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It looks like Rancher Desktop uses Lima VM (https://github.com/lima-vm/lima) under the hood, I suppose in the same way that Docker Desktop uses Hypervisor.framework on macos? This is the first I've heard about the Lima project. I'll be interested to see how file system performance with this compares to Docker Desktop on mac.

I had the exact same thought/impulse when I was looking through the examples of his work. I think the source of it, for me anyway, is understanding that each of these displays is ephemeral. They aren't intended to last long at all, so you know they have to be dismantled. And the quickest/most fun way to dismantle a house of cards is Godzilla. Surely they aren't delicately disassembling these things. It seems prudent for there to even be an honorary Godzilla for each of them...some lucky individual who gets to sprint straight through the display, or chuck a tennis ball into it.

Lacks? No way. Sneakers' score features Branford Marsalis, which is very different feel to Hackers (which is also great), but imo very evocative of the the playfulness, mystery, & intrigue of the crypto storyline.

Cloudflare acquiring fly.io would be interesting to see.

I'm a bit surprised to see the site has a Let's Encrypt certificate, but it redirects from HTTPS to HTTP;

https://www.slackware.com/ redirects to http://www.slackware.com/

> Dushman has said he was unaware Auschwitz existed during the war, only learning about the atrocities carried out there in the years after.

It's always jarring to me, with my modern/simplistic/naive perspective of these major historical events, to consider that the people who lived during and/or participated in these events didn't understand full extent of what they were seeing or what was happening. It totally makes sense, academically...fog of war, slow/spotty spread of information, determining what's propaganda and what's not.

But still, there's something mind-blowing to me about a soldier mowing down the fence at Auschwitz with a tank, but not knowing what the place was.

Sure, but skin cancer caused by the very stuff that's supposed to help prevent it? A little too ironic, I really do think.

Reminds me of the George Bush ragdoll physics demo.

I feel this a lot too, but I find that I can quell the anxiety by looking at the huge list of $things_i_dont_know not as a chronicle of how far behind the curve I am, but instead as a buffet of new techniques/technologies that I can sample. Many will be irrelevant to the things I'm building, but some will likely help improve my productivity or ease my maintenance burden.

So I try to have a taste of one or two new things every so often; try them out on a couple of projects to see if they help me, or if they just confuse and overcomplicate. I'll never be able to try them all, but I feel like I slowly get a better understanding of many of the new items, and feel a bit better about ignoring things that I've already established aren't likely to help me to be more productive.

Is there any objective context here? What has RMS said, what are the attacks? I assume there are also fair, clear-headed criticisms of what he has said and how he said it.

I figure more margin is better than less, and it decreased from 2019 to 2020. Is that not a valid way to look at gross profit margin?

Revenue is up 50%, but profit margin is down a bit, 76.6% in 2020 versus 77.9% in 2019. Plus, the upper range of their expected 2021 revenue is ~$593 million, which would be about 40% revenue growth if I did that math right ($431 * 1.38 = $594). So less growth, decreasing margins = sell I guess?

How would Netlify feel about not being able to issue or renew any certs for any sites for a month? Plenty of platforms rely on LE exclusively for one-click/automatic HTTPS for their customers sites.

Are you saying that Slack uses mod_php? According to a Slack Engineering blog post[0] from 9 months ago, Slack has been using Hack/HHVM since 2016 in place of PHP. My understanding is that HHVM can only be run over FastCGI, unless there's a mod_hhvm that I'm unaware of.

[0]: https://slack.engineering/hacklang-at-slack-a-better-php/

> This amoral, economistic view of human life is what got us into this mess in the first place.

Which mess are you referring to?

https://laravel-livewire.com/ Implementation in PHP

Great context. From that site:

> Sadly, much of the information out there is incorrect. For example, there is not a henge associated with the site and the individual stones are relatively small when compared to what most people think of as European standing stones. It should be clearly understood that this is not a megalith site like Stonehenge.

There's an interesting scifi book called Manifold:Time by Stephen Baxter, that features an organization called Eschatology, Inc. It presents a very unique perspective on (hastening) Doomsday.

Side note: I was convinced at first that the author patterned the main character, Reid Malenfant, after Elon Musk, until I checked and saw the thing was published back in 1999.

Great analogy! I'll be mulling this one over for sure in the coming weeks/months.

I've got a couple of similar aging analogies/models (also in my forties) that tend to come to mind when I'm confronted with these sorts of topics, namely physical speed.

When we're young, we move slowly, crawling, then walking and running. The things we notice and care about tend to be smaller and more detailed. Walking home in elementary school, I knew every crack in the sidewalk, every brick in the retaining wall, every tree limb, every slope of every yard.

Then came the bike, and greater speed, then the car. More frequently in adulthood are the planes. Now I barely notice the fine details of what I pass by, but my awareness of city-scale things, both at home and abroad, has filled in...the streets, rivers, buildings, and the development that spans miles and miles that were far beyond my grasp when I moved slower. It's a bigger, more complete picture, but I can't zoom into it.

I often miss the slowness of my youth. I remember vividly being enraptured by the mundane details of my backyard, the roots of big pine trees, lush grassy spots, the cracked patio. So many tiny, "up close" details that were so interesting to look at, and run GI Joes and matchbox cars over for hours.

Building software is the same. Most of my giddy memories of discovery and productivity were in the "slow" phase of my career, when my tasks and responsibilities were fewer and closer to the ground, so to speak. The code itself. Now that I can travel faster, I have a larger number of more impactful responsibilities, but I don't feel that closeness or giddiness. I'm rarely enamored by the solutions that I churn out.

What opinions has Bob Martin expressed that are objectionable?

Maybe he's got a history of working with PHP? $_ENV is an autoglobal array that gets filled with environment variables.

https://www.php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.environment...

What frustrates me about Apache's mod_status is that it's powered by a normal request handler. If all the child workers are busy, your request for a status report will timeout, even if you're running it locally from the command line. Not super helpful when you're troubleshooting in real time.

Anyone know if there's a "deeper" way to get the same stats info about what Apache is doing without having to basically wait in line with all the other incoming requests?

> Swarm is a (sadly) soon-to-be-abandoned way to spin up a cluster of multiple hosts with Docker daemons; don't waste your time on it.

It seems this inevitable abandonment has been abandoned as of Feb 24, 2020...

https://www.mirantis.com/blog/mirantis-will-continue-to-supp...

Probably Tiled https://www.mapeditor.org/

I recently found https://text.npr.org/ (linked down in the footer of the main NPR site) and it made me very happy.

Sure, but relying on custom shell scripts as unix primitives can be problematic if you find yourself frequently managing/troubleshooting systems that you don't own, and you don't want to (or aren't allowed to) put those handy scripts in place. Then when you're on any given system, you forget whether you can use "f", or if you have to fall back on awk.

I think it's less about not trusting custom scripts than it is about ensuring that your unix muscle memory doesn't atrophy.

~45% of the world's population lives in rural areas. That's a lot of potential customers, myself included; I live 30 minutes north of a US state capitol, and my only option for terrestrial internet at home is 1.5mbps DSL (which I currently pay $70/mo for), or my cell carrier (which is spotty and unreliable in my house), so I'd definitely consider SpaceX Internet.

The machine stops.

One of my favorite features of HeidiSQL is its "Find text in database", see https://www.heidisql.com/forum.php?t=1006

It'll search through all text fields of all tables of whichever database you specify for a given string, and displays a nice per-table summary for each matching record. I haven't found anything like this in any other DB client.

This parallels civic/political engagement in real life.

It's tough to get lurkers (like me) to speak up and shift the discussion when the emotional cost of doing so - arguing, being downvoted, getting defensive, being ridiculed - seems to make the effort simply not worthwhile for the individual. Not only on the web, but also in the office, at Thanksgiving dinner, at a cookout, etc.