I don’t know, but I’ve thought for a while that a browser version of “pledge” to permanently restrict uploads from a webpage after it is called would be a great idea.

Pretty good name for it tbh.

    % echo -n svalbard | sha256sum -
    86a7b126fea03dd57e6a3c9c9b7951b5318d33029cef0547ff441862174682f5

+1. It works perfectly if your mental model is:

“Every file is only ever written to from a single client, and will be asynchronously made available to all other clients, and after some period of time has elapsed you can safely switch to always writing to the file from a different client”.

Bidirectional file sync is also in hot demand from people who don't know the words, "file", "client", "write", "async", "available", or "time"

:P

The fact that lay people can and will use a tool incorrectly does not mean said tool is not useful

Yep. See e.g. steam cloud saves, which is literally just Dropbox for your video game save files. Bidi sync is a super common pattern if you look for it, I'm surprised at all the hate it's getting here.

The poems are pretty good too.

+1. Think of it like a consulting shop that can deliver customized software instead of just slide decks and excel workbooks.

And going the other direction, if you want your C++ binaries to benefit from statistics about how to optimize the steady-state behavior of a long-running process, the analogous technique is profile-guided optimization (PGO).

You may know this already, but the different FreeCiv clients are pretty different from each other. It's been a couple of years since I've played FreeCiv, but IIRC the QT client was the nicest at that time.

Yeah, so that's another lesson I learnt during the early phases. I've been using the gtk4 client personally, but someone else suggested the QT client. I do think the QT client is a bit better, but it is broken in different ways too.

It's really confusing to me why there's so many frontends for this one app. I'm tempted to switch to the web interface next time, but figured for now figuring out how to mange the server was enough of a problem without taking on the responsibility for the client people were using at the same time.

> The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is preparing a proposal to scrap the requirement for companies to report their earnings every quarter and giving them the option to share results twice a year

So, at least twice a year would still be mandatory until this change.

Why not use an easier to detect wake “word”, like two claps in quick succession? Or a couple of notes of a melody?

Can't clap if your hands are full and I would not subject my family to my attempts at delivering a melody.

I haven't tried training my own wake word though, I'm tempted to see if it improves things.

Personally I'd pick "Cthulhu"

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn

What about whistling?

Is this something where you could pay a "consulting fee" to the previous key engineer to login and remove the MFA?

I know that that's not ideal, but as a practical matter perhaps it would be easier than creating a new account, if you can get the engineer to agree to it?