I took a course, "The Sociology of Gender." I was the only male student, and the eldest. The professor walked next to my desk and she looked me in the face and said, "Welcome to 'Men Are Shit 101.'"
As I did with all my professors, I made an appointment to see her, 3 weeks in. She gave me a great tip:
"The tests are multiple-choice. Pick the answer that makes men look the worst."
She is arrogant, self-centered, is involved in several economic jobs-creation ventures outside her borders (Afghanistan, etc.) and has abandoned the "huddled masses" shit, and is on trajectory to implode by closing the borders and rejecting globalism. She needs to close the outbound side, as well. She's beginning to suffer from brain drain similar to what happened in WWII. Her batshit obsession with promoting White Evangelical Christianity at the expense of science is demoting her on the world stage.
The tariff wars will create a depression, just as the last tariff wars did.
Why should China care about due process? Due process is coded in US law. Why not speak of freedom of speech? China doesn't have that. It's an American concept. China doesn't have freedom of assembly, freedom of press...
China is not pretending anything, any more than the US "pretends" to have the right to keep and bear arms.
There's a lot of value in something that will work 5 years past warranty, as opposed to working 1 year past warranty. Suppose that a bunch of SSDs failed 1 year past warranty and you know that it was due to the huge amount of small writes of your application, then armed with that knowledge you could potentially change just 1 parameter in the application and save your company millions of dollars in SSD replacements.
I don't know about you, but I don't buy fragile hardware and program it using DaintyCode.
I agree about small site vs big site mentality and architecture.
As we approach enterprise level, like a Mobil Oil, we have to specialize. There's just no other way.
I didn't give a flying fuck why something failed.
I had lots of people (on 1350 desktops in one of the places) who really didn't want to know the why the shit failed. They wanted to be up yesterday and I was always a user advocate.
You manage your site however you see fit. I won't question your methods at your house, OK?
I agree. I embraced RAID of all levels throughout my career. Mostly, the hardness depended on risk/cost assessment by managers who were clueless. I always asked for the best.
Despite that, I've had servers go sideways and there wasn't a goddam thing that was going to stop it.
Failed backup was my worst nightmare. I've pulled all-nighters making sure I had a good backups.
Nah. I was the IT guy. When I hired on, I outsourced analytics back up to management. They picked some poor soul to do a spreadsheet and make slide decks.
Then management sent the guy to me.
I said, "No time. Not now, not ever. Meet with management with that stuff. i got work to do."
I didn't keep paperwork. I'm not a goddam analyst. If someone wanted to do that, fine. Just don't bother to tell me.
Another non-car analogy (and off topic, I suppose).
At Mobil Oil, our fractional T1 that connected Beaumont, Dallas, and Reston, Va. went down. I had people on it and we were balls to the walls trying to identify a broken box or maybe a problem with the telco.
Management called me into the large conference room and there were a lot of pissed off suits in there.
About the only time I've gone there was funky voltage or a network wiring problem. Those are typically the last things I would suspect, and it drove me crazy.
... because you tossed away a lot of hardware, and later you realized that a lot of it could have been prevented if only you had some minimal amount of curiosity.
I wasn't a goddam hardware guy. I was a productivity guy. I'll give you an analogy but it isn't a car one, OK?
My boss asked me one time if I could hack (ca. 1990). I said, not very well. He was surprised because he thought I could do everything.
He asked me why I wasn't any good at it and I told him, "Look: I got just so many hours in the day. I live and breathe computer shit and I spend all my time studying and experimenting with the crap that supports your business. You're a law firm. You need to shuffle documents and you have no use for a propeller head using your equipment, on your dime, learning stuff that's not relative to the income stream."
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... I hope China takes hostages in retaliation. The new term this presidential cycle is, "Chickenshit Politics."
I took a course, "The Sociology of Gender." I was the only male student, and the eldest. The professor walked next to my desk and she looked me in the face and said, "Welcome to 'Men Are Shit 101.'"
As I did with all my professors, I made an appointment to see her, 3 weeks in. She gave me a great tip:
"The tests are multiple-choice. Pick the answer that makes men look the worst."
I got an A+.
OK. I see your point. I'll submit to the CAPITAL offense.
OK, enough. You jumped off the cliff. I'm staying here.
I will say, I admire your commitment to your sig. :)
Thanks.
Is that you, Trump?
I'm not optimistic.
America doesn't want a happy ending.
She is arrogant, self-centered, is involved in several economic jobs-creation ventures outside her borders (Afghanistan, etc.) and has abandoned the "huddled masses" shit, and is on trajectory to implode by closing the borders and rejecting globalism. She needs to close the outbound side, as well. She's beginning to suffer from brain drain similar to what happened in WWII. Her batshit obsession with promoting White Evangelical Christianity at the expense of science is demoting her on the world stage.
The tariff wars will create a depression, just as the last tariff wars did.
She's on a suicide mission: Death by apathy.
... if I build a shoddy set of stairs that collapse on me so I break my leg ...
I understand your point, but mine is that I don't build SSDs.
If the stairs I built don't work, that's on me. If the stairs you built for me don't work, I'm the victim and you wouldn't blame me, right?
I think we're on the same page.
Flight plans? Where we're going, we don't need flight plans.
Or a pussy grabber and head up a country.
Full tape with lewd Donald Trump remarks (Access Hollywood)
Why should China care about due process? Due process is coded in US law. Why not speak of freedom of speech? China doesn't have that. It's an American concept. China doesn't have freedom of assembly, freedom of press ...
China is not pretending anything, any more than the US "pretends" to have the right to keep and bear arms.
The Chinese government is the largest terrorist ...
I think your auto-correct bit you in the ass.
The US is in Iraq, Yemen, Somalia, and Afghanistan (the Eternal War), killing innocent men, women, and children.
The Chinese? Where are their bombing raids?
The Trump administration, by way of the Tariff War, has demonstrated that it doesn't give a rat's ass about consequences.
Assange needs a massage.
... program, she has an Android duct-taped to her ankle.
Google's CEO Thinks Android Users Know How Much Their Phones Are Tracking Them
It comes from AC, above:
There's a lot of value in something that will work 5 years past warranty, as opposed to working 1 year past warranty. Suppose that a bunch of SSDs failed 1 year past warranty and you know that it was due to the huge amount of small writes of your application, then armed with that knowledge you could potentially change just 1 parameter in the application and save your company millions of dollars in SSD replacements.
I don't know about you, but I don't buy fragile hardware and program it using DaintyCode.
I agree about small site vs big site mentality and architecture.
As we approach enterprise level, like a Mobil Oil, we have to specialize. There's just no other way.
I didn't give a flying fuck why something failed.
I had lots of people (on 1350 desktops in one of the places) who really didn't want to know the why the shit failed. They wanted to be up yesterday and I was always a user advocate.
You manage your site however you see fit. I won't question your methods at your house, OK?
Absolutely correct.
We can deal with entropy in small blocks by replacing parts. SSD doesn't have the granularity.
Good point.
I agree. I embraced RAID of all levels throughout my career. Mostly, the hardness depended on risk/cost assessment by managers who were clueless. I always asked for the best.
Despite that, I've had servers go sideways and there wasn't a goddam thing that was going to stop it.
Failed backup was my worst nightmare. I've pulled all-nighters making sure I had a good backups.
We discovered the same thing about flash drives long ago, remember?
Nah. I was the IT guy. When I hired on, I outsourced analytics back up to management. They picked some poor soul to do a spreadsheet and make slide decks.
Then management sent the guy to me.
I said, "No time. Not now, not ever. Meet with management with that stuff. i got work to do."
I don't know if it turned out well or not.
Whose fault is that?
I didn't keep paperwork. I'm not a goddam analyst. If someone wanted to do that, fine. Just don't bother to tell me.
Another non-car analogy (and off topic, I suppose).
At Mobil Oil, our fractional T1 that connected Beaumont, Dallas, and Reston, Va. went down. I had people on it and we were balls to the walls trying to identify a broken box or maybe a problem with the telco.
Management called me into the large conference room and there were a lot of pissed off suits in there.
"Why is connectivity down?"
"Dunno."
"When will it be up?"
"Dunno."
"What are you doing to fix the problem?"
"Nothing."
"NOTHING?"
"I'm in here talking to you guys."
"Well, then when will it be back up?"
"Sometime after this meeting is over."
I agree.
About the only time I've gone there was funky voltage or a network wiring problem. Those are typically the last things I would suspect, and it drove me crazy.
I'll be glad to. Thanks for the opportunity.
... because you tossed away a lot of hardware, and later you realized that a lot of it could have been prevented if only you had some minimal amount of curiosity.
I wasn't a goddam hardware guy. I was a productivity guy. I'll give you an analogy but it isn't a car one, OK?
My boss asked me one time if I could hack (ca. 1990). I said, not very well. He was surprised because he thought I could do everything.
He asked me why I wasn't any good at it and I told him, "Look: I got just so many hours in the day. I live and breathe computer shit and I spend all my time studying and experimenting with the crap that supports your business. You're a law firm. You need to shuffle documents and you have no use for a propeller head using your equipment, on your dime, learning stuff that's not relative to the income stream."
I agree with you.
One of the most likely scenarios is everybody loses.
History supports your theory.
This customs [or tariff] war is often cited as one of the main causes of the Great Depression.