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Why not ping 8.8.8.8 or 1.1.1.1 or time.windows.com? Things that are actually designed to be highly available services

Huawei can enforce its patents on any device manufactured in China, regardless of if it's for a US customer or not. Which is what the parent comment is saying.

Social engineering?

I mean when you're sixteen, you can sign a legally binding contract (might depend on the jurisdiction). Usually you have to be above the age of majority (18) or be emancipated before you can enter into a binding contract.

Yep, flatten the peak means you can spread the cost of the transmission grid over more electrons, lower the cost per unit of energy.

Yeah, the standard should have just specified like a sha256 HMAC, when that becomes broken in 20 years we can just do a JWT2 (or invent some new successor standard)

Taxes on guns are completely constitutional. The 24th amendment explicitly outlaws poll taxes.

"The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State by reason of failure to lay pill tax or other tax" - 24th amendment to the United States Constitution

The word "Computer" used to refer to a person whose job it was to Compute things.

Yes, everyone should explore the details of the technology they build on top of, and also should explore questions about what it means to be a person or how the world works.

If you're doing formal verification, why are you JIT generating Code? Is the formal verification also being JITd? How do you know the agent wrote a good spec?

Who writes the formal verification spec and when?

Secrets should go in a vault and retrieved with the help of a workload identity.

Pulling in lots of dependencies creates this kind of risk regardless of the ecosystem. That being said in the JS/NPM world you tend to have a LOT more dependencies (especially indirect ones) than other languages. I saw someone do a cursory analysis and JS/Node projects tend to have 5x the number rust or ruby projects.

This is really a cultural problem not a technical one.

Quality vs variety trade off. Costco only has a couple options but they are well better and you don't have to do extra work to make sure you're not buying a piece of crap.

Also, you don't have to shop at Costco exclusively, you still have all the other options available. Costco is just a good default if you're not looking for something specific.

How are you gonna use the electric gas pump in that scenario? The electric car guy just needs a few solar panels.

Do you have any citations, or just your assertions that this happens?

"how do you enforce that kids connection always goes to the parents"

That's the thing. You don't.

It's the parents job to monitor how their children use the Internet.

I believe the technical term for that is "big oof"

He's only published blockbuster hits. But I'm sure he has lots of practice films that have never seen the light of day?

Port it to PowerPoint!

For the average American homeowner 25-50% of their wealth is in their home.

There's two kinds of route hijacks. Origin or path based.

RPKI addresses who is allowed to originate a prefix. There are other technical changes that need to be implemented to get path validation, this cloud flare blog has a good write up on the issues/solutions.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/bgp-route-leak-venezuela/

Lyft even pays people to contribute to OSM

Orbital mechanics are pretty important when you're launching something that orbits the Earth.

"All the large institutions are doing it" has never resulted in disaster (see the dot com bubble and the great financial crisis).

It seems preposterous that building a data center and

launching it into space would be more practical than building a data center terrestrially. Every problem gets 10 to 100 times harder (Cooling, energy, how are you going to do maintenance on the thing, it's in space?)

The only thing that's easier is you don't have to do any local community engagement.

If a grid connection is the constraint on your project, building an islanded data center with a buttload of solar and batteries seems a lot more feasible than launching it into space. Then you have the option to build a grid connection later and monitize those resourcess.

Kinda like how the aerospace industry basically shuts down for the month of December.

Well good thing everyone using the provider is using an open protocol and it's stupid easy to switch

Or you can just clear the cache!

Yeah, any 8/16-bit pixel are t wasn't made to be viewed on a screen with that high a resolution. CRTs smoosh/blur the image a bit so you don't see all the hardlines.

Why are we comparing a programing language and a GPU. This is a category error. Programing languages do not do any operations. They perform no FLOPs, they are the thing the FLOPs are performing.

"The I7-4770K and preform 20k more Flops than C++" is an equally sensible statement (i.e. not)