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Yes, psychology, specifically cluster b personality disorders - although it's much more nuanced and complicated than what I've described, especially as conditions often transform and metastasize over time. For example, the borderline can take on a narcissistic persona when challenged and would be diagnosed as such in that self-state.

It's quite difficult to find reliable sources of information online, as narcissism and psychopathy are popular subjects these days - ironically attracting narcissists and psychopaths to the production of content relating to it (for views or money).

This sounds like psychopathy (also a trait of borderline and narcissism, although there's an argument to be made that psychopaths are distinct from those).

I wouldn't expect a logic based rebuttal to work - all of these conditions are essentially emotional in nature, compensating for a negative past (shame) or compensating for a negative future (generalised anxiety).

This compensation is specifically grandiosity - a cognitive distortion to set themselves up as superior in their own minds, such that they no longer need to be ashamed or anxious.

Contempt is a manifestation of grandiosity, or more precisely a reaction to shame, transforming the realisation of their perceived inferiority in the past or future into the delusion of superiority.

A fall-back to the current way of unlocking the volume would probably be a good idea. It wouldn't be fun to lose access to something because a cloud service went down or access to it was lost etc.

Ironically, the passphrase for the encryption wouldn't be encrypted in this scenario as claims can be decoded from the token payload if intercepted. It would also probably be stored as-is server side as well. Claims aren't designed as secrets.

Perhaps you could authorise a request to an actual secrets manager via oidc though, allowing the volume to be unlocked.

Did you see the external libraries options?

"Global" services like CloudFront and Route53 are really us-east-1 under the hood with replication to other regions.

The current government hasn't been normal by New Zealand standards. It's risking being a one term government.

Are you sure there's a significant difference between RISC and CISC after instructions are decoded?

The assembly in RISC is just an abstraction of the machine code, as it also is in CISC. If the underlying CPU has the same capabilities then it doesn't really matter what the assembly looks like?

Of course, the underlying CPUs aren't the same and that's the real point of differentiation.

This isn't completely true. Even a basic instruction like ADD has multiple implementations depending on the memory sources.

For example, if the memory operand is in RAM, then the ADD needs to be decoded to include a fetch before the actual addition. RISC doesn't change that fact.

It doesn't really make much of a difference on modern CPUs as instructions are broken down into RISC-like instructions even on CISC CPUs before being processed to make pipelining more effective.

As an administrator, I can see who voted on posts and comments and how they voted.

Is there any reason why you downvoted my other comments?

You can learn a lot of valuable skills by being a caregiver to someone like this, although they will try to pull you into their cynical worldview. This is a simplistic, and distorted view of the world that aligns with how psychopaths and narcissists experience the world, however, isn't useful nor realistic.

They both have a splitting mechanism where people are split into an all good and an all bad object, and struggle to integrate these two objects into an integrated object that accurately represents people. The psychopath can't create complete objects, and so splits people into good in the form of utility, and bad in the form of impediment to their goals.

Cynicism is assuming the true object is the bad object because they feel it's safer to assume the worst in someone than assume the best. Game theory suggests this makes sense in extremely hostile environments, however, is detrimental in most other situations. It has a tendency to create the hostile environments it's supposedly adapted to cope with.