Good thing there’s no conflict of interest in the owner of SpaceX advocating for the destruction of a successful international space project.
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I wonder if the Romans knew they were getting dumber from sweetening their food with lead.
If you look at it as a pump that’s intended to provide the worst possible care with the most friction it can tolerate and at the highest parasitic cost I’m certain you’ll find it makes perfect sense.
I've had a complete Mazda 3 badge set from Fleabay in a drawer in my garage that I ordered when he first started skewing right. I picked those because, if you squint right, it kind of resembles a Mazda 3 (and nobody is going to give it a second thought once they see Mazda badges).
Just downloaded from Thingiverse files for blank wheel center caps for the car and, separately, the Mazda logo. Caps are printing now.
Aiming for stealth rather than activism with the de- and re-badging. Activism is for other venues.
I liked it so much I got solar for my house from Tesla, along with multiple powerwalls.
Frankly, the car has been an embarrassment to take out into the world for the last three or four years.
With him outing himself as an outright nazi, yesterday I spent fifteen minutes with a heat gun, dental floss, and Goo Gone debadging my car.
I’m profoundly not ok with giving the impression that I am ok with Musk’s abhorrent behavior.
The old school init styles, whether BSD or SysV, adhere to that philosophy.
Systemd is a travesty. I think it was about a decade ago that there was a remotely exploitable root equivalent compromise in the system DS built in DNS resolver. And these days includes not just DNS but also privilege escalation and who knows what else
It’s probably fine for most people and most purposes. And by fine, I mean most people can probably use it and never see a live exploited against it.
And if you care about security, you can probably apply enough mitigating controls that it’s not gonna be a disaster for you.
But for me, defense in depth means avoiding systems to begin with and not trying to bandit over the problems with it
…missing the twist.
So as a TLDR, I’ll say that Julius is a peer of the author who is polished but uncomprehending, often spouting convincing-sounding nonsense.
And here in 2024 we not only have folks like that to contend with, but also have polished AI output being forced at us from every direction.
What a world we have ahead of us with Internet-scale automated uncomprehending nonsense
https://github.com/mrash/fwknop
And what have you got to protest against DoS attacks on your packet inspection mechanism?
I guess this is cool too though.
I’d offer one other dark pattern in the overall dynamic. Some folks, rather than being in denial about their being on the victim end of an abusive relationship, appear to be 100% ok with it as long as they themselves get to bully and exploit others lower down in the hierarchy.
Rigged for the absurdly wealthy against everyone else on the planet.
Laws (and consequences for breaking them) are for us, not them.
I remember I expected Europe to try the appeasement nonsense that only emboldened the precious century’s fascist expansion effort.
I was surprised and delighted to see any level of resistance, even if it’s only to enable Ukraine to hold the line.
I dunno, friend. No offense, but I’m going to go with the professional geopolitical strategist’s take over yours -especially where I perceive subsequent reality validating his ideas- unless you’ve got comparable creds of your own or more substance to your refution of his ideas.
It makes a good case for, among other things, that once the US stops enforcing order on the seas, globally, that there’s going to be at best regional powers looking out for their own interests, only, and widespread piracy where even that is lacking.
Draught is one thing, but if pirates attacking commercial ships aren’t being smacked down that’s pretty alarming and doesn’t bode well.
Gave it an honest try because I figured I couldn’t lose- Either at home or I could make fun of my buddy for recommending nonsense.
Genuinely life changing for me.
Ever since, on the rare occasions when it does flare up again I reflect on the ideas from the book and apply them. Works amazingly well.
Having sat with it a few minutes though, why would I choose this over the classic:
https://core.tcl-lang.org/expect/index
or any of its analogs such as: https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/google/goexpect https://pexpect.readthedocs.io/en/stable/ https://www.rubydoc.info/gems/ruby_expect/1.6.0/RubyExpect/E...
edit: ah. it preserves the UI. This has potential.
Source: I was there
So, ICs who sweat that kind of waste are right to do so. If management sees that someone thinks 50k/mo is no big deal to squander, bet your ass there’s a good chance they’ll take at least a month’s worth out of that person’s annual bonus since that kind of money matters so little to them.
Around a dozen years ago, my business was designing building and supporting physical infrastructure for startups.
One company was humming along nicely on $4000 of used hardware and a $2000 a month cage in a Colo facility.
Their business had ramped up and got some funding, so we got them another 60k worth of hardware in nother facility.
They onboarded still more customers to where they needed a few thousand dollars worth of SSDs to keep up with their random io demands.
But their new VC-installed CTO was like… No! We spent all this money on hardware and it’s not doing what we need it to! That’s crap! We’re gonna move to the cloud and save money.
So they moved to Amazon.
Their first month’s bill was $50,000. And it only went up from there.
The cloud is dandy for small workloads. But where you’ve got a consistently large workload the break even point on owning your hardware is a lot lower than most people think, even factoring in infra management expenses.
But when I used to, I turned it into an even more fun game that you described
My goal was to waste as much of their time, and as little of mine, as possible.
Hi, this is so-and-so from DIRECTV. We’re calling with a special offer….
Oh sweet! I’m so annoyed with my cable company
That I let them get into their spiel
A quick sec, I got a pot on the stove
Disappear for 30s
Oh hey, sorry, you were saying about 150 channels?
Let them get going
Ah, shit. Paperboy is at the door. Gimme a sec I’ll be right back, this sounds like an awesome deal
And so on, with longer and longer gaps between each fake reason for disappearing, and more enthusiasm for his pitch each time I returned
I remember the DIRECTV example in particular because I tied That dude up for over 40 minutes.
Barely impeded my watching Farscape and kept him from harassing anyone else for the duration.
Massive money and entrenched behind preserving a car-based life.
Car companies, auto workers unions, railroads can siphon off funds from promised improvements to cover deferred maintenance and give themselves bonuses for being so clever… Hell, AAA which one might expect to spend its income on serving its members instead diverts money to proactively lobbying against improvements in public transit in an ongoing display of cynical self-preservation
It’s basically hopeless.
How much of your 5-sense experiential memories and decades of academic book learning are you bringing to understand my reply to your post?
How many gigabytes do you think that’s equivalent to?