sam_lowry_

It's all about nuance. The gambling mafia comment is pure gold.

Where is the castle of James Damore?

Yep, but they do not change on sex change, IIRC.

Belgian National Number is your birth date, then an increment from 1 to 999 for every baby born that day, then a base-97 checksum.

Georges-Henri

Welcome to Europe, the land of sustainable business. We do not need to grow just to pollute our planet and die a painful death, individually and as a species.

If you still think your Hetzner registration process is convoluted, try getting a license for IDA Pro.

You'll love the experience, I promise.

!/s

There is a park in Brussels where you literally walk on alleys paved with tombstones from the Jewish cemetery. You can still see some of the inscriptions there.

Looking at this poor tweet and only thinking that Telegram has proper LaTeX rendering.

Mikrotik makes great hardware that shines under Openvrt )

git lfs?

related

Shhhh...

Sorry for my French, but they say, it's the only masculine name for a beer because it's the verlan of Val d'Or. So... un Orval, not une Orval.

Do not expect a reward, dude.

I spent 15 years building a local community, I had 10,000 daily users once, people recognized me on the street, then everyone left on a whim when Facebook made it easier to hang in one's own echo chambers.

I still think it was worth it.

Once in a while, I bump into a stranger, and they tell me how the found their only true love because of me, or how they landed a job that made them loads of money because I facilitated communication in our community. Other times... I barely escaped molestation by a disgruntled member once, and someone threw a glassful of Orval at me (yes, it really happened).

It was still worth it.

Kudos to the KULeuven alumni, but I am curious if the US finances research on homomorphic encryption still /s

It is everyone's issue, a software engineer can write more efficient code, choose to work for the sustainable future, not for most if not all AI companies and not for blockchain companies.

The OpenBSD developers could have opted for a warning, like the one you see about post-quantum encryption when connecting to old servers.

Instead, they just sneaked the change upon the world.

free so far.

Because it breaks our mental model of how things work.

Thanks for the first 3 paragraphs, but big no to the last two. The vocal minority shapes communities.

There is a whole class of security issues where fixes are worse that the issues themselves. Case in point, the OpenSSH itself that sends 100 packets on each keystroke to avoid timing attacks.

Its economy has been growing for 30 years non-stop, to the point that it is now compared to Singapore.

Original pdf: https://cdn-dynmedia-1.microsoft.com/is/content/microsoftcor...

This is called eCall, a fairly intrusive system built into even some motorcycles.

I sorely miss Panoramio, especially all the Soviet nuclear launch sites mapped there with exceptional precision. All the barracks and the submarine bases, 3-block 5-story houses and the occasional coal plant next to the school.

Browsing on Panoramio over Росляково or Liinakhamari was a stunning experience that none of the current mapping apps deliver yet.

circumstances are forgiving enough.

I once saw an organization that migrated from Weblogic to Kubernetes, keeping the rule to have a least two instances of each app but forgetting that that their Weblogic had distributed transactions and without implementing something similar in Kubernetes.

They happily serve users, helped by low traffic and low expectations. Occasional data corruption and race conditions give work to the support maintenance teams.

See https://mxmap.be/ and follow the links for other countries.

Self-hosting mail infra is a forgotten skill, indeed

I have a vague reminescence that maps.me (the predecessor of organic maps) was bragging about super-duper efficient maps format back in the day.

I guess the secrecy comes from that time.

Heh... I actually did support a rather large userbase pretty much on my own for 20 years, until I lost that business to Facebook. This can be traced in my HN history even.

Anyway, the evil is in the details, and the details matter. But it's a topic for a blogpost, not a HN comment.

Ever heard of Nerd vote?