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"Get your head examined. And get the fuck out of here with this shit."

-- Kent Overstreet, bcachefs maintainer: https://lore.kernel.org/all/citv2v6f33hoidq75xd2spaqxf7nl5wb...

When I was learning Linux back in the day, one of the most beneficial thing I did was to go though the VIM tutorial and learn to use it properly. I'm no master at it but oh boy that time spent has paid dividends down the line.

OSs need to stop letting applications have a free reign of all the files on the file system by default. Some apps come with apparmor/selinux profiles and firejail is also a solution. But the UX needs to change.

I was going to recommend that exact podcast episode but you beat me to it. Totally worth listening, especially if you're interested in software bugs.

Another interesting fact mentioned in the podcast is that the earlier (manually operated) version of the machine did have the same fault. But it also had a failsafe fuse that blew so the fault never materialized. Excellent demonstration of the Swiss Cheese Model: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_cheese_model

All scandinavic countries have stopped shipment to USA due to this (except gifts valued < $100)

I've acquired so many tools like this, and I don't think I've ever looked at them at though I regretted the purchase. Many have enabled me to fix and make stuff down the line.

A bit like "There used to be a lot of corruption is politics. There still is, but there also used to be."

For me it's a combination of the nature of task, where I'm at and the nature and duration of the interruption. But usually an interruption causes a large amount of penalty points.

I apologize for the side question, but what are people using for Golang SQlite cipher/encryption combination?

We can argue if it's a feature feature creep and if it's the right choice of formatter.

But let's appreciate that this will increase the use of formatters astronomically (or part thereof), which is an excellent thing.

It's very tempting to assume what people will or are doing, and it's so, so easy to get it so wrong.

Picture this. Guy comes home late at night. Outdoor light is on. He goes in and presses he light switch. No lights come on but the fuse blows and now the outdoor light is gone.

What does he do?

The answer is that you have no idea based on only that information. It's tempting to think he'll do what my friends and I would do: find the fusebox and investigate.

But the thing is, his crazy ex's crazy boyfriend threatened yesterday to kill him. This guy is bolting, not looking for the fusebox.

Very interesting article from the same guy where he reverse engineers the randomness of a flicker LED.

https://cpldcpu.com/2013/12/08/hacking-a-candleflicker-led/

> pressured

Maybe incentivized? $1000? $10000? Would be interesting to hear from the developer himself.

Have you heard results from it? How does it know for example, when there is a romantic scene in the book, which voice to read out as?

It's definitely an exited voice, but is it read out as in a battle or as in a romantic scene?

The youtube link is suddenly not available any more (at least in the UK)

I wonder if it's going to have the same training data as the ordinary version?

Sounds very interesting but could we have examples please? All the examples are either not working on missing.

It would also be good to have a link to examples very high up on the front page.

Can you meaningfully study advanced math without understanding algebra?

I have hitherto not timestamped or cryptographically signed my light sources, but that's something I'll be looking into.

Exactly. The enormously forceful craving you get for soda/beer/whatever drink will be wiped out 90%-100% by a quick chug of water.

Your brain will tell you "no that won't work", but after the water your body will approve and your brain will accept that.

The first athlete to be sanctioned for mechanical doping did exactly that. Inspectors found a bicycle in her pit with a hidden motor. Her excuse was "the bicycle was owned by a friend and was taken to the pit in error". The bike looked exactly the same as the bike she was riding.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Femke_Van_den_Driessche#Allega...

> into a file server

This is underselling it by at least three orders of magnitude. This is astonishing tool, you have to watch the demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15_-hgsX2V0

I remember when I discovered MDN. It was like sneaking into a wizard's sanctum and reading all the secret scrolls. Stellar work Mozilla!

Tim Harford mentions in his podcast "Cautionary Tales – A Fascination with Failure / Death on the Dance Floor" that checklists might have prevented the 1981 skywalk collapse in Kansas City Hyatt Regency Hotel (killing 114 people).

It's really a good podcast (pretty much all of his podcasts are)

https://timharford.com/2023/07/cautionary-tales-a-fascinatio...

That's just like saying that if no tests are failing then we don't have any bugs.

Project 2025 is 46% completed: https://www.project2025.observer/

Confirmed. Massive annoyance with youtube on mobile.

> I'm relatively new to working on this type of system.

> In the end, what's the difference between a log and a metric?

Don't let me put you down, but writing a logging advisory blog post when you don't know the difference between a log and a metric seems like a peculiar thing to do.

But I'm not shaming lack of knowledge, we all had to learn somehow.

Excellent news.

I think Ryanair was a trend setter back in the day for charging for absolutely everything.

So much that that a song was written about it (published 14 years ago): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAg0lUYHHFc

Calibre has improved a lot recently. If you haven't used it for a few years, it's worth taking a fresh look.