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That’s changing, maybe eventually even on real systems: https://blog.toast.cafe/posix2024-xcu#the-nuclear-option

Neat, I didn’t know that! Even cooler that they’ve started to change all the core utilities to error out instead of creating a file with a newline character in it.

Or maybe you pipe into xargs and pray your filenames don’t have spaces…

Always use -0. Most gnu utilities support it. It makes them put a null byte after every filename instead of a newline. Completely eliminates the problem of dealing with whitespace in the filenames.

I was trying to go to sleep when I got mine. It was certainly above the $16 threshold I had set!

Correct, they had so very few capital improvements back then. They leveraged the ones they had quite well, but they were just dirt poor. You yourself have luxuries that even the most fabulously wealthy Senator or Emperor would envy.

If you were smart about it then you wouldn’t go up in the mountains in the first place. To get the lowest possible latency you want a straight shot, so obviously you should just bore your way through at the level of the plains on either side.

Using changes in death rates to gauge the actual number of "lives saved" from preventable illness is going to be fraught with confounding factors.

I agree but I was going for an upper bound not an exact figure. This is just a comment field on HN, after all, not a real publication. I think it’s obvious that USAID did not save 90 million lives. The programs it funded probably didn’t even interact with 90 million people in any way.

They also did a great deal in spreading goodwill for the USA

They also funded trans–gender clinics, anti–government revolutionaries, protest movements, pro–Democrat magazines in the US, and a bunch of other nonsense. A lot of it was about destabilizing other people’s economies, not helping them out or getting them to like us. If you want to fund those things with your own money then I won’t stop you, but taking money away from everybody to pay for them is not worthwhile.

You shouldn’t have secrets in your environment.

The Lancet, looking at the impact U.S.A.I.D. had over the past twenty years —saving ninety-two million lives…

If you look at a graph of the world–wide death rate over the last few decades, you’ll see that it’s been going down pretty consistently. If you assume, rather charitably, that the death rate would have been flat if USAID had not existed, then you can count the number of people “saved” over the last 20 years. You’ll get a number like 70 million! This study is trying to tell us that not only did USAID single–handedly save 70 million lives, it brought even more millions back to life!

This study is extremely bogus. Anything you conclude from it will be nonsense. The whole article is nonsense for innumerate people.

Geography and property lines, twin banes of every infrastructure builder.

Often the bigger difference is just that fiber never goes in a straight line, even if it’s going to the right city. All that pesky geography gets in the way and makes the path longer.

We should port it to Rust.

In theory you would be right. In practice you have to ask all of your competitors for permission to change anything, and all the old copper is still there. They never actually swapped it out for fiber! You cannot take out any of their old copper, even though you’re sure it’s not in use by anyone, to make space for your new fiber.

Ziply is a regional ISP. They serve the states of Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana. Here’s a map showing their backbone links: https://ziplyfiber.com/~/media/Residential/modules/Columns--...

I can also get 400Gbit in my office…

Sure, but remember that we’re talking about _residential_ services here. Ziply Fiber offers 50Gbps to all residential fiber customers. They also sell IP Transit services to businesses at higher speeds, but we’re not talking about those.

False! Ziply Fiber offers speeds up to 50Gbps. https://ziplyfiber.com/internet/multigig

If someone working for me wrote that I would fire them.

It’s not to keep malware from walking the heap, it’s just a simple protection against simple buffer overflow attacks. If a process running on your computer has a fixed–sized buffer allocated on the heap and I send too much data to fit in the buffer then part of what I send will overwrite whatever comes after that buffer in memory. Well, that means that it will overwrite the heap header objects that windows uses for memory management too. That can be an important step in exploiting the overflow bug.

But Windows picks a random number for each heap and XORs the heap header with it. This means that every time you run the program the headers have to be XORd with a different random number before Windows can understand them. I have no way of predicting what that number is, so the malicious data that I send won’t be XORd with the right number to fool Windows.

The title seems to describe exactly what the video is about. What made it seem like clickbait to you?

I know, it was just a joke :)

Wow, 102°F. That’s just an ordinary summer day in most of America.

It’s pretty shameful that the hospitals couldn’t handle the influx. Didn’t they expand capacity after COVID?

Not arguing, just saying that sometimes things come with compromises. It shouldn’t be surprising to anyone that some expansion cards don't fit in the expansion slot. There’s always going to be _something_ that needs a bit more space.

Now you’ve got two things plugged into your laptop, instead of one that sticks out by an inch. :)

There’s nothing to “get”. The circuit doesn’t fit inside the slot for expansion cards. You could plug in a dongle instead, but then you’d have a big hole in your laptop with a cable sticking out. Or you could just get a wider laptop bag. They make them in multiple sizes, you know.

The OP didn't claim you didn't provide specific feedback, it was that they were entirely ghosted mid-process. And that others said the same.

Eh, if even a small percentage of those emails end up in a spam folder then there are going to be people who think that they were ghosted. They didn’t ghost me. Alas, they didn’t hire me either.

You’re welcome.

Anathem is excellent; why do you call it “so, so bad”?

But surely the photo has the same value to you no matter how much effort it took. Sitting outside in the cold next to your telescope while you take the photo doesn’t make the picture more valuable than sitting inside at your computer taking the photo.

Love that second footnote.

It’s worth noting that the latest trillionaire lowered launch costs by ~10×. It has never been cheaper to launch a telescope into space. I’m surprised that no universities have launched their own space observatories. Harvard has a $50 billion endowment, but all they ever seem to spend it on is more administrators. They could launch a dozen space telescopes without making a dent.

I don’t think the telescope has to be sitting next to you. Actual astronomers take pictures remotely all the time. They don’t ride a shuttle up to the Hubble Telescope when it’s their turn to take pictures with it, they put coordinates into a website. Even most ground–based observatories are often operated remotely. Many of them are visited by astronomers too, but more and more that’s an optional step.

Many astronomers work at yet another remove from operations. They don’t even take the pictures themselves! They collect data from other people’s observations instead! A lot of modern observatories collect so much data that there’s not enough people to look at everything in detail. Whole–sky observatories that take hundreds of photos to image the whole sky every night, satellite missions like GAIA that observed a billion stars to determine their position and velocities, etc, etc.