> Developers do that too.
Not at that speed. Scale remains to be seen, so far I'm aware only of hobby-project wreck anecdotes.
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Not at that speed. Scale remains to be seen, so far I'm aware only of hobby-project wreck anecdotes.
It has, scrapers are out of control. Anubis and its ilk are a desperate measure, and some fallout is expected. And you don't get to dictate how a non-commercial site tries to avoid throttling and/or bandwidth overage bills.
Cc Legal/Compliance could do wonders to their capacity to understand the problem. Caveat, of course, that the execs might be pissed off that some peon is placing roadblocks in the way of their buzzword-happy plan.
The problem is that a subset of self-experimenters have the mindset "the more, the better" -- I still remember the Covid-era vitamin D discussions, with people openly reporting taking stupendous daily doses. (Lithium and vit. D are not in the same category, but you'll recognize the approach.)
So someone goes overboard, maybe damages their health, and traces it back to an article without the caveat. Lawsuit time! We're talking about fractions of a percent here, but with a wide enough potential readership you have a non-trivial chance of a hit. Common sense doesn't work at scale. Hence the CYA rhetoric.
(EU already did it, however partially, with its own satellite navigation system.)
The US has also kept the title of the Senate, but I'd argue that it's been a very different institution since the 17th Amendment. Also, the Federal govt. until the Great Depression was much more hands-off (witness the overuse of the Commerce Clause since then.)
I'm not sure that the Founders would think of the present-day Republic as the same as theirs.
They are seen as disabled, i.e., lacking the moral core. An atheist, the thinking goes, can't be a moral person. The US political (if not cultural) mainstream has been anti-secular for quite some time. Remember George Bush Sr? He had a memorable exchange with a reporter during his presidential campaign, where he made his views clear[1]. He was only mildly exceptional in being very direct, not in the way of thinking.
[1] https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/George_H.W._Bush_and_t...
Confusion is still possible on Boeing aircraft[1] (the incident happened with an Air France 777 in 2022. AvHerald has more direct quotes from the official report.)
[1] https://www.flightglobal.com/safety/opposing-dual-inputs-con...
For a while, I tried a couple of Christmas tree prompts which included all kinds of condensed Git status and other bells and whistles, but eventually tired of them and settled on:
- Exit status of the previous command, if nonzero.
- Current time, HH:MM, 24 hour format.
- user@host, red if euid 0, green otherwise.
- Current directory, shortened if the path has three or more elements, with home directory recognition.
- Current directory, full path, echoed as hardstatus and hence appearing in the terminal window title.
- The name of the current branch if within a Git repo.
- Prompt character, dollar/hash sign.
All those elements are meaningful to me, inasmuch as I can quickly orient myself using that information and explore further if I notice anything out of the ordinary.
I'm pretty sure that megaprompt programs like Starship could produce the above, but I like obtaining a familiar prompt with a minimum of external dependencies, and so have written it all in Bash, then ported to Zsh and various Korn shells, which was quite tricky. It probably wouldn't work on Xenix 286, but anything newer has a fighting chance.
This one sounds so specific that I suspect you must have a reference to a bug tracker or a mailing list message somewhere. Do you? Having the context of the whole interaction is helpful when forming conclusions.
Without the benefit of such context, I'd suppose that the effort of reproducing the bug (not everyone has a Windows machine handy; the X11 server might be commercial or obscure) is a petty good reason for not giving it more attention.
It is difficult to be nostalgic about the machines lacking, for want of a better term, a soul. PC compatibles are as soulless as it gets. Quite soon after introduction, they became part of the endless treadmill of faster CPU - more memory - better graphics - larger HDDs. (That doesn't stop people being nostalgic about software running on PCs, again with that same basic characteristic.)
Mostly confusion, but the combination of aviation and confusion can be dangerous and even deadly. Not directly related to this list, but I'm reminded of [1]: no one entity has set out to inconvenience the hapless traveler, but the combination of history and practice are a constant source of irritation, and at the times of heightened tensions and security might even lead to scary incidents. All because of the name.
[1] https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/149323/my-name-ca...
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/202505312300.95D7D917@keescook/
Internally geared hubs are a mature technology and really require even less maintenance than a chain/derailleur combo, being completely enclosed. Also, not every hub needs to be a fancy Rohloff, so even if it needs to be replaced in toto, it's not bank-breaking.
When I was younger and more enthusiastic about some aspects of network communications, I set out to understand ASN.1 by reading the specifications. That was when ISO and ITU-T were even more stingy with access to their standards/recommendations, so it wasn't easy to get them as someone with no connection to standards bodies, and also without a few hundred CHF to spare. Reading those specs is an art in itself, but one gets a hang of it after a while. It went pretty well until this part of X.208:
The resulting type and value of an instance of use of the new value notation is determined by the value (and the type of the value) finally assigned to the distinguished local reference identified by the keyword VALUE, according to the processing of the macrodefinition for the new type notation followed by that for the new value notation.
That's where I burst out laughing and finally deeply understood why the ISO networking stack crashed and burned despite having some solid ideas.
All this is to point out that yes, DER is not bad at all, but the whole infrastructure it rests on is simply too alien to people outside of telecom space and those who have to deal with it by necessity because of its use in various security protocols.
It's obnoxious, but if you really want to view the post you can switch the screenshot page to desktop mode, and the "View post" button shouldn't redirect to the App Store. The result isn't pretty but it's readable in a pinch.
(They're still not desperate enough to track the UA and detect the switch.)
I don't. Fear and discontent exist, and I'm not interested in the degree of their justification here. The unstated part is my disdain for the populist's overeagerness to leverage them, offering emotionally satisfying but often practically dubious or outrightly deleterious policies and actions.
Of course it is never that easy.
I understand that yours is a very simple example, but a) such things are already parallelized even on a single thread thanks to all the internal CPU parallelism, b) one should always be mindful of Amdahl's law, c) truly parallel solutions to various problems tend to be structurally different from serial ones in unpredictable ways, so there's no single transformation, not even a single family of transformations.
Why? The decisions are pretty well politically aligned with the ideology which detests the size and scope of the government (realistically, those aspects which the ideologues feel are not in their interest). What is unexpected is the swiftness and the brutality of action, but revolutions tend to be messy, and make no mistake, this is a revolution.
> This is the actions of a foreign bad actor
Now this sounds like a coping strategy: everything is so preposterous it couldn't possibly be homegrown. Foreign influence and underhanded actions are as old as human interactions, but IMO outright plants can't succeed without a massive economic and power asymmetry between the adversaries.
Not when the bots are actively programmed to thwart them by using far-flung IP address carousels, request pacing, spoofed user agents and similar techniques. It's open war these days.
Spotify CEO is channeling The Two Bobs from Office Space: "What are you actually doing here?" Just in a nastier way, with a kind of prisoner's dilemma on top. If you can get by with an agent, fine, you won't bother him. If you can't, why can't you? Should we replace you with someone who can, or thinks they can?
Spotify CEO is not his employees' friend.
The author of the article is a bit of a jittery flier (a go-around was their come-to-Jesus moment? come on), but fine, whatever makes people pay attention to basic safety information. It doesn't need to be much: know where the emergency exits are, how to open them if necessary, and don't take your cabin luggage, and you'll already be ahead of most.
It was a hangover from their days a quasi-socialist, monopolistic enterprise ("We're the Phone Company"), when they could afford to be "inefficient" in that way -- scare quotes because it's difficult to calculate the cost of preparation and dissemination against all the high-value careers the material may have inspired. These days, an accountant would glance at the cost and cut it out without thinking twice.
[1] https://archive.org/details/umberto-eco-ur-fascism/umberto-e...