Re: Realistically what's Plan B?
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Session ID cookies (mostly) operate in the exact opposite way, they provide a key to a server side session store, and are the most common way of providing a user login. You can use client side sessions, where the session data is encoded and stored in a cookie, but this has limits on state size, and the state is visible to the end user - they can't modify the state, as it will be signed/protected by hashing the encoded session data combined with a server side secret.
Python gets a bad rap, but it is a strongly typed language with dynamic typing. Using mypy with python allows you to perform static type analysis of your code. If you are strict about your use of mypy, then Python is effectively a statically typed language. I work on an enormous modern python codebase, around 10 million LOC, all fully type hinted and mypy assured - we do not get typing errors.
I commiserate with the people who have to work with low quality colleagues who get mad about type hints.
Both languages have OOP features tacked on as an afterthought
Objects in Python are not an afterthought. Everything in python is a strongly typed object, with a class inheritance system, and has been since the first version Guido released.
The railway network is far from nationalised infrastructure in the UK.
"Network Rail Limited is the owner (via its subsidiary Network Rail Infrastructure Limited, which was known as Railtrack plc before 2002) and infrastructure manager of most of the railway network in Great Britain."
The next line, which you do not quote, says: "Network Rail is a non-departmental public body of the Department for Transport with no shareholders, which reinvests its income in the railways."
A public body, with no shareholders, owned by the government is *not* nationalised? Strong disagree.
Also note that the last 25+ years of railway infrastructure were under privatisation
Railway infrastructure has been publicly owned in the UK since 1947, apart from 8 years from 1994 - 2002. You even list all those dates in your post...
Despite being one of the largest Florida plats, Mar-a-Largo at 17 acres, with a 62,500 sq ft residence on it is apparently only worth around $18m. Which gets somewhat amusing because if it's flogged off at auction to pay the $500m fine, it might reveal a more accurate valuation and there was no fraud. Well, there was no real fraud anyway given nobody lost any money.
Its value is limited because of its designation solely as a members club limits its potential revenue, and hence value. If it was a private residence, it would be worth a lot more, but its not a private residence so that Diaper Don can avoid paying taxes on it.
Android may have 70% global market share, but the Apple app store takes 50% of the global spending on apps. Google Play store takes 27% of the global spending. Effectively, the average Apple user spends more than four times as much on app store purchases than an Android user.
asked to say yes to data processing – to "choose to continue to use Facebook and Instagram with ads" – or to pay up for a "subscription service with no ads on Facebook and Instagram." Meta, of course, made the changes in an attempt to comply with EU law.
But privacy rights folks weren't happy about it from the get-go, with privacy advocacy group noyb (None Of Your Business), for example, sarcastically noting Meta was basically proposing you pay it in order to enjoy your fundamental rights under EU law.
I don't quite understand this. What fundamental right is this? Why aren't Facebook allowed to monetize their users? There are three choices, "pay for Meta", "allow Meta to show advertising", or "don't use Meta". Why do they have to provide a fourth option "Use Meta for free and opt out of tracking"?
I'm going to get downvotes for this for sure... its not like I'm on Meta's side here, but I just can't understand why they aren't allowed to choose the conditions in which users access Meta.
I've quite liked the Dells that I've had over the years. The laptops are great second hand, you can always find replacement parts for older laptops on amazon or ebay, and usually quite cheaply. I refurbished my wife's laptop with a new keyboard and battery for under £50. Try getting parts for an Acer or Asus laptop. When I left my last job I even bought my Dell laptop off them for £200 (for a 2 year old Precision workstation, list price ~£4K). Everything works under linux; its even certified for Ubuntu. My HP laptop wouldn't even boot if you dared change the wifi card for a non HP approved card.
Of course, I never had to deal with the machines coming in. I know a significant percentage arrived DOA, and it was easier to count the number of days a Dell technician was NOT in the office replacing motherboards than the days they were in.
What you're *actually* saying is that people who work remotely can slack off and work several hours less than agreed upon without their superiors being any the wiser
He's an AC, but we know his job title is middle management of some sort. Let me tell you, I can 100% slack off in the office, and presenteeism is not how you measure performance.
I'm an EM myself, if someone on my team is slacking off and not doing their work, I'll know whether they are slacking off - it doesn't matter if they slack off by the coffee machine or take the kids to the park. On the other hand, if they do all their work and are generally contactable for queries, I don't care when they do their work.
My understanding is that the particles make multiple laps of the ring before being collided, which obviously wouldn't work in a linear collider, or rather, the linear collider would have to be multiple times the circumference of the collider ring to accelerate to the same speed. Maybe it is more efficient to accelerate linearly rather than in a ring?
And does anyone know what the legal position is re trailing cables across the public pavement (sidewalk for our US friends)? Who gets sued when someone, perhaps with sight issues, trips over a cable?
a) Illegal
b) Whoever ran the cable
I'm all for the green revolution, and everyone having EVs, but there is a lot logistically to work out. Its going to cost a lot, and its going to require a lot of investment, and laws to encourage/force that investment. It might be that for the average driver, driving 18 miles a day, they can get a trickle charge overnight on the street giving them 50 miles or less, and will need to use community high speed chargers for long trips. The idea that each household will have access to their own 22kwh charger is pie in the sky.
I've lost quite a lot business over the years to overseas outsourcing based on cost alone. Usually they come back after a year or two in exile, but the lost earnings in that time stings a little.
Some countries I've lost business to:
My previous company setup a Belfast office and hired entire new teams to build up capacity. They get tax breaks for investing in NI, and developer salaries are significantly lower than London. After 9 months of training a junior team who had no relevant experience in our tech stack, I could see the writing on the wall and got the hell out of there. My London based ex-colleagues were *shocked* that within 6 months the company had two rounds of redundancies that wiped out the London team of all the high wage/low performers.
The original question here is not Wayland across a network, it's Wayland through an SSH tunnel.
I'm struggling to understand what your confusion is with what I said, so I've put in links to RHEL9 manual explaining how to run graphical applications remotely over ssh using a local wayland environment, for both native wayland applications and legacy X11 applications.
waypipe can operate over an ssh tunnel, xwayland works implicitly over an ssh tunnel.
You don't have to read the T&Cs to see the price increases, as in the UK everyone signing up to a telco contract must have been given a pre-agreement contract information/contract summary, which is a 3-6 pages of normal sized type explicitly laying out the initial cost, the first month cost, future month costs and any price increase. My most recent contract was with iD mobile, on page 3 of the CI/CS they have a section detailing the annual price increases - it could not be clearer.
One sees the quote so often that 'the market' will drive down prices, when clearly what it does is drive prices to the highest the consumer will stand.
That's the definition of a price though. An apple isn't worth $1 because of the efforts put in to grow it, but because people want apples and are prepared to pay $1 for it.
I'm am old fart, not a single monochrome CRT I've ever seen in anything (I've seen metric fucktons of terminals, TVs and monitors because I repaired them for a living)
Yes, wonderful story Grandpa. The only problem is that the only person who has mentioned monochrome monitors is you. The OP said that it had green text. Have you never come across a monitor with green text that was not a monochrome monitor, because I'm a spring chicken of only 44 years, and I've seen several. One old CGA (perhaps EGA) monitor I used even had a slider so you could switch it between the full 16 colours, or green text, white text and amber text, as you desired. The wonders of modern technology!
I liked green text on the terminal, but for Sopwith I much preferred amber.
That sounds like you should be reporting them for an offence under the Computer Misuse Act
It really doesn't - the ISP supplied router is (usually) not your device, it remains the property of the ISP - which is why you have to return it at the end of your contract. As it's their device, they're free to access it to do anything necessary for provision of service.
My ISP (Hyperoptic) does something fairly sane, you need the ISP router plugged in for the line to activate (or clone the MAC address), and after that you're free to unplug it and use whatever router you want. However, if you want to complain about something not working to tech support, they require the ISP router to be plugged in and in use. If the ISP router works and your's doesn't work, well that's your problem, but if the ISP router doesn't work, they'll work it out - either a new router or an engineer visit or both.
A lot of campsites have 240v hookups these days, and a lot of tents (especially big family tents) are starting to come with an access port for a hookup. You can buy a simple RCB protected board to plug the hookup into and then you've got three mains sockets in your tent.
Although, if you're going camping and want to watch TV so much you buy this device, did you really want to go camping in the first place?
I use ChatGPT daily to write tickets for my team to work on. Its exceptionally bad at this - I give it a prettily formatted template that it uses as a basis for it, and two sentences or so of context. There is usually at least one thing wrong on each line, and some requirements it comes up with make absolutely no sense at all.
However:
* All the tickets look the same in terms of style, which my developers like
* There are fewer changes required than just using the template straight up and editing it
* It gets the ticket in to a basic stage that just needs further refinement in just a few minutes
These "AI" are quite useful if you consider them as building the skeletons of things. You have to know what is right and what is wrong, and act as an editor on everything it produces.
That's just a feature that you're using. People value features, and if you decide that you don't want to use a certain system, then one tradeoff is that you may lose some of its features.
It's classic platform lock. Sure, you can switch, but the cost of doing X things on each repository to migrate Y repositories over to a new platform makes it prohibitively expensive. A previous employer found this out when Gitlab changed their fees and removed their "Bronze" level - we needed more than the "Starter" level provided and so had to upgrade to "Premium" at a cost of around $15/user/month. In other words, much more than Github would cost - Github being the preferred platform when we switched over to git, but beaten out by gitlab on price.
Problem was, we had tens of thousands of repos, almost all of them running CI/CD using gitlab - it wasn't just a case of moving all those repos, but moving all those repos, configuring new CI/CD pipelines, reconfiguring all the gitlab integrations - it would have cost millions and taken months.
Changing from Zoom to Google Meet would be trivial compared to that.
Biden kept classified documents in his family's 'think tank' and garage, and this is fine. Trump kept some documents in his pool house, and must be prevented from participating in the democratic process at all costs.
In both cases, the papers were asked to be returned. Biden returned all documents, Trump lied and said he returned them. They asked a 2nd and 3rd time, and Trump kept lieing and saying "what documents". It took an FBI raid to finally remove the documents from Trump. Do you see how that is different?
I agree that long haul trucking routes are a place where autonomous vehicles could really shine, but that's by eliminating the need to pay someone. If you still have a "driver" then the economic argument for paying more for a brand new truck is eliminated.
In the UK, and I believe in the EU as well, an HGV driver can only drive for 9/10 hours a day, 56 hours a week, 90 hours every rolling fortnight, and has to rest for 11 hours a day, 9 of which must be uninterrupted. If they can be resting or asleep in their cab, the cab could be active for significantly longer periods.
Berkshire Hathaway's wealth is based upon them spotting the potential in the rigged US insurance market - as reported here many years ago. Hats off to them for spotting it, but lots of people think "The Sage of Omaha" is some sort of miracle stock-picker - they have an enormous float from identifying that this is possible and picking up all possible companies with floats, and invest that float in low risk stocks. Trebles all round, but impossible to replicate those sorts of returns now if you gave them a blank slate and $1bn to invest.
And even earlier, Britain had an "unassailable global advantage in" textiles till some scrote stole the designs and ran off to America
Tesla still have some advantage in range over a lot of their competitors, the big thing that puts me off from these cars is their supercar like performance. Tesla 3 Long Range does 0-60 in 3.9 seconds, I'm too old for that shit, and I'm too poor for the insurance rating such power gives. I'd probably wrap it around a tree.
Every cc of water that you use has to be procured, stored, delivered, pressurized and then processed as waste. The amount you use exactly correlates with the cost to provide those attributes.
There's a lot wrong with water, but charging for your usage isn't one of them. Ancient leaking pipes, inadequate storm overflow facilities, not enough reservoirs - these all need fixing. Paying your fair shake doesn't.
The real benefit is interesting time of day tariffs, and demand reduction schemes like we had last winter.
Both of which rely on smart meters.
The really interesting stuff is connected devices, letting your supplier control (to an extent) when your heat pump, EV car, or home battery is charged / active.