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Back when the "Y2K Bug" was emerging as a serious threat, I described to my ex-engineer father the looming issue in great detail. He listened carefully, then calmly replied "if that happens, I'll throw another log on the fire and go back to my book." Indeed, he was living preparedness: there was no "crazy prepper" stuff, just someone who had systematically thought through everything that could go wrong, and who had seamlessly integrated backup systems into his lifestyle.

I aspire to do the same, making slow progress. Too few know how close to disaster their lifestyle is.
Starlink could solve the loss of power problem, but a really big solar flare could take that out too.
I'd never seen that, and it reminds me of Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle somehow.
It's not like those details are the central point of the sequels, so nothing is really spoiled
Just to clarify: only Lana Wachowski is officially on the project. No one has heard much from Lilly since the first season of Sense8.
This is the underrated comment here.

Yes, your manager should ask follow-up questions, your manager shouldn't escalate, your manager etc, etc.

However, you can't control how your manager acts. You can only control how you act and react. Sure, it's "fair" for your manager to do those things but that's not in your control. Saying the situation is unfair isn't going to get you promoted or even ensure your continuing employment. As an employee, you need to take this on for yourself because you can't count on anyone else to do it for you. If you're not good at it, get good at it. Find someone at the company who is, and watch what they do, get in their orbit, and learn. Otherwise the only person who is going to hear about how unfair the situation was, is the HRBP doing your exit interview.

tl;dr: What is in your control is to learn how to work with your manager, to ensure your manager moves on to a different project or company, or to move on to a different manager or company yourself. To succeed you must control your local environment -- and eventually your broader environment. Be proactive and own your career development ASAP.
> Also, in the early days of steam locomotives a train had to stop every seven miles for water. That meant that every seven miles a water tower and the equipment to fill the water tower had to be built.

I don't know that it was seven miles, but it wasn't a huge distance. And those sites either had to have local water or the water had to be shipped in by train. Often these depots were whistle stops, though of course they were an opportunity for a small community to form.

My grandfather was born (over a century ago) and grew up on one of these stations in the middle of nowhere in the South Australian bush. He ended up working for the SA railway his entire working life. My Uncle showed me some pictures -- even the water was brought in by rail. Nobody would have lived there if the train had not needed an outpost.
In the legal sense, buying from iTunes is actually "buying", while you do just rent access (similar to a Gym membership) when you sign up for Apple Music or Spotify. I don't blame them for using DRM for music when the user needs a perpetual license to continue listening to it.
I hope they can pull it off. I loved the originals.The Wachowskis work since then hasn't exactly been stellar though.
The issue in the article wasn't an actual shortage of gas, the gas was there it just couldn't be accessed because of the power outage. The pumps and payment processing equipment isn't that power hungry and could be powered by a small generator.
Fedora [0], Red Hat [1], Ubuntu [2], and SUSE [3] all have their own ppc64le ports as well so there are lots of choices out there if anyone is interested.

Even Gentoo has one [4][5]!

[0]: https://alt.fedoraproject.org/alt/

[1]: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterp...

[2]: https://ubuntu.com/download/server/power

[3]: https://www.suse.com/products/power/

[4]: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:PPC64

[5]: https://www.gentoo.org/downloads/
Not sure whether this is sarcasm or you genuinely believe this, but the Chinese narrative has centered on the ability of the local police to control there situation. Plus, the Chinese government doesn't mind peaceful protests in HK
I wonder how hard it is to create a really sturdy USB-C plug. The connector on all of the USB-C cables I have does seem a little flimsy.

I have an YubiKey 5 NFC on the keychan and it has handled the abuse over the years just fine.
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I don't think the article is suggesting ever making temporary copies of data into a structure-of-arrays (SOA) format. Rather the choice should be made at design time and you write your code accordingly for those parts that deal with SOA data.

The author's advice is that you should go with the standard array-of-structures (AOS) format by default, but if you know you'll be doing number crunching, use an "unrolled by eight" grouped SOA format that's both SIMD- and cache-friendly.
That it took 37 hours to fix is the most bizarre part of this to me. Shouldn't people have been throwing circuit breakers and bringing the whole thing back up from a cold start long before then? What's the feasibility of someone eventually using a 0-day to compromise a node and carrying out a similarly crippling attack, but on purpose?
I think that was just refactoring tools.
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The Overton window describes what the public will accept as "sane" (to use your term).

You're free to disagree with the rest of the world, of course. But you might want to focus on trying to shift the Overton window. What you're doing in this comment is simply asserting that you disagree with everyone else.
A web interface allowing me to do everything and gives me all the info.

If someone has to call CS I consider that a failure and lessons need to be learned from here.

Assuming the web UI is good, CS should be a paid call as to discourage idiot users who can’t be bothered to read (of course the price is refunded if the query was legitimate and can’t be done over the web which is a problem that needs to be fixed so it doesn’t happen again).
It seems that they are not blessed by Red Hat as much as you might think. It's still community effort based on published sources. They don't have access to some secret know-how or some kind of closed early access to unpublished work.
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Why would they need new buildings? If all their operations fit into their current buildings today, they'd all still fit tomorrow as well.
Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7491661 from 2011, and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=121291 from 2008.
I think you’ve misinterpreted what I said. I’m not suggesting everyone is a fool, quite the opposite.

It’s just an important question to ask yourself.
I agree with this for the most part, though there are many false positives of “great teams” on paper who screw it all up purely because of a backwards methodology.

Methodology and people are not mutually exclusive. And it’s a lot harder to swap in and out people (though it may be necessary).
Facts can be used to deceive or manipulate. It's called cherry picking. The post is guilty of it.
Yes, they do. Just hit a toggle to "allow extensions from other stores" in the Extensions settings and then you can install directly from the Chrome store pages.
> real orbit is diameter of Moon + 100km X diameter of Moon + 30km.

3,574km X 3,504km

That helped me a bit.
Guess I'm taking my money and going elsewhere, then.

Several things seem really odd to me:

- They are ditching one thing that was a safe harbor from github.
- No migration path to Git inside bb service.
If I am going to migrate outside bb I might as well move away completely.
- Armageddon-style wholesale destruction of the old repos.
Could have left the read-only repos on a separate server. Or even just a tarball.

It just looks so disorderly and thoughtless...
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What a weird argument. The other person says "hey, look, we learned that cutting this service had a negative effect on our country, and we learned from our lesson" and your response is "Well then make everyone part of that service"

What? How does that make sense? Why are you making that drastic of a leap? Why?
Out of curiosity, how have you managed to do that? I've noticed even with GCC or Clang's -O3 option I'm still getting jumps rather than conditional moves.
This is absolutely spot-on. AWS doesn’t replace email servers, as one commenter suggests. It offers compute infrastructure, a new need that grew alongside a truly novel business. Where’s the novelty of WeWork? Even now Wework has real competition, maybe not from IWG, but from myriad commercial business spaces that are just regearing for co-working — an immediate threat that further damages the AWS analogy.
Cloud Atlas > Jupiter Ascending

and I wouldnt say that Cloud Atlas qualifies as "... not good film"
> is a software package hosting service, similar to npmjs.org, rubygems.org, or hub.docker.com, that allows you to host your packages and code in one place. You can host software packages privately or publicly and use them as dependencies in your projects.

I am... really confused by this.

Isn't this just Github? Github is a hosting service that allows you to host your packages and code in one place. It has testing and publishing pipeline support, you can add artifacts/releases, make your packages private or public, host different types of software at the same time, and it's compatible with most existing dependency systems, including NodeJS.

I can see this has more download statistics, which is nice. And it has a policy that artifacts can't be deleted, which is very nice.

Is that it though? I know I have to be missing something; what can I do now that I couldn't already do with Github as is?
Is this a trolling comment? Because if it is, bravo, it sounded very sincere.
They could have granted temporary access to the resources never for construction, but they wanted the railways to be incentivized to build stations and the like -- the purpose of the road wasn't only to connect the two terminal points but to provide access to as much of the land inbetween as possible. It was a colonial effort for land that was considered essentially terra nullus (compare to the colonial rail construction in India a lot of which went through settled land).

Plus where the road went through somewhat settled areas, this provided an opportunity for land speculation, which was the plot of many stories both contemporary and later.
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I've done a lot of work with Patagonia, visited their HQ numerous times, and have become friends with a handful of their employees. They are not driven by profit, but by a will to do what is right in the world and for their customers. This all starts and ends with Yvon. This is how you build a culture. It should be studied for generations.

I can't express how great they are to work with as a client -- smart people and everyone's heart is in the right place.
Haskell!

If you aren't proficient in a functional language like Haskell then you haven't completed your programming education. Go, Rust, D, etc. are all just C with fancy features. Change your whole programming paradigm.

Here's a great deep-dive into Haskell web server performance: https://www.aosabook.org/en/posa/warp.html

And if you're building an API you don't need to code! Just throw postgREST in front of a postgreSQL database and get a haskell-powered API for free. No need to write a web server.
I'm not sure how I feel about this. I guess if it sucks, I can just forget it even exists.
There's no reason to assume that adding a self cite affects how much they read others.
Princeton one is not job interview focused, but is good for one to get started in this field.
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Amazing film with one glaring plothole (the infamous battery thing). It's good enough to look past it though.
Btrfs has had its fair share of bugs, but rarely do they result in the inability to at least mount the file system read-only and get your data out. What has further been exposed by Btrfs are device bugs, in particular firmware. When write ordering doesn't happen the way the file system expects, it's a big problem, and Btrfs does not tolerate them, it should abruptly go read only in order to prevent amplifying file system confusion. This is separate from silent data corruption which Btrfs also detects and complains about, but usually just results in EIO as Btrfs will not propagate data it think is corrupt due to csum mismatches. But even in that case you can get your data out.
I think personally Google gets a bad rap by a media industry jealous of their success, and that the majority of customers are sending their data to Google's servers for good services.

But, saying that breaking them up would only make them invade privacy more in your view, that's the view of someone in an abusive relationship. Whether or not Facebook and Google are violating your privacy rights should be a separate question that calls for other regulatory action, regardless of the entity's size. We need to have both conversations.

Disclaimer: I work as a lowly grunt for Google, but my opinions are my own and do not represent them.
I like Go more. The git/hg/svn/bz repository is the "package". No custom (and central) "registry"
Is being cited a productivity metric?
It's still being solved, in the sense that CFCs in the atmosphere aren't zero but they are decreasing. The new emissions were only a minor setback. From the article you linked:

> Atmospheric chlorine levels are still decreasing but more slowly than expected

The Chinese government tracked down the emitters:

https://nationalpost.com/news/world/china-makes-arrests-shut...
Both strategies work to some extent.

Some topics need a large investment to show anything at all.

Some topics show immediate results (good or bad).

Should we, for example, stop all activities in fusion research because so far nobody has shown that it will work and we already invested billions?
Woah.

(Go easy downvoters.)
Hydrophilic anything in the environment quickly fouls to hydrophobic.
Kind of ironic that this is advice for startups.
Widevine and proprietary codec support (you'll want h.264) are optional components of Chromium, it depends on the build settings. But yes, you can. You can even go as far as enabling Google sync if you so choose but I don't see why you wouldn't just use Chrome at that point unless you had other customizations and did your own builds.

The one thing I'd like to see out of the thousand Chromium clones is one which modularizes the install more. I don't care about flash, bluetooth/usb, all of the SSDP stuff, PNACL, the PDF viewer, the hidden Google extensions, and others I can't think of right now but they are an absolute pain to remove and even harder to keep removed while staying up to date.
That’s true of Matrix 2 and 3 too, I suppose.
Since threads about incremental releases are inevitably discussions of the general product, we can wait until the release is ready.
Their grandparents might! Kids have already learned how to sift through the dross .. it’s internet survival 101.
Which means there's another entire generation of people who might not yet have enjoyed a sci-fi classic.

Not long ago, I witnessed someone totally spoil the big reveal in The Empire Strikes Back right next to a family whose kids, at it turned out moments later, were obviously watching the movies for the first time and didn't know. Now they're never going to have this moment [with spoiler, obviously]:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbV5hn_ET0U
You forgot to edit post to link to your own comment.
Some function of popularity on the platform and ease of implementation, I'm sure.

And, I suspect (from python's noteworthy absence), degree to which the language's users were already (mis)using GitHub releases (or sites) for this purpose.
It's an awesome book but kinda theoretical, I'd suggest to read and digest it slowly after you got a great job, not before.
I don't know if that guy was trolling, but I only saw the first one, and I thought of watching the other two. Now I guess I don't have to.
Meh, not really sure why I decided to get into a semantic argument anyway.
ditto, it's an awesome book but kinda theoretical, I'd suggest to read and digest it slowly after you got a great job, not before.
BYOD gives you the freedom to pick whatever device you want and do the actual work with it, not just enter working time and book vacation. But you're connecting that device to the network and using it to access the most sensitive parts of that network, the most delicate data.

Most users have little to no "tech hygiene" so allowing random devices maintained by these users to connect will open your company to a world of hurt.

For basic standard activities most companies offer locked down environments like Citrix or externally facing portals that can be safely accessed form any home computer. The alternative is to use a company issued device for work.
I've always found the relationship between RHEL and CentOS to be a bit odd. Ignoring the technology side of things, where I prefer some of the RHEL philosophy, using Ubuntu to gain the option of paid support makes a lot more sense, doesn't it?

How would I switch from being a CentOS shop to a RHEL shop if I all of a sudden find myself needing support?
You're seriously underestimating the number of things there are to study and overestimating how many people there are to do the study.

This is nothing like tech startups, where you have tons of people sharing a relatively small problem space (creating tech tools companies want).

Consider for a moment: there are well over 350,000 different species of beetles. Theres just too much to study and too few people doing the work to expect there to always be a plethora of external research to draw upon.
https://bulletjournal.com/

having a monthly, weekly, and daily spread really calms the chaos.
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> subverts their control over their own device

The owner owns their device, yes but they don't always own the data on the device. DRM, for all its faults, is an attempt to reconcile to reconcile the two conflicting requirements.
Oh, they are both trans. That's just so unlikely, or curious
I'm just speculating, but given that CentOS is (historically) pretty much identical for the most part to RHEL without the high licensing cost, there is little incentive for Redhat to ensure it is always available in lockstep with RHEL.

They make a lot of money from RHEL licenses so why give a clone of it away on day one of a major release.
They even changed the baseline overweigh and obesity metrics to have less people designated as a problem.
This is called citogenesis.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_citogenesi...
I mean, it's the original writer coming back. They cannot break or go against canon since whatever they write is canon.

Also, before this was announced there was a push for a prequel staring Michael B. Jordan as a young Morpheus. I like the Morpheus character and Michael B. Jordan, but I would need some convincing to give a damn about any kind of Matrix prequel.
Cloud Atlas was a divisive film.

While the film may be guilty of taking itself too seriously, that's a small flaw in contrast to its bold vision. It's a very ambitious work, and I count it among my favorite films of all time.
I've experimented with this theory by opting myself out of these vanity metrics using a browser plugin I wrote to hide them.

I can say that hiding them has reduced my engagement, which was my goal (the plugin is called Disengaged), but hasn't done anything for polarization.

To establish a link between engagement with these sites and polarization, you would basically be taking the stance that these sites are inherently polarizing, so using them less (by removing the engagement generators) decreases polarization.

Not a bad theory, but not one we can expect the businesses and investors behind these sites to implement on society's behalf.
And again they don't stand if your perspective accounts for the following observable facts:

- Multinational corporations care little about their reputation - the public has very short memory, and it's rare that a reputational issue outweighs considerations like sunk costs, network effect, or lack of better alternative on the market. See literally almost every scandal involving a corporation ever.

- The larger the organization, the less individual ethical and reputational concerns of bottom-line workers matter. See literally every corporation. For particular recent examples, see e.g. Volkswagen emissions scandal or Boeing 737 Max fiasco, both cases involving actual engineers with actual careers on the line, and not just software devs risking unemployment for 10 minutes.

Note that both statements are explainable even without attributing malice to any corporation. They're side effect of scale and market power.
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I would certainly go to see this plot, love the idea!
Can it be installed at sea?
I had a cabin up northern ontario that you had to canoe and portage to get to, no power, no running water, outhouse. Invited friends up.

What was interesting while some would come up, others claimed they could not live without a hot water bath, or electric lighting, and while my outhouse had seven (yes seven) coats of white paint and the hole was so deep I had problems getting out when I first dug it - the idea of not using a flush toilet was alien to them.

Some people are not ready for how basic things can get without power.
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Great story, thanks for sharing. Chipper Bro is THE MAN, he deserves the pay he gets!

I have never been into an HQ as welcoming as Patagonia's. The cafeteria alone is worth a visit!
Just like the market crashed in 2012 with the re-election of President Obama and the market crashed in 2016 with the election of President Trump?
https://squarebits.wordpress.com/2019/08/20/so-you-say-git-h... doesn't require the user to login.
Remember `std::unordered_set` is typically rather slow.
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I can't even remember if I watched Jupiter Ascending. Not a good sign. Cloud Atlas I did not watch.
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I won't dispute SPARC (Fujitsu has done some impressive work on it), but the post was for ARM and RISC-V.
That seems like it just subsidizes the cost of suburbanizing a city, though.
Cloud Atlas at least had an amazing [extended] trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWnAqFyaQ5s
I was going to suggest Peter Turchin as an outsider to history / sociology but he seems to have been able to get published in highly reputable journals http://peterturchin.com/academic-publications/#Articles_in_N...
Also they may have never fully made it out of the top level simulation, and are still alive. The architect talked about how the matrix has gone through several iterations and that there is a neo in each one right? Perhaps Neo and Trinity have been software all along.