that's why the 49.7 days sounded familiar!

Recent thinkpads are a bit of shit-tier laptops, and linux doesn’t help much (it’s not linux’s fault).

for personal use I gave up after almost twenty years of thinkpad+linux and got a MacBook neo. So far it’s been great, much much better than my shit-tier ryzen-based x13g1 with 8c/16t and 32gb RAM. (Edit: it’s also more reliable when driving my 34” 1440p external display).

I had used Linux since mid-1990s and gave it up for Apple Silicon. Not fighting my hardware/software has been great despite the diminution of Apple’s software stack.

I was about to post something very similar: the degree of benefit you get from having multiple displays depends a lot on the amount of multi-tasking that you have.

If you can focus most of your time on a single window then a single monitor is just fine.

But when you have to reason across multiple windows very very often then multiple displays help a lot.

For me it’s a bit messy: i am a cloud engineer and the kind of work i do varies multiple times a day. At some point I’m writing terraform code and all i need is my editor and a shell (sometimes my editor is in my shell) while ten minutes later i might be doing incident response and then i need a multitude of windows (shell, web browser showing logs, web browser showing metrics, web browser showing the aws console, web browser showing the meeting with other people handling the incident with me, shell, other stuff)…

So yeah, it really depends.

Similar job. My solution was a single 4k monitor and Stage Manager. I can tile viewing a log and having a terminal open, and then just pop back to a browser when I need to. Plus, terminal can have tabs.

When monitors were 1024 by 768, I needed more than one monitor. Now that everything is designed to be one’s only window at 1920 by 1080, I need a 4k monitor. I imagine that when 4k becomes the default, I will need a 16k monitor.

I am somewhat surprised by how long 1080p being the standard has stuck.

People often seem shocked that I use mostly 4K screens, but I've had one of them for almost 10 years now.

It also seems that 8K has died for now. I think we still have time.

The big security mantra from aws has always been that they deal with the security of the cloud and you/we deal with the security in the cloud.

I wonder if this will translate to amazon implementing para-militar security of the cloud (eg: drones to defend from drone attacks).

My intuition suggests me that:

- Bezos would have absolutely considered this, like seriously considered - the current ceo likely won’t

Btw the writing has been on the proverbial wall for some time, amazon is in their day-2 era.

> Also, I've never had a security issue due to TOFU, have you?

You haven't yet had a security issue due to TOFU - FTFY.

Who knows - maybe I'll never have one until I stop using TOFU.

It's very interesting that you can force the execution of a specific command.

I wonder if that can be somehow employed to somehow get kubectl to invoke ssh in order to get an authentication tokens.

I would be cool to authenticate to kubernetes via ssh.

It’s also discriminatory on the basis of the gender, “weird” that nobody’s complaining about that.

Men are biologically disposable. If a nation lost 90% or better of its adult male population, it could still bounce back within a generation or two.

Women have no incentive to change that, and the small fraction of men powerful enough to change it can already exempt themselves from the meat grinder. The remaining men's opinions don't matter.

So this definitely works for hunter gatherers and that’s definitely how humans are architected, I agree.

However, if I think through what this process would look like under modern living arrangements, what would happen? Intensified serial polygamy with a massive increase in single motherhood? Full on polygamy?

Our social structures aren’t really set up to handle that. It seems like it would be so bad for society that I wouldn’t really say men are “disposable” under the current arrangement. More like they are the roof and women are the foundation, maybe.

It’s better to lose your roof than your foundation, sure, but losing your roof is still really bad. It does not really compare to, say, throwing out a paper coffee cup.

> If a nation lost 90% or better of its adult male population, it could still bounce back within a generation or two.

Yes in theory, no in practice for Europe.

Europe population and society collapsed 2 generations after WWII. We are literally discussing the consequences of the collapse here and now.

People also forget European societies were already starting to collapse after WWI as the consequence of a large proportion of the men population being killed or wounded.

If a nation lost 90% of their men, they would be completely doomed. As men are the ones that actually build and maintain basically all the infrastructure and have all the jobs that are actually indispensable.

A nation wouldn't lose anything for not having personal to do all those comfy PR, HR, "therapist", etc, etc, jobs created for modern "progressive" societies to pretend women are just as indispensable in the work place as men.

But it would be completely wrecked if there weren't enough men to build and maintain houses, habitation, do the all the heavy jobs, take care of waste, infrastructure maintenance, work on the energy industries, etc, etc, etc.

"Men are biologically disposable. If a nation lost 90% or better of its adult male population, it could still bounce back within a generation or two.", and who told you this? You expect the 10% remaining population who also do the dirty politics and are powerful by dirty means, will bounce back the country? Men's value comes from their ability for leadership, adventurous, innovative, fearless and rebel mindset. Does women have enough testosterone for these?

And farewell gender equality I guess.

German women as capable as men, btw. How about to stop this sexist bullshit

It's not about capability, it's about value.

Women's lives are valuable, men's are not. This has been the case across basically all societies in human history. Losing a ton of men really doesn't matter too much - especially young, family-less men.

Losing a lot of women, though, is really really bad.

I was informed that we are all equal. Plenty of wartime occupancies carry no risk of dying, like being a nurse

> Plenty of wartime occupancies carry no risk of dying, like being a nurse

Isn't that reinforcing a gender stereotype? I was told we were against that kind of things around here.

One woman can have one child a year. One man can have hundreds of children a year.

This isn't sexist, it's reality. It's the rationale for male conscription and male disposability.

Capable at what? In war fighting context is very important. Some combat operations are better left to strong men.

Interesting fact: it was recently "revealed" in a podcast episode by Bryan Cantrill that Jane Street was one of the early customer of the Oxide Computer company.

What if I want to run EmDash on my own infrastructure? Is there a way to run EmDash plugins outside cloudflare's Dynamic Workers ?

No they don't. I know people that use them for many years. They exist not as a gimmick but for people who seriously can't afford anything better. Those people won't have the funds to replace them on a whim either.