May rampant depression everywhere be caused by not the lack of exercise, but because of life becoming overly sedentary?
30 years ago moving your body wasn't going to the gym, it was part of everyday life. Staying 2 hours nonstop in front on the screen was to watch a movie, and maybe done a couple times a week, tops.
Now we just deliver 3 tomatoes to our doorstep to avoid going out.
I'm kind of with you on this one. 12yo is old enough to understand the rules (assuming they were clearly set) and if he/she was willingly communicating with a stranger, that phone should get the hammer with no replacement whatsoever. I've seen this done, it works.
I am not even sure where you get "smashing a device violently in front of a child" comes from. He said gets the hammer as in he would perma destroy it.
Anyway I tend to agree for the most part anyway. I was just making a guess about your age irl based on what you said. However some other data actually indicates you are likely gen-x.
What I believe the author did was instead of teaching their child that they may not talk to strangers, they believed there just is a magic button to have these strangers not exist.
You can't control or decide what predators will do. And very likely won't be able to imagine the extent of every single of their convoluted predatory practices by yourself.
So instead of trying to cover every possible theoretical danger, setting clear rules and boundaries with your kid sounds like a way more sensible and pragmatic approach.
And nobody said kids should be punished or held fully accountable on their first mistake.
The comment section seems to be divided between "don't police your children" and "absolutely police everything your children do".
Parental controls are absolutely necessary, yet they won't be enough by themselves. Payment systems are really robust but there's still fraud. If there's prey, there will be predators.
Education and clear rules are absolutely necessary, yet they won't be enough by themselves. There's people that's very evil and also very clever. You can educate and trust your 12yo to understand 80% of it, yet for the remaining 20% you have to be there.
And, oh boy, the issue about parental controls being incredibly complicated is 100% by design. Simple and sensible parental controls would make exploitative business models like Roblox go bankrupt overnight.
That's correct. The current state of parental controls is compliance (the option exists somewhere, good luck finding it, maybe it even works), not usefulness.
The author casually mentions this but basically the main reason through history to build communities is the existence of kids, which he literally decided not to have.
I'm the opposite, I don't like or want a social life, I live comfortably, but by having kids I have no other choice than to participate in a bunch of communities just as a byproduct of trying to be a good dad.
Even the communities anyone participates today were likely built around kids in a past time.
The rest of the article is just trying to overcompensate for the decision of not having children.
I thought "The Data Scarcity Problem" from the article is very well known to us engineers?
It's where the pulleys of a very sophisticated statistical machine start to show, and the claims about intelligence start to crumble.
Reason AI is great for boilerplate (because it's been done a million times) and not so great for specifics (even if they're specifics in a popular language).
Steam Deck. An awesome piece of hardware, a leap forward for Linux gaming, but as an early adopter I got the black screen of death (common issue) fairly soon. Tried everything to no avail. Now it's a very shinny and barely used brick.
If I understand the article correctly, any sufficiently capable attacker can:
- Know the global state of your GPU cluster via the client.
- Target the most struggling GPU instances specifically since the client decides which one to hit.
You offer a free tier which means anyone can get an account and try to do it (e.g. you can have one "harmless, mostly inactive" free account with the only purpose of retrieving GPU cluster status, and a bunch of burner accounts to overload struggling instances).
I may be completely wrong, but this sounds like DDoS served on a silver plate to me.
They run these clients themselves and the redis instance isn't publically exposed.
It would indeed be very strange to hope your random users coordinate with your client side load balancer. You wouldn't even have to send real traffic. You could just manipulate redis directly to force all the real traffic to go to a single node. DoSing redis itself is also pretty easy.
I don't think the article implied that the client was for some sort of internal server-to-server communication, or that the Redis instance was directly exposed to the internet.
So no, I don't think they run these clients themselves. If the code runs out there, it's open to inspection.
Either way, you are right to point out that it important to only a try a pattern like this if your clients are highly trusted (or/and have additional compensating controls against DDOS threats). It would be beneficial if the OP made more explicit what their client/server relationships and also flagged the risk you mentioned for general audiences not to go implementing such a solution in the wrong places.
Perl was aimed at intelligent people that considered obfuscated code challenges a sport and had a tendency for masochism.
Its main achievement is being there first, before everyone else, to run server-side code in a scripting/interpreted language.
The rest wasn't neither cultural nor technical. From a purely business perspective, having to fight against an idiosyncratic tool half the time doesn't really make much sense.
Also Redit started as "some BSD boxes" The problem is, when a project scales up, at some moment you will need "commodity" sys admins, so it is easier to just go for linux.
Also as the project gets bigger, at some point somebody will come with the idea to move to linux.
Yes, my best school/university years were when surrounded by people interested in studying. That was the optimal scenario, and everyone's reward was passing grades.
But in work nowadays, the reward is getting paid and promoted. That's not achieved by work, but by socializing, playing politics, creating mutually-beneficial relationships, building empires, and using everyone else.
Which is exactly what happens in a moderately sized workplace today, and one of the main reasons everyone else wants to stay home.
Remote work only sucks if your goals are misaligned with doing the actual job.
30 years ago moving your body wasn't going to the gym, it was part of everyday life. Staying 2 hours nonstop in front on the screen was to watch a movie, and maybe done a couple times a week, tops.
Now we just deliver 3 tomatoes to our doorstep to avoid going out.
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