He was just today saying about Musk:

"No, he’s not going to be president, that I can tell you,” Trump said. “And I’m safe. You know why he can’t be? He wasn’t born in this country.”

No understanding of soft power whatsoever.

Reminds me of an old Paul Graham essay:

https://paulgraham.com/submarine.html

“Suits make a corporate comeback,” says the New York Times. Why does this sound familiar? Maybe because the suit was also back in February, September 2004, June 2004, March 2004, September 2003, November 2002, April 2002, and February 2002.

Why do the media keep running stories saying suits are back? Because PR firms tell them to.

What you make of this from what Paul Graham is up to these days is up to you.

Strategically, it was a long term victory for the US, but yeah, there’s a lot of misconceptions about it already.

I haven’t played it, but based on everything I’ve read about it, that alone puts the headline to shame.

I can’t wait for the generation who believes that the War of 1812 was won by the French.

I don’t see why I should care. In 2001, your choices for backend webdev were basically PHP, Perl, Python, or Java. Now we have a dozen languages competing for the top spot. Elixir is becoming a personal favorite, but I don’t see why I should bother with PHP if I don’t already have a legacy platform in it.

I’ve been giving static site generators a go, specifically Hugo. Webdevs have always treated static sites as unserious, but there’s plenty of sites out there where it’d be ideal. An awful lot of those sites are currently on WordPress.

Does your local mechanics shop need a dynamic site? No. Local restaurant that points you to an external site for online ordering? No. Little gift shop selling locally produced goods? If they don’t intend to sell online, then no. A manufacturer with product pages that have a “where to buy” button that sends you to their sales partner in your country? Nope.

How many CPU cycles are wasted on these sites that could be nothing more than reading a file and streaming it back to the client?

Stop digging. That’s completely beside the point.

Looking up the size of coins compared to shotgun gauges, I’m guessing the tale was dimes rather than nickles. Dimes would fit in a 12 gauge just fine. A half penny would need a 6 gauge, and a full penny would need a 10 gauge. I don’t know for sure, but I don’t think 6 or 10 gauges were ever popular shotgun sizes.

Every electronic device with networking capability that exists has a “burned-in” MAC address that tells you info on the manufacturer, etc.

You’re thinking of WiFi/Ethernet/Bluetooth. There’s plenty of radio control options for drones that don’t use MAC addresses. Some are completely analog (though there’s not many of those left), but even the digital ones don’t necessarily have MAC addresses.

MAC addresses aren’t some government-mandated thing. They’re something the industry came up with.

Please stop, you’re embarrassing yourself. Yes, you can jam all that stuff in a shotgun shell and make a crude anti-drone shot.

No, it’s not going to be an MQ-1 Predator (which is bigger than many WWII fighter planes), but nobody said that, either. Most of the drones in Ukraine are the size of a DJI Phantom.

There’s an old story that cowboys would load nickles. It ends up being something like $1.25 in nickles, which would be enough to spend the evening with several prostitutes at the time. So probably no unless they were in a real pinch.

She forgot the One Drop rule of racism.

Not really. When people say that, they tend to be focused on healthcare. Which is fair, because US healthcare is barbaric. However, when you open it up to other issues–gay marriage, trans rights, anti-racisim–suddenly the US doesn’t look so far to the right. At least, not in terms of public opinion vs what its government actually does.

OK. Whatever hypothetical we want to think about here, we still want our cert to be renewed.

You can, but you might still be sweating bullets while waiting for the rebuild to finish.

One problem is that larger drives take longer to rebuild the RAID array when one drive needs replacing. You’re sitting there for days hoping that no other drive fails while the process goes. Current SATA and SAS standards are as fast as spinning platters could possibly go; making them go even faster won’t help anything.

There was some debate among storage engineers if they even want drives bigger than 20TB. The potential risk of data loss during a rebuild is worth trading off density. That will probably be true until SSDs are closer to the price per TB of spinning platters (not necessarily the same; possibly more like double the price).

Raspberry Pi or an old office PC are the usual methods. It’s not so much programming as Linux sysadmin skills.

Beyond that, you might consider OwnCloud for an app-like experience, or just Samba if all you want is local network files.

Presumably, you’ve patched up whatever hole let them in.

I volunteer to help with IT at a makerspace, and I hesitate to go for 6 day expiration times. As volunteers, we can’t always fix problems in a timely way like paid IT staff could. We try to automate the hell out of everything, but certs have gone a day or two without getting updated before.