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The book "Gödel, Escher, Bach" is a challenging read, but it highlights some of the magical depth in Bach's music. What he accomplished was very unique and brilliantly complex.
Yes, many, many times. It has always been ruled legal by the higher courts. Even for pre-trial detainees who never even go to trial and who have been falsely accused.
The problem is that even knowing that this likely to happen many companies would still put CrowdStrike into a critical system for the sake of security compliance / audit. And it's not even prioritization of security over reliability because incentives are to care more about check-boxes in the audit report than about the actual security. Looks like almost no party in this tragic incident had a strong incentive to prevent it so it's likely to happen again.
Is there still a bootcamp team? I thought they abandoned that with the shift to Apple silicon
Next up: CrowdStrike Sued for Alleged Negligence.

I hate lawyers, but this is the reason why companies outsource. Why take the blame (and spend the money) when you can blame the vendor?
Mate, you realise you're talking to someone who's lost family members to, and has grown among victims of, trail of tears, state-organised atrocities (from forced labour to hostage-taking) that totally didn't happen, and reservations that we totally didn't have, right? You think those things didn't happen in the former Soviet space? Buy a plane ticket, I'll introduce you to a few hundred survivors who experienced them first-hand so that you can tell them they just imagined it.

Colonial Europe had no shortage of mad dictators that European population suffered at the hands of. Colonising other parts of the world while also hurting one's own people are not mutually incompatible.
If it wasn't for Rambo 4, I wouldn't even know about this conflict, and I'm not entirely ignorant of world events.
The part you are missing is these private phone operators made deals with private prison operators, no government involved.

The government is still to blame for having private prisons. For everything you point out, a prison should not be private because it's a market with a literal set of captives that cannot choose their prison. That incentives the prison to gouge at every turn.
I think a pedant would respond by saying that you actually like engineering and or physics, not math.
Now if only we could see a visualization of what Helion are up to. I'm getting such Agent Moulder vibes from that company.
They’d have rigorous test harnesses, but you can’t really account for the complexities of a highly configurable platform like Windows.
Gravity is the attraction of two objects. Space (which is nothingness) has no gravity. Where you are located in space might have gravitational pull relative to an object.
It depends a lot, many countries do have Prosecutorial discretion (opportunity principle).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosecutorial_discretion
Reading other comments here, sorry I don't have the link, one crowd strike salesperson threatened to cancel them as a Client, yes you read that right, if the client wasn't easier to work with. So they're bullies or at least that one salesperson in crowd strike is a bully.

Another article talked about crowd strike being required for compliance, people here talking about checkbox compliance. So there's a systemic requirement from perhaps insurers for there to be some kind of comprehensive near real-time updated antivirus solution.

Furthermore, the haste makes waste philosophy seems to not be honored, in my opining mind, by the minds who drive The impacted sectors of our economy. Hospitals, Banks, airlines. This kind of vulnerability should not have been accepted. It's a single point of failure. Even on crowdstrike's website they have this kind of like radar ring hotspot Target kind of graphic, where they show at the very center one single client app .. theirs, as if that one single client is the thing that's going to save us?
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"Incidents of this nature do occur in a connected world that is reliant on technology."
- Mike Maddison, CEO, NCC Group

Until I see an explanation of how this got past testing, I will assume negligence. I wasn't directly affected, but it seems every single Windows machine running their software in my org was affected. With a hit rate that high I struggle to believe any testing was done.
How much water per meal? In addition to regular daily H20 needs, it seems like lack of water might kill you before lack of food does.
It’s even worse. The consultants who run the audits (usually business school recent grads) work with other consultants who shill the third party software and implementation work.
You would "just pick the previous kernel from the boot menu". That's funny, cause in this case you could "just delete the file causing the issue." Anything can sound easy and simple if you state it that way.

How do you access the boot menu for a server running in the cloud, which you normally just SSH into (RDP in Windows' case)?

About your last paragraph: we have just started sending out the bitlocker keys to everyone so it can be done by them too. Surely not best practice, but it beats everyone having to line up at the helpdesk.
I buy it. OP's comment struck me as interesting, because the "above 1atm" value turns out to be about 300atm; designing a pressure vessel to sustain a 300atm pressure difference is much more challenging than one to withstand 1atm, which is the case for these balloons. If we assume relative cost cutting due to cultural concerns, then the analogy makes sense.
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> Prisons are for society’s benefit, not for prisoners

It would greatly benefit society to have prisoners be rehabilitated. It's currently just a vicious cycle that produces hardened, repeat offenders that prison companies can make money off, money that comes from tax payers.
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Retribution provides almost no societal benefit. Most of society doesn’t know or care about any individual crime. Rehabilitation of a single member however will benefit all of society, as you can’t predict all possible social interactions of a single person.
> I'm horrified at the thought of tens of thousands of novice Windows users digging through System32 to delete driver files; can someone set my mind at ease and assure me this will eventually be fixed in an automated fashion?

Nope. Both my orgs (+2000 each) have sent out a Google doc to personal emails on using CMD Prompt to delete that file.

Anyone with technical experience is being drafted to get on calls and help people manually delete this file.
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It's really clear that hacker news puts its thumb on the scale of pretty much everything in a pointedly opaque way. It's really easy to see this in action if you go down to the bottom of comments section and you'll notice a bunch of examples of comments that have negative total votes and are older sitting above comments that have positive votes and are newer. Makes me wonder, is hacker news applying global weights to users? If I post on a page, is there some metric I don't get to see that just says "this person starts with an effective -2 votes"?

I have completely lost patience with it. I no longer use the hacker news front page. Try using the hacker news search instead: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=*&dateRange=last24h

This is just the top in the last 24 hours, or you can switch it to last week to catch up. Plus the search is pretty nice and very fast so if you're looking for something specific it's convenient. This sort's explicitly in order of votes and nothing else. It's a lot better.

I'd tolerate all this rank fiddling better if it was transparent as to why things were being sorted the way they are. But that's not going to happen. Make the best of it you can.
From the BBC's cyber correspondent Joe Tidy [1]:

> A "content update" is how it was described. So, it wasn’t a major refresh of the cyber security software. It could have been something as innocuous as the changing of a font or logo on the software design.

He can't be serious, right? Right?

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cnk4jdwp49et?post=asset%3Abd...
Bravo, young one! And to the parent(s) as well for encouraging her in her endeavor.
Although that's funny, the ethical considerations of heterosexual couples on a long space flight are rather important.

No one knows what happens if you get pregnant in space. No one knows what happens to such a baby. (No one's admitted to having sex in space, although it's generally suspected to have happened.) (See https://www.acityonmars.com/ because the book discusses this in more detail.)

Birth control isn't 100% effective. If couples are having sex in space, we have to assume that they will get pregnant. I personally don't like the idea of forcing astronauts to get abortions; but in this case, the unknowns of a fetus developing in 0-g makes it quite a conundrum that makes my brain hurt.
Speaking of security. I got an email yesterday that I need a different system now to log into my social security account. This one:

https://www.id.me/government

It is for social security, taxes, unemployment benefits, whatever. And running under a foreign TLD, .ME for Montenegro. I am not a security specialist. But I think this is asking for trouble.

By the way, do you remember when fuck.yu became fuck.me ?
The medical fees are the worst. Nobody seeks medical treatment because they can either spend the $15 on seeing a nurse to be told their cancer is simply a stomach ache (happened to a friend), or spend it to call their kids on the phone for maybe 20 mins that week.

People hide all sorts of diseases and complaints until they are so sick they have to be forcibly removed -- this way you can avoid the fee.
Actually, they largely pass the money on to their kids.
> measures which had a real-world history of actually working.

Malthusianism?
Oh yeah this definitely seems like a bad idea. Loosely regulated space, ultra confident start-ups running on fumes. What could go wrong?

It's like the cheaper knock off (poorly funded) version (not in a space ship) of going to space vs the well funded rocket based company.
The YouTube video for Vulfpeck's track, Barbara, is interspersed with the interview where he said that quote -- as well as the first take of it where he stumbled through it and then asked to restart from the beginning to reword it better!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npqD602G90o
"white trash"

Gotta love the fact that derogatory terms are generally not ok these days unless it's poor white people.
That still won’t make them understand physics.

This all reminds me of “fixing” mis-architected software by adding extra conditional code for every special case that is discovered to work incorrectly, instead of fixing the architecture (because no one understands it).
Even the most cursory browsing of civitai or genai image generation subreddits shows this to not be true. Focus, bokeh, etc. are all things that can be generated by these models.
Unfortunately, one of these times is at 20, which can be a serious problem for those evading conscription. There have also been recent developments where opposition figures’ passports are cancelled as a persecution measure[1], but it’s too early to tell how widespread it’s going to be.

[1] https://www.currenttime.tv/a/pasporta-rossiyan-za-granitsey-... (in Russian; for reference, Current Time is a US-funded collaboration between Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty and Voice of America)
I was largely joking. Even though the capability is there, it is not computationally practical nor possible to accomplish such a feat for any sufficiently complex programme.

In the most extreme case, attempting to run a complex Prolog programme backwards will result in an increase in entropy levels in the universe to such an extent that it will cause an instant cold (or hot) death of our universe, and life as we know it will perish momentarily (another tongue in cheek joke).
You understand that having doctors and social workers report a specific type of crime to law enforcement is not the same thing, and not even related to the idea, as the idea that law enforcement has to pursue prosecution of crimes they are aware of, right?

Law enforcement has no real obligation to investigate and prosecute crimes that are reported to them. Beyond that, the idea that mandated reporting, which mostly involves medical professionals reporting abuse, is such a big deal is because the default state is that you are under no obligation to report crimes or assist with prosecution of crimes.
Negligence at Crowdstrike is not covered by any SLA. Even if insured, Crowdstrike could be fucked. Let alone, companies going to try and how much cost this has. Long term, their fucked.
Inheritance is just plain a great way to model a lot of relationships, in my experience, because a lot of things are most easily thought of as "x is a kind of y". I am perennially baffled that people shit on inheritance so much, because I think it's incredibly useful. I find myself often missing inheritance when working in Rust, for example.
Also allowed without conviction. Those in county jails who are unconvicted are allowed to be subject to small amounts of slavery the US Supreme Court has previously ruled.
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This spoke to me. I see it as putting tools before ideas.
Yeah, it's been a while since I read it, but I did find it to be a slog.
Zscaler is such insane garbage. Legitimately one of the worst pieces of software I have ever used. If your organization is structurally competent, it will never use Zscaler and will just use wireguard or something.
> That price seems crazy to me. It's "just a balloon" I don't see what their hard costs are that make this more than the cost of a commercial flight.

Answer: exclusivity.

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Or to explain the topic in economic terms: with their offering, these companies offer a given supply for balloon rides into the stratosphere. On the other hand, for a given price for such a ride, a demand to buy it for this price. What a company wants to optimize is

(number of sales for a given price) * price.

Since the supply is currently rather limited, the price can be set to a very high value to optimize this function.
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No you just need to have a Support contract so that you can blame them and/or respond to the users that you have raised a ticket with the vendor.
We’ve found more stuff on Mars by driving over it than I would’ve expected.
I tried to find out how these balloons intend to navigate and descend. I read that World View completed a parachute test earlier this year but I'm not sure if that's intended during normal operation or during an emergency. Details of how each of these companies intend to operate is thin on the ground.
It worked for my Silent Generation dad, but not easily. I don't know if there was ever really a time where this was the norm.
I liked it too. What a jerk that commenter was.
I'm sorry, are you saying something like french bulldogs would have evolved just the same without human intervention? It seems like you are reforming the idea in a really obtuse manner in order to paper over the obvious distinction.
Okay, and how's that been workin' out? What's the old adage about insanity again?
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Cryptographic hashes are not the fastest possible hash, but they are not slow; CPUs have hardware SHA acceleration: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/t... - compared to the likes of a password hash where you want to do a lot of rounds and make checking slow, as a defense against bruteforcing.

That sounds even harder; Windows Authenticode uses SHA1 or SHA256 on partial file bytes, the AV will use its own hash likely on the full file bytes, and you need a malware which matches both - so the AV will think it's legit and Windows will think it's legit.
This looks great! I've been wanting to drop the Swipe keyboard ever since I saw sneaky ads on it (like me typing "Google Maps" and getting "Bing Maps" as a "suggestion").
Yeah I saw that too - I'm sure they meant gerManium, but it's cool to think I could turn my geranium plant into a transistor! Of course, it would be a PNP transistor - Pink N Pretty.
That page is for their home services (e.g. insurance). For energy it's: https://www.britishgas.co.uk/help-and-support/bills-and-paym...

> Savings: Gas and electricity unit rates are lower if you pay by Direct Debit, saving you £100 in comparison to paying when you get your bill.

This is a fairly common discount to receive from energy suppliers, as direct debit payments have reduced administrative overhead compared to payment on receipt.
Disappointing, because it just makes Linux Mint look like every other Linux Desktop with a dock and floating menu bars.

For a distribution that is known to be Windows-like this is a huge step away from that identity and frankly makes LM feel like KDE Plasma.
I'll be interested to hear more about this.
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Poker players typically optimize for making the most money in expectation per hand. Either way, I'm certain that the exploits I've described for players that bluff too much or call too much are correct so I'm not too worried about being slightly off. Poker strategy is about heuristics.
These fines cause people to reoffend to get the money to pay them, as often these fines and fees cause you to be reincarcerated if no payment is made.

Even without reoffending, it stops people reintegrating successfully as it is very hard to get a job after incarceration and people end up having to take cash jobs for way below minimum wage and live in slums just to try to pay off these debts.
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> This suggests that either they overestimated how big the kickbacks they can pay to the prisons were, or the whole business model wasn't actually that lucrative, and providing phone services to prisoners is actually expensive (likely primarily due to the surveillance requirements).

Another option: those in charge extracted too much money from the business too fast, perhaps believing their days are numbered (or perhaps just out of run of the mill greed).
What Zscaler can and will do though is break your network randomly and in strange ways. They don't even seem to charge for that feature!
This one works with Wifi SSID lists I believe. No need for audio.
Picking up pennies in front of a steamroller...
The 1000's of laptops my wife's work uses are bitlockered. I went to fix the issue, when I found that out. I wonder if they will be giving out the keys or if IT will require hands on to those laptops to fix it.... what a shitshow.
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Do me a favor and explain why you think that's a contradiction.
answer to the 2nd and 3rd question is mostly "vastly more computing power available", especially the kind that CUDA introduced a few years back
It's not unfortunate happenstance, it's by definition.

Dynamic dispatch is the defining feature of object-oriented programming. In dynamically typed languages such as Smalltalk, you can get there with duck typing. But a statically typed language needs a statically typed mechanism for dynamic dispatch, and that requires some way of saying, "Y is a particular kind of X, so all members of X are also in Y." Which is - again by definition - inheritance.

You could remove - or refuse to use - the inheritance (or, equivalently for some purposes, duck typing). But that would also prevent the use of dynamic dispatch, so what you're doing would bee be procedural programming, not OOP, even if you're using an object-oriented language to do it.
Our constitution allows slavery if you are imprisoned. So we already have literal modern garden-variety slavery.
Friend of mine had the very same experience lately, when he traveled Moldova. He was in a group, and every other of the group was from some kind of "foreign diplomatic service" :)
If we add it to the standard library it will be for runtime uses (identify the call stack for which swapping in the new implementation or behavior breaks the test). It is pretty simple. You call 'godebug.New' in a global init to get a lookup keyed to a particular setting, and then you look at that setting at runtime. For example take a look at https://go.dev/src/crypto/x509/x509.go#L881 and look at the uses of x509sha1 a few lines later.

You just call x509sha1.Value() and make a decision about old or new behavior based on that. Bisect can then toggle that result based on the hash of the call stack to narrow down the exact path that leads to the critical decision.

You can ignore the IncNonDefault call a few lines later. That's about providing monitoring for whether any non-default (old) behaviors are being executed in a program, so that people can hook it up to something like prometheus and see whether they would be affected by changing to "always default behavior".
Apparently, the earliest versions of Smalltalk as designed by Alan Kay didn't have inheritance. It was only added later on, seemingly in the name of performance:

> After significant revisions which froze some aspects of execution semantics to gain performance (by adopting a Simula-like class inheritance model of execution), Smalltalk-76 was created. This system had a development environment featuring most of the now familiar tools, including a class library code browser/editor. Smalltalk-80 added metaclasses, to help maintain the "everything is an object" (except variables) paradigm by associating properties and behavior with individual classes, and even primitives such as integer and Boolean values (for example, to support different ways to create instances).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smalltalk#History

https://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/989
someone has already found the cause of this problem :)
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When I started doing driver development on MacOS X in the early 2000s, there were a number of questions on the kernel/driver dev mailing lists for darwin from AV vendors implementing kernel extensions. Most of them were embarrassing questions like "Our kernel extension calls out to our user level application, and sometimes the system deadlocks" that made me resolve to never run 3rd party AV on any system.
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RPI - Raspberry Pi (https://www.raspberrypi.com)

CUPS - no longer an acronym, but used to be Common Unix Printing System. (https://www.cups.org/)
They wanted to make it cheaper but investors didn't like Logitech controllers in the cockpit.
This is excellent. Crush the private prisons to dust.
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Ah right, my bad. I was definitely thinking more about b2b.
I actually always hold companies accountable for their actions, whether or not other factors allowed those actions.

They're still price-gouging prisoners because they can. That's still abhorrent behavior.
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