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I’ve been running caddy on a FreeBSD jail proxying to another one running uwsgi+python3 and it has been a breath of fresh air.

Though, it comes with a somewhat steep learning curve.

But, in the end you can throw away that pesky search foo hat, and have some deserved peace of mind.


The OP lost me on a bunch of bad analogies. I’ll keep recommending to my friends The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity by Carlo Cipolla.

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49348225-the-basic-laws-...



Usually I recommend the book as my friends don’t like summaries. But thanks anyway.


Ironically you just loosely described a dictatorship, a democratically “elected” single party government.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/dictatorship


> Dictatorship, form of government in which one person or a small group possesses absolute power without effective constitutional limitations.

No, this isn't what I was describing, and isn't the same thing as a one-party state. There were important limitations on central power that were respected throughout the entire period of PRI rule; notably the restriction that a president couldn't serve for more than one term, which since the Mexican Revolution has never been broken.

"Dictatorship" to "liberal democracy" is a spectrum, and Mexico for most of the 20th century was not at either of the endpoints.


> Critical to this essay is Joseph and Buchenau’s interpretation of the post-1940 period vis-à-vis the other works under review. Using a term coined by Mario Vargas Llosa in 1990, they describe a “perfect dictatorship” between 1940 and 1968: a one-party system with the appearance of democracy that sustained regular elections and avoided military coups and social upheavals. In the reorganization that became the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) in 1946, the party removed the army from formal political power. The state/party emphasized securing dominance with loyalty, order, and representation of PRI sectors in local elections. The latter required central government reliance on local strongmen and their minions, effective political and cultural brokers. [0]

> The public split encouraged voices from the right and left. Add to this political contention the increasingly visible contradictions: uneven benefits of economic growth, population explosion creating pressure on the land and migration to cities, growing unemployment and inflation. For Buchenau and Joseph, the students rebelling in Mexico City in 1968 represent a coming-together of these critical contradictions: they demanded the rule of law, freedom from repression, and social justice. [0]

I’m definitely not an expert in Mexican history. But that to me sounds an awful lot like a typical dictatorship, and a bad one at that. Otherwise, people wouldn’t push back.

[0] https://larrlasa.org/articles/10.25222/larr.294/


Little humans in good shape can sustain for several seconds bursts of 1000W+ on a bike. Not so little after all.


The cost-optimized mundane everyday machines that we expect to move are endowed with 150x that energy output -- and with the ability to sustain it rather than burst it. 1kW is large for a human but small for moving a big chunk of metal. Since the sort of resonant motion would be thoroughly damped if, say, you built a full scale ISS in your backyard, I tend to agree with them that it's notable.


> The cost-optimized mundane everyday machines that we expect to move are endowed with 150x that energy output -- and with the ability to sustain it rather than burst it.

A perfect example is a large water pump, a 250hp electric pump draws approximately 150kW (480v 3ph, around 300-310 amps).


I make Sustainable Sound (1),a bicycle powered sound+light+robot interactive experience… can confirm the impressive power a human can create.

(1) http://sustainablesound.org/ (Deep apologies for how behind my sites are - recovering and working on it)


Little Ant's and Bee's are even more impressive...well not on a bike but otherwise.


Write that method in a category of NSObject and you’ll have it now. Objetive-C is a very extensible language with lots of syntactic sugar to help us out. Also, meta programming is lots of fun, but impossible without diving into the runtime guts which is part of the fun.


The only thing that stops me from doing it that there is a well established pattern of passing `&error` which tells me that the function can error and that I could handle it.

I’m sort of looking for what 2nd order and systemics effects `mpw` might expect.

To me, Swift is a bit more annoying with `if let`. Seems like it might provide a benefit, but it’s not so compelling to me. The compile times are so much slower so as to turn me off completely.


Imagine a society similar to the internet where people roam hiding their identities while doing whatever comes to their head. We have great times ahead, in Mars. I’m seriously starting to consider buying those tickets after all.


I’ve been there. The truth is that css media print doesn’t work with anything complex. After spending a week at it back in January, it felt very much like IE6 whac-a-mole. Long story short, I ended up fixing it in python using rst2pdf. Brilliant library.


There’s no such a thing as small price to pay attached to privacy. You either have it or you don’t.


What privacy are you losing by enabling the Find My Network?

The specs are here: https://manuals.info.apple.com/MANUALS/1000/MA1902/en_US/app...

Page 139 onwards.

If you can find a security/privacy hole in the spec, I think Apple will compensate you pretty well.


Thanks for your link, but I will start here -> https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.02282


> While we find that OF's design achieves its privacy goals, we discover two distinct design and implementation flaws that can lead to a location correlation attack and unauthorized access to the location history of the past seven days, which could deanonymize users. Apple has partially addressed the issues following our responsible disclosure. Finally, we make our research artifacts publicly available.

Not something a regular dude off the street will be doing any time soon. =)


That's... not true. Privacy is definitely shades of grey, as everything is.


What did the trick for me was a decent chair, a trackpad with tap to click enabled, and most importantly I worked a bit on my triceps.


It’ll keep being a piece of cake until you buy something from a scammer amazon merchant with no one to appeal.

One of the best things I like about my local small businesses is that I don’t need to worry about choices. I just show up with a problem and they will always solve it for me costing me way less than I had budgeted.

That’s why some of those have been operating for almost 100 years.


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