I'm aware, thanks. I don't have any stuff running on AWS in the US, but I lost some volumes the last time they had an EBS meltdown at eu-west-1. That was expected, they even give an expected yearly failure rate for those. Good thing I was taking snapshots as recommended.
(I was much more concerned about the fact that the same incident revealed a data loss bug in their snapshot code. Good thing I also back up outside their infrastructure.)
It's a fad. Being sold on the assumption of 100% uptime.
Computing is a fad. Being sold on the assumption of increased efficiency and cost savings. In a few years, we'll be back to mechanical typewriters due to prohibitive cost of computing.
I know my cloud provider doesn't promise 100% uptime or durability for any single thing I run in there. I take it into account and plan around it.
I have also seen downtime and data loss in places where everything was done in-house, before "Teh Cloudz" were popular. Somehow not being in the cloud did not magically protect from that.
I'm really curious as to why people explicitly trust: A) Their services/platforms to someone other then themselves
The hosting providers have a financial interest in being trustworthy. If they lose the trust, they lose their business. Doing it yourself has its own failure modes too.
Also, for many new companies running their own datacenter would be cost-prohibitive, so trusting may be the only choice they have.
Welcome to American democracy. Your choice between bad and really goddamn awful fucking bad.
Why not vote on the third guy then? I mean, your country has to have more than two guys who want the job, right? Or is it somehow forbidden to have a political party that's neither republican nor democrat?
At any rate, since he shared the bread and fishes with all on the server, I wouldn't call it abusing the bug, especially since they were all just idling anyway, there wasn't a match in progress at that time.
Some other cases of him exploting glitches also come to mind. But being a son of the server admin, I don't think there was any chance of him getting banned...
If gunman knew that many people would be carrying concealed weapons, he probably would not even consider such an attack.
Let's do a simulation:
The gunman pulls a gun in middle of the crowd and shoots someone
First guy with concealed weapon turns around to face the gunman, pulls a gun and takes a shot at the gunman
Second guy with concealed weapon turns around to face the shooters, pulls a gun and takes a shot... hmm, at which one?
Third guy with concealed weapon turns around to face the shooters, sees that he is in a middle of a firefight, pulls a gun and starts shooting around randomly in panic
Repeat for N guys with concealed weapons
Police arrives, now everyone on the scene with a gun is a suspect. Also if they fail to react proper way to the police, they will have a good chance to get shot.
When one country is armed to the teeth with nuclear weapons, it's a menace to the rest of the world. When more than one country is armed, it's a factor of stabilization.
It's a stabilizing factor only until someone pulls the trigger. After that, it becomes mutual assured destruction.
The problem is, if you have someone who is crazy enough to just go out and start shooting at random people, they either expect to get killed in the process anyway or have completely lost their sense of reality. Either way, it's unlikely that a possibility of their own violent death would affect their behavior.
Well, N900 was a Nokia op. Their store for their main line of development at that point (Symbian) was a PoS, so it can hardly be expected that their experimental line with a single device gets any better.
I wouldn't dismiss Jolla's potential to become something just yet. To get developers to do the basic apps, all they need to do is to get some sales for the devices, and show commitment to the platform in relatively backward compatible way for a few years -- something Nokia never did.
As for most of Jolla being ex-Nokia, not everyone there was an imbecil. From what I have heard from the inside (people I personally know), there was a lot of good stuff brewing in the development lines, only to be crunched to pieces by management bureaucracy.
So, I want to see this thing to fail before calling it a failure.
Dyer initially went to Kickstarter, but was turned down. “They told me it wasn’t within their project guidelines because it has a medical focus,” she says.
Manufacturing has headed to China. And engineering has been moving with it. Somehow the software won't?
The whole "outsourcing to cheaper labor countries" is only temporary, it will sort itself out eventually. Either salaries rise in China, or they drop at our end. At that point, producing near consumption starts to make sense again.
Thanks for reminding me, the civilians in GTA IV were quite ok, compared to usual NPCs. A highlight for me was, that you could actually steal a car just by pointing a gun at the driver, they would come out and run away, except sometimes they would hit the pedal in panic mode. Unfortunately, in that game too, anyone carrying a gun could only keep shooting at you until they or you are dead.
I get your point, but TFA actually does list at least one cliche that could easily die AND not (significantly) increase cost: NPCs without self-preservation instinct.
I really can't remember how long it's been since I've actually seen an NPC run away.
That's like an obese person who eats junk food all day, and says his diabetes has nothing to do with his diet!
But you can't prove that it's the diet that is causing the diabetes. Might as well be lack of excercise, or too much wanking, or whatever. Correlation != causation and so on.
That said, if I was fat and started to develop a type 2 diabetes, I would fix my diet, just in case.
The real problem I have with it is that white space is syntactically significant. This makes drives me up a wall....especially when using a basic text editor.
If you cannot make your intendations match you need to cut down substance use, or get stronger glasses. No matter what language you write in, your intendation must be correct to pass the "does it look like crap" test.
(because in 9 out of 10 cases, if it looks like crap, it is crap)
And yes, of course some frequency headroom in data storage is required for practical signals, to avoid aliasing with realizable filters. But if you have proper hardware for the conversions, it's nowhere near 5x.
The Nyquist limit only applies with a perfect deadwall filter at half the sampling frequency before the digitizer, and an infinite-order reconstruction filter afterwards. Neither of which is realizable because both have infinite group delay.
In reality, with piecewise-constant or -linear reconstruction filters, you want to sample at at least 5 times the maximum input frequency if you want to get back something that fairly faithfully resembles your input. This is why digital oscilloscopes routinely have "100MHz; 1Gsps" written above their faceplate.
But to get around the problem with filters, only the A/D/A hardware needs to operate at higher sample rates. The actual bandlimited data can be stored in what Nyquist says, after it's been put through a nice long lowpass FIR filter.
Except for the fact that California would be left completely defenseless against foreign aggression. Yeah, I'm pretty sure Uncle Sam won't let us keep all those shiny boats and planes after we break away.
Yeah, I'm sure that the remainder of the U.S. would just let China or Russia to take over independent California and not lift a finger.
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Oh, you must be referring to EBS*.
I'm aware, thanks. I don't have any stuff running on AWS in the US, but I lost some volumes the last time they had an EBS meltdown at eu-west-1. That was expected, they even give an expected yearly failure rate for those. Good thing I was taking snapshots as recommended.
(I was much more concerned about the fact that the same incident revealed a data loss bug in their snapshot code. Good thing I also back up outside their infrastructure.)
It's a fad. Being sold on the assumption of 100% uptime.
Computing is a fad. Being sold on the assumption of increased efficiency and cost savings. In a few years, we'll be back to mechanical typewriters due to prohibitive cost of computing.
I know my cloud provider doesn't promise 100% uptime or durability for any single thing I run in there. I take it into account and plan around it.
I have also seen downtime and data loss in places where everything was done in-house, before "Teh Cloudz" were popular. Somehow not being in the cloud did not magically protect from that.
I'm really curious as to why people explicitly trust: A) Their services/platforms to someone other then themselves
The hosting providers have a financial interest in being trustworthy. If they lose the trust, they lose their business. Doing it yourself has its own failure modes too.
Also, for many new companies running their own datacenter would be cost-prohibitive, so trusting may be the only choice they have.
I usually reply back with... "Out biggest competitor pays their developers $x per month.. Please adjust my salary by the end of the week..."
And if he would give you a raise (I'm assuming you wouldn't ask your salary adjusted downwards), could you finish the features he wants in time?
Welcome to American democracy. Your choice between bad and really goddamn awful fucking bad.
Why not vote on the third guy then? I mean, your country has to have more than two guys who want the job, right? Or is it somehow forbidden to have a political party that's neither republican nor democrat?
At any rate, since he shared the bread and fishes with all on the server, I wouldn't call it abusing the bug, especially since they were all just idling anyway, there wasn't a match in progress at that time.
Some other cases of him exploting glitches also come to mind. But being a son of the server admin, I don't think there was any chance of him getting banned...
If gunman knew that many people would be carrying concealed weapons, he probably would not even consider such an attack.
Let's do a simulation:
When one country is armed to the teeth with nuclear weapons, it's a menace to the rest of the world. When more than one country is armed, it's a factor of stabilization.
It's a stabilizing factor only until someone pulls the trigger. After that, it becomes mutual assured destruction.
The problem is, if you have someone who is crazy enough to just go out and start shooting at random people, they either expect to get killed in the process anyway or have completely lost their sense of reality. Either way, it's unlikely that a possibility of their own violent death would affect their behavior.
Remember how well that worked out for the N900?
Well, N900 was a Nokia op. Their store for their main line of development at that point (Symbian) was a PoS, so it can hardly be expected that their experimental line with a single device gets any better.
I wouldn't dismiss Jolla's potential to become something just yet. To get developers to do the basic apps, all they need to do is to get some sales for the devices, and show commitment to the platform in relatively backward compatible way for a few years -- something Nokia never did.
As for most of Jolla being ex-Nokia, not everyone there was an imbecil. From what I have heard from the inside (people I personally know), there was a lot of good stuff brewing in the development lines, only to be crunched to pieces by management bureaucracy.
So, I want to see this thing to fail before calling it a failure.
I mean you can kickstart anything right?
It seems you can not. FTFA:
Sounds complicated. Why not just use password reset every time you need to get in?
Manufacturing has headed to China. And engineering has been moving with it. Somehow the software won't?
The whole "outsourcing to cheaper labor countries" is only temporary, it will sort itself out eventually. Either salaries rise in China, or they drop at our end. At that point, producing near consumption starts to make sense again.
Sure, it might get nasty in between...
What interest would they have in preventing discussion of xtube? Are they operating a competing pr0n site?
They're thinking of the children, I would guess. And "grown-ups" using FB at work.
Thanks for reminding me, the civilians in GTA IV were quite ok, compared to usual NPCs. A highlight for me was, that you could actually steal a car just by pointing a gun at the driver, they would come out and run away, except sometimes they would hit the pedal in panic mode. Unfortunately, in that game too, anyone carrying a gun could only keep shooting at you until they or you are dead.
I get your point, but TFA actually does list at least one cliche that could easily die AND not (significantly) increase cost: NPCs without self-preservation instinct.
I really can't remember how long it's been since I've actually seen an NPC run away.
It would be nearly as expensive as wired connections because they would need to have radio cells every couple hundred feet.
The infrastructure is there already, as wifi boxes at end of subscriber landlines.
Now all we need is to figure out roaming in wifi...
There's a reason that English isn't used as a programming language.
And what is that reason? IANANES, but it seems to me that GP's interpretation of the sentence is the only correct one.
That's like an obese person who eats junk food all day, and says his diabetes has nothing to do with his diet!
But you can't prove that it's the diet that is causing the diabetes. Might as well be lack of excercise, or too much wanking, or whatever. Correlation != causation and so on.
That said, if I was fat and started to develop a type 2 diabetes, I would fix my diet, just in case.
The real problem I have with it is that white space is syntactically significant. This makes drives me up a wall....especially when using a basic text editor.
If you cannot make your intendations match you need to cut down substance use, or get stronger glasses. No matter what language you write in, your intendation must be correct to pass the "does it look like crap" test.
(because in 9 out of 10 cases, if it looks like crap, it is crap)
And yes, of course some frequency headroom in data storage is required for practical signals, to avoid aliasing with realizable filters. But if you have proper hardware for the conversions, it's nowhere near 5x.
The Nyquist limit only applies with a perfect deadwall filter at half the sampling frequency before the digitizer, and an infinite-order reconstruction filter afterwards. Neither of which is realizable because both have infinite group delay.
In reality, with piecewise-constant or -linear reconstruction filters, you want to sample at at least 5 times the maximum input frequency if you want to get back something that fairly faithfully resembles your input. This is why digital oscilloscopes routinely have "100MHz; 1Gsps" written above their faceplate.
But to get around the problem with filters, only the A/D/A hardware needs to operate at higher sample rates. The actual bandlimited data can be stored in what Nyquist says, after it's been put through a nice long lowpass FIR filter.
WE SOFTWARE NOT REAL MOST STUPID INNOVATION
A-ha! I found your secret code. I think you're trying to say we are some sort of software simulation...
The autism-vaccine link has been shown to be non-existent.
More than that, it was found out it was a fraud.
Here are the missing steps:
Have you vetted the universe for correctness?
Have you vetted your brain for correctness?
Then it's a poorly written book
Indeed. To write a secure application, you need to know what you are doing, and proper discipline. No need to go through seven circles of hell.
Except for the fact that California would be left completely defenseless against foreign aggression. Yeah, I'm pretty sure Uncle Sam won't let us keep all those shiny boats and planes after we break away.
Yeah, I'm sure that the remainder of the U.S. would just let China or Russia to take over independent California and not lift a finger.
Or then again, maybe not.
And I'm apparently guilty of trying to rationalize with a creationist, without noticing it myself.