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I've upvoted you, but I disagree. Extra work should mean extra pay. Even just having to be ready to work should result in extra pay. You are providing a benefit to the company, and they should compensate you appropriately.

Rolling it into the contract isn't appropriate because anything that is "free" will get abused, eventually. Even if it's fine right now, it won't be eventually. And there's no way to stipulate that the "median should be 0 per week" in the contract, so that'll go out the window as soon as the company needs it to.

I upvoted you because it's obvious you've thought about a lot of the problems with this and I feel you're on the right track. You just didn't go far enough.
Why Is the Iconic Martin Mars Not Fighting Fires?
OpenHAB suffers from the developers reinventing the wheel every 2 years. I started using version 1 for automating my house in 2015. I didn't bother with the UI, since I'm running a web based dashboard I wrote myself, but the underlying "hub" and plugin infrastructure combined with the REST services and the HTTP eventstream API let me combine my custom scripts and devices (which speak MQTT) with stuff from hardware vendors and cloud services (zwave, zigbee, netamto devices, ebus heating control, caldav). In V1, all configuration could be done via plain text files, and automatically applied when the files were changed. That made it very easy to change the setup while still having it in version control.

Then came Version 2, invented a completely new way of handling plugins and deprecated all the old plugins. Some things now could only be configured via a new UI called Paper UI, which broke my git based config. Luckily, the V1 plugins mostly still worked (though some, including zwave and MQTT, were conflicting with the V2 versions so I couldn't even soft-update the items).

A few years later, they introduced V3 which finally broke the old plugins and deprecated Paper UI. I cannot say much about this version cause I'm stuck with V2 forever - there are some plugins I use that have never been adapted for V2/3.

I hope that I can keep this system running until something better based on the new Matter standard emerges. I played with Home Assistant, but it's not really fitting my use case. I don't want shiny UI, I want a reliable system that connects all my stuff and logs all the changes to a time series database. Bonus points for giving me Alexa AND Homekit support without being dependent on someone's cloud service (besides AWS of course) - which still works great with OpenHAB for me.
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The potential issue I see on Linux is the spread of third party distribution channels, like npm / pip / etc, which also tend to undergo much less scrutiny than official packages.

Sure, if someone gets root on my Linux PC, they could do a lot of damage. But my most important things are parked in my home folder, which any old script running as my user can access without any problem. No need for privilege escalation or other fancy things.

AppArmor and SELinux can probably mitigate this, but I don't think they see particular widespread use in "default deny" mode.
Linux is very secure by default, if you stick to open-source software and install it from the distro package managers. What I worry about is when Linux becomes more popular, and commercial software is ported over, and people start pirating it. The door is wide open when people start typing their root passwords into keygens. I expect the Linux world will have a revelation where they discover the power of AV.
> for instance, the author always seemed to give up after 15 seconds of a command executing with not much explanation

Because he recreates the experience of an average user who comes into nix.

To quote,

--- start quote ---

nix-env invocations are too slow for anyone to reasonably use Nix as a package manager. Full stop. Every. Single. Command. 30 seconds. It was unbearable. I mean, it was nice for writing this blog post – plenty of time to get my thoughts down – but if I were an actual, normal user? Trying to use Nix? I would just stop. My Nix adventure would end before I finished running the first command. Because I would assume it was broken, ctrl-C outta there, and go back to using Homebrew (or pacman, or apt, or whatever).

--- end quote ---
I agree that there are pretty big advantages to start with maximal set of sensors, but that is true only when you are a company with the sole goal of trying to make autonomy stack with shit ton of money and a product that you can modify because you own it.

That's not true in the case of Tesla. They started as a EV company that offered autonomy later and since they were selling the product, they had to decide a minimal set of sensors that would, in theory, still work to keep the product cost reasonable.

Tesla does have a sizeable 3D ground truth; they collected tons of data mounting LiDAR on their test vehicles.
“Curious” was my courteous way of saying that your and the first commenter’s claims are BS.
It has now been put up for sale

https://www.vancouverislandfreedaily.com/news/historic-b-c-m...
Why would that be a problem? The source is open, there are public builds by f-droid that are definetly not tempered with. I trust the fdroid maintainers.
They never shipped a malware that would resist a fresh install. Nobody should ever use an OEM provided OS.
Delete data first then delete accounts.
I actually see more anti-crypto than pro-crypto "spam" nowadays (specially on HN) and I'm not wasting my time building overelaborated strawmen. Live and let live.
> If managing a server becomes just another bullet point in a developer job, this is exactly what we get.

Yup...the same management are the ones that laid off the DBAs, system admins, network engineers, etc because "the cloud" hand waves all this stuff away now.
I've tried for a couple of days now to set up nix for reproducible iOS builds at work and I'm close to tears.

- Examples that just don't work.

- Commands that run and no output is given, even though the text I'm following says it should output information I need.

- Do I need nix-darwin? Well, the readme explains what it is: "Nix modules for darwin, /etc/nixos/configuration.nix for macOS." What? (Finally I found an answer at Stack overflow, and it seems I don't need it. Seems to be kind of NixOS on top of macOS)

- Can't build with nix-build. After long time searching it seems like you're supposed to run nix-build -E 'with import <nixpkgs> {}; callPackage ./default.nix {}' - shouldn't there be a simpler way for this common case?

- An issue open since 2018 that the manuals simple example doesn't build: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/2259 People chiming in years later that they only could build the example after reading the suggestions in that issue.

- And now I can't start my nix-shell because it says there's a problem with SSL certificates. I'm giving up.
Only somewhat I think; miners actually do have such control, and could be coerced into sanctions; it's just that no one has successfully done that (or kept quiet about it).

You can imagine outlawing processing some crypto transactions in some area. Miners have no choice but to comply, leading to at least a fork and massive confusion, at most to actual enforcement of the rule.

Blockchains may be censorship-resistant, but humans are not rubber hose resistant.
It gets posted on HN EVERY SINGLE TIME. Usually the words "have backups" triggers multiple lectures on offsite backups and testing and multiple factors and ...
It's always been a mystery to me who these users are, the ones that do not care about the VD that comes pre-installed with OEM's or with the OS itself. But working with support has taught me that a lot of people really have no idea where the OS ends and third party apps begins. Candy crush pre-installed? Must be part of Windows.
Is this possible to run on no_std systems or systems like XousOS (has its own std)? Would be cool to run on Precursor.

https://www.crowdsupply.com/sutajio-kosagi/precursor/updates...
Because most consumers don't know how tech products work, so they're unable to make the best choice for them. They end up forcing "tech-literate" people to use crappy products, by the force of the market.

That's why marketing beats product quality. Liars can win as long as there are enough gullible people, and as long the government doesn't enact laws to protect the public's interest.

There is no way to improve product quality other by regulations. The "invisible hand of the market" was misinterpreted.

You can win in any competition if the rules don't prevent bad faith players.

Libertarians and other silicon valley start up bros will downvote me.
It's true but I'm happy to trade some climate for the other factors on my wish list. Sydney and Melbourne both fail not only on climate, they're also not as diverse and cultured and don't have super great public and alternative transport. Based on the feedback here Lisboa def seems like a top option. (by all means Miami too)
Disagree. Even if there is strong selection bias, the positive evidence that they present is worth considering.
Here's the way I understand it.

Geography - there is a hill.

History - there is a castle on the hill.

Psychogeography - how does it feel to have an imposing castle looking down on everything you do? In what ways does the geography - and built environment - affect your mood, behaviours, and practises? Do you intentionally walk a certain route so you won't be seen from the castle?

Some of it is abstract - and deliberately so - and some of it is asking you to reflect on the way geography alters you and your behaviours.
It turns out anytime you update the Gigabyte BIOS it loses all its settings including the custom fan curves/undervolting I built from the advice on random reddit posts.

Do need to replace the fans and maybe PSU though.
Amazon accuses estranged Indian partner Future and Reliance of fraud
Backups are not even processed under the UK GDPR when people want data wiped!

Put another way do you see any backup service/software advertising the ability to wipe data from backups to conform with GDPR DSAR requests? Its virtually impossible with existing tech services and legislators, law enforcement and the like are covering this up!
I've found the Nix language to be a really useful configuration language, even "outside" of the NixOS ecosystem. I reuse nixpkgs's module system, but to describe things that are used outside of the NixOS system (for example in an Ansible playbook).

For example, I'm using it to describe a set of containers and services in my infrastructure, and it allows me to properly describe the interfaces between the different components of the infrastructure, using several modules :
- a "base" module defines the options used for describing the services
- one defines the services themselves
- one handles the reverse proxy configuration for these services (for multiple frontends), as well as the SSL certificates and DNS zones
- one handles the containers themselves (through Docker or LXD)
- one handles the networking overlay
- one handles the "shared services" (databases, caches, etc)

Each of these modules is basically a function that takes the resulting configuration as argument, allowing it to reuse values defined by the other modules, and the configuration itself is the fixpoint of the composition of all of these functions.

It all composes quite well, and the nixpkgs module system allows me to document the options provided by each module. I can even reuse some of the existing NixOS to create a web interface where other admins can search for configuration options and lookup their documentation. Some things are exported in JSON, some are used directly as NixOS modules, some things source the inventory for Ansible playbooks, etc.

It allowed me to create a well-defined source of truth for a very heteregenous architecture, while preserving some of the existing workflows and tooling.

It's not ideal of course : Nix itself is not typed, the nixpkgs module system provides some typing, but the integration is not perfect, and this makes error handling quite tedious. Also, the interpreter is quite slow, there is no documented way to embed it into your own program, and I
I don't even like football, but I find that in the UK, football is so intrinsic to our culture that some aspects of it should be considered almost like infrastructure. Governments pay for roads, why not for sports stadiums?

For example, it would be totally unacceptable to large parts of the country for Manchester United to go bankrupt and be sold off in parts as would happen in a normal business. I don't even really care and I think I'd find it outrageous too. The political sphere here is well aware of the value communities place on their FCs and protecting that system is commonly a part of political debate.

I feel like treating sports as a regular business is questionable. If we wouldn't allow a business to fail, it's not a real business, and looking at what literally just happened with Chelsea, it's clear we won't allow it to fail in the same way as a normal business.
Everything about the ways we measure people's skills is wrong.
For modern-city like I intend the renaissance movement where new town born en-masse and poor's flee the poor countryside to the rich city. At Roman time city was not really rich: they host some rich but most of it's population was poor, only commerce give a bit of wealth in cities.

Roman's was more traders and peasants with everything gravitating around the army than "citizens". Probably a modern-city comparison can be for the USA the "west" vs the "est", where in the west surely there was cities, witch in reality are "villages" for our modern lingo and people live more on trade and peasant's activities than else while the "east" was already a urban-centric civilization. I hope that's clarify a bit my view.

About urban replacement: honestly in the past "replacement" was far different than today, they build piled rock buildings, replacement happen after a war or in case of big incomes using the same rock and adding some. That does not really change the cities, that change was more addictive and slow rebuilding...
Germany is one of the oldest NATO countries. Of course the US did supposedly intercept the Chancellor's phonecalls or emails or something, but it seems like not much ill-will was generated as a result.
A container registry allows you to download multiple layer simultaneously and only those that you need (that you don't have in cache).
I live in Cincinnati and without the stadiums a lot of businesses downtown wouldn't be able to survive
> how the Yeltsin administration was more democratic. Because my understanding is that the Yeltsin administration was extremely unstable

You seem to have your categories mixed up: Democratic or not is orthogonal to stable or not.
So one can't write a web 3 app using this technology between wallets names (something like ENS for identity and domains [0][1]) and use that as a platform to accept cryptocurrencies to official and verified accounts in a decentralized manner, with all of the advantages and use cases above?

So that is not even utility then?

[0] https://ens.domains/

[1] https://skiff.org/updates/skiff-ens
Microsoft Releases DirectStorage
Sorry; hate to be a pessimist, but you won't find what you're asking for.

You're basically looking to rationalize the irrational. This is an exercise in futility.

Spirituality is science done upside down and backwards.

Spiritual people decide to "believe" and then seek justification and confirmation from other like minded people --- all while ignoring any contradicting info.

Group enough of these folks together into a self reinforcing feedback loop and you have a "cult".

If this could be rationalized, it would be called "science" instead of "spirituality". If "spirituality" could be reasoned with, it would cease to exist. Any such attempt is often viewed as a hostile attack on the individual's self awareness and self esteem and usually ends in rejection.
I could be a problem the linux community could do nothing about (and still be a problem). But lets see:

- maybe a lot of companies dont do it because there is no awareness that customers want it?
- maybe companies do not know how to develop cross platform

So ppl shd tell manufactures that they would be willing to pay money for linux applications.

Also the cross platform development should be smoothed and well documented. Like write a document (and give some talks) how to easily migrate a win32 programm to. Linux and a dot net program. If it is not easy, make it easier.

Also do the same for licensing/copyprotection on linux.
As opposed to the same repeated boring non-arguments that proponents make to justify their investment?
> is defined by being able to freely choose where you are and what you do during that time

So… not being able to: go on a long run without the phone, go watch a movie, have a big nap, go on a hike without a laptop on you.

Doesn’t sound free to me. My last on call wasn’t bad. But I still didn’t like being bound to my laptop and phone.
Spreadsheets don't have to have access to admin to cause serious issues. Company financials, shared drives, contact lists with hierarchy, email history, password managers, etc. live on restricted user accounts. As usual there's an XKCD for it: https://xkcd.com/1200/
Ch*d p*n, at a guess?
> Just linking to the root of the documentation itself doesn't help much.

I’m sorry, I didn’t have time to find a good specific reference, so I just linked to the whole document.

I suppose that a technical solution is to encrypt all backups of user data with one key per user. Then you only have to erase that user’s key if necessary.
> They never shipped a malware that would resist a fresh install.

Actually they did. It stored the malware in UEFI so after a format/clean reinstall of your OS you were still vulnerable.

https://www.ghacks.net/2015/08/12/lenovo-once-again-in-hot-w...
>Ice Hockey is the only one really played outside of America

So people really believe this shit?

Brittney Griner, a mega star in the WBNA, is currently being detained in Russia on drug charges. What was she doing in Russia in the first place? She was there playing professional basketball for a Russian team. She makes a magnitude larger salary playing in Russia than she does in the WBNA.

Baseball is a major sport in Japan and the Caribbean. There's even an MLB team in Canada. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_organized_baseball_lea...

A game very similar to American football (Canadian football) has been played in Canada since the late 1800s.
I want to see my avatar.
Thanks for the link, very useful.
Road design and laws have mostly stayed the same in the past 50 years. How about controls (pedals, wheel, etc) - more or less the same as well (subject to regulations).

There are similarities in your example. The fact that Tesla has autopilot and is an EV represent two of the biggest moves away from traditional car concepts. If you used an ICE car I would say the concepts haven't changed much.
It’s also part of Windows hardening standards that are then pulled into compliance frameworks.

My company installs at least 3 antimalware/security management products that cripple, I mean, protect endpoint systems. 2 vendors. None of them are integrated with each other. So files and executables are all scanned 3x. Git runs abysmally slow because of all the processes involved and tiny files.

One of the reasons I run the paperwork gauntlet to run a Mac. Windows is crippled, Linux is banned on endpoints, so Mac it is. I have to run 1 AV, but it doesn’t do a lot. And I love apple kicking everyone out of the kernel over time (except VirtualBox, that’s annoying).

Luckily it’s mostly an application-level concern on Linux. Scanning files and such on file-servers, mail gateways, etc. ultimately protecting windows systems w/ normal user processes not all up in my kernel, and on limited systems. It actually kinda makes sense.

Now, commercial IDS/IPS, I don’t even want to know how those are architected. I haven’t touched an OSS one (Snort) in years.

If I won the lottery, it would be kind of fun to just sit and find horrific exploits in these things.
I haven't been to Europe so can't compare it to some of your alternatives, but I've lived in south Texas for most of my life so could give some perspective there.

Pros for Austin:

* It definitely meets your first 2 goals of having a warm climate and a good tech scene.

* I would describe Austin as moderately diverse. Not as much as SF, NYC, or Houston, but it has some things going for it. A lot of people are moving there from out of state, so it's growing a lot. There's great fusion food, especially if you like Mexican food, and it has the 3rd highest rate of LGBTQ people in the country. Despite being in Texas, the cities here are tolerant and diverse.

* Great music scene and festivals.

* Fun summer activities, like tubing down nearby rivers.

* It would probably be a good place to raise a family, as it has some really nice neighborhoods and decent schools.

* You have a lot to do if you'd like to get out of the city. Fredericksburg for German restaurants/culture and Texas wine country, Corpus Christi and North Padre Island for long weekend beach trips, San Antonio for very good Mexican food, Fiesta (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiesta_San_Antonio), or seeing the Riverwalk or historic missions. I live in San Antonio, for reference.

* I'm not super familiar with the parks and trails, but I think they are good, if you enjoy cycling or running. The Austin Marathon is a blast.

Cons:

* It is car centric, and the traffic isn't great. However, a lot of people bike, so you could arrange it so that your work and errands are within a bicycle commute. I would definitely have a car for getting around elsewhere, though.

* Cost of living is high, but tech salaries cover that. It's not to the level of cities like NYC or SF, though, and I think it's mainly limited to housing.

* It is Texas, so there are certain regressive state policies, like a recent declaration from the attorney general attempting to criminalizing gender affirming healthcare for trans youth. A lot of these get challenged in court and thrown out, but it is something to consider.

Good luck with your decision! Lisbon or anywhere in Spain sound amazing, too.
> If I had more money to gamble, however, I'd definitely put some on Tesla in the current environment of foreseeable-future high oil prices.

Before you buy the stock, please consider not only the fact that it is likely gonna be great but *also* the current price of the stock. You also wouldn't buy a car without knowing the price. The market cap of Tesla is currently 792 billion. Let's look at the operating cash flow since that is the money a company can sort of spend on whatever they want. Their operating cash flow for the year 2021 is about 11.5 billion. So, assuming no growth, they will need 68 of those years to be able to pay all investors back.

But, okay, let's assume some growth. Let's say 30% growth in cash flow per year which is a optimistic estimate. Few companies manage to get a 30% yearly growth; let alone for a longer period. They will need about 16 of those years (11.5 * 1.3^16 = 765 billion).

As another number, you can look at the PE Ratio. The average PE Ratio for the S&P 500 is 23.80 currently (https://www.multpl.com/s-p-500-pe-ratio). In 2011 it got as low as 14 even. Tesla sits at 156!
Sir, we live in a capitalist economy. Prices don't mirror costs.