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brainfish··on Show HN: Proxmox VE Helper Scripts
VMs already use virtual network interfaces, which are by default bridged to `vmbr0`, a bridge that proxmox creates by default which is also bridged to the hardware NIC. For your use case, you simply want to create a second bridge, e.g. `vmbr1`, which is not bridged to the hardware NIC. You would then assign two virtual NICs to opnsense, one on each bridge (WAN and LAN, essentially) and then choose `vmbr1` as the bridge each time you create an "internal" service behind opnsense.

Since selecting the bridge for a service's NIC is part of setting up each service, the only thing such a "glue script" would be doing is creating the `vmbr1` bridge. That's already a one-liner.

brainfish··on Nvidia’s CEO Is the Uncle of AMD’s CEO
A high SAT score is table stakes for Ivy application, not in any way a free pass. Successful applicants generally need impeccable grades, documented community service + extracurricular activities, stellar recommendations, etc. Or alternatively, be a "legacy", meaning your ancestors attended that school, which is more often than not a proxy for "be rich."

I don't doubt your characterization of the situation in France at all, and there are certainly a plethora of great universities in the U.S. that have reasonably accessible admissions, but the "top" schools (Ivys, MIT/Caltech, etc.) are certainly beyond the reach of many, and favor those who know how to play their game.

brainfish··on Reddit’s blackout protest is set to continue indefinitely
This comment contains one of the most-repeated pieces of misinformation from the whole blackout: moderation tools. Reddit has stated repeatedly that moderation tools will be exempted from the API changes.

"We will ensure existing utilities, especially moderation tools, have free access to our API."[1]

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/141oqn8/api_update...

brainfish··on The US government is buying troves of data about Americans
John Oliver did it[1] and "blackmailed" congress to act. Still crickets.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqn3gR1WTcA

brainfish··on How to hack the simulation?
Supposing that we can, this seems like a plausible explanation for the Fermi Paradox.
brainfish··on Zuckerberg's leaked email on VR strategy (2015)
In my experience "dead wrong" is also wrong. I don't believe VR will ever obsolete some swaths of gaming, but there are certain VR experiences that leave the conventional-gaming alternative feeling utterly worthless by comparison. The feeling of "actually" jumping into the cockpit of my spaceship in Elite Dangerous during the COVID lockdowns was intense, joyful, and freeing in a way no picture on a monitor could ever replicate.

However VR is still an emerging and expensive medium; I'm very lucky to be able to afford the gaming rig, headset, controllers etc required to have that experience. As those barriers to entry lessen, VR will absolutely obsolete certain traditional gaming experiences as much as television murdered the ubiquitous living room radio.

brainfish··on Which emoji scissors close (2020)
It's so weird you are choosing this hill to die on. And you are completely wrong; 7-year-old left-handed me had the empirical experience to know this.
brainfish··on Valve Employee Handbook (2012) [pdf]
> taking a 30% cut of all sales

So four games like Fortnite make more. There are a lot of games on Steam.

brainfish··on Anti-royal protesters are being arrested in the U.K. as 'Not My King' tag grows
If there's just one British constitution and everyone agrees on it, then it seems like writing it down would be pretty trivial.
brainfish··on The WFH Folks
As an eng mgr of a fully remote team, I do not agree with your assertion that "relationships cannot be made via zoom." Of the sixteen people I work closely with, I have met fewer than half in person, including a similar fraction of the engineers reporting to me. I seek to balance the lack of in-person interactions by leaning heavily into interest, compassion, and vulnerability. I take time in my 1:1s to ask about folks' lives, making sure to remember past details they have shared and to make it clear that I am generally interested in everything they have to share about themselves. But I think more importantly, I am conscientiously more vulnerable in my own sharing with those who take an interest than I might be otherwise. I put a little extra effort into "broadcasting" my interest in my colleagues as humans to make sure some of that truth makes it over the wire. The result is that I have very real human connections with nearly all of them, and the engineers on my team have stuck with me through some crazy s** that I don't think they all would have had it not been for those connections.

It's easy to get into a work mindset when using work tools. That can in turn cause us to skip those human interactions such as more personal conversations that might usually happen at lunch or whatever. Taking the time to elicit them, where natural, without the natural cues is hugely important. I have honestly never felt more connected with a team than I do with my current one, which was formed almost entirely post-pandemic. Hell, folks were building real human relationships with just pen and paper for ages not long ago. It can absolutely be done.

brainfish··on Responding to recruiter emails with GPT-3
This would return the same result since `" "` (and thus `" " + recruiter_name`) is truthy. You could use a ternary or something, though.
brainfish··on Passwordle
An Absurdle exists[1], but instead of giving no hints it is adversarial, e.g. changing the secret word to dodge your guesses.

[1] https://qntm.org/files/absurdle/absurdle.html

brainfish··on Include diagrams in your Markdown files with Mermaid
I think this is a false equivalence. The content of SVGs is non-semantic; to get from SVG code to Meaning one needs to do some sort of rendering and re-interpreting of the resulting image. Even if for some simple images that could be done in-brain, that is not usually the case. Whereas something like Mermaid is intended to be meaningful both as code and as rendered output, just like Markdown itself. Having that additional meaning inline can be very helpful to faster understanding of the content, which is not usually going to be the case for inline'd SVG.
brainfish··on Wolves make roadways safer
I live about 20 miles from ground zero of the original Yellowstone wolf reintroduction. I am an avid outdoorsperson and have never had an on-foot encounter with a wolf. They are exceedingly shy around humans; in the 25 years since the reintroduction there hasn't been a single attack on a human in Yellowstone despite both humans and wolves being literally everywhere in the area.

I'm not saying no one is afraid of going outdoors because of the wolves, but that fear would be completely irrational. Your chances of twisting your ankle badly enough that you get caught out and die of exposure are many orders of magnitude greater.

Edit to add: as an additional anecdote, we get a ton of tourists coming here to head outdoors because of their interest in the wolves and hopes of seeing one.

brainfish··on Activision Blizzard Hires Notorious Union-Busting Firm WilmerHale
> Sounds like this is less about the identity of the corporation you affiliated with and more about identity of you through what you choose to/not to affiliate with.

There is certainly an element of this, I am sure. But frankly it is that I don't want to give them even the millionth-of-a-cent of value that they could derive from my +1 to their active player numbers. I don't want to contribute anything to their advantage.

brainfish··on Activision Blizzard Hires Notorious Union-Busting Firm WilmerHale
Edit: parent deleted their comment, but it was a question about isn't union busting the logical capitalist move and what can we do about it.
brainfish··on Activision Blizzard Hires Notorious Union-Busting Firm WilmerHale
My hope is that I can contribute in my small way to making moral behavior more profitable than immoral. IE voting with my wallet.

I'll also vote for policies and representatives to enact sensible (opinions will differ, obviously) legislation to enforce better morality and better safeguarding of the commons, especially with respect to externalities -- as I see those as a major source of the failings of capitalism.

Beyond that, I don't really know. And I'll readily admit that looking around at where we as a society are and where we seem to be headed, especially with respect to things like climate change, those seem like very small measures. I just don't know what else to do.

brainfish··on Activision Blizzard Hires Notorious Union-Busting Firm WilmerHale
I cut my teeth on Diablo, and played Diablo II for probably fifteen years after its release off and on as a way to stay connected with a friend who loved it similarly. More recently, I have consistently played Starcraft II since its release and enjoy a sense of mastery over that game unparalleled by my experience in any other.

I haven't purchased new Blizzard products since the Hong Kong censorship debacle[1] and quit playing Hearthstone at that time. However I had still played some of my other old favorites, reasoning that I was not providing them further financial support. The recent announcements about their terrible, sexist culture had challenged that notion for me, and I was not sure what to do.

This news is the straw that breaks my back. That Activision/Blizzard would double down on their despicable behavior and stance in this way is completely beyond the pale, and I for one will never again fire up those games that I loved so much.

Thanks for ruining that for me, Blizzard.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blitzchung_controversy

brainfish··on Launch HN: Fig (YC S20) – Autocomplete for the Terminal
I love your concept and wish to cheer you on, but this statement

> You can run `fig settings app.disableTelemetry true` to disable all telemetry except for one daily ping.

contains such a blatant lie (disableTelemetry does _not_ disable telemetry) that I've already lost a lot of trust, in an area I am not willing to play trust games. I hope you rethink this, soon and loudly.

brainfish··on An experiment caught a quantum system in the middle of a jump (2019)
I would be surprised if it is not, given the success of spacetime treating it as just another dimension.
brainfish··on U.S. senators reintroduce bill to make daylight saving time permanent
What tangible benefit does society gain from the sun being straight up at noon? Furthermore, how is this a valid argument when timezones are +/- an hour wide, meaning that even if local noon == noon in one part of the timezone, that is not true in other parts of the same timezone? This is the worst reasoning to base this decision on.
brainfish··on China CCP to Nationalize Jack Ma's Alibaba and Ant Group – Report
Oh, is today Whataboutism day?
brainfish··on Lax oversight allows Chicago police to avoid turning on their body cams
Regulatory capture is extremely common in American life, and many of our current policing issues can arguably be attributed in some large part to overly powerful police unions. So to me this sounds like a lip-service-non-solution waiting to happen.
brainfish··on One in five Covid-19 patients develop mental illness within 90 days – study
That's great for you and all, but this reads like you are dismissing other people's very real and debilitating experiences of chronic illness.
brainfish··on MI5 moves UK Terrorism threat level to “SEVERE”
From the linked wikipedia page: 'It had been raised to "critical" following the Parsons Green bombing on 15 September.' (2017)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-41288525

brainfish··on The End of OS X
I believe your chronology is correct, but I don't see how it differs from the (primarily hierarchal) family tree given in the article.
brainfish··on During Google’s early self-driving tests, there were over “a dozen accidents”
You are correct; as far as I understand the term it means the Waymo car kept pace with (stayed next to) the other car (Camry) such that the Camry could not merge. I am also confused why the Camry could not just slow down and merge behind, but we don't have enough information to make any kind of determination.
brainfish··on Safety Numbers on Autonomous Cars Don't Add Up
In the case of the 3-point seatbelt, a Volvo engineer invented it and Volvo received the patent, then made it available to other manufacturers at no cost.[0] While that is a great precedent I don't believe it's any kind of requirement.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seat_belt