- jopsenWe should just silently turn up support for Ukraine, that's where it hurts. Everything else is a distraction.
- Scaring people, distraction, etc.
In the grand scheme, repairing the cables and supporting Ukraine will cost less and hurt Russia more than escalating tentions in the Baltic sea.
- Most of the water isn't internal.. getting in and out of the baltic sea goes past Sweden/Denmark.
But we probably have promised not to blockade ships in some conventions. And little Denmark (or Sweden) do not benefit from setting a precedence that conventions can be broken.
Getting payback is easy though: support Ukraine.
- You don't need fully distributed database, do you?
You could just make a registry hosted as plain HTTP, with everything signed. And a special file that contains a list of mirrors.
Clients request the mirror list and the signed hash of the last entry in the Merkel tree. Then they go talk to a random mirror.
Maybe, you central service requires user sign-in for publishing and reading, while mirrors can't publish, but mirrors don't require sign-in.
Obviously, you'd have to validate that mirrors are up and populated. But that's it.
You can start by self hosting a mirror.
One could go with signing schemes inspired by: https://theupdateframework.io/
Or one could omit signing all together, so long as you have a Merkel tree with hashes for all publishing events. And the latest hash entry is always fetched from your server along with the mirror list.
Having all publishing go through a single service is probably desirable. You'll eventually need to do moderation, etc. And hosting your service or a mirror becomes a legal nightmare if there is not moderation.
Disclaimer: opinions are my own.
- The alluring thing is storing the repository on S3 (or similar). Recall early docker registries making requests so complicated that backing image storage with S3 was unfeasible, without a proxy service.
The thing that scales is dumb HTTP that can be backed by something like S3.
You don't have to use a cloud, just go with a big single server. And if you become popular, find a sponsor and move to cloud.
If money and sponsor independence is a huge concern the alternative would be: peer-to-peer.
I haven't seen many package managers do it, but it feels like a huge missed opportunity. You don't need that many volunteers to peer inorder to have a lot of bandwidth available.
Granted, the real problem that'll drive up hosting cost is CI. Or rather careless CI without caching. Unless you require a user login, or limit downloads for IPs without a login, caching is hard to enforce.
For popular package repositories you'll likely see extremely degenerate CI systems eating bandwidth as if it was free.
Disclaimer: opinions are my own.
- Few, but screenshot the qr code and print it out.
Even Facebook supports totp it's just well hidden.
- Send some emails to the address, then you'll know what is in the inbox :)
- Defense related reasons canceled projects early in the planning phase.
This is the kind of thing you know years before construction is even funded, much less started.
This is a US administration being dishonest, whether for stupidity or to apply political pressure who knows.
- Also the US is increasingly proving itself as an unreliable partner. Do you want that for your energy supply?
This is just more of that, contracts in the US are suddenly subject to political winds.
In the end, this will probably be unblocked by the legal system, and eventually the US tax payers will pay for damages. But it'll be a long time.
- > Only under our current cultural and economic assumptions.
I think we shouldn't hope those changes, that could lead to interesting times.
- Doing only IRL code reviews would certainly improve quality in some projects :)
It's probably also fairly expensive to do.
- Consider getting a European model..
I was always confused doing laundry in the US. Warm cycle or cold cycle?
I have 30C, 40C and 60C depending on what I'm washing. I probably have more programs, but never use them. For pillows and stuff I adjust spinning, from 1200 to 400 RPM. And I use special short, low rpm handwash program for wool.
(Side loaded ofcourse, that way the dryer can be on top)
- > I wouldn't want to pay for a VPN with a credit card in my name.
Wow, you must be using the VPN for some seriously shady stuff.
- The "I asked $LLM about $X, and here is what $LLM said" pattern is probably most used to:
(A) Reticule the AI for giving a dumb answer.
(B) Point out how obvious something is.
- I would rather write the code and have AI write the tests :)
And I have on occasion found it useful.
- Europe does have a great love for the US!
We love all things American.
Sure, we don't agree or understand the crazy things you do. But neither does the other half of Americans ;)
Many European countries joined various more less foolish American wars the past two decades.
Yes, many Europeans love to point out what's wrong with America. Because we think you could do so much better.
But most of us, speak the language, many fluently, and watch more American TV than native. And watching entertainment from other European countries is the exception, one we rarely make.
I follow politics in my country, and the US, I barely know how French or German governments work.
I am extremely conflicted about how to respond to the current US administration. I would like us to fight back, but I can't help but hope we outlive the current administration and things can go back to normal.
If we are to talk back, I'm tempted to suggest drop conventional forces and just go for nukes. If we have nukes, the US can't refuse to help us if attacked :D
Also the US umbrella is gone, and I wouldn't trust any other umbrella -- not even a European one.
- I tried an American PPO with $10 co-pay and no deductibles. It was awesome :)
Nobody could tell me what anything would cost, or if the insurance would cover it. But I always ended up paying $10, whether it was a few pills or an expensive MRI I didn't need. Oh, yeah the downside is you can accidentally convince your doctor to get procedures you don't need.
Health care in Denmark is decent. But I've been told, no when I wanted to run some tests. That would never happen on an American PPO :)
I have had go wait, while unpleasant, it's fairly harmless (otherwise they don't let you wait).
So if you're on an great PPO plan in the US, healthcare is great.
Whether the outcome is better for the average Joe, is probably a different question.
- An American PPO with a $10 co-pay is pretty awesome. The only downside is that it's too easy to get a procedure you don't need :)
I've tried tellings doctors in Denmark I wanted X, Y, Z test and getting told, nah, the outcome wouldn't change your treatment so we don't want to order those tests.
Generally, healthcare is decent, but no doubt a good PPO plan does not compare :)
Public health care seems more like HMO, you have to use a provider within network. Sometimes you need a referral from your primary physician, etc.
You can pick your doctor, but not everyone can take on more patients.