tinglymintyfrsh's comments

"Battle-hardened" where besides tiny startups and 8 companies?

Beanstalkd is simple, scales, and is platform agnostic.

At scale, simple wins.

I still think the Skynet scenario is hobgoblins of the imaginative mind.

More than likely, new forms of narrow AI will eat and destroy the vast majority white-collar jobs. This is most likely to end in mass unemployment, even more extreme income inequality, and a dystopian world run by a few trillionaires who challenge, if not replace, the power structures of governments.

Right observation, but wrong conclusion.

Cloudflare skews towards a monopolistic monoculture. (Fastly and Akamai also exist, but present more friction.)

The issue is that with one transparent proxy and application firewall for a large fraction of web traffic, it has to cover uncountable edge-cases to not leave out nonzero users from a large number of sites. It's unlikely to be malicious intention here, but more likely accidents, oversights, and lack of alternatives.

Here's some resources for people interested:

https://coveryourtracks.eff.org

https://www.amiunique.org/fp

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/canvas-blocker-fin...

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/canvasblocker...

Unverified: 27B/6 derives from George Orwell's address.

I'm wondering how long it will be before we have memory holes considering how, apart from the internet archive, there is perpetual bitrot and silent updates.

It's a form of digital totalitarianism. Submit to the rule of a few corporations or be left out socially, economically, etc.

The FUD and moralization of groupthink conformance.

When not in a vehicle and there are no cops around, I do the New Yorker thing: I completely ignore signals and focus on traffic. The prima facie and prime directive is safety over conformance. I will not waste my life at the behest of some Christmas lights.

I get CAPTCHA fails from my work's corporate network. We are on VPN and it makes us look like a sketchy VPN provider. Heck, StackOverflow blocks us half the time without a CAPTCHA challenge.

Offtopic: Quit the rain dances and batten down the hatches for tonight's weather rolling through. Some mighty dark clouds are rolling through these parts as of writing.

Fastly's CAPTCHAs refuse to accept from my work's network.

(I had an email startup squished by Gmail.)

Sites demanding corporate email addresses and/or major email providers kicks all other users out is inane, corporate tyranny.

~~HN or~~ Firefox rewrote in dotted-quad.

This requires a terminal or shell with Unicode normalization.

And proper inet_aton allows even more formats (IPv4 only):

u32 undotted

u8.u24 dotted-signal

u8.u8.u16 dotted-triple

u8.u8.u8.u8 dotted-quad

^ where each of the above is allowed to be octal, hex, or decimal

My dad's car had velour interior. Anytime the humidity was below 50%, expect the car to zap you and to be zapped touching door handles. I assume there are/were numerous gas station fuel fires from cars with velour upholstery.

In the nonobvious interactions with tech department, when I was a kid, I discovered that jingling keys would change the channel on my grandparents' TV that used an ultrasonic remote.

This is true. The missing step is productizing for commercially-useful problems.

Start with a goofy app that accurately discerns what ugly sweaters you would wear to semi-automated product recommendation engines.

Wasteful and the wrong place to do it. Also, Sidekiq is slow, old, and commercial crippleware.

Generate and send SQL (wrapped in transactions) from C bindings via a proper background job processor like beanstalkd in batches of say 50k. Getting Ruby involved in millions of records is asking for trouble.

Seems like a mischaracterization because I don't see a problem.

UC CS undergrads had to take statistics for engineers and scientists.

UC CS undergrad majors in particular could end within 2 courses from a math undergrad degree. Is this not the case that squishier applied courses are possible?

EE/CS undergrads had to take the entire upper-division physics track for scientists and engineers, including modern physics.

So has something changed since then and is something changing back?