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I do something similar but with Emacs and org mode. I start a new file each time I join a new company and just keep on updating it with things as I'm progressing through my day. The one I carry right now goes back as far as Dec 2017. It's a super useful resource for dailies, or looking back at what you did. Heck I even add TODOs and shell snippets that I often find useful. If you feed it to some LLM then you can even do nice summaries and meaningful searches that aren't necessarily based on single keywords.

You're mistaken thinking those engineers aren't facing the same market downturn. AFAICT, it's exactly the same in Europe. The only difference is that in Europe folks weren't paid exorbitant salaries like their US colleagues were.

It's not all roses unfortunately. See discussions https://github.com/landlock-lsm/linux/issues/28 and https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAG48ez1O0VTwEiRd3KqexoF78WR+cmP...

Even the example code builds a somewhat questionable 'sandbox' that hits a problem discussed in those threads. Say we're ok with an app having r-w access to home except for a couple of places such as ~/.ssh. Now you could try to add a rule to exclude access to ~/.ssh, but the security object must exist when the policy is being established (the rules refer to directories by fds). As such, no .ssh directory, means not rules denying access. You start a sandboxed app thinking you've set up a tight sandbox, at some point ~/.ssh gets created, and now the untrusted app can read your ssh keys.

But it's coming anyway, whether people like it or not.

FWIW, it is my understanding that XWayland is still supported, so it's not like your apps will stop working.

> What is surprising is that a classic Time-of-check-time-of-use (TOCTOU) bug was latent in their system until Monday. Call me naive, but I thought AWS, an organization running a service that averages 100 million RPS, would have flushed out TOCTOU bugs from their critical services.

Yeah, right. I'm surprised how anyone involved with software engineering can be surprised by this. I would argue that there many, if not infinitely many, similar bugs out there. It's just that the right conditions for them to show up haven't been met yet.

Isn't it universally true that if you're rich your life can be much easier? With enough wealth the actual health care system does not matter much. Neither does the country in which health care services are rendered. You just pay and get things done, and maybe even take some vacation while at it. However, given that not every one of us is rich, the point is to optimize the whole thing such that the little folk can still survive and get their health issues addressed.

Seriously, how on earth are you coming up with this? Time and again they debunk those silly claims but people just keep bringing this up on and on. Is it some sort of conspiracy theory?

I probably have a bunch of such tools installed on my main machine. The problem is you actually need to remember to use them, and then maybe their command line switches to get the desired output. Whereas cat/less/git/vim are muscle memory. Not to mention that you first need to get over the hum of installing them in your system, likely needing to grab the latest Go/Rust/Zig toolchain along the way.

So while I admire the engineering effort, I still find utility of these tools limited.

> Same as how a fetus will inevitably develop into an adult and be fully conscious, if nothing goes wrong.

Unless it dies in pain and suffering hours, days, months or a few years after birth due to a defect that we already know can never be cured or fixed by other means. Somehow societies that are least interested or capable in providing any aid to these traumatized families revel the most in their suffering.

> Long story short, the entry level car now costs close to 25k EUR. [1]

Just this February I bought brand new 2024 Clio for ~17k EUR, gas+LPG. At least until July it was super easy to get even better deals on small/compact cars with ICE engine. Hybrid engines are closer to 25k EUR.

Did you mean a race towards the end of one's life?

With that many ways to try things out differently hoping for good results, it feels like this would become a huge time sink, wouldn't it?

Whoever wrote that `unpack_dns` C snippet needs to have their keyboard taken away.

> In addition to it all, Zuck's taste in board games is basic.

FWIW, Ticket to Ride and Catan are decent, worth playing, euro games. That's miles better than Monopoly or Risk which the casual folk immediately think of in the context of board games.

> some weird-ass white guy annointed himself keeper of the material

how's their skin colour so relevant to the discussion that it needs to be brought up? what if they were yellow/black/green?

> where workers can easily move to.

Is this part still true though?

Not all of Europe. The immediate neighbors were always wary of Russia's game, but attempts to bring that up only got them labeled as rusophobic.

Why do you assume it's about engineering? Not every role demands the same set of skills or they are not equally important.

Undoubtedly, but maybe not the best set of skills for a given role.

It's quite surreal when a colleague apologizes as they won't attend the daily standup bc they need to leave to get to the bomb shelter. Or another one joins the standup while working in a bomb shelter and apologizes in case their laptop runs out of juice as they're getting electricity from a generator.

While you're sitting there in your cozy office in one of the neighboring countries, and your biggest worry is that you've run out coffee beans.

But not necessarily less buggy or more useful than the counterparts (if there even are any).

> back when I was using arch I wrote pkgbuilds instead of configure/make/installing to my home folder. kept my ./local/(bin|lib|share) clean and meant I could update it easier or uninstall it with pacman.

This is exactly what a tech savvy user would do.

I'm always puzzled how folks praise PKGBUILDs when it's mostly irrelevant for a regular user. Unless by 'PKGBUILD system' you mean AUR, a place where random people push random build scripts and other folks are happy to execute said build scripts locally, quite often without any real sandboxing or even a quick glance at the actual code.

FYI, in case you missed that, Leap has been EOL since late 2022.

Is Oracle committed to actually supporting the distro with security updates and so on? I was under the impression that it's simply a bug-for-bug compatibility rebuild from RHEL sources, which aside from rebuilding effort, the majority of support work was still done by RH.

Since you almost always need to open a file in order to do anything useful `strace -vf -e openat` helped solve a lot of issues from simple configuration file lookup to ld.so library loading problems.

Phew, only 5 hours, that's really great. How about a week of 2-3 after-hours work to fit within the time limit, then submitting the PRs and addressing review for each of the 3-4 steps?

Always had the impression that same could be said about solving math problems at school/uni. Some planning, knowing the right algo or tools, some creative thinking, many ways to get the desired output. Linear algebra was particularly fun when approached this way.

It's not like you couldn't transport troops on a passenger train, so I'd say may they never see the light of day again ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. In reality though, I doubt this will result in any serious repercussions for whoever called the shots.

This is exactly what you wrote, a vision. The first major obstacle is our urge to lower the effort one needs to get through the day doing all the chores, groceries, work etc. If you tell someone that now they need to move their lazy ass, and ride a bike for a some for kilometers, a couple of times a week and then some more for the so called „greater good”, I’d expect a lot of push back.