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I don't love YAML, but for configurations I always choose it for the simple fact that it supports comments. Comments for json are almost always hacky (for example, imbedding a comment key inside the value).

The article doesn't specify whether or not the encryption was "broken", or whether Cohen is simply cooperating. My hunch tells me it's the latter.

> Google can practically destroy any company/person in any vertical if it so chose.

Yet they don't. So either they're not as scary as "Microsoft was even at its peak", or maybe they're not as powerful as you make them out to be.

Exactly. This makes so much sense for the city. This type of calculation doesn’t even include a fuzzy bump in technological growth for a city that’s connected with cheap fiber.

This is the case in many, many major cities. When discussing this type of rollout, it’s almost always talking about last-mile, which is the most expensive to rollout and maintain.

That’s a distinction the average person wouldn’t make.

    rm /bin/sh
    ln -s /bin/bash /bin/sh

What the heck? Installing this package wipes your sh and replaces it with bash?

> Microsoft didn't even ask their customers for permission. They just automatically switched anyone who installed IE7 to Bing as the default.

Don’t worry everyone it’s different now!

Based on the picture, "pulling it up" looks like a fairly intensive task, requiring boats, persons, etc.

That kind of thing eats directly into the ROI for a datacenter. I doubt it competes with a static building with a bunch of solar panels on top.

Ugh I read your job post months ago and I’m so interested in what you’re doing. I’m not aligned in any of the skills, just really interested about the actual work. What can you share?

Interesting idea. My hunch tells me that they’re underestimating the corrosive nature of salt water. I also wonder about vibrations, which are much more pronounced underwater.

But I guess we won’t know until we try!

So they don’t do anything? Eventually you’re just maintaining stacks of errored and broken computers.

For a laptop? Even my heavy usage is ephemeral workloads.

I care so much more that the dang thing works reliably without fussing or fiddling, which can not be said about 99% of laptops on the market.

But you can’t live in your other investments.

How many web apps can you name that don’t rely on any external gems? Packaging that mess is a pain in every scripting language.

Most languages don’t support static binaries. Other than Go I can’t think of any that make it easy.

There's really nothing special there. Grid operators balance generation and demand, and need to continually update their models. E.g., generate less during midday and more in the late afternoon. It's a hard job sure. That's why we hire experts to do it.

The problem is that utilities want it both ways. They want to charge you peak usage despite the fact that "peak" generation is actually becoming one of the cheapest times for power.

If they allowed free-market pricing in that power they could easily find a use for "curtailment" -- people would crank their ACs or charge their cars if the price kWh dropped below a certain point.

I’ve driven high-and-low all kinds of vehicles, big to small fast slow etc. I will say by far one of the most fun driving experiences you can have is a small <50cc moped in the city.

Stuck in traffic? Get off and push it along the sidewalk. Park ANYWHERE. Swerve and weave. So much fun.

If a company is going to build drone AI in use by the military, I feel MUCH better knowing that company is google and not some poor-quality contracting company.

You hold your tongue and value family relationships above petty squabbles.

It’s not some pious virtue. It’s just what you learn to do as a functioning adult.

And do that every single time there’s an update?

How do you know which one the app is doing? From my perspective the vpn was “on”

Last time I looked at a “system-wide” adblocker, it was just a vpn service with proxied your traffic (not just DNS) through a who-knows-what server. That seemed really sketchy to me, and I doubt most users knew the implications of it.

Don't look at GDPR and see it as some kind of slap in the face to Facebook or Google. The reality is that regulation like this invariably benefit the companies large enough to hire the lawyers to abide by the regulation. Similar story for tax-law complexity.

Large corporations thrive in highly regulated environments without fear of competition.

> De Beers said the logo won't be visible to the naked eye, but it will make the stones easily identifiable as lab-grown.

They really still don’t get it still. Consumers aren’t making the same distinction for something that’s organically the same.

They’re really pushing a “lab-grown is different and mined is more valuable” branding maneuver that people just aren’t buying.

I still don't think returning a 418 (in the realm of client errors) is the correct code, even if it is a connected teapot which you're trying to identify!

I think the appropriate action would be a client sends an HTTP HEAD to the service, which responds 200 "TEAPOT".

Why give them the option to shoot themselves and neighbors foot? Seems more like a technology problem with BGP then knowledge problem.

Not only that, but if you’re returning this status code you’re almost certainly doing something wrong or user hostile.

Yes a 500. Not sure how anything else would ever pass the smell test of even a lazy pull request.

How many “kicks” does it take to build a reasonably resilient distributed service? A lot!