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Many people say something like this about drugs, but it does not seem philosophically or logically sound to me. When you have coffee in the morning and have some increased mood from it does that make the whole day invalid? When you go a run and you body produces enjoyable neurochemicals in your brain, just like taking a drug, is that real? All experiences are just as real and valid regardless of what contributed to creating the experience - if you think otherwise then it seems very hard to justify such an opinion with consistent and sound logic
So I guess my comment is getting downvoted by people who don't understand «mission critical».

>how can you run mission critical if most cloud services have SLAs two or three nines weaker than needed

That's exactly it. Cloud providers usually provide SLAs in the range of 95-99%. Amazon doesn't provide a full refund until monthly uptime goes below 95 %. Elastic apparently doesn't provide an uptime guarantee at all, they only provide an SLA for support ticket response times. And only on gold and platinum subscriptions.

This incident lasted for more than 24 hours («most» instances restored after 22 hours). It doesn't matter if it's someone else that has to wake up at 3 am to fix the issue, when they're unable to fix it within reasonable time. Mission critical apps simply can't be down for 24 hours. And it's fully possible to design HA elasticsearch deployments. Elastic Cloud just isn't one of them.
For those in the UK looking for a dumb TV, I recently bought a Veltech VE40FO01UK for £180. With a Freeview box and Chromecast, it's all I need.

It would make me furious to find ads in software that I've already paid for. Hopefully when I need to replace this TV there will still be options.
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Yes. Security, like legal compliance, GDPR, etc, is focused on minimizing risks. The least risky strategy is to do nothing: write no code, ship no product, have no users. Therefore it's a constant pressure against delivery.

It's certainly worthwhile to think about, but the best approach is a bug-avoidance one where the tools guide you away from making mistakes but without constraining your ability to get things done too much.
GCC doesn't default to non-conforming behaviour like -ffast-math -- that's Intel (at least a similar option). That's usually why people mistakenly think GCC vectorization is deficient if they don't use -funsafe-math-optimizations in particular.
LG TVs constantly try to get you to install Alexa. To the point that it'll pop up and you'll accidentally install it when you were pressing buttons for something else. I've had to uninstall multiple times between me and visiting friends accidentally installing Alexa.
Thanks for sharing, I really like this build in public thing since I am also building Kody Tools and sharing details on twitter.
It's just that the nuance is often ignored in the initial saying. Why do people try to debunk something out of a game of telephone instead on restoring the original information.

Point has always been that people who are less ill, less severely ill, for a shorter duration, with fewer or no symptoms, have lower chances of infecting others.

The urge to simplify is great but it causes these weird discussions like "does the vaccine prevent (all) infection" or like what we have here.
The B extension never gets any love.

The RISC-V crowd hates bitwise anything.
I really miss the early 2000 rave scene. Some songs still give me flashbacks.
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> Relinquishing control is exactly what Rust needed to help its popularity.

Maybe? But that's not why they did it. In the same year that their CEO took another massive payout they laid off tons of staff "because covid", an excuse that was obviously nonsense at the time but especially looks like nonsense when you realize that tech absolutely exploded during covid with record high valuations.

Mozilla absolutely could have afforded it. Easily.

Mozilla's CEO is an absolutely disaster and the company is never going to be able to recover from it.
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Why do I trust the vaccines?

Because medicine is generally useful and functional.

Because doctors studied at the same university that taught me much of my profession.

Because nations in economic dispute with each other, nations with territorial disputes, even nations at war with each other, still all agree that the vaccines are a good idea.
That's not what I said.

> It should always be recommended as long as it is truthful,

That's the point. You never know.
It might even be very different in the same company. I changed teams in my large company and the number of recurring meetings around process dropped from 8 to 0, no more daily, no sprint planning etc - we just talk about the feature then do it and we don’t need a lot of process since communication works well anyway.
Really? As someone who has been using Linux since the 90s, for me the corruptions were extremely rare. Full fsck of course was happening regularly after unclean shutdowns, but I think I encountered only 1 or 2 actual corruptions.
> "It started with that rush known as “coming up.” Different people experienced it in different ways, but for me it was an overwhelming feeling of warmth and a glowing sensation that flooded my body. My friends had all taken it before me and told me what to expect; they never left me until I had come up. And then, as well as having an urge to dance to the music that inhabited me, I felt a connectedness to people that I had never felt before. I felt a surge of empathy for my fellow clubbers; it was heavenly. The rest of the night was filled with what I can only describe as ineffable joy."

I've had MDMA like this. No regrets.

Years later I found better - a 1 hr long full body orgasms - thank god it was alone in kutis seperated by forest - i sounded like meg ryan in "Sleepless in Seattle" for about an hr or two each day - but where did I find this? In myself doing nothing other than scanning my body in meditation and letting the breath calm me.

Externally: it was in a monastery meditating with a group of celibate monks in the middle of the forest - and that is the foot hills - not yet "jhana".

This is properly why people are celibate - they are not idiots. I found the cause for that. It wasn't in self denial or asceticism but actually - to reach something deeper.

There are of course people celibate for the wrong reasons. BUt I got an idea of why. Also in finding this pleasure its based directly on the lack of interest one finds in sensory pleasure which ironically frees energy that produces pleasure in ones senses and body - I see also how the ability to sort of "feel out" or feel oneself into this is a great service to society as the act of practicing this is finding the internal harmony in oneself and that manifests as external harmony.

This is why people were properly monks and nuns - but also the source of the institutions wisdom and power and later domination by the types that just want power and so on.
DRM is optional on Steam. There are no convenient installers, but the actual DRM is opt-in from the dev/publisher side.
Alcohol kills, both with acute and chronic health problems. It also has long term cognitive and physical costs. For a significant proportion of its users it becomes habitual and for some, full-on addictive.

Alcohol is also associated with violence, both public and domestic.

Psychedelic use is none of those things. Psychedelics in general are far less likely to be addictive, use is not associated with violence. There are some health effects, LSD for example is a stimulant and vasoconstrictor, but in general they are not taken in large enough doses or often enough to cause harm.

I think your hunch as to who you would rather be around is a bit weird, frankly.
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa2116597

"Although vaccination still lowers the risk of infection, similar viral loads in vaccinated and unvaccinated persons who are infected with the delta variant call into question the degree to which vaccination prevents transmission."

Not to dispute your claim, but to put it into context. But apart from that, I am out of this debate.
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Which company is making an economically competitive solution, though? What's the feasible density?
If you made a drug that would make you feel as if you were kissing, you sensation of kissing would not be true, as there would be no kissing going on.

Same goes for bonding, closeness and so on. You just tricked your brain into hallucinating emotional responses for things that are not there.
Why does it alternate between 2023 and 2013?
Been working in IoT and industrial IoT for over a decade. My job title always had security in it.

The security in our domain is so bad[1] that I think the only way to improve is via regulation. I can't for the RedDirective to be in force in 2024 and many products becoming illegal in EU. And I can't wait for the cybersec resiliance act to come into force to expand the RED directive to backend systems, and I can't wait for the Data Act to stop our incompetent middle managers saying "Data is the new oil" ...

While "compliance != security", the industry has done an abysmal job in coming up with better guard rails itself, so at this stage even a poorly written law is better than nothing. Most of my colleagues (who are still there) are so pissed with the internal attitude of companies that they openly joke that they hope the company get's breached because it's the only way management will learn.

firefighters and arson:

Until working in IoT I thought it's a strange coincidence that some fire-fighters are suddenly becoming arsonists.

The Blairwitch Project:

The behavior of the protagonists in that movie made me so upset that after the first 15 minutes I couldn't wait for the witch to arrive to kill them all. My job the bast 15 years was not unlike the first 15 mins of that film.

While I would never do anything to hurt these companies nor defend anyone who does, I do understand now a lot better why somebody is rooting for the witch to come or why a firefighter would set fire to a place.

The worst of it is that while 3 of us in a company of 80K employees are in charge of securing the product we will likely get hacked in the next 12-16 months. And even we informed management and continue to be gaslit by middle managers for "stopping progress" it will also be us who get blamed for not having done enough once the witch comes knocking.

That said the situation is even worse for players in the US who have great frameworks and standards but lack of regulation and binding laws.

[1] yes I'm speaking for the entire industry since I'm also chairing several industry alliances with a strong security track and have good insight over the attitude of most companies
Yes, I'm saying the opposite. You want to be done scanning (discarding) each large branch (column) as soon as possible before you move on to the many twigs. Additionally, if you start at the branchiest end you cannot know what path leads you to each desired result along the composite tree until you've scanned all of the paths. Your example does not work because it's not in parity with the structure of a B-tree-indexed data set.
I love meeting with the right people, documenting my work, and working with legacy code. Especially meetings, nothing more invigorating than building something with a team.

That said, as some have already mentioned, all of this is typically ruined somehow at nearly every company.
> Seriously, the developers of this keyboard soils be ashamed. [emphasis added]

It must have autocorrected your attempt to write "should"?!
It’s super slow.

If you deal with many small files on Windows, you will observe much better performances in WSL2/ext4 than windows with NTFS. Even though the ext4 filesystem is stored as a file inside a NTFS partition.

If you use NodeJS for example, it’s a very obvious speed difference.
> For example, in Europe it’s mandatory to send your child to school

No. No it isn’t. I don’t know where you’re writing from but I can tell you that home schooling is a thing in some European countries. Maybe all of them? I can say for sure and I’m unwilling to subscribe to a sweeping statement about a mass of 44 countries. It amazes me that anyone would.
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You aren't showing empathy, you claimed the parents were "brick walls" with "warped perceptions" who were harming their own children, and that you specifically told them that! No wonder they got defensive. That's the opposite of trying to understand them and it's certainly not charitable to them, is it?

To engage in empathy you must be able to fairly articulate their views and the reasoning they use to arrive at them, in the same way they would or even better. In both posts you haven't done that. That's why they aren't listening to you. Your response to their views is laughable, it's to say "trust me" and then try to manipulate ("guide") their child when they aren't around, which is the opposite of being trustworthy. They trusted you to tutor their child in specific subjects and instead you betrayed that trust, then act surprised when they are "brick walls"?

To convince the parents, you first need to convince them to talk to you and take you seriously. That in turn requires that you, firstly, stop bringing their child into it. Just ignore the child. The child is not being harmed, you aren't a hero who's saving them. The child's views are not your business, they are the parent's business. And secondly, that you do the legwork to fairly investigate their beliefs and the evidence they found convincing, so you can debate with them directly instead of telling them about "a place of trustworthiness" that they clearly don't believe in.
It's not fair to say anything at this point. A body can continue operating with many parts removed, even for months, possibly years.

Like Chesterton's Fence, one cannot simply surmise that the culled parts were unnecessary. Many of the answers to such questions went out the door along with that fateful layoff wave.

What we can conclude is that Musk's impulsiveness may become his undoing this time around if his luck doesn't hold.
Noted. I'm not sure how to make the same points without saying that some of the statements were weasel words, but if you could suggest a different way to make the same points, I'd appreciate it.

(Apart from anything else, I know that raising the other party's heart rate is a terrible way to change their minds).
Haven't seen blocky mentioned yet, another pi-hole type program but a bit more minimal

https://0xerr0r.github.io/blocky/
That's a loaded question if I've ever seen one. Developers care about a lot of things, including security. Most of them care way too much. Sometimes they even deliver things that are crappy to use because it was a challenge to get it done at all. Doesn't mean they don't care about users either.

Security is important but for most things it's not the most important thing. Useful but insecure can be used for something. Useless but secure can't.
As intended. Glad you picked up on that. Well done. You're sharp.
You can't delete public health and expect unchanged levels of care individually. Health at the individual level very much depends on public health policies.

Don't believe me? Have fun watching your newborn die from whooping cough!
>> natural immunity would provide far greater protection

> false

True:
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2203965

> vaccines wouldn't prevent transmission,

The vaccines were never tested to prevent transmission: https://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2022/10/12/pfizer-vaccine-not-tes...

-- and indeed they do not prevent transmission, or infection for that matter. Many many people, from Joe Biden to my own mother have been injected and boosted 5-times over, and still got a COVID infection. The vaccines simply don't work very well.

> And the risks of side effects are much, much lower than the risks of those effects from the actual illness.

You can't make a blanket statement about risk, especially when so little was know about the risk of side effects across the population.

For people like us, and the large number of people who have had COVID, we know what the risk of a COVID infection is, and in our case - as with most other people who are in good health, and not extremely elderly, it's a very mild condition.

On the other hand, health officials continue to deliberately downplay the significance of side effects, which we now know includes non-negligable risk of life threatening heart dissease and Bell's Palsey.

> Lockdowns were there to reduce the secondary consequences from running out of capacity.

That was the claim, certainly. But as we predicted, this never actually happened anywhere in the world - not even in places where people live in poverty, and healthcare is virtually non-existant.

> Several places ran out of capacity to handle the dead, let alone the living. I still don't understand how we were able to get short of medical oxygen, but that happened in some places too.

A lot of that stuff turneded out to be fabricated, but it spooked a lot of folks.

Sweden never locked down, and their outcomes were better than most of the rest of Europe:

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsde...

> Masks likewise, reduce the transmission rate. Not eliminate, reduce. That's not pointless.

They don't though. Scarecly anyone wore the kind of mask that could possibly make any difference. It was security theatre to calm the masses. All a cloth mask does is redirect your breathe out the sides. It doesn't filter anything.

> Sure, lots of kids and young adults won't die, they'll only get sick for a few weeks, with unknown long term damage.

My kids have never had any COVID symptoms at all since we were first infected March 2020. So in our case (and millions like us), it's actually not unknown. I wouldn't even know if they had had the disease a dozen times over already - I hope they have, because it help further fortify their natural immunity.

Over and over the claims of the expert class have been proven wrong. They claimed to know things that they couldn't possibly have known, and continue to lie and deflect to this day.
"Just" carries a lot of weight there. There are several dozen APIs that Google pushes that require user consent.

At wich point will the user just blindly click "yes" on all of those?
It is in the EU.
I keep getting reminded of the Tom Scott near-future video on how lawyers end up ruining the singularity. [1]

As the line between artificial neural nets and natural neural nets continue to blur, surely the same rules should apply to both?

Of course the counter-argument "some NNs are somehow different than others based on color [2]" walks you straight into an ongoing ethical minefield in the social sciences and biology. It's certainly going to be interesting times.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFe9wiDfb0E Tom Scott, how lawyers ruined the singularity

[2] by analogy to https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23 what color are your bits
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> In Linux,
ext2 was incredibly sloppy about how it handled write ordering
--- it didn't do anything at all. But as a consequence we developed
tools that were extremely good to compensate

So worse is not better, then! More like worse needed greater efforts to make decent.

Imagine all that great tooling effort, applied to create excelent tooling for the other so-good and well engineered filesystem, the FFS mentioned in the article.
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You have literally named no names, no predictions, no topic even, there's no substance at all. Yet somehow you have acquired the impression that my comment applies to the group you disagree with, wow.

You are reading too much into things just to confirm your viewpoints you have barely grazed.
It's intentional. What's interesting 10 years ago is likely still interesting now.
That's why th ecautionary tale: which of the capabilities of those APIs whould be behind user consent and which shouldn't? At which point will the user just click "yes" without reading those consent pop ups?
> To me, this sounds like a nightmare. The idea that something artificial could change me in any way. And the idea that people desire this is scary.

For many, this is the whole point of taking psychedelics - to find self-improvement through these altered states. Science seem to confirm this works. [0] Why does it feel scary to you?

[0] Psychedelics and Neuroplasticity: A Systematic Review Unraveling the Biological Underpinnings of Psychedelics - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34566723/
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There are better ways to spend life than optimizing cash flow.
Either parents should be allowed to kill their children on a whim without consequence, or parents are not the ultimate authority over their children. They are mutually exclusive beliefs.

Children aren't property. They're human beings that deserve the protection of the state. Sometimes that means protection FROM their parents.
More accurately it's not the case that those that don't regret it can report it at that much higher rates for survivorship bias to be relevant.
> trying to find a general structure and fit it for everything is a path to failure

Depends on whether you consider everything literal. That nothing can solve everything and your mother is obvious. But solutions which can handle majority, or even 99.99% of relevant cases of your domain, I think we already have that today for structures. XML for example was optimized for decades to handle structures. Not all parts are good for the majority of cases, but the general ideas and concepts are universal enough that flavors of them will always appear when tackling such problems.

So instead of build yet another new solution, maybe just look at the existing tools and how we can make them more useable for your usecases.

> PS I have been using vim for quite a few years, and I don't see it as some kind of complex editing (other than bindings and modality which takes getting used to). Maybe I am misunderstanding what you mean by this exactly, though.

Normal editing today is: you press a key, something happens, that's all. Sometimes you add a modifier, but that's mostly it. Vim on the other side, you have modes, you have parameters for key presses, you compose commands to create new commands on the fly. That all is several steps more complex than just a simple key press. Vi-Input is a whole language in itself, highly complex on a cryptic level, all just to macro-manage micro-tasks.
By that you mean in public indoor spaces.

"Don't you want to kill your family members?" No, not really. Just my personal choice.

A comfortable mask isn't some great burden to me. The whole line of questioning feels strange, like someone incredulously saying "Do you plan on wearing pants for the rest of your life??"
It applies to these specific images because there were thousands and thousands of copies in the training set. That’s not true for newer works.