colinb

Imagine being a news paper/site editor and having this kind of headline potential drop in your lap.

I think I understand why this is true for plain IP forwarding. There isn’t much to break the cache and the lookups are few and fast.

What’s the cheapest (new) computer that can drive a 1Gb port with NAT? With a busy encrypted (wireguard?) connection?

[I don’t think qos has a lot of use in the domestic environment; sure, someone here does it but I think it’s much less mainstream than the features I already mentioned. ]

Such a device could drive my home. But in a couple of years I suspect I’ll want 2Gb or 10.

In the past I’ve tended to use a device until its crappy power supply failed. So I guess I’m hoping for a >5 year life span/upgrade capacity.

For all I know the answer to my question is one of those passively cooled four port n100 bricks from AliExpress. Anecdata happily accepted.

I think you have the wrong end of this stick. See the Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior for an example. There have been several iterations of this ship name since the first was bombed by the French secret service in 1985.

Your argument ignores two things.

First, the US constitution as it currently stands admits modifications. Amendments are version bumps. My understanding is that they’re harder to come by these days.

Second, the constitution may be written but the interpretation is always changing. In particular, the interpretation of laws around restriction of free speech have lots of history of being interpreted in ways that may or may not be congruent with the intentions of the original authors, who’re dead, so we’ll never know the truth of it. It’s only been 107 years since the US Supreme Court decided that anti-draft speech in time of war COULD BE ILLEGAL. Apparently that was partially overturned in 1969.

Thirdly [naming, caching and out by one bugs!] it is far from clear that a written constitution will lead to a durable republic. It’s only been ~250 years. Too soon to tell.

> code for radiation hardened environments

I’m aware of code that detects bit flips via unreasonable value detection (“this counter cannot be this high so quickly”). What else is there?

I’d upvote this a hundred times (which seems very in keeping with modern democratic (small ‘d’. Put away that axe Eugene) norms) not because I love the solution, which is necessarily janky, and not because I like the author’s prose style, though I do, but because it ought to be a cause of embarrassment to Apple that this sort of folderol is needed.

Art is only interesting if it elicits an emotional response in the viewer. Otherwise it is illustration.

And the wonder of it is that we can all have different responses to the same thing. (The Mona Lisa is a waste of canvas and oil - a hill I will die on).

Your quote needs a “sometimes”. For every murderous, blood-soaked dictator who experienced pitchfork-o-clock there are several others who died peacefully in their beds at a rote old age. Louis the n-teenth lost his head. How about Louis 1-(n-1)?

Alas I think I've read/watched everything on your list. I'll try a useful echo response. I read the two big Arkady Martine books, and much of Ann Leckie's work. I thought they were all pretty good. Martine because the Aztec's in space genre is new to me, and she writes so well about people, Leckie because her galaxy spanning empire of genetically cloned god-kings and spaceships with transferrable personalities is clever and disconcerting.

Recommendations?

“Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth And delves the parallels in beauty's brow, Feeds on the rarities of nature's truth, And nothing stands but for his scythe to mow:”

just for hiring someone in France via a third-party employer of record.

How certain are you of this? I only have anecdata, but when I tried to use a 3rd party agency to hire someone in France, from Ireland I got the process through several layers of management, up to and including the CEO and COO of my American employer, and HR, and legal counsel, only to be warned away in the most emphatic terms by external counsel. They told us of the risk of large fines and jail time in France for executives of companies doing this.

As I said, anecdotal, and a few years old.

I think it's largely to do with the whether the games are PvP multiplayer or not. I.e. many such games have anti-cheat systems that embed in the Windows kernel (or something like that - my Windows internals knowledge is... slim).

I assert that most people who're happy running Linux on their desktop (for games or productivity or development) do not overlap much with the people who're happy to take kernel patches from UbiFuckingSoft. And this includes those people who're willing to take closed-source NVIDIA drivers.

This argument that nuclear power generation is clean if you ignore the times when it isn't seems a bit no-true-Scotsman to me. It's a thing I've changed my mind about more than once in the past. What sways my thinking now is:

- most nuclear power does indeed seem to be well run with minimal pollution. - when it goes wrong, the consequences are awful and long-lived (I can, off the top of my head, name two sites that are dangerous decades after they were polluted. I suspect there are others that don't have the same cultural resonance for me. - the alternatives in terms of renewables and storage are improving seemingly from one day to the next.

The long term consequences, and human frailty in the face of a requirement for total and eternal vigilance convince me that the risk outweighs the reward. Where nuclear power once seemed [to me. I appreciated that some people have always been anti-nuke] like the least bad option compared with e.g. coal, now there are better ways to make our lives work.

If the endless 50-years-in-the-future ever actually expires and we get practical fusion power, it'll be interesting to see how this changes my thinking. Perhaps that will will have fewer toxic side effects when it goes wrong.

So jelly and ice cream for the founders and a pat on the head for everyone else? Surely even by the cockeyed logic of usual startup exits this is egregiously nasty?

Perhaps there’s some nugget of gold that the papers haven’t reported? If not, and I were an employee of Groq, I’d be feeling ill used.

Fagan inspection has entered the room

Wholly ignorant passer by here. Is this a thing that’d make (notoriously) slow FPGA synthesis (by which I think I mean the conversion of VHDL or Verilog to something that can be injected into an FPGA) much faster?

It definitely seems uphill but not infinitely so.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-55795075.amp

Though that case, returning an alleged, now convicted child rapist took decades.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malka_Leifer_affair

As a not-Israeli Jew the reluctance of the Israeli government to send alleged criminals for trial overseas doesn’t make me happy, but I also remember that there are some reasons for this.

There's an interview show on RTE presented by Tommy Tiernan. I don't care for him much, but I happened to be watching the episode where JJB was interviewed. The thing that makes the show interesting (modulo Tommy, the prick) is that he doesn't know who the next guest will be, and often doesn't know why they're notable even when he is told their name, live. So, he has to ask them questions. "Why are you notable?". This I love, because it's a recognition that there are many people who do, and have done, really interesting, worthwhile things without necessarily being known to more than a small segment of the population. [I feel this way about footballers and opera singers. I know a few really big names, but it's mostly a clouded mountain top to me]

So, JJB is interviewed. Approximately like this:

TT: So, who are you? Why are you interesting? JJB: I discovered pulsars. TT: ... what's a pulsar? JJB: <explanation> .. drifts into talk about Nobel prizes. JJB continues as you say to be a class act. Then onto spirituality [not my bag]

https://youtu.be/ybKNXJexutE?si=SDF8h_gKqRObJqJU

I wish I could find the whole interview for you. It was gold. Although the subject matter of the segment I linked isn't that interesting to me, the format, and spirit (sorry) of open and honest enquiry is really good IMO. I wish we had more TV like this.

Isn’t this already a well known thing? I first learned of it reading The Great Mortality by John Kelly maybe eighteen years ago. An excellent book by the way; funnier than you might expect a history of the Black Death to be.

oh, it's illegal where I live. But some people pretty clearly ignore that. Enforcement doesn't seem to be a thing. I think this is one of those laws that falls into the category of things that we just have to rely on people's good will to carry out. Like small-time littering and not cleaning up after your dog, some people just don't seem to care.

FWIW, I think - based on not feeling my throat close up most of the time - that the number of people who do this is small.

One more reason to look to an electrically heated future. Where I live the air becomes unpleasant in winter as some neighbours heat their homes by burning what i can only assume are old tires and horse carcasses.

I have happy memories of the struggle to open the Trotsky boxes. In my house we used to have them with cocktails, so it was easiest to just pull out the bar tools and hack away.

(Oh the embarrassment. My ears are burning)

The topic is interesting to me but the requirement for a display supporting VGA undermines that. In my ignorance, I still think I understand where the requirement comes from (VGA is I believe easier to build with FPGA than HDMI) but I don’t have space for another (third!) screen on my desk.

What’s a poor software guy to do?

I thought that all lands between high and low tide belongs to the monarch. Is that not applicable here?

To which Beacon of Free Speech will you go?

The UK has its problems. Vague laws, over-excited police, Home Secretaries from every party who can never get enough polish on jack boots.

When I lived there I complained to my MP about David Blunkett. Jack Straw was no better. I left around the time Teresa May (leopard skin boots. A change for the better) was telling migrants they weren’t welcome from the back of trucks.

But stasi is ain’t. It’s a nonsense statement.

It’s been more than forty years (good God!) since I read it, but I recall enjoying Virginibus Puerisque excessively. My delight was doubled when I found out that my mother had read and enjoyed it too. Travels with a Donkey was another hit for me.

I had less luck with Kidnapped. Haven’t tried Treasure Island.

Is it the DAC or the wired headphones that make the difference?

I'd like to be respectful, guidelines and all that, but this comment is dismissive of people's real concerns, and frankly a bit arseholey.

Do the people who offer to buy your house have armies? Are they keen on deploying drones and missiles against people who annoy them?

Maybe the orange man was just joking. Maybe it's all part of some genius strategy to increase the US' standing in the world. Maybe it's a clever scheme to boost the US economy. But from the point of view of the Greenlanders and the Danes it seems to be more like a visit from the mafia. "Nice country you've got here. It'd be a shame if something were to happen to it."

Sigh. Maybe I'm reading more into your comment than you meant. If that's the case, I'm sorry. If it isn't, I suggest that you stop to consider that your entertainment news may be someone else's threat of violence.