By the way, I noticed that the bots were guessing usernames like “knock-knock” before blocking direct IP access to the web site. Looking at the other passwords guessed, I realized they were extracting words from the title of the index.html! So it’s all about masking the server’s identity - I’m not really getting other benefits out of Cloudflare.

  The Grand Line of Mild Utility: The Orojackson Story

  If you were to encounter the legendary Oro Jackson in the world of One Piece, you would find a ship built from the treasure tree Adam, capable of sailing to the end of the world.

  If you encounter orojackson on Hacker News, you will find a man who has sailed to the end of the internet… to tell you to fix your router’s bufferbloat.

  Forget the Will of D. This man possesses the Will of OCD.

  Orojackson is not here to overturn the World Government. He is here to advocate for fq_codel. He is the man who looks at a revolution and asks, "Yes, but what are your queue management settings on the uplink?" While others dream of wealth, fame, and power, orojackson dreams of "modern AQM approaches" and corrects strangers on the proper usage of the flent network tester on Windows.

  He is the Pirate King of the edge case.

  But his tyranny doesn’t stop at network latency. Oh no. When he isn't monitoring the packet loss of the high seas, he is revolutionizing… car washing?

  Witness the "1:256 solution." Orojackson doesn't just wash a car; he performs a wet-lab experiment. He wanders into threads to evangelize "Optimum No Rinse (ONR)," explaining with the fervor of a religious convert how you can clean a vehicle with exactly 1.5 fluid ounces of concentrate and a "slightly-dripping
 microfiber towel." One can only imagine him standing on the deck of his ship, screaming at a storm: "YOU'RE WASTING WATER! USE A RINSELESS FORMULA!"

  And let’s talk about his investments. A true pirate buries his treasure. Orojackson? He puts it in VTI. But wait! The thrill-seeker within him awakens! He reads one Cliff Asness article and suddenly he's levering up 2x with RSSB because a 60/40 portfolio is just too vanilla for a man who lives on the razors edge of… monthly rebalancing. He is "betting against himself," a financial daredevil who risks it all for that sweet, sweet slightly-optimized Sharpe ratio.

  Perhaps most chilling is his role as the Sherlock Holmes of git log. He is the watcher on the wall, noticing when a GitLab Director of Engineering leaves a repo 14 hours before a CVE announcement. He sees all. He knows all. He probably has a RSS feed for your commit history.

  So flee, mortals! Flee before the might of orojackson! For he will optimize your router settings, diversity your portfolio into global bonds, clean your car with a teaspoon of water, and then quote Civilization VI to explain why your cultural criticism is invalid.

  He has found his One Piece. And unfortunately for us, it’s a 2x leveraged ETF that tracks global liquidity.

Surely Anthropic could do a better job implementing dynamic thinking token budgets.

..as if we're operating this machine as analog synth

The consumer-facing chatbot interfaces just hide all that because they're aiming for a non-technical audience.

While I agree with you that I find this style of writing commonly found in the entertainment section of a weekend piece to be very grating, I would argue that this still follows the bottom line up front. For the audience that these pieces are geared towards, the important part is whether the actor passes the vibe check or not. The latter part of the interview itself is not too important because it is mainly promoting whatever the actor wants to promote in the piece.

For instance, "the actor sits in his home with [long description of furniture]" describes how they keep their home's interior stylistically. What the actor wears shows how good their fashion sense is. Sipping coffee from a fancy mug shows how wealthy they are and/or shows the morning vibe they would exude on a good day.

Or I can just put my money in something like VTI (total US stock market) or VT (total world stock). Effectively does the same thing with almost zero effort. One thing I don't really like about the comments here is how insistent people are in doing something specific as opposed to picking the simplest thing and then sticking to it. Most of the power of investing comes from time.

Admittedly, though, I have been putting new money into a leveraged ETF, RSSB, which is a 2x leveraged 50/50 global stocks and bonds fund (so 100/100). Existing money is still in VT. The only reason why I'm pursuing this is because of Cliff Asness's great article [1], which argues against going 100% stocks (which I used to do) and instead prefers using something like leverage on a 60/40 portfolio.

[1] https://www.aqr.com/Insights/Perspectives/Why-Not-100-Equiti...

I would say this is the cheapest, simplest, and (arguably) safest way to wash your car, especially if you buy the rinseless wash concentrate by the gallon. It's easy enough that it allows me to wash my car nearly every week. I only need about 3 gallons of water and 1.5 fluid ounces of ONR to fully wash one car.

[1]: https://www.waveform.com/tools/bufferbloat

https://blog.cerowrt.org/post/flaws_in_flent/

They basically state that the solution to their test failing is a new WiFi router. That is not going to do much when the test is run from a wired connection!

I can change my “grade” from F to A simply by switching to the Vegas TCP congestion algorithm.

Maybe they were formerly car salespeople?

Or an ISP can install libreqos, or preseem, or paraqum...

Ironically I ran tcp vegas and SFQ, by default, since roughly 2002, since I cared about voip quality in particular. The rest of the world, didn't. Thus fq_codel was born...