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> no recipe for recreating that state and sharing it with others

Did you consider to use the Salt Stack, which is integrated into Qubes? https://forum.qubes-os.org/t/saltstack-challenges-and-experi...
I second that. The time it took me from when I started to learn programming to getting paid for a project was just a little over year, and three years to steady pay (i.e. employment).

In contrast, I've been making music for over ten years of my life and have gotten paid a handful of times.
Might depend on the team or moderator, but in my experience 5 Whys can help uncover the exact systemic issues you are talking about. The key is that it’s not about how to make sure this specific problem cannot reoccur, but more broadly, how to make sure a problem of that kind can never happen again. Your last paragraph puts it really well. 5 Whys helps with that by making you go deeper.
Honestly, I feel like more people have been infected with malware from App Stores than from downloading and executing shit from random websites. Even Warez sites from back in the day were more trustworthy.

Cuz if you download from a random site, you might think twice about what it is, is the source trustworthy, etc? But the App Store, well Apple and Google tell me it's 100% safe, so just download all kinds of trash.
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> 30M people japan murdered during their colonial expansion.

"Japan" is just a label for an arbitrary grouping of people who live in close geographical proximity. It's incapable of murdering people.

Some in that group murdered. Others did not murder. Were innocent. Do you think a nuclear fireball can discriminate between the two?

> and less terrible than the other couple of million that would have died in a conventional invasion.

I don't think any invasion were necessary. I think they were days or even hours away from unconditional surrender without that. I think that overtures had already been made, but these were willfully ignored.

This is the only argument that supports the assertion that the nukes were war crimes. And if I am wrong in this premise, then I too concede the nukes were justified.

But, if I'm right... it's not difficult to imagine why they were dropped. We'd already seen for ourselves what they could do at Trinity, but the Soviets didn't have a clue. It was a demonstration for their sake.
I don't understand why it resets at universal jump engine. Is that the end of the game, or is there some way to end up in a different state? I got to the point where that was the only option left.
Glib as it may be I do love the quote from Keynes that "in the long run we're all dead". Did Fed policy buy a few more quarters of price stability between now and the heat death of the universe? Sure. But that's as much as anyone can do.
It can't proactively validate the data while it's in the shared memory.

If you do your validation during accesses it's fine. If you copy the data out of the shared memory it's fine.

Or you could use a mutex to protect the data between validation and use.

If you're worried about another process editing the memory without taking the mutex, that's equivalent to worrying about other unsafe code editing the memory without taking the mutex. The solution is the same in both place: don't share memory with completely arbitrary code. When people compare languages and techniques, they (rightfully) assume you're not doing that.
I think your point is valid and worth looking into - there are also many non profit hospitals in the same situation. That being said, I'm sure it's part of the equation, but I'm not 100% convinced everything can be blamed on Wall St with this one.
Stubhub: Hello my name is Mr. Snrub and I come from some place far away. Yes, that will do...
I fully intend to watch both! Together with Indy V and Mission Impossible 7, it makes for a fantastic July for movies :D
> An alternative approach to post-hoc rationalization is to look into the factors that contributed to a particular outcome

That's... 5 Why's. If that's not happening for your 5 Why's, you can try to start steering things more assertively. The worst 5 Why's I've ever encountered looked a bit like children wearing mommy's dress shoes. I've had pretty good luck railroading such milquetoast RCAs into something at least moderately productive. There's always one person with an agenda but in my experience most people seem relieved that anyone else wants the reins. You don't even have to be in charge, you just have to keep drawing attention back to the person with the most coherent comments.

You have a problem, what does it look like? Do we have other problems that look like this? Is there a concrete action we can take to reduce the impact of this problem moving forward (ie, what aspect of the 4th why can we actually fix)? Are there other actions that would be more effective? Or more timely? Can we split the difference and half-fix a problem instead and circle back the next time it happens?

That's all 5 Why's. Or at least, the ones I attend.
Haha, just read all the comments here to get an idea of intellectual diversity.
paper space has such an oddball product - they first started off as some sort of cloud Virtual Desktop type of thing and this seems to be their new pivot.

DigitalOcean made some missteps recently with massive cuts to their community team (technical writing group)
>£875 a year. For a bicycle

If it replaces a larger vehicle, that's not that much. That's the big value prop. If you live somewhere with good enough public transit (especially good enough public transit that you can bring a bicycle on), the value prop is low. If you live in a more rural/suburban area where the bike is good enough for many of your trips that would have required a car or would have required a 1hr+ bus ride, it's a great deal.
1), 3) because of the network effect.

2) I don't think Mastodon was more than a rounding error before Musk bought Twitter.
> [2] Because if there was, mobile telephone operators would have grabbed that spectrum already for their vastly more lucrative industry.

Mobile operators can't take it all at once, in part because the TV lobby still exists, in part because it takes years to build out the network to use the spectrum they've already taken. But, at least in the US, this has happened three already: in the 80s, channels 70-83 were reallocated to cell phones; in 2008, channels 52-69 were reallocated to cell phones; in 2016, channels 38-51 were reallocated to cell phones. I'm guessing sometime in the next ten years, 19-36 will be reallocated to cell phones (37 is reserved for radio astronomy). But 2-18 will probably still be used for ATSC 3.0 at that point.
Providing satellite internet to AFU.
"understanding" is a human invention. we just want to have a model of the external world (if it exists) that makes us feel satisfied. we re basically looking to fool ourselves
But now you can run into problems with integer overflow. It can be solved:

sum(n) = is_even(n) ? n/2 * (n+1) : (n+1)/2 * n

because of one n and n+1 will always be even. But it show that unfortunately things are often not as straightforward as they first appear.
> And then one day, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change, a girl, sitting on her own in a small cafe in Rickmansworth suddenly realised what it was that had been going wrong all this time and she finally knew how the world could be made a good and happy place. This time it was right, it would work, and no-one would have to get nalied to anything. Sadly, however, before she could get to a phone to tell anyone, the Earth was unexpectedly demolished to make way for a new hyperspace bypass and so the idea was lost forever.
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IIRC OTA use is climbing. I believe a lot of the market is lower income and/or rural. New user so not sure if I can post a link but a 2022 Nielsen report:

> Nielsen divides OTA home into three segments, those with no streaming subscription VOD services (and maybe no broadband); those with SVOD, but without a virtual multichannel video programming distributor, such as Hulu Plus Live TV, YouTube TV or Sling TV; and those with SVOD and vMVPDs.

> The largest group uses OTA and SVOD at 9.3% of the country, up from 7.2% in 2018. The OTA homes with vMVPDs rose to 1.9% from 1.2%, while the OTA only home fell to 4.1% from 5.9%.

> People in homes that go over-the-air but don’t stream have an average age of 61, only 13% of them have children and their median income is $22,800.

> People in homes that combine over-the-air viewing with at least one streaming service have an average age of 45, 40% of them have kids and the median income is $49,000. In the homes that have OTA and a vMVPD, the average age is 49, 35% have children and the median household income is $77,000.
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I know there are other members of the committee it’s just a colloquialism I suppose. And yeah, I thought about saying it “will absolutely show” but my inner economist said “it depends” because there could be a surprise (even though it’d be absolute madness).
There are some interesting implications if Vanmoof can't come out of this alive, because a lot of the bike's functionality is based on cloud services.

Some people have been looking at extracting the necessary certificates needed to communicate with their bikes via Bluetooth: https://www.reddit.com/r/vanmoofbicycle/comments/14xj66k/get...
> “When TV stations broadcast in ATSC 3.0 to ATSC 3.0-enabled TV sets connected to the web, all of this interactivity becomes available over the air for live linear broadcasts.”

So we're going to straddle both OTA and internet streaming.. At what point will OTA content providers give up and just allow users to stream the content over the internet for free? I imagine the vast majority of people have internet at this point, it would likely get your more people watching your ads, it frees up spectrum for other uses, and arguably would be cheaper (since bandwidth is cheap and antennas are expensive).
We can do both of those things only if we mandate a lot more financial data sharing with the government.
Flatpak itself is really a different dimension of security to that discussed here. It solves a different problem (the software might have exploitable security vulnerabilities) than the one discussed here (the software itself might be malicious). Running software that secretly phones home everything you do in the program is still going to be a problem in flatpak.
I'm astonished that Chinese cyberattacks don't warrant some kind of shutdown between the Chinese internet and the rest of the word (or NATO anyway).

Devastating to commerce? Sure! For a day or so. Then the Chinese cyberattacks would cease and we could go back to normal.

How could you tell? Well, there are countless websites that purport to graph such things realtime. Ask one of them to monitor the situation. It goes above a trivial threshold - the pipe is shut off for a day.

But that's just a naieve citizen, wondering why government is so screwed up that it allows constant unrelenting financial attacks against its people without repercussions.
Posting flamebait and then editing your post to goad people into downvoting it for being flamebait so you can cry about Hacker News trying to silence you is intellectually dishonest.
.net developer sitting over here in the corner watching all the cool things pass by.
> We have a 15 year old that watched that at a much younger age, didn't hit him, but when he saw it again it affected him a lot more.

I'm not clear on how this is an example of delayed PTSD.
All of these technologies are pretty great, actually. MHTML solves real problems. VBScript is just bash but with different wording. OLE embeds are an awesome idea that has sadly fallen in disuse (embedding a spreadsheet inside a text document without resorting to weird table hacks? that's just a good idea!). VBA macros power more businesses than any startup ever will. CHM help files were absolutely wonderful and I'm sad to see them replaced with terrible websites that rely on Google for anyone to actually find anything. Being able to not only save your complex search result, but also share it is a great idea that didn't get advertised long enough. Sending someone a file so other people can also find "photos taken by my camera between last August and last September" without having send some kind of proprietary photo album is a great idea.

Say what you want about their proprietary lock ins and abhorrent business practises, but they have had some great ideas that took competing operating system years or even decades to copy. You still can't embed documents as easily and effective the way you can in Microsoft Office in most competing products. These features aren't abandoned, they're used by millions across the globe.

Microsoft does need to configure its tooling better to detect executable code. The VBScript at the end of the chain shouldn't have been executed. I'd be sad to see most of the other "legacy" tools disappear because of their malware capabilities.
As someone that has actually shipped RPi-like boards and clones, I'll tell you that it's just part of the job description.

They ALL suck, some just suck less than others. Broadcom, Renesas? The worst. ST, NXP, TI? Slightly better than fully sucking. Look to the chipmaker (ST, NXP) and not the board maker (Orange) for a guide in how well things go.
Mastodon is awesome. It doesn't matter about the 99%. The quality of engagement there is far superior and it's a platform that respects users.
> Who still watches over-the-air TV?

Some previous owner of our house put a large TV antenna in the attic and had it wired to all of the coax ports. The signal is outstanding and we get a wide variety of channels.

One of the no-name stations has a Spanish subchannel that broadcasts a bunch of pretty interesting soccer matches from central and South America. I only understand about 30% of what they're saying, but it's a soccer match, I know what's happening on the field, and there is a worldwide standard for referee hand signals. On a different channel, there have been a few US National team matches broadcast OTA in Spanish that aren't available for free in English - weird, isn't it?

If something I am interested in is on ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, PBS, etc and I find out about it, I'll watch that too. But I'm not going to spend money or go out of my way to do this ATSC 3.0 DRM crap. If they switch, I'm done with it.
Didn't mean they don't exist, just that everyone creating groups in my circles uses Whatsapp, even if they otherwise use signal.
> They would have killed me

I'm curious about this. Could you share more?

Is there evidence that hospitalization with COVID worsened the outcome?

As background, my father was hospitalized with COVID and passed away.
[Inngest engineer]

Half of us are Go devs, so we definitely don't think TypeScript should be the default language everyone uses. We only chose to start with a TypeScript SDK!
> I was specifically talking about deaths during WWII.

Okay. The rest of this thread is very much about nuclear weapons and their effects.
Maybe this has to do with bars wanting to sell cocktails to these consumers and they thought popularizing seltzers would lose them money? I'm not in the industry so I'm not sure how close of ties the Bar Industry has with Alcohol Companies but I'm sure there is a lot of lobbying back and forth.
The language maintainers have already decided to slow down string-construction by calling StringUTF16.compress(value) which checks if the input can be converted into LATIN1 and if so, creating a LATIN1 byte-array representation from the ground up.

Compared to this, I wager that the incremental cost is small to verify that the coder matches the content.

Also, depending on the implementation of string-interning and StringUTF16.compress, it's possible that the verification step is only needed for non-LATIN1 strings. Which according to the JEP is only a small minority of strings seen.

If there is a cheaper solution, I'm certainly all for it. I'm just spitballing ideas here. But I don't think it is acceptable to allow "hello world".startsWith("hello") to return false.
That’s why we start companies to build a moat.
I haven’t seen anyone suggest unionization has had anything to do with it, in fact I’m going to groundlessly state that it probably is the only reason they lasted this long.
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For my 2c, I haven't touch BTRFS since using it as the primary storage in a main storage server at work. We had a 6TB system reporting 3TB free (back when this was a lot of storage), yet every write operation (including deletes) was failing with an error indicating the disk was full. This was years ago, so I'm a little fuzzy on the details, but after some really painful downtime and troubleshooting, it turns out that BTRFS marks blocks as either metadata or data blocks. Once a block is marked, it won't be unmarked even if empty. So because this was a high churn system all of the blocks ended up marked as data and there was none available when more metadata was needed. The solution was running `balance` with some specific flags.

My understanding is that this is partially resolved now (empty blocks are automatically freed now), but not completely (partially empty blocks are never compacted without a balance, so you can still have a bunch of half-empty data blocks and no room for metadata), so one is a lot less likely to run into similar issues, but it was scarring enough to me that I've never run a BTRFS system again.
>a webcomic guy who's producing entertaining content and not getting anything back from it

I wouldn’t exactly say he’s not getting anything from it. Per Wikipedia,

>Inman said in 2012 that The Oatmeal had a revenue of $500,000 a year.
4k blu rays have an extremely high bit rate; and a much much better picture than OTA.
> The goal of xAI is to understand the true nature of the universe.

… and then what?
> You're not understanding what commodities are.

You're not understanding how some people use music. Does the supermarket care who the artist is? Not really. Do I care who the artist is? Not really, I just need dance music to keep part of my mind occupied so I can get into the zone easier; saccharine vocals help too, no substance please.
so if i have this right, you're saying to only tax land?

i'm only ok with this if we restrict voting rights to land owners
> I do think however that by 2030, UBI will be the norm in many wealthy countries, and thus more people will be able to pursue their passions rather than having to sell their soul as dayjobbers to make money for corporations and rich people.

2030 is much too soon for UBI to be an established norm, and even more much to soon for economies to support it at a level which would radically change this dynamic rather than just mitigating perverse incentives that exist at the edges of means-tested poverty support programs.
The wildly mixing is because sometimes I want to use quotes within quotes: ' "a string" '.

I default to this " ". But I switch around when needed. This is standard python methodology. Anyway..

This kind of thing doesn't matter. It's pure aesthetic, it's ocd stuff in my opinion. Whether you use " or ' has zero consequence to readability, maintainability, safety, and performance. Literally zero. Your code can grow to a billion lines this still doesn't matter. This is actually an ocd instinct that you should try to separate from your rational thinking. The inconsistent quotes * feel * wrong, but rationally they have zero consequence on any metric. It's just a feeling not an actuality.

Less experienced programmers often get caught up in stylistic issues but fail to realize when style is actually of zero rational consequence. Not all styles have zero consequence but some of it does.

>The code was also not fully organized for testing

Only literally 2 functions are unit testable here.

One of them is so basic that it's not even worth testing.

All unit testable functions are segregated away from IO so from a fundamental standpoint it's pretty much unit testable to the full extent.

The reason why I wrote that it's not is because the random path generation function has a bit of a flaw. It uses random number generation, so it can't be unit tested. I can't predict the output in the assert because it's random.

That's it. The amount of logic amenable to testing is so trivial and little it's not worth it here. I could segregate the random number out of the path generation function deterministic and testable but I made a judgement call here. It's a take-home and segregating the code like that leads to an API for the function call that's less intuitive. The function would need random seeds as input parameters.

Ideally, yes I shoulda done that. But this is a valid shortcut. I would say though, the majority of people aren't able to even realize how random number generation effects unit testability.

The unit testing thing is valid. Everyone mentioned that even though what's testable is so little. I'll just have to cater to the current dogma of the programming world.
We've got a pretty good track record in predicting near-ish-future scientific/technological advances, which is what we would need for self replicating machines. To be clear, I'm not talking nanobots or similar - much more macro sized stuff. All the constituent pieces to make a self replicating mining robot or whatever are there today, and we already automate a lot of the processes required. There are some important gaps to fill, for sure, but none that we have any real reason to believe are insurmountable.

We're in agreement that the 'why' is less clear, at least for probes exploring the galaxy. But there are some very clear reasons why this sort of tech in general is useful - mining the asteroid belt, building reflectors to better harness the energy of the sun, building all sorts of other infrastructure in space without having to use a rocket to get it there. At that point once we have the tech and are doing it - and I would be shocked if the human race is still around in 500 years and NOT doing that sort of thing - it's relatively cheap to kick off a bunch of probes doing similar things.

I'm still not sure if it's worth it in that scenario, but it's conceivable that it could be. And that puts us again on the question of why we don't see it. We think there should be a lot of intelligent life out there. There's a lot of very important 'if's in all of this, but if we can think of it and and conceive of some potential reasons, and if other intelligent life has these capabilities that we believe will be possible, and if it becomes as resource/energy/time efficient to do as it should be, then it seems like someone, somewhere, should have been able to convince their government or corporation or whatever to do it, even if the results aren't necessarily going to be super apparent. The Pioneer plaque is obviously much cheaper, but we knew beforehand that the utility there is basically 0%.

Like I said, I'm not necessarily arguing that these probes are out there. I'm guessing the answer is more likely "There's no compelling reason to colonize or even explore large swathes of the galaxy" and concerns around interstellar travel are on such large timescales that civilizations capable of interstellar travel would only care about their nearest neighbors. Maybe that changes as star formation spins down and the galaxy starts to slowly go dark and your local galactic resources are less and less abundant. I'm just saying that there are technosignatures that would indicate the presence of other intelligent life in the galaxy that have nothing to do with biological beings visiting us, and we would expect that some of these are possible for us to see now, if they're out there.
But it literally isn't. You're making a factually incorrect statement.
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