Can someone ELI5 the c dynamic arrays - how does this fit into the infrastructure?
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There is a huge amount of C code underlying most things, including the Linux kernel, most compilers, the Python interpreter, etc. At the same time, C doesn’t have dynamic arrays as a built in type but they are often critical to the operation of all of those. So, C developers keep implementing them in specialized ways for all of their applications.
Thanks, I can now enjoy the meme to it's full extent again.
It's missing a Saddam Hussein hideout
Naw it's there, just hidden very well.
Haha is that him at
Above V8?
Omg it does look like it doesn't it!? :-P
That was a fun minute!
Not to spread concern or anything, but the electrical grid is managed and controlled by software. And that software may or may not be very reliant on AWS. I'm probably not allowed to say more than that.
Hell yea, time for cycles in the graph!
Power company engineer here, it’s true that a lot of our supporting and analytics software went down during the AWS event.
However, most devices that actually control grid units (called bulk electric system cyber-assets) are air-gapped or utilize a data diode.
FERC Reliability Standards and NERC CIP
However-er, flipping through those standards just now, turns out it’s 100% permitted to connect your “bulk electric system cyber-asset” to a cloud integration if done compliantly.
The process to decide to turn power plants on and off isn't air-gaped.
So somewhere in here we need some M. C. Escher stairs of AWS on the electrical grid on AWS on the electrical grid…
And that software may or may not be very reliant on AWS
Not. Electrical Scada systems are usually airgapped from the Internet.
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Don’t forget the cutest single point of failure!!
Looks like they'll only be the cutest SPOF for another minute or so...
I love this because of how often a squirrel would take down our remote disaster recovery site.
Alright let's stop adding stuff here shall we 😅
I don't want lore accurate cloud service I want biblically accurate cloud service
i'm afraid, is that a problem?
So you have chosen to blatantly sin in its presence? Bold maneuver... and ultimately unsurvivable. Roll for chance of mercy, then multiply by 0.00% to determine your odds of surviving this encounter.
In all seriousness though, the core of the technical stack has become very robust in my opinion (DNS being the exception). From a hobbyist's perspective, things work much better than when the Web was still young. I can run multiple sites (some of them being what are today called apps) on a domain with subdomains, everything fast, HTTP3-capable, secured via valid free TLS certs, reverse proxied, all of that running on a system deployed in minutes...
If you focus on the part of the Internet that you have control over, it's a lot better than back in the simple days.
Usenet is still in use btw. And so is Nostr.
The lava lamps are a genius touch
Can someone please keep track of the evolutionary history of these? I wanna see a timeline.
We arrivied thus at the funny moment where meme is accurate enough to be used for educational purposes.
Look how little has to fail for whole web to decay, child xD
Haha especially the angry bird is genius
lol _new(3) gives me some flashbacks
Mesmerized Astronaut: Wait, It's all water?!
Rooted in reality Astronaut: Always has been.
This comm suddenly became Anarchy Chess lol
If you add infrastructure then you will need to add more transmission methods then a couple shark chewed undersea cables. Then you might as well add the millions of SAs, technicians, linemen (linepersons?), etc that install and maintain everything. Oh and I guess we would also need all the institutions and teachers that train all these techies.
My child, you are beautiful.
Can we please not make the layer above Electricity look like tombstones? I looked at "Linus Torvalds" and almost had a heart attack!
Earth: layer below electricity, melting and disintegrating
Elon Musk: boring through Earth and strapping hopelessly tiny, exploding rockets to the "Electricity" block to get everything to Mars
Sun: lowermost layer but extending a fist labeled "2027 solar flare" at internet infrastructure
It's wonderful lmao...wait,i am wrong or did you snuck anti-nuclear propaganda in the meme? Bruh
I mean, thoughts on nuclear waste? They certainly need management, and I dunno if humans are good at waste management.
I think we don't really have problems with nuclear waste management right now, at least i think in europe, idk about America or Asia so please tell me if i am wrong.
We do have one in Germany. While we are searching for suitable long term storage, the barrels are rusting away in salt mines.
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What are green images in 4th row?
Me.
(Silly little fish snacking on internet noodles)
What about left-pad?
A company abused their clout to steal ownership of an npm package from it’s FOSS developer. Because NPM was complicit in the theft, the maintainer deleted all their packages and abandoned NPM. One of those was left-pad, which was used by tons of other major projects, which could no longer be built. NPM then restored left-pad against it’s owners wishes and handed control to another corporate shill.
That's what Microsoft is doing isn't it? I knew it, we should have guessed with them sending a plain at the tower.
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