marsovo

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by marsovo 1y ago
Macroeconomics is very different from microeconomics. Your spending is my income and my spending is your income. If the government spends a dollar, where does it go? Presumably it goes to some sort of goods and services. The employees pa
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by marsovo 1y ago
I see what you mean, but ACID is a fairly foundational expectation for SQL transactions (D being the relevant feature here) That being said, my background is primarily Microsoft SQL more than Postgres. As such I'm occasionally bemused
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by marsovo 1y ago
I looked into this some more. There are other ways than explicit fsync. See this blurb on FUA (which basically treats the I/O as write-through) https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/sqlserver/sql-serve...
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by marsovo 1y ago
I'm not sure we're using the same terminology. Committed means the transaction has been hardened to disk. That's the D in ACID. Otherwise, is the suggestion that there be an artificial delay to allow other transactions to p
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by marsovo 1y ago
Sure, but now when transaction 1 is "committed", it isn't actually guaranteed to be there in the face of interruption. That's a big change to the default behavior...
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by marsovo 1y ago
More context on the external tank: https://archive.is/2017.03.30-030831/https://www.nasa.gov/mi... > The common soda can, a marvel of mass production, is 94% soda and 6% can by mass. Compare that to t
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by marsovo 2y ago
PHP has grown up but in its wild youth was notorious for such gems as mysql_escape_string vs mysql_real_escape_string, rather than proper parameterization It's not so much about Turing as it is libraries and patterns After all, as I un
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by marsovo 2y ago
Yes, you're right. I wasn't able to double-check as the repo was deleted at the time. That said, AIUI making the tags read-only would still often be vulnerable to semantic-version exploitation.
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by marsovo 2y ago
I don't think that's exactly what happened here: the compromise created new tags but generally the tag consumption relies on semantic versioning In other words: you specify version 44, the attacker creates 44.1, you're still
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by marsovo 2y ago
Erm, most file systems allow you to change data too, right? Hence S3 is emphatically not a file system.
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by marsovo 2y ago
Here's the link to that https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40304666 Moral of the story: the "technical part" of things is not the end of the story Alternative moral: The 3-2-1 backup rule of thumb is still
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by marsovo 2y ago
Not to mention removal of the alternatives in favor of GPS, e.g. shutting down VOR beacons (see e.g. https://www.flightaware.com/squawks/view/1/24_hours/popular/... )
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by marsovo 2y ago
Can you point us to which part of that can deal with the scenario in question? > What stops a malicious actor from recording the signals coming off the satellites and replaying them louder with a delay?
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by marsovo 2y ago
I don't think it's wrong to blame people who make life more difficult for others for their own aggrandizement The game doesn't exist without players. I could make more money if I worked at Meta or Amazon, but at what cost? I
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by marsovo 2y ago
It depends on what the broader economy is doing Is government spending crowding out private investment? (Is the private sector competing with the government for employees?). If so then GDP should increase Is unemployment high? Then probably
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by marsovo 2y ago
As I understand it, the trial was about whether or not providing the database schema is a security risk. > Your request seeks a copy of tables or columns within each table of CANVAS. The dissemination of these pieces of network informati
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by marsovo 2y ago
What evidence have you seen that this was somehow instigated by China, and not Russian ethnic nationalism/imperialism for its own sake? Remember that this started well before 2022. This is a recap and prescient analysis from 2014: h
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by marsovo 2y ago
I once thought this was the solution too, then NYC's ranked-choice mayoral race gave it Eric Adams. Now I don't know. Maybe open primaries?
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by marsovo 2y ago
Did Jeff Bezos enter your home and annex your attic?
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by marsovo 2y ago
Not to take away from your accurate point about oil, but I think it's silly to say the "we're still in the cold war" crowd were out of touch in this of all threads.
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by marsovo 2y ago
So change it afterwards. Good defaults are important. If someone doesn't change it, it's important that they be on the right path instead of...this one. (See also: opt-in versus opt-out for retirement plans, organ donation...hec
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by marsovo 2y ago
Might be a question of cause and effect. My neurologist theorized my migraines were triggered by microemboli leaking through a PFO (leak between left and right side of the heart: normally the lungs filter this stuff out) PFO closed, migrai
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by marsovo 2y ago
FSacademy has lesson packs that I've found pretty good for Microsoft Flight simulator. Though they are not super US-centric. The built-in lessons are decent for the basics. The older flight simulator lessons with Rod Machado were muc
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by marsovo 2y ago
It's not clear what you're saying. That COVID was overblown because of how we tested for it? Let's pretend COVID didn't exist. Yet, let's also look at all-cause mortality (CDC data). Death rates approached twice
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by marsovo 2y ago
Well, I'm not sure I'd say Windows is a good example of that anymore, in fact I was going to use it to argue the very point: as they seem to rewrite the UI in new frameworks, we've lost a lot of features (not even talking abo
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by marsovo 2y ago
Indeed. The trouble with subscriptions is that you don't need to make the new version actually good enough to convince people to upgrade, you just need to make it not bad enough for people to abandon the subscription entirely. I t
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by marsovo 2y ago
Heartily disagree. I have had to fight with others over automated formatting because it obscured intent or clarity. For example (C#) mandating `var`, mandating one and only one line of whitespace between lines of code, mandating the =>
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by marsovo 2y ago
Overall I agree: I think a big root cause of current woes is that companies have grown too large and competition is broken. Not only that, but larger entities have more leverage to tilt the playing field and become even more anticompetitiv
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by marsovo 2y ago
So certain are you? How are we measuring the calories for this bet, by what's on the package? How does that number on the package get measured? When I eat nuts, cashews, etc., did 100% of the food get digested and absorbed? A day lat
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by marsovo 2y ago
Samsung is top-tier by Android standards. 4 years of security updates and 3 years of OS upgrades (minimum - some devices, such as the premium models, get more than that). Better than Google themselves when last I checked, which is shameful

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