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For those interested in the topic. The system I am more familiar with is Avida https://github.com/devosoft/avida "Digital Evolution Laboratory"

The OP may find the Wikipedia article on the birthday paradox helpful.

Crowd control, psyops, trend analysis. EU is quickly becoming authoritarian and the change is instigated by the sitting parties.

Because we want to run more than just Home Assistant on the same OS? Because traditionally OS and application layers were separated? Because we trust mature Linux distros more when it comes to LTS and security patches? Because we already know our way around Debian/Ubuntu/Nix/etc.?

Your position is indeed supported by the data presented here: https://ourworldindata.org/rise-of-social-media

Not exactly. It’s not that I can’t see the colors, I just need more contrast to pick up red or green. A grayish green looks the same as plain gray to me. A small bright green dot? Might as well be gray or brown. But a large, solid area of bright green or red? No problem at all.

No, these are not disruptors. Substantial incremental improvements, but part of the larger battle.

"Even though Steve Jobs emphasised iPhone superiority to "Buttons", it is to be expected that the consumer QWERTY category will continue to succeed."

Their key mistake.

Early research always had 1.0% in its confidence intervals, which is most likely the right IFR during the first phases.

The 0.1%-0.2% was just bad science, taking medians over countries with lagging statistics reports.

Where did you find 3.4%? Isn’t that an upper bound?

People paid him for such nonsense?

Totally agree. Observability is just another dataset and should be modeled, managed and governed as other datasets. Data quality controls should be equal or of higher standard than regular data sets.

Monitoring, dashboarding and alerting should leverage other BI-class tooling.

The title should be: “Critical flaw in title causes HN readers to click on mostly irrelevant article.”

I thought this was already well known. A study in 2021 [1] found this relationship. However, it is good to keep people informed because it seems we are letting a potentially severely disrupting disease shred our society to bits.

From 2021: “Biological markers of brain injury, neuroinflammation and Alzheimer’s correlate strongly with the presence of neurological symptoms in COVID-19 patients.”

[1] https://aaic.alz.org/releases_2021/covid-19-cognitive-impact...

Quite crazy that this major, multi-system outage has been going on for nearly 14 hours now.

For cloud providers, security is their raison d’etre. On the cloud you can have confidentiality, integrity and availability that was unheard of two decades ago.

Security management services balance confidentiality, integrity and availability. Spending more on security means you can have great availability despite the measures on integrity and confidentiality.

Look at any cloud provider. They get it right because they employ the best security management systems.

If you dive into: [wine, jazz, modern art, craft beer, tennis, …] (pick one), you’d also appreciate it more.

Thing is, if I decide not to do that, the impact on my life is relatively minor. What gives graffiti artists the right to impose their personal predilection unto others?

In other words, given your reasoning, what’s stopping me from playing John Coltrane at 110dBA the whole day and night?

One bad does not legitimize another.

The 'no schema needed' paradigm that persisted within DE is finally replaced with the hard lessons learned in the 70's.

Systems die, data stays.

...and shorter variable names.

WhatsApp before acquisition had 55 employees and was well known.

“Full access to everything we need.” == “We have our hands around your…”

Where I’m from, every driver knows how to use these and use them safely.

Interesting, no mention of Scala at all. Did Netflix say goodbye to Scala altogether?

Formatting doesn’t remove bugs, but it’ll help you detect them. Linted code helps you scan the code faster and provides valuable pattern recognition, allowing us to detect common mistakes.

There have been numerous bugs caused by incorrect code formatting, most notably an SSL security bug from 2014: https://dwheeler.com/essays/apple-goto-fail.html

Another reason for formatting is the “minimal diff” paradigm. If a formatting rule would not be followed, in the next commit hitting this code, the format would also be affected, causing a larger diff than necessary.

There are other reasons for simple format linting, but the reasons above are the most profound.

Lastly, formatting is part of a range of static code analysis tools. Generally, formatting inconsistencies are the easiest to detect and resolve, as opposed to more sophisticated tools.

It’s it interesting how many meaningful conversations we’ve all had on IRC, lacking all those essential features you mention?

There are some studies showing a correlation between antibiotics usage in third term pregnancy by the mother and subsequent chronic allergies and development of asthma by the child. This also has led to an advice to change the treatment of urinary tract infection.

It could also have been prevented by… not using user credentials on a server to access services? By doing regular checks on your inventory? By using IDS on your complete network? But not trusting your network? (Zero trust security). By regularly simulating attack scenarios and then check your readiness? By implementing ISO27002?

On point

In 2000 we organized a large outdoor LAN party for a week in the middle of nowhere hosting around 600 Unix/Linux aficionados. I was very proud to have found Bram to speak there at our event. On the days ahead I became very anxious to welcome this paragon of open source contributors, but I soon found out Bram was one of the most fun and caring people I had the honour to meet. Not just did he tell us his story of developing vim, he also organised an in promptu quiz on Unix and networking. I have fond memories of Bram and am truly sad to hear he passed away. Bram truly captured the soul of open source.