MichaelRenor

Am I the only one who thinks it weird this type of “breakthrough” announcement would come from a EV company? If they really did have such batteries, I think they’d make way more selling the battery than the car.

Django is the camper with the U-Haul. Flask is the camper with the backpack. Bottle is the camper with the fanny pack.

> My first big lucky break happened in 2009 when Georgetown University hired me as a philosophy professor on their campus in Qatar

Apparently going to high school, studying and passing the SAT, applying and being accepted into university, studying, passing, and graduating university is just luck.

Have we we reached peak luck yet? Is there nothing ever we can do to improve our circumstances and our lives?

This is like a new age of economic predestination, where everything has been predecided for you by God and there's nothing you can do. Calvinist and BI proponents apparently have a lot in common.

In practice it works just fine. They just make you give them permission to blow your app up for twenty minutes a week (and wink and say maybe they won't actually do it this week).

You see the trick here, that's 99.95% outside of their regularly scheduled maintenance!

Especially considering that all of AWS database solutions require a 20 minute maintenance window per week!

I was totally sold with github as comments, but then I saw you need to leave the page to comment. That's really unfortunate! If we could get a minimalist, not tracking widget that would be ideal.

Yes we need higher taxes and more laws. How many laws do you think it takes to make us good people?

> It's running the Express Logic ThreadX RTOS, has no running services on any TCP ports and appears to listen on two single UDP ports.

This is excellent. I can't even say the same thing about my AT&T fiber gateway. It listens on two random ports with no way to turn it off (and also you can't use your gigabit internet without the AT&T gateway in front). I don't know what it is, but I'm sure it's probably insecure.

Great explanation. In other words the median number of computers performing some kind of critical task has probably gone from 90% somewhere closer to 0.

And does it have any teeth? What happens when governments break it?

At least in the United States there's a clear solution to the American government breaking the constitution, and that's an armed revolt as a last resort and a finally new government (but not necessarily new constitution).

I'm absolutely not suggesting Americans do this. it's a just a consequence outlined both in history and the constitution.

Discussions about random seed generators usually devolve into theoretical issues about why <random idea> can be manipulated.

If you're really paranoid, just do this:

$ echo "<bash face against keyboard multiple times>" >> /dev/random