(I’m in the anti-WAF camp) That does stand to improve your posture by giving you the ability to quickly apply duct tape to mitigate an active mild denial of service attack. It’s not utterly useless.

Denial of service prevention and throttling of heavy users is a fine use, searching for a list of certain byte strings inside input fields and denying requests that contain them isn't.

Doesn't it also add latency to every request?

I think the main point is the WAF companies must have lobbied to get that into the checklist

the main point is you need to pay a third party

You can call your existing reverse proxy a WAF to check this checklist item. (Your point still stands, on the median companies may opt to purchase a WAF for various reasons.)

Grandparent post mentions Portland. PSU may mean Portland State rather than Penn State

A single tank hot water heater provides 72 hours of drinking and cooking water in many cases, for what that's worth.

> probably learning from Whole Foods.

Oddly our local Whole Foods, is just a couple years old, and has very poor self check-outs. They error out on random bar codes and stop until a human staff member unlocks them. The Prime barcode scanner is “broken” half the time, and can’t be overridden by the human staff. It’s bad. I go on the human side now exclusively, where they also have hilarious problems. It's like grocery store management peaked, was utterly and perfectly solved, but Whole Foods can’t stop trying new things that only make the shopping experience worse.

I meant more in the general operations of running and stocking a grocery store, which Amazon Fresh struggled with for a while but has also improved significantly. Now it's on par or better than most of my local Safeway/Kroger type stores I'd say.

Fresh seems to also be their technology test bed, and I hope the good parts can spread to Whole Foods as it gets perfected.

I actually didn’t realize till reading this article that The Long Now was so closely tied to Singularity theory.

The clock being deep in a cave reminds me of the clockworks in Even Cowgirls Get The Blues. The clockworks are more of an entropy amplifier than what we think of as a timekeeping device, which I guess is the point of the metaphor, in a way. The clockworks embody eastern philosophy and humility and Bezos’ clock embodies manifest destiny and arrogance?

You may be interested to know that the author of Even Cowgirls Get the Blues has just recently passed away.

How about digestive bitters?

Alcohol is bad in general no matter the ailment

Digestive bitters can also be glycerites. And probably oils even.

Also AI for accountability laundering. It gives plausible deniability. It's a sociopathic manager's dream.

This. They're digital sniffer dogs, a pretext to lend credibility to vibes-based policing.

There comment is in response to the article. The article straight up advocates for starting from LLM generated code. This is a perfectly valid counter point.

Aside: it’s confusing that parent commenter used “cheating” in a completely different way than the title of the article.

I did yeah, apologies. Thanks for pointing that out.

I think the inverter is always running in between the batteries and the AC outlets. It's a dedicated "solar circuit".

I have questions. What's the point of a dedicated solar circuit? They are leasing from their "local lines company". If the lines company is in the leasing business, this system must be grid-tied right? Why the dedicated solar circuit?

Also, is it common for full sine wave inverters to produce power less clean than the grid? Maybe when the batteries are low? Curious.

E-bikes though?