It’s not 2006 anymore

Not really, if disrupted it would just bring down SSL encryption, which wile important it is not critical for the services to work.

Besides, if the block perdured more than a few days, people would switch quickly, I guess within a week, to other services.

It is not something I’m too worried about.

Not Valve, they were busy working on HL3.

Sure, but that does not seem like a big problem to me. An SSL certificate provider is not something too complicated to setup, nor something that requires large infrastructure. I guess that if it has to be a public good that could be accomplished with some 200K €/year or something like that.

I’d be very nervous: Did I place enough try/catch blocks in my lol.py?

Are all the passwords correct before I run it on stage?

Is this endpoint to delete an email correctly spelled out?

Does the WiFi of the conference allow connecting to these domains?

So many things could go wrong.

I still use RSS quite a lot, both for articles and for podcasts.

The state is now divided among different contending military governments. It’s basically been in a perpetual state of civil war since the fall of Gaddafi. The situation is stable enough that they can have some international relationships, but not very much. They’re one of the destinations of migrants from other African countries, who intend to cross the sea to Italy. However most of them are not allowed to cross it and thus fill the country.

I can’t say much more regarding day to day life, as I have never been there.

https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2025/country-chapters/libya

Many people disliked Gaddafi, are Libian people better off now than they were before the homicide of Gaddafi?

Debatable: while countries did enter NATO that is not the same as getting acquired by a dictator. The resources of such countries were not taken by the “occupying” forces.

As an exercise I’ll take this as a valid case. That still makes them only 2 examples throughout human history, does that count as a common way in which wars start?

It counts under the first point in the list above. However, it sounds to me like you’re referring to current events; how would that address my question? My question is regarding historical examples to treat such mechanics as an established and common way in which wars appear.

I don’t remember too many wars starting that way, but I may be very wrong.

Wow, this is astounding. I don’t love windows, but last time I used it it was at least reliable enough that you could work on it with little problems. If they lose that, then there’s little more value that windows still brings to the table, except software which is only developed for windows.

How many examples outside of WWII are there in which such a mechanism started a war?

For my own personal use, I pay one domain at about 12$/year.

Then there’s stuff my job pays.

Do you have anything actually relevant to add to the conversation?

As far as I’ve seen checking right now, an hypothesis can be used, just as a hypothesis can be used. I have never seen anyone writing with an apostrophe and would be very confused if reading it.

I have been using Linux for quite a while. When I got my current job my boss told me to search a computer I would use, I told him to buy one with no OS and install Linux to save some money. Overall, my job is pretty good in Linux: most of my job is connecting to other servers and writing software.

However: video calls have lots of problems. Sometimes they work, sometimes they do not. The Microsoft office suite is actually a very nice piece of software that you can not use on Linux, there is the online version but that sucks ass.

Besides that, everything is good.

Don’t get me wrong: python probably is the main language used in research. However there’s software that needs to be fast at crunching numbers, I work in computational chemistry and pretty much any reliable software is either Fortran or C++. Indeed you have python libraries, but most are just wrappers.

You have Gaussian: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaussian_(software) GAMESS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GAMESS_(US) CP2K: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CP2K Mopac: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOPAC

Now, most people do not work in Fortran, but it is something you learn a little bit when you start working in computational chemistry. It happens sometimes to have to debug a software not working or to have to write a module to test an hypothesis. People writing those softwares are also researchers, but mostly are full time dedicated to the software. Generally, there is a huge lack on investment on the software infrastructure, very few people are dedicated at maintaining software that is used by hundreds of thousands of people.

While hiring people, I am satisfied as long as they know a bit of python, but knowledge of Fortran really stands out and highlights a more thorough education. If I have time, I do give all the people an introduction to Fortran, as it is still something you often come across in our field. But yes, unless you’re working on the development of such software suites, Fortran is not that common now. You’d publish a proof of concept in python or Julia and then wait for someone else to implement it in one of those libraries.

I like Fortran very much, but don’t get me wrong: maintaining Fortran code from 69 must be a huge pain in the ass. It is certainly code written by researchers who have no idea about programming practices. It is sure full of exceptions everywhere, all variables are 2 characters long. The codebase grew over the years and is now several millions lines of code, most of which is the same functionality copied everywhere with slight changes. You have no idea what each subroutine is supposed to do, and it doesn’t help that most algorithms used in there were never published or documented.

I think I’ll go with the vibe coding for this one.

Coming from research: no, Fortran is very much alive as is. Plenty software is still actively developed in Fortran, I do believe in recent years there’s been a push towards C++, but I’m unsure how much that progressed.

Backing up ram sounds like a terrible idea.

I see! Then as far as I can tell this is viable for your own use if you already have tools and knowledge on how to solder ICs. Plausibly it is not economical for any person to do. I guess you could do it for profit, but margins may be quite low if you account for time; but I may be wrong on this.