burnt-resistor

You chose to throw in your two cents without addressing or admitting the facts, just to criticize and rationalize your own inaction.

When lifestyle choices put others at risk of pandemics and untreatable diseases, it becomes my problem. This makes you yet another normalized deviant projecting your unsustainable lifestyle choices on others and trying to shame others who dare to criticize abominable practices. Furthermore, predominant repugnant views of many people currently include enabling the genocide of Palestinians and Lebanese, death penalty, fossil fuel usage, and animal slaughter... these are no good.

And why don't you or anyone eat their pets? Besides distance, utility, and/or cuteness, there's no fundamental difference between wildlife, livestock, and pets when it comes to inflicting suffering.

Use a template-based configuration management system to pull in secrets from a secrets management system (passwords/credentials/PKI management). It's an antipattern to add even more complexity by bolting on configuration or secrets management as part of nix, systemd, or anything else that's OS- or distro-specific. Package managers, and OSes need to offer sane defaults but then have sensible boundaries and allow configuration responsibility to be delegated to users and/or configuration management.

Back in my day (80's-90's), our Polaris vac-sweep was pretty simple reliable. Late stage capitalism / neoliberalism made it worse.

It didn't need an LLM or deep learning to do its job because it would randomly crawl around so long that it was on. I don't understand adding complexity, fragility, or cost to a solved problem, but I guess there are enough people who engage in competitive conspicuous consumption to signal status.

ECC end-to-end means carrying sufficient parity along the whole way including at-rest (memory and storage hierarchy), links, buffering, and computation. Skipping ECC in transposer/buffering/bus circuitry creates a source of silent errors. Silent errors are way, way too prevalent across billions of users and the vast majority never understand the source of such malfunctions or know they happen.

Footguns fired because ego.

He's rediscovered employee-owned co-ops but to a lesser degree.

It's a self-censorship habit of people who frequent TikTok, Youtube, and other platforms that shadowban or outright ban particular keywords. I think it's excessively obtuse euphemisms for pseudo-civility that George Carlin would've ripped to shreds.

I was just going to say this. Post-MD management disasters like the 737 NG Ducommun scandal that barely anyone knows about and nothing was done to rectify poor quality "approved" structural parts and mishandled assembly line installation doesn't win confidence in the flying inventory.

Now if only the UK can scrap Garbagé and elect Count Binface as Prime Binister.

(Clacton will need serious public and legacy media advertising to overcome the Restore/Reform bias.)

Slate is an EV that's so much better than a world-polluting ICE.

ICE vehicles will hopefully be banned for sale everywhere by 2030 because they're more expensive and toxic to run than EVs.

Not providing vegan options is morally equivalent to forcing Jews to have pork or non-Kosher meals or Muslims pork or non-Halal meals; it's mean spirited, insensitive, and/or disrespectful treatment. Plus, there are many major religious/ethnic groups that skew towards mandatory and high probability of veganism.

PSA: Meat ag is a danger to us all just on rational grounds: antibiotic resistance (bacteria evolution), pandemics (viral evolution), air-water-soil pollution, and climate change. For most Westerners, we have all kinds of food choices that are perfectly nutritious without inflicting all of the risks of unnecessary demand for meat. It will hopefully be eventually viewed in the distant future with such disdain and repugnance as cannibalism or consuming pets or exotic animals.

PSA: In long-term fire abstinent areas, old growth trees can be saved from excessive scorching in fires by preventatively clearing built-up debris (combustible fuel) under the canopy and beside the trunk. Shovel and/or rake.

Use sccache.

Another string length O(1) encoding format like Pascal strings that were len (unsigned byte) + data. Limited to 255 characters however.

Dollar, NUL, and other terminated strings, by contrast, are string length O(N).

Wage suppression and DARVO.. CEOs and billionaires are the real victims here.

Up until around 1965, at least in terms of BMI. Not in any other respect though.

It's the lack of the precautionary principle and regulation. Not only that, it lets things be legal and then requires victims to prove their harm was specifically linked to that substance or product. It's Russian roulette beta testing without informed consent.

Doesn't sound fun. No vaccine, reoccurs, difficult to test, water treatment doesn't work, and treated with TMP-SMX.

About 10 years ago, I had a 2-week-long what was most likely cryptosporidiosis episode that was frequent, vigorous liquid.

This is atypical for the MIC/DoD who wasted trillions in Afghanistan and Iraq. Still can't pass an audit, gave out pallets of cash, built diesel power plants that were uneconomical to run, and let contractors embezzle money for unnecessary repairs and nonexistent deliveries.

The garden variety waste is losing inventory of $100k aviation parts or damaging and then replacing similarly expensive parts on maneuvers without concern for damage or cost.

Limited, locked-down smart watches is what most kids need.

The US approves and allows many things haphazardly because there's a lack of regulatory consistency, integrity, enforcement, and application of the precautionary principle. This plays Russian roulette with the public in the name of money.

Technofeudal overlords pick and choose what customers can lease temporarily when they erroneously believed they bought ownership.

Natural gas generators are sometimes converted aviation high bypass turbofan engines. By running many of them, such a site creates a lot of local noise, chemical vapor, and particulate pollution.

The AG Commissioner is calling for a moratorium.

https://texasagriculture.gov/News-Events/Article/11984/Commi...

Can confirm. The average tech people I worked with there skewed towards not exactly cool, well-rounded, solidarity-aware, socially-responsible (except performatively) individuals. Didn't meet anyone technical there I'd ever want to hang out with, but I must've arrived 10 years too late.

Data centers should probably be mostly regional or local co-ops with community-based dividends like Alaska.

Cool beans.

It was a dark and stormy night... /s

Ich bin ein binliner!

Animal ag creates unnecessary risks of (viral) pandemics, antibiotic resistant bacteria, air pollution, water pollution, soil pollution, deforestation (for silage and feeder crops), caloric inefficiency, and animal cruelty. There are plenty of alternative plant-based protein and nutrients sources that could be grown instead.

That wouldn't work because the Cg would be too far forward and the mechanical moment of pylons would be far too great. What needs to happen is proper redesign of the CFM56-7B engine cowl to contain fan, LP, and HP failures.