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It's an extension of a peace through strength philosophy. If you lose your critical sovereign capabilities you become weak and vulnerable. You no longer get to decide who you do and don't "never go to war with".

The environment? As in trees?

AFAICT "The AI" (which is never actually described in the article) is a CSOP solver.

They should've just Linux.

Says this in the article:

> A programming flaw in its cloud services also allowed China-backed hackers to steal email from federal officials. On Friday, Microsoft said it would stop using China-based engineers to support Defense Department cloud-computing programs after a report by investigative outlet ProPublica revealed the practice, prompting Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to order a review of Pentagon cloud deals.

What's wrong with `kubectl apply -f xxx.yaml`?

> .. they rarely seem to have even a basic grasp of computer science. I've had to personally mentor many (academic route) engineers over the years on what I would consider absolute basics.

This is kind of fascinating. Please give some examples.

"inflationary collapse" seems contradictory. I think hyperinflation is a more correct term.

Isn't that most software devs?

Erm, last I checked GMail literally reads all your emails to profile you.

Noob question: Is the optimal sphere packing correlated with a regular lattice? I.e. that's the case for 2D,3D right? If so does this extend to ND?

Yes.

Noise pollution is yet another tax disproportionately shouldered by the poor.

In contrast, using descriptive link text does seem extraordinarily easy.

House of representatives is not designed to provide proportional representation based on aggregate % vote country wide. Senate is more aligned that way and it's reflected in the numbers, in AU:

Current US senate (100 seats):

  Republicans: 53 seats (Majority Party)
  Democrats: 45 seats (Minority Party)
  Independents: 2 seats

Current AU senate (76):

  Australian Labor Party: 29
  Coalition: 27
  Australian Greens: 10
  Pauline Hanson's One Nation: 4
  Jacqui Lambie Network: 1
  Australia's Voice: 1
  United Australia Party: 1
  Independents: 3

So Greens are slightly over represented in the AU Senate based on aggregate vote if 12.2% is correct.

Current US house of reps (435 seats):

  Republicans: 220 seats.
  Democrats: 215 seats.
  Independents/Third Party: 0 seats.

Current AU house of reps (150 seats):

  Australian Labor Party (ALP): 94 seats
  Coalition: 43 seats (combined Liberal/National parties)
  Australian Greens: 1 seat
  Centre Alliance: 1 seat
  Katter's Australian Party: 1 seat
  Independents: 10 seats

What's the alternative?

Are ad blockers like AdBlock, uBlock effective against these?

> Dependency injection is just passing your dependencies in as constructor arguments rather than as hidden dependencies that the class itself creates and manages.

That's the best way to think of it fundamentally. But the main implication of that which is at some point something has to know how to resolve those dependencies - i.e. they can't just be constructed and then injected from magic land. So global cradles/resolvers/containers/injectors/providers (depending on your language and framework) are also typically part and parcel of DI, and that can have some big implications on the structure of your code that some people don't like. Also you can inject functions and methods not just constructors.

lowish. Meaning if you run a Linux desktop env with a mild amount of software installed it's likely pulled in already.

> What happens when you have multiple matching keys?

Use keyid instead.

> What happens when your key expires?

GPG will refuse to use it for encryption. Create a new encryption key.

> What happens when the output format changes?

N/A here (?)

> What happens when the key expires and it's attached to a hardware device?

You got me.

This is 13 lines of Bash plus GPG which is available ~everywhere and a pretty lowish level Linux dependency. SOPS is +20KLOC of Go with support for cloud KMS etc etc. I think you got your mystery meat analogy backwards.

The tool is just pulling one encryption key from your local GPG keyring. What's to maintain?

> why is it the government's job to do this?

Because the private sector can't see past their profit motive to the national defense motive.

> ... DOGE employees demanded the highest level of access ... When an IT staffer suggested a streamlined process to activate those accounts in a way that would let their activities be tracked, in accordance with NLRB security policies, the IT staffers were told to stay out of DOGE's way, the disclosure continues.

But did they actually "turn off logging"?? How do you even do that? Anyone know what access control system they are talking about?

It's like arguing web components suck because there is all these problems you need to solve, while pretending web component frameworks (React, Vue, Angular, ..) that solve all those problems don't exist.

I think general consensus is against you. Fedora packaging policy [1]:

> Packages including libraries should exclude static libs as far as possible (eg by configuring with --disable-static). Static libraries should only be included in exceptional circumstances. Applications linking against libraries should as far as possible link against shared libraries not static versions.

[1]: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/

Reads like a series of strawman arguments if you replace "WebSockets" with socket.io.

  - "messages aren’t transactional": You can process request and return a value to sender in socket.io application layer. Is that transactional enough?
  - "If you’re sending messages that don’t necessarily need to be acknowledged (like a heartbeat or keyboard inputs), then Websockets make a great fit". But socket.io has acknowledgements.
  - "When a new WebSocket connection is initiated, your server has to handle the HTTP “upgrade” request handshake.". You can bypass handshake and go straight to WS even in Websockets, and if you don't socket.io handles upgrade for you pretty nicely so you not parsing HTTP header ..

Silicon Valley == assembling laptops?

Or even fewer by doing it in a global exception handler instead of every time you try to open a file, since all your doing is piping the error though logger.