written and there are no libraries for common compilers.

https://github.com/Baron-von-Riedesel/Dos64-stub

https://www.bttr-software.de/forum/board_entry.php?id=15853
Why is Prometheus terrible? It's pretty cool.
Microsoft Access/OpenOffice Base
With "secure boot", presumably Intel could give you a discount if you let the CPU put ads on your screen. Every year we inch closer to the dystopia we were warned about long ago. "Please drink a verification can."

https://old.reddit.com/r/4chan/comments/1ggg4u/please_drink_...
I suppose they're both vulgar, but one difference is that "pussy" has a derogatory use that "boner" doesn't have.
1.4 PeV are about 0.224 millijoules or roughly an 8 billionth of a phone charge, so not much really. However, the photons we usually deal with are weaker by an unimaginable amount, but also much more plentiful. For example, a 100 W light bulb emits something in the order of 10^21 photons per second. If you had a light bulb that emitted the same amount of photons with 1.4 PeV each, you'd have a device equivalent to one Tsar bomb (the most powerful bomb ever detonated in the history of mankind) every second.
People have been getting results like that for that drug for a long time

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propranolol#Psychiatric

It reminds me of the similar use of MDMA where I once started spooling rather dispassionately the details around a series of traumatic events including names, places, etc.

The other day I was in grips with another traumatic event series and told the people I was with that "if I took MDMA I could..." and seriously thought about taking the MDMA but after describing the MDMA effect in detail, I started to spool the memories exactly the same way without the drug.
There is another, imo even better, page on this particle:

https://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/OhMyGodParticle/
Which is why source-available is or shared source is super common in B2B. All you really have to do is ask. We run a number of “cloud only” apps on prem because we asked, paid them enough for it to be worth their time, and signed some paperwork.
People need to listen to more George Carlin.

Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that. It's called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar.
This is going to be a hot topic in Germany once the German courts rule it out. Should it say it's illegal to load, we have got loads of work in front of us. One simpler solution that I have seen Zaraz by Cloudflare, which seems to solve this issue. Has anyone had experiences with this?

https://blog.cloudflare.com/keep-analytics-tracking-data-in-...
IIRC (it's been a while), you can check all the boxes of C, R, U, and D, using forms.

And Access is multi-user. You don't want a lot of users on it, but you can have more than one. This is extra credit though, the OP never asked for a multi-user solution.
Russian GPS jamming on going affecting flights over the Eastern Med
GCP was built from scratch as well.
I love Kubernetes, but this documentary makes me sad. The story of PaaS is absolutely worthy of a documentary, but to imply that Google is the protagonist is just pandering to the "rich kid" who brought little more to the table than money and influence.

Here's a better sketch for the story. It starts with Ruby, itself a game-changing language, that inspired a new culture of developer-centric best practices like Rspec's TDD and Bundler's lockfiles.

Ruby made the first PaaS possible, Heroku (a YC startup), which itself inspired a whole new way of thinking about software. I don't think enough people realise just how influential Heroku's 12 Factor App manifesto[1] was, in fact I'd argue it's the real hero in this whole story. The 12 Factors are just text, it's not even software or hard and fast requirements, they're merely best practices for the entire experience of writing, collaborating, testing, deploying, scaling and maintaining software. The 12 Factors aren't just about pushing your app on Kubernetes or whatever, they're just as much, if not more so, ideas that make _you_ a better engineer. Heroku made money for sure, but they did something beyond money, they upped the level of our craft as a whole.

The central concept in Heroku is the dyno. If you follow the 12 Factors, then you magically get almost infinitely scalable dynos. It plays right into the heart of the new gold rush world of startups, where anybody can have an app idea and leverage the global marketplace with the abstractions of datacentres and the cloud.

Docker is the open source dyno.

So many PaaS projects apart from Kubernetes have risen and fallen around Docker. Deis, Flynn, Dokku, Swarm, to name but a few. So many of the core concepts of Kubernetes were innovated and explored, and arguably mastered, before Kubernetes came on the scene. Kubernetes is a success not because of its innovation, but because it's backed by The Rich Kid. The world was already heading in this direction, Google just threw big numbers at it to make sure they took the biggest piece of the pie.

1. https://12factor.net
Given its higher and higher long-term prices, it seems more and more people value it.

What are you saying? It is not widely used enough for day-to-day transactions?
thank you for your explanations
Banning by a monopoly dude. Maybe I trust a Canadian organization to regulate baby formulas better, a german one for diapers and no regulation for my hairdresser.
>>but I assumed they got hunted down afterwards

As a seasoned PVP clan owner on the UO shards in 1997 - I approve of this message.

God those were the days -- but we had a Massive God Mode Advantage in 1997... we ran Intel's Game Lab with a T3 dedicated to our groups' needs, and 6 local accounts in the Intel DRG Lab (Only two of us worked there, we ran three login-accounts a piece - but we had a Guild Member (there were only three actual humans in the guild - but 8 accounts)

PvP in UO was sublime. Golden age of gaming for this old gamer.
I would use EF core (code first) even if my app wasn't in dotnet. Migrations and deployments just. work.
no it's not a bad thing at all. it's not a systemic failure, it's division of labor and people need to stop being willfully ignorant of economics. Lawyers are good at reading contracts, Facebook is good at running servers. Medium is good at publishing your things and getting you ad revenue.

sending http and json over the internet is just as neutral of a technology as the blockchain. the reason people build centralized services on top of it is that we're collectively better off by specializing.

As a writer you're better off writing your content full-time than running a server, becoming a smart contract expert, casual coder and server administrator. no technology on earth is going to change that fact and it's why people buy their bitcoin on coinbase and their nfts on opensea.
Yes, but without temporal safety, it's not that valuable.
Negative scaling: the bigger it gets, the more potential for people to cause problems, on a larger scale.

This leads to features being removed to sanitize the world and make it more manageable. The community governance - among the players and between the players and the owner - becomes worse. For the overwhelming majority, making a game more like a theme park is better.

That said, I think 2nd life is still going and mostly delivering this?
> Also a ban is plainly unconstitutional, people have a right to free speech, free association, and to work for whom they choose.

You mean like a company who force an NDA on you or force you to not work with the competition? Also working at the FDA and be the one to approve a drug and then leave and work for the same company that made said drug, is just pure corruption.
Cars provide much freedom and flexibility and protection from the elements. Bikes are fine if you are young, fit person transporting only yourself and going a short distance, in nice weather, but there are many other kinds of trips. If the Democratic senators told voters "Drive less, we'll give you free bikes" that would be unpopular.
Some friends and acquaintances keep bugging me that I should get into crypto... but I would be too scared of loosing it all in one day, be it to a scam, sending to an non-existing address, loosing my hardware wallet etc.

Tbh I would feel safer having 10k in cash (at home at least) than in crypto. At least the attack vectors (fire, burglary) are known and tangible.

Imagine founding a startup, working your ass off living off ramen for a few years, every day worrying that it all might be for naught, and then through a combination of skill, determination and luck you do make it and your startup is worth a few millions... and then suddenly you make a small mistake and lose all your shares!

This is how crypto feels to me.

Maybe I am just not made for crypto.
The hypothesis that blocking noradrenaline (norepinephrine) is the mechanism of action here doesn't make any sense.

In fact nothing about what the author states about noradrenaline makes any sense. It just doesn't work like that.
I agree with the sentiment but note there were still viruses being circulated through floppy disks. So, 3rd party code may still be executed on a non-networked machine.

Indeed, it would be awesome to see how much a machine can do without all the layers. Even the Intel CPU security fixes could be bypassed and gain some extra speed.
I for one fancy doing something totally different - producing some of my own food, in a more natural environment. No deferred joy - more immediacy, living closer to nature, etc. Your user name makes me wonder if you would find that more fulfilling too? :)
Over here in Poland, Tibia seemed to be what WoW was in the US.

I might be misremembering things, I am too young to remember much from that period, but I definitely heard the word Tibia much more often. I don't think I've heard of WoW before I learned to speak English proficiently and encountered random articles from that period.
And crime. Don’t forget crime
Children obesity rates are mostly due to parents providing an awful diet for their children. Lockdowns were obviously bad for health in term of lack of exercise but they certainly did not have to have any impact on weight.

This just highlights, if needed be, the ghastly diet of too many people in the UK. In some areas it's not uncommon to see children going to school in the morning eating crisps and drinking coke/whatever soda.
Unsolicited pizza, no trust. No keys for neighbors.. no way.

I don’t trust most Doctors either, and you probably can’t trust any medicinal organization with keeping records confidential, plenty of examples of breach of that trust.

I think you are not skeptical enough.
There is no evidence it works taken orally. Save your money.
I remember when GCP launched, we had an all hands meeting for all of AWS, which all fit in a big conference room, less than 100 people. People thought now that Google got in the business that was it. The leadership, Andy Jassy, assured everyone that our jobs were safe and we could get back to work so to say. Seems funny now, but at the time AWS was S3 and EC2 and google was ahead it seemed.
CFIREsim 3.0 – Retirement Simulator
There is no federal sales tax
Rust Bitcoin
An awesome collection of Rust Bitcoin projects, libraries, and packages.
I'm a good 24 years into my career and I don't see myself taking my own advice, yet. Soon though, soon.
We are lucky to be in a town in Upstate NY that has no zoning.

It keeps property prices low because the main thing that makes a house a $400,000 house is being surrounded by $400,000 houses. In our town you could always have a trailer across the street owned by a someone from a family that has a street named after them.

Having zoning in the town is a controversy, something that some people want to do because they want to keep Dollar General out, but it seems absurd to thing Dollar General would harm other businesses in the area or somehow turn the area into a food desert if it isn't already.
You don't need to be part of an industry to say if their product is safe for humans.
there are many many words missing from its guess dictionary

laser
lakes

to name a couple
Amazon.com wasn’t really profitable. They ran at low margins for years. In 2006, their profit was like 500m against 10B in revenue.
Yes. It is bad. And it’s warped programmer brains for decades now. If you want to have some fun and design a better interface, go grab a direct kernel-bypass layer 2 NIC interface and learn how much better things could have been. Unfortunately, the sockets api isn’t going away. But, on the positive side, it’s one of the most portable OS interfaces out there.
Thanks for synthesizing.
The author of the blog apparently also wrote about Zaraz in this post:

https://cunderwood.dev/2022/01/30/tag-management-is-no-longe...
How does a country fund wars?

Through issuing bonds, and then inflating the money supply so as to dilute the amount to pay back.
Even on the frontend it’s kind of overblown. If you’re at a stable-ish company you learn react and a few missing pieces from the JS stdlib but most other stuff is already set up or you Google how to set it up and move on.
Underrated recommendation.

Also MS Access alternatives like Knack maybe https://www.knack.com/
At small scale it's fine. Its architecture totally forecloses any possibility of distributed evaluation, so there is a brick wall of scalability. Its human-readable-text-over-HTTP scraping scheme is also hilariously inefficient. It is not, in short, "planet scale".

https://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol13/p3181-adams.pdf
Hugo moderators are rude and made me abandon Hugo
Hugo is a good tool to make static sites. Yet, it is not beginner friendly and some of the moderators are very rude. After a frustrating 80 hours trying to move from Jekyll, I have given up on Hugo! Their philosophy is "either you learn Go or move on to something else". My satisfaction with Hugo is 0.3 out of 5.
> I have no issue believing that an imaginary consensus stored ledger in thousands of computers all secured by massive amounts of energy and limited to 21M units over 100 years might be valuable.

It's not "secured" by energy. You can't convert a Bitcoin into the original amount of power required to produce it, which is the defining quality of a financial security.

It's more accurate to say that Bitcoin's value is retained by the ongoing commitment of power into the network. But that correctly suggests that the network collapses without a perpetual source of electricity, which is not the kind of positive connotation that I think you meant to supply.
Much nicer tricks were used to launder money in the past. Isn't it ridiculous where we're at?
> real irony in all of this is that it’s an open secret that many bigger farms hire illegals for their labor, pay them less than minimal wage, house them in leaky shanties, and basically hold them hostage by thinly veiled threats about calling INS

IDK how upto date you are on this but in California this arbitrage opportunity is gone.

"thinly veiled threats about calling INS" is no longer a point of leverage, actually a quick way to lose any farm hands in California.

The current arbitrage opportunity in California are to use these people for EDD and WIC fraud but this is offtopic for this post and likely too political for HN.
You can kind of have both but it's an outright hard problem.

If you have a functional governance system, you can implement some form of vetocratic de-listing mechanism. It doesn't have to stop the de-listed item from trading but it is a mechanism for a community to collectively decide what is and what isn't a scam/forgery/theft/etc. This same system generalises to a central source of trust for a given network, service, or protocol where the control is decentralised.

Now this falls back to the first condition which is to have a functional governance system. Any failure in the governance system is now a failure in your system for deriving trust.

Can it be done? Yes. Has it been done properly yet or even really been done at all? No not really.

This isn't to say that it's impossible but we aren't there yet by any stretch of the imagination.
Luckily, my older brother had brought home a "Learning UNIX" book when I was a kid, which helped me learn about UNIX fundamentals years before getting my hands on a machine with it. I was fascinated with the book because UNIX sounded too advanced compared to what I was using back then (an 8-bit Amstrad CPC464). I still use the same knowledge such as managing shell background jobs, exiting vi, using tar, permissions, and so forth 30 years later. UNIX is quite magical in its consistency.
Alleviating Social Pain: A Randomized Trial of Forgiveness and Acetaminophen
There are 15 firms with Arm architecture licenses almost all designing 64 bit cores - seems quite competitive to me.
I used to enjoy driving manual transmission. But now after owning a Tesla I know that I would not want to go back. Sure, switching gears was fun, but driving a Tesla with access to instant torque without the need to switch gears is more fun.

Manual transmissions are fun only relative to automatic transmissions.