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easytiger··on CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops
Surely i'ts not normal practice to allow patches to be rolled out without a staging/testing area on an estate of that size?
easytiger··on Nearly 2M metric tons of wild fish used to feed Norwegian farmed salmon annually
Which bit specifically do you have an issue with? Perhaps we can discuss it
easytiger··on Nearly 2M metric tons of wild fish used to feed Norwegian farmed salmon annually
Yes, it is well known that beef and reconstituted processed soybean products have exactly the same nutritional content, eating experience, flavour, texture and satiating ability for the consumer.

People enjoying this experience are clearly morally corrupt lumpenproletariat deserving to be shamed and cowed by the self flagellating self appointed protectors of the summum bonum.

easytiger··on Ask HN: Multicast over UDP vs. Multicast Mellanox Infiniband
> * If IPV4 UDP multi-cast is used, the switch is obliged to forward all mcast packets to all 50 machines.

Nope. The switch (i've only used cisco/arista so ymmv) will keep a map of resolved macs that have made IGMP subscriptions and only forward to hosts thus subscribed to ip:port groups. View on your subscribing host (netstat -g). This is done in switch hardware, however new subs/changing macs is done in software.

Secondly there is/was (i might be out of date) a bug/wontfix in mcast subs in Linux that no matter the group unique IP, if you subbed on a port it would be forwarded to any group with the same port number. So isolate all services using unique port numbers if you have multiple consumers on one host. (see `man 7 ip` setsockopt IP_ADD_MEMBERSHIP)

easytiger··on How much faster are the Gnome 46 terminals?
> With enough terminal output it will bottleneck whatever you're doing. Sometimes extremely dramatically so. To the point of adding hours to a task in really bad cases.

At the very laziest &> foo your output. Or preferably add logging to your application. Go back 20 years and you wouldn't have had the luxury of spewing hundreds of megabytes of text to a remote terminal for no reason.

easytiger··on You Don't Batch Cook When You're Suicidal (2020)
Context on this post from 2020 on a now widely discredited person - https://tattle.life/wiki/jack-monroe/
easytiger··on You Don't Batch Cook When You're Suicidal (2020)
It's a work of fiction. Care to elaborate on your issues?
easytiger··on Could we stop Yellowstone from erupting with a geothermal power plant?
Are they "primarily driven by the ejection of gas" or more accurately preceded by gas and steam as the magma itself is gas rich and thermo and fluid dynamics dictate the gas will be at the vanguard of the breach?
easytiger··on How to stop adulterated turmeric from killing people
> I suppose it’s similar to the problem of people dumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere,

no it isn't

easytiger··on (learn 'scheme)
fair enough, didn't realise. Got multiple paper copies didn't know they CCd it
easytiger··on (learn 'scheme)
There are verbatim copies of SICP content in here. Is that legal?
easytiger··on Austria rail operator OeBB unveils new night trains
How does air travel interfere with your "living space"?
easytiger··on Austria rail operator OeBB unveils new night trains
And yet the author failed to explain how self flagellation and abstinence from proscribed behaviour will change anything
easytiger··on UK considers banning cigarettes for next generation
Any many politicians for vibes reasons want to decrim smoking other drugs. Top minds one and all
easytiger··on UK Parliament undermined the privacy, security, freedom of all internet users
> None of these problems are unique to the UK though. Many other EU countries struggle with all of these problems(and more!) and yet manage to preserve the privacy of their citizens regardless.

I'll presume good faith and assume you are not aware the EU Commission are planning similar, indeed more far reaching laws applicable to all member states. And various other states want to do it themselves.

https://www.wired.com/story/europe-break-encryption-leaked-d...

Perhaps you are only familiar with the anglosphere.

easytiger··on UK Parliament undermined the privacy, security, freedom of all internet users
They are right.

This bill has cross party consensus. The opposition once said it didn't go far enough.

There's nothing you can do. The blob cometh.

easytiger··on UK Parliament undermined the privacy, security, freedom of all internet users
> * It implies that one would be fine with backdoors if they could be made perfectly secure.*

No, it implies that perfect security is impossible. Which is philosophically true.

easytiger··on Climate Change Tracker
Alas in making those statements the people doing so wish to spend large sums of money on projects they feel will mitigate their assertions.
easytiger··on Paris Becomes the First European Capital to Ban Rented Electric Scooters
London next please.
easytiger··on Climate Change Tracker
https://extinctionclock.org/#show
easytiger··on The U.K. government is close to eroding encryption worldwide
i really don't understand what point you are trying to make.

can you elaborate?

easytiger··on Meta’s Reality Labs prototype hardware
Surely, outside of niche applications, people don't think this is a viable mass product?
easytiger··on The U.K. government is close to eroding encryption worldwide
Your entirely false recollection of history is because you start with a premise and work backwards.

Labour's official stance is this and related bills don't go far enough.

easytiger··on The U.K. government is close to eroding encryption worldwide
What do you base that on?

My understanding is this bill will have cross party support and has been in development for many many years.

It might be politically expedient to abandon it at some point, but the mainstream media largely have completely ignored it and the public have little knowledge of it but at all

easytiger··on The U.K. government is close to eroding encryption worldwide
For context this is a cross party designed in committee policy.

Yes, both parties are that bad.

The dumbest thing about this is you create a single attack vector for nation state enemies who we know now all have the facilites to exploit this.

You might as well just turn the lights off and hand Russia, China, Iran, N. Korea the keys.

easytiger··on Show HN: Apache Wayang, multi-platform execution engine
How is this account not banned?
easytiger··on It doesn’t take much public creativity to stand out as a job candidate
Alternatively I see people publishing their "creativity" as virtue signalling nothingness.

I did a freelance job for someone and they asked to see a portfolio.

I said I can't even divulge the nature of the projects I did for various banks let alone send you screenshots of it because me having screenshots would indicate a breach of contract.

Ask me anything about the tech you want to implement.

I got the gig.

I've also seen "vibes" hiring of people with a good rep in various communities and it doesn't work. Those people are generally awful to work with and lack any desire to compromise

easytiger··on Journalists should be skeptical of all sources including scientists
Most people who today call themselves scientists do not meet my philosphical and historical understanding of that vocation.

Indeed for almost none of them is it a vocation.

easytiger··on Meta releases Intermediate Graphics Library
Half Life 2: Lost coast from 2005 might be a fair comparison for this droll hypothetical

https://youtu.be/j-Iykz0gb7Q (video uploaded 2006)

easytiger··on 55 GiB/s FizzBuzz (2021)
GCC et al won't overwrite a .S but if you ask it to gen ASM (e.g. gcc -S xyz.c) it will overwrite a .s
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