If "Trump" is proposing eliminating 248 NWS Forecasters, exactly how many are there currently?
A better question is "how many are actually forecasting?"
If you dig into it, you'll find that these sorts of specialist organizations like to "protect their own" and offer plenty of promotion opportunities for their own kind of people, and that just about every job in the department is occupied by a "forecaster" whether or not it's actually an appropriate skill set. Besides forecasting, they creep into other areas like procurement, administration, research, policy, communications, outreach, IT, office management, etc... if someone can justify putting a "forecaster" in the job, you can assume it's occupied by a "forecaster".
I can pretty much guarantee that this cut won't touch any important functions; if it's been more than a few years since the last cut then there'll be a lot of fat to trim.
This isn't unique to NWS, of course. You'll find the same pattern with any large specialty group, whether it's lawyers, pilots, engineers, doctors, etc.
I'm not defending Razer; I don't give two shits about them.
I'm criticizing "Richard" and/or the "anonymous reader" (which may or may not be the same person) who submitted this bit of bridge burning. The company said that they aren't interested in Linux; now they have a reason to care less.
"We asked this company to help us out and they told us that they weren't interested so I guess now we're just going to publicly call them out as a bunch of shitbags so that next time I bet they'll bend over backwards to do what we ask."
Ah, the old "aggressive asshole panhandler" routine. Works every time.
Well if you don't live in Canada, or follow Canadian politics closely, this type of response from him isn't abnormal.
In this case, I have a hard time thinking of any response which wouldn't have sounded a bit abnormal, simply because it was responding to such a ridiculous pile of nonsense. Catching on to the "mankind" and throwing it back as "peoplekind" was an easy and effective redirection, and I'm willing to give him props for it.
I agree in the general sense that he spews way too much nonsensical inoffensive bullshit, but this is one of those cases where it actually was appropriate and effective.
See his "peoplekind" comment which then suddenly became a joke(after public backlash), which nobody found funny...
He'd probably have gotten a better response if he'd just told the truth; his "peoplekind" comment was really a way to deflect a non-sensense question from a batshit crazy member of the audience.
I assume that's why the complaint is doing its best to break the comparison between Cloudflare and any sort of service provider or cache. I suspect there's enough room for interpretation that there's no chance they'll get the summary judgement they'd like.
The problem is Intel calling it a permanent fix and implying that every future CPU will be unsecure by default unless the OS flips a switch.
It might be enough for Linux to put his foot down and make it clear that the OS will be flipping that switch to "secure but slow" mode until Intel provides a bit that tells it that bug is fixed.
Intel can point fingers at the OS if they like, but that doesn't make the bug go away.
Considering that this is a torpedo and those travel through and under water, does it really make sense to talk about what a 100 megaton atomic weapon would do if it were dropped on a city?
It might not be easy, but I imagine something like this could be built with a secondary booster to launch out of the water when it reaches the coast and detonate a few miles inland.
But it's not necessary for attacking a port city. Once you wipe out the docks and surrounding infrastructure, you've basically destroyed the utility of the entire city.
Ontario and Quebec are literally covered in maple trees. Maple syrup productions is practically a cultural tradition in Quebec.
Yes and no; we've got all kinds of maple trees, but the range of the sugar maple doesn't actually extend that far north in either province. From the latitude of the great lakes on down, roughly.
That being said, Canada will be the last place to run out of maple syrup, and I don't doubt that the tree will spread north as things warm up.
Humans have shown that we can readily adapt to major disruptions in living space, food supplies, or other resource limitations by simply killing off enough of each other that whoever remains does okay, or even thrives.
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A better question is "how many are actually forecasting?"
If you dig into it, you'll find that these sorts of specialist organizations like to "protect their own" and offer plenty of promotion opportunities for their own kind of people, and that just about every job in the department is occupied by a "forecaster" whether or not it's actually an appropriate skill set. Besides forecasting, they creep into other areas like procurement, administration, research, policy, communications, outreach, IT, office management, etc... if someone can justify putting a "forecaster" in the job, you can assume it's occupied by a "forecaster".
I can pretty much guarantee that this cut won't touch any important functions; if it's been more than a few years since the last cut then there'll be a lot of fat to trim.
This isn't unique to NWS, of course. You'll find the same pattern with any large specialty group, whether it's lawyers, pilots, engineers, doctors, etc.
This.
I have a dog who suffers seizures within a few days of the fall DST shift. Spring is okay for some reason, though.
I'm not defending Razer; I don't give two shits about them.
I'm criticizing "Richard" and/or the "anonymous reader" (which may or may not be the same person) who submitted this bit of bridge burning. The company said that they aren't interested in Linux; now they have a reason to care less.
"We asked this company to help us out and they told us that they weren't interested so I guess now we're just going to publicly call them out as a bunch of shitbags so that next time I bet they'll bend over backwards to do what we ask."
Ah, the old "aggressive asshole panhandler" routine. Works every time.
In this case, I have a hard time thinking of any response which wouldn't have sounded a bit abnormal, simply because it was responding to such a ridiculous pile of nonsense. Catching on to the "mankind" and throwing it back as "peoplekind" was an easy and effective redirection, and I'm willing to give him props for it.
I agree in the general sense that he spews way too much nonsensical inoffensive bullshit, but this is one of those cases where it actually was appropriate and effective.
He'd probably have gotten a better response if he'd just told the truth; his "peoplekind" comment was really a way to deflect a non-sensense question from a batshit crazy member of the audience.
Well, actually, we don't know its sex; it might just lay there...
Ah. Well, seems fair, I guess. After all, you're doing all the work...
That is the most stupid idea I've ever seen.
What if you spook the turtle?!? YOU'LL KILL US ALL!!!1!
As long as it can't outrun an armed American driving a pickup truck, they'll still hunt it.
Naw, that issue seems to have been nailed down already.
I assume that's why the complaint is doing its best to break the comparison between Cloudflare and any sort of service provider or cache. I suspect there's enough room for interpretation that there's no chance they'll get the summary judgement they'd like.
A person mght be deserving of respect, if they earn it. Companies aren't people.
... I'm sure the developers will add an option so users can turn this behaviour off.
Explain "herding".
You're not wrong about hunting plants though.
And then Linux can claim it's more secure on Intel processors. Seems like a fair trade.
Marla Maples isn't.
Granted, she might just be dumb.
It might be enough for Linux to put his foot down and make it clear that the OS will be flipping that switch to "secure but slow" mode until Intel provides a bit that tells it that bug is fixed.
Intel can point fingers at the OS if they like, but that doesn't make the bug go away.
It might not be easy, but I imagine something like this could be built with a secondary booster to launch out of the water when it reaches the coast and detonate a few miles inland.
But it's not necessary for attacking a port city. Once you wipe out the docks and surrounding infrastructure, you've basically destroyed the utility of the entire city.
... and there's the reason I specifically wrote "that woman" rather than "a woman".
Given the context, a more apt analogy might be "masturbating to a picture of a woman" is not the same as "having sex with that woman".
Yes and no; we've got all kinds of maple trees, but the range of the sugar maple doesn't actually extend that far north in either province. From the latitude of the great lakes on down, roughly.
That being said, Canada will be the last place to run out of maple syrup, and I don't doubt that the tree will spread north as things warm up.
I predict that the zero survivors will definitely thrive.
It certainly doesn't.
Humans have shown that we can readily adapt to major disruptions in living space, food supplies, or other resource limitations by simply killing off enough of each other that whoever remains does okay, or even thrives.
Domino's CEO has an interesting opinion, but I really want to hear what the CEO of Domino's insurance company thinks of the proposal.
Yeah, that's how you know it's a proper French word.
I'm not entirely kidding. In my experience French expressions tend to average around 1.5 times longer than the English equivalent.