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> Yep, it's tragic because it all stems from unforced differences vs ipv4. The design was reasonable, but with perfect hindsight, it needed to be different. They needed to keep the existing /32s and just make the address field bigger, despite the disadvantages.

Exactly. I would love to have seen the world in which that happened, and where all the other parts of IPv6 were independently proposed (and likely many of them rejected as unwanted).
It’s also likely unnecessary for us to join the EU.

Unless the US becomes totally and competently belligerent towards us, we don’t need to join the EU. This would only make sense in very extreme circumstances (knock on wood).
How Douglas Adams Predicted the Future
This spurred me to look up a list of Google/Alphabet's historical acquisitions.

I remembered that YouTube was M&A, of course, but I'd forgotten all about some other companies that Alphabet bought over the years:

* Motorola

* Nest

* DoubleClick

* FitBit

* Waze

* DeepMind

* Boston Dynamics

Other things I totally forgot existed, like Songza and Picnik, wound up under Alphabet at some point.

For some reason, Alphabet doesn't intuitively feel like a very acquisitive company, but they clearly are very active.
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> I'm curious why you're picking on Gates.

Because I felt like willfully ignoring the precept that I should not be talking bad about another person who is not present. I am not fully submitted to the Divine Will, therefore I still make mistakes.

I should not have said these things about BG and his ex-wife, even if they are bang-on true.

I apologize to all who have read this, and though BG or his ex-wife will likely never read this, I want to openly say to them that I apologize to you both and ask you to forgive me for my gossiping against you today, and will try my best in the future to not do it again.

I hope I have learned this lesson, once and for all.

Peace be with you all.
> The more "politics" you have at a company,

Note the "politics" do not necessarily come from any malicious intention. It's just part of the company dynamics. As more layers are added to a company, visibility decreases. As a result, people have to be more political savvy to defend their misses and get resources, which leads to more politics.
That's surprisingly low for Amazon.
Fixed. Thanks for raising :)
Creator here. Let me know if you have any feedback or ideas for measuring other things!
there are a couple tape makers, regardless of how many companies rebadge the product.
afaik, there are only 2-3 drive makers too.

but don't forget that tape doesn't make much sense (in its market) without the robotic library. there might be some off-brands that sell small libraries, but the big ones are, afaik, dominated by IBM.
For context:

Total # Employee: 1,556,000
Planned # Layoff: 14,000 (or 0.9%)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_(company)
When it comes specifically to Cloudflare, it does not have to be this way. A site operator can choose to set their own rules for triggering CAPTCHAs, it's just that most don't actually bother to learn about the product they're using.

I use Cloudflare through my employer because I deal with clients that aren't willing to spend a few hundred dollars a month on hosting. In order to keep up with sales of new websites for these clients (where the real money lies), I need to keep hosting costs down, while also providing high-availability and security. Bot traffic is a real problem, and while I would love to not require using Cloudflare in favor of other technologies to keep a site running quickly and securely, I just can't find another solution near a similar price point. I've already tweaked the CMS I use to actually run with less than the minimum recommended requirements, so would have to take a more hostile action towards my clients to keep them at the same cost (such as using a less powerful CMS, or setting expiration headers far in the future - which doesn't help with bots).

If anyone has suggestions, I'd be open to them, but working for a small business I don't have the luxury to not run with Cloudflare (or a similar service if one exists). I have worked with this CMS since 2013, and have gone into the internals of the code to try and find every way to reduce memory and CPU usage so I don't need to depend on other services, but I don't see too many returns anymore.

I am all for internet privacy, and don't like where things are going, but also do work for lots of small businesses including charities and "mom and pop" shops that can't afford extra server resources. In no way do I use Cloudflare to erode user privacy or trust, but can understand others looking at it that way. If I had the option to pick my clients and their budgets, it wouldn't be an issue.
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Agreed but would be nice to have a backstop in case of invasion from either the North or South. I guess Nato is already supposed to do that though.

Furthermore, I was wrong about trade: we already have free trade agreements with all the rest of the rich world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_trade_agreements_of_Canad...

Maybe we just need an expansion of East-West infrastructure so as to shift some of that easy default US trade elsewhere.
> Please do not insult colonialism by comparing it with Zionism

My language was intentional and precise. I didn't say "colonialism" (which I'm not defending BTW). I said "settler colonialism" [1], which is precisely what has gone on here. From the Nakba to the 1967 war to the West Bank settlers, you have over 75 years of ethnic cleansing and displacement. That's ettler colonialism.

I can't speak to whatever colonial society you're from. You don't say. I will say I struggle to think of examples of where colonialism worked out well for the colonized however.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Settler_colonialism
Is prime factoring (e.g. Shor's algorithm) not a clear example of where quantum computers would clearly outperform classical ones? Why the skepticism?
I won't archive anything on portable media.

Cloud, or variants thereof, is fine -- I use rsync.net for backup and archive. But needing to manually run a backup (say, onto a thumb drive) is not sustainable, and even though the author suggests that disks (spinning rust or optical) might actually have a reasonable lifespan, I don't trust myself to be able to recover data from them if I want it.

As the author says, the limiting factor isn't technical. For media, it's economic. For any archival system it's also going to be social. There's a reason that organisations that really need to keep their archives have professional archivists, and it's not because it's easy :).
I don't understand the shit 'managers' get on here. I've been in this industry for 15+ years and with one or two rare exceptions every manager has been great.

They respect my time, when I need something they're incredibly helpful, and they care about my career development.

IMO the culling over managers over the past few years is really a way to make sure you don't have someone you can discuss career development, promotion, and pay increases with. I have very honest conversations with my managers about these things regularly. If I had to deal with someone a few layers above I doubt I'd have the same success.

Another 'benefit' for the company in culling managers is that the manager track generally has higher pay at each level. Understandable given it seems to involve more time commitment and dealing with people can be much more tricky than dealing with code. Less options for IC's to transition == lower salary burden. Reduce the number of people on the manager track and you reduce the amount of salary an employee can hope to attain. I've definitely been put off switching from IC to manager because I feel the jobs are less secure over the last few years.
I respect the requirement some have for a numpad. However, at this point, I don't even have a numpad for my desktop workstation. I like the shorter reach between the home keys and a mouse on the right.
A long time ago Google used to have a program called "bureaucracy busters," where submissions were reviewed by the CFO to find internal barriers to getting things done.
I ended up adding support for GROUP BY: https://github.com/pgdogdev/pgdog/pull/43

I had it in the back of my mind for a while, nice to have it in code. Works pretty well, as long as columns in GROUP BY are present in the result set. Otherwise, we would need to rewrite the query to include them, and remove them once we're done.
They used to acquire/acquihire a ton of smaller startups, but that stopped for the past 4 years due to a different FTC.
Then you, or someone else, fix the underlying library.

This being Postgres, that process was likely completed decades ago.

Anticipating the next question, "but what if it is still unsafe?", the answer is that there is no fundamental reason why this can't be safe code. Security exploits like this require a cooperation between the receiving code and the incoming data, and it is in fact perfectly possible for the receiving code to be completely safe. There is no such thing as data just so amazingly hackerish that it can blast through all protections. There has to be a hole, and this is among the best-tested and most scrutinized code paths in the world.
This is such a shallow comment. EU is in fact defenseless (at least til the next 5 years), and terrified of US leaving the Europe. It can’t hold back Russia, a country far smaller than EU in population and GDP.

Canada could have trade agreements with other countries. Being part of EU is not in Canada’s interest. It could operate like Switzerland, maybe.
The True Jedi
⬜⬜⬜⬜ Balanced in risk seeking
⬜⬜⬜⬜ Balanced in loss aversion
⬜⬜⬜⬜ Balanced in magnitude sensitivity
I lost -$1,018,389.5

I guess "balanced in magnitude sensitivity" means I wasted time on the small bets that barely affected my total earnings... I probably should've clicked randomly on those
> it does seem like they can have a narrow focus where they solve the challenge they had to solve, but aren't interested going past that point. There's logical reasons for why that happens, but there's unfulfilled potential to make personal computing a better environment there.

Oh absolutely, I agree so much with this. I get it, we can get obsessed with UNIX philosophy at times, one tool does its job perfectly etc. but we don't even make an attempt to assemble several things into one good cohesive whole.

Sadly I am way too swamped with being out of a job and chronically ill but I just started becoming extremely bitter towards many more privileged techies who seem much more interested in farting out the 2489th LISP interpreter than solve a real world problem. :|
Customer is accused of spamming for repeatedly replying STOP to political texts
It’s task-dependent for me as well. For development I think the current 16” MBPs are really about perfect, but for the use case of studying, web browsing, etc something in the range of 12-14” and as light as reasonably possible without negatively impacting battery life is about right.

For those smaller machines, I think a squarish (5:4, 4:3, 3:2, or 16:10) aspect ratio with a body exactly as wide as a full-size laptop keyboard (as seen in 12” PowerBook G4, 12” MacBook, and ThinkPad X220) is particularly good, but nobody makes those anymore.
An ICBM is coming in at hypersonic speeds in the terminal phase, you’re not going to guide it anywhere using cell tower signals. The guidance is done much earlier.

And I would doubt image recognition for ground features would make it that accurate, too. Before reentry, you’re very high and fast and reentry isn’t that predictable to get you accurate enough to hit a house. And during reentry, you’re not going to see anything though plasma. And after reentry, you probably don’t have enough time and control authority to still guide into a specific house.

ICBM guidance is very different from cruise missiles.
it is a great idea - in theory. in practice I do not think this holds water. price is reasonable, I am landlord and I ran my current lease through it and also through few others and it is worth the price.

the main issue here is that this might only work in small markets and landlords like me, “just a guy.” for any property owned by large corporations (the percentage of these is increasing by the minute across the country) this is not useful. even for someone like me, last time my condo was on the market I have received 73 applications. someone tries to negotiate too much I’d just move on to the next if the negotiation is not reasonable
This is a very good read on the state of the art when it comes to submarine-launched missile accuracy, which are presently inertially guided with a stellar update during flight.

https://thebulletin.org/2017/03/how-us-nuclear-force-moderni...
If we give up we're wrecked, should still aim for it.
In the UK the police sometimes confiscate some of the illegal bikes that can to 30 mph+. The legal ones are limited to 15 mph. But yeah it's kind of chaotic.
I was programming BASIC and Pascal as a non-English-speaking kid and the Latin-based syntax was not a problem at all. I think you underestimate how far sheer drive can get you. That said, I do agree that basic understanding of English is more or less a requirement these days if you want to stay up to date on modern developments. If not, well, many languages have enough translated materials to get by.
Agree, but you gotta be careful to measure both the laptop size and the screen size though. Some of them have a lot of passing around the screen.

If there was 14.5" I would prefer it though. Although I wish they focused more on the keyboard than the display.
'I'm a little angry': Canadian firms boycott US products
If there's a clique or patronage, simply asking may not get you the real picture.
Because the right attitude, IMO, is reciprocal altruism.

You can use the thing for experimentation for free because why not.

You can use the thing in your free thing for free because you are giving back to the world.

If you want to use the thing in a non-free thing, you are no longer being altruistic so I won't either. You can use it, but the rule of "fuck you pay me" applies. I am not volunteering for a for-profit company. You're for-profit, so pay your workers.

To implement this principle, the strictest GPL you can find (currently AGPLv3 or even SSPL) works and is open-source compatible, but I think non-commercial licenses also work, provided you can also get a commercial one. They have a problem if the company that produced the software disappears. AGPL probably works better.

I think it's fine if Amazon hosts a modified version of a free thing, for money, if they release the source code to their modified version. All of their value is then coming from the hosting, not the modifications.
Resentment is traditionally absent when people have opportunities for social and economic mobility. I.e. give them affordable housing, good jobs and a booming economy.
Post-Quantum Cryptography Is About the Keys You Don't Play
I hadn't even considered a better job at the same level.

That makes me ask the question "why does WSJ want to discourage Jon hopping?"
Why is the attachment button missing in comment box(still not fixed)
I have recently bought an Asus Zenbook 14 (inch) OLED with Intel 9 Ultra CPU and ARC graphics. It's the best laptop that I've ever had - fast, light and decent battery life (though I'm not so worried about that). And it was quite cheap - less than 900 GBP.

I agree 14" is the best size, unless you want a desktop replacement, to keep the wires out of the way, in which I would go for 16" or 17".
These are great suggestions, thank you!

I played around with a single static colormap for all scales but couldn't find one that worked well/looked good. Perhaps I'll add a slider that lets you manually select the values of the legend.

The second suggestion is a no-brainer. I'll definitely get that added.
"in benefits" - to me reads like "in addition to base pay." - is this not right?
Not #3: Trailing 12 month P/E is negative.

https://www.cnbc.com/quotes/NET?qsearchterm=net
In my day, we had no technology besides a single Apple II/e that was only used a few days of the year.

The teachers spent the whole day actively involved. It was even a bit easy — blindly follow the textbook and utilize the teacher notes.

I really don’t understand how schools expect to teach with glue and chromebooks for 8-12 years and then somehow kids pickup books for the first time in college…
You're giving Apple too much credit in a way that their press releases are carefully crafted to encourage you to. The on-the-ground reality is that Siri will sometimes prompt me for permission to ship her mangled speech-to-text out to a very stale ChatGPT model and read what comes back. That's not failure by hallucination, that's failure by duct taping on an extra limb and wondering why it isn't useful.
As a Seattle resident I agree with you on all points.
At the same time, this is absolutely a ship of Theseus situation. TT has existed since at least the 90s, and grew with the industry. They were responsible for lots of good games, lots of ports, lots of Movie/toy tie-ins, and lots of bad games, like specifically Sonic R. They grew with the industry as a whole into the 6th generation (Gamecube, Xbox, PS2), after struggling significantly in the previous console generation, seemingly a victim of Sega's abysmal console "strategy" at the time.

In the 6th generation, they basically made shovelware, right up until Lego and LucasArts gave them a chance to make this radically new and very LEGO game that also happened to be star wars. Lego was dealing with their own stagnation and "what do we do now" view on Lego games, after having hits like Lego Racers and Lego Island in the late 90s. The original Lego Star wars was great because it was extremely casual, very simple, and had an entirely new "Feel". Everything was made of Legos, everything was interact-able in a very Lego way etc. The characters in Lego Star wars didn't say anything, they "acted out" the story of star wars with a lighthearted feel and a pronounced "charm". That's why the original games were so good. But then everyone saw dollar signs and Disney just threw every property they owned at them. Eventually it got played out.

They've tried to reimagine the formula a couple different times but it hasn't worked very well. This announcement is basically "We completely used up the TT lego game formula and need to innovate somehow".

So, there have been AT LEAST three eras of Lego video games, and at least 2 eras of TT Lego video games. Buying TT now would not give you the people and ideas that created the initial, very innovative formula, and you would not be able to recreate the "Well we aren't making any money with these properties now" situation that allowed TT to even be given the rights to all sorts of different IPs.
I'm not entirely sure why when one person quits, the company becomes managerless?
that is so romantic. Rockets looking at the stars one last time before obliterating $cityname
Wiz is an incredible product that I was hoping would go public and become a fairly independent powerhouse
Until the dotnet packages are shipped in every major Linux distro's default repositories (it's okay if it's a 5-year-old version), we can't call C# a major language.

But apparently there aren't enough people willing to actually do the work.
Did we survive the age of StackOverflow though? The market (globally) is absolutely flooded with not-even-mediocre software devs who are effectively doing what an LLM is i.e. finding the most plausible looking answers on SO and somehow munging them together, without any real understanding of what they're doing nor why it's working (or not working). The number of people charging contract rates yet lacking an understanding of actual software design principles (largely language agnostic) and no idea how computers actually work, is scary.
Can anyone provide comments on LOCKSS?

I found https://www.lockss.org/use-lockss/how-lockss-works but it's really written for library/RDM types, not sysadmins/architects. https://github.com/lockss and https://docs.lockss.org/projects/manual/en/latest/introducti... don't obviously lead me to any papers on things like UBER, etc.

The reason I ask is because LOCKSS seems to take seriously the notion that data isn't really there unless you have checked it recently.
How in the world can the EU "not hold back Russia"?

After the past few years, do you believe that if Russia invaded the EU, it would win?
The internet is already over lasers, but I guess this is a free space thing.
MIT gives the user the right to take away another user's rights, potentially leading to fewer rights overall.

I give foobar to Alice under AGPL. Alice gives foobar to Bob, Carol, and Dave, under AGPL so I don't sue her.

I give barbaz to Alice. It's MIT. Alice gives barbaz to Bob, Carol and Dave under a proprietary license. I can't do anything about it, because I gave her that right.

Which scenario has more user freedom?
That is not what's happening. You can't bind parameters in psql.

What beyond trust did was in fact what I said, constructing the entire query as one string and sending that on to psql. The sanitization method failed, but that's not what you should use anyways when dealing with user input.

If you are using a postgres client, then the message breakdown to postgres when you bind looks something like this (not the actual message stream format, just the jist of what it ends up looking like)

SELECT * FROM foo WHERE bar=$1
BIND 1 escape(userInput)
ENDBIND

There isn't the same opportunity to create malformed data that can cause an injection attack in the Postgres message stream. There are far fewer things that need to be escaped in order to put in the full message. (I skimmed through the protocol, one improvement I'd make to it is adding a length to the bind instead of having a termination like it appears to do. That would, however, preclude streaming data)

These yahoos took a different route to running a command than what everyone does and should do and they were bit by it.

EDIT Actually, yes you can bind parameters with psql. However, it's there mostly as a way to test postgres and not something users are expected to use.
I just want to say that, while I am about a decade your junior, I feel the same way.

It is weird to live in a world of shallow pursuits, wanting to learn and teach and build and seeing everyone going crazy about 'line goes up'. It also pains me the contortions that are required to afford to exist when we have so much wealth and knowledge and so many still have to suffer.

And the weird thing is, I see everything as learning. From fields learning to interact and persist 'particles' to ecosystems learning to dissipate energy to humans learning to collaborate. And we are literally building machines capable of learning. In a deeper sense, software is machine learning: general computers are the first machines we built that are pure learning potential. A loom can only make fabric but by making them capable of learning different patterns without the need of a human making every little decision we sparked a fire that is now consuming everything.

I don't think LLMs will shortcut software building. But I do think that existence itself is about learning. Seeing it hijacked by people obsessed with grabbing more resources for the sake of it is truly sad.

But then again, that is the root of suffering. Maybe what pains me the most is knowing how much I still hold on to in my own way. Maybe the best lesson I can take from all this is that the more I let go of the more I can lessen my suffering and participate in the great universal journey of learning. As a singer I greatly admired sang: if your cup is already full it's bound to overflow.
Best of both worlds in my opinion is an external numpad, which can be placed to the left of your laptop/keyboard (which if you’re right-handed, also enables simulatanous numpad and mouse usage) and when it isn’t needed, tucked away.