[-] towerful@programming.dev 14 points 6 months ago

Also can't comprehend the "protected" bike lane.
It just looks like more road

[-] towerful@programming.dev 14 points 8 months ago

While true, quantity of poop particles also matters.
Your body can fight off loads of bacteria. But once it gets to an infection point, it can't keep up and you become ill.

So yeh, poop is everywhere. As long as it's small amounts, it's fine.

[-] towerful@programming.dev 14 points 9 months ago

*consume the whole atmosphere

They weren't concerned about rock getting involved.
The concern was that the extreme temperature and pressure caused by the fission event would trigger fusion events of the nitrogen in the atmosphere, which would lead to a chain reaction of fusion of the atmosphere.

https://www.advancedsciencenews.com/could-a-nuclear-explosion-set-earths-atmosphere-on-fire/

[-] towerful@programming.dev 14 points 1 year ago

In the cloud, obviously

[-] towerful@programming.dev 14 points 1 year ago

Nah.
Trump thinks he is the saviour of america, and that he is the friend of the constitution.

The constitution doesn't think this.
Pretty sure a number of his executive orders will be (or have been?) ruled unconstitutional and overturned - which is makes it easier to counter future bullshit, but anyone currently sprayed by the fan of the us government slinging shit will still have had their lives ruined.

[-] towerful@programming.dev 14 points 1 year ago

Seems like her initial reaction is from the gut with love and support.
And then maybe she searches and "researches" the topic and starts spouting bullshit, and doesn't have the appropriate social filters.


All I really wanted from her was understanding, but she just gave me a lot of self-doubt and sadness instead.

Feel free to call her out on these things. Highlight the instances where she has initially been supportive, and then u-turned into harmful communication.
Ultimately, this is about communicating these scenarios with her. Hopefully she can modify her behaviours.
I know I have changed my behaviour significantly when people have done that with me, and I have noticed the same with my parents when I call them out on things.
It's just human.


It's possible that she has undiagnosed conditions.
Might be that you notice some markers of this when talking to her about your concerns.


Or it's possible that she is researching in the wrong way and in the wrong places (maybe a "mom group" which is actually a toxic environment).
Which will also become apparent when discussing the topic ("you said you thought I might have autism last night, but this morning you said I was lazy. I'm trying to figure this thing out and you have a perspective on my life I don't. Saying one thing that validates my concerns, then saying a hurtful opposite thing less than 12 hours later both makes me seriously doubt myself and my experiences and makes me feel really unloved and unsupported. Why did you change your tune?" sort of thing).
At which point you have to decide if you:
want to try and correct their news/research sources;
accept that they will prioritise their shitty "research" over their actual experience - basically not rely on them for support and disregard their opinion, but still love them;
or cut them out of your life.


There is also the possibility that she is toxic, but her initial support comes from biological "love and support".
You don't owe her anything, and - if through communication about the issue - you figure out she is toxic, then it's fine to reduce/eliminate your reliance/relationship/contact with her.


Ultimately, her opinion doesn't matter. She isn't a psychologist or a medical doctor. If you think something is wrong, you need to talk to people that have studied the subject.
Talk to a professional, and keep going until you feel heard. Don't give up until you feel heard and understood.

[-] towerful@programming.dev 14 points 2 years ago

I was kinda hoping the UK was past exploiting the ill-informed, idiots and reckless. Especially after the wild wild success of Brexit.

But no, apparently not.
Exploit the AI hype that a lot of people probably don't understand.
Somehow argue that a computer is more human than a human.
Put this absolute garbage of a solution on the ballet, and watch everyone go "well, politicians aren't working, let's try breaking the system" and vote for some untested hallucinating predictive text algorithm to lead a country, while employing twice as many staff to fix/feed/spin/manipulate/fake the results of the AI.

[-] towerful@programming.dev 14 points 2 years ago

Well, if the Tories get back in then deporting people to Rwanda and expansion of oil drilling in the north sea will be guaranteed.
Voting for lab, there is a chance that these will be cancelled.

Tories have had decades in charge, and shit is fucked.
Labour are more progressive - not enough for my taste, but better than constant austerity

[-] towerful@programming.dev 14 points 2 years ago

Anyone concerned with that threat model can host their own instance on whatever hardware they want.
They could have the middleware load balanced over aws/azure/gcp/hetzner/at-home and have load-balanced replicated postgres also running on those hosts.
They could use CDN & threat protection from those cloud providers as well as cloudflare. And really distribute the threat of that situation.
But nobody wants to fork out $$$ every month before they are even scaling to thousands of users, never mind the added complications of middleware from one provider trying to interact with a load balancer on another provider which is forwarding to postgres on a different provider, let alone geographic latencies.
Then trying to manage that, never mind the headache of an update.

But, if that is someones threat model, then they CAN work around it.

Companies owning the actual servers and infrastructure is at the level of enormous scaling (like twitter) or high risk (like banking, even then chances are they are running hardened systems that would be secure on anything).
Most companies will pass that responsibility off to a single provider, and rely on that providers skills/services for uptime

[-] towerful@programming.dev 14 points 2 years ago

Yeh, seems like the CVEs were against an alpha branch.
So, perhaps its a good reminder not to use alpha in production... But I feel it warranted a bug report instead of a "Common Vulnerabilities and Exploits" notice, normally something used to notify potentially production deployed systems of an issue.

That would be like Pepsi issuing a product recall to all retail outlers for a product that has only been tested internally (kinda)

[-] towerful@programming.dev 14 points 3 years ago

"treated" it's right there in the headline!

Seriously, tho...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37628900
Has some discussion on it.
Chances are, it's the water from the pad protection (rain birds, noise dampening, the fix for the concrete being obliterated etc). Contaminants will be removed, it will be filtered etc...

The concern is around it being freshwater, and it upsetting the freshwater/saltwater balance in the area

[-] towerful@programming.dev 14 points 3 years ago

As fun as it is to shit on ERCOT, this was due to internal issues at Johnson space center.
There were upgrades going on, with backup plans in place.
They were notified of the outage via roscosmos within 20m, and were running from the backup system within 90m.
All in the article

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