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Luckily, I don't see this “taking over the web” at all. This looks like design created by people who aren't good at design.

Counterpoint of one, my dad's in in his 70s, and seems sharp as ever.

Last summer, he took upon a project of building a protocol converter between a GPS device and some kind of sailing computer in his sailboat. I politely listened to many details, which I immediately forgot, but there was a Rasperry Pi and some protocols on serial buses and making sense of binary logs. His system works and is in use.

Either he was really, really fucking smart 25 years ago, or there was no steep decline so far. I'm betting it's the latter.

I count HN as a social media, so no.

Yeah. I mostly left Twitter about 9 years ago (!) for the same reasons.

I wonder if a celebrity like Musk is overestimating how important Twitter really is. Because in my view, it's a cesspool of self-promoters, hate, corporate marketing and superficial populism. I believe correcting that course is impossible. It's been like that for 10 years with no change.

I guess it’s no surprise that a shorter wavelength kills more stuff.

That said, I’m not super convinced that it’s safe, if it’s not something we normally have in our environment… the stuff being killed might be you.

Interesting that you see yourself as being more employable. And if you say so, probably it's true! So, I'm wondering what you bring to the teams you're hired into. When I hire, staying at previous jobs for only 1—2 years is a red flag. And you've done it 10 times!

We're looking for people who would like to stay with us for, say 3–5 years, at least. While our tech stack, culture, etc. isn't that special, it still takes time to acclimate.

Perhaps you are a very talented specialist in very narrow niche? People like that are always useful, and can skip between jobs as they please. Although, I'd probably do stuff like that on a consulting basis, instead of a salaried employee.

Wasn't there a study or two that living on the western edge of a time zone poses higher health risks, presumably because people have to get up before sunrise to get to work.

This why I, personally, would prefer standard time over DST. I really hate early mornings, and DST causes all mornings to be one hour earlier.

EDIT: Googled a quick link about this: https://www.sciencealert.com/a-neurologist-explains-why-dayl...

Doesn’t that mean you should prefer standard time? DST moves the clock forwards, so the sun won’t be as high at, say, 7am.

My vote goes to the “Org Too Big, Nobody Cares” explanation.

Or, perhaps, just the blissful America-centric ignorance about how there are regions in the world with multiple official languages.

Haven't checked this recently, but a while ago Google Maps was still serving street names in a random language (the first name in alphabetical ordering), for streets which have names in multiple languages.

Perhaps try a different brand. The one I usually get lists milk, cream, whey, salt, carob powder, citric acid, and culture. So fermented milk products plus a bit of things to make it more stable.

I used rsync 20 years ago, switched to Borg, then switched to Restic. It’s nice to send backups to destinations like B2 or S3 without any special requirements. But the Hetzner Storage Box is good deal.

Now all I need is better client side software for these things, something I could use on my moms computer. Vorta is not that good, although I commend the effort.

Until the UI side is sorted, my moms laptop stays on Backblaze.

Building software is typically a process of discovery. Usually you don’t know beforehand exactly what code you need to write, even if it was crystal clear what the requirements are. So as you explore the space of programs that solve your problem at hand, you end up programming yourself into several branches which become obsolete as you learn more about what you are actually doing. Over time, the requirements also usually change a bit.

Experience helps to avoid some of those obsolete branches.

Even if it's all documented with a README, with container images and Ansible playbooks or whatever to make it all happen… still people will be complaining that it's oh so complex and that's not how we did it in my previous job and what about secret management, or load scaling, or full disk encryption, or how would this be deployed to a moon-based server, or whatever they can think of how the probably less-than-average crap you've built isn't maximally convenient for them.

So, even if you have everything 100% automated, most people will look at that and conclude that your automation is complex legacy bullshit and you should have automated in some other way.

Just saying.

It tells the agent to confirm each use of a key using ssh-askpass. The same can be achieved with the -c option for ssh-add.

If the confirmation dialog really also showed a host name then yeah, this is not strictly the same. But it's pretty close.

No need for a modified agent, just put this in your ~/.ssh/config:

  AddKeysToAgent confirm

You may need to separately install ssh-askpass.

That’s what I’ve gathered. That still seems stupid to me. Why does the Ruby/Rails community do that?

You're right that the language isn't to blame as such.

But if a change like this doesn't cause some kind of uproar in the Ruby community, then the community has a problem.

This is the correct answer ;)

If you're going to run a serious internal network, you'll need the basic things like NTP, DNS, a CA server, and, yes, some kind of MDM to distribute internal CA certificates to your people. The real PITA is when you don't have these in place.

My Safari doesn't, in private mode, eventually, open the link at all: after customizing the privacy options (all off), Google still tries to bounce me through googleads.g.doubleclick.net, and I have that blocked.

The way I “deal with this” is that I have a work Google account which I've signed into. With that in place, the link just opens. Obviously I have clicked "I accept" on a variety of forms saying Google is allowed to track my activity as they see fit.

I guess you can run a browser without ad blocking and the link will open after accepting the terms. However, I prefer to still block ads even in private mode for various reasons.

The latest data released on Friday by the U.K. Health Security Agency indicates that 54% of positive tests in England taken on Tuesday and Wednesday were of Omicron, and more than 80% of cases in London.

Most "LiPo" batteries are typically the same chemistry as your "Lithium-ion" but without the puncture and pressure resistant casing. The plastic pouch is the "polymer" part. LiPo batteries are lighter and can produce more current than basically the same thing in a safer standard container.

So yeah, big difference in safety, not really a difference in the chemistry.

The above was explained to me by someone I believe knows what they're talking about. But I may have misunderstood; if I have, please let me know!

Fireproof bags and boxes already exist and are widely used for LiPo batteries commonly used in RC products.

You can already order two dedicated servers and request them to be on the same rack: https://docs.hetzner.com/robot/dedicated-server/faq/faq/#can...

I'd assume you might be able to tell them to please put them on different racks for HA purposes, or something?

Hetzner also recently added “placement groups” to influence the distribution of virtual servers in their data centers.

Useful for HA clusters, mostly. Free, too. https://docs.hetzner.com/cloud/placement-groups/overview

Yep, you said it, the pricing page is, in fact, an advertisement of the product.

It's not like you can easily compare the prices between two different products in the same segment.

It's an ad. Embrace it. Leaving out the GIFs doesn't make it less of an ad. It just makes it… a worse ad?

Also, does your boss not have a computer?

I feel the same about consuming any kind of information. Most of the time, a well written article trumps a podcast or video 6:1. It's the same for a text message vs. voice message.

Still not uncoupled, but rather an estimate of future reference interest rates (which is strongly coupled to inflation).

Are you assuming interest rates and inflation are somehow uncoupled?

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I think the karma from a story is more or less capped to the number of comments on the story. At the same time, a story which gets more comments than upvotes quickly vanishes from the front page.

Both modulo moderation, of course.