Even with a perfect BMI and looking totally fit, you can still be at very serious risk of plaque formation. Like people who have hereditary bad cholesterol issues (if it's bad cholesterol due to eating junk food a lot, typically you won't have a good BMI though).
My uncle had a stroke at 52 years old and stayed paralyzed for 15+ years, until his death. When my doctor learned that, the next day I started taking statins.
BTW I'm totally fit, no beer belly, excellent BMI and I look not a bit but much younger than my age (someone even commented that here on HN a few years when they saw a picture of me when I was 49 years old).
And yet I was seriously at risk of plaques detaching and clogging. Statins are not perfect medication but it is what it is.
My point being: even if you've got what science/doctors considers the best BMI in the world, you could still be at risk.
> Yet at every point the majority is sure they are right because ...
Yeah. For example I, and many others, are convinced that it was plain wrong to torture kids for as long as possible to extract as many tears from them as possible before sacrificing them to the gods.
Now some of us are even convinced that blowing yourself up while killing infidels, all the while while getting promised virgins in heaven, is also plain wrong.
I'll go further and say that killing 30 000 of your own citizens (and sending the military into hospitals to finish the wounded: Iran, January 2026) while also publicly hanging a few athletes to make a statement is morally wrong.
Not only do I think it's all morally unacceptable, I know that I'm right. And the examples I gave are not even open for discussion.
I don't think it's that hard to name what's wrong.
Yeah it's not totally unlike people who consider learning that they've been hacked is worth more than $x and so, even if they're not into cryptocurrencies, they leave the equivalent of $x on their computer in a "software wallet", in an obvious place.
It's not a guaranteed you'll know you've been hacked, but it's still quite a flag to leave. And there are services doing the equivalent of what you posted, but for cryptocurrencies: they contact you through email, SMS, snail mail even, if they detect that "coins at address ..." ever move.
I don't want to jinx it but... A discussion about, of all languages out there, PHP being the one hit by that and not, say, Go or Java or Rust or Haskell etc.?
Can we discuss that at least a tiny bit?
How do people feel about running servers with PHP today?
I don't think most people that use PHP use it because they love it and find it a great technical solution, it's mostly technical debt being maintained and the fact that PHP is available to host everywhere.
I mean no language is immune to issues. Java world constantly sees fixes for both JVM and libraries. For example, besides famous log4shell, you can see still see in HTTP access log that bots are checking for vulnerable Struts versions. On the other hand, Java pushed to 100% Java (no native code) database drivers, while PHP strongly relies on c/c++ extensions, cause PHP is/was too slow.
If there is any other difference, I think it just comes to legacy PHP approach - memory management didn't matter if entire request (and forked process that handles it) was alive for maximum few seconds.
These issues tend to happen way more in languages that depend on a runtime, especially one with dynamic lookup capabilities. If I remember correctly, log4shell depended on dynamic class loading and a lot of runtime-dependent stuff. Languages that are statically-compiled and memory-safe (namely Go and Rust) don't have the runtime vector and don't generally have the memory safety vectors either. I feel a lot safer deploying services written in Go than JS, for example.
To be honest that clueless individual and its pathetically lame security practices made him lose 800 000 Bitcoin belonging to its customers with Mt Gox, which was written in... PHP.
And he went to prison for a few years for it. So he knows something about PHP exploits.
> ... I'm amazed the big companies reported as down weren't using multiple zones.
Yeah well, they drank the cloud kool-aid. The promise was that they'd go "cloud", and that everything would be taken care of.
Turns out: availability is worse than when those companies used to self-host and major cloud outages are happening all the time (at this point it's basically a meme).
And now the promise that "the cloud is simpler than doing it yourself" turns out to be not true?
I'm not surprised at all: these companies have been sold a lie.
> Got into a heated argument where the interviewer insisted it was perfectly acceptable to store money as a mutable row in a database
Hey, not only he didn't believe in appending to a ledger but moreover he probably believed it was fine to store the amounts in floats (I know, I know, everybody who's using floats never make any mistake, knows everything about rounding rules, has read and could write by heart "What every computer programmer should know about floating-point numbers" etc. But I'm still not using floats for monetary amounts).
> This is terrifying. Who runs things like this open to the outside?
A budy of mine has got 30 000 movies and series. Better offer than Netflix (what, easily 4x more choice!?). He's got a 42U rack. He gives free access to his server to his friends and family: it's not a business (so what he risks is also very limited in the country he lives in, for he's not making a business out of it).
It's not because you and I don't run Plex servers accessible from the big bad Internet that others don't enjoy doing it.
Now concerning this miner: I've posted about it in the past here on HN but I only run Jellyfin on my LAN and it's only with throwaway containers: I've got a script that sets up movies/series named/organized the way Jellyfin likes it, then that volume is passed read-only to a transient podman container.
When we're done watching the movie, the podman container is deleted. It's over: it doesn't exists anymore.
All that I care about are data: like family pictures and movies (and, say, other movies).
My Jellyfin server is just a temporary "view" on my actual data.
I don't trust it and don't need to trust it: for it's only future after I'm done watching the movie is to be destroyed.
Neat! So when you're on your tv stick or whatever, before deciding that you want to watch any movie in particular (so before the ephemeral jellyfin container is running), how does the movie selection process work?
And how did you set up the trigger to automatically spin up the ephemeral jellyfin container when a movie is selected?
My uncle had a stroke at 52 years old and stayed paralyzed for 15+ years, until his death. When my doctor learned that, the next day I started taking statins.
BTW I'm totally fit, no beer belly, excellent BMI and I look not a bit but much younger than my age (someone even commented that here on HN a few years when they saw a picture of me when I was 49 years old).
And yet I was seriously at risk of plaques detaching and clogging. Statins are not perfect medication but it is what it is.
My point being: even if you've got what science/doctors considers the best BMI in the world, you could still be at risk.
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