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The Iranian regime would absolutely use nukes as soon as they have two or more weapons ready. Just as they have launched countless attacks against civilian areas in many of their n…

There are not even 7,000 Mossad agents, period. 7,000 is the highest estimate publicly available for the TOTAL number of employees in the Mossad, and 95% of them are not agents - j…

Iran was well on that path anyway. The US strike absolutely did turn Iran from a peaceful actor with no interest in nuclear weapons into a regime bent on acquiring nuclear weapons.…

I used to think the same way, and I loved UBNT. Sadly, after 2 different more advanced configs I had caused wild stability issues - affecting APs, a USG and the controller itself t…

Storage will never work. Quote me on this. Nuclear or a mix of nuclear and renewables will be the only way to seriously get away from fossil fuels. Also, even if storage works some…

This is more of an argument for how pure economic thinking and the current constraints/processes have poor correlation to actual impact and desired outcomes. It's similar to how En…

It's much worse - if the data isn't just a ton of tiny files, and you're able to spin up a bunch of workers for parallelism, you can get up to 120 Gbps per storage account (without…

That works for some types of code and fails for other types. If you have very long lived but memory heavy apps, allocations really matter...

At a former team, we went from spending quite a bit of time on code style comments and disagreements to spending no time at all on it, with the simple act of making the code linter…

The difference between theory and practice, is that in theory there is no difference, but in practice - there is. So far, every "provably secure design" I've seen ended up being in…

For enterprises, it's hard to have a ton of different tools. I worked at a very large software company, and our security tech stack was so big and convoluted, that just maintaining…

Those aren't cheap, but rolling your own usually isn't any cheaper. Even huge enterprises usually buy instead of build because it's cheaper in both the short and long run. Think ab…

I work at one vendor currently and have worked at a few prior. The difference is astounding - my previous gigs, including one of the biggest vendors ever was exactly as you said. M…

You're right that a generator must be taken care of, but a truck with an inverter is very different from a generator if you plan to power something significant. The truck+inverter …

Does Google really have Android though? Android is open source with a flexible enough license that if Google ever tried to tighten their grip too much, they'd lose the dev communit…

My smart home is also my home security solution, so I wanted it to work through a (short) power failure. Getting a UPS for my Home Assistant node was the easy part. Like you, I was…

I totally agree. It's also great to see how with a little technical know-how, you can avoid paying 100s of dollars for some IoT tech that is reliant on more people buying overprice…

> These chips are intricate enough to potentially contain backdoors. While it is something I never thought about with respect to Espressif, it does seem plausible that they could b…

Good luck getting around what extremely well paid lobbyist will do. This country sadly has been corrupted by money.

FWIW, there's a study that looked at patent filings and paper publications for inventors in small vs. large companies. It seems that as a whole, when people choose the Big-X route,…

I call this "resume engineering". Some years ago, I decided to pass on a very impressive position at one of the then-hottest tech unicorns. I kinda liked the people, thought the te…

Then they should demand higher wages. And if that's too high a cost for the restaurant - they should raise their prices or close their business. Tipping does not make sense, and ma…

You do realize this is exactly what /tmp/ is expected to do on all *nix based machines, including Macs, right? Why not create a new path, and use that?

You're absolutely correct. I really wish you weren't though - it makes me somewhat sad to see how often the more motivated and passionate a person is about what they do and even th…

Isn't this a prefect recipe for a super-bubble? When you help people with the down payment this much, wouldn't basically everyone try to apply to enjoy appreciating property values…