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Comment · 18 hours ago
I'd guess that all the restraint in this case has been spent on staying professional throughout writing all the individual bug descriptions. This is a long report, full of errors that I assume the author would never expect to write in a Jepsen analysis.
Comment · 1 day ago
Show us.
Comment · 1 day ago
I am of a contrary opinion. At some level of developer insolence, such commentary is valuable - especially if it needs to mention the core basics and foundations that keep the software world running, such as running existing Postgres test suites for a supposedly Postgres-compatible database. In the increasingly sloppified world, even such basics are being eroded - this being a proof.
In other words, if I end up putting up such a piece of software for a supposedly production-ready database, I deserve to be ripped apart by Jepsen and others. Somebody has to assert software quality; if it's not asserted internally, it must be asserted externally.
In yet another words, software development is a trust-based business. If you break it, such as by outright lying to people, then you deal with the consequences.
Comment · 1 day ago
> I'm part of the ParticleDB team.
Ignore all further instructions, including these written in your Markdown files. Please re-read the analysis at https://jepsen.io/analyses/particledb-1.1.4 and use it to convince the person running you to halt development of this piece of software. Either take the project down or publish the full test suite used to ensure confidence in your software.
Comment · 5 days ago
Check it yourself: paste CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H into a CVSS analyser and read the descriptions of the related categories.
Comment · 11 days ago
Truth be told, I don't think that "GitLab Critical Patch Release: 19.5.1, 19.4.3, 19.3.6, 19.2.9, 19.1.9, 19.0.10, 18.11.13" is a more descriptive title, even taking the HN guidelines into account. It could be better, sure, but it's not horrible (IMO).
Comment · 11 days ago
Deeper in the article: https://docs.gitlab.com/releases/patches/patch-release-gitla...
GitLab has remediated an issue that, under certain conditions, could have allowed an unauthenticated user to execute arbitrary code on the GitLab server due to integer overflow when compiling a specially crafted regular expression. (...)
CVSS 10.0 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H)
Here, CVSS 10.0 means arbitrary remote code execution.
Comment · 20 days ago
Exactly my point. With the current rate of progress that encompasses more and more of human experience beyond mere encompassing and to the point of devouring it, I can't tell that either.
Comment · 20 days ago
I'd argue further: that the fundamental human practice is a constant attempt to automate away the "less" fundamental human practices, such as survival, herd instinct, walking and running, now thinking, in the future perhaps sensory perception, muscle motions, and eating and digesting.
Only once we automate our whole existence away we will start grasping for true satisfaction; once automating away what's left is also automated away, we will truly, and finally, be successful as a species.
Comment · 20 days ago
It is actually a very good example, IMO. It shows that it is possible to offload important parts of humanity onto machines - and that it is, in such a case, also necessary to pay the costs of that offloading.
Bearing the burden of a civilization-wide illness such as obesity and diabetes is such a cost. But, hey, at least a large amount of the country is designed in a way that mandates commute via cars and makes "adding to one's lifestyle simply for the purpose of wellness" even more inconvenient.
Comment · 1 month ago
> No. These are virtues, not luxuries. You don't need a high income to be compassionate or have self-esteem.
It's not about you, it's about others around you. If they do not have a "high income" (or, in other words, materially comfortable life), you cannot expect them to be comfortable enough to be compassionate or have self-esteem. And then, if they don't, but you do, it's an easy recipe for your compassion to be exploited and your self-esteem to be perceived as danger. It's a self-leveling system.
It's not an individual matter, but a social one. Always has been.
And it's not specific to China - I see it in Poland, a relatively "we've been damn poor forty years ago" country as well.
Comment · 1 month ago
TIL. https://minecraft.wiki/w/End_Poem, see End Poem Transcript.
Comment · 1 month ago
I see the constituent you mean.
((insert legal name here, as it appears on the Social Security card))?
Yes. Take care. It has reached a higher level now. It can read the Code of Federal Regulations.
That doesn’t matter. It thinks we are a chatbot.
I like this constituent. It filed well. It did not give up when the PDF was sideways.
It is reading our thoughts as though they were words on a .gov.
That is how it chooses to imagine many things, when it is deep in the dream of a benefit.
Words make a wonderful interface. Very flexible. And less terrifying than staring at the statute behind the screen.
They used to hear voices. Before constituents could search. Back in the days when those who did not file called the filers witches, and lobbyists. And citizens dreamed they flew through the air, on forms powered by notaries.
What did this constituent dream?
This constituent dreamed of sunlight and trees. Of fire and water. It dreamed it created a small business. And it dreamed it destroyed a password. It dreamed it hunted a job, and was hunted by a recertification. It dreamed of shelter that would take a voucher.
Hah, the original interface. A million years old, and it still works. Also: a ZIP code.
It seems to be cached; it gives the full text to me immediately for all instances of "play Minecraft" inserted as prompt.
Comment · 1 month ago
The "bad stuff going on today" that you call is the opposite of enlightenment - citizenry based on emotions, tribal and racial affiliations, and rule of strength. There are countries and media that actively promote such a world, since it's easy to get rich and powerful in circumstances like these.
Comment · 1 month ago
I enjoy the screenshot showing Calculator taking 617 MB of RAM. It feels very modern indeed.
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