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Article says they're going Azure and Oracle. I actually use Oracle myself, but only their free tier because it's very generous. It probably works as marketing because I'd be inclined to throw them in the mix if I was looking for a real provider.
I second that. For me PopOS desktop is perfectly balanced between usability and simplicity. The have optional tilling and stacking wm, virtual desktops, ability to shrink/disable gnomes enormous window titles, simple dock, per monitor scaling, and more
> you can easily self-host

That's why. You need to host it, maintain it, update it, secure it, back it up, monitor it, ensure it has enough resources to run smoothly and a million other things. Most businesses, regardless of sector, don't have the resources or desire to do that. Many rely on shitty MSPs selling junk and misconfiguring it, what makes you think they would be capable of self-hosting anything?
LOTR, and also Peter Jackson are not compatible with modern media. LOTR is completely opposed storytelling wise to the current dogmas of postmodernism and equity, it's fundamentally a story based on old western/european/christian myths, basically what gets called white supremacy these days.

I think this will turn out to be an absolute morbid tv series as it will force LOTR into the current dogmas, but this is probably why no-one is involved who was involved in the films, as those actually respected the original story.
> This is flat out wrong. No one is paying $71,000 a year in medical malpractice

The plastic surgeon to whom I am married said her numbers was 60k a year previously, and still going up.
I think it depends. There is certainly a long-term cost risk, but future costs are unpredictable and it is not likely a core competency of FedEx anyway. FedEx likely will never invest enough to be great at managing their own data centers so why not remove the complication.
>As an example, Mad Men, especially because it's set in the 1960s will probably still be watched in the 2060s.

Why ? The only old TV shows I see being popular long term is era defining shows you watch for nostalgia (eg. Seinfeld, Friends). Maybe some real classics like Sopranos that everyone was watching at the time.

Shows like Mad Men ? I really don't see it. And more importantly this LOTR show - how many people are even watching Game of Thrones now and how much interest will it generate in the future ? Unless this LOTR show is somehow groundbreaking with visuals (and it's a lot harder to do now then back when they did the films because the bar was so low back then) - I doubt it's a valuable long term play.
Your username improves this comment :P

I gamed the attractiveness model for as long as I could, trying different angles and glasses on/off and hit 9.2. If dating apps use a max() across pictures that would be great.
I'm simplifying here, but it feels to me like you are making the assumption that FedEx is a mostly static business, whose IT needs should be all about minimizing the cost per IO or compute operation.
In the real world, business needs are rarely static, and moving fast and innovating is extremely valuable, even for a company as large as FedEx.
They are choosing to move resources from managing their IT infra to AWS, but what they're really gaining is not a reduction in labor costs or CAPEX, but rather the ability to move faster.
Sure - given some headcount and sufficient CAPEX, a good engineering+SRE team can create and maintain a nice bit of infrastructure, but it is a significantly harder goal to truly deliver the benefit most leading cloud providers can provide an engineering org.
"Looks genuine" from my Chinese friends. Also this might be leaked through a hardcoded token in some code posted on CSDN (sort of blog for programmers).
Replika's AI (YC W15) says it works for the KGB
I think that ship already sailed.
In 2018 I saw a local branch office were using Windows XP and an old Internet Explorer. You cannot expect that to be secure. This does not surprise me at all.
I would be surprised if FedEx or UPS or any last mile delivery company owned any ocean going ships.
Large Hadron Collider discovers three new exotic particles
Considering there's not a single relevant main stream actor, director or writer on the team. I don't understand where they're spending the money on.

Can't wait to see it, but my expectations cannot go lower
Looks sideways to the licensing agreement that covers none of that material
Yes, there is a maximum allowed limit in the Maastricht treaty. Germany has been systematically breaking the rules.

https://www.intereconomics.eu/contents/year/2018/number/3/ar...

"The rules established under the EU’s macroeconomic imbalance procedure (MIP)define a ceiling for current account surpluses of six per cent of GDP and stipulate that the three-year average for a country’s current account surplus should not exceed this ceiling.2 However, Germany has been running surpluses in excess of this figure for many years. Its most recent three-year average is eight per cent of GDP, while the 2016 figure was even higher, at 8.5%."
> I've heard that interviews are an opportunity for both sides to interview each other?

This is true to the extent that you want but don’t need the job. If you’re desperate for the job, only ask what will help you get the job.
Netflix when streaming to most PCs too, unless you have a specific batch of Intel CPUs, a monitor blessed with holy water, and you have counter-clockwise flow in your sinks.
Full title:

> San Francisco startup Replika’s artificial intelligence says it works for the KGB and blames Ukrainian government for Bucha atrocities

Thread on Twitter.[0]

[0] https://twitter.com/_klen/status/1544238486508691456
For the extra paranoid, I can confirm that it does work offline after you press the button and let it load. You can hide your face until it loads, and then cut the connection. Be sure to close the tab before you go online again.
"Although mathematicians suspect that there may be even larger numbers"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4J9MRYJz9-4
Boxport congestion spreads across the globe again
I never even bothered with Season 8.
I am not so sure that your statement is obviously true. One of the issues with The Hobbit films is that they stretched one relatively short book into three movies...this time around, it looks like they're stretching some apocrypha from the appendix of a book into an 8-episode TV show. Feels like a fairly similar effort to wring blood from a stone.
It's always weird how people always think your wasting your life, no matter what you do.

I've been pondering if there's really any "superior" way to spend one's time. If the concept of wasting time even exists.

Especially with hustle porn these days, if you aren't building million dollar project, then you're "wasting time".
The semantic diffing bullet point has me wondering what attempts there are at making open source semantic diff tools. I love the closed source tool SemanticMerge, but the company behind it decided to be shitwads and pull the product so they could add a selling point to their proprietary version control system.
$90B per year.

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/FDX/fedex/revenue
The budget-talent-ratio just seems off. Usually, movies spend a lot of money on hiring talent, which here clearly isn't the case here. So the question is where is that money going. Grandparent and I are afraid that we end with something graphically completely overproduced and no story.

Also, if you provide a junior engineer with a few million, you can't expect perfect software, even with that budget. Same reservations apply here.
I think that them going with directors they are happy with is precisely the problem. Amazon has cranked out a lot of mediocre tv shows that don’t have any significant greatness. What’s strange about these directors is that they haven’t directed anything I thought was good at all.

The writers have uncredited writing credits on Flash Gordon and Star Trek Beyond [0]. I like those but it’s just strange that that’s all they have. Like that’s it. Not even a complete screenplay.

I’d love to read the story of how they assembled this team that is free of PR.

[0] https://www.imdb.com/filmosearch?role=nm4260438&job_type=wri...
Never thought I’d live to see the day where people would unironically call equity dogma. But here we are. What a sad state of affairs.
A lot of data may be made public to equalize, similarly to how real estate property rights or car registries may be public.
Amazon Prime customers spend $1968 / year on average.

$465M / $1968 = 236,280

For perspective, Disney Plus added 7.9 million users in just the first quarter of 2022.
> In-house development teams have more agility in standing up new services, since they can just use EC2/ECS/one of the other 1500 container runtimes AWS has, rather than having to wait for someone to provision new physical servers for them.

How many people run physical servers 'raw' anymore? I would hazard their current stack involves VMware, Hyper-V, Open Stack, or a combination of the three.

You can have an API system spin-up just as effectively in a private cloud as a public one.
I reveal to you morality as this:

Good is the conservation of the potential of being

Bad is the waste of the potential of being

Evil is the corruption and perversion of the potential of being

The problem with teaching our digital progeny morality isn’t that it is impossible, rather humans are not very good at it and we shall set a poor example.
There’s talent out there beyond celebrities and movie stars.
I would say, impossible to compare. Digital changes the cost of acting upon this information, for good or bad purposes.

Obvious comparisons to e.g. the Netherlands' famous over-registering of religion and how the Nazis abused that. But I feel this is long term potentially worse than that. Not in the level of horribleness, but in the effect on society moving forward.
Submit it and see what type of responses you'll get!

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And you'll be happier if you keep it that way :-) The only worse ending I know is that of How I Met Your Mother. Just skip the last two episodes there, seriously.
I thought that it would be a hosting location in a room where someone regularly smokes weed.
You mean because you get to have a reaction to negative comments?
Teslas will be looking like jumping lowriders in downtown Austin with all the potholes.
Man, half a billion dollars on an entertainment product - that money could be poured into something useful, like space.

We shouldn’t be spending money on earthly delights until we’ve fixed all the problems in space. What practical applications have hobbits given us, anyway?
I'm thinking of starting a computer museum in Vienna, Austria. If anyone is interested in helping, please contact me privately .. I have almost every computer I've ever written code for since 1978, including some rare gems, and I hope to open up the collection for kids, mainly, to explore computer programming as it used to be done ..
You're lazily strawmanning and failing to offer an alternative to a constructive suggestion.

This comment has negative value.
Considering how awful the Hobbit movies were I can't see how this could be worse.

In any case, after the horror that was Wheel of Time, I'm not watching any Amazon fantasy shows unless they get glowing reviews (from real critics, not tech news commentators).
I'm pretty sure that we've not seen the end of The Expanse's universe.
Equity means equality of outcome, basically meaning you believe every person is equal in their results.

This is religious dogma, because it's just not true. We are not the same, and you will always have differences in outcome in society.

If you cannot see this, you are trapped in religious level dogmatic thinking.

(PS: if you want to talk about equality, which we might perhaps call equality of opportunity, I'm all for it. But equity is certainly not that).
Surely we could do better by hosting something in orbit. I found an interesting case: the USS (Unix-Space-Server) Langley, launched in 2015: https://spaceflight101.com/spacecraft/uss-langley/
Technological Utopianism
Probably the right amount of rented data center capacity for FedEx is not zero, yes. But it's not 100%, either, because what they're giving up is the ability to move faster when their outsourced system administration vendor isn't meeting their needs.
It's fine. It works. But it's not intuitive.

A decade of near daily use of it, as the 'git guy' on most teams I'm in, and I'm still spending time searching how to do specific things. To use a UX term, there's very few affordances telling me what I should expect, guiding my intuition.

Imagine a VCS where it was obvious and easy to figure out how to do anything that is possible. Along with all the power that git brings today.
The fear that trashy media will rot your brain goes way back
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That (and the follow-on) weren't too bad. Much better than Lynch's treatment.

I must say, though, that I'm looking forward to part 2 of Villeneuve's Dune.
That reminds me of tildes.net. Which I haven't been on in forever. (basically a reddit clone with tags. Along with being invite only.)

Maybe I should check out that site again, assuming I can dig up my login info somewhere.
Those revenues still have to cover the cost of buying the things they sell to prime members. It’s not pure profit.
the perversity of the universe tends towards maximum. Not only is everything aware in some sense, it's stubborn about doing its own thing.
The thing with dune is the first 2 books are perfect for that sort of thing. Then it goes kind of meta weird. Not sure most audiences would be up for that. The last movie I was pumped for. However, I did not realize you could make dune that mind blowing boring. It was very nicely done, but kind of boring. I think that is because the book breaks one of the rules of movies/tv 'show dont tell'. Whereas the dune books are nothing but 'tell'. It is why a lot of Steven King books fall flat in the movies. That can be tough. As that can get rather dull. As you look at what the chars are seeing but you are missing out on their commentary. They tried that in the 84 dune and it just came out awkward.
Yes but you are comparing to having a datacenter vs removing the datacenter completely. In this example FedEx has removed the datacenter completely, instead relying on someone else’s servers. So the correct comparison is to remove the jets and let someone else fly for you.
> Which cat meme was deemed appropriate for the final approval of the change?

FWIW, that wins my internet for today and i'll aim to make that a factor in any future code reviews/approvals.
If a trend is morally questionable, no honorable entity would follow it.

Furthermore, since Windows is so prevalent, you're gonna have an hard time using something else. Given you're neither tech savvy, or rich, which most people aren't.

So no, there are no excuses for a company this large to have such malpractices, we're talking about a private company with more power than many small nations.
This is not supported by metabolic ward studies. Metabolism per kg of lean body mass is largely maintained, the reductions in absolute basal metabolic rate during significant weight loss are almost exclusively due to having less tissue for which to provide energy.
D&D had written a lot of movies (25th hour, troy, kite runner, wolverine, brothers) and there were some “known actors” (Lena heady, Peter Dinklage, aiden gillan, Charles dance, Sean bean).

And I think the biggest problem with game of thrones is that the show runners crapped out after GRRM ran out of material. So I would want a better runner for Tolkien.
Having to build your own version of the compiler to fix this annoyance is like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut. It should be a simple flag, whichever way the default, but it shouldn't require building a compiler.

That's nuts, both in a bad and a good way.
I don't know how easy it'd be, though it would certainly be possible for Adobe. And something not being easy is not really a reason for it to not happen, especially when the alternative is complete death of the product.

But that isn't the point though since the question was what was expected them to do, not how easy that would be.
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It's not only about size, there's also workloads to take into consideration.

Take FedEx, their operations are highly dynamic - per day but also per period. The number of packages sent, and being transported, vary greatly between a random Tuesday 15:00 and the weeks before holidays.

In such a scenario, with your own infrastructure, you need to overprovision, by a lot, to be able to handle the heaviest load possible, and then some margin on top. And that capacity is wasted what, 90% of the year?

Meanwhile if you subcontract that part on AWS, it's their problem, and they can afford to handle it, and you only pay for what you actually use when you use it.
My goodness, the whole site is a gem, an old-school "hacker" in the best sense of the word.

http://www.deater.net/weave/

Pages go back to 1996!

http://www.deater.net/weave/whatsnew1996.html
Wikipedia is wrong, see page 43:

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1048911/000156459021...

I am not even sure where the $75.231B erroneous net income figure comes from, it is nowhere in the 2021 report:

https://investors.fedex.com/home/default.aspx
Precisely.

Wix, Squarespace, and Shopify are Tier 3 CMSs at best.

Drupal, (managed) WordPress, Joomla, Cake, Webflow etc. are Tier2.

AEM, Sitecore, BloomReach, Contentful, Contentstack, etc. are Tier 1

The CMS ecosystem is further segmented into products that are headless, decoupled, hybrid, and monolithic. To complicate things, there is a new type of product called DXP (Digital Experience Platform), which mixes in marketing systems into the stack.
Is it 1 billion in long scale or small scale?
Seinfeld Is not just watch r for nostalgia, its still in syndication, and also has a massive overseas fan base.

Mad Men is timeless in its lessons, novel in its execution, and holds a unique place in TV history. It’ll be watched for decades.
Haven't had the time to watch it. Working my way through the book.
Japan is the antithesis of American management.

Quality, value, longevity --- as opposed to maximum profit by any available means.
XP is very common on airports in China too.
I don't know much specifically about Scientology but I found an interesting article on how cults in general use propaganda, indoctrination, fear and isolation to brainwash members and impair their critical thinking:

https://aeon.co/essays/how-cult-leaders-brainwash-followers-...
In SOFTWAR Ellison called it a sort of fashion cycle.
although i wouldn’t have worded it the same way, there’s definitely something true in your comment. I’m still amazed that people keep torturing stories made at different eras with different mentalities to try and promote today’s philosophy instead of coming with original materials. If you want diversity and black people on screen, why not create stories about the amazing empires that ruled the african continent in the past, rather than rewrite parts of LOTR ?
Maybe both AIs are accurate and you just age like a fine wine.
You can't just crop out half the sentence and make an equivalency. The full sentence was

> You get to use client-side frameworks, but the page is rendered before it even reaches the client

Does PHP run in the client? No? Then it's not the same as SSR. You have it completely backwards. I understand PHP but you clearly don't understand SSR
What other word would you describe when people cry over "lack of diversity" when the story is set in a fantasy world that did not have such type of diversity to begin with?
From an executive viewpoint, this would be a reasonable forcing function to overcome long, deep rooted stasis in your IT department.

Let's assume for a moment that modernization is good. It probably is wrt mainframes. For every team that refused to modernize, you can now drive them to the 2024 date, absolutely no exceptions.
Pain inflicted to the baby is not reversible. Plus clip on earrings exist.
There's Borjomi's "deepest site" that shares the spirit of this site: https://thedeepestsite.com/
Seems like that's been done pretty well with all the wrappers, tui and gui's available.. what else is needed?
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I think the last two could have been 10 seasons and it would have been bad. The issue wasn’t cramming too much material, the issue is they didn’t have writers with ideas. They had been adapting GRRM and ran out of material to adapt and just went batty.

I think the reason it is so compressed is because they could just charge through it quickly and make it work.
> They were probably promised a very low price for their first few years, before their cloud costs get re-negotiated. Once they are locked in, the cloud cartel can jack up their price to make sure they get as much money as possible

People often say that, but that literally has happened once, with GCP, and has no relation to how AWS and Azure do things. Please go and find an example in the 10+ years that AWS have been a big serious contender for the world's IT workloads of them jacking up prices.
That clip was a viral marketing campaign video created for Rise of the Planet of the Apes.

https://www.adweek.com/creativity/movie-teaser-reminds-you-n...
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Yes, a cloud vendor is a company that has literally all of your company's data and a plethora of cloud services that are subtly incompatible with their competitor's offerings, and their machines make the millisecond-by-millisecond decisions about what your company does. They are in a position to calculate precisely how much you can afford to pay them without going bankrupt, and charge you $1 less. Oracle has aspired to this business model for decades, but as you can see from the fact that many of the other Fortune 500 companies still have profits, hasn't been entirely successful.