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> What’s the most secure OS for servers? Why?

The one you built yourself with a kernel stripped down to a TCP stack
and a few essentials, a bare userspace and bootloader, and just enough
libc to support whatever you're serving.

Why? Minimal attack surface.

Why not? Most people won't spend the time to learn OS/distro building.
It's a steep curve, maybe one or two years to master building a
minimal viable OS with just a kernel and shell, doing something like
Linux From Scratch [1] or similar [2], and then learning the ins and
outs of (dpkg-tools/debconf type or similar) source package management
way to roll your own bare-bones.

[1] https://linuxfromscratch.org/

[2] https://flylib.com/books/en/2.605.1.108/1/
The day we found the universe

Marcia bartusiak

Interesting (great!) read on the history of (fairly recent) astronomy. Ties in with physics
Things have been dire since Trump got elected.
>Paying for living expenses is a questionable bar for success. I paid for living expenses delivering pizzas for Domino's. And I probably worked less hours.

Success obviously depends on the objective. Paying for living expenses is successes for billions of people. Doing so in a zero sum (or negative sum) game of skill is a valid definition. More so if winnings cover your living for a decade after you stop playing. I'm guessing that delivering pizzas didn't allow you to retire and travel in comfort for years after.
Security is always a compromise. If you want to access your homelab from outside (eg keep your documents in own hands), you have to open a way. Opening your own VPN endpoint or an SSH port is also non-zero risk, imho
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The future was much more certain a couple of week ago.

But yes, that's expected. After supply-line shocks shortage and oversupply follow each other. If people play their cards right, they get a quickly decreasing amplitude on those crises, if they play wrong, they get always increasing ones until a lot get bankrupt.

The chip manufacturers seem well aware of the problem and to be playing it correctly. I wouldn't bet on the oversupply crisis being nearly as large as the shortage.
Everybody that didn't start with mac has that concept of open windows, it shouldn't come as a surprise. If you like the way Apple tells you to do it, it works great. If you don't like it, Apple is bent on taking away customisation options one by one.

I also find the window management in Osx terrible. Thankfully a couple of third-party apps (BetterTouchTool and AltTab) fixes most of the issues.

I'm happy with my mac, but if those third-party solutions stop working, I'd switch back to linux in a heartbeat.
Yes, bring it! :D
> World War II urban warfare is over romanticized in retrospect

At least for me WW II urban warfare is all but synonymous with the Battle for Stalingrad, which is arguably the nastiest battle in human history. Who is romanticising that?
This is probably true, but it may not mean any less consolidation.

Consolidation is a fairly easy bet to place though from a 2022 POV, so I guess GP (and I) are predicting cold during winter.
> If you're thinking about designing a language, study as many other languages as you can so that you get a better sense for the design choices involved and how various concepts fit together.

I've written C, C++, Python, Ruby, Lua, Bash, POSIX sh, C#, Java, JavaScript, Common Lisp, Racket, Haskell, bc, dc, Zig, BASIC, Tcl, and some others I'm probably forgetting, and I've studied Rust, D, Ada, Idris, Coq, Isabelle/HOL, HAL/S, OpenGL shaders, Cilk, Cyclone, Ceylon, Scala, Clojure, Kotlin, F#, Scheme Lisp, Jai, Julia, Perl, Nim, and probably even more that I am forgetting.

Does all of that count? :)

> Ask people experienced with those languages what they like / dislike about them. Write something challenging enough to get a first hand understanding of some of those pros and cons. If you push on with your own language, this will help your efforts significantly.

Yes, I agree. And I have done all of that.

> If you get lucky, you might find a language that stops your descent into the rabbit hole.

"Lucky" is the operative word. Unfortunately, I'm picky and haven't been that lucky.
Thanks for correcting, I just checked and you seem to be right
Jihad v McWorld by Ben Barber.
I miss Classic box art.
If there's an oversupply of GPU chips _and_ everyone builds them into products and sells them. There's a fair amount of demand in that specific instance but that doesn't translate into capacity for everything else and companies aren't going to be quick to lower prices.
Long term contracts are important. The buyers who had them didn't have to scramble so much. That doesn't mean stockpiling, necessarily.
> But Germany is in arrears for many years of not meeting their NATO obligations.

No, they aren't. Spending targets aren't obligations, and there are no “arrears” from them. I know Trump popularized this line as part of his anti-NATO propaganda, but it isn't how things work.
> Overpopulation can be solved while increasing the human population, by eliminating people's environmental footprint.

Ha! I have heard of people trying to control the world but I have never seen it accomplished. Yes, there are many impossible possibilities that can only be created with fascism.
Very unlikely that they could be intercepted.
IIRC those missiles launched from Russia can reach the east coast in an hour.
Oh, please no. Just stop already. We don't need the enterprisification of every fucking language.
Sovereign means sovereign.

What Putin thinks about what Ukraine should or should not do stops at the borders of the Russian Federation.

Russia could decide to stop trading with Ukraine, or impose sanctions on Ukraine, or any of a number of other legal options.

Instead, they chose to militarily invade a country.
It’s eerily familiar to fans of the Der Untergang meme.
green new deal is a very good thing! looking forward to it
> The Russians assassinated the Chechen leader on his way to peace talks 26 years ago.

Interesting, do you have a link?
The underlying tool (caesar) will infer the key if you forget to pass it in. It does so without brute forcing.

Applying this to DPI wouldn't be too bad.
Yes, I am familiar with Navalny. I'm not sure that one could say "Putin did J bad thing, so he is irrational about K, L, and M". That is the common tactic of character assassination which to me looks like a lack of real arguments about that character's position.
Will this mean car prices will return to normal and wait times to receive them won’t be so long? I feel like the auto industry has directly impacted me the most, as I try to look to get a car.
In keeping with the analogy: the finishing school that's churning out teams of highly coiffed government-destabilizing psychopaths is not physically connected to the factory that produces the posters. And the custodian in the poster factory knows how to clean the gears and reset the breakers.
You got it wrong, this is not about finding something more difficult or less instinctual, this is about personal preference.
I am not an expert, but lack of atmospheric losses could be a major factor in deploying a system with practical levels of coverage.

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19790005436/downloads/19...
They way I read the article, there is going to be excess supply of things such as power-regulation ICs, 2.4GHz radio chips and so on. I'd guess that consumers will gobble these up all across the world in smart appliances and IoT like never before. GPUs are nice, but they won't regulate your heating amid rising gas prices.
IKEA "impulse" buys aren't the same kind of actual impulse buy as unnecessary food or clothes or books when you find them; they are normally useful things one didn't remember to intend buying, or even useful things that one didn't know were available (e.g. something you noticed in someone's home but didn't know was an IKEA product).

For reasonably disciplined people looking at just about the whole store and collecting as much as possible of the intersection between what they should buy and what is available is the normal way to amortize the cost of all that walking, and planning to buy something is only a worst-case guarantee that an IKEA visit will be worthwhile.
To give a real world example of how the chip shortage is affecting me...

The vehicle I want to buy does not come with the chip for heated seats or parking sensors, because they simply do not have enough of them. You can buy that vehicle without those features, and at least with the heated seats, they promise to retrofit them "at some future date." All of the models that got made before the cut-off sold super quickly, and I'm just waiting to buy until the vehicle is complete at signing.
tbf, there is a bit more than that.

The Maidan movement might have had public support, but behind the scenes EU and US actors were definitely jockeying to choose who to support. There are documents and even intercepts showing that. And after the world stopped caring, the new regime turned out to be not particularly less corrupt than the previous one - hence Ukrainians voting in complete outsiders like Klitschko (a boxer) and Zelenskiy (a tv comedian), who in turn sold out very quickly too to various interests. Zelenksiy is balls-out pro-NATO, but without this war he risked being thrown out, after his offshore funds were found in one of the various PanamaPapers-like leaks. He managed to lose pretty much all political capital and support he had in a matter of months, and his Nato obsession was seen as a bit humiliating really.

> NATO explicitly mentioned that no countries are allowed that have border disputes, that's why Russia started a gray zone war immediately after in 2014.

That has more to do with those regions being largely Russophone, and the Ukrainian government being too weak to regain control over them. If that was the only obstacle to join the Alliance, don't you think Zelenskiy or his predecessors would have just renounced them? Surely that's a price worth paying for a permanent security upgrade for the rest of the country.

No, the reality is that even the alliance never really wanted Ukraine to join. There are already enough members to contain Russia militarily if needs be. Same goes for the EU, which is already pretty big with 27 members and stalling pretty much all requests for further accession (not just Ukraine but Serbia and others too). But dangling carrots in front of people is how you make them do your bidding, so such requests are never formally rejected, just stalled forever.

> Ukrainians wanted deeper ties with Europe

Putin likely doesn't care about that, he cares about the leverage Ukrainians have over the precious Gazprom product that helps him stay in power.
“In Colorado, we’ve been laying the groundwork to be a center of crypto and blockchain innovation for a number of years. We see it as a critical part of Colorado’s overall innovation ecosystem,” shared Polis.

If the governor is serious about this he will push to remove the tax, as some countries have. It'll be hard to be the center of crypto innovation while taxing transactions.
> But, even before that, I remember when I first started thinking about the way I behaved. I was still living in Boston. I had been out of kitchens for a couple years. I think I was working at Cook’s Illustrated. I had two roommates in Cambridge—one of them was my best friend. She and I had lived together since college. We had a friend visiting, and my roommate had woken up, gone to the corner store, and bought a box of pancake mix and was making pancakes. I came out of my room that morning and basically just berated her about using pancake mix when we had all the ingredients already. Our mutual friend was, like, “Kenji, you’re being an asshole. Why are you judging a person for making pancakes?” And I realized at that point, Oh, crap, why am I belittling one of my best friends in the world for wanting to make pancakes at home? I had to make a conscious decision not to be that way.

> You can train yourself, I think, to be a better person just by thinking about it a lot, and acting on those thoughts.
I've found Ethan Chlebowski and Kenji's videos really put in a lot of great, simple tips that make for some good cooking. For the most part, their videos aren't necessarily about the dish itself but the processes whilst cooking them. Kenji's boiling eggs video and Ethan's risotto-like pasta video have helped me immensely and just watching them cook has added some great techniques to my own repertoire. It really does help that they're quite honest about making mistakes and tend to include how and why they failed sometimes
The Scientific Method: An Evolution of Thinking from Darwin to Dewey is excellent -> https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/0674976193/
I don't think so. He's Canadian.
The Saga of Nuclear Energy
Can't there only ever be an oversupply of chips that people don't want? Because if they wanted them they would buy them?
NATO membership is a canard. Putin's real objection is Ukraine being a western facing democracy right on his door step. That makes the Russian Federation look like what it is: a bunch of stooge kleptocrats who hold on to power through murder and intimidation.
Their Putin table is pretty nice - https://9gag.com/gag/aE88A5n
Ukraine shares an entire western border with Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, and Romania.
There are rumors that tonight will actually be the worst night thus far in an attempt to bring Ukraine to the table with the remnants of the night fresh in their minds.

It’s not over until it’s over.
One upside of Bitcoin style mining is that its mining chips can't be used for anything else (no GPUs, CPUs, FPGAs, or SSDs used for Bitcoin mining - only special SHA256 ASICs), so it doesn't have much effect on the supply of semiconductors outside of a small number of older foundries allocating some capacity to BTC chips. Other projects like Ethereum intentionally used GPU-optimized mining algorithms, with the idea that this would help decentralization (which hasn't really worked for various reasons).
My point is that that is irrelevant to the issue of gas shortages in Europe due to the Ukraine situation. I'm not saying that insulation is a bad thing long term.
I enjoyed "The Scientists: A History of Science Told Through the Lives of Its Greatest Inventors" by John Gribbin so much I've read it twice.
If this is part of your real threat model then you're better off using a self-hosted control plane. Headscale for tailscale, the built-in one for Zerotier, a manually managed wireguard mesh, or Nebula (which is always self-hosted).
How would you even interpret the data if it was normalized by scholarly output or papers published?

I’m pretty sure the largest downloaders are people from industry rather than academia. I might open 50 papers in one day just to look at the graphs and then read just one. I’d guess the second largest are high school students. They might not read papers very often, but there are a whole lot more of them than academics.
I wonder how AMD and Intel's announcement that they will stop chip shipments to Russia indefinitely will affect this. I don't know how big of a consumer Russia was but I imagine it could have some impact with all that stock now back on the market.
In fairness, the difference would've been more pronounced to me if they'd actually given the numbers. "Typical" doesn't give me enough context, but 3-4x does:

http://www.buffalo.edu/news/releases/2008/04/9325.html

Thanks for steering me.
Thank you, but that page is not current. The intl.date_time config options have been removed. And just last Friday I tried to change the Language & Appearance > Date and Time Formatting with no positive results. I assume that option is no longer read, even though it exists in the UI.
And if there is no extradition agreement? And why is it difficult to prosecute (assuming the murder is proven)?
There's another uncompleted airframe and if I recall correctly Turkey did show some inclination to finish it with Ukraine, so maybe after the war ends
There’s an RFC in discussion to add a Sensitive Value attribute that would prevent values from being output in the logs. It won’t stop serialization of the values though.
This is why I don't care about following any 'supply chain' worries the tech community is for some reason worried about. It'll undershoot, it'll overshoot, it'll balance itself out eventually and my interaction with it won't make a lick of difference.
Man ain't that the truth. I think it just means we're getting old.
Doest Putin Have Children?
If only they actually halted major development that would be great.

The problem is that there are Mozilla developers who appear to randomly poke at the codebase and "change" stuff. One recent example is how they've changed the calendar event edit dialog. Now instead of being able to edit the event directly, you have to click on an intermediate button (so first you have a read-only dialog, then the actual edit dialog).

When I've searched why they would do that, I found that it was because one developer thought that "it's probably how it should be". They've changed something that's been that way for more than 10 years with no UX study, no discussion with users - just one guy who thought that it'd be nice to change this.
No, there are plenty of hidden in plain sight shortcuts that aren’t marked on the maze board hanging from the ceiling.

Just look at the employees move about, they use double doors to move between sections much more efficiently than you do by using the dotted lines on the ceiling signs.
This is true and an important point. A state accepting anything in lieu of its own currency is basically adopting another currency.

That said, "you can now use crypto for X" is kind of news. The principle of "can do X with Crypto" may be established, but the practice isn't. Bigger news would be Y% of colorado residents pay tax with crypto.
This is interesting; I didn't real it carefully enough to know for sure, but one of the big challenges in moving from SQL to semistructed data like JSON is being able to do queries into deep fields (combined with repeating fields).
Temporarily, perhaps. The risk is that without planning that oversupply leads to a period of greater shortage due to cancelled production, bankruptcy etc.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullwhip_effect
When hasn’t it done so
Glad you liked the article! From a user perspective, bluetooth does seem to be a outlier ... it would be interesting to unpack the reasons.

This post linked by skybrian is good, and discusses a sort of narrow waist for image transformations (and animation library linked at the end)

https://acko.net/blog/on-variance-and-extensibility/

My comments say where I disagree, but it's a good article obviously based on a lot of experience.
I really hate being in the store. I hate going to the store, because it means a long drive out into the middle of nowhere. The time it takes to actually shop at ikea isn’t worth the price.
There are a lot of things we could have done differently to prevent the current issues. Reducing capital efficiency by requiring massive stockpiles isn't necessarily at the top of the list of good ideas. I'm not saying it's a bad idea, just that this isn't necessarily the first thing we want to jump to across the market.
I can’t think of any more major consolidation that can take place. Maybe within NAND, but for different reasons as there’s not really risk of a long lasting supply glut in that market.
That's a deep mischaracterization of positions against aging research. People are against because in the way it's conducted and given the existing social order, it will reinforce inequalities and make the world a worst place. If you are more privileged you will live longer and have more chances to concentrate money and power for yourself or your family and away from less privileged people.

This is even more the case in a world on the verge of ecological and social collapse where the age expectancy is lowering.
I feel like that's a problem with the terminal's theme. If you use a light theme, you should change yellow's color to be readable.
Pacifiers aren’t necessarily bad. We all need some help feel better
what does this mean
Crossing fingers we will we be able to pick up 3080ti then for $100 bucks? I still think it may take much more time for the other affected industries to make up.. Which means there still some sort of supply chain communication problems...
Somehow I find this possibility a little reassuring.
It's clearly not an illness, it's just misguided, confused mimicry. The internet is not a hospitable place for children. Caveat emptor.
That's also sitting in a hangar in Ukraine.
Accelerated C++ by Andrew Koenig and Barbara Moo. I'm sure it's hopelessly outdated and irrelevant today. It was one of the first CS books I read and I really dug into and grokked it. I think it played a large role in the developer I became.

It's very pragmatic, but also pushes into thinking through the design of your system and also digs into the "why" and "how" of what is going on and balances all of this quite well IMO. I still have my copy on my shelf.
This might actually be helpful in getting the world more united against Russia.
>"Oversupply crisis"

I'll take this any time. I am eyeing new server and laptop but prices suck at the moment for my specs.
EU closes airspace for Russian owned, registered or controlled aircraft
> Teetering on bankruptcy, the casino owner had no option but to issue Jarecki a 15-day ban… for “being too good.”

It's funny how they never ban you, if you lose too much.
As I recall this was Cuba's argument after the failed bay of pigs invasion. They asked for nuclear weapons on their soil and the USSR agreed to provide them.

The US took a dim view of it if I recall correctly.

When the defence of the heartland is threatened, notions such as sovereignty tend to take a back seat and invasion is very much on the table.

Strategically the Ukrainian border is kind of like Russia's jugular. Hence the insistence that NATO membership is a red line.
My ikea watches out for that and will actually force you to go through the maze to get to the warehouse. They don’t always enforce it but when they do I just walk out because I can’t deal with the maze especially when I know exactly what I want and just have to pick it up.
You are very right, specially when it comes to smaller countries. An armed population must be kept ready in case of invasion, It's a sad fact, but in a word where the smaller fish get eaten there's just no other way
I am surprised there's no mention of SENS[0]. I find their repairing the damage approach quite sound.

[0]: https://www.sens.org/intro-to-sens-research/
The US had "reliable information" that Iraq had WMD's. Try to be better than that.
Ireland is the only EU state where it's wrong as far as I can see. All other states seem to have laws that state what I claimed (but I Google translated them so take that with some salt).

Czech citizens have been in prison over French foreign legion membership.
This is definitely the trick. My wife and I buy plenty of IKEA stuff, but I haven’t been beyond the exit warehouse in years.
And no actual critique from your side? Just leave him be, this won't be a constructive conversation from either side
Scientists Unveil 'Unified Genealogy of Modern and Ancient Humans'
> Many in US media called the mostly white Jan. 6th Capitol rioters terrorists.

Interesting that you use this relatively new incident as an example. The name-calling was primarily by social media left, this is not a mainstream take.

Regardless, this isolated incident does not change the hypocrisy being displayed in the innumerable examples shown in the article.
Why would Russian military personnel have Social Security Numbers?
> Don't Write a Programming Language

Is why we've arrived at using JSON for declarations instead of a nice domain-specific language. So while I would agree that you almost certainly don't need a "programming language", you should definitely consider a DSL over just using JSON.
So these figures are from different times as well as different banks? If so then cool, that was the missing piece.