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I explain how I'm running on 3 OSes and you actually think I don't know that?

My company's current production electron app has 360 npm dependencies. We have CI for the UI but not for the USB/FFI stack, so any time we have to touch that code everyone blanches.

> innumerable backdoors in the JavaScript ecosystem.

Same goes for Python and CPAN. Any "click here for fancy module" installer has this problem.

This is why regression suites are important.

EDIT: I wasn't dissing the developers. They have regression, this was just an accident. I was stating it is important. My bad (too late to delete).

I run multiple OSes as part of my job.

The small investment in VMWare Fusion was worth it but I still need some dedicated machines.

I just have a few issues:

Problem #1: Disk space requirements. I have a late 2013 MBP and windows gobbles up a min 60GB for the image, which is 1/4th my SDD. This is why I ended up buying cheap beige boxes for every other OS (or AWS).

Problem #2: Clipboard on VMWare is a trainwreck. Same goes for VNC and Microsoft Remote Desktop which I also use. My workaround is to use a text file on my router's USB drive so that I cut and paste through that in each OS.

----> I would pay someone $1,000 to come to my house and fix my clipboard problems.

Problem #3a: The magic mouse blows chunks on anything but macOS. And even running Excel on macOS is impossible with a magic mouse. The left-right slop makes it difficult to scroll vertically without drifting diagonally... I don't know how macOS apps solve that.

Problem #3b: I would kill for a mouse with a real middle button, not a scroll+button. Unix/X middle click paste is a feature I sorely miss on macOS and Windows.

Count me in. Text alerts on all financial institutions to a google voice # and monthly reconciles of all acounts plus weekly investment checks.

I have had two fraudulent CC charges in 25+ years, and they both were reversed immediately so I'm not worried about that. More worried about my credit union so I keep as little in there as possible. (Interest rates are a joke so it doesn't matter.)

> He’s able to recite details about the account that only pnc would know, so now I’m not sure.

That's the creepy part. There is so much of our info available on the darkweb that even engaging with scammers potentially verifies it and makes it more valuable, although it is unlikley a purchaser of a phishing database is going to provide feedback to the point of origin, they may feed it forward if they resell and augmented dbase. [For example, if someone buys 1,000,000 phone numbers, and that person finds 250,000 are bogus, they can sell the "cleaned" database again claiming it's been slightly sanitized. DefCon has taught me to fear the world.]

Google Voice for 2FA. Some companies still have issues with Google Voice SMS (Paypal, I'm looking at you), but it is preferable.

> Nothing is ever that urgent

It took me decades to learn this. I mean, to really learn it.

Barring emergencies (like blood squirting out of puncture wound, or part of your house is on fire):

NOTHING is ever urgent.

You set the pace of your life. You speak when you are ready. You act when you are ready. Take as much time as you need to think.

Oh hellz no! I was just a consumer. Lots and lots of people use the process files for all kinds of modeling (hundreds of models). And every time a new one comes out we all spend a month switching over to it... and another month explaining to our bosses why everything got worse!

The people in charge of the model need to be very smart, very diplomatic, and very thick-skinned because every release they have literally hundreds of managers and project leads screaming at them.

No, I can't elaborate because I wasn't on the process team, I just used their parameters. I watched the agony on faces of friends on-call 24/7 who owned the yields... that was close enough for me. :)

Yes, I meant bringing up the process node.

Yes, more so than other nodes, but for context I only go back to p854, so earlier might have been worse.

I had no idea he started work on FinFETs in the 90's. That's crazy because I worked on them at Intel during the first process (which was an absolute beast to bring up), and I just assumed they were a new tech. Funny that often the people on the cutting edge don't get a chance to appreciate the history.

> Then books 5 and 6 pick up the speed once more, I find them very fast paced.

Oof. 5 is killin' me. 1-4 where so fast-paced. 5 is like, "Here's 50 new people and backstories... oh and by the way there is 3000 years of alliance backstory to catch up on..."

:)

It's gonna take a few more reads to get everything into perspective.

To reiterate the other reply to your post, God Emperor of Dune is the 2nd best book in the series. It really pushes the envelope on imagining what the final outcome of a religion might be. It's a little polemic-heavy, but it IS a god we're talking about. :) Book 5 is the sleeping pill. After the frenzy that is 1-4, 5 just plods along in a dense aftermath.

Meh. Since this article is largely anecdotal, I might as well add my 'dote to the anec:

I'm on Book 5 of Dune (Heretics of Dune), averaging roughly one a week since this started. I read my weekly issue of The Economist throughout the week with breakfast.

For my "project" I'm studying up on STM32 low-power states, something I've wanted to do for ages and now have more free time. So I'm going back and fixing some of my projects to be more efficient. I've also finally figured out how to use Eclipse -- efficiently! -- on Linux with the ARM GCC toolchain. So that's a plus. Now I'm studying Silicon Labs Simplicity Studio. These are things that have been backing up on my project list for almost a year.

Also grinding through the Linux Networking Drivers book, but that's an effort.

So, I'm reading a lot, both technical and (pulp) literature. Granted, Herbet isn't Pynchon, but it's still reading.

EDIT: Yeah, this is a not-humble-brag, but what the hell!

I just learned it is illegal for many states to engage in deficit spending for emergencies:

"That’s in part because, in many cases, states are legally barred from deficit spending, which means in times of crisis, especially those producing huge budget shortfalls through collapsing tax revenue, they are functionally unable to respond at all. In such situations, the federal government is designed to serve as a backstop, but over and over again throughout this crisis, the White House has said states will get little to no help — that they are entirely on their own. (The federal medical stockpile isn’t meant for the states, as Jared Kushner has said, as though the country is anything more than its states.)"

This is why the Trump government stealing PPE supplies from states is so fucked up:

Source:

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/04/hospitals-face-a-whi...

> the amount of context that must be conveyed in order to disambiguate it.

Precisely!

I didn't want to assume what the parent was asking, so I asked for more information.

With a highly-context-sensitive phrase like this it is best to ask them to explain. If it is asked in sincerity a conversation can evolve. If it is asked with an obvious attempt to deliver the subtext, it is quite clear in about 3-4 sentences.

I appreciate your documented thought process. I notice you diligently approach the phrase prima-facie and observe the semantics, but then don't move beyond that. You were super close there with "what did 0xff00ffee mean?", then moved on.

Beyond lexing and yaccing some tokens, there is one very important question, often referred to by historians as part of analysis via the "Period View":

"What is happening culturally (socially and politically) at that time and geography when the phrase was uttered?"

Much like how historical record needs to be digested in context, which is where many of the logical dissections of ideological slogans have a colossal, debilitating blind spot.

Not to say semantic analysis is wrong or irrelevant, it is just half of the process. A necessary half, but only half.

A relative collects Duesenbergs and he uses a fuel additive plus preservative since there is no ethanol-free gas where he lives.

You have a dozen comments in this thread asking "Why is it racist" questions about obviously racist things. You're close to being reported.

Similarly: I don't understand the Oregon Kicker: if there is a surplus, it is sent back to the people.

DUH! The point of a surplus is to save for emergencies! Sure, if there is more than, hm, let's use Chase bank: Six months savings, then send the rest back. But running a state with no emergency savings seems asinine, no?

Unless... maybe a state can just go way into debt immediately if they need to in case of emergency? I don't know how this works, but I'll quote Chase bank, when they berated millennials for not having 6 months savings in case of emergency.

"Dandelion-yellow and uncommonly expensive, St. Clair's butter is served at Thomas Keller's restaurants and is only available once a year to consumers."

On the one hand, reading about this article makes me drool.

On the other, it generates such bullshit highbrow scarcity that it makes me hate haute cuisine.

....I'll take my my first world problem.

Yeah. it takes like 20 minutes to communicate the context and how this isn't so innocuous as it looks. I've had to explain this to my aging boomer parents, and they still don't buy it.

It is truly a subversive phrase because it takes control of the argument from a place that requires, IMO, a lot of basics to be explained and/or challenged... which most people don't want to sit through. It's like a self-generating mine field of arguments.

I believe the term is "corn finished".

Similarly: Iberico ham -- the pigs are fed acorns several months before slaughter.

> And the brown leftover,after making ghee, milk solids tasted amazing with a little sugar.

Wait, what? I love ghee but have never made it. Are you saying there's something even tastier to be found in the process of making it???

This is a fairly dense article, but it is a really profound intersection of "hacking", "reason", and "context". Hacking a language to sound reasonable while delivering a side-channel message through an established context. I guess I never really thought of poets and writers as hackers, but now it clicked into focus.

> "It's okay to be white" campaign.

Are you saying this is reasonable?

EDIT: Here come the downvotes. You can't prove I meant X... oh the irony.

Is there a good book for sheet metal bending? There are lots of things I'd like to make, but when I think through it, the bends always run into each other (at least in my head). Which is why I haven't bought a break yet. Would love to learn the basics about tools, marking, cutting. (My cuts always drift, and deform the metal, would like to learn how to NOT do that.)

Sorry, didn't mean to offend you by suggesting you were anything but a pro.

Did you build a pygmy kayak kit by any chance? I did, it was the most fun I've had building something in my life. The entire "epoxy plus fibrous material" is truly a winning solution for so many applications, apparently hyper-sonic wings, too!

Man I'd be sweating like a pig if I was direct-applying epoxy to a prototype so close to done. I'm used to code where trial and error is de rigueur, I forget sometimes you only get one chance.

You appear to have not read this thread.

The point is about making encrypted email easier. PGP is not the answer, its tools are awful as stated in OP. SMIME can be the answer, but the paucity of CA for personal certs is an issue. That is what we are discussing in this thread.