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Perhaps, just maybe, like i mean its possible, we live in a world where chains of events happen, markov style. So that when a bill that can't currently passed gets voted on, there is an event where the politicians who opposed it can be held accountable by thier constituent in later elections.

I know it sounds strange, but what if the math is right, and there can actually be casual relationships?

Because if you want to eat an animal you have to properly remove the bits of it that will make you sick and spoil the meat.

We do it to pigs and chickens and cows too. Its a very early step in the slaughtering and butchering process - usually the first step after the animal has been killed.

Directory is a bad metaphor too.

It really is. It's basically chaos monkey for pki.

Code paths and procedures that aren't exercised regularly are broken.

Even better is having a way to reoke keys and big players occasionally include revoked keys in trust chains and blast a warning if the revoked key is considered valid.

Bad comparrison. The less time my computer spends doing things the less battery I use.

An F1 car goes faster but also uses more fuel to do so.

Any one tool being a bit faster doesn't make my batter last noticeably longer, but defaulting to using the efficient tooling gets me results I can see.

In context of time machine backups...

The link will be whatever the fastest network port you can get on an apple machine is. Its not 200Gbps - the apple end will be the limiting factor. A single core can probably fill that just fine.

And being pedantic - 200Gbps links are not a significant percentage of installed network ports in the computers in the world... so "almost any" is pretty accurate.

I live in an area of the US that pre-pandemic, it wasn't the case of "everything scheduled and planned". I'd wake up, wander down to the cafe and chat with people I knew around town... just whoever I'd see. After work I'd go to the downtown area and just stop at pubs and patio cafes and whatever and sit until someone I knew came by or I saw someone doing the same and stop and chat with them.

After the pandemic it's like everyone forgot this. The coffee shops are all students studying or people rushing in and out, the pubs and cafes are all ghost towns or groups of people being very insular. Even at events like the farmer's market there's less socializing and more "go get the things and go move on, don't look around, don't talk to people", the vendors even mention how boring it is these days without anyone just chatting anymore.

"Go out and be in the world" seems to have just died.

Hate to break it to you but that wasn't new in the 50s and 60s. The mechanisms by which it was done were changing away frome the machine politics of earlier eras - but ways to regulate what can and can't be done by neighborhood have been around since the birth of the country. Use of eminent domain for public works private ventures is at least as old as the railroads. Planned suburbs, company towns, bedroom communities and the like are all 19th century "new" things in the US.

Its been a bad habit since 9/11 and the disgusting mess that is the PATRIOT act.

Never underestimate how much most Americans will gladly shit on their freedoms if they're told it will hurt someone slightly different than them.

CGI does allow arbitrary HTTP headers.

The main idea of a database is to support storing data in a structured and queryable way. Concurrency came later.

This is not the first small company with a popular opensource project that was acquired. Its not the first time such an acquisition resulted in the shuttering of the flagship product. Its not even the first time the shuttering was announced at acquisition (vs the acquirer letting the product just slowly atrophy away).

I doubt it will be the last time.

In some circles they are. You think all the fancy RGB stuff and fancy lights to call attention to the gamers' PCs are about functionality? Or maybe are they about status?

Tools or and goods often serve as both status symbols and functionality.

Do you think fancy cars are just about transport? Or maybe they also serve as status symbols?

Do you think the special sword for the king which he uses to knight people is just a tool of war? Seems to me that its all three tbh.

All sorts of things in our lives are both functional and status symbols and/or serve a ritual purpose.

Heck there are all sorts of things that are not really functional any more but were very functional at one point and still serve as status symbols and ritual purpose, for example - the traditional gift of a fancy fountain pen to a recent law school graduate.