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>all sorts of unhealthy behavior

How we know of that unhealthiness? Because some people have explored those options, and we learned the result. One can say those people did public service for our species.

>People use youth to excuse

You're either doing strawman by substituting excuse for explanation, or you're arguing against evolution and natural selection which placed the peak of exploration/exploitation behaviors ratio at the youth time, be it our species or say wolves or cats, etc. I think there are a lot of good reasons why that peak is at the youth time.

>Some of my friends smoked cigarettes but most of us didn't because why would we harm ourselves on purpose like that?

Well, cigarettes is established harm. Took decades of years and millions of people, and as result we call it an obvious harm today. It looks though to me that there are greater harm out there which can be observed these days - the more and more suppressed exploration instinct which over the generations will result in tremendous negative impact on our civilization, and bringing it back wouldn't be so easy as say quiting smoking (did it myself 22 years ago after a decade of pack-a-day smoking)
I play e5, Archangel (6 Bc5) is fun in the spanish, ofc you're taking the risk of white playing an italian and you falling asleep...
Kagi's images are an entirely different set for me.
These are already widely known as register machines [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Register_machine
And here we can see how their electricity generation has fallen

https://energy-charts.info/charts/energy/chart.htm?l=en&c=DE...
my feeling is that it's a "badge" book and by that i mean, you wear it as a badge in order to signal your fluency in pro/anti objectivism conversations. conversations about it remind me of my post-high school experiences with peers while discussing movies. people always chose apocalypse now, the crying game, or the usual suspects as the "best movie in recent memory" and the reasoning was generally because they wanted to appear thoughtful/cerebral, but edgy, but also down with a little popcorn movie violence or other human vice. it was a signal, not a preference.

as such, i found atlas shrugged to be a dull, self-indulgent thought piece that was aesthetically and technically unappealing. however, it is an important work that has influence on philosophies of human politics.

but that's just, like, my opinion, man
External "Secrets management services" are among the most attractive hacking targets. It is beyond me why you would have full trust in those.
Google also routinely removes AI suggestions for searches that produce embarrassing results (you don't get them for searches about keeping cheese on your pizza anymore, for example), so it's even harder to validate once a result goes viral.
> I hear most loudly from software engineers far removed from ordinary non-technical end users

I am absolutely not far removed from non-technical end users. They are my client base, ultimately. As a freelancer I focus on building real things that make things better for people whose faces and voices I get to know. GenAI will be useless to them, because it is antithetical to what they do.

And that focus is only getting keener; I want nothing to do with the AI-generated web.
SRE here, most of time when that happens, it's people leaving .env in git where it's not ignored and build process just does COPY * * to runtime environment.

EDIT: Or it's just small time developers who don't care about security and ship whatever works.
Did they care over the past 10 years where they decimated social lives, city night life, and humanity? https://sherwood.news/world/still-searching-for-that-connect...
Trying to be private ironically just going to make it worse and make you stand out. Using a non-default OS, non-default browser, custom settings/blocklists will just make your fingerprint more unique.

I use an android phone but just don't use any other google services - no search, no gmail, no default apps. I do most browsing in tor-browser, so google ads won't correlate with me.
Licensing can be joyful (and legally dubious)
Searching for connection: Loneliness is a growing problem
the problem with that is not the payment, it's that you will only be sharing it with people similarly willing to pay for a walled garden. I'm guessing most of what we're nostalgic for was created by people who wouldn't be up for that
Kind of like how the Internet worked pre-Google.
Is uBlock Origin simply suppressing the pop ups / cookie banners or does it have similar logic as DDG to auto select the most privacy friendly option?

(Not sure if this actually matters in practice, but I'm sure lawyers would have ideas about what one or the other implies legally...)
"Show me the incentive and I'll show you the outcome."

--Charlie Munger
Fair. It's a bit of a bait post.

But the OP did say by any metric of "best".

And I did post three of my favorites at the end, too!
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Can you summarize what kind of responses you get? I'd like to believe I'd quickly figure out this too-on-the-nose response wasn't serious and it'd lead to a laugh and more interesting discussion
I absolutely second Project Hail Mary. It's been the only sci-fi book in years to have me glued to the pages.
I did start initially with something like this, but then i sort of stumbled upon `chess-tui` and I was mostly trying to see if i can build something similar.

The first version was chess notation based movement. I got some initial feedback that it's probably not very useful. I still understand that most people would probably use chess.com or some other chess app if they want a full blown graphical experience and with terminal there are many limitations at play which would limit a full experience for such folks. But there is hopefully more interesting things that can be added to this such as your suggestions for viewing games that will make it more useful.
Inbox AI is a MacOS app to manage email and automate everyday tasks with custom ai-powered workflows and voice commands. Use the cloud or privacy-first on-device AI. It connects natively with Apple Reminders, and integrates with any app you want through API or file based commands.
Interestingly, there’s a word in Spanish for people from the USA that’s “Estadounidense”, literally “Unitedstatian” which is widely used (at least in Spain)

I find it a fascinating word and a way of precisely naming to keep the “American” word to be more broadly applicable, at least in theory
I bet many .envs have been mistakenly shipped to production.

I will continue to use .envs. The alternatives invoke much more friction.
I've seen an AI yearbook photos styled app print money that was serverless.

There's lots of novelty apps atm that, as the other commented stated, just want to get to market as soon as possible to validate an idea
Common Sense Password Rules
It's impressive at first until you realise they're practically ad libbing a script. They're filled with all the same annoying American clichés ("you know me, I like x", your aforementioned "a game changer", plenty of "wow"). It would be impossible to listen to two in a row without realising how repetitive it is.
Tried GoLang and also used Phoenix for a massive project which went well. But we had problems onboarding new folks into it and some junior and even senior engineers went bonkers trying to get their heads around FP and the elixir language in general. I would say it worked great for me, but the problems and the curve of learning for others in my team made it feel like Elixir creates that gap for teams in general.

Go is good, but again I only tried it long ago and can't comment it for what it is today. I loved Ruby but I find it hard to go back to it after my experience with Elixir and Typescript. I was hoping for Crystal to go to great lengths but it doesn't seem to be the case at all.
A big difference is that caffeine isn't addictive. It may seem like it, and you do get a few headaches when you quit cold turkey, but you just don't get the intense graving you get with addictions.
> I think you're dismissing the people such as myself that would note you as an idiot without comment and move on wanting nothing to do with you.

Sounds to me like you failed the test.
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Very interesting: maybe it could have been something else in the sodas? Alternatively, the quality of the amazon supplement might not have been great (unless you tried from multiple sources)
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey.

No other book has made as significant a difference in both my personal and professional life. Concepts like the emotional bank account and seeking first to understand (then to be understood) have been the key things that have helped me find a partner, develop a relationship with her, and develop a great career where I'm given a lot of autonomy and trust to solve problems in my own way.

I find myself teaching concepts from the book to coworkers while mentoring them through work-related interpersonal problems and without fail they come back ecstatic about what a difference it made in their work relationships.

I genuinely can't recommend it highly enough.
Absolutely, it is very impressive that it has been preserved for so long. (Since we humans tend to destroy stuff…) And it is the book that is most printed and distributed around the world. Plus available in the most languages of all books. That alone makes it the best book.
Here, let me boil it all down for you. Basically, you can determine if it's safe to store secrets in a given place by feeding it to this Python function, which will return True if it's safe and False if it is not:

def canIStoreMySecretsHere(location):
return False

Basically, for any location you might store a secret, a hacker might get access to it. Therefore, it is not safe there.

You might think I'm being sarcastic, but... perhaps less than you'd think. It has often seemed to me that secret management is a game of temporal arbitrage, where you stick them in some new sort of place and just pretend that that new place must be secure, until you realize some time later it is not, and then you stick it in a new place, a new "secrets manager" that is safe, until that gets popped, then you stick it somewhere else....

(Note this is about symmetric secrets, and things like passwords. Asymmetric things admit more interesting possibilities of bundling some computation with the storage with things like secure enclaves. One can debate the physical security of a secure enclave, but assuming its software is correctly implemented, a secret store where there simply is no API in theory or in practice to extract the secret back out is an actual improvement in secret storage that I am not sarcastic about.)
Did you even read the article? Label every article like labeling a diode is not something worth published here as comments.
> Much of the original development will have had changes in requirements, refactors because of better understanding the problem domain, best structure for the code etc.

Having written services in the Google style for years at a major fintech surrounded by Xoogler peers, systems design starts with a design document. You capture requirements upfront and solicit buy-in from the stakeholders. It's nothing at all like what you describe. You design the API and systems upfront without code (apart from capacity testing) and actual implementation happens quickly.

If iteration time was some "gotcha", Google would have made that footnote. That's not really how service development works in companies of this scale.

Translation time from design document to service is the same for Golang and Rust.
They're more likely to solve it so that you can't tell the baby peacocks are AI-generated
The cost to write and debug multithreaded code is high and not limited to the area you use it. And for all that you get a 2-8x speed up.

So if you care about performance why are you writing that part in python?

> multi-core CPUs we're commonly running it on today.

If you spawn processes to do work you get multi core for free. Think of the whole system, not just your program.
The best part of the monologue is in-universe, it supposedly takes 3 hours, but everyone on YouTube takes 4-5 hours, which means John Galt was speaking at 1.5x speed.

Honestly Ayn Rand's sexual politics are more interesting than her economic politics. The books are mostly about masculinity and its definition. The ideal men in her books are immutable flawless beings, and the (good) women learn to define themselves by dating progressively better men.

In Atlas Shrugged, Dagny goes from Francisco d'Anconia (no ambition playboy) to Hank Rearden (ambitious steel magnate that's a slave to the state) to John Galt (genius that refuses to compromise on anything). Dagny achieves fulfillment by collecting personality traits from the people she dates—which ultimately leads to her realization she is the one responsible for her own self-actualization (kind of contradictory lol).

The Fountainhead engages with this more, because the conformist Keating is portrayed as more harmful than the physically abusive Roark.

I'm convinced Ayn Rand defined the "sigma male" and she'll get no credit for it as a woman. She engages with the concept much more than the manosphere, because her sigma males end up poor, homeless, and societally unsuccessful because of their inability to compromise.

Contrast the dream sold to young men on social media, which is "not compromising on anything will make you rich and attractive!"

I don't agree with Rand's value system but she accurately describes what happens to people that hate compromise. The only reason why one would be a sigma is if one prioritizes "being right" over every other aspect of one's life.
i'm from the united states of america, mid 50s, and i always thought it's pretty random "america" implies the united states too.
How can that ever work in a world filled with people that are eager to lie to you?
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> They are never about when a train is actually expected to arrive

Maybe I'm way beyond my expertise, but isn't the train schedules when the train will leave, rather than when it arrives? I've arrived early at train stations many times with my train already being there, idling, and then it leaves on the scheduled time.

Except I guess during delays in the UK when they announce when the train arrives?

> the train will never come earlier than advertisted

This part kind of makes your comment sound like it's not about delays but about the schedules, which I feel like are the departure time, not the arrival time of the train.
Every book is unique, but they all share his unique philosophy and wit. Highly recommend any of his works. The more you read of discworld the more of a world it will build, but none are so highly coupled that they can't be read independently.
The comment is an interesting but very cookie cutter sort of vamp and drama. The comment trades in a bunch of generalization, much like yours, and you know, generalization doesn't feel good when it directly attacks you.

I don't sincerely believe that people who are working on Kubernetes features or observability tools are bad people. Do high drama personalities who engage in a mode of discourse of "wow" and "shockingly" say valid things too? Yeah. But it's as simple as, log in your own eye before you worry about the thorns in others. Exceptionally ironic because the poster is vamping about "Attribution errors." Another POV is, shysters project.
Yep, no pricing on the home page (or contact details) is an immediate turn off. And no local storage option?

What on earth makes you think that people will trust an absolutely unknown Indian based startup working out of serviced office space with their private data? Really? That's the definition of optimism. :)

Sorry to be harsh, but you're on an uphill battle unless you can deliver much much more trust credentials or remove the insecurity.
> A big difference is that caffeine isn't addictive. It may seem like it, and you do get a few headaches when you quit cold turkey, but you just don't get the intense graving you get with addictions.

I'm curious what definition of "addiction" you're using to arrive at the conclusion that caffeine isn't addictive.
This article has about as much insight as I would expect from a "nodejs-security.com" article.

This article spends a good deal of time conflating two things: putting stuff in .env and using environment variables.

The application-parsed .env file is one of the most poorly thought-through ideas that has taken hold in modern application development. It takes something you can do in literally a couple lines of shell (as a container entrypoint) and adds a bunch of complexity for something that is actually just worse.

In local dev scenarios, app-parsed .env files suck because you often end up with some kind of dev-specific secret that you don't want committed to the app repo. In my experience this means developers figure out how to pass a .env file around.

If you use an actual shell instead, the local-dev .env can shell out to something like the AWS CLI to get secrets from parameter store. Or you could grab them from Hashicorp Vault if you run that.

And because a shell fetches it at run time, secret updates are seamless and properly access-controlled in one spot.

In proper deployment scenarios, .env sucks because your deployment system (container orchestrator, Lambda, etc) will need to set those values appropriately for their current environment anyway. And by having a .env file the app loads, now you have two places for configuration.

Applications simply should not have any involvement in setting values for their own environment variables. They are typically used for core infrastructure-level configuration. The source of truth for this is probably going to be available via something like Terraform. So the application should ultimately inherit they configuration through Terraform.

Additionally, this article is simply wrong on environment variables being readable by any user on a Linux system. On Linux, a process's environment can be read by the superuser and the user who owns the process. That's it.
yes pretty much or at least a wanna be one.

Who start reading "mein kampf" beside scholar anyway?
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin

She was a great visionary and turned the Science Fiction genre upside down. This book is a thought provoking story; an "An Ambiguous Utopia" (this is the subtitle of the book. It really makes you think but also a mocking glass for our society.
Close second is The Left Hand of Darkness from the same author.
There was some trouble in scaling unicode text within the layout. Unfortunately increasing `font-size` is not trivial within the context of terminal. There are some ways around this , but i figured out that it's far more easier to render chess pieces as pixel images using `rich-pixels` [1]

[1] https://github.com/darrenburns/rich-pixels
The nightmare scenario is that the money is not handed out equally to all candidates.

If corrupt incumbent politicians have complete control of the finances of an election, how could they be held accountable? Anyone wanting to run against them on this issue would simply be denied the money to do so.
systemd 247+ now discourages using env vars for secrets, because there are the LoadCredential and related options that are much more secure, with better isolation and encryption features.

https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/syst...
Looks amazing relative to the ~$80 "mario kart racer" cars they sell to kids... and are just as cheap and disappointing as you can imagine
> In this context this could mean that the tb_technical really cares about avoiding people with extreme viewpoints, even if that means missing a few people they might get along with.

That's a defensible idea. Making friends with the wrong people can really mess up your life.

And yet, I keep reading about this epidemic of loneliness...
I am reading it right now. I will leave this thread to avoid any spoil.
Solid Snake really should end up in the python world.
> Do you know if they continuously over order or it's rare?

No idea, but such would not matter. So long as their estimate of future demand was much larger than the actual demand, they will build up a backlog of stored tests whether they bought all at once, or contracted for an even delivery over a given fiscal year. And until they 1) down estimate the future demand to order less on future contracts and 2) use up the backlog built up by the over estimate, the end result will be what you saw, a test that has aged in a warehouse somewhere for much of its claimed "lifetime".

> Any links to this type of information would be appreciated.

None likely exist. You might be able to glean some insights if you can determine 1) which sub-component of which agency handles the procurement of the tests and 2) can find the procurement contracts that were the purchase vehicles. Number 2 is, sadly, potentially likely to end up requiring FOIA requests to locate.
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15 years ago I had a colleague who was obsessed with Ayn Rand. I didn't know anything about Ayn Rand and her philosophies. I was/am good friends with that person.

Fast-forward a decade and I know who Ayn Rand is and her philosophies. I know generally what type of people adhere to her philosophies and they are the opposite of who I would normally associate myself with.

My opinion of my friend has not changed now that I am more familiar with Ayn Rand. It provides additional background for some of the values that my friend has, but does not change who that person is or my ability to be friends with them.

I think that a lot of times it is easy to distance yourself from someone who has opposite beliefs from you, but at the end of the day, I don't think that is the only criteria in determining if someone is worth associating with.
Chess speaks for itself :-D
This is the way to real trust between customer and provider. Enabling your customers with real info that can drive their decision making tells them you care more about how they're feeling the impact than how your reputation might be hurt.
Ulysses feels more like Joyce showing off his command of the written word and extensive vocabulary - of which both are greater than any other writer I've read - than it feels like a novel meant to tell the reader a good story.

In that sense, the novel wasn't particularly entertaining. If he could choose between a well known word for something and a very obscure word for something, it was always the latter. The same goes for sentence structure.

As a way to show off literary skill though, there's nothing else that comes close.
What else can they do?
I mean it would you just have to put different optics on it thermal, near infrared and normal, and have three different detection neural nets
Unfortunately your comment is doing the same thing, just at a different level—something like this:

- I am a thoughtful technologist, building real things for real people, concerned about others and the social impact of my work;

- they are greedy and ignorant, destroying society for short-term personal gain, no matter what the consequences.

It's human nature to put badness on an abstract them, but we don't get anywhere that way. It's good for getting agreement (e.g. upvotes), because we all put ourselves in that sweet I bucket and participate in the down-with-them feeling. But it only leads to more of what everyone decries.
I would just assume there's a cloud provider that handles all of the wiretapping services for both or all carriers. There's a single-point-of-failure for everything else nowadays anyway. Look at what happened with Crowdstrike, or Solarwinds, or any number of other big single-source providers. Nobody wants to maintain it in house, with predictable results.
My take is that he's still a successful lawmaker, it's just that he is more successful implementing his agenda with amendments rather than standalone bills.