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Logging into "work" systems and typing "emacs" == "command not found". Typing "vi" opens a useful editor.

It's not that I hate emacs or have some aversion to anything except vi/vim. The problem is that vi is everywhere, and by mastering the always-available editor, I always have my tools at hand. On foreign systems, or highly regulated systems that I can't add software to, this is a huge advantage.

>> A better way would be to unmount and send the filesystem with 'dd' or something like that

To add to that.. to avoid having to unmount your filesystem; use LVM. Then you can call `sync`, snapshot your main volume, and `dd` the clean snapshot. Once you're done, remove the snapshot. This strategy avoids downtime while backing up your volume.

>> Cloudfront is the ridiculously-priced offering IMO. I don't really understand why people use it.

Companies that get their highly regulated product(health insurance, hospitals, government contractors) "certified" for use in the AWS ecosystem. Once they do that, they are likely to use it for everything, and pass the cost on to the customer.

If graphite cracked/crumbled to prevent the control rods from being re-inserted, that's some scary stuff. The article ending with a request for the safety limit for number-of-cracks to be increased was really surprising for me. The whole "risk VS reward" test comes to mind... the reward is power for 1.8 million homes, but the risk is total catastrophic destruction of the environment for (tens of) thousands of years. The odds may look good, but geez...just a huge gamble to take with other peoples homes/property/lives.

My kids went wild for Next-Gen, I had no idea it was done in Blender! The graphics are first-class, really impressive stuff. I'm an amateur, but I couldn't tell it apart from other studios such as Pixar.

I've been using GnuCash to keep my consulting books for 10+ years now. It does dual entry well, generates pretty invoices, and has never given me any trouble. It's great software. Didn't expect to ever see it on the front page of HN though...

I get your stance - but this is about a company trying to make money. If anything(such as avoiding vendor lock-in) gets in the way of you making money, then your venture is failing.

Card carrying FSF member here, but business is business.

How could anyone possibly think this was ever about the law? When he first published "Collateral Murder", you knew what it was about, and you knew how it would (eventually) end for him. Does anyone not living under a rock, think what is happening to Assange is even remotely based on law and justice? spoiler alert: it's not!

I'm 100% behind all of your points. That's the world I want to live in, for the exact same reasons you do not...

The only one I would even want to bend is the "can't setup cameras/audio recording on your own property" bit. I'm not sure how that would work, in a privacy-centric world, wouldn't the person you are recording avoid the entire area - to protect their privacy?

No: ETF decay is real and always has been. You're better off shorting an inverse ETF than buying and holding SPX.

edit: and shorting an inverse ETF has it's own problems, mainly what happens to your position if the market crashes - but that problem exists in any strategy.

Python3+ and PHP7+ are faster than Ruby though. Maybe they were comparing modern ruby to 10 year old PHP/Python?

I don't know where you got your information...but you can achieve wire speed with OpenVPN over a 1gb link. If I had a bigger pipe, then I could run a bigger test, and expect the same results. The rest of your points fall under "it's not easy for average users" - which I agree with.

There is an enjoyable book, written by someone who has explored these and (many) other deep places in the world. I think I saw it posted on HN originally.

Book name: Underground

Author: Will hunt

amazon search url: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=under+ground+will+hunt

Rational advice from a complete stranger; settle down, study, and consider buying a home. Buying a home can consume a year of runway quickly depending on how you go about it.

>> Can you name your state rep? How about you write them a little today rather than succumb to cynicism or spitballing tech.

Yes I can name (all) of my state's representatives. No I'm not going to write them. Your letter and sending information get filed under an equivalent of "dissenters". That's kind of the entire point here.

It would result in us not approving the project/vendor at all.

edit: We(citizens) don't like being spied on, and it just rubs salt in the wound that we have to pay for it.

Good job vetting your vendors Uncle Sam! Somehow, we'll end up paying (taxpayers) to clean this up - just like we paid to deploy it. Sure would be nice if we had any voice/vote in these things...

Erm...I don't think Game of Thrones is what the OP is talking about. You're talking about entertainment, and GP is talking about "information" in the context that "Humanity as a whole benefits from free access to it". Is humanity benefiting from watching actors enact stage combat scenes with makeup and costumes?

Please for the love of everything, let's go. I'm in. This is not a joke.

Try GCP(google compute platform). You get a $300 credit good for one year. That should get you by for several months. If I remember(it's been awhile), there is a similar free offering from AWS(amazon) as well.

This is stranger than fiction. I would have laughed 15 years ago if someone suggested DRM and electronic licensing would ever be applied to a tractor.

Kim Stanley Robinson, is that you??? Reading your comment(whether you intended it this way or not), made me want to read 'The Mars Trilogy' again. If I remember, grabbing and piloting an asteroid above Mars was how they setup their space elevator.

I just recently(last month) broke my habit of `git checkout feature && git merge master`, replacing it with `git checkout feature && git rebase master`. Don't know why I spent so long doing it with merge, and just mentally trying to ignore the useless commit messages that resulted.

EDIT: I meant to include this link, which is a pretty brief yet thorough explanation of when/how/why to rebase: https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/merging-vs-rebasing

>> I've worked with RHCEs that didn't have much in the way of RHEL administrative chops

I don't understand how this is possible. Did you validate their RHCE at redhat.com? It's not a multiple choice test, it's real systems(not connected to the internet, no google for you), and you don't pass if you can't configure/repair them and the services required. The requirements aren't toy examples, they tend to be complicated and involving things you want to avoid due to difficulty. Most people(>50%) fail the exam, according to redhat's statistics.

I've gone through similar scenarios... you hire employees with fantastic experience which includes config management. Everything is optimal until low level problems occur. A good example of this is software raid failing, and the best playbook/manifest writer doesn't know where to begin(without google).

The solution is really really simple. Don't hire people without an RHCE, or that haven't had one in the recent past. Feel free to substitute the RHCE for a comparable certification, which are few and far between.

We're carrying more tools and hardware - unless we're top-roping, and in that case none of these issues exist.

Also, in those times when you need a prusik, there is a less-than-tiny chance you are hurt. EG: you're trying to place your cam, and instead you take a 40 foot drop before your last cam arrests your fall by sending your body directly into the face. Prusiks are more difficult to tie(and ascend!) when your hands are coated in your own blood, etc.

As a fellow climber, a first-time(but long-time climbing veteran) lead climb partner taught me a valuable lesson about this: Always carry an ascender, even if it's not for you.

They are inexpensive, and the 10 seconds you spend feeding it above your harness can save your life. Tying a prusik is easy, and you should be able to do it in your sleep before even thinking about lead climbing outside of a gym. However...tying a Prusik with a fractured arm and bleeding head after a 15-50 foot lead climbing fall before you smack against the face is less-than-easy. In those situations, being able to grab the ascender with whichever hand/arm is not fractured, is far easier than starting a Prusik.

Human(individual) customers won't reap the huge benefit IMO. This is a big step up for commercial sites though, where cellular modems serve as fail-over for fiber/commodity service. These customers typically have unlimited data plans, and are more than happy to pay any outrageous data fees that keeps their network operating.

>> They'd have to upgrade the backhaul too though to take advantage of 5G capacity.

THIS!!! Even if more sites are added, each with their own 10/100gb fiber run - it's still running to the main circuit for a region. That circuit isn't changing(in the near term), this will just consume more of it. Regions without colossal backbone access that are already bandwidth constrained will remain bandwidth constrained.