dogma1138 (u/dogma1138)

dogma1138 commented on Digg.com is back digg.com/... · Posted by u/thatgerhard

rchaud · 5 days ago

Interestingly, I can still log in and post (and get replies) on Old Reddit with my 15-year old username and pw (no email or other form of auth needed). I remember trying to log in using that acc via New Reddit and it said that user didn't exist! I wonder if Old Reddit-era accounts are on a separate DB.

dogma1138 · 5 days ago

More likely that new Reddit has crude input validation on the fields and throws an error if there is no email in the username.

You can probably validate this theory with a basic time based analysis.

dogma1138 commented on HTMX is hard, so let's get it right github.com/BookOfCooks/bl... · Posted by u/thunderbong

lelanthran · 21 days ago

>> The application layer should not inject error codes into the transport layer which is what HTTP is in this case.

> Huh? HTTP is an application layer protocol.

I want to emphasise that "in this case" bit.

HTTP is an application layer protocol when the application in question in a webserver and nothing else.

In the case of REST, HTTP is simply a transport protocol. It is not necessary to use HTTP as the transport for RESTful applications. It's common, convention even, but not required.

> if you treat HTTP as the transport layer, what protocol does your application speak to the gateway?

WSGI, maybe? Sure, you can emit status codes there too, but it will be a different protocol you are talking over, not HTTP.

I've seen gRPC gateways for HTTP REST endpoints too.

> Is there some translation gateway that translates application-level semantics into HTTP ones?

I don't think we should be translating application status codes into HTTP status codes. I mean, sure, I've done it myself plenty of times, but it is a mixing of layers and a mixing of concerns.

The fact is, HTTP semantics are defined for (and in the context of) a webserver not an application server. That our application server is chatty with HTTP does not place it in the running context of a webserver.

The semantics of HTTP status codes makes absolutely no sense when emitted by an application.

You might argue that one of them (or maybe two, if we're being generous) such as "400 Bad Request" should be emitted by the application if (for example) a parameter is missing but even in that case it makes more sense for the application to send error-code/error-message so that more information can be given (such as which parameter is missing/invalid, etc).

If you're sending "400" status code for a missing parameter, how will the client know whether the HTTP request was malformed or whether the application input was mangled?

dogma1138 · 21 days ago

I suggest you read the actual RFC. HTTP status codes are intended to represent the state of your application. HTTP is part of the application layer it is not a transport layer protocol.

dogma1138 commented on Marathon fusion claims to invent alchemy, making 5000 kgs gold per gigawatt marathonfusion.com/... · Posted by u/apugoneappu

modeless · a month ago

Unfortunately gold generated in this way would be radioactive. They calculate they would have to store the gold for over 13 years to not require labeling as radioactive waste, or over 17 years to reach the level of radioactivity of a banana.

I bet it would still be less valuable than regular gold even after that. It could still be identified, and people would discriminate against it. People are funny about nuclear waste, and likely wouldn't accept arguments like "it's perfectly safe" and "it's less radioactive than a banana".

dogma1138 · a month ago

The biggest problem is that it would prevent this type of gold from being useful in electronics and medical applications.

But I think it may actually end up in jewelry especially as it can be mixed with “natural” gold to reduce its signature even further.

dogma1138 commented on The Israeli "art student" mystery (2002) salon.com/2002/05/07/stud... · Posted by u/georgecmu

guiriduro · a month ago

You did not answer the question. Its irrelevant who Shea is or what you assume about his circumstances, if the evidence discussed is well-sourced. Which reported evidence in the Shea report are you contending is false (or not asserted in contemporaneous sources cited in the document), and why?

dogma1138 · a month ago

None of the evidence is sourced yet alone well sourced…

dogma1138 commented on The Israeli "art student" mystery (2002) salon.com/2002/05/07/stud... · Posted by u/georgecmu

throwawayQuwcy · a month ago

Thanks for the info on Gerald Shea! Though if you'd like to comment on the "Shea Memorandum" / Gerald Shea I think that would be more appropriate on the parent comment?

A question was asked, I answered with the relevant quote from the paper, you replied "conspiracy theory" on that specific quote & ad-hominem'ed the author?

Calling "conspiracy theory" is not good-faith discussion and employs a number of logical fallacies like appeal to ridicule & poisoning the well.

What parts of the "Shea Memorandum" do you think are likely non-factual? The Israeli art students?

dogma1138 · a month ago

Nothing in that “memorandum” is actually backed by any evidence, it’s the unofficial work of a single individual who neither has had intelligence experience nor access to any intelligence material.

It is fan fiction not an official document, hence why it was rejected at its time for the nonsense it is, but I guess the daily stormer is cool these days.

dogma1138 commented on The Israeli "art student" mystery (2002) salon.com/2002/05/07/stud... · Posted by u/georgecmu

PicassoCTs · a month ago

Updated version of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Protocols_of_the_Elders_of... ?

dogma1138 · a month ago

Despite the downvotes not far off…

dogma1138 commented on The Israeli "art student" mystery (2002) salon.com/2002/05/07/stud... · Posted by u/georgecmu

throwawayQuwcy · a month ago

"Why the Israeli government decided not to share with us all the critical information they had, and the extent of that information, is a subject for the public inquiry. They may have thought some sort of warning prudent in the event their surveillance activities later became a matter of public knowledge. But any energetic Israeli effort to assist the United States in preventing the attacks would not have served their strategic interest, in view of the disastrous effect those attacks were likely to have on the relationships between the United States and the Arab world."

dogma1138 · a month ago

Keep in mind that Gerald Shea was a lawyer (DA in California at the time he wrote this) without access to any official information this isn’t an official document, it’s something that a person wrote on their own and submitted it.

This is very much bordering on conspiracy theories…

dogma1138 commented on GPUHammer: Rowhammer attacks on GPU memories are practical gpuhammer.com/... · Posted by u/jonbaer

privatelypublic · a month ago

Update: I thought for a second I had one: Jupyter notebook services with GPUs- but looking at google colab^* even there its a dedicated GPU for that session.

* random aside: how is colab compute credits having a 90 day expiration legal? I thought california outlawed company-currency expiring? (A la gift cards)

dogma1138 · a month ago

Colab credits aren’t likely a currency equivalent but a service equivalent which is still legal to expire afaik.

Basically Google Colab credits is like buying a seasonal bus pass with X trips or a monthly parking pass with X amount of hours. Rather than getting store cash which can be used for anything.

dogma1138 commented on Why Is Fertility So Low in High Income Countries? (NBER) nber.org/papers/w33989... · Posted by u/jmsflknr

Ontonator · a month ago

While I don’t disagree that houses have become less affordable, that graph is rather misleading. A graph of the ratio, as posted in one of the comments [0], would be more informative.

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/e1jrvw/com...

dogma1138 · a month ago

Israel has arguably the worst income to house price ratio in the OECD at 160 monthly wages (~13 annual salaries) which is more than twice the US at 68 but they have also the highest TFR in the developed world even when you exclude the Orthodox Jews…

So it’s not as simple as housing is not affordable… it does feel like it’s very much cultural/social I can more than afford to have children but I’m at almost 40 and I don’t. And speaking from the pool of a rented villa in Greece I got on whim for 2 weeks because I got annoyed at work I can’t even begin to think about having them…

dogma1138 commented on Why Is Fertility So Low in High Income Countries? (NBER) nber.org/papers/w33989... · Posted by u/jmsflknr

spwa4 · a month ago

1) it used to be the case that child allowance for 3 kids was better paid than a supermarket job. So both for women directly this was a win. For a woman: 3 kids? Reasonably comfortable life without the need for a job. But of course, judgement and getting bothered by child services. And for families. 3 kids? Stay-at-home wife (and in one of twenty cases, dad-at-home)

2) Just throwing kids out used to be perfectly acceptable. They'd go to school, then play in the street or park and weren't welcome home until it was time for dinner. After dinner? Bedtime with maybe 20-30 minutes of time with parents.

That is how things worked. 100 years ago in most places, and that's how it still works in places with high fertility.

Now societies (not just America) have collectively decided kids are like pets. You want one? You take care of them and you pay for them. And we'll just magically make up the ever-larger shortage of people with immigration, while complaining ever more about how evil and negative immigration is.

dogma1138 · a month ago

Other than the cost of raising children that’s how it worked until the 90’s. I don’t know what happened I still remember I was in shocked when the school called social services on my sister when they found her 8 year old was alone with her 13 year old in the early to mid 2000’s at home after school.

I don’t know what happened but we’ve started treating children like they are made out of glass and it doesn’t feel really like the threat landscape is any different.

I used to walk from school and play outside until dark every day and everyone else was exactly the same.