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Heavily funded startups have terrible track records in reality. The only cases where it seems to have worked is when the money was used to undermine the market dynamics by nuking competition via severe underpricing.

These are not equivalent.

Millennials are by far the most FOMO/social media addicted generation there is. I have watched so many of them blow up their lives over stupid shit they saw online.

You can ban social media for people under 16 without having age verification at the OS level. These things are not related. Age verification is not a technical problem.

It wasn't "the early days." It was true until the 1970s when the evangelicals pivoted and started to get power.

There are problems with cigarettes, yes. However, these problems exist for children _and_ adults. A reasonable way to tackle this issue would be to make cigarettes safer for everyone, not just to exclude kids. These problems are not solved with an age check ...

You may or may not be acting as an apologist for the sleaziest, worst industry on earth here, but you certainly sound like it, even if it is unintentional. As this is hacker news, P(makes money working for sleazy, terrible companies) is high so you'll have to accept this obvious interpretation.

Look, I actually kind of agree with you, but social media _already has all the PII_ to an extent unparalleled in history. Come on. "We have to wonder what the motivation here is"?

The problem is that it really is the 14-21 group that where it has the most (and increasing) influence. They should have banned it for under 18.

It’s not the mainstream media that is primarily manipulating people in the US and has not been since the eighties. Extremely biased “conservative” (in reality anything but) propaganda has been dominant for a third of the population since Gordon Liddy and Limbaugh turned lying and fear mongering into a profession on the backs of the authoritarian paranoid personality segment of the population.

There’s no organ harvesting of a religious subgroup in America.

Just don't take it on an empty stomach.

It’s not baffling. It’s time to get off of backblaze.

Tylenol is much less dangerous than, say, Advil. It’s only issue is one of overdose which is common to all drugs.

I am deeply aware of software people being crap at hardware having worked in embedded for much of my career.

Hardware people, in my very direct experience, are terrible at software. But we can hope.

I think his bigger point is that it seems to always go this way. About two weeks ago there was a panic about helium and chipmaking and the crisis that the strait would cause. One that didn't even bother to look into where helium is sourced.

I think the world is much, much more varied and complex than these "this is the one true doom" mindsets can fathom. It's a constructed theory that makes perfect sense until it meets the real world.

I work in big tech and several of my older colleagues are ALL IN on peptides. Fountain of youth stuff.

Frankly as I am aging myself and noticing a lot of changes to recovery time and overall physically feeling good, I can totally understand getting on testosterone, for example, but random peptides that show up in white bags from random Chinese labs? no.

At the top of this page:

>NOTE: >iCloud's most recent update prevents Backblaze from backing up files that iCloud synced. >To back up these files, download them to another local location where Backblaze can read them.

So which is it?

>We’ve made targeted investments where we can, for example, adding support for iCloud Drive by working within Apple’s model

Is icloud drive backed up or not? Please be clear. Which versions support this?

https://www.backblaze.com/computer-backup/docs/back-up-iclou... still says that it no longer backs up icloud drive files. Then it gives directions on how to back them up. Which is it?

Also, why did you stop backing up .git folders, sliently?

That's the CTO. And yes, it has been evident for years that backblaze doesn't actually know how to write software, they are unfamiliar with many basic things.

It's a good deal until they silently stop backing up some of your files.

This is idiotic. All they have to do is schedule them and then introduce enough hysteresis to not constantly churn on their end. Even if they backed up at most once a day this would be better than this idiocy.

This is very cool but completely wrong for high earners.

It's the tech version of ag gag laws and liability-protection laws for pesticides.

>Receiver tried to create a file before receiving attributes of the directory containing the file. Receiver author assumed it would always receive directory attributes first and create the directory, so it crashed.

This case, and a bunch of the others, are variations on failing to correctly implement dependency analysis. I'm not saying it's easy, it is far from easy, but this has been part of large systems design (anything that involves complex operations on trees of dependent objects) for years, especially in the networking space.

Indeed, your fourth bullet gets to some of the very ancient techniques (though STP isn't a great example) to address parts of the problem.

The last bullet is very hard. Honestly, I'd be happy if icloud and dropbox just got the basics right in the single-writer case and stopped fucking up my cloud-synced .sparsebundle directory trees. I run mtree on all of these and routinely find sync issues in Dropbox and iCloud drive, from minor (crazy timestamp changes that make no sense and are impossible, but the data still complete and intact) to serious (one December, Dropbox decided to revert about 1/3rd of the files to the previous October version).

The single writer case (no concurrency, large gaps in time between writers) _is_ easy and yet they continue to fuck it up. I check every week with mtree and see at least one significant error a year (and since I mirror these to my NAS and offline external storage, I am confident this is not a user error or measuring error).

I am convinced the Uncle Fester books are some kind of performance art. "Practical LSD Manufacture" basically starts with "go find some ergot in fields" and step two is "plant and grow a plot of wheat."

Many of these forums exist now. Let's not enumerate them as they are one of the treasures of the internet.

This isn't about politics, it's about not caring what damage they do as long as it lines their pockets.

It is completely obvious that a lot of tech workers are basically evil. They get paid to work on evil things that hurt society and want to not feel like terrible people. See the thread on Musk and the cone head on self reflection.

Getting excited about Elon claims is foolish. His fab will go nowhere similar to his endless battery claims. It’s just another Musk attempt to grab federal subsidies.

Because coding agents are where the revenue is.