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Christopher Tolkien I think was fairly correct in his analysis of the LoTR films, and I think it became clear with the Hobbit what the ultimate conclusion of that style of treatment of the source material would be.

What he got wrong is that they're perfectly fun and good films in their own right - it'd be more accurate to say they're heavily inspired by the LoTR books rather than being direct adaptions. In some cases they cut things which just would never have even worked on screen, and in general I don't think a deeply ponderous and weighty mood would have really been received that well. That said, some of the changes they made (e.g. to Denethor) were just gratuitous.
That’s true, I should not have phrased it like that.
That seems to be a common take on HN - cloud is too expensive.

I'm curious whether the folks claiming that have any data center ops experience.

Because, personally, I'd rather retire than deal with Dell, HP, Cisco, fibers, cooling issues, physical security, hardware failling... And that's just the hardware. Then you still need to pay VMWare for a decent virtualization platform, monitoring tools, etc.... Seriously, no amount of money would make me work in a DC again.

I believe companies selling bare metal as a service are a happy compromise of cost and convenience, though.
I had no idea. That makes it seem like an even bigger omission.

Transformers was really big and the Michael Bay reboot movies made the franchise huge again and it’s all basically Anime.
Linear-Time Temporal Logic Guided Greybox Fuzzing
Host here. This is a look into the history of ELIZA and Jeff Shrager’s efforts to find the original source code for it and get it working.
Starting today, this will be known as "Shanghai'd credentials" and be reason #1 why we use ephemeral credentials (e.g. AWS STS/SSO) rather than static credentials (e.g. IAM Users)
You can deny most permissions when setting up the HA mobile app. This way, it won’t have much to report
Spoiler! Maybe edit
Some interesting tidbits:

* There's a sortof hidden/unlabelled button - did you press it?

* Did you notice the nickname you were given, slowly building up over time?

* Do you have resting sad face? Or resting happy face?
100 light years is arbitrary, but even for long lives things it seems like too far - few things on earth are that long lived, and bodies do break down over time, as do spaceships.

Until we know the entire universe (because of the way the universe is expanding this is impossible) we cannot do more than apply our best guess, but I think I hit a good upper limit. Even if I'm off I seems unlikely it is by much.
I love how it's fine for there to be dragons and magic in fantasy. But minorities? That's a bridge too far.
What liabilities? Cloud operators are breached on a monthly basis and there are no repercussions.
Perhaps an interesting way to further qualify "highest web site" might be to demand it's available directly from the broader Internet. While even a permanent TCP/IP based device in space would be pretty cool (and, I imagine, actually exists) the cost of the connection is probably onerous to make it open to public use(?)

So perhaps if someone could rig up a microwave link to a solar powered Raspberry Pi Zero hanging off of a weather balloon or something.. we could have a truly publicly accessible Web server at above jet-liner height? :-D This feels like something Tom Scott might try..
I should have said the more appropriate comparison rather than phrasing it rudely as I did; sorry for that.
I am not sure, but I don’t think people wake up one morning and start assuming that a company like Microsoft is shit out of nowhere, maybe this time was a mistake, but Microsoft has built its reputation of a anti user, anticompetitive and shitty company without anyones help

It’s not that people dreamt about Microsoft edge pop up when people tried to download chrome, also I assume they have someone with android and Linux since they planned to run android apps and they worked on wsl 1/2 on Windows

But yeah if we want to say that Microsoft is victim and we’re all delusional then go on
Didn't I read something a while back about faculty members, prior to being hired, needing to write an essay about some woke cause? It being clear that the essay not expressing a woke enough opinion, there would be no job offer.
*is a game developer with a particular focus on "RETVRN TO TRADITION" where anything that isn't super lean-and-mean is bloated and inefficient and ridiculous, and only exists because web developers are misguided, miseducated, etc. WebRTC could do what he wants, but then he'd have to build a WebRTC->pure UDP gateway.

I can sympathize, but, even in the original discussion on Twitter it's clear he is ill-informed of the relevant security fiascos that made all these complicated protocols necessary, or the messy legacy constraints they must operate under. Infrastructure is not magic, and tying together e.g. application-level concepts with DNS-level concepts would be a recipe for misery IRL.

I also find it funny he considers the string/text-based parts of HTTPS to be unworthy of a secure protocol, when in fact, the whole reason that approach is considered so dangerous is because of programmers with his attitude who underestimated the difficulty of secure parsing. The niche of "LangSec" is all about solving this problem properly by treating input processing as a formal parsing problem with formal grammars.
Not sure why fairness is the ultimate arbiter. There are obvious reasons why you don’t want sparsely-populated stretches of contiguous territory to feel disenfranchised on account of their smaller population. Fair systems that predictably spin apart are useless.
> The daily grind, the now familiarity, comfort zone dividing what is expected and responsible for you, and how not to get caught up in “extra work”.

This might be close to the mark along with the need to feel indispensable. Many of the key staff are lifers.
Wheel of Prime
Everyone grumps about the network transparency but what I dislike about Wayland is:

1) reliance on hardware acceleration which is not always available

2) The every frame being perfect thing (I far prefer having garbage on the screen temporarily if it lowers the latency for feedback. Latency makes me physically feel sick, I really really hate it.)

3) All the extra compositor specific crap for keylogging, screen recording, etc. It makes sense if you're building an Android competitor and expect people to carelessly throw binaries around but people don't do that on Linux.
You'll also need a 100% compatible MS Access as well - in most cases they are used together.

The other key is being able to use all the custom controls etc. Hopefully, your legacy VB codebase had a fear of NIH and you don't have to worry about this.

I've seen a lot of clever systems made in VB, a combination of the developer not knowing any better, and having the perseverance to keep going until they got something that 'worked'.
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This is less a confirmation but more of a "piggybacking".
> Anarchy leads to 4chan

4chan has quite a bit of moderation.
I went on a wm hunt in the early/mid 90's as well on my (company provided) SPARCStation. I went through all I could find and compile, but I landed on either fvwm or twm; the memory escapes me. I remember an interesting one ("piewm"?) that had its menus originate radially like pie-slices instead of a dropdown to the right; the theory being that you would have to move your mouse less to get to any given option.

I honestly don't understand the OP's hatred of fvwm, but people like different things.
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Italian too,40something. I never ever hear about Anime,from anyone.
I find these issues all too common among programmers. Especially with regards to MD5 and SHA1. They see a headline saying "SHA1 is now fully broken!", but in reality it is a fluff-piece on either Shattered (Google) or Sha-mbles (Leurent, Peyrin), and broken is used for effect more than anything else.

While it is quite impressive when someone manages to reduce the attack complexity, by let's say, reducing the cost of a chosen-prefix collision from billions of GPU hours to millions, it does not make the algorithm completely useless from one day to the next. It has to be taken into context.
I didn't necessarily agree with all of Jackon's decisions, but, in the end, I enjoyed watching the movies (and still do). The Hobbit films are a different beast, for sure.

Exactly my opinion as well. What worries me is that we saw what ten years of market shift did between LotR and The Hobbit. Now it's been another ten years of it. Instead of showing bad people tearing down trees to fuel industry, we're going to have some good character give a five minute long speech about it. There is going to be a romance plot between an orc and a non-orc. There is going to be a female orc and she is going to be a strong independent woman. There is going to be a ruler who is as bad Denethor but they're going to make a strong point about him also being a racist.
Lack of consideration is just the less flattering version of doing it on purpose when it comes down to it.

I'm still hoping for the unlikely Gamepass + Steam Deck combo, but I'm not holding my breath.
I mean it is like executive statement e.g. Real time analytics in Cloud IoT on Edge.
>You're also not going to be dealing with downtime because you couldn't find staff talented off to properly configure your Cisco networking equipment.

>Your system administrators department is not gonna block any innovative employee initiatives because of the strain maintaining more projects puts on a deployment stack carrying 150 different projects but which was architected to solve a single business goal 15 years ago.

As someone in the “cloud” team at a legacy enterprise I strongly disagree with both of these points.

Cloud networking is as complicated as anything the Cisco people ever did but instead of CCNA you have certifications that barely scratch the surface of the complexity. So you get cloud people who barely understand the platform they’re administering flying by the seats of their pants. And instead of having a networking team to focus on networking the same people trying to figure out static routing across regions in AWS are also the people responsible for migrating EC2 instances from GP2 to GP3 but they were deployed with cloudformation which will replace the instance if your change of the disk type.

So getting to the second point this team will be totally overwhelmed and likely inexperienced so good luck getting them to do anything to help your “innovative” project because right hope they’re too busy trying to figure out how EKS is using up all the IP addresses in us-west-2.

Executives who think they’ll save on money by moving to the cloud are delusional. They’re also delusional if they think it’ll increase stability or resilience. And that’s not even getting into the EMR clusters the “data science” team spun up and left running at $30k/day.
Uh at least a few university years of study for basic teaching pedagogy and then knowing how to teach the curriculum.
Consider that many fans watch things they routinely disparage online. For example, many Star Wars fans routinely disparage "Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace," and yet it's still one of the most-watched, highest-grossing movies in the history of cinema.

Also, keep in mind there are people who are really fanatical about LOTR. At the end of the spectrum, some of them enjoy this stuff so much that they regularly attend LOTR conventions dressed up as wizards, knights, hobbits, orcs, etc. Those people will watch the new series even if it's only to criticize all the things it got wrong!
This site is very, very old. I believe it predates Google Chrome.

It's based on a rendering limitation found in Firefox back then. It never really worked in Internet Explorer - and Firefox (as well as Chrome) can render much higher websites these days.
I'm a big fan of this approach and do similar! If it's something I only need when I'm at my computer and where I'm fine if it falls over then I'll host on localhost. I then have a small Lenovo M700 Tiny which I use to run things I may want on multiple devices (use Tailscale so I can access it remotely) but where I don't care too much if it falls over. Anything that I want to be really stable I run on my Hetzner dedicated.

It's great fun and I enjoy having the control over the few things I run. It's also super conveniant when it's running locally because I don't really have to worry much about securing the service behind reverse proxies and all that. I can just hit it however I like with any ol script.

It's not for everyone, but it works for me.
I think they mean that American news tend to reduce everything down to exactly two sides. Is X a Good Thing or Bad Thing. Are you For or Against Y. Etc.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29165601
This guide always required by so many! Thanks.
> (Jackson had done Heavenly Creatures and Frighteners and a few others before LOTR)

No one ever mentions his first, a splatter flick: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Taste

Hilariously bad but a fun watch.
I'd say anime's influence is because how experimental, cheaper to produce and accessible it is.

Movies are ungodly expensive to make, so only sure-fire hits are green lit. Books have always been more niche so inspiration from them remains niche.

Also the lamentation that China is losing animation to Pakistan is amusing. By all rights that shouldn't be possible, the market is huge. I theorised it's because Chinese gov interference, https://langsoul.com/blog/the-potential-collapse-of-chinese-...
Five years! I've been screaming that for at least 15 years, and I'm pretty sure I'm a noob to the discussion.
Is TV still relevant in 2022 to determine a country's cultural baseline? I don't mean to say television is irrelevant, I'm saying the Internet is these days the biggest contender for people's attention.
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Certainly a satellite in geosync
They do mention a Firefox issue at the bottom:

> Gecko-based browsers like Firefox show an interesting behavior when trying to make the site any higher than 18.939583 kilometers, “shrinking” or “collapsing” the main container.

Not necessarily related to what you're seeing.
The Shanghai police has a unique role in China and abroad. For example the Shanghai police is tasked with spreading pro-CCP propaganda globally on platforms like twitter and Facebook.

There was an HN post about this a few months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29654137

Someone posted a comment explaining a little more about Shanghai's special relationship with the CCP/PLA:

>Shanghai is a city with a unique role in the progression of the CCP and its global efforts. Also PLA Unit 61398 is in Pudong, the shanghai district mentioned in the article. Overall there's a lot of CCP/PLA-adjacent tech talent in the area, and of course the local police still ultimately report to the CCP.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29656017
> people do want to change it

A significant number of people? Or a small minority that will never gain the traction of "allowlist" advocates?
I don't think it is the case here, but this happened in the UK.

> Tax inspectors were told that A-listers from Hollywood were starring in a £19.6m production that would be shot in the UK. However, the movie was never made and the only footage shot was seven minutes of "completely unusable quality" filmed in a flat, which cost just £5,000.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/may/01/uk-film-executi...
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I haven’t seen the boys. I tend not to enjoy the edgy deconstruction genres. I think they’re over shoot their pessimism. But I would ask, do characters really have a sense of danger associated with them? Game of Thrones was a series that supposedly did this, but I think that was very much a lie. Ned’s death and the red wedding were unexpected events. But they were largely setup for the story. After that many characters wore their shiniest plot armor. There was 0 chance Arya was going to die having left to some random murder cult and never actually impacting the story. Similarly for bran, and Jon, and most characters. Even most of the lesser characters had a fair chunk of plot armor. It’s largely unavoidable as plot threads spread out. I’d guess it’s fairly similar for the boys.
I've just learned this lesson. I'd like local control of lights (rather than going through slow vendor phone app which uses an internet API as common point with the hub). Works well for remote control but slow and cumbersome for when at home.

Trying to gain access to the ZigBee network or hub is probably not worth the effort, compared to using a more open stack in the first place.
> cloud vendor is a company that has literally all of your company's data and a plethora of cloud services that are subtly incompatible with their competitor's offerings

Balancing vendor lock-in against efficiency is the remit of a half-competent CIO or equivalent. Going cloud doesn’t require using every niche AWS feature.
>... instead of coming with original materials.

I personally think they are simply not capable of making something engaging, BECAUSE they feel the need to promote todays philosophy over good storytelling. (They as in the streaming services)
I would counter that, although it could, some groups will be able to evade it, effectively maintaining their advantage/power. Effectively averaging out the position of middle and lower classes, and lowering their chances of moving up the social ladder?
Last I checked there weren't 10^12 people living on earth just yet.
> reshuffling the org, or an incentive level redirect of priorities.

This is the conversation I need to have with the management team - to ask them to clearly state that they value knowledge sharing, and to demonstrate that through incentives (reviews, bonuses, raises, promotions etc).

I'm always wary of incentive-driven changes though - never underestimate people's creativity when it comes to gaming management metrics.
When you're designing a new chip and working at a a fabless semiconductor startup, that doesn't mean you're free from corporate constraints. The most obvious is that if you design an ARM-based chip, the company has to pay royalties, and if you design a RISC-V chip, you don't.
Surprise, it's 2022, and XP is still a de-facto standard Windows version, with hacked Win7 slowly gaining.

Why? Tons of Software was written for XP, and then abandoned without any support. Many of that stuff in the government sector. A lot of online banking clients outright say "only works on XP," and copyright years reads 2006.

This is similar how Android 7+ support was almost nuked in China for nearly a year because Tencent didn't want to port Wechat to newer APIs cuz "nobody uses Android newer than 4.X in China"
4.2. Well.
That was my experience with Solaris and Linux in the late 90s. It being foreign to me was what got me hooked. You could install pico or learn to use Unix tools.

2 days of frustration followed by Eureka! Repeat.

I still do that process now just with other stuff. (Why is my program doing X? Why the F am I getting a RST?) I think that’s what hooks people that are really into this world.

I do actually understand nano as a default on a “friendly” desktop, Raspberry Pi, etc. targeting new users. I’m just a grumpy old man.
Beauty score of 10.5 out of ten?

I’ll thank our AI overlords for the compliment, but I don’t think I’m off the charts attractive.
The tech looks really really good. I can see that it serves the purposes in their demo well. May be just my ignorance, but I am failing to see how this will be a business yet.

The use cases are niche and basically require adoption from institutions.

The business model of allowing individuals to use, and allowing them to share, seems like a loophole to me. Per their FAQ, paid model will be for team collabs, which I would think is even more niche.

Hopefully they know better about this space then me. Best of luck Felt!
I've seen two mainframe "replacements" fail to either retire the mainframe, OR produce an alternative system which people like. Has any Fortune 500 company successfully "retired" their mainframe?
Is the idea that they're going to use the lack of tenure to get rid of the woke folks, or the non-woke?
I'm curious how this applies to employee performance reviews. Could feedback about what an employee needs to improve be perceived as criticism no matter how you try to frame it?

What I noticed is that, when I have to review someone in my team and I gather feedback from other members of the team, I rarely get any critical input, even if the feedback is anonymous. Many avoid giving what they perceive as negative feedback even if it's framed as an opportunity to help the other person improve.
Links were not invented during early 1900s. Show me some concentration camps, death camps etc. killing 1 million people is not easy and I'm almost sure that you have never seen 1 million people at any place at any time given. So, there is no evidence.