The principle of least privilege extends all the way to zero. If there’s some action that should never be done, nobody should be able to do it.

Pro tip: Nothing and nobody needs permission to delete databases, either your primaries or your backups. It simply never comes up except by mistake. Don’t allow any credential sets to exist that can do this. If for some reason you ever need to you can create one then.

There is an unfortunately kind of easy to make terraform mistake where you put the backups in the same configuration as the primary data store and lose them both to the same bad apply. So many ways to avoid this, yet constantly this gets people.

We require additional tungsten

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So is @sky.skymarchini.net ready to take the L and admit that Trump was able to make Orinoco oil extraction pencil out?

He would need various other parties to go along with it against their interests, which they are unlikely to do because it is against their interests. It’s not like cutting off payment where he can make it other people’s problem until they win in court.

Illegally, more or less. Modern jurisprudence is that the people who passed prohibition believing that it needed to be a constitutional amendment were wrong about that, and that we now know better.

Adjacent only in perhaps the most literal sense. His posts can frequently be found directly above and/or below the posts of tankies.

been on this for awhile but its neat to see actual journalists just come out and say “we are epistemic nihilists who’s greatest aspiration is to propagate the ideas of the powerful”

judge: a national security threat!? at this time of year, at this time of day, in this part of the country, localized entirely within the woke robot?

hegseth: yup

judge: ... can i see it?

hegseth: no

a meme of "This man is your FRIEND He fights for FREEDOM" poster but with Claude

This is not how that law works. It is how Hegseth is pretending the law works, but it’s unlikely most people who are using Anthropic’s services are interested in playing along.

It would be an interesting exercise to host a website that randomly generates insulting claims about random people.

At the same time I wonder if that makes it not libelous. Are statements generated by what is known to be a random process actually capable of being libel given that nobody authored them and by their very nature no reasonable person would believe them?

Couple that with Westeros being comically large for a feudal society, and the vast majority of people, even among the nobility, are never going to have seen a dragon. The cultural influence of the dragons would be pretty limited away from centers of Targaryen power, and that’s most places.

It’s mentioned that they naturally hunt whales and other cetaceans, which explains how the Valyrian outpost on Dragonstone could function at all and why the Valyrians are a coastal people, but also suggests it’s very hard to bring a dragon inland.

Dragons seem to enter metabolic dormancy when inactive, and it’s implied that supplying an active large dragon is harder than an army. And they can’t eat grain. Young dragons are used for travel and recreation, but the large dragons are only used for royal progresses and major warfare.

I would be leery of claiming “X is not a religious belief” for most X, given the diversity of people and their beliefs.

But this just goes to illustrate the importance of not treating the 1st amendment as a thought-terminating cliche.

It is truly bizarre and mind boggling that most of the bread in most of the US is bad.

A billed endpoint can also be rate-limited.

What’s your take on what it should be?

Maintaining credibility as an Originalist Thinker™️ apparently requires finding increasingly original things to talk about. I imagine eventually we’ll get all the way back to the Code of Hammurabi.

All the moreso because the normal people supportive of it as a statement got bored after a little while and went home, leaving only the people who were actually serious, which was a complete unmitigated disaster.

This really is a great picture:

I learned from a surely entirely reputable source that Norwegians are born with skis on their feet, which probably also helps.

Rome lacked prisons to such an extent that there were crimes where the penalty was notionally death but functionally exile because the sentence was “come back tomorrow to be executed”.

Imprisonment is a luxury of wealthy societies. For most of history the idea that some criminal didn’t work but got to eat would have been regarded as completely ludicrous. If an immediate punishment wasn’t sufficient (fines, injury), the options were enslavement, death, or exile.

Direct spending on AI is going to be dwarfed by spending on services that indirectly spend on AI. But even an aggressive upper bound of most digital/professional services spending is still going to be much smaller than spending on housing.

The solution used in the setting by people trying to kill Jedi is to shoot them with something they can’t deflect. They rely so heavily on trained reflex to preemptively intercept shots that they may just go for it on autopilot instead of dodging.