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Is there a precedent for this message in particular? Instead of just regular 404 like they do for DMCA and government security takedowns there is a note on the page. Perhaps it is a warning designed to indicate that there is an issue when someone goes to investigate why the url is broken.
Bit much speculating about mistresses and poisoned spouses with well anything to go on...
Same for me, but took me even longer. I got where I am because I would spend whatever time it took to complete it, even when that meant neglecting family or sleep. Now I can do the same quality and quantity of work and learning, without all those hours wasting my time waiting for stress of the deadline to finally kick in to push out the ADD and just do the damn work. I can't help but wonder what the opportunity coat was for all that time.
Some friends of mine in the Seattle area had one and absolutely loved it. It was a very practical car for commuting within its range. The extender was barely audible when running.

I think the goofy styling was probably as much of an issue as the tank size.
Is it so that everyone has to buy their own vehicle or so that everyone has control over the space they travel in, who else is in that space and the travel schedule?
I don't think EL7 gets minor version updates anymore though
Just noting that best skin care routine is:

No Alcohol or caffeine
Lots of water
Vegan diet
Using baking soda
Adequate sleep and time in nature
Even if we can ultimately attribute it to the smartphone, that does not imply screen time is the culprit.

What about, for example, the loss (or stagnation, as it is sometime thought of) of culture we've seen since the smartphone? I think it is fair to say that the smartphone – or a closely related technology – is why that has happened. Take music as a prime example: When I was young, you pretty much had to listen to the same music as everyone else as it was very hard to discover anything beyond. The music everyone was listening to defined a culture. These days, with the change in technology, we could very easily never hear the same song. But someone who has never touched a smartphone in their life is not excluded here.

There is quite a bit of evidence to suggest that suicide rates are higher amongst those who don't find a shared identity. Interestingly, youth suicide rates also dropped precipitously during the COVID period. I expect screen time shot through the roof during that phase! But, perhaps, knowing that everyone was dealing with the same COVID experience provided something to identify with.
Brain fart: would it be possible to attach passwords to a crypto based micro transaction such that every time you attempted a password entry your crypto account was charged a small fee for the login attempt?

This would thwart brute force attacks, but not be a significant cost for users. If you could attach your login to the crypto account it would mean the account would have to be funded to allow the attempt. The token wouldn't store passwords it would just be a gatekeeper to the login attempt.

The fees would be paid to the service providers as mining fees.

E.g. foo@bar.com needs a password and a token provided from a designated crypto address to gain access to the service.
> I suppose all that is left in the intuition busting, is how the probabilities don't add up as expected?

Lets imagine electrons are objects in a program, then the "electron class" has a private field containing a seed value to a pseudo-random number generator (ie deterministic), and the two electrons are initialized with the same seed value.

Further imagine that performing a measurement of an electron amounts to taking the seed, generating a random number between 0 and 360 degrees (sample value), and then comparing that random number to the measurement angle. If the sample value and the measurement angle is closer than +/- 90 degrees we say the measurement result is up, otherwise down.

Alright, so, if we imagine that when Charlie prepared the electrons, he creates two "electron objects", and passes one to Alice and the other to Bob.

If Charlie prepares entangled electrons, he'll ensure both instances have the same seed value. If he wants to create regular non-entangled electrons, he'll make each have a random seed value.

For non-entangled electrons, Alice and Bob will not see any correlation if they later compare notes.

For entangled electrons, if Alice and Bob uses the same angle they must get the same result per definition[1]. And indeed one can find the correlation as a function of the difference in angle, and it's a linear function from perfect correlation if the angles are the same (zero difference) to zero correlation (perfect anti-correlation) when the angles are 180 degrees apart.

However on real, entangled electrons in the lab things are different. There you'll find that the correlation is higher than the linear function when the difference is smaller than 90 degrees, and less than the linear function when the difference is greater than 90 degrees[2].

Thus if we measure the entanglement at not just 0 and 90 degrees difference but also 45 degrees difference, we'll find that our lab measurements do not agree with our simulated measurements.

Hence we conclude that entangled electrons do not behave like small objects that were created with the same "hidden value", ie the seed value in my example.

That's the essence of Bell's theorem and the tests of it (at least according to my memory).

[1]: Note that measuring real entangled electrons Alice and Bob will get exactly the opposite result, they're perfectly anti-correlated, but this matters not for this explanation and not worrying about it will make the explanation easier.

[2]: IIRC it goes like cos(a/2)^2 or something along those lines, ie https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=plot+%7B1-abs%28x%2Fpi%...
> 1111² = 1234321
...

Yes, I remember seeing that, though only up to 4 levels or so.

Right, I don't think the number base has much to do with it. These are just properties of numbers. The individual cases may vary per base, that's all.
Sure it is. If your system ever gets keylogged and somebody gets your password you are compromised

With MFA even if somebody has your password if they don't have your physical authenticator too then you're relatively safe.
One of the primary responsibilities of a maintainer is to ensure the security of the software. If they can't keep up with the pace of development in order to ensure this for their users, then this should be made clear to the community, and a decision should be made about how to proceed. Open source maintenance is an often stressful and thankless role, but this is part of the problem that allowed this to happen. Sure, a sophisticated attacker would be able to fool the eyes of a single tired maintainer, but the chances of that happening are much smaller if there's a stringent high bar of minimum quality, and at least one maintainer understands the code that is being merged in. Change proposals should never be blindly approved, regardless of who they come from.

At the end of the day we have to be able to answer why this happened, and how we can prevent it from happening again. It's not about pointing fingers, but about improving the process.

BTW, there have been several attempts at introducing backdoors in the Linux kernel. Some manage to go through, and perhaps we don't know about others, but many were thwarted due to the extreme vigilance of maintainers. Thankfully so, as everyone is well aware of how critical the project is. I'm not saying that all projects have the resources and visibility of Linux, but clearly vigilance is a requirement for lowering the chances of this happening.

> That's assuming a maintainer wasn't compromised, like in this case.

What makes you say that? Everything I've read about this (e.g. [1]) suggests that this was done by someone who also made valid contributions and gained gradual control of the project, where they were allowed to bypass any checks, if they existed at all. The misplaced trust in external contributions, and the lack of a proper peer review process are precisely what allowed this to happen.

[1]: https://boehs.org/node/everything-i-know-about-the-xz-backdo...
Could you verify the temperature? Absolute zero is -273.15 C. Or did you mean positive 700C?
I love it, even with the PTSD it incurs.

I’m particularly impressed that they even included the jailbars.
Closed source is a little tougher: Often you need to get a job somewhere in their organization or supply chain.
This accusation is not consistent with what you're replying to.
> that nobody is actually required to use at any given time

But that's the very problem with systemd! As time goes on you're required, whether by systemd itself or by the ecosystem around it, to use more and more of it, until it's doing not only service management but also timezones, RTC, DNS resolution, providing getpwent/getgrent, inetd, VMs and containers, bootloader, udev (without adding literally any benefit over the existing implementations), ... oh and you also have to add significant complexity in other things (like the kernel!) to use it, like namespaces (which have been a frequent source of vulnerabilities)...
The Rise and Fall of the Trad Wife
Agreed re: entrepreneurship.

There is a problem with modern employment if you do not have an upside tether like pnl, profit share, equity, commissions, etc.

That is because all jobs have implicit downside tethers. If things go wrong for the company you can be fired, and if you get a cash bonus then they can also reduce your compensation by slashing bonuses after you do the work.

I've had jobs like this where you get worked dumped on you left & right. Literally doing multiple jobs as others leave, with managers unable to articulate priorities or what can be dropped because everything is important. Meanwhile knowing max raise is gonna be 5% with a random chance your total comp is flat or even down if the company has a bad year. The promotion path is slow and you are 2-3 years out from the next level.

It leaves the employee with a feeling of powerlessness and lack of control. Highly demotivating.
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Definitely - I see no reason why the retail can't negotiate the best rate with the banks directly.
I make a lot of embedded linux distress and there are a lot of ways to skin the r/o rootsf problem. Assuming you've got some bit of r/w storage, the easiest thing is making the whole rootfs r/o and bind mounting the bits you need writable.
I echo this sentiment. I wish there was something less habit-forming that could help me function well. There isn’t. At least not yet.
What is "CRA" referring to here ? I can't find any reference to what that acronym means when looking it up...
I understand as someone that must have lived their whole life being served by the MBTA it might not be amazing (its also not amazing by european standards, i definitely rode better stuff in Spain, Portugal, England and other places) but by AMERICAN standards the MBTA is definitely one of the best public transportation systems there are.

I'd recommend you take SEPTA in PHL or use the shitty stuff we have here in Miami and Orlando and you'll be praying to go back to riding the Red Line or even, god forbid, the green line.
I wonder if better incentive design could turn them into something very good. For example how would things look if they got only paid if the inmates don't re-offend after release?
Sounds like the people who ran this should be the ones in prison.
That's really interesting, thanks for the clarification
The init-scripts that predated systemd were actually pretty damn simple. So was init itself.
that's been the journey - but signed the biggest market and about to launch the brokered CD market

Speed or throughput is not a challenge for origination - no one is mining a Bitcoin here!
> Consciousness regularly/usually claims to have omniscient knowledge of all that is...

My initial reaction to this was "not in my experience", but on reflection, I really have no idea what you are saying here. Conscious entities may have opinions, but consciousness itself, at least as it is usually conceived of, does not.
It might just be a coincidence, but the same username from that gmail account also appears to have a Proton Mail address
It's doubtful you've been evil, or at least, you are really lacking in imagination of the true scope of what that word implies.
There probably is. Way more than anyone knows. I bet every major project on github is riddled with state actors.
Yup. Same experience in my mid 30s but Vyvanse instead of Adderall. I expect that if I had proper access to healthcare before my mid 20s I’d have had medication sooner in life.
There were plenty of those that existed even before systemd. Systemd's adoption was not a result of providing the functionality that people want but rather was a result of providing functionality that a few important people wanted and promptly took hard dependencies on.
Sometimes there is inertia from fooling someone credible and influential. Once you have them you sail through everyone else. If the person later discovered your fraud they aren't likely to expose it because it would ruin their credibility.

I have seen banks get taken by people and just sweep shit under the rug.
You learn by doing it, but it's also not incredibly complex for nearly all SaaS products (most simply are not at the scale that actually necessitate it).

At it's most basic, you need insight into bottle necks. That means some sort of profiling tool. From there, you start looking at slow things and making decision.

In my experience, those decisions largely come down to a few things:

* Did I miss a basic optimization, like an index on a query, some sort of caching, an N+1, etc, etc. Don't look too deep, here.

* Am I hitting hard limits of my hardware. Memory, CPU, disk throughput, network throughput, etc, etc. If you are, you should ask can I simply add more/bigger servers? If you are small, the answer is almost always "yes".

* Am I doing something really ineffectively? This is similar to point 1, but looks at things a bit more holistically. This might be slow external network requests, a lack of caching, an inefficient join or query. Spend a lot of time here before moving onto the next point. These fixes are almost always easier than architectural changes.

* Do I need to make an architectural change? Look for things poor dependency isolation, spaghetti code (really spaghetti data), and components that can be generalized.
I remember being a kid during peak ADD hype. I was "diagnosed" by a teacher, who recommended drugs, which my father unapologetically told to go fuck herself.

When I have taken aderall as an adult, I find that it is not conducive to mental work. It's fantastic if I need to hammer out a bunch of rote, physical tasks. I can't think about anything complex on it, I can't program on it, because my mind is everwyere.

I do believe wholeheartedly that this new trend in software where everything is constantly broken, overcomplicated, well thought out decisions thrown out for no reason without a second thought (looking at you, side scrolling "open with..." dialog in android) is largely due to people tweaking behind their keyboards.

To get a little woo woo, I remember reading a study about spiders on different drugs and how they spun their webs, and I came to the conclusion our form follows our function, we are what we do, and drugs modify our expression of our very being, and the feedback mechanisms by which we assess that expression. This can be good, bad, there can be tradeoffs, we may understand those or not, but the effect is evident in what we do, in the world we build around us.
I'm not really that interested in cars. We drive a Honda Fit (Jazz for the rest of the world). I was really excited 8+ years ago when Honda said they might do an EV version of the Fit/Jazz - just perfect for my wife and I, combining the great utility of the Fit/Jazz with our preferred power source, all in a reasonable sized and reasonably slick package (incredibly internal visibility also).

Not only has this not happened, Honda have even stopped selling the ICE version of the Fit in the USA. The closest thing to this concept - the Nissan Leaf - has also been discontinued in the N. American marketplace.

Truly pathetic.
That even smart people fall so easily for this sort of propaganda (the article itself, as opposed to its colorful just so stories) is a testament to how bad things are in the West.
Zuckerberg personally ok'ed wiretapping both Amazon and YouTube [pdf]
> Heavy-duty trucks are one of the biggest sources of greenhouse gas emissions for the U.S. transportation sector because they make up a large portion of interstate traffic.

The solution to this is to build trains. Heavy trucks destroy asphalt, which is expensive and carbon-intensive to replace. EV trucks emit pollution in the form of tire dust—microplastics that pollute the air and water.
ADHD damages one's life in way more contexts than just work.
I hope mainstream news cover this so the general population can understand the issue with our software ecoysystems reliance on unpaid open-source maintainers
A previous project I ran had a problem with the application running incredibly slowly. Our dev team was also pretty junior, and it seemed like they’d need a lot of time to find and fix the issue.

Instead of fixing a clearly unscalable app, I chose to throw money at the problem instead. I upgraded the server infrastructure to be way more powerful than it reasonably should have been and spent my handful of sprint points building features for customer feedback.

The product was cancelled a few months later, not having found PMF. I think I made the right call on ignoring scalability, anyone have a different take?
I'm curious as to why? Introduce difficulty to promote some ICE holepunching access to the device?
Especially when a simply cycle turbine plant has a capital cost per kW maybe 5% that of a nuclear plant.
Totally agree. We're a lot closer to sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) than we are to electric airliners.

Another thing to consider is that aviation only accounts for around 2% of global carbon emissions. If SAF ends up being harder to make than expected, it might end up making sense to keep extracting + refining some fossil fuels and mitigate them using some other means (mineralization, perhaps).

Cheap carbon dioxide removal could end up leading to some rather unintuitive outcomes.
Cool. How do I start a unionize my family and how do I get my wife on board.
> By the way, all the stuff you mentioned is not really part of the actual init system, namely PID 1

Except it literally is. I once had a systemd system suddenly refuse to boot (kernel panic because PID1 crashed or so) after a Debian upgrade, which I was able to resolve by... wait for it... making /etc/localtime not be a symlink.

Why does a failure doing something with the timezone make you unable to boot your system? What is it even doing with the timezone? What is failing about it? Who knows, good luck strace'ing PID1!
Was there ever a reason given?
Sean Carroll has some good talks on this. Basically there's two frontiers: intensity and sensitivity.

With intensity going past LHC is looking very difficult but not necessarily impossible. There's been advances in compact linear accelerators that look promising.

With sensitivity we're got a lot of untapped potential to observe high energy particles/physics produced by nature.

I don't mean to trivialize the difficulties but there's reasons to be optimistic about us learning new physics in the coming decades.
> Not exactly "catched" Russia.

It seems fairly obvious that's the goal of this cleverly written piece, and rarely does anyone notice it is mostly persuasion rather than factual information.
Activists cry foul after historic Brooklyn synagogue is demolished
Oh American companies check too. There are things like The Work Number https://theworknumber.com/ that collects and stores employment information. The typical company does perform a background check on applicants.
If I had to guess, I'd say the top words on Reddit would be "actually" or "because" and probably 69
Delicious had the feeds for every tag, I think. It's been a long time, hah. They're definitely nice to have! I have something similar with my HN searches. Although HN doesn't have tags, HNRSS makes it so you can do this.
I'm dying to hear your ideas on how logistics would work in the US without highways.
I think the intention was to place ‘700°C’ within the arrow, like so: -(…)->.
TFA mentions that charging during travel would allow trucks to carry fewer batteries, would would reduce weight and increase range, efficiency, and cargo capacity.

You cannot achieve that by charging your semi at home.
Have you looked at hydrogen prices? when the first hydrogen cars came out it was about $17/kg, and I think last time I looked it was around $33. I think that's a LOT more expensive than gasoline per mile.
A shell script with a few defined arguments is not a complexly interconnected set of components. It's literally the simplest, most core, least-strongly-dependent interconnection that exists in a nix system.

Tell us you never bothered to understand how init worked before drawing a conclusion on it without telling us.
I wouldn't be so dismissive of the overlap. A friend of mine has a math PhD and got a 32 on the Putnam each time he took it, which if you're familiar is proof he's no joke when it comes to math skills. He spent his career as a quant on wall street modeling economic relationships because it paid a lot more than staying pure math.
With all respect you are, indeed, completely mistaken. The license is absolutely and 100% irrelevant, wouldn't matter if it was AGPLv3 or full proprietary or BSD or anything else. Like all copyright licenses, the GPL is a creature of copyright law. Copyright governs derivative works by other people. But the owner of the copyright can derive whatever they want from their own IP. A copyright holder choosing to license their IP under the GPL in no way precludes them from switching to licensing under something else, or indeed to licensing under any number of other licenses (including proprietary) at the exact same time ("dual licensing" is indeed one of the various attempted open source business models) to different people.

Again, they can't do so retroactively, so if they begin by offering software under open source license A and later switch to License B, all the code under A up until the moment of switching to B continues to be licensed under A. So someone can take that as a starting point for a different fork under open source license A, or another one that is compatible. But they won't have a right to any new code done under B if it's incompatible.
Please don't misrepresent what I said. I didn't say you were lying - just that it's not the norm. Most people do not live in a situation where it's a desert with pavement everywhere with deadly heat.