What gave the US the power it's now throwing away was an array of successes that made the US an example of good governance for the entire world: New Deal, Bretton Woods agreeement, victory in WW2, Marshall Plan and NATO. There wasn't a single person in charge of that all, but I think 3 stand out:
* Henry Morgenthau Jr.: secretary of Treasury during Roosevelt, one of the main designers of the New Deal, of financing the US war machine during WW2, and also one of the US negotiators at the Bretton Woods conference
* George C. Marshall: chief of staff of the US Army, organized the victory in WW2, came up with the eponymous plan and carried it forward politically. secretary of State after the War
* Dean Acheson: main designer of the Marshall Plan and of NATO, and one of the US negotiators at the Bretton Woods conference. secretary of State after Marshall
I wouldn't put it on one person, it was basically everyone between Roosevelt and Obama. Not that any of them were exactly geniuses, but we've gone from mostly sober drivers to someone blowing a 0.5 BAC.
do you mind qualifying this? it sounds like you mean dollar hegemony, which I might accept, but if you mean foreign policy in general, I can think of many invasions , financial crises, cold wars, lost prosperity for most of those Presidents.
I think we're talking less about the aspect of Bismarck where he won 3 big wars and lost none, and more about the part where he set up a delicate system that was maybe too complex for his successors to maintain, especially under idiosyncratic leaders. We're not talking about financial crises. Bismarck did not stop the Panic of 1873 (in fact, you could wave your hands and argue he indirectly caused it).
As far as "who set up the US empire, in all its complexity?", I'd argue for the 4 guys I named in my other comment, but your list might differ. And if you're just interested in the dollar system per se, I'd probably go with Harry Dexter White, who strangely enough turned out to be a Soviet spy.
Oh, and if you want a pretty clear analogy from Bismarck's system to earlier US monetary history: Benjamin Strong got the Federal Reserve System up and running and figured out a bunch of the right tricks, but he died in 1928 without getting his successors up to speed on how to run things. They failed miserably in next couple years. Bad timing!
Your list and the one above (e.g. with General Marshall, etc) are more illustrative & aligned with developing US Hegemony than the 20th Century Presidents. It seems to me the US presidents have been drawing down hegemony assets since JFK.
It's just that the USA was so dominant after WW2 that it took about a century for the structure to collapse.
A better model than seeing Trump as a wrecking ball, is seeing him as a high stakes gambler, with middling skills -- in the same way that George W Bush made a big bet on the middle east and lost the chips.
None of it makes much sense. The model labelled as fastest has much higher latency. The one labelled as cheapest costs something, whereas the other one appears to be free (price is blank). Context on that one is blank and also unclear.
In general, people just use noIP home router VPN, ssh/sftp host on LAN, and a sshfs client on their iOS/Android device or MacOS/Windows/Linux. It will look like any other network shared drive in the native OS.
For paid services, there are also native Dropbox client support in MATE, Ubuntu, or Mint desktop file managers etc.
Practically speaking, I often recommend dual booting from 2 ssd drives for windows and Linux. There are just some commercial software/games that can't run properly within a linux environment (programs like Wine do allow running some Windows native programs, but YMMV.)
Throwing in opencloud here. I ran nextcloud self hosted for many years. If you need only file sharing on a webui with users, then opencloud is faster, more stable and less resource hungry.
I had no idea they could live for 400 years... I actually now realize that I never thought about the lifespan of a shark before, but I would have guessed (prior to this education) around 25 years or so.
You joke and I think its funny, but as a junior engineer I would be quite proud if some small change I made was able to take down the mighty Cloudflare.
If I were Cloudflare it would mean an immediate job offer well above market. That junior engineer is either a genius or so lucky that they must be bred by Pierson’s Puppeteers or such a perfect manifestation of a human fuzzer that their skills must be utilized.
This reminds of a friend I had in college. We were assigned to the same group coding an advanced calculator in C. This guy didn't know anything about programming (he was mostly focused on his side biz of selling collector sneakers), so we assigned him to do all the testing, his job was to come up with weird equations and weird but valid way to present them to the calculator. And this dude somehow managed to crash almost all of our iterations except the few last ones. Really put the joke about a programmer, a tester, and a customer walk into a bar into perspective.
I love that he ended up making a very valuable contribution despite not knowing how to program -- other groups would have just been mad at him, had him do nothing, or had him do programming and gotten mad when it was crap or not finished.
I think the rate limits for Claude Code on the Web include VM time in general and not just LLM tokens. I have a desktop app with a full end to end testing suite which the agent would run for every session that probably burned up quite a bit.
> If I were Cloudflare it would mean an immediate job offer well above market.
And not a lawsuit? Cause I've read more about that kind of reaction than of job offers. Though I guess lawsuits are more likely to be controversial and talked about.
I kind of did that back in the days when they released Worker KV, I tried to bulk upload a lot of data and it brought the whole service down, can confirm I was proud :D
It's also not exactly the least common way that this sort of huge multi-tenant service goes down. It's only as rare as it is because more or less all of them have had such outages in the past and built generic defenses (e.g. automated testing of customer changes, gradual rollout, automatic rollback, there are others but those are the ones that don't require any further explanation).
Well its easy to cause damage by messing up the `rm` command, esp with `-fr` options. So don't take it as a proxy for some great skill which is required to cause damage.
You could easily cause great damage to your Cloudflare setup, but CF has measures to prevent random customers deleting stuff from taking down the entire service globally. Unless you have admin access to the entire CF system, you can't really cause much damage with rm.
>You joke and I think its funny, but as a junior engineer I would be quite proud if some small change I made was able to take down the mighty Cloudflare.
I mean, with Cloudflare's recent (lack of) uptime, I would argue there's a degree of crashflation happening such that the prestige is less in doing so. I mean nowadays if a lawnmower drives by cloudflare and backfires that's enough to collapse the whole damn thing
Are you actually so mind-numbingly ignorant that you think Rebecca Heineman had a brother named Bill, that you would rudely and incorrectly try to correct people who knew her story well, during a memorial discussion of her life and death?
Or were you purposefully going out of your way to perpetrate performative ignorance and transphobic bullying, just to let everyone know that you're a bigoted transphobic asshole?
I don't buy that it was an innocent mistake, given the context of the rest of the discussion, and your pretending to know her family better than the poster you were replying to and everyone else in the discussion, falsely denying her credit for her own work. Do you really think dang made the Hacker News header black because he and everyone else was confused and you were right?
Do you like to show up at funerals of people you don't know, just to interrupt the eulogy with insults, stuff pennies up your ass (as you claim to do), then shit and piss all over the coffin in front of their family and friends?
How long did you have to wait until she died before you had the courage to deadname, misgender, and punch down at her in a memorial, out of hate and cowardice and a perverse desire to show everyone what kind of a person you really are?
Next time, can you at least wait until after the funeral before committing your public abuse?
Posting abusive bigoted bullshit in a memorial thread is cuckoo crazy behavior. Calling it out and describing it isn't. You're confusing describing the abuse with committing the abuse. Direct your scorn at the person I'm criticizing, unless you agree with what they did, in which case my criticism also applies directly and personally to you, so no wonder you created a throw away sock puppet account just to attempt to defend your own bigotry and abuse.
He was also a TA at Harvard with Trevor Blackwell for CS 148 (computer networking, taught by H T Kung) at the time. I remember taking that with them in 1995.
Speculation can always drive the price of gold way up past its real value.