My favorite retort to that is, "I don't have to know how to fix it to know my arm is broken."

Stealing it...

Humans demand more reliability from our creations than from each other.

You might like Diarium, a local-first journaling app that will bring up past entries a year later. Since journalling is private, not everyone is comfortable sharing with an email provider.

Good point on the privacy. I did think long and hard about this... and ultimately it's kind of hard to do privacy well with email. In-app push notifications are better in this regard, but I figured it's a lot harder to find users to try my app, and also, emails are very accessible. Diarium seems like a great app!

I had this journaling notebook: https://www.leuchtturm1917.us/some-lines-a-day.html , but at year 5 I lost the motivation...

Archive as it's been hugged: https://web.archive.org/web/20251206071123/https://boston.co...

2/3rds of people in the world are malicious?

2/3 of resources will typically be spent by malicious/nefarious/abusive users.

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> The answer is for schools to grab their share of this money by selling each of these accommodations directly, or perhaps via some kind of auction. Acceptance to such a school will be the “basic economy” of attendance. If you want to pick your seat, you can pay to upgrade.

I don't think you can charge more for accommodations for the disabled.

Having their changes fully propagate within 1 minute is pretty fantastic.

This is most likely a strong requisite for such a big scale deployment if DDOS protection and detection - which explains their architectural choices (ClickHouse & co) and the need of a super low latency config changes.

Since attackers might rotate IPs more frequently than once per minute, this effectively means that the whole fleet of servers should be able to quickly react depending on the decisions done centrally.

The coolest part of Cloudflare’s architecture is that every server is the same… which presumably makes deployment a straightforward task.

The bad change wasn't even a deployment as such, just an entry in the global KV store https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-quicksilver-configur...

Actual deployments take hours to propagate worldwide.

(Disclosure: former Cloudflare SRE)

Why wasn’t the rollback fixed within the second minute after they saw the 500s?

Either they comply or exit the country. Remember how the UK blocked the Microsoft/Activision merger for a time?

Yeah, "blocked" is a misleading word, if they merged anyway.

The merge was only allowed after changes.

That should make it incredibly easy to weed out then, surely?

Corruption is not weeded out because no matter how much people complain they WANT the corruption.

Bernie Sanders is not the president of the United States.

I think their point was that it only worked because of such a cohort to randomly select from.

That was also my interpretation and why I made the point that democratic processes have evolved to account for a changing polity.

The US government could not be managed by Athenian sortition any more than it could be by Athenian direct democracy -- the citizenry is too different, the questions too complex.

However, just as the Romans evolved their original Athenian-style direct democracy into representative democracy as their empire grew and became more heterogeneous, sortition has similarly evolved into deliberative democracy.

Well I’m saying more than that.

There is no historical precedent for our democratic system. Not Romans, Greeks, or 13 colonies. Why cite them?

Nobody has ever had a system with 300 million people having almost direct voting while simultaneously having no definition of a citizen besides “born here”.

I’m skeptical. The Trump/Fetterman/RFK phenomenon is the fruit of this democracy, not an unlikely aberration.