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Location: London, United Kingdom
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: PHP, MySQL, Laravel, Symfony
Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/burakcakirel/
Email: burak@sokian.com

Experienced Software Development for 10+ years.

Only available for contract jobs (Outside IR35)

Broad Skills:

- Programming Languages/Libraries: Python, Java, .NET, React, Livewire, Vue.js, JavaScript, jQuery, HTML5, HTML, CSS

- CMS/eCommerce: Statamic CMS, WordPress, WooCommerce, Joomla, Opencart

- Databases: NoSQL, AWS DynamoDB, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Redis, Aerospike

- Tools: Docker, Apache SOLR, RabbitMQ, Apache ActiveMQ, Git, GitHub, GitLab, AWS EC2, SQS, SES, RDS, S3, Route 53, Heroku

- Server Administration: Linux, Debian, Ubuntu, LXC, KVM, Virtualmin, Cloudmin, Webmin, Nginx, PHP-FPM, Apache Web Server, TinyDNS, Bind9
Arguably it is already a problem. NYC's "Billionaire's Row" is crammed full of apartments built for the sole purpose of investment and remain vacant. Imagine how many homes for "regular" people (yes, it's Manhattan, they'll still be expensive) could have been built there if there wasn't a financial incentive to bury money like this.

These skyscrapers buy "air rights" from neighbours to build high which takes away even more homes.

London has areas with the same problem.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wehsz38P74g
most of the people I know use WhatsApp and Telegram because they can read their notes from any device/ant time and can forward it any one.
so for this use case ideabook cannot do what WhatsApp or Telegram do for me.
But I like the clean interface.
note: mobile appstore links are not there
Yes - I've gotten very good at hitting that little, shrinking 3 dot spot.
There is a reason Google’s first office was right next door to DEC WRL and Alta Vista. There is so much cross contamination between the two that it’s impossible to say.
I once wrote a time-and-attendance app for a small company I worked for (using Rails 2.x). I put an export function in it, so that the office manager could dump the week's hours, pull it into Excel, and run pivots on person-time-per-project (to pay employees) and project-time-per-customer (to bill customers). After a few weeks, it was clear that the office manager wasn't "getting" how to do this, despite a couple of explanations, so I removed the export, and simply generated both pivot tables in a page. This solved the payment/billing problem so well, that, last I heard, they were still using this application 8 years after I left.
One of the developers just responded on the github issue referecing this thread. (Also reopened the issue and removed wontfix)

"After a bit of discussion on HackerNews, I got a bit better understanding of the actual problem. People don't want to just configure the keys according to a particular layout - the actual 'issue' here is that they expect the key binding changes together with the layout. Unfortunately, the 0.8.0 changes didn't make this possible to implement as a plugin.

I would reconsider adding this as an option if there are enough interested people. React with a thumbs up to this comment if you are interested in having this option (though the defaults will certainly remain as they are now). Please, react only if you actually use Wayfire or would use it if it had this feature :)"

https://github.com/WayfireWM/wayfire/issues/1601#issuecommen...
Small-scale magnetism leads to large-scale solar atmosphere
It will be interesting to see how it compares to modern groups of people. I don't think having ancestors in a place 1700+ years ago gives you defacto claim to ownership either way though.
Wouldn't it be amusing if the Israelites were genetically Canaanites --- just with religious differences?

Someone would have a lot of explaining to do. Or maybe a lot of denying and covering up to do.

This would flip the scripture so to speak.
Movie piracy is strongly linked to box office revenue
Chrome headless reliably crashes on completing a file download on macOS
Some people do it just for fun. Some do it to advance an agenda, by posting fake stuff that fits a narrative. And some people who appear to be individuals are, of course, state actors or acting on behalf of state actors.

> why are people anti-social jerkoffs on the internet?

It's not just the internet, though the internet made it far easier. Hoaxes have been around for, at least, as long as newspapers.
Nice, cool to hear flags in conjunction with canary releases.
Are your flags simply configuration stored in files that your applications read at runtime? Then you push those updates out with Salt?
That might be a good thing! If the announcement said that it cost extra in some state, maybe residents of that state would apply more pressure to do something about it.
That's more the behavior of something highly targeted than something as general as a game.
The idea that a government pension should sustain you from 50 onwards is not a good one.
Same! Someone should post a video/audio recording of the pronunciation. Even trying to imitate different accents I'm familiar with, I can't find one where the two words sound even remotely similar lol
And yet it happens https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-47720887
> Why would you test it

Is this a wrong way to get a right answer?
how on earth did nobody anticipate this kind of attack when designing the protocol? it's very obvious it can be abused like this
In that scenario, it's on the ISP to clean their network of abuse, the same thing they would need to do if Gmail had blacklisted their IPs for spamming. After all, an ISP that can't connect to YouTube isn't going to stay in business for long.

People have been begging ISPs for ages to do a bit of egress filtering, for example, to prevent source address falsification. They've demonstrated time and again that they don't give a crap unless it affects their bottom line.
When making a comparison like that, the endpoints really matter. How many of the last 20 years has he been beating the market? And the next 10? Today is at an extreme in valuations and of course everyone who is betting on a fall will look bad until suddenly they don't. It's currently not possible to say whether sitting on cash is stupid or wise, the next few years will bear that out one way or another.
Hover over "X hours ago" of your comment for example
Vacancy tax seems like an easy solution until you start thinking about implementation. How do you expect to enforce it?
I don’t remember paying for anything at Disney Sea with the app except for a few fast passes (and used to schedule the free fast passes of course). Suica card and credit card worked for everything else.
> It is very difficult to believe that there were no shifts were incidents occurred and Lucy Letby was not on shift, or times Lucy Letby was on shift but no incident occurred.

I agree. It's very strange that there was not at least one case when she was not there. Death are very clear, but it's easy to use different criteria to classify an weird case as suspicious.

I'd expect more cluster of nurses. There are a few that work (almost?) in all the cases during the day, but the nights are more random. Some nurses appear only one. Which one had a full time job there and which where hired only a few times?

There is a strange diagonal that starts at Child D - Nurse H. How did they sort the nurses? Alphabetically? By some internal HR number? [It may be an artifact, because people is too good detecting patterns like diagonals. I was generating a similar random grid a few years ago, and I saw too many patterns that I suspected the random generator was wrong. But it was just me overfitting the data.]
This is a very informative reply and I appreciate it. With the improvements you suggest, many of which I had already started to make, we could mitigate many of the
issues.

However, these issues are just a few of the most recent reasons I dislike TF. I’ve never been impressed by TF documentation. It always comes up lacking for me. Subjective, I know.

Similarly subjectively, when I was looking around about 6 years ago, TF had way less coverage of AWS resources than Ansible.

Basically, my experience is that the level of thought and quality of engineering that went into Terraform is way less than Ansible. And I am annoyed because somehow Teraform won in spite of that. My hope is Terraform’s licensing change will fracture the market and the next thing will emerge.
SEEKING WORK | London, United Kingdom | Remote | Contract (Outside IR35)

Technologies: PHP, MySQL, Laravel, Symfony
Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/burakcakirel/
Email: burak@sokian.com

Experienced Software Development for 10+ years.

Only available for contract jobs (Outside IR35)

Broad Skills:

- Programming Languages/Libraries: Python, Java, .NET, React, Livewire, Vue.js, JavaScript, jQuery, HTML5, HTML, CSS

- CMS/eCommerce: Statamic CMS, WordPress, WooCommerce, Joomla, Opencart

- Databases: NoSQL, AWS DynamoDB, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Redis, Aerospike

- Tools: Docker, Apache SOLR, RabbitMQ, Apache ActiveMQ, Git, GitHub, GitLab, AWS EC2, SQS, SES, RDS, S3, Route 53, Heroku

- Server Administration: Linux, Debian, Ubuntu, LXC, KVM, Virtualmin, Cloudmin, Webmin, Nginx, PHP-FPM, Apache Web Server, TinyDNS, Bind9
Why don't we just require major providers to provide a realtime list of IPs that are attacking so that we can drop them in a block list with an expiration date of a month or so.

If your computer is infected, I don't want to talk to you for a month. If it continues to be infected, I might up that to a year, or permanently ban you.

It's your problem. Go fix it.
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I've witnessed a few sustained (hours/days long) DDOS attacks that were straight up extortion: owners contacted with "give us money or we will keep your site offline".

Most of the time I see attacks lasting 15-20 minutes. I'm assuming it's either someone doing it "for the lulz" or some cyber warfare outfit testing their big guns.

I always consider the possibility of someone using DDOS to mask a more sophisticated attack.
Happy that this is seeing the light of day!
A newspaper is publishing that 'government sources' suspect Russia, there's a press conference at 17:30 Finnish time

https://www.iltalehti.fi/politiikka/a/07fa3666-2804-4d9a-98c... (in Finnish)

> "Although much is to be determined, in mid-Sep
@gapinskimj wrote in our Kaliningrad Military Digest about the Russian Sibiryakov hydrographic survey vessel's movements near the Balticconnector. We're not pointing fingers, but it's highly likely that Russians surveyed the pipe"

https://twitter.com/konrad_muzyka/status/1711388016000827427...
Thanks for trying it out!

I guess the UX of the generate feature could be better (or at least I need to add some help/explanation info there). You don't have to navigate to the link and use the interface that shows up there, it's more like for fine-tuning the program, but it's optional. You can just download the Liftosaur app, and import the generated link there, and then do exactly as you said - recording the lifts that you initially described in the Planner.
> unscrew the two jammed retaining bolts holding in a serial, parallel, scsi, vga, or DVI

Yes, it was kind of annoying, but OTOH it provided reliable robustness. Today, many connectors are just too prone to unintentional disconnect. And in the case of optional locks, like e.g. on some DP cables, one never know if the cable has the lock or is just stuck.
While there might have existed such vendors, nobody provides more information than that written above in their MB specifications, so it is difficult to know for sure which is the case, before buying a MB.

The only way to gain more confidence is if the downloadable MB manual has an exhaustive description of the BIOS options.

If in the BIOS options there is one for enabling ECC and perhaps additional related options, e.g. for configuring scrubbing, only then there is complete certainty about ECC support in the MB.

However most recent MB manuals no longer have a complete BIOS description, so they may be not helpful.

At least with the ASRock or ASUS AM4 or AM5 MBs that I have used, whenever "ECC & Non-ECC, Unbuffered Memory" was specified, the MB really had ECC support.
This is adorable, it even shows Haneda air traffic!
That's not enshittification, squeezing money out of you is just how theme parks operate. The term can't really apply to Disney parks at all because there's no two sided market.
I like this a lot. Curiously, it's useless for what I use graph paper for.

I'll describe my idealized graph paper -- similar to what I made myself in a drawing program, but with several improvements taken from browsing these and seeing things done better than I did:

- Coarse centimeter line grid

- Fine millimeter dot grid

- Optionally, a thicker line occasionally (e.g. every 4-5cm), or better yet, a cross-grid.

- A rectangle in the bottom right where I can place a label

Grid should go edge-to-edge (with a bit of bleed in the design).

I'm not saying that's anybody else's ideal. That's ideal for what I do. There is no "best," but there is "suitability to purpose" combined with "what one is used to."

I think the way to do this would be the same webapp, but where it's possible to overlay several of these on top of each other. Multiweight and multicolor should be a combination of a pair of single weight / single color.

The way to do a lot of this, by the way, is in PostScript programming.

Footnote: Reading more of the web site, this guy is clearly awesome.
A local hosting company ddosed local bussineses that had IT infrastructure and then advertised their hosting solution with ddos protection.
The immediate assumption is that Iran is doing it. They have done it many times before and they are allied with Hamas. I haven't seen any proof but it's a safe bet.
Never mind the live "web cams" you can click on in the map UI. Brave new world.
In this video we learn how to create the stringParsing.js and start adding string parsing business rule functions. Learn how to initialize the business rules system, and how to call a business rule.
NYC just charging not insanely low property tax, especially on these billionaire condos would be a good start.
I feel really stupid as I've been a programmer for 40 years and never used a pivot table. Am I the only one?
There are nice protocols like this that don’t require anyone to visibly flip a coin. See, for example:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commitment_scheme
Only for mini DDoS attacks - for larger ones they disable routing for your ip address. I guess they don‘t have the capacity to handle the big DDoS attacks nowadays.
As with many Pāli words (e.g., dhamma, samkhāra, etc.), it's hard to provide a simplistic one-dimensional translation of the phrase "mettā", often crudely translated as loving-kindness. When you read through the Sutta Nipata and the early texts, it comes across more as unconditional or unconstrained friendliness which is far easier to practice in real life, even when you can't make yourself feel loving-kindness.

There are several other passages from the oldest strata of Pāli texts, e.g., the SNP (Sutta Nipata) and some of the connected discourses (Samyutta Nikāya) that talk more about metta, a rich and complex tapestry that paints a picture of the actual and original intent behind the word or phrase.

This talk by Prof. John Peacock has some good insights into the phrase mettā, and provides a good overall context.

https://www.audiodharma.org/talks/2600

Mettā is part of the four brahmavihārās or practises to cultivate wholesome states of mind, the others being karuṇā (compassion & kindness for oneself and for others), muditā (simplistically translated as "empathetic joy") and upekkhā (equanimity).
I see what you're getting at, and it's subtle! To simplify the discussion, let's assume we always start out with heads up.

You're right that the first coin is more likely to end up heads. But so is the second coin, and if both occur, that would invalidate the pair of tosses. Now, imagine you guessed tails despite the coin starting on heads. If the first toss lands tails, the second coin is still more likely to land heads, which keeps the pair valid.

In other words, whatever you gain by guessing the side that's up on the first coin, you lose on account of the second coin having that same higher probability of invalidating the pair.

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Using extreme numbers, in case that makes it more clear: imagine a coin that has a 99 % probability of ending up with the same side we start with, and – for simplicity of exposition – we always start with heads facing up before the toss.

If you guess heads, and the first coin lands heads, then there is a 1 % chance that you win, namely that when the second coin lands tails.

If you guess tails, and the first coin lands tails, then there is a 99 % chance that you win, namely that when the second coin lands heads.

The two outcomes of the first coin (99 % and 1 % respectively) perfectly balance out the two valid outcomes of the second coin.
Nice. Have you had to develop any capabilites around knowing what changed, when and by whom? i.e. audit log or so on?

Just wondering what is your process in an incident when you want to know what changed in the system? e.g. so you can correlate observed error rate changes with a the enabling or disabling of a flag.
With all due respect to Von Neumann, intuitively I would change it to use the information in the two coins: one for (X, Y) and another for (Y, X). Not the first.
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The AMD website says the non-PRO 7x40 laptop Ryzens have no ECC support[1], and the Framework folks have said that AMD told them there’s no ECC on non-PRO 7x40 laptop Ryzens[2]. If plugged in, ECC modules will work, but without the error-correction functions.

(Edited to reflect the current state of the website, as it used to say ECC support was present[3].)

[1] e.g. https://www.amd.com/en/product/13186

[2] https://community.frame.work/t/responded-amd-batch-1-guild/2...

[3] https://web.archive.org/web/20230513075641/https://www.amd.c... (here “FP7r2” is the version for use with interchangeable DDR5 modules rather than with soldered LPDDR5)
Mango, a prominent European fashion conglomerate, has unveiled Lisa, its proprietary conversational generative AI platform.
As for me, I was taught it meant "alias", used when introducing nickname together with real name.
ISPs will gladly quarantine/rate limit folks for pirating stuff, why don't they use those tools to combat botnets? Though I could see this leading to a slippery slope of remote attestation for internet access.
Math is often much more fun and compelling for some people when you both theoretically prove something works and then also convince yourself of the same thing via a numerical experiment. I’m pretty good at math proofs (pure math PhD, wrote some books and papers), but I still love to do numerical experiments. It’s fun, and you also set yourself up to be able to easily ask different questions that may be very hard to answer theoretically.
I was asking a question, so it's a little unfair for people to have downvoted me without answering my question.

I think it must be an age thing? I've never heard of Dixon of Dock Green (born late 80s/early 90s). If I asked anyone I know how they connect that phrase, it'd be Delia.

Anyway, thanks for engaging.
Literally the article
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Usually disgruntled young men who turn to ultranationalist or whatever radical ideology as a way to take "revenge" against mainstream society.
Often with an absurd golden parachute though.
Drugs. Give the patient some drugs to keep them calm. Having escorted a few family members to MRI appointments, I detect that the only reason not to drug patients is that the MRI staff lack the medical expertise to supervise drugged people. They are generally technicians rather than doctors/nurses.
The situation is like dentistry imho. Most people are fine having with local antithetic, but there are dentists that specialize in anxious people who need actual sedation. So have the one MRI center with a doc to knock you out long enough for the machine to do its thing.

The procedure for getting a patient in and out of the machine always seems to take much longer than the actual scan. It might seem a bit dystopian, but a line of unconscious patients already secured on gurneys could probably be moved much more quickly than people climbing in and out, minimizing the downtime between patients.
>To protect giant companies against small startups that are trying with all of their might? I'm not so sure.

Startups aren't trying to compete with large companies, they're trying to get bought up by them. If your goal is to compete, patents are a nice-to-have, but you can still compete on being more flexible than a giant lumbering tech company. The whole mythology of "disruption" depends on it, because there are natural diseconomies of scale. When you get big, you get stupid.

If your goal is acquisition, however, then patents are entirely necessary, because otherwise - what are tech companies buying?

In this case, Google should be allowed to clone the shit out of Sonos, and Sonos should have legally mandated access to the YouTube Music accounts of any user who consents to Sonos products accessing their data. Interoperability is far more important to startups that are actually trying to remain independent rather than providing a nice juicy VC exit. With the current state of "IP"[0], any startup trying to build an interoperable product is at the mercy of their competitors who can kill the API keys of products they are cloning.

I'd rather live in the world where big tech is at constant risk of being scraped to death than the world where the only thing startups can bring to the table are poorly-worded and overbroad patents that big tech can use to kill other startups.

[0] Read: laws that let you opt out of having competitors. The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) falls under this umbrella.
We do but don't tell everyone because it'll be full of tourists too.
I almost can't believe this comment. TSMC literally has an entire paragraph in parents comment that addresses it. The comment is about the much larger semiconductor business, not bleeding edge. I fail to see from any perspective how you can read that comment and post this.
Yeah, I'd have dismissed your comment before I tried running a scheme repl on a raspberry pi over ssh (local) vs a clojure repl running on the jvm on my machine. Day and night.
> Why would you test it?

I recall conversations on Usenet decades ago about the Monty Hall problem[1] in which people gave elementary proofs that probabilities don't change by opening a door. Even from mathematicians and statisticians. People were very insistent that the analytical solution was simple and obvious and that switching doors didn't change anything.

The only thing that changed some people's minds was a program that simulated the Monty Hall problem. This was needed to get people to reconsider their proof when the claim was highly counterintuitive.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Hall_problem
Dutch people with enough money who don't want to be on a waiting list, go abroad for medical treatment.
It doesn’t seem that wild for a board to be looking to increase revenue results/shareholder value, especially in current economic headwinds.
Pretty much. Salt pushes out a supplemental config file that we use to build a php file (after merging with the defaults) with `define('FLAG_NAME_HERE', value);` that out core application reads at startup. We have different classes/roles for our boxes so we can roll out a flag to a specific type or some of a specific type if we are going to canary. I wouldn't say that our specific method is anything special but it works very well in practice.
Make me sit around flipping coins 10,000 times and recording the results, and you damn well better at least put my name on the paper.