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> We usually say that a good consultant should be senior enough to stand up to the customer and at least be able to inquire the basis for something.

Totally, but there are good and bad responses. I usually go with something like, "It seems we're not capturing or making some important information available, so can you describe the core problem that your suggestion solves so we can better understand how to implement it?" Usually a better solution arises from the ensuing back and forth.

Everyone solves problems by drawing on their domain of knowledge, and customers' knowledge is simply more limited than a software developers' when it comes to computing. The software developers' domain knowledge is much more limited when it comes to the customers' business though, so some humility on both sides is warranted.
Servers:

C1: Have a look at the FatTwin Line for more Disks per U. More PCIe Slots too.

Disks

D3: Check the measurements, having it not fit is painful

D4: More, smaller drives. Make sure you go PMR not SMR if you do
go for 8TB

Network

N1: The "SDN" aspect of the supermicro one is not really
any different than any other. Look at https://bm-switch.com/
and get one that supports Cumulus Linux. Buy one with an
x86 CPU. If you want to do "SDN" things or run custom monitoring, not dealing with PPC is great.

N3: Probably not needed, but not terribly expensive if it provides benefit.

N4: see N1, no.

N5: Cheap 1G switch that supports cumulus, x86, probably broadcom \
helix4

Networking General:

- I wouldn't advise using the 10GbE Copper --Go for 25GbE with DAC, it's basically the same price, Mellanox NICs are small/cheap

- Transit is cheap, you can get 500Mbps on a 10G port for $325/mo from Cogent

- If your bandwidth needs to scale up, data center locations matter more than you think

25GbE adapter -- minimal additional cost for 2.5x the perf, lower latency as well:
http://www.colfaxdirect.com/store/pc/viewPrd.asp?idproduct=2...

a 32 port 100GbE switch is about $7000-12,000 -- you can break that down to 128x 25GbE, and use the 25GbE ports running at 10GbE mode for your carrier uplinks. Could even do
100GbE to your Ceph nodes if you wanted, but be aware of PCIe bottlenecks -- x8 is about 64Gbps, x16 will do 125Gbps. Dual port 40G on x8 or dual port 100G on x16 will not provide more than those numbers.

Consider Supermicro NVMe servers (Ultra series) for DBs, and 2.5in NVMe SSDs instead of PCIe.

Rack:
Don't assume 45U
40-48 is common. Consider buying 2 racks.

Power:

19kW seems high for a single rack, you will need a good
datacenter to support that density. Density costs money
more racks is cheaper generally.

208v * 30A = 5000W usable per feed, unless they are talking about

208v 3-phase, which gets you 8600W usable per feed, which again
is only 17kW and you need 18-20kW.

helpful reference: http://www.raritan.com/blog/detail/3-phase-208v-power-strips...

You can only use 80% of your power provided.

You also need Rack PDUs, higher density PDUs cost more money
consider buying port-switchable PDUs. Raritan makes good ones.

Ask supermicro (or your reseller) for a "Power Sheet" it will tell you almost
exactly how much power your server will use. I've had good luck with ThinkMate

Hosting

H1: Yes, too many to mention

H2: Do it yourselves

H4: yes

Hosting general: Cross connects cost money, a number of facilities offer free xconnects, this can add up.

Other notes:
- You want a small toolbox in the data center

- Buy more cables than you think you'll need

- You'll always forget something

- There are a number of companies that will lease you servers for pretty decent rates
I want to say that unless you have a bunch of apps wrecking in the background then the whole wiping your phone every couple months and seeing a difference is all placebo effect to me. At least now(since 4.3)
You're using biased language. Rephrasing your point to: "Targeted stealing can be justified. Indiscriminate stealing can not be." or perhaps "Targeted leaking can be justified. Indiscriminate leaking can not be".

I think you are missing a point though. Who is best placed to judge what to release? The leaker, or experienced journalists? What if you know there are more abuses but don't have time to individually search through the documents before leaking? Should you only take the ones you have already read, and lose out on revealing other abuses? It's a difficult choice.

From my outside point of view, the government (and often media) errs too much on the side of secrecy so I'm glad to see a whistleblower who is more aggressive with the amount of information they leak.
I mean that your understanding of what a scientific theory is inaccurate. It's a misunderstanding that is most common among creationists so that's where you see it discussed most. Here's one overview:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_as_fact_and_theory

Scientific theory doesn't mean 'sort of a suggestion' as you seem to think.
The Mac has passed the hardware diagnostics at the Apple Store multiple times. The components are unchanged from Yosemite, which did not have these issues. The OS has been freshly reinstalled, with the same problems.

This is also just one of a myriad of issues that have plagued the OS. Sierra has introduced me to new and wonderful ways to fail: http://i.imgur.com/HbVLWDq.png
Sure, that is great, but even with prior generations of MacBooks dongles were a hinderance. I'd end up at the end of a conference with at least a couple mini-Displayport to VGA adapters from people who were presenting but forgot them for one reason or another, and I'd usually only be able to get 2/3rds of said dongles back to their rightful owners.

With USB C at least for now, this will be a constant source of fustration for users who don't own a Google Pixel and have to deal with legacy hardware (everything else out on the market). That being said, USB C itself is great, Apple should adopt it on the iPhone.
No, it means they are killing the project.
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There's 4 40Gbit/s ports, but their total bandwidth is not 160Gbit/s. IIRC, the ports on the right side of the machine have less total bandwidth because of how they're connected, for example.
Well, the whole point of an independent civil service is to provide a check-and-balance on the ability of the elected officials to make bad policies due to a lack of relevant expertise, or a personal ideological frenzy. In an ideal world, much of the civil service would be subject to a completely separate form of democratic accountability than ordinary legislative and executive elections, to ensure that separation between expertise and ideology.
Growing up in the US, I regularly ran a 4 mile race on Thanksgiving morning called the Turkey Trot and I usually ate at least two or three pieces of pumpkin pie. To these days, the rare times I can find it, it's an incredible treat. I even grew my own pumpkins for a few years.

This is my brain on pumpkin pie: (/^▽^)/

And to directly address the article, I was much thinner then than I have been in my post-pumpkin pie-eating days. There's a natural rhythm to life—both the fasting and the feasting. My great-grandparents never joined in on the turkey trot before dinner, they always had pie and they stayed rail-thin. They just had other weeks where they didn't eat so much the rest of the time and it was usually bland stuff like oatmeal or mashed potatoes.
core.logic has been in continuous commercial use pretty much from its inception, and that continues presently. I'd argue that calling a continuously high rate of change a prerequisite towards usefulness is an attitude which makes more sense in communities where there's little respect for backwards compatibility and thus a high rate of bitrot, ie. Ruby.
It is certainly not "the" Windows Store Tile, they're annoying stubs like the "Get Office" one.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7b/Windows_10_bu...
Older cities (the ones most comparable to cities in Europe) do look a lot like European cities. New York and Boston both have extensive public transport, including commuter rail to fairly large outlying settlements.

They are also incredibly popular (if you take housing prices as a proxy for desirability).
There are people already willing to go on a one-way ticket. I don't think it's too hard to believe.
The trackpad and also the retina display. If you work with text, how could you not love a high-dpi display? After you get used to it, moving back to a standard 1080p screen feels like you are reading a laser printed page through a screen door.
> Are you really trying to say that Trump, and not Putin, is the primary reason for this?

If Trump is part of the mechanism, Putin is still the reason.
I think many would agree that The Road movie isn't good, which is why I highly recommend reading the book. McCarthy's unique writing style lends itself to the material in a way movies can't capture.
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For anyone curious like me, Threads [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threads
No, the laptop has an SSD.
For a Linux driver it wouldn't be acceptable to compromise functionality like this as it's expected to work equally well on big iron as on laptops. So we have to tweak a lot more to achieve the same level of battery life.
Can folks link to the best defense of deletionism they know? Here is an OK one I've found:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:LeilaniLad

To me personally, verifiability seems a vastly better criteria for inclusion in Wikipedia. It's (a) a much less subjective standard than notability, (b) well-justified by the limitations of the medium (i.e., no original research), and (c) still prevents Wikipedia from being a "dumping ground" for everything on the internet.

The only general argument for deletionism I've seen that survives is that the editor resources of Wikipedia will be stretched so thin that the checking of verifiability itself is imperiled. But (1) Wikipedia survived fine back when it had vastly fewer editors and random people were writing on a bajillion then-empty topics and (2) there are much better ways to handle this minor problem, e.g., pages are hidden from non-registered users until they reach a critical mass of contributing editors.

Measured by pure prevalence, the dominant argument seems to be about status: that non-notable items just don't deserve to be in Wikipedia. It's very hard to argue against an emotional appeal like this.
Oh hey, I remember that thread! I was supportive, at least.
Sweetwater sound still includes a handful of smarties, and other similar basic candies with every order. I always enjoyed this, even when I didn't want to eat all the candies. Its just fun.
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First you need to spend months doing minor edits around wikipeida and participating in various social functions (like talk boards) in order to develop a reputation. Otherwise nothing you do will be taken seriously. Then you need to familiarize yourself with the all the nuances of the wikipedia internal policy guidelines both as written and as practiced, because you can be sure Mr. "This is my area, no one touches it without my permission" is an expert on all that.

Then and only then, will you have a shot at getting a change in that the tin pot dictator doesn't want. And you will need to be constantly vigilant that it doesn't disappear two weeks later.

I've never found it worth it to go through this idiotic process.
No - their most advanced /yet/ maybe, but not ever...
Hooray, a group of oligarchs will try to save us from another group of oligarchs!
The film was an adaptation; The Road was originally a novel.
As a deletionist organization they certainly won't get my money, meanwhile as more articles are deleted, there is less for google to link to. They're narrowcasting to an ever smaller group, and that can't end well. Eventually they have to close or change course. They won't change course, so ...
Super happy with the 1080p LG 24MP88HV-S 24-Inch https://www.amazon.com/LG-24MP88HV-S-24-Inch-Monitor-Infinit...

It's IPS and sleek.
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Because these people understand that there are experts in these fields that can do it better than they can. Usually there is always someone who can do it much better, but is really only limited by money.
This works for many other formats, too: anything to PDF, for example.

A resource hog, though - had to close it off into its own container, lest it gobble up all available RAM.
I've made this argument for a long time: any damage to the US from the Snowden leaks was because the government refused to clean house when they became aware of problems through internal channels. Snowden was merely a concerned employee revealing to shareholders that business executives were willfully defrauding investors and breaking fiduciary duty, to use an analogy. The reason he didn't use internal channels was executives up to the board level had previously targeted other leakers as part of their criminal conspiracy.
They're not the basis of aging, they're just a component of it. Even with immortal cell lines, your body would still sag and decay, as there is so much we have no regenerative capability for. We can't even regenerate small patches of skin without leaving scars

Telomeres also have a function. It's no coincidence that telomere-lengthening telomerase is active in 90% of cancer cells. Telomeres might be an important cancer-inhibiting mechanism. It's in principle a good first defense against uncontrolled cell division
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I believe this is a case where words don't reflect actual emotions. Many work because they have to in order to survive. However, when you know longer need to work it becomes a "hobby" in which you enjoy rather than an essential. You have your pick of what you want to do and how you want to do it. Completely different mentalities that the word "work" doesn't completely convey.
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Backblaze comes to mind.
Razer's basically a "gamer gear" company. Think stylized light-up keyboards, mice, headsets, and so forth. Problem is, their quality control is really all over the place and they are ridiculously expensive. This weird QC is part of the reason I never bothered with their laptops despite the well specced hardware.
I got an email last week that I had only $ 0.115755044102126754 left in my account. The last time I paid was $10.00 in June 2015. I'm guessing that I'm fairly representative of most of Tarsnap's customers; for $10 charges once every year and a half recurring billing seems a bit silly.
Unfortunately everyone does it.

It's not much different from Tim Cook saying Apple Watch sales are breaking records this quarter without actually providing actual numbers.
I doubt the hosting was the big cost, probably paying the journalists to pick the stories, write a quick summary, and get the alerts out as fast as possible. (Not a user of the app, but didn't seem like an automated AI type of thing.)
*especially when something goes wrong
Build a rudimentary CI pipeline that automatically runs some kind of test.

Don't roll your eyes. You might live in a JS filter bubble but there are a lot of impoverished developers working in software engineering ghettos.
Maybe it is for you. It is not for me.

I used a 15" for years, and I'll never use a 15" again. Plugging in an external monitor was a workaround that helped when I was at a desk, but much of the time I much prefer to have my laptop actually on my lap in a comfortable chair or on the couch, where external monitors is not an option.

And it's still way too big for my travel needs. Yes, it fits in my bag, but I regularly have other things I want to take with me too.

So back to my point: It depends on your usage pattern.
So going to the bathroom is work, as is rolling one's body out of direct sunlight and ordering takeout. It's not surprising that people who don't have to work at a job any more continue to do things like breathe and change clothes, so let's not talk about that; rather let's talk about how people who don't have to work a job anymore continue to work a job - like what the article is about.
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It's worth noting that nuclear winter is just an educated guess about what would happen; we obviously don't have any data on how a large-scale nuclear exchange would affect the climate, and there may be other climatic effects that are harder to predict.

I'm skeptical that we would see much effect from an exchange of 50 weapons; the year 1962 saw 178 detonations.[1]

[1] https://www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/nucleartesttally
I know what the reporter means: "bias" refers to "outcomes the reporter dislikes and thinks he can generate clickbait with". I'm explicitly advocating against this practice and in favor of using clear and precise language instead.

At the end of the day, your approach toward side-stepping the issue of vernacular bias is intellectually lazy. Instead of tackling the problem head on, you're hiding behind a mathematical object that happens to have the same name as the actual thing under discussion.

I'm not side stepping the issue. I'm advocating in favor of describing the problem with clear language - once that's done we can begin useful discussion on how to address it.

In precise terms, what do you think the problem is?
Well... this is a thread about reducing options in order to not make decisions. Men actually have lots of options, but are frequently limited by the same social pressures that cause women to have to make more choices.

For example: a UtiliKilt, or actual kilt. Bermuda shorts. A sarong or laplap -- that will cause comment in most of the US, but is perfectly normal in much of the Asian Pacific. A guayabera or a Hawaiian print shirt; vests and sweaters and cardigans and jackets.

Your point about "professional male clothing" is very well-taken, though. Women have many more options.
I think I'd be surprisingly busy and happy if I was financially free of 9-to-5 work. Especially considering that my biggest hurdles to my own personal happiness are naturally expensive (gender transition isn't cheap). Having those things covered on top of not worrying about my rent would take a load off my mind. It would mean I could look at doing work that feels meaningful to me. Maybe I would go back to college and get a degree in physics and maybe try to do research. Or maybe I'd continue with my work in programming but do it for a non-profit on a smaller salary. In any case, I would be freed up from chasing career choices if I knew the bare minimum was assured. That and I would probably try to explore the world because I've literally never left the country not even to go be an annoying tourist (like most) in Paris. It would be nice to see what the rest of the world is like before I die.
Yeah, I read it, it was a bunch of Marxist buzzwords with one important line...

"How can our politics be effective, if we don't connect them to the actual source of the problem: profit?"

You also draw a really simplistic and ignorant call to action here...

"Free software activists should accept that software freedom is not an isolated issue, with its own, completely independent value set, but is just one aspect of a wider struggle for justice, and that we can never achieve full software justice under capitalism."

I am a free software activist. I write, use, modify, and evangelize free software for my paycheck. I also think socialism is a garbage philosophy. So your goal that we shouldn't take software justice as an isolated issue is betrayed by the fact that you better hope I take it as an isolated issue, because if I don't I'm going to tie it to capitalism and fight you tooth and nail. This is why Stallman is careful to not tie it to much else. He is trying to maximize the number of people involved.
Let's break it down to DNA then, and not "dna-this" or "dna-that" - which I agree is popular and usually incorrect.

Can we agree that your DNA(and most species) does give you an innate drive to reproduce? Past(last 100000+ years) and present mating suitability in a male is perceived by his ability to feed/defend/nurture their mate and offspring. The large amount of "mooches, bums, alcoholics" you reference would be poor mates, yet they continue to reproduce. They do so [mostly] with the assistance of another willing member of the class of "mooches, bums, alcoholics". However, the people that are not "mooches, bums, alcoholics" make more desirable mates, because they have a higher potential to feed/defend/nurture their mate and offspring. That means that yes, your biology is still telling you that you need to work, even if it is only to achieve higher mating success, and fulfill your biological imperative.

Hrm...I really don't like the direction my own thought is taking as I write this down. It ends with "well, then those (people) should be eliminated for the good of the species", and no one wants to hear that, whether it is correct or incorrect. It can be interpreted in a very dark and nasty context, and that is absolutely not what I'm trying to promote or champion.

In a nutshell, I'm arguing that I will win at the biological imperative because of my drive to work and succeed. Those people that don't want to work and succeed would contribute to their species by going off somewhere quiet, and avoiding consumption of the resources needed by their fellow species members that are grinding away at "life" in the evolutionary sense - not in the "pursuit of happiness" sense, which is subjective and altogether distracting.
Entire counties could offer cars to its residents similar to bus service now. One car could probably serve a dozen people. My guess is many people will want their own cat tho. It would be wonderful for me to go to bed and wake up 1000 miles away.
Having money isn't everything, not having it is.
> All these scenarios are possible

No. You don't want to burden human drivers with, for example, the mental stress of a constantly-shifting route that would be driven by a computer-optimized shared taxi system. You also increase efficiency by 33% when you free up the driver's seat.
Agree with the last two points. The first however is an understatement. Outside London ( and commute belt ), £1m buys you a seriously luxurious house. Even in major, desirable cities like Edinburgh, £1m buys you a 6 bed, granite, Georgian townhouse in the absolute best spot in the city.

London prices are seriously crazy.
They never have to work. They may choose to do so. But in the end, they have that as a choice. We are talking of compulsory labor, where I have to do something to make someone else even more money, so I can have something to eat and a place to sleep.

The rest of us, don't have that luxury.
I have had frequent belching and heartburn problems for many years, often causing insomnia. After a lot of time trying to determine which foods were the cause, I ended up noticing the elephant in the room: food actually matters very little, my (subjective) stress level explains like 90% of the problem... if I'm relaxed (e.g. on vacation) I can eat practically whatever I want without getting problems, if I'm really stressed I'll get them even if I eat like a Spartan.

In fact, having a partner is the single best thing that has happened to my stomach and my insomnia. She reduces my stress levels and alleviates the symptoms very noticeably just by being by my side. Sorry if it sounds corny, but for me this is an observable reality.

The problem with all this is that, of course, stress is often something outside our control. Knowing what I know I try to keep it at bay as much as possible and take things easier than when I thought it was a food problem, but if there's lots of work and deadlines it's not like you can just wave stress away like you can avoid a given food...