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I do not use any "install.sh" that installs freestanding binaries. All of the ones I use just sets up repositories, and I make sure that the repositories are the correct/legit ones. If I have to install a freestanding binary, I compile it from source and install.

Since all the repositories are signed there must be a big breach to compromise these packages since the infrastructure is generally distributed. Different servers, keys, etc.

> What makes the shell script so special that it must be audited with care...

Because I need to know what changes I'm incorporating into my system(s), and plan accordingly, or prevent any change which is not in line with my system administration principles.

> ...but the binaries are fine?

They are not fine, but they are signed at multiple levels and checksummed, so they are a lower risk.
https://archive.md/MDgHp
> Did you really just suggest passing arbitrary input to your OS filesystem to see if it fails?

Yes? This is what I expect from programs as a user. Whatever input I give them that is intended for the OS, should be passed through to the OS verbatim. There may be some very specific exceptions to that, but that's the general principle.

> You can probably (hopefully?) figure out yourself why this is a bad idea.

I've not seen this after 42 years of coding, sorry.

> Having an additional redundant layer is not a bug,

It can easily turn into a bug where second-guessing the user's OS turns into some kind of hindrance where they are not able to do something they should be able to do.

It's a waste of time coding it.

It erodes consistency. One program in one language/runtime restricts things one way; another one has a slightly different idea.

> Sanitizing your inputs early and knowing why things failed is a good things.

You don't seem to have a fully developed intuition for when this concept applies.

> unless you want them to give you filenames like /root/.ssh/authorized_keys

I've never seen an application that actually has a list of banned filenames like /root/.ssh/authorized_keys and checks every user input against it. It's a complete nonstarter.

If the user wants to tell a program to overwrite /root/.ssh/authorized_keys, the program should just do it.

If the user is not root, that path should not be accessible. If the user is root, it may be allowed to overwrite it even if it has no write permissions. The system security model and configuration has decide that; it's not the application's business to second-guess that policy.
>Before I was born, my father somehow went from a farmboy to a college-educated programmer at a time when programming wasn’t even a “real job” (early 1980s).

Same here, I was a warehouse worker. I took a pay cut for this move, but I loved the work. Little did I know what the future held :)

Very nice read.
I had no idea, thanks for pointing this out! I'm mostly frustrated with the modern usage, usually when used in reference to someone or some entity's behavior. Every time I hear it I want to understand what exactly the issue is.

So if I go back and reread the quote that I had posted, is the critique that the public's tastes are not fixed, and change across geography and time? I'm still not sure what he was really getting at, I guess.
It's not quite as bad as it used to be, various later additions to Vulkan like dynamic rendering have eliminated some of the complexity it originally had. Figuring out which subset you should be using is a challenge in itself though, especially since there's a lot of outdated introductory resources floating around which still promote the ultra-verbose Vulkan 1.0 way of doing things. If a tutorial tells you to use render passes, run away.
> QEMU is a large project and doesn't have much formal design or API documentation.

This is bonkers to me considering how it’s used in industry.
Stupid question, what stops us from doing visible-light binoculars with 1x zoom but an aperture larger than human eye pupil?

I know that regular magnifying binoculars can boost the magnitude for stargazing but is the magnification part necessary?

Edit: Apparently this law does: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etendue#Brightness_theorem
Yes, there won't be as many customers purchasing 150-200 tons of lift, but that's the point of "rideshares". All that really matters with space launches is the cost per kg and if it's capable of lifting multiple payloads into multiple orbits, it'll have 10-15 customers per lift, not one. The current model has a kind of pez-dispenser but for chucking out multiple payloads.

There are purchasers for the full lift capacity too, like ISS modules and major telescopes.
I think many people idealize starting their own company because it means you're not on someone else's chain, though taking on debt and giving out equity constrains that. People want to solve problems and also not have to deal with a dickhead boss
+1 for minimalist footwear. I keep telling anyone who will listen, “isn’t it crazy that we don’t have foot shaped shoes?” And then we wonder why we have bunions, knee pain, and tight hips when we sit sedentary at a desk all day in our not-foot-shaped shoes.

I highly recommend reading The Technological Society by Jacques Ellul. It was written in the ‘60s about how technology influences the direction of humanity and all the unintended consequences that come from that, and how we turn to more technology to solve those problems. It was a very prescient book.
If china's goal is to wipe them out as a people, its more effective to do that quietly.

Having Uyghurs cry for their kins brings international attention. Having them slowly deported to camps and sterialized brings about the same result without that pesky international pressure.
Array as replacement for switch? Maybe for simple cases
Generally speaking it doesn't cost me billions to fix a bug. Hence the question...
The second stage is basically gone, so it seems the new heat shield failed pretty badly, though still better than the previous one.

Congrats on the booster, still an awesome achievement! Still a long way to go, unfortunately.

Edit: seems I was premature in thinking that pieces melting off would mean it exploded. A partial success, ultimately!
There isn't much to be gained from mangled, corroded remains of what used to be ITAR hardware at some point, so nobody really tried it before. All the Apollo engines e.g. are still where they were dropped (unless recovered by the US), because you'd really need to abduct a few of the designers or engineers involved to gain useful insights.
Not everything gets retracted either. There's a surprisingly deep rot in many parts of science. There are strong incentives to publish, and a lot of the methods you can use to inflate statistical significance (i.e. p-hacking) are hard to distinguish from publication bias and other innocent explanations for falling outside of statistical expectations.

Preregistration might help, but it doesn't really address the misaligned incentives that are at the heart of academic fraud.
The path to mastery is nonlinear and fraught with obstacles that extend beyond technical knowledge
I'm not sure that's true. I would bet with Orion its even more. It depends what you consider to be work before launch 1 as launch cost. And we don't really yet know the cost of the EUS.

You can of course get higher if you add development cost as well. But that depends on how many launches there are.
For anyone who has been there more than a couple years back, it's worth checking it out again. They added Gateway: The Deep Space Launch Complex, and have also been expanding the Astronaut Training Experience. The exhibits are all very well done.

The bus tours are also neat, visiting and walking around launch pads from the early days of space exploration, seeing the bunker near a launch pad with ~8" thick glass and the mechanical linkage over a couple hundred feet which let them monitor the weight of the added fuel on an early mission.

I've gone 7 times since I was a child, and love the new things I find.
It's sean, actually.
Copy Mode – Wez's Terminal Emulator
10 Years of Kubernetes
Redirects to google
It's impressive to see the level of detail that goes into creating such a seamless system
> programming wasn’t even a “real job” (early 1980s)

This made me laugh. You young-uns! I earned my first money for programming in 1970. I wrote, in IBM 360 assembly language, a "subroutine" to compute square-root, using a Chebechev polynomial to get a close approximation, and two iterations of Newton's algorithm to get the required precision. I got a job with Control Data Corp (as a COBOL programmer) a year or so later. But the real point of my laugh is that real jobs in programming probably started in the early 1950s.
The six million dollar man adjusted for inflation is a paltry $42M! Plus with advances in technology and medicine, it'll probably cost much less. I wouldn't count on it being covered by insurance though.
This. The claim that ancient lives were brutish and short, is just a hobbesian concept. That he used to strut his shakey theory.
A significant amount of people reached old age even in the middle ages.
Yeah, it's not a replica. Odd choice of words.

It's a different plane that sort of looks like the real Mustang from the outside (and the silhouette is not really identical either).

Cool, I guess, but not a replica.
“It is a form of insurance that one party is not completely fraudulent about their financial situation.”

The credit industry has entered the room.
It slowed down sufficiently and hovered for a moment before splashing down. That was the point of the test.

In the future they'll try catching it.
Even the theoretical legitimate usage is just nothing I ever wanted, certainly not nearly enough to spend the cpu, disk, and attack surface on. The value is microscopic and the cost and risk are not.

I can think of no value in a mass of ocr'd screen shots that is remotely worth the cpu and disk cost of generating them or the security risk of them merely existing anywhere, even if the code to do it was gpl.

And the real problem is not me anyway. I use linux. But not one of my relatives I care about does. They are all going to have these terrible things. I can directly take care of a few of them but not most.

Not to mention just everyone else everywhere.
That's not necessarily true. I recently read Barnabas Calder's Architecture: From Prehistory to Climate Emergency which contains several mentions of the incredible detail architects put into their work- from ancient Greece through mediaeval cathedrals. Details and design which would not have been noticed by any eye but an expert's.

I'll try to look up an exact quote later. But the gist of several passages was that there was an elite or expert community- obviously, or nobody would have been designing buildings like this!

Let's assume for the sake of this discussion that the 7 sites are deliberately aligned by somebody. They would presumably be a powerful elite, and would be doing it to impress other powerful elites.
Oh and the last one "Stella Maris monastery" is not at all connected with St Michael, which the wikipedia article acknowledges. It's just somewhat near a mountain that is in a biblical story with St Michael. "Stella Maris" means "Star of the Sea" and actually refers to Mary.[1]

[1] https://epicpew.com/hail-bright-star-ocean-ave-stella-maris/ (worth noting that this source is some sort of Catholic thing and is written in what the Wikipedia banners on some articles used to refer to as an "in-universe style")
By "people", do you mean "Western mainstream media audiences"? Yeah, that would be extremely difficult. So long as there are no in-their-face consequences (say, the price of gasoline spiking upwards), and no too-obvious "why this is their fault" narratives - the great majority of Westerners really don't care about horrors happening far far away, to people who look quite different from them.

Yes, you could call the 1993 intervention in Somalia an exception. But note both the context - trends in World Events were looking very utopian back then, vs. now - and just how badly that Western intervention turned out.

With "ordinary person" resources, I'd suggest that you start by trying to document & organize the historical facts about what's happening. That at least improves the records of the tragedy, and of the people and things being lost. While helping you network with other people who really care. And perhaps, just perhaps, that can grow into some real improvement in things. And hopefully the history that you help document can be more than a thin comfort to the survivors and boon to future historians. Try to make it both an easy & authoritative resource for any mainstream Western journalists & activists who get interested, and also useful to any mostly-well-intended Western leaders who want to Do Something. Hopefully without botching it again.
btw this is true for historical arguments, but actual size of workable shared vocabulary in common use is tiny - famously "手紙(hand paper)" means postal letters in Japanese, and toilet paper in Chinese.
My son saw a Don Hertzfeldt animation on the large screen and was struck (again. we had theater'd on it's release.) by how much more immersive and piercing it was on a large screen.

This is say that smaller (and less defined) television screens diminish on their own, compared to richer alternatives.

Not criticizing small video, just endorsing the more enveloping mediums.
European Central Bank cuts interest rates 0.25% to 3.75%
IIRC, James Lovelock as part of his Gaia Hypothesis argues that the price of energy is the fundamental input in how much “work” we can do, and subsequently causes both economic growth and environmental impact, because we do more stuff. The Industrial Revolution was a step change in how much work we could do, and stuff we could create.

Looking forward then, something like solving nuclear fusion might unlock a new Industrial Revolution, and hence cause an environmental disaster, because we will be able to do a massively increased amount of “work” for less cost. So more infra, more building, more production.

Ergo, clean energy is perhaps not the answer to a clean world. The only green future is one with “expensive” energy.
Nope.

Even if I had the ability to do so, what good would it do me? What good would it do anyone? There’s literally no way I would be able to impact its mutation rate.

I’m going to keep writing software and raising my family.
The author cites this page, which refers to them as ’sites’. I suspect English isn’t their first language, and they’ve missed some nuance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Michael's_line
What are you seeing as the drivers of those diseconomies of scale? That might help me better answer the question.

Again, though, I think it’s an error to treat each country as if it’s interchangeable. In other words, we need to understand the systemic causes of those costs to understand the impact as it relates to other nations.

In the above example with Medicare, the cause is due to negotiating power through volume. So it’s pretty clear that scale matters there.
Can be expensive.

Ours was about £500, 25+ years ago. Still together now.
That number alone doesn't say much. Yes it sounds like a lot in absolute terms, but consider that four million papers were published in 2023 alone, and a bit less than 70 millions since 1996 [1].

[1] https://www.scimagojr.com/worldreport.php
Drone ship was never the plan for this launch. They simulated a soft landing over the Indian ocean, which appeared to go relatively well.
Very cool idea, just playing around with the beta now. Would lend itself well for Blockchain application. Did you consider this?
They are still getting telemetry at this very moment, it looks like they landed it.

My question: is the US Navy going to blow up this largely intact Starship, or are we just going to leave it on the floor of the Indian Ocean for another country to find?

Actually, it's probably just floating there at this moment.
3D Math Primer for Graphics and Game Development (2011)
Thank you! Also, everything explained in the article is pretty much here: https://github.com/eliasdaler/edbr
I see. Except Medicare isn’t currently an option for most people employed. I think there are some benefits to employer sponsered healthcare, particularly with large employers who can negotiate lower prices. But I’m not sure it’s better on balance.
Wake me up when those industry users want to pay somebody to improve the developer documentation :-)
The extra interesting wrinkle here is that each of the Burger Kings in the straight line are associated with an appearance of the Burger King himself explicitly asking for a shrine in the location, while the others are mostly random franchises stuck up by someone who decided they would like a fast food restaurant here and it might as well be a Burger King.

(i. e. Mont Saint Michele the bishop who saw St. Michael originally refused to construct the shrine because he wasn't sure of the veracity of the vision. It was only after he was wounded by St. Michael's sword and the wound refused to heal that he went to establish the shrine. And only then did the wound closed up.)

Make of that what you will.
I think it's fitting that the parent poster used supermarkets. They're a relatively recent thing and often seen as lower quality. In my country it's still relatively common for people to forage for mushrooms and berries in the forests. There's no regulatory oversight over that, but people are still fine.

Supermarkets and this kind of regulation hasn't necessarily stood the test of time. It's hard to say if it will considering how every system that gets built seems to slowly get corrupted or bent in somebody's favor.
I sense this being export controlled technology.

nVG's are expensive, and if you want a system that combines the infrared heat spectrum overplayed with nvg's your going to pay an arm and a leg.
It does have EAC, but I don't think it's as aggressively enforced as some games since people are still able to run it on Linux.

There's a Linux Users Group that would know much more about it than I do.

https://robertsspaceindustries.com/orgs/LUG
Eventually it will get cheap enough to where people can be buried on the (shot at the) moon.
Also a lot of the IR spectrum is absorbed by water, so it wouldn't pass through the eyeball.
I mean I feel like Java evolving has really eaten into Groovy. It used to offer so much more that Java 5, but over time it's value-add has diminished as Java has picked up features. It is essential for the language to stay relevant and not fracture as people pick different more productive languages.
Yeah, that's my experience too. It's a fun diversion but given the output is ostensibly precisely quantised it's irritatingly glitchy
There are quite a few screenshots in the article.
You are doing research, it’s just the first stage of it. From a computer vision perspective, the steps are

1) pick up a topic
2) do a literature review
3) establish a baseline and state of the art
4) improve upon model until you beat state of the art or find something interesting and unusual
5) publish
There are a lot of products. Mistakes are a statical certainty at this scale, and regular recalls are a sign the system is working, at least to an extent (I'd say it works quite well, safety-wise).

Interesting choice wrt. bio foods. I'm the opposite: I don't trust organic/bio food at all. There is a lot of vanity products clearly meant to pay more to make yourself feel you're choosing a healthier alternative. Plus, I trust the established industrial processes more - they're thoroughly regulated and tested. A devil I know. Bio/organic stuff, who knows what they're doing - and what poisons they're spraying on their produce, that let you keep "organic" label but are otherwise more toxic than industrial pesticides.
Why is housing so much cheaper in Houston than Los Angeles, then?
I can only wonder not about the robot's speed but...

What's that cube made of to widthstand being solved in 0.3 seconds?
I'm trying to think of a reason not to just drop a microSD card in the mail addressed to the journo. Are we going to do better than physical media delivery? The only way to be found out would be some sort of surveillance of the mailbox or your fingerprints/DNA, which you could be careful with.
how many of those things are there?
Next your rate will be higher by default if you have an older car that doesn't provide any data.
I upvoted for the link, which is useful to me, but I'm not sure this means Steam and all of those games will be able to run on Asahi/M1.
What the hell, half melted starship actually did the landing flip and hit the ocean slow!!!

That was amazing!
Can you give any information on what he advocates?

I wonder if the difference could be that the policies that he advocate would require bought and paid for politicians to act while squatting is something that an individual can do?
Crowdfunding app built using just Flask, Jinja and SQLite
I feel like comparing just to china is an unconvincing argument.

I think a more reasonable argument would be number of resolutions relative to the behavior in question and the types of behavior that are criticized.

Israel has basically been condemed more times than all the other countries combined. At the same time while Israel is not perfect there are objectively much worse countries out there. There are countries ot there where citizens have no civil rights, there are countries where slavery is effectively still a thing, etc. It seems impossible to explain this disparity of attention except by politicization and bias.

Second the behavior criticized often seems quite minor compared to things in other countries the human rights council is silent about. For example, in 2018 Israel was condemed for allowing people in the golan heights to vote in municipal elections. The argument goes that since that should be syrian territory, its wrong to treat the people there like citizens. Without getting into the pros and cons of whether that is right or wrong, it seems crazy that given all the terrible human rights abuses in the world, extending voting rights to people is what the human rights council is trying to stop.
I don't think that's really true. Google has had pretty serious privacy guards in place, where if you don't want Google to collect info on you (for advertising), they won't.

Also, lots of people use other email services than Gmail, don't share their location information, don't share their photo roll nor share their internet history with Google. And a lot of video viewing is obviously not done on YouTube.
IT DIDN'T! Both pieces had not exploded!
You probably don't play TF2. It's not just "human behind the kb/m using an aim assist cheat".

It's literally bots/non-human players that stare at the sky and beeline to either the objective or a predefined path. They usually spam music over in-game chat and there is simply zero plausible deniability that this player in the game is a bot. They usually come into a game, and then invite other instances of the bot to the same game, to prevent them from getting kicked (which requires 6 "yes" responses from the same team) and to kick other players from the game. These are the vast majority of bots/cheaters that you see in the game, and they are the primary reason that "casual" matchmaking is sometimes unplayable.

"real" players that are cheating in the game with some kind of aim assist, but it's still a human behind the wheel, are relatively easy to detect and spectate if you're on their team. They typically get noticed and kicked
> That is to say: it is a problem (the 500 - 1000 cases per year nationwide of occupation of people's homes is clearly problematic) but it's not a really widespread problem for most middle-class people (the vast majority of people even in the middle classes do not own totally unused property).

I don’t understand the point of trying to downplay or diminish this problem.

Is dividing the victims along arbitrary class lines and arguing that most victims are not “middle class” supposed to make it better? It’s a problem regardless of who owns the property.
Starship made it through re-entry, did its first ever landing burn