alphager

Strongly disagree. The smaller the company is, the more political it is. Because now there's no layer to appeal to or to inject sanity; it's the way of the owner or the highway. Being on the right side of the owner is the most important thing and if you're on the right side, you can be as incompetent as you want (see: son of the owner is an idiot, but is the second in command).

Laws are not created by the commission. Laws can be proposed by the commission, but must pass an unanimous vote by the council (made up of a representative of the government of every country) and pass a qualified majority vote in the EU parliament.

It may seem absurd to you, but it's highly effective. Both general crime rates as well as recidivism are lower.

I think there's a very obvious error in the calculation:

The author jumps from 30mS increases the risk of cancer by 1/660 to 1 in 660 get cancer after the procedure.

No, they don't. The banks know perfectly well that this doesn't catch terrorists. But by law they are liable if a terrorist uses their services if they don't have a program to detect terrorists. A key-word match on Iran, bomb, ISIS, etc. is enough in the eyes of the regulator.

The large address space and thus the king addresses are an artifact of optimizing the routing.

I think just saving the endless discussions of "my Xbox only got nat type 2, how do I change it?" alone saves more lifetimes than are lost by c&p adresses (not to speak of the large infrastructure costs of maintaining gcnat at scale).

There's no reasonable minimum wage. A minimum wage that would be appropriate for restaurants is nonsensical for electricians.

The swedish model basically sets minimum wage by sector. Much more tailored to the employers and employees.

I was highly skeptical (and especially didn't like the nature of having a limited number of searches per month), but decided to try it for a few days.

I'm blown away. They really are that good

Only available in the ultimate plan.

How is it worse in Europe? Where in Europe is it worse?

I can't remember the last time the grid failed.

There's mainly three kinds of patches:

* make the software behave like Debian needs it (configuration is stored somewhere in /etc/, no additional downloads at runtime, use the system libraries instead of vendored ones) * security backports. Debian freezes the functionality at release and only provides security updates. Many software nowadays just includes security fixes in new releases bundled with new functionality.

In combination these two kinds of patches lead to growing differences between a Debian released version 1.2 and the "real" 1.2, making it harder to handle bug reports (e.g. you get a bug report for version 1.2-Debian, but only support the "real" version 1.4 with a whole set of updated libraries).

The third kind of patch has mostly gone out of style; it's when Debian thinks they can improve the software. That lead to things like removing randomness from SSH keys: https://github.com/g0tmi1k/debian-ssh

Pretty sure you had to configure both devices for it to work.

And you'd be fine in Germany.

HN paints an overly gloomy picture of Germany. All points mentioned contain a kernel of truth but also a pessimistic linear regression concerning the outlook of the future. We've got a very minor recession going on, that's all. The economy will turn around next year.

The energy crisis is of the higher price than usual variety (and is already way past its peak; look at the 5y chart: https://ycharts.com/indicators/germany_natural_gas_border_pr...). The greenefication of our electrical grid is ongoing and will cost us a ton of money over the next 5-10 years, but will pay off after that (yes, it would have been better to keep the atomic power plants running until then; that's one of the few irrational decision done by the previous conservative government and confirmed by the current government).

We had a large immigration spike in 2015 and another one in 2022 (Syria and Ukraine), overfilling the immigration centers.

Aging population is a thing, as in any other western country. Turns out that immigration is one of the things that counteracts it! And we're currently (and for the next decade) in serious need of unskilled labor, so even the 40% of syrian refugees that haven't gotten work yet (many of those because of the slow bureaucracy...) will be needed.

It's certainly not all sunshine and rainbows, but it's also certainly not a crumbling country without a future.

No. You can have multiple DKIM DNS records (each identified by an id called selector). Each DKIM signature includes the selector. When you change keys, you create a new DNS entry with a new selector, then change the settings of the mailserver. New mails will then be signed by the new key with the new selector. Old mails can still be verified until you delete the old DNS entry.

That seems insecure; just chmod -R 777 /

Obligatory zkcd: https://xkcd.com/1217/

The same way the US prevents me from buying cuban cigars here in Germany over the internet:

* execs are liable for breaches of the law if/when they travel to the US. * companies in the US are forbidden to do business with companies in Germany that breach the US law

There are a handful of small companies doing direct sales that are small enough that they do not have US partners. The rest complies because doing otherwise is financially disadvantageous.

Their USP was that they had no revenue share. Somehow they thought that the current retroactive per-install model would go over better than reneging on that promise.

What did he do? The Wikipedia entry seems harmless.

This is the core problem. Everybody is discussing the crash dump and the exfil, but the core problem is that Microsoft neither validated the validity of keys (the leaked key was already invalid) nor the context of the key usage (the key wasn't allowed to generate admin tokens). They just checked if the key was signed by the Microsoft CA.

This is something that's incredibly obvious in a code review.

6 digit years are a solution for a problem we have today. Think geologist simulating continental drift.

Look, I paid you your asking price for the /full/ spec; now you're telling me you will only deliver it partially and have the gall to say I get to decide how much money on top I pay you after the deadline for the full spec has passed? Why on earth would I accept this?

Yup, 1970. The Mythical Man-Month was published in 1975.

Our industry is well on the path to ignore the obvious truths for 50 years...

As a parent, I welcome this.

Although a child-free area on a plane sounds about as effective as a non-peeing area in a public pool.

Age is pretty mutable (until death).

In case of a detachment, the train will automatically perform an emergency brake (without the possibility of manual intervention by the conductor).

Trains are fail-safe. They only run because the brakes are held open by a pressured air system running along the whole train. In case of a detachment, the hose connecting the wagons would break, releasing the air pressure and thus slamming the brakes down.

Yes, which is why your flight sometimes is delayed until the refueling truck comes around.

Pilots calculate the needed fuel depending on weight of the cargo, distance to target, and meteorological conditions on the path. They can only calculate it once they've got the cargo weight (to within a certain degree.)

On the flip side, Debian doesn't upgrade to a new version when a vulnerability is found in the shipped version. Instead, they try to backport just the fix.

If Debian shipped version n and the upstream fixes the vulnerability in version n+5 (not unusual, as debian stable is routinely out of date for 2-4 years depending on the length of the testing freeze and the point in time of the stable lifecycle), this can range from trivial to near impossible in a timely manner.

They also tend to be opinionated about the software they ship and do include many Debian-specific patches. Most of them are harmless or just small changes to make the software work better with the Debian way of configuring things; sometimes much more catastrophic: https://github.com/g0tmi1k/debian-ssh

In this parallel comment, the first paragraph doesn't make any sense and seems like LLM-output: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37192872

The enjoyment is key for it to make sense. If it's a chore like laundry or vacuuming, it makes sense to outsource it.