That's only because many women lack basic rights in the first world too.
How many girls in the first world cannot legally attend school? Or cannot attend for fear of a militia group assaulting the school, overwhelming the police, and kidnapping all the girls into a life of slavery?
How many women in the first world are forbidden from legally driving? How many women in the first world face the threat of vigilante attack and mutilation by the religious police for not being sufficiently conservative in dress or appearance?
How many women in the first world have no say in who they marry?
I could go on and on, but we both know you're full of shit. Women in the first world face such terrors as being criticized on social media, or being paid in a way that still puts them in the top 1% of income worldwide.
That would be a legitimate complaint if there were more murderers than speeders. And there are more people living in places where women are lacking basic rights than first-world whiners.
Autotuned voices, corporate-created-idols (usually some pretty teenaged kid with a previous 'career' as a Disney 'talent employee'), new stars with a pre-baked 'image' (naturally built/provided by the studio), lyrics that are focus-group-tested and written by someone else, a catchy tune usually ripped-off from some unknown who got paid a pittance for it...
Hey hey, we're the Monkees!
Pop music has been that way from the beginning - only autotune is new.
But don't despair, there's plenty of talent out there, it's just that radio is garbage these days unless you find a good public station, so you'll never hear them that way.
Nowadays, to find the good stuff, you have to cast a really wide net
One can only hope streaming sites make this easier, to replace the radio wasteland. Also, lots of obscure bands are on YouTube which can make discovering similar bands a bit easier.
Bluegrass is still around, and includes some very sharp artists, both technical players and composers (but then, I guess you could say the same about medieval-style folk music). It has almost no overlap with modern country music (which is just pop music with a southern accent, these days).
They did so when FB asked them to ahead of an interview arranged with FB's director of policy Simon Milner.
In many (most?) US states, this is legally required. That's how far the pedophile witch hunt has gone. It's a felony in most places, often with the same penalty as actually producing the material, to be aware that someone has child exploitation images without immediately reporting it to the police. The law doesn't mention anything about journalists.
This is something anyone who repairs PCs for a living knows. Sure, common sense might say "but this is an exception", but the law doesn't. There are some states in the US where no intent is required to be guilty of possession - doesn't matter why, unless you're a policeman investigating the particular crime. Heck, even the defense lawyer and jury may not be allowed to legally see the images except in tightly controlled circumstances, as if the witches might cast their evil magic unless the correct protective ritual is performed.
Big government Republicans aren't really a different party form the Dems, though - they're the two faces of the Uniparty.
When looking at laws, we should care about results not intentions. The result here was to remove educational content from the public domain that was useful for 99% of people, because one guy complained. Net detriment to society.
Some think think that somehow, if we didn't live in segregated neighborhoods, racial prejudice would magically disappear.
That's a beautiful thought. Yet, despite a bunch of laws, most people still live in segregated neighborhoods. And there's still a bunch of racial prejudice. Some things can't be changed by a central authority.
Also, a standards body isn't even a central authority in the first place. I've worked on an international standards committee. They have no real world power at all - they just write wish lists, and hope for the best. Large companies only follow a standard because you write down what they were going to do anyway. If you write down something else, then you have an ignored document that is not the de facto standard - and you get IE6.
Growing up is mostly realizing that "wishing doesn't make it so". Any good engineer works in the world as it is, not some idealized world as we wish it would be.
The answer is "yes". Just ask anyone who's not an obsessed nerd.
Since Netflix is obviously going to happen in browsers, whatever obsessed nerds think about that, better to have some sort of standard for that, some hope of getting Netflix on Linux, than not.
I know some people actually believe that somehow, if we didn't have DRM standards, streaming content would magically be DRM-free. Those people have a lot to learn about the world we live in.
The difference is: Fahrenheit is part of the One True System of Measurement: the "go F yourself system."
The base units in the go F yourself system are: Furlong Firkin Fortnight Fahrenheit and Faraday. Derived units such as Foot or Fathom are sometimes used as well. All units are abbreviated F for simplicity.
All other systems of measure are clearly inferior, obsolete, outdated systems only used by weird mountain-folk in flyover country.
>quote>Knowing that your one-liter soda bottle, if filled with water, weighs one kilogram, is one of the superpowers that French chefs make use of. Our recipes, meanwhile, are full of teaspoons and tablespoons and fluid ounces that are hell to convert to each other.
Well the C64 didn't do really do anything on boot - mostly initialize the 40 character x 25 line display and jump to Basic and start executing. The kernal was custom written for one hardware config, didn't work with thousands of different pieces of hardware. No internet, no services at all to run (because no multi-threading). Those machines were extremely simple, and really can't be compared to today's Mac, Linux, or Windows OS's.
But modern machines are about 10000x faster. Needless complexity aside, it's just not that much more complicated. Whatever is hardware-specific, cook that up when the hardware changes - how often does that happen? - and park it ready for fast boot again.
My Chromebook takes mere seconds to boot, whereas an IBM AT could easily take minutes. And of course, my modern device performs tasks that would have been the domain of supercomputers in the past.
Time to take off the rose colored glasses. I did live through the eighties and nineties, and computing was pathetic back then... we just didn't know any better
My Commodore 64 took about 0.1 seconds to boot. We just suck at "fast" these days.
Doesn't really matter though.: command, or script, or checked-in config file. There's just shouldn't be a way to destroy the world with any one action, regardless of how that action is expressed.
Scripted and rehearsed system maintenance is SOP for good shops. You don't have your highly paid senior folks doing grunt work, and you don't put a grunt in front of a terminal and let them work by the seat of their pants. Obviously you try to automate as much as possible, but there will always remain things that cannot be automated and must be done by a human.
Amazon famously has their highly paid senior engineers doing grunt work. Clearly, given yesterday, it's not their only mistake.
All of that was done, more-or-less, is the problem.
Some poor schmuck took the command line from the (presumably reviewed) change to something billing-related (TFA is short on details there), and typed in that approved command to do the approved thing in a controlled way. But the command line had a typo, and, total WTF, the command line with a typo was able to wreak wholesale destruction.
Whatever configuration management system acted on that command was garbage. Any sane system would have said "hell no!", or at least asked in Gary Gygax's voice "are you really sure you want to do that", and/or stopped at the point where a bunch of servers were down and redundancy was getting low and required some other scary command to do real damage.
If it were a config file checked in instead of a command, nothing changes about that. The configuration management system simply shouldn't have to power to destroy the world based on a single input of any kind.
S3 must have some vast fleet of servers, more than most companies have in total. How do you have a configuration management system that allows destructive changes on that scale in the first place? TFA is silent there.
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That's what I said?
That's only because many women lack basic rights in the first world too.
How many girls in the first world cannot legally attend school? Or cannot attend for fear of a militia group assaulting the school, overwhelming the police, and kidnapping all the girls into a life of slavery?
How many women in the first world are forbidden from legally driving? How many women in the first world face the threat of vigilante attack and mutilation by the religious police for not being sufficiently conservative in dress or appearance?
How many women in the first world have no say in who they marry?
I could go on and on, but we both know you're full of shit. Women in the first world face such terrors as being criticized on social media, or being paid in a way that still puts them in the top 1% of income worldwide.
That would be a legitimate complaint if there were more murderers than speeders. And there are more people living in places where women are lacking basic rights than first-world whiners.
Autotuned voices, corporate-created-idols (usually some pretty teenaged kid with a previous 'career' as a Disney 'talent employee'), new stars with a pre-baked 'image' (naturally built/provided by the studio), lyrics that are focus-group-tested and written by someone else, a catchy tune usually ripped-off from some unknown who got paid a pittance for it...
Hey hey, we're the Monkees!
Pop music has been that way from the beginning - only autotune is new.
But don't despair, there's plenty of talent out there, it's just that radio is garbage these days unless you find a good public station, so you'll never hear them that way.
Nowadays, to find the good stuff, you have to cast a really wide net
One can only hope streaming sites make this easier, to replace the radio wasteland. Also, lots of obscure bands are on YouTube which can make discovering similar bands a bit easier.
Bluegrass is still around, and includes some very sharp artists, both technical players and composers (but then, I guess you could say the same about medieval-style folk music). It has almost no overlap with modern country music (which is just pop music with a southern accent, these days).
They did so when FB asked them to ahead of an interview arranged with FB's director of policy Simon Milner.
In many (most?) US states, this is legally required. That's how far the pedophile witch hunt has gone. It's a felony in most places, often with the same penalty as actually producing the material, to be aware that someone has child exploitation images without immediately reporting it to the police. The law doesn't mention anything about journalists.
This is something anyone who repairs PCs for a living knows. Sure, common sense might say "but this is an exception", but the law doesn't. There are some states in the US where no intent is required to be guilty of possession - doesn't matter why, unless you're a policeman investigating the particular crime. Heck, even the defense lawyer and jury may not be allowed to legally see the images except in tightly controlled circumstances, as if the witches might cast their evil magic unless the correct protective ritual is performed.
Big government Republicans aren't really a different party form the Dems, though - they're the two faces of the Uniparty.
When looking at laws, we should care about results not intentions. The result here was to remove educational content from the public domain that was useful for 99% of people, because one guy complained. Net detriment to society.
If you turned the monitor on first, it was ready by the time your hand found the power switch on the C64.
Why should storage take time to "become ready" - it's not like we still need spinning rust for home systems.
Not sure why "having internet" would be slow - you have your IP address and hostname, what more do you need?
Can we not check hardware for malfunctions from time to time in an active system these days?
We do all this the slow way because we're accustomed to slow. There's no inherent reason for any of it to be slow.
It's a sign, not a TV - no reason to expect unneeded functionality.
Well, they might know you work for a company with a cheap-ass fleet manager. That tells them a lot about you.
The system where a "hundredweight" was 120 pounds? We pretend that never happened.
Some think think that somehow, if we didn't live in segregated neighborhoods, racial prejudice would magically disappear.
That's a beautiful thought. Yet, despite a bunch of laws, most people still live in segregated neighborhoods. And there's still a bunch of racial prejudice. Some things can't be changed by a central authority.
Also, a standards body isn't even a central authority in the first place. I've worked on an international standards committee. They have no real world power at all - they just write wish lists, and hope for the best. Large companies only follow a standard because you write down what they were going to do anyway. If you write down something else, then you have an ignored document that is not the de facto standard - and you get IE6.
Growing up is mostly realizing that "wishing doesn't make it so". Any good engineer works in the world as it is, not some idealized world as we wish it would be.
My UID is low enough to remember when Slashdot was "News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters".
The answer is "yes". Just ask anyone who's not an obsessed nerd.
Since Netflix is obviously going to happen in browsers, whatever obsessed nerds think about that, better to have some sort of standard for that, some hope of getting Netflix on Linux, than not.
I know some people actually believe that somehow, if we didn't have DRM standards, streaming content would magically be DRM-free. Those people have a lot to learn about the world we live in.
The difference is: Fahrenheit is part of the One True System of Measurement: the "go F yourself system."
The base units in the go F yourself system are: Furlong Firkin Fortnight Fahrenheit and Faraday. Derived units such as Foot or Fathom are sometimes used as well. All units are abbreviated F for simplicity.
All other systems of measure are clearly inferior, obsolete, outdated systems only used by weird mountain-folk in flyover country.
Rankin makes more sense for anything scientific than Celsius. You metric guys have nothing but smug.
>quote>Knowing that your one-liter soda bottle, if filled with water, weighs one kilogram, is one of the superpowers that French chefs make use of. Our recipes, meanwhile, are full of teaspoons and tablespoons and fluid ounces that are hell to convert to each other.
A pint's a pound the world `round.
Well the C64 didn't do really do anything on boot - mostly initialize the 40 character x 25 line display and jump to Basic and start executing. The kernal was custom written for one hardware config, didn't work with thousands of different pieces of hardware. No internet, no services at all to run (because no multi-threading). Those machines were extremely simple, and really can't be compared to today's Mac, Linux, or Windows OS's.
But modern machines are about 10000x faster. Needless complexity aside, it's just not that much more complicated. Whatever is hardware-specific, cook that up when the hardware changes - how often does that happen? - and park it ready for fast boot again.
We just suck at "fast".
My Chromebook takes mere seconds to boot, whereas an IBM AT could easily take minutes. And of course, my modern device performs tasks that would have been the domain of supercomputers in the past.
Time to take off the rose colored glasses. I did live through the eighties and nineties, and computing was pathetic back then ... we just didn't know any better
My Commodore 64 took about 0.1 seconds to boot. We just suck at "fast" these days.
Doesn't really matter though.: command, or script, or checked-in config file. There's just shouldn't be a way to destroy the world with any one action, regardless of how that action is expressed.
Scripted and rehearsed system maintenance is SOP for good shops. You don't have your highly paid senior folks doing grunt work, and you don't put a grunt in front of a terminal and let them work by the seat of their pants. Obviously you try to automate as much as possible, but there will always remain things that cannot be automated and must be done by a human.
Amazon famously has their highly paid senior engineers doing grunt work. Clearly, given yesterday, it's not their only mistake.
All of that was done, more-or-less, is the problem.
Some poor schmuck took the command line from the (presumably reviewed) change to something billing-related (TFA is short on details there), and typed in that approved command to do the approved thing in a controlled way. But the command line had a typo, and, total WTF, the command line with a typo was able to wreak wholesale destruction.
Whatever configuration management system acted on that command was garbage. Any sane system would have said "hell no!", or at least asked in Gary Gygax's voice "are you really sure you want to do that", and/or stopped at the point where a bunch of servers were down and redundancy was getting low and required some other scary command to do real damage.
If it were a config file checked in instead of a command, nothing changes about that. The configuration management system simply shouldn't have to power to destroy the world based on a single input of any kind.
S3 must have some vast fleet of servers, more than most companies have in total. How do you have a configuration management system that allows destructive changes on that scale in the first place? TFA is silent there.
Bubble sort FTW!
So ask about actual work problem that you find puzzling, not freaking pirates.
I don't think it counts as working unless you're working for more than 2 weeks. Go figure.