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Yep. It's also important that free housing doesn't turn into concentration camps (defined as collecting people into areas separate from communities) to hide former homeless people. Expanding Section 8 and similar with rapid SRO placement would be an easier solution in the short-term, while there is a need for dedicated/incentivized Section 8 and true affordable housing inventory against the wishes of NIMBYs.

Big auto has the money to keep buying the politicians. They don't want consumers resetting dumb sensor issues for free or fixing their own vehicles, because that's how dealers make their money.

Nit - spelled: Louis Rossmann

Lois is my late grandmother's name.

(In general, it's a good idea to get people's names spelled correctly because they tend to take offense to it.)

Not everyone chooses to be homeless, so painting all homeless with one brush would be disingenuous.

For example, I know 6 sane, smarter-than-average, old guys who drift around the SF Bay Area mid-Peninsula region who don't drink or do drugs, but are poor and cannot afford housing on their own. 2 have managed to get accommodations, 1 by the COVID lockdown. That's 4 left looking for 24-hour coffee shops, laundromats, bus stops, and diners.

I swear I need a scriptlet for this because this is awesome.

D: What slave-drivers.

These are somewhat orthogonal issues.

1. Test and encrypt backups.

2. Don't get hacked. Defense-in-depth philosophy and rigorous, routine social-engineering training/testing. If you get hacked, it's usually game over. Defend systems like the business depends on it because it does.

3. Limit exfil: extra security for PII, exfil detection, and [HN]I[DP]S.

That's an incidental effect of not providing proper housing. Blaming homeless people for not having somewhere to go is like victim shaming. Giving homeless people homes is cheaper than not.

It was his favorite keyboard. He would've cried, TBH.

Consider it was a place where one guy hoarded 15 years of WSJ in his office.

When staff are excellent professionals in the field, they get to do all sort of weird things.

Ah-ha, hack enginerding FTW. Overenginerding costs $$$.

I wonder about metastable sequential logic (D flip-flop sampling 3 NOT gates in a loop) XORed thermal noise sampling from a resistor XORed with the D flip-flop's clock signal. Violating setup-and-hold times of digital logic would also probably help generate some fun randomness.

Yeap. I never get the article without some magic site.

It doesn't work.

Physically-separate location or not snapshots that can be added, updated, culled, or deleted by local systems aren't backups, they're replication. Replication replicates problems.

Vaulted offsite on at-rest storage media is the only valid way to store backups. Every other "convenient" "backup" service or snapshot replication process is a liability businesses must avoid. Lose all your data, 50%+ you're out of business, and The End.

There's a balance between passionate hustle and diving into burnout. Some people can do more than others. etc etc. It's more sustainable for mental health to not make every waking minute about work, and take breaks and vacations. If you don't have a life, there's no point to working.

Have you ever been to Central/South America or Europe? ;-)

Whaaaat? What year, country, and/or location was this? Call center?

Once upon a time, I worked at a nuclear engineering consultancy. One engineer ate a hamburger and french fries over his keyboard, using it as a placemat, and never cleaned it up. In order to fix his computer, I first used a bottle of alcohol to clean the brown and black muck and hunks from the keycaps. It honestly smelled like a dumpster.

If and when companies stop treating employees like children and more like adults who can decide for themselves when to take breaks, work, and take vacations, they might just watch productivity and morale soar. Netflix generally has the right idea on this.

Untested backups and DR/BCP procedures aren't backups.

Snapshots aren't backups.

Backups that aren't physically-isolated, typically offsite, aren't backups.

Not all of the browsers I use support browser extensions that could automagically un-paywall.

Would it be ethical / legal for HN to automatically try using un-paywalling services for paywalled articles?

Aerospace / military spec'd components would probably be the best way to go where possible. If it's a lithium ion battery issue, then maybe they should be using a different battery chemistry.

I think the earth approach is a good option, even if one has to dig a few feet down to find some cooler ground in the middle of nowhere.

4 second workweek. 5 millisecond workout.

As an alternative for high-throughput TRNG entropy sourcing: Why not just sample thermal noise like the Simtec Electronics Entropy Key# did? Doesn't it just need a fast-enough ADC? (How expensive is a ~ 10 Gb/s ADC?)

# I'm kinda annoyed they didn't open-source the design before shutting down. :(

Speaking of which, how could mobile phones be made to work in extremely hot temperatures for emergencies without shutting down?

122+ F ambient on concrete.. it's going to be much hotter than that.

It should work at an extension of military temperature ranges for global use indoors, outdoors, and in odd semi-indoor scenarios like the back of a hot truck: -75 to +125 C / -103 F to 257 F.

Treating it as retail consumer electronics shit isn't rugged enough for real use.

Interesting. Maybe there ought to be a Respin HN type which can quote and encapsulate a previous item with semantic links. That way, there would be fewer unconnected "dots" requiring manual previous item comments.

Feature request for the submit page: live AI fuzzy suggestions of URLs to prevent dupe submits.

I read "tub chair" and thought of Dalton Trumbo in his bath office. I'm sure it's not ergonomic, but I bet it's comfortable and relaxing.

Yeap. Buying durable goods or electronics new is almost always an exercise in instant depreciation. Let someone else take that hit.