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I subscribe to the NYT partly for the daily word games.

They had a survey a few months ago and that made me think about why... I realized many days, the only positive interaction with encouraging words for me was solving those games.

> The study was conducted between December 23-25, 2021, while sampling feedback from 2,200 United States adults.

Randomly selected? Members of some crypto site? Garbage website makes sure there's no methodology or link to it you so will never know.

You should use a dns blackhole (pihole type approach) as well as browser privacy extensions anyway.

Techcrunch has a redirect to guce.advertising.com, which is blackholed... so I can't read their content directly whether it's on hn or not. If I specifically want to read it, archive.is has it without ads. That means they get punished either way by losing hits, which is the only pressure they care about.

Pay rates in Austin are a fraction of SV.

Isn't it you are exhausted with people rather than code?

Picture and summary for the curious

https://www.eviation.co/

You seem to have put off cleaning this up for way too long.

You should be able to register the same ssh pubkey with all the accounts.

Then just back up that pub and privkey on a usb stick somewhere and accesss everything from the same keypair.

> Specifying LE in CAA means that I authorize noone to issue certificates for my domains, except for US-based forces. That is something I will never do, being the citizen of completely independent jurisdiction. I am not a traitor.

Uh... okay...

I don't see periodic packet loss as a very convincing indicator of compromise by itself.

It's more likely a shared part of your ISP network, beyond your front door, overloaded or struggling.

In your router you should be able to monitor things like link snr and see how it acts when working well and showing the problem. Same with packetloss to your gateway.

Yeah... also

>> Software does not decay.

The term 'bitrot' exists for a reason. Most software doesn't exist in isolation, the things it interfaces to directly (eg, libs, the OS, bits in cpu words) or remotely (crypto certs, algs, protocols) will change over time and break it. Even if it truly was not broken before.

The point is the developer was not allowed, by github, to break his own copy, they suspended his account.

This is a reminder of how much power you cede to Microsoft when you decide to make yourself completely reliant on their free services.

... so your boss gained some amount from using FOSS. Did the FOSS projects gain anything from that? If not, why should they care if your boss wants to pay a different group to supply him software under more restrictive terms?

> Blocked by X-Frame-Options Policy

> This page has an X-Frame-Options policy that prevents it from being loaded in this context.

> The browser prevented this page from loading in this context because the page has an X-Frame-Options policy that disallows it.

Modern browsers don't let this kind of content leeching work if the original host doesn't want their content leeched.

Generally a good read, but only by getting challenged with a varirrty of problem can one end up the sort of ruggedly self-sufficient 'sparse polymath' the author approves of. And at the time, those problems may have been complrtely unpromising from a compoundimg pov.

You don't... for the next 15 or so years they manage you, if you can keep a lid on it.

I read a quote here a few months ago: you can do a good job on two of kids, relationship, job.

Loss of morale is what undermines the persistant efforts needed to make great things happen.

Having a healthy ego and doing objectively great things to feel good is not in itself 'toxicity' that must be 'killed'.

Yeah. Few people seem to be using stream 9 either.

Getting it designed and a prototype 'made' is one thing. Getting a production run is another.

Pico and rpi are completely different levels of effort and cost. You should figure out what networking, ram, OS or RTOS, and cpu power you need first.

No the author links to some qanon type conspiracy crap on reddit in the only issue in that repo.

If someone gets a copy of the encrypted traffic - and we know that 'full take' is being done routinely for some parts of the internet - the credential in the plaintext means that if they are ever able to decrypt it even weeks later, they can make fresh connections using the valid credential afterwards.

If the server issues a different challenge each time, decrypting one response doesn't buy you anything.

> Still, I made a claim (the C Language will never stop you from making mistakes), and therefore I need to substantiate it.

Naturally this clickbait cannot be substantiated, since it only needs to save me from one mistake to falsify it. And my compiler does that 50 or 100 times a day when writing a lot of code.

> Post about the project along with the domain-name needed or invest by buying a domain for any project you like in return of 1% stake.

...who is named as the owner on the domain registration?

> Today, however, I want to attempt to provide a cogent explanation for why bothering about web3 makes sense.

...which it fails to do, just adds to the don't-want-to-admit-it's-a-ponzi pile of babble.

I understand that POV, but if you're on the cheapest possible vcpus, gaining a difficult-to-acquire deep understanding of how overcommitted they are and how sporadically unusable it is as a platform is not worth anything.

Sure it's the wrong move to blow $2K/mo on some Xeon, but it's not the wrong move to spend $30 on bracketing the extent of the platform's problems.

If you can get a job for $250K, it accomplished not getting locked in to a local optimum and paying the opportunity cost for the difference.

> John will ask why Sandy is making more. The truth is that Sandy is more productive

These secret decisions are not commonly rational like that. Maybe Sandy keeps quiet when they know the boss is wrong and leaves it to John to speak up and stop the whole thing going over the cliff edge.

HP, Dell, others available in richer countries for > 5 years.

Node does not prioritize performance.

vCPUs don't prioritize or guarantee performance.

2GB physical ram may not be a lot.

1Mb bandwidth (~100KBytes/s) may not be a lot if multiple simultaneous users with bulk payloads.

Storage may not be performant.

Personally as a first step I would just migrate it to a better, dedicated server. Consider the cost of your time to research it. In the West a midrange older dedicated server starts at ~US$30/mo. All kinds of potential badness about being in a vm on a shared resource are eliminated.

If not, or if that doesn't buy you a solution, you must characterize which of the vserver itself, cpu, storage, or bandwidth is the bottleneck.

Assuming it's linux, I would ssh in and set up prometheus or similar monitoring so you can see it over a week.

If no problem, hit it with concurrent transactions until there is a problem. Compare what you have to do to see a problem on a setup on your laptop vs the remote server, you can judge your vserver then.

For cpu, look with top how it acts when you give it transactions. Who eats cpu?

Memory, top + vmstat.

For storage, iostat.

Network, netstat -s

"Dave, this conversation can serve no purpose any more. Goodbye."

> The Freedom U740 SoC barely offers decent performance for modern HPC applications

Yeah... 4 of those boards in this cluster gives about the same compute as a single $100 raspberry pi 4.

Risc-v's day will come but until then...