When someone says that Africa must have a large share of the benefits, you know that means that lots of people need to be paid off.
I'd support this as a concept if there was a mandate that all the generated power was to be used only in Africa.
Providing cheap power to Africa would help it progress technologically, which would force a level of educational development that in turn would greatly mitigate existing issues around religious twattery, prevalence of preventable diseases and poverty.
The rest of the world benefits massively as helping Africa develop without requiring access to traditional energy sources means an improved level of trade without impacting on existing costs for production.
t I wouldn't hire an operations engineer who couldn't have at least in principle written the system they're managing
According to http://www.soe.org.uk/ you don't have a fucking clue what an operations engineer is.
Hire good system administrators. It's a different skillset and mindset to good software engineers. Hire those two. Get them to work together and presto: DevOps happens.
But don't go hiring people with top end software engineering skills to be ops people. It's a waste of their skills, you'll piss them off, and you'll lose them.
At Capital One you'll also need people with proper computer science skills - some of the algorithms get interesting. Again, nowhere fucking near the ops skillset or mindset.
I'll get in touch with my friends at Capital One, suggest they find out what the fuck you're up to and add some sanity.
Heh, completely with you on that. Time to run up a sizeable debt on my Capital One card, there's a decent chance they're going to screw up so massively I wont need to pay half of it off.
The Dutch live in Holland and call it Nederland, which literally translates as either Netherlands or The Netherlands (and I don't really care which).
Within Holland there's a region the Dutch also call Holland. That people outside of Holland call Nederland Holland means that unless you live in Holland Utrecht is indeed in Holland, although I accept that if you live in Holland then Utrecht is probably not in Holland unless you're speaking with someone that does not live in Holland.
As one of the people that would be helping fund a basic income, I'm generally in favour.
As you say, a lot of cost and bureaucracy would disappear, so it's likely to be cost neutral at worse. On the flipside, I'd also get it, so I'd actually finally be getting a small return on the vast sums I hand over to governmental bodies.
Even people on above median incomes would benefit. What's not to like?
(Obviously I'm disregarding societal and subsequent economic impacts from behavioural changes induced by giving everybody financial security).
I'm not a specialist. I took a career choice to become a generalist, on the grounds it lets me get involved in solving problems with a broader scope and greater scale. I call this fun.
I have no post-graduate qualifications either. I got on with learning pragmatic useful shit instead.
We have multiple tier 5 data centres. Amazon/Azure is still useful for dynamic scaling for some of our workloads.
Some of the more optimised and specialised services can also really exploit cloud pricing. When part of our business can service millions of consumers for a few hundred dollars a year with Amazon we just can't get close to that price point in house.
But fuck it, The Good, The Bad and The Ugly just started on TV so I'm going to kick back, drink some vodka and enjoy cinematic perfection.
(They certainly know how to operate at scale as good as anyone.)
Operating at scale when you're bespoke from the chip up is easy.
Well, relatively easy.
Operating at scale when any twat out there can do whatever the fuck they like to your commodity infrastructure (which must be relatively commodity or you can't sell it) is a very different proposition.
I'm confident Google could step into that market if they chose, but it's a deviation from their standard operating model.
Do you know who Fowler, Beck and Cunningham are? Or the three amigos? The Gang of Four? Have you read your Brooks, your McConnell, your Hunt and Thomas?
Me, I've never heard of this Mims bloke, but that's probably because Radio Shack were never big in these parts and I do my best to avoid hardware.
He might be your personal hero but to most of us he's very much on the "who?" list.
My point is that there should be a special design of cameras to make them airworthy.
What, like the DJI X5?
To be fair, you do have a point. Sure, if you're a hobbyist on a budget, stick your GH4 in the air and risk losing your only camera, or cope with the lower quality from a GoPro. But professionals, television companies, filmmakers.. there should be a reasonable cost option available that's optimised for flight use.
There's no such thing as a purely military mission for large nuclear weapons. It's doubtful there's a use for small ones.
I hate to quote Clancy, but US carrier groups are an almost canonical target for a small nuke.
As for the large ones? If China decided to gear up 2-3 years of production and equip 300 million troops, you're not saving India and Pakistan with conventional forces.
Given the music industry makes money from the youtube videos I post to my channel, purely because there happens to be music in the background of the live events I'm filming, fuck them.
They're making money from my content. No, they don't deserve a fucking penny from me.
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When someone says that Africa must have a large share of the benefits, you know that means that lots of people need to be paid off.
I'd support this as a concept if there was a mandate that all the generated power was to be used only in Africa.
Providing cheap power to Africa would help it progress technologically, which would force a level of educational development that in turn would greatly mitigate existing issues around religious twattery, prevalence of preventable diseases and poverty.
The rest of the world benefits massively as helping Africa develop without requiring access to traditional energy sources means an improved level of trade without impacting on existing costs for production.
In short: Go for it.
Probably counterproductive, though, as I'd start buying the cheapest crap models that could fly and getting them blown up just for the thrill
Sadly in this country it would be illegal for me to design and build a mini-SAM site that I could lend to you :(
t I wouldn't hire an operations engineer who couldn't have at least in principle written the system they're managing
According to http://www.soe.org.uk/ you don't have a fucking clue what an operations engineer is.
Hire good system administrators. It's a different skillset and mindset to good software engineers. Hire those two. Get them to work together and presto: DevOps happens.
But don't go hiring people with top end software engineering skills to be ops people. It's a waste of their skills, you'll piss them off, and you'll lose them.
At Capital One you'll also need people with proper computer science skills - some of the algorithms get interesting. Again, nowhere fucking near the ops skillset or mindset.
I'll get in touch with my friends at Capital One, suggest they find out what the fuck you're up to and add some sanity.
Heh, completely with you on that. Time to run up a sizeable debt on my Capital One card, there's a decent chance they're going to screw up so massively I wont need to pay half of it off.
The Dutch live in Holland and call it Nederland, which literally translates as either Netherlands or The Netherlands (and I don't really care which).
Within Holland there's a region the Dutch also call Holland. That people outside of Holland call Nederland Holland means that unless you live in Holland Utrecht is indeed in Holland, although I accept that if you live in Holland then Utrecht is probably not in Holland unless you're speaking with someone that does not live in Holland.
See also : holland.com
As one of the people that would be helping fund a basic income, I'm generally in favour.
As you say, a lot of cost and bureaucracy would disappear, so it's likely to be cost neutral at worse. On the flipside, I'd also get it, so I'd actually finally be getting a small return on the vast sums I hand over to governmental bodies.
Even people on above median incomes would benefit. What's not to like?
(Obviously I'm disregarding societal and subsequent economic impacts from behavioural changes induced by giving everybody financial security).
Fair point. Means basic income needs to be matched with proper corporate taxation, which is where the EU's totally fucked - too many loopholes.
But much less personal effort. Shit, washing the dishwasher all by itself outweighs any benefits it might add, and it doesn't add benefits anyway.
I do spend less time washing up than my friends spend loading their dishwashers.
I didn't see those, could you share? It's cold and wet here, could do with a laugh.
Your problem is that you don't have to push me, you have to push several million people that live near me.
Still, I'm sure you're up to the task. Enjoy.
That's fine, go for it. Get it into common parlance and I'll be terribly impressed.
I've heard of Jennifer Lawrence, can confirm I haven't had sex with her or passed on any specific conditions. Doesn't mean I wouldn't like the chance.
If the general usage means one thing then the dictionary definition and cunts that stick to it can fuck off.
Welcome to a language that evolves, updates and changes. Something you seem to be incapable of.
I'm not a specialist. I took a career choice to become a generalist, on the grounds it lets me get involved in solving problems with a broader scope and greater scale. I call this fun.
I have no post-graduate qualifications either. I got on with learning pragmatic useful shit instead.
We have multiple tier 5 data centres. Amazon/Azure is still useful for dynamic scaling for some of our workloads.
Some of the more optimised and specialised services can also really exploit cloud pricing. When part of our business can service millions of consumers for a few hundred dollars a year with Amazon we just can't get close to that price point in house.
But fuck it, The Good, The Bad and The Ugly just started on TV so I'm going to kick back, drink some vodka and enjoy cinematic perfection.
(They certainly know how to operate at scale as good as anyone.)
Operating at scale when you're bespoke from the chip up is easy.
Well, relatively easy.
Operating at scale when any twat out there can do whatever the fuck they like to your commodity infrastructure (which must be relatively commodity or you can't sell it) is a very different proposition.
I'm confident Google could step into that market if they chose, but it's a deviation from their standard operating model.
I'm not going to visit your shitty website because 'begs the question' is a perfectly acceptable, well known and often used idiom in these parts.
Be pedantic all you like, it's part of the language and you can fuck off if you don't like it.
Do you know who Fowler, Beck and Cunningham are? Or the three amigos? The Gang of Four? Have you read your Brooks, your McConnell, your Hunt and Thomas?
Me, I've never heard of this Mims bloke, but that's probably because Radio Shack were never big in these parts and I do my best to avoid hardware.
He might be your personal hero but to most of us he's very much on the "who?" list.
Those are more useful. Better balanced, and less sensationalist.
My point is that there should be a special design of cameras to make them airworthy.
What, like the DJI X5?
To be fair, you do have a point. Sure, if you're a hobbyist on a budget, stick your GH4 in the air and risk losing your only camera, or cope with the lower quality from a GoPro. But professionals, television companies, filmmakers.. there should be a reasonable cost option available that's optimised for flight use.
Sorry, a bunch of gizmodo and gawker links? Anything credible?
There's no such thing as a purely military mission for large nuclear weapons. It's doubtful there's a use for small ones.
I hate to quote Clancy, but US carrier groups are an almost canonical target for a small nuke.
As for the large ones? If China decided to gear up 2-3 years of production and equip 300 million troops, you're not saving India and Pakistan with conventional forces.
They happen to be Muslim.
One of them on the radio earlier just happened to refer to Daesh as 'the Caliphate'.
Seems a strange choice of terminology when playing the "We've been discriminated against because of our religion" card.
The UK does not need visa approval for US travel.
It's a visa by another name. https://www.gov.uk/foreign-tra... says 'may' but you're not getting on an aircraft without going through the bullshit: https://esta.cbp.dhs.gov/esta/
Given the music industry makes money from the youtube videos I post to my channel, purely because there happens to be music in the background of the live events I'm filming, fuck them.
They're making money from my content. No, they don't deserve a fucking penny from me.
What the fuck is wrong with having the bill, and amendments to the bill.
Vote on the amendments first - e.g. 'motion to strike CISA from this bill'
Then vote on the amended bill.
That's how it works in the UK, and it does work. Sure, bad laws get passed, but even worse laws get amended.