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I just tried the exploit on a fresh Debian 13 droplet on digitalocean and it worked.

VTI just tracks the CRSP US total stock index, see https://investor.vanguard.com/investment-products/etfs/profi...

The CRSP index itself adds new companies within 5 days of their IPO, see https://www.crsp.org/what-owning-the-market-really-means/

The CRSP US Total Market Index, by contrast, adds all IPOs ranging from mega caps to small caps—accounting for 98% of the market—within the first five trading days of the stock’s listing.

So it sounds like SpaceX will show up in VTI sooner than in the Nasdaq100, even with their new "fast entry" rule.

Yep, seeing the same for a bunch of my clients.

Freakonomics interviewed Dan Wang about his book Breakneck back in September, see episode #647. It's a very interesting lens through which to view both societies, worth a listen!

NPR Planet Money did a segment on pig butchering scams back in May. They played along with one to get a first hand perspective of the process. It’s a fascinating listen, way more complicated than I thought, and tragic for both ends of the scam.

https://www.npr.org/2025/05/23/1253043749/pig-butchering-sca...

He's mentioned (on twitter, and his Lex Fridman interview) relying on https://replicate.com/ and https://fal.ai/ as the workhorses for his AI stuff.

I was at a Drupal workshop years ago and the guy running it referred to .tpl.php template files as "tipple fipps". Not as absurd as "pup", but still made my skin crawl.

I also recall in the early 2000's hearing people call .html files "hotmail files".

Indeed, faa.gov doesn't have an A record in DNS at the moment.

https://toolbox.googleapps.com/apps/dig/#A/faa.gov

Ditto, I took his discrete math course at NCSU in 1998. It was mainly taught by Tiffany Barnes day to day (who was also nice and a great explainer), but Bitzer was often present and always smiling and jovial.

I really regret having spent so little time interacting with my professors though. I was one of those kids that spent the least amount of time in class possible, almost never going to office hours, aiming to get the course work out of the way asap so I could "have a life". So much wisdom and life/industry experience was concentrated on that campus and at my fingertips, but I totally took it for granted. Seeing his obit amplifies this feeling; I wish I had cared enough at the time to meet and know the guy.

I'm very interested to see this alongside MySQL 9 (https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/9.0/en/vector-functions.htm...), and MariaDB (https://mariadb.com/kb/en/vector-overview/).

Will these converge on a common syntax for vector fields, indexes, and comparison functions in the near future? Or will vector implementations just add momentum to the increasing incompatibility in the MySQL-ish ecosystem?

"uBO" is an abbreviation of "uBlock Origin".

It is only available in the Vector Preview release, for source download only, or through the the pre-built docker image on quay.io.

In this initial preview, there is not yet a dedicated VECTOR data type, as they've focused on implementing a usable indexed search.

mod_php does give you better response times for individual requests, but at the expense of being able to handle a higher load of traffic; you'll run out of memory and/or experience timeouts on mod_php way before you do with php-fpm.

With mod_php, every Apache process has the PHP engine embedded in it, even if PHP isn't needed, e.g., to serve a request for a .css file. When Apache gets a bunch of requests for flat files, it forks all those processes and fills up RAM with copies of the PHP engine that aren't used. That's not only wasteful, but it dramatically increases the chances that you'll run out of memory. You can limit the number of Apache children of course, but you'll see timeouts sooner when you get a traffic spike.

By having Apache proxy over to php-fpm for PHP requests, you can configure Apache to use mpm_event for serving static files, which allows for much leaner Apache workers (memory-wise) since they aren't carrying PHP around on their backs.

While you're at it, you can use haproxy on the same machine for TLS termination, then you can disable mod_ssl thus making Apache workers even lighter.

Very cool! What does the changing color of the fluid indicate, particle velocity?

Yes, but MariaDB, mostly DIY on localhost (various test & live VMs I manage).

Most painful? Replication with automatic failover could be easier to setup. Considering switching to MySQL 8.x for the new-ish innodb cluster tools (mysqlsh, mysql-router).

Why not Postgres? Familiarity, mostly using it for Drupal & Wordpress sites where MySQL is king. Besides the occasional poorly-designed query that eats memory and causes timeouts, MySQL rarely needs my attention.

Side note: I'm excited for https://github.com/mydumper/mydumper. Multi-threaded logical backups, 2 to 5 times faster than mysqldump. It's not super stable yet, so we haven't been relying on it for long term backups, but doing a "mydumper to grab a schema on live, rsync down to laptop, myloader to import" it's been a big time saver.

Scribd has a PDF of "Vietnam Magazine" from February 2016 (https://www.scribd.com/document/325931427/Vietnam-February-2...). Page 40 of this PDF has the following quote that supports the San Francisco shop story:

"Hung eventually left Vietnam and ran his own photo shop in San Francisco, where he met former AP photographer Horst Faas in 1998, according to the San Francisco Examiner. 'They paid me $10 a picture,' Hung told Faas. 'It could support my whole family for one month.' A selection of Hung’s photos follows."

Another reason why SMS-based 2FA is a bad idea.

GlusterFS support looks to be permanently ending later this year.

https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/rhs

Note that the Red Hat Gluster Storage product has a defined support lifecycle through to 31-Dec-24, after which the Red Hat Gluster Storage product will have reached its EOL. Specifically, RHGS 3.5 represents the final supported RHGS series of releases.

For folks using GlusterFS currently, what's your plan after this year?

What is the pricing like, e.g., per-template created, per-PDF rendered, or per-API call? I don't see any pricing info on the public site.

Drush (drupal shell) is just a command line interface to any given Drupal site, similar to Laravel's Artisan console, or Django's django-admin & manage.py, or Wordpress's wp-cli. Managing a Drupal site is much simpler when you can do certain things from the cli: run cron tasks, cache rebuild, import/export config, enable/disable modules, use the built-in REPL to troubleshoot stuff, not to mention the various commands that modules expose.

If you have a lot of hosts listed in your ~/.ssh/config file, you can keep the file from getting too cluttered by using the Include directive, which supports wildcards...

    # in ~/.ssh/config
    Include config.d/*.conf

    # in ~/.ssh/config.d/work.conf
    host work
        hostname myoffice.example.com
        user myuser

    # in ~/.ssh/config.d/client1.conf
    host client1.dev
        hostname dev.client.example.net
        user someuser
    
    host client1.prod
        hostname prod.client.example.net
        user someuser

I don't follow Berkshire Hathaway much, so I'm not aware of what Warren Buffet has said on this topic, but it sounds super interesting.

After a bit of digging, I found this Q&A from the 2019 shareholder meeting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geRIJQJXRVo&t=17980s

And the meeting minutes in PDF form (see page 120, question #32): https://s3.amazonaws.com/static.contentres.com/media/documen...

The text from that document...

32. It’s easy to make 50% on a million, but much more difficult on larger amounts

WARREN BUFFETT: Station 9. We’re just about — yeah, we’ve got time for a couple more.

AUDIENCE MEMBER: My name is John Dorso (phonetic), and I’m from New York. Mr. Buffett, you’ve said that you could return 50 percent per annum if you were managing a one-million-dollar portfolio. What type of strategy would you use? Would you invest in cigar butts, i.e., average businesses at very cheap prices? Or would it be some type of arbitrage strategy? Thank you.

WARREN BUFFETT: It might well be the arbitrage strategy, but in a very different, perhaps, way than customary arbitrages, a lot of it. One way or another, I can assure you, if Charlie was working with a million, or I was working with a million, we would find a way to make that with essentially no risk, not using a lot of leverage or anything of the sort. But you change the one million to a hundred million and that 50 goes down like a rock. There are little fringe inefficiencies that people don’t spot and you do get opportunities occasionally to do, but they don’t really have any applicability to Berkshire. Charlie?

CHARLIE MUNGER: Well, I agree totally. It’s just you used to say that large amounts of money, they develop their own anchors. It gets harder and harder. I’ve just seen genius after genius with a great record and pretty soon they’ve got 30 billion and two floors of young men and away goes the good record. That’s just the way it works. It’s hard as the money goes up.

WARREN BUFFETT: When Charlie was a lawyer, initially, I mean, you were developing a couple of real estate projects. I mean, if you really want to make a million dollars — or 50 percent on a million — and you’re willing to work at it — that’s doable. But it just has no applicability to managing huge sums. Wish it did, but it doesn’t.

CHARLIE MUNGER: Yeah. Lee Louley (phonetic), using nothing but the float on his student loans, had a million dollars, practically, shortly after he graduated as a total scholarship student. He found just a few things to do and did them.

The fourth question is in a later blog post, "The Neon God" - https://paulkingsnorth.substack.com/p/the-neon-god

I had a Master System as well, but my glasses broke early on in my ownership, so I played Maze Hunter, Blade Eagle, and Missile Defnce without them. Eventually, I got accustomed to the odd look of everything being slightly doubled. When I finally got a new pair of glasses that worked, the 3D gameplay felt so odd that I preferred playing without them.

I did a discovery flight with my son last summer in a C172. We had a blast, but I was pretty surprised how old the plane felt. My recurring thought is that Cessnas are like the TI-85s of airplanes; ubiquitous workhorses frozen in time.

Is it just Cessnas though? Is this the way all small planes are?

I’m interested in hearing more about your Socratic approach to management. Could you elaborate on that a bit?

I’m pretty sure Jeff got 45Drives.com to sponsor this by sending him the hardware for free.

I wager the vast majority of people take the polar opposite view: the point of work is to do what's necessary to survive, ideally to thrive. Contributing to society is nice if it can be managed, but it definitely comes further down the list of "things I need to do" for most folks.

I've never heard "billy" used like this before now, thanks for the clarification.

It looks like Rancher Desktop uses Lima VM (https://github.com/lima-vm/lima) under the hood, I suppose in the same way that Docker Desktop uses Hypervisor.framework on macos? This is the first I've heard about the Lima project. I'll be interested to see how file system performance with this compares to Docker Desktop on mac.