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You jest but my friend is a professor in Toyama, Japan, and makes the occasional dark joke about moving the people out for a few days and having the US raze it again from time to time.

Sometimes getting rid of ossified organizations is a good thing, but there are probably better ways than high explosives.

They do, Google had/has one in the Dalles in Oregon next to the dam and there are several in line Canada and Finland.

Part of the problem is consistent humidity management, but the other is that air, even really cold air, isn't dense enough to move specific heat as effectively as the same volume of a denser working fluid.

For a practical example in the other direction, look at combined cycle gas turbines which use heated air for the primary turbine and the recapture as much denser steam for the secondary.

The terminology varies by vendors but essentially there are authentication portals that users will log into and receive auth tickets. These are forwarded to network gateways, usually encrypted in a vpn tunnel, that allow traffic based on user RBAC, sometimes region or time, etc.

Captive portals are web auth pages for use cases the more structured method doesn't work for. They were envisioned as making you sign in hotel wifi and such but work in the other direction as well by forcing a web user login before allowing traffic from a host for some period of time.

I've been moving away from this model towards user-asssociated VPNs or (inverse) captive portals.

Used Powerbroker and cyberark for a long time and while they're good at stated purpose the integration with more flexible and modern auth systems has had a lot of friction.

The particular regulatory area I work in is also just a non-starter for federated AAA from outside the regulated systems which colors my opinion though.

Combined with command restrictions in openssh and sudo etc you end up with several wholly disjoint attack surfaces, decent logging, and granular user restrictions.

My work laptop has been on 10 LTSC for years. I don't "hate it" but I've never heard anyone talk about liking it so much as tolerating it to run the stuff they care about.

Maybe it's super great on those surface tablets but all the techy people I know using tablets on are iPads.

And largely still is. There was mass resistance to leaving windows 7 which was the last release they basically worked like people had learned to use it.

Getting stuff like user mode drivers and bitlocker and all the is nice but almost nothing had been added to the core product that users themselves much cared about.

3d object collections pinned to opening labels and the only way to get rid of it is registry hacks. Who was that "feature" ever even for?

Other than IG envy posts a lot of my younger friends seem to be switching to private or mostly private group chats. A lot of them use Discords even for non-gaming stuff probably due to the illusion of a smaller and more authentic community. Tiktok and YT may be replacing others but those seem much more heavily leaning to watching versus posting as the skill and production of what it takes to look good on it is more effort.

If I had to guess they're getting annoyed at the rapid enshittification push at some of the big platforms. We may see federated mastodon model become more popular once a few celebrities figure it out.

Gliders or ultralights are a great way to get your head around the way the aircraft moves and what you feel when it does.

Being a stickler is one of those cultural things that never makes it into the entertainment world. So much more planning goes into even the simplest flight that the sims mostly handwave. I play IL2 a lot and it's funny seeing the missions generate weather that would have grounded early aircraft full stop.

I look at it more like Excel now. It gives you just enough to do simple things easily with tools that make more complicated things ... Horrifying.

Seeing deeply nested excel IFs that parsed out individual letters of a string for recursive cell logic still gives me nightmares.

Are memory locations or labels resolved to them, probably at compile or startup time, really any different?

The whole GOTO-harmful is a product of a bygone time much as anyone needing to keep track of a jump table by hand is now.

The NYT has always gathered the zeitgeist of highly affluent and artsy new Yorkers, who tend to be highly invested in maintaining their status quo. They may not be right wing by principle, but they get there a lot on some subjects by talking to lots of bankers and financiers.

Windows notepad possibly being the most prominent text editor that ed is unambiguously superior to.

Still blows my mind that projects like notepad++ have been around for the literal lifetime of younger users and somehow MS just did not give any sort of shit about their terrible editor.

There are dated messages in the article showing this going back to at least July 2023. So yes, your second case is closer to what appears to have been the sequence of events.

Also they've been giving out these warnings for months. I'm sympathetic to the guy with the seemingly abusive legal actions from Fox but this storage problem did not just spring from nothing into the final crisis stage.

We had to move a bunch of data off gdrive too, which did little for our opinion of Google's business customer support and was a PITA I didn't need, but the first warnings were in 2002 some time and we were nowhere near as egregious in usage as some of the/r/datahoarder crowd that had multiple petabytes hiding in the lowest cost Gsuite legacy pricing.

A really slick slide deck on how your unicorn will make this person the envy of his peers.

Also amazing amounts of luck, or family connections.

That's been similar to my experience in the last year. WhatsApp or even worse, Snapchat, seems to be the preferred "private" messaging platforms, which is depressing to say the least.

I have yet to find a replacement that both I like and other people use. Matrix and Session I have yet to find anyone using, telegram seems to be almost entirely bots in my area, and WhatsApp etc are owned by Meta.

Who is the active user base for signal these days? Everyone I knew who was using it dropped off after the SMS debacle, which was a shame.

Edit: Wow some weird haters on HN today. I was honestly curious as an active signal user that was no longer able to use it to message people in North America and had never seen anyone using it in East Asia. Apparently this makes some other signal users very angry.

Out of curiosity what are you moving to? Ended up moving to gsuite because it was relatively stable some years ago until the domains thing but hasn't boiled over into a problem I needed to deal with imminently.

Unless you go out of your way, it's not invited in, it was already inside. Most people who don't live in o365 don't know or care what OneDrive even is due to how much it sucks.

This is more user hostile tactics to force acceptance of the eventual subscription fees for everything Windows.

They were always there, but the impetus for frictionless experiences to drive revenue also removed all the barriers and effort to congregating and often exploiting those people.

It was there on Usenet, it's been there since people were scratching messages on bathroom stalls and subway walls.

But yes, now we have effectively created cult generators and not only does no one want to turn them off, really smart people (even many with good intentions) keep making them more efficient.

They're intentionally killing it slowly through malicious neglect. It's already unable to deal with some things in user profiles and the image galleries which force you into the new awful.

Our AB testing indicates 12% higher laceration engagement is possible with additional modal enstabbators.

I have permanent residency in Taiwan so it's easy for me, although before that it was still easier than anything in the US, just not next to free without their national insurance.

I don't necessarily encourage medical tourism but simply fly to Taipei, find a doctor you want to see, and sign up for an appointment. It will be a little more work without the NHI card but still probably less than whatever you're dealing with. If you get medical scans, almost everyone can print a CD with them in a day or two if you ask. Getting care even without insurance was cheaper than just my US insurance premiums.

Having someone fluent in Chinese is important enough I'd say it was required but if you restrict yourself to a smaller sunset of hospitals and clinics that serve foreigners around like Tianmu you may be able to get by with a translator app.

People outside NHI are uncommon and their medical system isn't really set up to support it. You may want to consider actual medical tourism facilities of which I've heard of several in Mexico or Costa Rica.

You and your mother may also want to consider rioting, because the US system is deliberately and almost uniquely stupid.

We're just now really getting studies propagating into medical knowledge of a lot of this. I have covid-related tinnitus and despite the huge uptick in people reporting these symptoms post infection it took until this year to find a doctor that had specific interest in the subject.

Heart damage has been a known likely problem for a while, hopefully we're on the cusp of better diagnosis and treatment protocols.

They're being squeezed by patient demand and administrations simultaneously, the whole system in the US has seemed on the brink of collapse since 2020.

I get all my care done in Taiwan and everything is fine and the doctors all seem to be mostly happy with their jobs, and a few regular nurses like me because I look like a famous actor, so they're always pretty chatty and seem to be mostly ok with life.

Comically I was experimenting on this in 2013 or so and came to the conclusion it wasn't worth it except as a joke, something I'm sure lots of other people did too.

But combined with the insane browser expectation of being able run unsigned JS and such from anywhere, you could probably host an entire simple text forum on whatever public chain as long as no one cares about it being fast.

Direct API is nice but any block chain explorer service would work in a pinch.

His older stuff is a good way to learn basic DCS dogfighting but the impetus to constantly push more new videos has really killed the overall quality and now it's a lot of a "user mod super plane x versus user mod super plane y."

Can't speak to asrock but asus x570 boards definitely really do ECC, I have a known bad ECC DIMM and it's possible to use it to create correctable and uncorrectable conditions in short order.

Hard to imagine asrock wouldn't run the lines given all the other components are there, but I guess it's conceivably possible. If the kernel says it has ECC, it's right. If not, return the board as defective and use a different vendor.

Half joking, by the time of the NES port he would have certainly had many available options for all that , but even with access to a timesharing system with real storage and all that in the earlier 80s having at least sections on paper for easy reference against printed manuals was handy.