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From memory there was LPAR "Logical Partitions" - which were effectively like a VM. and there was WPAR "Workload Partitions" - which had a shared OS and were more like a container.

I had some "interesting" experiences getting stuff to work on WPAR's.

That is less of a problem in the consumer space where the OIDC Auth providers have giant long lived sessions (google/FB/etc).

In the government/banking/etc space - there is at least FIDO/WebAuthn/Passkeys which also resolves it. But it's a fair criticism.

I'll echo this for anyone else in the comments -- You can watch the cricket episode with 0 knowledge of the show and 0 knowledge of cricket. If you haven't ever seen Bluey - it's a great example as to why so many speak so highly of it. If you haven't seen bluey but want to see what the fuss is (and especially if you have any interest in sports) -- it's only 7 minutes long and absolutely worth watching.

As someone mentioned - the "Arena Starter Kits" worked for us as an intro to the game.

The basic rules around commander aren't particularly additionally taxing beyond that. (This is your special card that you can play every time. When it dies it goes back to its special spot and it gets more expensive each time you cast it). What I like about the commander format (in the few pre-constructed decks I've bought over the last few years) - they can really lean into a theme/strategy more - and the commander really guides you in how to play this deck.

Start with those arena kits - they are cheap and handle the rules. But if your son sees a commander deck that resonates with him (in theme or mechanics) -- I'd recommend giving it a shot.

This is hacker news. Sam was the founder of a startup in the very first round of YC. He then later became president of YC. I expect news of him to resonate more around here.

And OpenAI have been the most exciting tech company of the last 12 months.

If I'm reading the docs right (TBH - I'm probably not) it looks like on a z16 you can get 200 cores and 40TB of Memory on a single "VM" (LPAR).

So 1/100th of the CPU and 40% of the RAM. (I suspect the RAM comparison is reasonable - I'm not sure about how to compare the CPU's).

So make sure you are doing PKCE for public clients.

With that, and the redirect URL (and therefore trusting DNS), and the other browser security model stuff…. You’re in fairly good shape.

There’s newer standards coming like DPoP - but it’s probably not worth it yet.

ChatGPT Plugins 3 years ago

When in human history have we ever intentionally not furthered technological progress?

Nuclear weapons?

France's baby bust 3 years ago

Scott Morrison (as a Pentecostal) had religion as a minor part of his platform at least. (I know you probably weren't looking at Australian PM's - but he stands out more so than any of the UK/CA/NZ examples that come to mind. I might be biased though)

WLED Project 4 years ago

For a home Christmas light display or something similar - I guess 10k can count as large. (I’m running ~14k, about 1100 of them from WLED). For commercial/art installations - I don’t think that’s “large” though.

Something like a f16v4 can run 33k pixels. But maybe you want more points of control remotely distributed?

WLED Project 4 years ago

WLED has sound reactive plugins for built-in effects. Looks like there's some new stuff in .14 for this as well -- but I haven't followed closely.

Or if you wanted to externalise it completely - it supports DDP/E1.31 -- you could generate the required effect externally - and just send the commands over the network. That should do 40 updates per second for 300 pixels. Ideally send it over ethernet - but you could probably pull it off over a good wifi network.

WLED Project 4 years ago

I'm curious -- why something small like a DigQuad and not something beefier like a Falcon/Kulp?

(I guess I'm not sure what you mean by "large scale" -- but WLED/ESP32 doesn't really tick the large box for me)

Looking at the DoJ's indictment of Assange -- they stated:

The indictment also charges Assange for his posting of a narrow subset of classified documents on WikiLeaks that allegedly identified the names of human sources—including local Afghans and Iraqis who were assisting U.S. forces in theater, and those of journalists, religious leaders, human rights advocates, and political dissidents living in repressive regimes. Assange thereby is alleged to have created grave and imminent risk to their lives and liberty.

(Source: https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1165636/downl... )

That would appear to be a specific example of secrets that cannot be published?

When I last used it -- it was pretty cool. It was a "web app" that you saved as a .html file to your computer and just opened in the browser (no back-end, no web-server, all-local). I'm not sure how much browsers have locked that down now.

I think perhaps the middle space? 90's power tools? Any old battery tools?

I consider my petrol mower to be obsolete - but I can't justify replacing it with an electric/battery one when it functions fine.