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Your logging is probably down

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Wildcard CNAME pointing to your reverse proxy who then figures out where to route the request to? That's what I've been doing - this way there's no need to ever update DNS at all :)

I find the path a bit clunky because the apps themselves will oftentimes get confused (especially front-ends). So keeping everything "bare" wrt path, and just on "separate" subdomains is usually my preferred approach.

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There’s No Such Thing as a Good Billionaire

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That is the fallacious paper millionaire argument. They have more than enough liquidity, can take loans against their "non-liquid" wealth, and are anyway working with multi-year plans to sell assets and have enough liquidity. I believe this is also explained in https://mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/ and there they also explain that the US market cap is bigger than their stocks and so. So they could sell a lot in one go, of course losing "efficiency", but the market would be able to cope without any issue.

I think we are on the same side here judging from the rest of your comment, but I find it important to refute this typical argument, because it does not help that there is some sort of billionaire apologism by saying that they "don't actually have this money in their bank account to spend".

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‘HIV-ending’ drug could be made for just $25 per patient a year, say researchers

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It's getting downvoted to oblivion because it ignores many things, namely the fact that a lot of drug research worldwide is state-funded. There are many cases in which pharmaceutical companies use public funds for R&D, and then go on to sell the drug at steep prices, raking in immense profits.

Meanwhile the public has to either cough up the bucks, or wait until the patent expires to have affordable options.

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Debian is a snail and its shell

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Mostly yes, but they're in general oversimplified (for obvious reasons)

But it's more about offensive cyber security than necessarily the Linux part. The Linux part is just file system navigation and not much more, the rest is the "hacking" part, and that's what I'm talking about

Disclaimer: I did not complete it, but I got pretty far, and I worked in the cyber security area.

I would however say it's not a good place if you want to learn as that's not really the game's focus. There are better resources out there like overthewire and linuxjourney for that

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Dutch woman, 29, granted euthanasia approval on grounds of mental suffering

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It's my belief that it's rare for evolution to screw up.

That's not how it works, I'm pretty sure... Mutations will have random effects and the species evolves based on characteristics being selected for based on better survivability, reproductive effectiveness, etc.

I would do everything I could to find an alternative solution and talk them down from it.

I've read your other messages and it seems that you're thoroughly convinced that this wasn't the case here. I suggest that you get a bit more context about this whole situation, as it has been a long path of trying multiple treatments and approaches, without any success. So it's not even remotely close to what you suggest here. No Futurama suicide chambers here.

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Accurate?

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Hasn't been the case anymore for quite some time, even though I think it has quite generous sudo rules. But yes, it's not meant to be your main OS but instead more like a toolbox you use in liveboot/VM/etc.

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[Julia Evans] Combining Branches

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Shared branches should always only move forward. Most Git-* systems support stuff like protected branches.

I personally like tidying up your own feature branch with rebasing and then merging it into main (preferably using only FF merges). However this is not scalable for some larger projects, and for example monorepos also make this hard to accomplish. In those cases the solution ends up being squash+merge.

The extra information about the squashed commits is usually persisted to these systems (GitHub PRs, GitLab MRs, etc) so you don't really lose much, I guess. Although I do prefer keeping it all in plain git.

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No gods matter

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It's also been quite some time for me, but I have the impression that there was a plot reason for it, like the games being a war on the gods, which started with taking the place of Ares? Thus the title (but in a roundabout way)