I had to check to make sure it wasn't April 1st, when/. notoriously goes to shit.
I find this fact remarkable. I'm not sure if it makes him in touch or a criminal, but that kind of technical literacy in politics in interesting in it's own right.
That is really optimistic about people following directions. I think the author under appreciates vandalism, or simply not following directions out of spite.
If one of those Help buttons was pushed repeatedly, for example. Or if one of the employees didn't do what it was told. Or the employees attempted to outsmart "manna" by probing for it's logic weaknesses, and, then finding them, exploit them.
One of the reasons that employees are reluctant to exploit human mangers is because of the guilt they'd feel. There'd be less guilt in exploiting the oversight weaknesses of an AI, and it'd become a game.
"For example, Scott Adams was banned from twitter"
--"I would regard it as treason"
lol no. He knows about as much about the Constitution as his favored candidate knows. Treason is a capital offense from the constitution, one of few, and this is not that. It's doesn't even violate the First Amendment, although it might be censorship.
I don't know anything either way about the trueness of his claims of being shadowbanned by Twitter, but it's not treason, and it's not a First Amendment issue, and it's not even remotely illegal. If you don't like their platform, don't use it.
It'd be pretty funny if Scott was able to prevent the sale of Twitter, though.
Why not use key based auth instead of password based?
Probably for the same reasons that crypto email never worked out, but I wish it were an option on things like banking websites.
I'm now using a password manager, so I can use pretty hard passwords without having to try to remember them. But using signed certs would be much much stronger still.
That's a good point. If the moderation system was all that, the sensitive souls would brigade every post made in/r/fatpeoplehate and it'd take care of itself.
And naturally the ability to freely create new subs and new accounts mean that any banning is at best temporary.
If Reddit declines because someone is prevented from promulgating rape advice, I'm ok with that. Even if the advice is legal to give and print. I need reddit a lot less than I need my daughter to not be raped. And I'm active on reddit.
I'm not so sure that they would reject anyone who downloaded, but that they would reject someone who lied about it.
I've seen reports that they will even accept candidates that have some minor drug use in their distant past, but the problem with their application comes when it's lied about.
For starters, OP meant Nevada, not Arizona.
And it's better to have some manufacturing base than none. NV is currently dependent on tourism, which is even more fickle.
I'm sure that NV is hoping that the gigafactory spawns even more EV mfg investment in the state.
The US responding by invading Cuba would certainly be an interesting escalation.
Probably lead to an all out shooting war with Russia, but interesting anyways.
"free market principles,"
collusion between competitors destroys the free market. The same is true on the other side too, iow unions. I suspect you don't support unions, right?
suppressing worker's wages not through lack of demand or value, but by constraining supply through secret conspiracy, is not a free market.
It's just the same as the same companies conspiring to raise prices on their goods and refuse to compete with each other, which prevents the Invisible Hand of the market from working correctly.
No, they are simply letting the CPU util go to 0% (+ whatever necessary for OS etc). But the hosts are still awake and available.
Another advantage is that the load can be instantly added back, whereas if they actually turned the machines off they'd have to wait for boot time, so the reaction to capacity shifts wouldn't be as fast.
There's something to be said about the complexity of AD&D, too.
I'm still the only person that I know personally to have played Melee, from Steve Jackson before he founded Steve Jackson Games, and I really loved it. Played very smooth with an understandable magic system. Combat and damage made a lot of sense. It doesn't have the texture of AD&D, though, it's almost too hermetic.
I even still have the books.;(
Step on his feelings. This kind of thing needs to show up on their (annual) reviews, and their performance should be derated. That doesn't necessarily mean fired, but their performance evaluation should be penalized. That would generally mean a failure to get COLA increases, to say nothing of merit increases. If they have 10 year old skills, then their wages should be frozen as of 10 years ago. If you don't have annual reviews, your company has a problem. That's what managers are for. If they're not doing their job, that should show up on their reviews as well.
Are they worried about hurting this guy's feelings? This isn't a daycare. Are you worried about this guy leaving for another company and taking valuable information with him? He's not going anywhere, no one else would hire him with skills that old.
If you have a company that mature without either annual reviews or management that feels that they should manage, your company has a dire problem and you should get out of there. The way you phrase this makes it sound like it's actually a government position, and sadly that is more par for the course. Now you know why people don't like paying their taxes.
What changes to the retail stores? I haven't been following the news, but I'm curious. They had a pretty successful strategy and I don't know why anyone would mess with that.
Well, no it's not. It also means using white-box commodity servers to serve a large software application. The savings from using commodity servers is put back into the software development to make it more robust to handle the less reliable commodity servers.
If you're large enough, you develop the software yourself; if you're even larger, you design the commodity hardware yourself, which allows you to drive out cost while increasing performance in the things you get a return on. Neither of which either Dell or HP can add any value to, so there's just no reason to use them.
Google is the 5th largest server manufacturer in the world by itself. Add in the other big cloud players: Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook and a significant portion of server purchases are going to commodity hardware, whereas 10 years ago it was OEM. And it's not going to get any better. The fact is, building your own white box makes sense for more and more installations, because it's really not that hard. If you need more than about 10K cores, you can probably find it cost effective to start doing it now, and if you are any kind of software company, you already have much of the software development resources in house.
you're doing it wrong. The cloud is meant for applications you can distribute. For those that you can't, it doesn't work nearly as well or you have to sacrifice the uptime generally associated with the cloud.
I can end your "cloud" of $50K machines with a backhoe or even just a power failure when the gens don't kick in. In a real cloud, you get regional or even global DR so you can survive even the total loss of an entire DC.
If you can fail your application from one $50K machine in one region to another $50K machine in another, I'd warrant you could do the same locally too, and save a lot of money doing it.
Samsung clearly copied Apple's product, the evidence being a Samsung email that summarily described every valuable feature of the iPhone and how Samsung should implement those very same features themselves.
If Samsung were repackaging art that existed prior to Apple's use of it, they would have done so without reference to the way that Apple used it specifically.
They didn't say "hey, we should use pinch to zoom!"
They instead said "hey, we should use pinch to zoom because Apple does it and they're successful with it!"
That, I believe, as did the Jury, is credible evidence of patent infringement.
c.f. the wifi sniffing debacle. I'm pretty sure that what transpired was the developers of the product downloaded a public source program, like AirSnort. And then used it, probably with the intention of just collecting unencrypted SSIDs, but accidentally left on the more intrusive features as well.
They should have noticed that it was collecting data at a rate greater than SSIDs would indicate, but I can see overlooking that as well.
As of 10/11, Phoenix had 830K, with plans to add 160K and maybe even a million more feet later. source.
However, just one building in North Carolina has 500K of space (source), and Apple is by no means alone out there, with at least Google and others. Central Oregon and Washington are also big; Facebook has 300K in Prineville and another 300K on the way. Apple is also building in central Oregon, Google has a large facility, and yahoo and microsoft have large facilities in Central Washington.
Phoenix is a player, but by no means has "as much DC capacity as the rest of the US combined." They may have more colo space, and more individual 100k+ size units than elsewhere, to but consider all of the domestic DC capacity you are including self-builds in that statement.
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I had to check to make sure it wasn't April 1st, when /. notoriously goes to shit.
I find this fact remarkable. I'm not sure if it makes him in touch or a criminal, but that kind of technical literacy in politics in interesting in it's own right.
That is really optimistic about people following directions. I think the author under appreciates vandalism, or simply not following directions out of spite.
If one of those Help buttons was pushed repeatedly, for example. Or if one of the employees didn't do what it was told. Or the employees attempted to outsmart "manna" by probing for it's logic weaknesses, and, then finding them, exploit them.
One of the reasons that employees are reluctant to exploit human mangers is because of the guilt they'd feel. There'd be less guilt in exploiting the oversight weaknesses of an AI, and it'd become a game.
"For example, Scott Adams was banned from twitter"
--"I would regard it as treason"
lol no. He knows about as much about the Constitution as his favored candidate knows. Treason is a capital offense from the constitution, one of few, and this is not that. It's doesn't even violate the First Amendment, although it might be censorship.
I don't know anything either way about the trueness of his claims of being shadowbanned by Twitter, but it's not treason, and it's not a First Amendment issue, and it's not even remotely illegal. If you don't like their platform, don't use it.
It'd be pretty funny if Scott was able to prevent the sale of Twitter, though.
Why not use key based auth instead of password based?
Probably for the same reasons that crypto email never worked out, but I wish it were an option on things like banking websites.
I'm now using a password manager, so I can use pretty hard passwords without having to try to remember them. But using signed certs would be much much stronger still.
That's a good point. If the moderation system was all that, the sensitive souls would brigade every post made in /r/fatpeoplehate and it'd take care of itself.
And naturally the ability to freely create new subs and new accounts mean that any banning is at best temporary.
I usually agree with you, but this is actually funny.
If Reddit declines because someone is prevented from promulgating rape advice, I'm ok with that. Even if the advice is legal to give and print. I need reddit a lot less than I need my daughter to not be raped. And I'm active on reddit.
I'm not so sure that they would reject anyone who downloaded, but that they would reject someone who lied about it. I've seen reports that they will even accept candidates that have some minor drug use in their distant past, but the problem with their application comes when it's lied about.
For starters, OP meant Nevada, not Arizona. And it's better to have some manufacturing base than none. NV is currently dependent on tourism, which is even more fickle. I'm sure that NV is hoping that the gigafactory spawns even more EV mfg investment in the state.
The US responding by invading Cuba would certainly be an interesting escalation. Probably lead to an all out shooting war with Russia, but interesting anyways.
"free market principles," collusion between competitors destroys the free market. The same is true on the other side too, iow unions. I suspect you don't support unions, right? suppressing worker's wages not through lack of demand or value, but by constraining supply through secret conspiracy, is not a free market. It's just the same as the same companies conspiring to raise prices on their goods and refuse to compete with each other, which prevents the Invisible Hand of the market from working correctly.
No, they are simply letting the CPU util go to 0% (+ whatever necessary for OS etc). But the hosts are still awake and available. Another advantage is that the load can be instantly added back, whereas if they actually turned the machines off they'd have to wait for boot time, so the reaction to capacity shifts wouldn't be as fast.
There's something to be said about the complexity of AD&D, too. I'm still the only person that I know personally to have played Melee, from Steve Jackson before he founded Steve Jackson Games, and I really loved it. Played very smooth with an understandable magic system. Combat and damage made a lot of sense. It doesn't have the texture of AD&D, though, it's almost too hermetic. I even still have the books. ;(
Step on his feelings. This kind of thing needs to show up on their (annual) reviews, and their performance should be derated. That doesn't necessarily mean fired, but their performance evaluation should be penalized. That would generally mean a failure to get COLA increases, to say nothing of merit increases. If they have 10 year old skills, then their wages should be frozen as of 10 years ago. If you don't have annual reviews, your company has a problem. That's what managers are for. If they're not doing their job, that should show up on their reviews as well.
Are they worried about hurting this guy's feelings? This isn't a daycare. Are you worried about this guy leaving for another company and taking valuable information with him? He's not going anywhere, no one else would hire him with skills that old.
If you have a company that mature without either annual reviews or management that feels that they should manage, your company has a dire problem and you should get out of there. The way you phrase this makes it sound like it's actually a government position, and sadly that is more par for the course. Now you know why people don't like paying their taxes.
This comment is +5 insightful? Whelp, it was a nice ride, /. I'm off to reddit.
Even commerical drones fly above your shotgun range. Why do you think Google has images of your backyard without you noticing?
Fuck the kids, I would drink that stuff by the pint the next time I have to get on a plane.
Media let it die? Romney made an argument out of it and it was in the news cycle constantly.
I don't know what he hoped to prove by it, really. Romney never said that he would have done anything differently.
What changes to the retail stores? I haven't been following the news, but I'm curious. They had a pretty successful strategy and I don't know why anyone would mess with that.
"Cloud" is just market speak for hosted service.
Well, no it's not. It also means using white-box commodity servers to serve a large software application. The savings from using commodity servers is put back into the software development to make it more robust to handle the less reliable commodity servers.
If you're large enough, you develop the software yourself; if you're even larger, you design the commodity hardware yourself, which allows you to drive out cost while increasing performance in the things you get a return on. Neither of which either Dell or HP can add any value to, so there's just no reason to use them.
Google is the 5th largest server manufacturer in the world by itself. Add in the other big cloud players: Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook and a significant portion of server purchases are going to commodity hardware, whereas 10 years ago it was OEM. And it's not going to get any better. The fact is, building your own white box makes sense for more and more installations, because it's really not that hard. If you need more than about 10K cores, you can probably find it cost effective to start doing it now, and if you are any kind of software company, you already have much of the software development resources in house.
you're doing it wrong. The cloud is meant for applications you can distribute. For those that you can't, it doesn't work nearly as well or you have to sacrifice the uptime generally associated with the cloud. I can end your "cloud" of $50K machines with a backhoe or even just a power failure when the gens don't kick in. In a real cloud, you get regional or even global DR so you can survive even the total loss of an entire DC. If you can fail your application from one $50K machine in one region to another $50K machine in another, I'd warrant you could do the same locally too, and save a lot of money doing it.
Samsung clearly copied Apple's product, the evidence being a Samsung email that summarily described every valuable feature of the iPhone and how Samsung should implement those very same features themselves.
If Samsung were repackaging art that existed prior to Apple's use of it, they would have done so without reference to the way that Apple used it specifically.
They didn't say "hey, we should use pinch to zoom!"
They instead said "hey, we should use pinch to zoom because Apple does it and they're successful with it!"
That, I believe, as did the Jury, is credible evidence of patent infringement.
c.f. the wifi sniffing debacle. I'm pretty sure that what transpired was the developers of the product downloaded a public source program, like AirSnort. And then used it, probably with the intention of just collecting unencrypted SSIDs, but accidentally left on the more intrusive features as well.
They should have noticed that it was collecting data at a rate greater than SSIDs would indicate, but I can see overlooking that as well.
If you were a Chinese dissident using gmail to communicate and collaborate, you might have different priorities.
As of 10/11, Phoenix had 830K, with plans to add 160K and maybe even a million more feet later. source.
However, just one building in North Carolina has 500K of space (source), and Apple is by no means alone out there, with at least Google and others. Central Oregon and Washington are also big; Facebook has 300K in Prineville and another 300K on the way. Apple is also building in central Oregon, Google has a large facility, and yahoo and microsoft have large facilities in Central Washington.
Phoenix is a player, but by no means has "as much DC capacity as the rest of the US combined." They may have more colo space, and more individual 100k+ size units than elsewhere, to but consider all of the domestic DC capacity you are including self-builds in that statement.