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> The reason I inquired for your intentions regarding Mr Cook's backside is that in all these comments, you sound exactly like Steve Jobs shouting down his dictation.

Not in the least.

I said I don't care in response to your saying I could but an alternate phone. That's not an argument in response to what I said, it's a red herring, a distraction, a whataboutism, and a completely irrelevant point. That's why I said I don't care, and why you asking "what I was going to do about it, kick Cook's ass" is just silly and irrelevant.

You mentioned Cook's ass because you lost track of the context of the conversation and didn't have any actual argument. Aside from the one you cut short to drink beer that I didn't get to see, I guess.
All alliances are deals, especially to the current administration.
As I said in anothercomment, using available data in itself can be seen with suspicion. With freely available data you can build a nuclear reactor (if very capable), or buy fertilizer and build a bomb. Chances are, fbi will knock at your door and ask what you're doing. The same way, an agency gathering lot of public available data regarding sensitive infrastructure can be assumed to misuse the data for shady purposes, given the agency isn't exactly one you can trust
Oh boy, do I hate Azure with a passion.

I am part of a team building an automation tool for cloud provider creation of Projects/Accounts/Subscriptions (depending on provider). Our primary provider is GCP, and implementing that was fairly easy. Some gotchas, but easily surmountable.

Now we have gone multicloud to Azure and we need to add support (We were historically on AWS but moved 95% off, we still have some teams on there but we rarely build tools for it outside of Terraform modules). And the Azure API, MS Graph API and Go SDKs for bith are the biggest piles of trash I have ever worked with. Everything is a pointer, even string literals need to be made pointers, but sometimes they aren't....

Documentation is in accurate. Some apis take just the ID, others take a full path. Some of it is documented, many apis have the wrong one documented.

None of the APIs return related resources IDs, you have to search for all of it. So many name based searches. I had to add a caching layer for IDs during creation so I didn't have to lookup the same resource over and over (we use a state machine for creation and it can be resumed midway and other fun things, so we need a lot of checks and resume based code.

Overall it is the worst designed and implemented cloud provider. I would never recommend or choose it if given the power.
No, it really doesn't. The people advocating for this limitation are the ones that need to justify it.
That is what current US administration hope, but it is a bluff from the russia at least.

They view US as weak now, and will not stop until it is collapses on itself.
I guess it would end up like usual: "They are fake news. They are created with AI. Everybody can do it. My dog can do it. They just hate America. Bad people. They want to hurt our great country[…]"
And his radicalized voters will follow him, like it did not end Berlusconi career after the "bunga-bunga" scandal
That was done carefully with planning over six years through hiring freezes, retirement offers, and announced layoffs:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/02/21/clin...

Not random shotgun immediate firings. Your weather forecasts are about to become less accurate because of some of these firings and planned improvements in them are not going to happen:

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/01/weather/noaa-weather-forecast...

Go ask a farmer or pilot how much they depend on weather forecasts.
Yup, that's what I was talking about, it's not happening in a vacuum, it's concerning given the context
I remember the anti-interventionist Democrats of the 80s and 90s quite well. They criticized military adventures but never suggested dismantling NATO, abandoning treaty allies, or praising dictators while undermining their own intelligence agencies.

Funny how this "anti-interventionism" only applies to defending democracies against Russian aggression, but not to inserting troops into cities to confront protesters or threatening military action against political opponents.

The neocons accused the left of being soft. They never had evidence of infrastructure data being leaked while presidential rhetoric perfectly aligned with a specific foreign power's strategic objectives.

But please, continue your historical revisionism. It's fascinating how "America First" now means "Russia's interests first."
I thought debugging RAD software was a pain.
Yes, there are a variety of methods that could work. It should be seriously studied to see what works best.

I hadn't thought about remote work and you're right. It's an excellent solution, at least for the jobs that don't require presence. I don't think politicians necessarily need to do much for remote work to be successful, as long as they don't block it. It is very attractive to employees, because commuting is terrible, and I have seen a lot of pressure in companies to allow remote working. Hopefully it will be more widely adopted in the future.
I believe that, since a recent fire, there is currently only one company that can electroform the masters necessary for mass pressing of records, as opposed to cutting them one at a time. Despite this "craze" we're closer to losing the technology of pressing phonograph records than we've been since it was invented.
JavaScript Fatigue Strikes Back
> Sharing things like this isn't very useful because it just causes further divides.

Perhaps creating division is the point:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerationism
> ...not being able to use his native language

Which is ... Russian? Should have aligned himself with the Kremlin, like Lukashenko, if rhetoric/language mattered more for diplomacy and politics.

> toxic tactics that they can get away with because of the power position they hold

True. No matter the language such situations are bound to happen amidst power struggle.
Yeah no I'm not saying that that is necessary ok, but that we should consider making a deal with Russia instead of just continuing the war.
I have written some single threaded non-simd c++ code for this :
https://gist.github.com/unrealwill/d1bc68d1f5c7ee6fe72b76dc5...

When there are 14 matches, there are 3^14 = 4782969 different possible results and the same number of different possible bets.

Summing naively a single expectation takes 0.1s
Summing on the hamming neighborhood to compute a single expectation takes 7.6e-5s,

Computing all expectation values and computing the maximum takes 153s (with g++9 but 390s with g++-10 (I don't know why)).

I am not sure whether or not I used the same trick as you. Here are the tricks I use : when probabilities sum to one, the number of iteration to compute a single expectation is not dependent of the number of possible results for a match, because the sum can be factored by grouping all negative results for a single event together by applying the weight as 1-proba.

Some tricks used are representing the result for the 14 matches as a single int32_t and working in base 3. It can probably be even faster, if you work in base 4 instead and replace integer division by bit shifts.

Iterating and in particular iterating combination is excruciatingly slow in python even when using itertools. So do yourself a favor, and write c++ code for these kind of things so that you don't have to have memory allocations inside loops.
Averages hide extremes. In this case it hides how much poorer the poor got and richer the rich got. America is not "rich" in a way that benefits the middle class.
Because we found something to addd on to each of them.

Oil - nuclear power - renewable energy
Lumber - is renewable
Plastics - use less (packaging) and more renewables - but yea this is limited and we need all oil for this. Also recycling.
Steel - recycling
Human labour - animal power - engines - for thought - computers then AI?
Electricity - renewables - fission.

There is a lot of leeway if we don't waste the resources and ingenuity and discoveries have made it a non zero-sum game.
I am on Debian Firefox 135.0.1 and https://no-sct.badssl.com/ doesn't error out as expected. Is Debian doing something different?
Yeah, LogSeq is listed in my blog post. At the time of the post, I think they were desktop-only. Now I see they have apps for all the big OSes; desktop and mobile. Very cool!
In theory it is good, but somehow it is also a big threat to privacy and security of your infrastructure.

No need anymore to scan your network to map the complete endpoints of your infrastructure!

And it's a new single point of control and failure!
I thought vibe coding meant going in on a project without first laying out a plan, basically KANBAN’ing it and just programming functions based on vibes.

I guess this is even more vibe based, the AI’s vibe that is.
> I never see regulatory bodies demand money or powers.

It happens quite often after a big failure. I've worked in government myself as a contractor and seen huge amounts of waste while completely failing what they were supposed to be doing. I left after a few months (I was asked to stay) because I was utterly disgusted by it.

> That's private companies and law enforcement, respectively.

Law Enforcement most certainly, but private companies that just isn't true.

Maybe if you are at some large corporation, however generally waste at large corporations I've seen is due to having to cancel projects because of situations changes e.g. I was working on a large project to that was to integrate the platform with Russia, that got cancelled for geopolitical reasons.

Most private companies aren't large corporations though and most work is done by a few super stars in the company.
It doesn't have any kind of commit metrics and only supports rsa keys.
> You would not see software engineers at SpaceX or NASA "Vibe coding"

Sure that's true, but I doubt the people with no coding experience who use LLMs to create some application are working on safety critical systems. For me this fad should be embraced, especially by non coders, as it allows them to be creative in new ways.
C1 modem breaks no speed records, but is power efficient
Next they'll record on to tape and burn CD-Rs!

I don't see the appeal of spending $5000 to slowly etch vinyl away manually. If this really is a "craze", it exemplifies to me how those watching influencers get hypnotoaded into pursuing hobbies that have huge upfront costs.
Used to be UA needed EU+USA.

Now EU, sans USA, needs UA, because EU is militarily weak.

If UA falls, EU will fall also; it cannot stop Vladimir, and this before considering the massiive impact of drones, which only RU and UA know how to operate effectively.

EU+UA is enough to keep UA up and this protects EU.

All in all, EU will keep UA up, however it is done, and in the end it will require EU military involvement. Maybe we get there sooner now, rather than later.

I think the capability to retake lost UA terrain belongs to USA and massive military buildup in UA.

EU military in UA keeps UA up just fine, but doesn't retake terrain - not enough military force for that.

Ends up with cease-fire, and UA not in NATO, as USA/HU/SK will prevent it, but probably security guarantees and troops on ground from rest of EU.

Everyone then settles down to the next cold war (and RU economy post-war spends a while in strong recession, taking immediate pressure off).

Problem is, Vladimir effectively subverts Western elections through social media.

How do you have free and fair elections with that going on?
Interesting as well since both Trump and Netanyahu are right wing authoritarians.
China can only support Russia in some specific, not too invasive ways. If structural points of a country break, there's no support recipe for that.

Financial and economic weaknesses are also working against Putin and his team from _within_ Russia.

> Just like we broke up the Soviet Union.

It was not entirely broken, since we have the living proof of it today in the Kremlin - same operating mode.

> Putin is going to send a million man

Why is he resorting to North Korean soldiers then? (which even then aren't infinite). Obviously, he has a problem at recruiting/training his own. Which puts him at odds with his own population.

So whose soldiers will it be next? China? not likely willing to deal with that. Iran? same. African countries? Not their war, they tell it themselves.

The issue is that Putin has cornered himself and his country, willingly, knowingly, into a no-way-out road. He had other options of both perspective and action.
There are two reasons.

War destroys existing structures and gives them a chance to evolve again.

The economy is growth dependent and can only perform its basic functions under growth, even if that growth is fake. By basic functions I also include all functions that do not depend on growth.
> reinvest 50% of the profits from UA State owned minerals/related infrastructure.

Small correction: 50% of Ukraine's government revenue from natural resource extraction (minus some expenses).

> Unless "reinvest" means "give to US", I don't see this point happening.

You're right. There may be some options when the fund is actually formed, but the current deal almost exclusively benefits Ukraine (financially).

> In what way? we're not talking about any US State investment

It's up to the US how much they want to invest. If they put a lot of money into the fund, they get a lot of control over how Ukraine starts rebuilding. But due to how the fund is financed, the US will be bought out in the long run and the fund will turn into a Ukrainian sovereign one.

> It's money that exists anyway, only now it's in a fund jointly controlled by US/UA rather than being controlled only by UA.

The idea probably being to allow US oversight. Ukraine is incredibly corrupt and its government is fighting a loosing battle against this.

If a corrupt construction contracter pockets 80% of the money given to him and Ukraine tries to prosecute him, he'll just move to Portugal and nothing is ever going to happen to him.

On the other hand, if the US files charges, that contractor is going to have a really bad time.

Combined with the much superior talent pool in finance and international business available in the US, a lot more money should find its way to its intended purposes.
So TL;DR the vuln here is that ToDesktop injected production secrets in the container they use to build customer-supplied images.

This is completely incompetent to the point of gross negligence. There is no excuse for this
You're essentially advocating for security through obscurity.

The fact that public infrastructure is mappable is actually beneficial. It helps enforce best practices rather than relying on the flawed 'no one will discover this endpoint' approach.

> And it's a new single point of control and failure!

This reasoning is flawed. X.509 certificates themselves embed SCTs.

While log unavailability may temporarily affect new certificate issuance, there are numerous logs operated by diverse organizations precisely to prevent single points of failure.

Certificate validation doesn't require active log servers once SCTs are embedded.
Do you believe that they actually read that "deal", that everything had already been agreed upon, and then it just so happened that they had an argument in front of journalists and that's why they didn’t sign it?
As a rumor. I admit my knowledge about it fragmentary at best.
It seems like "red-teaming" and "security research" have become more socially prominent recently, so people naturally aligned with grift, e.g. making things seems alarmist and that they are the only ones in the know, are trying to seem part of the club?
> then you divide the larger system into smaller components where each team is responsible for one or few of these individual pieces and the chief architect is responsible for making sure of how the pieces are put together

And then you have ravioli code in the large. It is not going to make it easier to understand the bigger system, but it will make it harder to debug.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti_code#Ravioli_code

If you can reproduce an error, you can fix it. Do that.

If you cannot reproduce it after a day of trying and it doesn’t happen often, don’t fix it.
You fell for the propaganda. The US is not spending for Ukraine the way Trump is trying to make it seem. Sending old equipment that is expensive to dispose of helps the US two-fold.

And yes, fighting indirectly with Russia is also helping the US two-fold. Or, was until Trump decided to wake up as a sleeper agent .
Very interesting! Do you know if there were any studies about whether this improves performance?
Awesome! Please blog/tweet/skeet/toot about your experience. And definitely let the developer know what you felt worked well and didn't. I'd love to see more apps supporting org plaintext.
Agreed.
The article on the performance reviews is disturbing.
In Germany, we just voted two man-babies (Merz and Söder) into power.

The only hope I have, is they want bolster their ego with a strong EU.
Mozilla is changing the wording: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/update-on-terms...

There is still cause for criticism, but if you think Mozilla is worse than Google (Chrome) or Microsoft (Edge), then that’s hard to take seriously.
For comparison if you run your own hardware and do a memcached KV lookup with a different server on the same rack, p99 times are slightly under 1ms. Given the guarantees of cosmosdb ~10ms isn't that bad for a p100
Brendan Gregg's USE method is for performance troubleshooting but could work in any situation (broken is just the worst performance, right?)

https://www.brendangregg.com/usemethod.html
I see many gatekeepers in the comments. I've made hundreds of small apps and scrips for me with with vibe coding, i dont want them maintainable, I dont want them safety critical, I dont want to launch a rocket with them.

I just want a free script or addon that will do its job instead of paying someone on upwork to do it for me. simple as.

Additionally it's only up from here. The agents will be able to do maintainable code and safety critical code at some point in the future. It's not all gonna happen overnight.
The U.S. pulling back from policing the world is good for everyone except the europeans who were free-riding on the american military budget. How many deaths and trillions of dollars of waste resulted from liberal internationalism in the 20th and early 21st century? Vietnam, Korea, Iraq? The Iraq War should have discredited the whole project and resulted in throwing the “promoting democracy” folks into gulags. But they regrouped masterfully.
Reads like it was written by someone with the attention span of a gnat
Yeah, but does this really empower people?

Of course ‘letting someone do what they want’ seems like it’d be the most empowering thing, what’s more empowering than free will. But doing it this way will not give you any knowledge or skill, if you’d ever need to code without an AI or would need to understand a deeper concept you’d have no ground to stand on.

Basically it’s the instant gratification vs delayed gratification but for programming. Is instant gratification empowerment? maybe for a moment.
> And why doesn't U.S. attack other NATO members now?

They are. Commercially first. Through technology second (the dependance of the world upon US software and hardware technology is the perfect kill switch - and the scale and pace at which we are going to need to get out of it is immense now that it is intimately tied to our professional and personal lives... but we have no choice).

And they might go further if those firsts are not enough.
So many of the further-left’s answers follow the progression of the “step 3: ???” meme. I guess these days we might call it “concepts of a plan”. Even when the goals sound great, the paths to reach them are vague or non-existent (or even worse IMO, depend on questionable or simply outright illegal means).

You mention healthcare…I lived in Colorado in 2016 and we had a ballot measure for a constitutional amendment to establish universal healthcare. Great!

However, in the months leading up to that vote there were so many questions about details that the organizers of the ballot measure just met with some form of, “We’ll let you know after the amendment passes.”

I was a federal employee at the time, with an FEHB plan, and I was concerned that I would wind up paying for both the FEHB plan and the state tax that would come with the state plan. I sent multiple emails and asked at an information session but no one involved in organizing the ballot measure would even entertain the question.

Is it any wonder the measure failed 80-20?
When the completely descriptive term "illegal immigrant" becomes somehow an immoral thing to call people who immigrate illegally, it was a bit absurd. Literally every illegal immigrant has committed a crime, by definition, and that crime is immigrating illegally - "illegal" describes the mode of immigration. The previous administration used "undocumented immigrant" (and often shortened it to "undocumented") as a sort of "softening" language game.
GrapheneOS blocked exploitation of 3 Android zero-days used by Cellebrite
Engagement-optimized writing style (whether intentionally or subconsciously learnt to do so)
Demand for Russian built airlines in Russia /= them being competitive with Boeing and Airbus. The USSR built airliners as a strategic priority for the domestic market for decades: their track record of being terrible was one of the reasons behind scepticism of the Superjet

And airlines in most countries have far more to worry about buying aircraft whose maintenance depends on a faraway pariah state and that are not certified in Europe than they do about US sanctions targeting them. And even if they do, still not necessarily more difficult to circumvent the sanctions (as Mahan Air did with wet leased 747s) and access a worldwide parts supply and MRO market than rely on being able to maintain and sell on your Russian aircraft at reasonable price and timeliness...

It would also be surprising if the new Russian engines were competitive on performance with new Western engines, and likewise with other components they've had to switch to domestic manufacture for.
El Salvador is strong evidence that the issue is a lack of enforcement. It hasn't been well covered in the mainstream media because it goes against the typical narrative. Their homicide rate in 2016 was 107 - one of the highest in the world and several times that of Brazil. As of 2024 it's 1.9, a fraction of even the US' rate. [1]

The solution? Round up obvious gang members, who conveniently like to mark it all over their body, throw them in prison, throw away the key. If they get violent in the process then don't even bother with the whole prison thing. Were the people just terrified about this horrible abuse of power? No, their Supreme Court made an exception to allow him to run for another term and he won with 80%+ of the vote, his party gaining a super majority, and El Salvador is rapidly going from one of the most dangerous places on Earth to a very safe one.

"First they came for the gang members... and then life was pretty great and everybody lived happily ever after." BTW similar sorts of crackdowns have also happened in numerous places including Thailand and the Philippines (in both cases over drugs), with similarly resoundingly positive results. Enforcement works.

[1] - https://apnews.com/article/el-salvador-homicides-gangs-bukel...
20 armed men vs. their beach houses sinking into the ocean, forest fires burning heir land, hurricanes throwing everything every which way, and potentially nuclear hellfire... IDK, I'm betting on Nature (and man's folly wielding nature) on this round.
Oh, it makes sense now. The previous owner of my home was doing vibe plumbing and vibe electrical work. Without the AI, but all the same regardless.

This is no different than what amateurs have been doing for a long time. Hopefully they’re not taking in PII or charging anyone for these apps.