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I got started with BSDs just over 20 years ago when I needed to setup some servers and firewalls and the choice was between linux 2.2's ipchains or OpenBSD's pf. I was blown away by the simplicity of the firewall rules syntax for pf and then became enamoured with other niceties like the emphasis on security and correctness, the logical filesystem hierarchy, the simple licensing, the UNIX pedigree (sort of), the completely integrated build system for userspace and kernel, the fact that you had to actually turn services on rather than have several daemons running unnecessarily, and MAN pages that actually were useful and had examples and everything.

I'm still a big fan and have at least one of each major BSD variant running on one server or another just to keep up with developments across the space. So many innovations we take for granted come from the BSDs or were incubated there and they continue to innovate and refine the OSes in ways that I think more people should pay attention to.

Just a few of the things that we can thank BSDs for:

• The 'TCP/IP stack'
• OpenSSH
• OpenSMTPd
• OpenBGPd
• OpenNTPd
• LibreSSL
• privilege separation
• pf
• Darwin (The MacOS Kernel)
• The Ports system (pkgsrc in NetBSD and DragonflyBSD. Inspired Gentoo)
• A whole slew of security innovations : https://www.openbsd.org/innovations.html
• NetBSD can run your toaster: https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/
• DragonflyBSD's HAMMER filestystem
• OpenBSD's Todd Miller also looks after development of sudo
The real world makes me mad too. Walk into a pharmacy and look at all the products they sell with the association of ‘health’ that have no health value. Vitamins and chocolate alike.
>onerous safety regulations

I see you interchanged the words I actually used "onerous regulations" and instead addressed "onerous safety regulations." Nowhere in the comment you replied to is the word "safety" found.

But it is true a lot of regulations are made in the name of "safety." What these fail to account for, is that many of these regulations increase expense, so there are tradeoffs such as those who lose healthcare or education opportunities by instead spending it making housing more safe (thus, they may actually become less safe by having a safer house). Or even worse, people who end up homeless because although they could have built an "unsafe" shack, the regulations in all their wisdom deem it's better to be dead of the elements on the street than to live in a sub-par structure.

> Its a well documented phenomenon that housing policy is driven to protect past buyers over future ones (NIMBY, using zoning laws to limit density of housing, minimal acreage in cities etc).

>A combination of loosening up zoning laws around residential buildings and a land value tax would do lots to facilitate affordable housing, but nobody wants to disrupt current homeowners on behalf of renters and future buyers

Agree on all accounts here, the stars really align against new entrants.
> How much solar capacity is actually residential?

I'm not sure how much is residential, but about 25% is utility-scale projects. The rest is stuff on commercial buildings and homes-- which have an average capacity factor around 12%.

> Nuclear should be part of the equation (it has it's own issues with wastewater) but if adding nuclear means not investing equally or more in solar/wind renewables, that's completely misguided.

I totally agree. I think our priorities should be, in order:

- Wind

- Pumped storage

- Improved utility interties

- Demand-side management

- PV

- Nuclear

- Battery storage

- Electrolyzers, etc

But even the lowest priority item should be aggressively pursued.
Very nice. Also of interest with discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30764886
Many banks used to, at least in the US. Had to run some version of internet explorer. Sometimes a specific version or you could not access the bank website. It's creeping back now as more sites are not working correctly with Firefox for me.
The parent is accurate, hence we can’t have honest arguments about single payer health care as a replacement for our current patchwork of 17 health care systems.

Your comment is accurate, hence Congress (and the 2+ American cultures they represent) can’t agree on almost anything.

I would argue not all denials of objective truth are equal. When one faction of the US has problems admitting that the elected officials+LEOs investigated allegations of fraud, courts bent over backwards to tolerate frivolous lawsuits which had no specific evidence of fraud, and literally tens of millions of them regularly consume opinion disguised as factual news from several outlets which have said exactly this in court.

We are also seeing an increase in size, population, severity, and intensity of non-falsifiable claims including Stop the Steal, QAnon, and perhaps even claims of racist police murders.

Specific to health care, we have far too many incurious people who don’t bother to understand the current state of healthcare in the USA or reject any government-sponsored changes simply on the grounds that the government is involved (despite it being the status quo).
I hate QR menus, I ask for a paper menu and leave if they don't have one. I've only had to walk out of one restaurant, they always seem to produce a menu at the last minute.
China publishes report saying it may have picked up signals from aliens
I use 5555ff because it hurts my eyes
> doc wouldn't give me antibiotics because I took the initial one week "and it's not possible that I have Lyme"

Why would you accept that response from a doc if you were confident you had symptoms of lyme? Get a second opinion, or straight up fire your doctor.
I spent several years taking buses to my little town from the bus station in front of Angstrem building, which is a remarkably long parallelepiped (the picture shows maybe 1/10th of the building, it is least half a km long), with many friends of my family having worked there in the waning Soviet era days.

Angstrem and many other organizations in Zelenograd was a high-tech facility for the time and the place, and yet already far behind the western time. Zelenograd was designed as an answer to Silicon Valley and for a while it was. Obviously that all failed.
I agree with pretty much all of this, but would add that while the stimulus was absolutely necessary, it was applied/distributed so sloppily that lots of people who didn’t need it wound up with tons of free money (I personally know a few) while folks who were really suffering got almost no benefit at all (too little too late).

Once again, the only people who came out ahead are the ones with all the money and power in the first place.
Seconded this. I recieved one as well.
Speaking with customer support I got the following:

"Our team detected irregular logs relating to a small number of accounts, and whilst they are investigating the issue we have requested that everyone update their password to ensure account security. We do not have exact details on the irregularirites at this time I'm afriad!"

Further messages from them have told me that they will be updating everyone once they finish investigating the issue.

Concerning, but I do appreciate their proactive approach at least.
Interesting article. I like my iPhone, but my next laptop will probably be something Linux friendly... it's super cool to understand the human factors that led to some of Apple's terrible design decisions lately.

(Ex: The Awesome bar? It isn't. And USB-C is cool, but if I have to take a bus back to my apartment one more time because I forgot some goddamn dongle I'm gonna hurt my throat from screaming.)
As an outsider, this seems like a disingenuous take, but I might be missing something.

Do you think there's any negative effect to allowing a filibuster to occur on things guaranteed to be rejected by the Republicans? Could that time be better spent otherwise? If so, doesn't this imply that it's a soft limitation (sure they could put up a lame duck bill I guess).
For my personal use case, it's mainly a database for books, articles, learnings and a bunch of random information.

I find it loads too long for me to use it as a to do list or diary.
They're true capitalists now yikes

(But in all seriousness do you have any specific complaints about the announcement beyond "China bad"? They're not usually ones to lie about woo woo stuff, due to pretending to still be communist.)

Look at the article:

>In the report, translated using Google Translate, the team claims to have discovered “several cases of possible technological traces of extraterrestrial civilizations from outside the Earth.” Those traces include narrowband signals, which are used for short-range transmissions.

They're making sweeping claims about something they can't even read. Not exactly "stellar" journalism.

Edit: On my end I don't know enough about physics to comment on a paper like this in English, but hey, maybe I should be a "Multimedia Journalist" like Eric Henrikson here rather than try my hardest to be accurate, even if I am a bit gonzo in my writing style
It would be the other way around, you'd get the stack overflow issues in non-Safari browsers.

But because nowadays nobody is coding with TCO in mind, there are no such issues.

What paulhodge is pointing out is that once people start coding with the assumption of TCO, then issues crop up when someone changes a tail call into a non-tail call (or, a browser that doesn't implement TCO runs the program).
My great grandmother was 9 at the end of the Great Depression. Not that she talked about it, but I did an assignment for an anthropology class that was basically, "bother some old people about one of these Bad Times."

She actually was a good cook, a lot of her dishes rode the line between simple and fancy. She had either the oldest fancy stove or the fanciest old stove I'd ever seen, and she treated every glass jar she met as a reusable container (to this day the majority of glass jars on store shelves are the same dimensions and threading as a Ball Mason Jar lid), had odd collections of belongings and many of her wide, wide variety of plants seemed to have come from an extensive network of barter and gift economy.

We spent one trip to her house clearing her entire pantry of expired food, because my mom found one can, asked some questions and did not like any of her answers. Some of it was bad. Rob you and leave your body in a ditch bad.
What is so bad about VST?
Lobbying is just bribery with an extra step.
I gave my Wife money to exercise her ISO's(startup before IPO) for her first 1.75 years of shares when the company valuation hadn't changed. Her company went public and the stock jumped and then crashed, I think the current price per share is lower than her exercise price so she is underwater and the money I gave her is worth less as shares vs. cash I originally gave her. Really a huge bummer as this job up-ended our life and she has absolutely nothing to show for 3 brutal years of hard work. I guess the only thing is wait it out and see if the shares recover.
Heh, I got a chuckle out of that :) Thanks for sharing.
Do you have any advice on how to deal with paper warping?

The paper getting sobby and uneven often quickly brings a painting session to an end :)

And yet in tutorial videos I often see people paint a whole background section in one go (even as much as half the page) without any issues. Do they glue the sheet down to a board?
>Why are you wasting time with semiconductors...?

Because this company does both, so after I get bored with current role and prepare better, then i'll try to switch teams

I didnt and still do not see easier way for me to get into comps (i may be naive), especially that i dont know cpp yet, which seems like must have in compilers world unless you go to e.g msft
That's a really charitable description. There was enormous political pressure in 1968 to find a way to end the draft since Nixon promised in the campaign that he would do it. When you tell people to go find ways to do it, especially when you're the President, they're going to find ways. The entire premise of the AVF at the time was that it would work fine, if you could still do a draft if you needed to.

The Commission's charter wasn't "figure out how to never do a draft again". It was "figure out how to turn this draft that everyone hates off".

edit: bad grammar
WhatsApp adds ability to transfer chat history from Android to iPhone
It’s not about hookup skill but confidence knowing what you want, being a 3-dimensional person, communicating, dealbreakers, and so on.

Being yourself is a good idea- but who are you? What do you really want? What do you need to work on in yourself?
Socket for GitHub 1.0
Screw that. Write what you want to read.

I hate videos on the internet, so I started my blog (see profile) with an emphasis on text and photos. About seven years later, still going strong. Some of it gets traffic, most doesn't. Some of my absolute "shitposts" are the best performing ones (a Mazda 3 oil change post is consistently the most popular one).

I mostly write for myself. Forcing myself to finish a project so I can write about it has been good, and I know I write anything weird about it, so I can just flush state after I've finished writing and clear the mental space for it. On occasion, I'll go search for something on the web and realize that I wrote a post on it years back and had entirely forgotten that I even wrote it, which tells me that the goal of "Flush it out entirely" is working.

What's funny is that despite an absolute non-goal of optimizing for traffic, I write about weird enough stuff that I've got a lot of first page Google hits. Often enough, a friend will mention that they were searching for something and found my blog as the top hit.

About the only effort I've put into "SEO" is to make sure that my site is tight and fast (webp support, image sets, no Javascript required for function), and I'll occasionally start a "howto" post with a list of the tools required.

But I absolutely don't try to guess what people will like. I write what I want to write, and if traffic comes, great. If not, don't care either.
Tell August, Ring, and Nest you have a new auditing API designed exclusively for them coupled with a value-add homeowners asset inventory management app. ;)
What about Mommsenʼs History of Rome (itʼs actually only about the Roman Republic, he didnʼt finish planned further volumes):

- On the one hand, Mommsen was a professional historian and his work was (and is[1]) highly acclaimed. [2] cites: “Equally great as antiquary, jurist, political and social historian, Mommsen lived to see the time when among students of Roman history he had pupils, followers, critics, but no rivals. He combined the power of minute investigation with a singular faculty for bold generalization and the capacity for tracing out the effects of thought on political and social life.”

- On the other hand, his History of Rome got the nobel prize for literatur, so at least some people found it fun to read, too. Again from [2]: “Its sureness of touch, its many-sided knowledge, its throbbing vitality and the Venetian colouring of its portraits left an ineffaceable impression on every reader.” “It was a work of genius and passion, the creation of a young man, and is as fresh and vital to-day as when it was written.”

Itʼs freely available at Project Gutenberg: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Rome_(Mommsen)#Exte...

[1] “Still read and qualifiedly cited” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Rome_(Mommsen)#firs...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Rome_(Mommsen)#1902...
Closest to what you described is http://aiva.ai (commercial product).

You could experiment with OpenAI Jukebox but there’s a steep learning curve and you would need a decent GPU.

Other than that I don’t think there are good open source models to do conditional music generation. I might be wrong though.
There is a value that transcends money. Value to society as a whole. Sure people need to live and have basic needs met, but to transcend finance is perhaps a necessity. One can make do with a lot less when the soul is enriched, when we take solace from the learning of humanity.
So we might see tank designs sort of repeat the evolution of surface warships. Such ships used to rely on armor for survivability, but the advent of submarines and aircraft (and later guided missiles) made that approach unviable. Now the armor is mostly gone, and instead ships rely on a mix of sensors, active defenses, and mobility to avoid getting hit at all. Of course they're still vulnerable, but nothing else can accomplish the same missions, so there's no other option but to keep building more.
Granted, rabbit starvation can occur if your protein consumption exceeds 35% of calories, but most people are nowhere near that level.
addendum -- San Francisco had a Black Plague outbreak just after 1900 (see wikipedia on Plague), that lasted several years, and spread from there. That would fit the timeframe of my grandmother's story.
You can already run Docker on Linux running as a guest on FreeBSD's own bhyve hypervisor. Pick a small Linux distro and go for it if you're prepared to accept the overhead.
> I think that’s why many great writers were alcoholics - it takes down the barriers we set up within and gives us the “liquid courage” to just say something and not give a s*it.

Absolutely. There are certain styles of writing best done with a bottle of hard liquor, a keyboard that can take some abuse, and a clear night with nothing going on the next day until about noon.
I find that I make more mistakes when typing than when writing on paper. The stop editing advice I agree with, but I also think there's a benefit to slowing down and allowing the idea time to make its way to the page, so in that way the speed of typing can be a detriment. At this point, my brain/finger interaction doesn’t raise to the level of a conscious thought. This means that when typing I often substitute similar sounding words, transpose words, use a word with many of the same letters, or just leave words completely out. I have never had this problem when writing on paper. When rereading later, these can be difficult to catch, since your brain is excellent at filling in the blanks.
I think we probably agree on the core issue, I just kept things a bit too brief.

There are people who feel like I described, and there are people who disagree to varying degrees (physicists, amitrite?). But I do think we all kind-of agree that we'd prefer to find experimental results that break the standard model vs proving it right now, but it seems unlikely we're going to find that smoking gun anytime soon. The model is an attempt at fitting data and like you said it works in the regime it was designed for, but it can't be _the_ theory of everything. It would be great if it broke somehow so we could investigate _why_ and drive new avenues of research based on that which might be more promising in resolving gravity and the other forces (or the anti-matter mystery, or shed some light on what dark-matter is)*

As the OP said, it's still good science if we prove that the current theory holds up, but no one is really happy with it at this point because everyone knows it's not going to be the final unified theory that we all want to see

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* personaly I have a gut feeling those three are going to be resolved in rapid succesion if they're ever solved
MANPADS are anti-air weapons. Also, what western tank doesn't store most of its ammunition in the turret?
I can mail someone a check in about a day or two for the price of a greeting card, and for about fifteen bucks a formal wire transfer. The issues around payments in the USA are due to policy, not technical issues.
Idk, rarely (never?) happened to me, that I make a tail call into a non-tail call, because I ad-hoc add something like in your example to it. Seems like a beginner mistake. When I design a function to be tail recursive, which is all the time in langs supporting that, I wont suddenly disregard all care and add code like that. And hopefully other people will at least spent a minute reading the function they are modifying, before slapping that change on and calling it a day. If not, then some syntax wont protect you from that either.
It is almost certainly less-likely than encountering another star.

The outcome of a close-encounter between our solar system and another star or a black hole would likely be comparable: Earth's orbit would be disrupted, presumably to our detriment.

Black holes of a few solar masses probably aren't any more dangerous than another star.
To avoid reacting too late, maybe the Fed should have a policy of always adjusting funds rate every month, even in a stable economy. Like TCP congestion control, the funds rate would tack up and down around the "optimal" value. This would also reduce the market surprises because people would know the rate will go up or down every month. And with smaller, more frequent changes, people can more easily anticipate which way the rate will tack.
This is super awesome.
There have been various amazing "tabletop" experiments looking for effects that would imply new particles/forces. Electric dipole moment of the electron, electric dipole moment of the neutron, "fifth force" (deviations from 1/r^2 gravity at very short ranges), neutron oscillation. The cleverness of some of these experiments is astounding.
British submariners' emails put UK nuclear deterrent at risk, judge rules
Don't you think your family cultural value may have been amplified by the economic environment?
There's no point in screening the threat where there is nothing to be threatened, so in practice screening moves with the formation.

But in any case, it seems you just want to double down on that fine hnews tradition of utterly valueless semantic quibbling, which I will not participate in further.
Yes and no.

The problem is that ArcGIS isn't just software; it's also data, data management/storage/interop, process automation, and so on.

There are other sources for the data, and a lot of the data is open, but the Python/R model doesn't translate directly because those sources have to be individually licensed and integrated. And once in a blue moon you'll need ArcGIS for the data anyways and now your whole FOSS investment is up in flames because you fork over the license to get the data anyways...

You can do a lot of what ArcGIS can do if you know the entire ecosystem and all the data sources and how to glue them all together. But that skillset approaches "Senior SWE", at which point the generic GIS major + an ArcGIS license is waaaaay cheaper.

In fact, ESRI could probably get away with drawing even more blood.

(don't get me wrong; I think OP is correct that esp gov't agencies should invest in FOSS solutions, and the amount of effort required for a full digital twin is definitely worth NOT doing on top of ESRI tech... but the value add of ArcGIS for most GIS applications is difficult to deny given the differential in labor costs you get by staying in the ESRI sandbox... there are literally hundreds of undergraduate degree programs that basically exist to churn out affordable ArcGIS techs... the same is not true for FOSS alternatives, where to get comparable expertise you literally need to hire something comparable to a Senior SWE; it's going to cost you waaay more than "fresh GIS major + $4K".)
Honestly no. Pretty much the only folks I've heard talking about Rust are in the application dev space. Generally the space I'm familiar with is lately being called "deeply embedded" to differentiate it from IoT platforms (which sometimes run full-blown Android)

Typically the real time space is very conservative on what types of changes are implemented, and that's largely because a lot of rt software exists on safety critical systems that need to be supported for decades.
The impression I'm under is that the Ukraine forces have the will and the training to succeed, and maybe the manpower and intel, but not the weapons. And for some reason, we (meaning the rest of the civilized world) are dragging our feet on giving/lending them better hardware.

Frustrating to watch.