Obviously there were cost overruns because of things discovered while boring the tunnels, but I wonder how much of that 10x overrun was because of spectacularly bad planning and complete dishonesty on the part of the people who did the planning and the contractors who did the bidding. Mass transit projects have a long history of being over-budget and late, and not by a little. It leads one to think that project approval might be gained by having a dishonest price tag up front, and then the project survives due to the sunk cost fallacy, and nobody in government wanting to own up to what amounts to a complete shit estimate.
Don't rely on a hack store for what to get. Build a real workstation either through an OEM or by ordering specific parts. Anything with an X99 chipset will get you real workstation performance.
Who's saying that you can't put insulation inside it? You're going to have to do something in order to put in any kind of wiring that is up to code anyway, might as well put in some framing and wallboard to hide and protect the wiring, and staple in some insulation while you are at it. Windows are fairly easy - that's what tungsten titanium carbide blades and circular saws are for. Cut a window-sized hole in the side, frame around it in the insulated walls we already talked about, mount a window, caulk it to seal it.
And, since you're already running electrical to it, and if you're doing it right you're putting in a sub panel with it's own meter so you can expense the electrical usage to the company you're working for, put in a 240v / 40A circuit for a small heat pump HVAC.
Yeah, because using things like Chef or Ansible combined with instances running in different regions is clearly worse than the all-your-eggs-in-one-basket approach by having your own physical rack and server when it comes to disaster recovery.
What happens if the building where your precious rack catches fire? I can be up and running again in an hour on AWS via CloudFormation and restoring from an encrypted backup on S3. Can you?
Sorry, but "data center hit by a meteor" is in the plus column for cloud services, if you're not a fucking moron.
Please realize that the QNX guys are very different from the idiots that managed to lose the entire smartphone market to upstarts. QNX runs some of the most dangerous computing environments out there, and has been in use in cars for over a decade, because it's something you can rely upon, unlike almost every other OS that just ships with a disclaimer saying not to use it for whatever you're looking to use it for.
There could be many reasons for the one-sidedness: 1. The RNC didn't get hacked 2. The RNC got hacked, but there wasn't anything worth disclosing 3. The RNC got hacked, but anything worth disclosing was already in the public due to a grueling primary 4. The RNC got hacked, and the hacker sent the information along to people that didn't give a shit 5. The RNC got hacked, the hacker sent the information along to useful tools in the press (discretely) who disclosed it, and the public didn't give a shit.
Any of the above could be just as plausible as Russian intelligence services trying to tip the election a certain way by "hacking" - whatever the fuck that means.
The Libertarian candidate pulls 5x the votes in Wisconsin and 25x the votes in Michigan, mostly from people who voted for Obama in 2012. Oh, but election hacks, even after recounting in Wisconsin. It couldn't possibly be that the DNC nominated the only person that could have possibly lost to Trump, and did, after fucking up in practically every meaningful way possible. Or that their candidate already had massive trust issues with the public, which were further exacerbated by chains of revelations about how the DNC was rigging everything possible, colluding with debate moderators and the press, and being every bit as two-faced as anyone could have possibly imagined. Or how she has a different set of rules and laws for her, when other people go to jail for doing far less.
Those sneaky Russians! I'll bet Putin was in the back of a Kalamazoo voting precinct filling out ballots himself!
It wouldn't be the first. They get a good reaming in front of Congress once a decade it seems, and yet they still find new and interesting ways to completely fuck up.
Yeah, because the CIA's first big disaster was the run up to Gulf War II. Oh wait, it'snotevenfuckingclose.
And none of those links even get into how many governments were overthrown with CIA backing in order to install brutal dictators and authoritarians, and even every once in a while resulting in the US military having to invade in order to kick out dictators the CIA installed a few years before. They even failed to see the collapse of the Soviet Union, which was their chartered reason to exist in the first place.
How did they "directly" do that? Was Putin in the back of a Wisconsin precinct throwing away ballots?
Obtaining and releasing information is hardly "directly" affecting an election outcome. Would you charge the New York Times with the same shit? Because they do that every day. Yes, sometimes via extra-legal means.
I'm not saying that he shouldn't still get some blame for fucking the dog, because he absolutely did. However, after 8 years of not fixing the problems, two of which when the Democrats had majorities in both the House and the Senate and only managed to pass a health care bill that nobody likes... well some of the blame probably needs to be shared at this point.
And I'm not just talking about sharing with Obama. Pelosi, Boehner, Reid, and McConnell get a slice too. We'll see how Paul Ryan and Chuck Schumer do before we hand them a slice of the 6-foot shit sandwich as well.
There would have NEVER been peace in the middle east regardless of Bush being president or not. You do know there hasn't EVER been peace in the middle east, for thousands of years, right?
Why would you expect all that history to disappear, when you're clamoring about "because it's HISTORY" only a few sentences earlier?
No, they are applying motive to the lack of invitation. Specifically, petty revenge.
God forbid that Twitter wasn't invited because they don't actually bring anything to the table. I wasn't invited either, who should I complain to and have it turn into a national story because Trump is a big meanie face who didn't want to include ME?
FYI there were literally tens of thousands of other tech companies that weren't invited either, and nobody cares. Where was Michael Dell? HP? Micron? AMD? Qualcomm? Texas Instruments? Etc.
What makes Twitter so fucking special, considering that their product is complete shit anyway?
Or it could be that Twitter brings absolutely nothing of value to the discussion in comparison to the combined $3 Trillion worth of companies that were represented.
Twitter just isn't relevant in a room that contains the C-level execs of Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, Intel, Cisco, Amazon, and Tesla / SpaceX.
Musk barely makes the cut for this gathering, and his companies actually make things of value. Unlike Twitter.
Who will check his power? We the People. In two years, when the entire House and 1/3 of the Senate has to run to keep their seat.
Midterm elections offer the opportunity for a very powerful rebuke of an administration that isn't going the direction that the public wants. See: the 1994 Republican Revolution, 2006 Democratic takeover of Congress, the 2010 "Tea Party" wave.
You aren't quite to where a cynical observer is yet. Being one, this is what I might say:
Trump might be using the presidency as a vehicle to advance his business empire. On the other hand, we know that Clinton absolutely would have used the presidency for self-enrichment, so it's really a wash. We were going to end up with that anyway.
Now that's cynicism!
(note: this is intended in no way to be a defense of any self-enrichment that Trump may be doing. I was holding out for a late breaking third option that didn't make me throw up in my mouth while filling out the ballot.)
Regarding coercing the states and localities into doing what the Feds want - you may not be able to directly order them to do stuff, but you can de facto order them to do it by cutting off funding sources if they don't.
Watch how fast the law enforcement agencies start doing what's asked of them when Federal equipment and training grants disappear, and operations budget that comes from federal agencies for various policing activities (read: locking up drug dealers) dry up.
Is it a nice thing to do? Not even remotely. But it's a lever that the administration can pull any time they want - Congress only says how much money will be distributed, and for what purpose. They usually don't allocate percentages to specific jurisdictions, especially with earmarks being frowned upon.
Yeah, because the incoming president has never had meetings with captains of industry before taking office in the entire history of everything.
He can't exactly invite himself into the Roosevelt Room at the White House for these meetings yet. What the fuck do you expect him to do, go to Epcot until the 20th of January?
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Tesla / SolarCity have indeed shipped and installed plenty of batteries, with this being probably the most prominent example.
There was even a Slashdot article about it less than a month ago.
Obviously there were cost overruns because of things discovered while boring the tunnels, but I wonder how much of that 10x overrun was because of spectacularly bad planning and complete dishonesty on the part of the people who did the planning and the contractors who did the bidding. Mass transit projects have a long history of being over-budget and late, and not by a little. It leads one to think that project approval might be gained by having a dishonest price tag up front, and then the project survives due to the sunk cost fallacy, and nobody in government wanting to own up to what amounts to a complete shit estimate.
But it happens almost every single time.
Don't rely on a hack store for what to get. Build a real workstation either through an OEM or by ordering specific parts. Anything with an X99 chipset will get you real workstation performance.
Some people (including myself) find that swapping around spaces is annoying. I'd rather have things at a glance.
Who's saying that you can't put insulation inside it? You're going to have to do something in order to put in any kind of wiring that is up to code anyway, might as well put in some framing and wallboard to hide and protect the wiring, and staple in some insulation while you are at it. Windows are fairly easy - that's what tungsten titanium carbide blades and circular saws are for. Cut a window-sized hole in the side, frame around it in the insulated walls we already talked about, mount a window, caulk it to seal it.
And, since you're already running electrical to it, and if you're doing it right you're putting in a sub panel with it's own meter so you can expense the electrical usage to the company you're working for, put in a 240v / 40A circuit for a small heat pump HVAC.
Yeah, because using things like Chef or Ansible combined with instances running in different regions is clearly worse than the all-your-eggs-in-one-basket approach by having your own physical rack and server when it comes to disaster recovery.
What happens if the building where your precious rack catches fire? I can be up and running again in an hour on AWS via CloudFormation and restoring from an encrypted backup on S3. Can you?
Sorry, but "data center hit by a meteor" is in the plus column for cloud services, if you're not a fucking moron.
Please realize that the QNX guys are very different from the idiots that managed to lose the entire smartphone market to upstarts. QNX runs some of the most dangerous computing environments out there, and has been in use in cars for over a decade, because it's something you can rely upon, unlike almost every other OS that just ships with a disclaimer saying not to use it for whatever you're looking to use it for.
There could be many reasons for the one-sidedness:
1. The RNC didn't get hacked
2. The RNC got hacked, but there wasn't anything worth disclosing
3. The RNC got hacked, but anything worth disclosing was already in the public due to a grueling primary
4. The RNC got hacked, and the hacker sent the information along to people that didn't give a shit
5. The RNC got hacked, the hacker sent the information along to useful tools in the press (discretely) who disclosed it, and the public didn't give a shit.
Any of the above could be just as plausible as Russian intelligence services trying to tip the election a certain way by "hacking" - whatever the fuck that means.
The Libertarian candidate pulls 5x the votes in Wisconsin and 25x the votes in Michigan, mostly from people who voted for Obama in 2012. Oh, but election hacks, even after recounting in Wisconsin. It couldn't possibly be that the DNC nominated the only person that could have possibly lost to Trump, and did, after fucking up in practically every meaningful way possible. Or that their candidate already had massive trust issues with the public, which were further exacerbated by chains of revelations about how the DNC was rigging everything possible, colluding with debate moderators and the press, and being every bit as two-faced as anyone could have possibly imagined. Or how she has a different set of rules and laws for her, when other people go to jail for doing far less.
Those sneaky Russians! I'll bet Putin was in the back of a Kalamazoo voting precinct filling out ballots himself!
It wouldn't be the first. They get a good reaming in front of Congress once a decade it seems, and yet they still find new and interesting ways to completely fuck up.
Yeah, because the CIA's first big disaster was the run up to Gulf War II. Oh wait, it's not even fucking close.
And none of those links even get into how many governments were overthrown with CIA backing in order to install brutal dictators and authoritarians, and even every once in a while resulting in the US military having to invade in order to kick out dictators the CIA installed a few years before. They even failed to see the collapse of the Soviet Union, which was their chartered reason to exist in the first place.
How did they "directly" do that? Was Putin in the back of a Wisconsin precinct throwing away ballots?
Obtaining and releasing information is hardly "directly" affecting an election outcome. Would you charge the New York Times with the same shit? Because they do that every day. Yes, sometimes via extra-legal means.
I'm not saying that he shouldn't still get some blame for fucking the dog, because he absolutely did. However, after 8 years of not fixing the problems, two of which when the Democrats had majorities in both the House and the Senate and only managed to pass a health care bill that nobody likes... well some of the blame probably needs to be shared at this point.
And I'm not just talking about sharing with Obama. Pelosi, Boehner, Reid, and McConnell get a slice too. We'll see how Paul Ryan and Chuck Schumer do before we hand them a slice of the 6-foot shit sandwich as well.
I hold all those assholes accountable.
There would have NEVER been peace in the middle east regardless of Bush being president or not. You do know there hasn't EVER been peace in the middle east, for thousands of years, right?
Why would you expect all that history to disappear, when you're clamoring about "because it's HISTORY" only a few sentences earlier?
No, they are applying motive to the lack of invitation. Specifically, petty revenge.
God forbid that Twitter wasn't invited because they don't actually bring anything to the table. I wasn't invited either, who should I complain to and have it turn into a national story because Trump is a big meanie face who didn't want to include ME?
FYI there were literally tens of thousands of other tech companies that weren't invited either, and nobody cares. Where was Michael Dell? HP? Micron? AMD? Qualcomm? Texas Instruments? Etc.
What makes Twitter so fucking special, considering that their product is complete shit anyway?
Or it could be that Twitter brings absolutely nothing of value to the discussion in comparison to the combined $3 Trillion worth of companies that were represented.
Twitter just isn't relevant in a room that contains the C-level execs of Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, Intel, Cisco, Amazon, and Tesla / SpaceX.
Musk barely makes the cut for this gathering, and his companies actually make things of value. Unlike Twitter.
Of course they are not LUDDITE programs! They are appy app apps that allow you to app your appy apps!
Apps!
Who will check his power? We the People. In two years, when the entire House and 1/3 of the Senate has to run to keep their seat.
Midterm elections offer the opportunity for a very powerful rebuke of an administration that isn't going the direction that the public wants. See: the 1994 Republican Revolution, 2006 Democratic takeover of Congress, the 2010 "Tea Party" wave.
You aren't quite to where a cynical observer is yet. Being one, this is what I might say:
Trump might be using the presidency as a vehicle to advance his business empire. On the other hand, we know that Clinton absolutely would have used the presidency for self-enrichment, so it's really a wash. We were going to end up with that anyway.
Now that's cynicism!
(note: this is intended in no way to be a defense of any self-enrichment that Trump may be doing. I was holding out for a late breaking third option that didn't make me throw up in my mouth while filling out the ballot.)
Regarding coercing the states and localities into doing what the Feds want - you may not be able to directly order them to do stuff, but you can de facto order them to do it by cutting off funding sources if they don't.
Watch how fast the law enforcement agencies start doing what's asked of them when Federal equipment and training grants disappear, and operations budget that comes from federal agencies for various policing activities (read: locking up drug dealers) dry up.
Is it a nice thing to do? Not even remotely. But it's a lever that the administration can pull any time they want - Congress only says how much money will be distributed, and for what purpose. They usually don't allocate percentages to specific jurisdictions, especially with earmarks being frowned upon.
Republican president-elect facing Republican majority in the Senate nominates Republicans for cabinet posts to serve under a Republican president.
Yeah, what the fuck already?!
Yeah, because the incoming president has never had meetings with captains of industry before taking office in the entire history of everything.
He can't exactly invite himself into the Roosevelt Room at the White House for these meetings yet. What the fuck do you expect him to do, go to Epcot until the 20th of January?
Why not? There's still people around here blaming Bush...
Interesting, as I have all the control in the world to not install OS updates offered on my Mac.
Can't really say that about Windows, what with people getting Windows 10 shoved down their throat in the middle of the night against their will...
All that you are saying is that their figure might be low, as they haven't joined *every* torrent swarm.
Not really refuting the logic, I'm afraid.