It wasn't a particularly healthy environment, as I recall (it was a long time ago). Rather than "tough but fair," I remember my drill cadre being volatile and sort of mean.
It was ridiculous that they punished me for coming forward. OTOH, I knew them well enough by that point, and a wiser me would have chosen to continue keeping a low profile until I could GTFO.
While in Army basic training, my duffel got swapped with another guy's (no idea whose). Back at the barracks, I discovered that they'd snagged some spent shells from the range. Massive no-no. Young, naive me assumed that presenting these to the drill sergeants and explaining the situation would be the correct move. I was severely disciplined as a result. Others were like, "Dude... why didn't you just quietly toss that shit in the trash?!?" It was a big wake-up call for how poorly I could gauge people (e.g. the sgts), adapting to the situation, etc.
This site works surprisingly poorly in Firefox (Mac). When I click a link, I usually get a blank page along with some CSP errors and have to refresh. No problems in Safari or Chrome.
I get the huckster vibe he described as that was my impression long ago when I’d see it advertised all over, hear Steve speak, etc. I did in fact buy Spinrite once when my HDD was pretty well screwed. It didn’t improve things, but credit where due: GRC did immediately honor the money back guarantee.
Not buy, but I print out a 2-month "calendar" (just the current + next month) every month. I love scribbling on it, drawing arrows, x-ing stuff out, colors, whatever. I do 2 months since near the end of the month, stuff will bleed into the upcoming month. On the 1st, I thoroughly enjoy printing out a clean version for the next 2 months and copying the rollover items. It is a satisfying ritual.
Similar state, ended up with Netlify CMS (now the weirdly-named https://decapcms.org). Still just my repo and static page build process, but I get a basic GUI to make and edit pages.
Was there some particular event (new release, announcement, etc.) that has prompted the ton of Laravel references I'm seeing on X and elsewhere very recently?
Yet when it comes to kids being able to communicate at a distance, I think we’ve lost something. My son (12) is quite fascinated when I explain how the old landline approach used to work. That there wasn’t really an age limit, that you could find out someone’s number just from a book, that the house had a phone and you might have to ask to talk to someone. He says it’s too complicated now because all his friends have varied access to devices, are on different chat apps, it is awkward to ask someone for their phone number or email, no one want to talk (voice), etc.
I get where you're coming from, though it has me neither excited nor scared. I think interests will just get pushed around a bit, and I feel like we still inherently crave human-created things in one way or another. For example, it used to be cool when someone would make a nice movie of photos of their trip with titles and effects and share it. Now... it takes seconds, is automated, my feed is filled with such "reels", and I don't watch any of them. Instead, that plain, typo-filled but authentic text update catches my eye. Things that highlight personal craft will be demanded. Look to any number of parallels in the physical world.
I learned of this site recently and have become addicted to it. I haven't used much of this math in 25 years, but now I've got kids who are getting into more challenging stuff, asking for my help, and this site is a great way for me to review a breadth of material. The adaptive system seems to work well and is delivering consistently challenging but doable problems for me.
I'm still trying to interpret the recommendations regarding security and this new v2 option. The blog post makes statements like, "For secrets, we need something different." and then goes into detail about cryptographic randomness, ChaCha8, and how it is seeded with system randomness. It gives the impression of being very "secure". But then the package docs state:
>... but it should not be used for security-sensitive work ... This package's outputs might be easily predictable regardless of how it's seeded. For random numbers suitable for security-sensitive work, see the crypto/rand package.
If that's the case, then why hint at using math/rand/v2 "for secrets" in the blog post? Is the short version that we should all still use "crypto/rand" for anything sensitive, and all of the improvements described here are a safety net should someone inappropriately use math/rand/v2?
Quite the variety of problems, really. I'm seeing them work on word problems, graphing, geometry, etc. The best resource I've found is https://www.math-aids.com . It's pretty close to the mark, actually, but some of the domains are just a bit rigid in their configuration so I'm scoping out anything else.
That’s what I figured, too, and then I joined Truth Social to that a peek behind that curtain. It really is just all pro Trump people posting pro Trump stuff and upvoting everyone else’s stuff. There’s little discussion, debate, or internet-typical arguing. It’s everyone just +1’ing each other in the weirdest, most boring echo chamber I’ve seen online.
There is a gradient only a few years long with the end point being they can do whatever they want, basically. Based on chats with other parents who have older kids, I think the model will transition to ever more access, with more severe consequences for breaking whatever rules we end up setting (behavior, content, etc). For example, a neighbor's 16-year-old had a strict rule of leaving location tracking on for his parents to know where he was. He turned it off to sneak about, they found out, so he lost the phone for two weeks. But tbh with kids it all changes so quickly, we will take it day by day.
I have a 12 and 10 y/o. Neither has a phone, but both have access to plenty of approved apps (games, etc.) via their iPads, and now also group chats via iMessage where we can choose read everything (we spot check) and know the contacts. This seems like a reasonable amount of connectivity, without the full wrath of social media just yet. They occasionally complain their friend has an iPhone 15 XL blah blah, but then they move on.
Sprinkle in climate change, and you'll be down to 5! I may be grading them too critically at this point, but in recent years, it feels like that XKCD about Wikipedia and how all roads lead to "Philosophy." Sometimes, I'll sit there wondering how the leap will be made from some benign story to these anchor topics, but they usually manage. I don't like that predictability at all.
A deorbit of 3T of ISS cargo is significant, and there was a decent amount of press in fairly mainstream news sites leading up to the re-entry. It doesn't seem that unlikely that he, or someone he knows, had heard about it and connected the dots.
I'm very interested in this tech but have never used it. From the FAQ it seems like that while they need to deliver a compliant system (e.g. interpreted code, I guess), the author is on the hook for following the spirit of the rule.
Or a slow anything else, e.g., SQLite queries. This thread has focused on the network aspects, and they do stand out since there can be such a large gap between a network call vs a local SSD read. But we're still talking about a database, which could be huge (presumably it's the main, single DB for the whole app). And there is still all of the actual SQLite work that needs to happen to execute a query, plus opportunities for really bad performance b/c of bad queries, lack of indexes, all the usual suspects. Not to mention the load on the owning process itself. So, I'm agreeing that a loading state is needed.
I grew up during the "computer revolution" and saw the internet enter our lives. I was sure that digitizing information and all of the "zero-cost copies" was clearly the way to make information available to everyone, forever. Since then, I've seen much of this information become closely guarded (paywalls, etc.) and, in many cases, inaccessible. This is especially true for content born on the web that's now gone from the web, with only some busted links here or there to tell us it ever even existed.
Compare this to my local library. I can access a large collection of books, magazines, and newspapers instantly, for free. For something not local, I ask the librarian for help and that item appears a few days later through the magic of interlibrary loan. And for durability, I now feel that printed volumes in multiple locations can easily outlast much of our digital content.