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There are also “certifications” for AWS. I have six of them. They prove nothing as far as competence in an of themselves.

In the grand scheme of things, project management is about making sure projects are done on time, on budget and meets requirements.

It’s about managing dependencies, from a software development methodology, it’s creating a directed acyclic graph but with people instead of computers.

It’s also dealing with managing stakeholders, contributors, blockers, budgets, scheduling meetings, keeping the higher up informed, etc.

If you put a gun to my head, I can be a competent project manager. As a “staff” software architect half of my job managing cloud projects as a tech lead with the other half being more of a solution architect when we first sign a customer and designing an implementation plan with work streams and epics.

Usually I end up splitting the project management part up with a real project manager.

It’s not because of a lack of competence. It’s bandwidth.

But just like you can’t be a good tech lead if you don’t have some level of competence technically, you have to be decent at project management.
Highly suggest clay tile roofs. They last a hell of a lot longer than metal roofs, which have several of their own problems.
> Many of those "features" were walked back on backlash, just to then be bundled "free" for the initial buyer only...

Like Tesla... buy FSD? It doesn't transfer with you OR the vehicle, just ... vanishes.
I agree that 40% "wire-to-wire" seems wild. But if it was 40% nat gas to wire that'd be quite nice considering how simple such a generator would be, and it might be more efficient (perhaps significantly more) than traditional internal combustion generators. I.e., if you ignore the green aspects of this it sounds quite nice. Though you have to supply sodium. Hmmm.
So long as we’re agreeing that they’re not doing anything because the date falls on the day before the administration is dissolved, yes!

I am glad that we are on the same page that the answer to “why don’t they enforce the law that they can’t enforce” is in the question.

> I don’t understand, why wouldn’t they send it out on the 19th?

> "Given the sheer fact of timing, this Administration recognizes that actions to implement the law simply must fall to the next Administration, which takes office on Monday," White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in a statement.
It would be cool to study if the social pressure was applicable to servants or just the elite ruling class

Do you have any idea where to get photos of collections?
in october, the US did >$300M of trade with russia. looks like trade with NK is quite small, but non-zero as well ( https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c5790.html )

i imagine its much larger for both if you include bitcoin transactions
Interesting, thanks for sharing, will try it out.
Yup, and where this stall vs. weight occurs is mediated by genes to a large extent. Someone who stalls out at 1.8-2.2 kcal/day while still being obese will need extra help, when cutting more calories is too unpleasant (many such cases). This drug makes that easier. And there is no evidence to suggest it gets easier with time or the body at some point stops trying to put the weight back on. Dieting is 24-7 war on food.
I've used tons of Realtek stuff since the early 2000s and have had only one single device misbehave - the infamous RTL8139 Fast Ethernet which had many bad batches unleashed onto the world. I have both bad and good versions of this chip. It burned a lot of people back then, many of whom to this day stubbornly refuse to grow up from their trauma, and keep saying that everything Realtek is bad and can never be trusted.
What happened to U3 at the top left in the image of the flash chip?

Looks like they had a footprint for a diode in a 3-pin SOT23 package and found they didn't have stock of the special part, so they installed a SOD323 diode at a 30 degree angle across two pins...
More to learn from the failures than the blog haha. It tells you what the risks are with a colocation facility. There really isn't any text on how to do this stuff. The last time I wanted to build out a rack there aren't even any instructions on how to do cable management well. It's sort of learned by apprenticeship and practice.
does the US ban apply to taiwanese people in taiwan?
Senator I'm Singaporean.
That would only account for the small amount of homes right on the beach itself - the majority of Malibu is in the hills above
> There's the strange phenomenon that people like to say "bright red" as much as it is an oxymoron.

It's not. Reds can be dark or bright relative to other reds, and "bright red" -- as you would expect from the way that adjectives work -- refers to a red that is bright relative to other reds.
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And then returned in the 1990's with the 24 hour news networks.
MSRP for the EOS R1, the flagship camera - but apropos of anything, that's not a camera ANYONE would use for a webcam (its focus area is event/sports, and high shooting rates. For anyone else, generally, the R5II is effectively the high end.
what does that have to do earthquakes?
Tornados are indeed scary. I have seen a house cut in half like a knife by one. You could see the doors ripped off the medicine cabinet on the second floor and meds still on the shelf.

But tornados are also significantly smaller. A hurricane will damage a thousand square miles while a hurricane will mess up 50. It’s not quite right but the proportions are in that ballpark.
TL;DR: People with more money than common sense are surprised that LLMs are bad at coding despite not having there been a breakthrough that allows these models to think logically, which is a prerequisite for programming. They take one entire month to come to the conclusion that transformers are only good at producing hello world-level code.

Not only did they waste their money, but also a ton of time (and thus more money). Only to reiterate what is already painfully obvious to anyone who has worked with these tools for about five minutes (granted, you need to be an experienced programmer in order to see this -- but it's painfully obvious nonetheless).

Daily reminder that if Devon actually worked, it would be doing your job right now. The only reason you or your irrelevant company get to subscribe to it is because it's shiny crap and we're in the middle of a gold rush. Or you wouldn't even be able to afford it (what with being homeless and all).
The only reason it isn't widely known that social media platforms in the US share information with the government regularly is because it's illegal for said platforms to disclose those requests. It used to be that platforms would have canaries, similar to a dead man's switch, that would be removed once they were subject to these types of requests. None of them do it any more because the requests are commonplace.
You disagree - try this. Go to the "popular" feed and take a scroll.

I compel you to find one single positive post about capitalism or the west. Count the number of anti-capitalist or blatant pro-ccp content posts.

One such - "Luigis game is about to be multiplayer" (reference to the recent murder of the insurance company ceo) with a video with the label "y'all look how the chinese are living" (compared to usa)

You also say you put faith in a profit seeking US company. Reddit is not a USA owned company.
The Rolling Stone article claims that insurance companies are currently not required to disclose their math, and are fighting tooth and nail against being required to share it.
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Archive link:

https://archive.ph/QnzVj
Or, you know, stop building in places that are pretty much guaranteed to be destroyed.
Long running hosts at the moment, but we can drain most workloads off a specific host/rack if required and reschedule it pretty fast. We have the advantage of having a custom scheduler/orchestrator we've been working on for years, so we have a lot of control on that layer than with Kube or Nomad.

Re: Live Migration
We're working on adding Live Migration support to our orchestrator atm. We aim to have it running this quarter. That'll makes things super seamless.

Re: kernels
We've already seen some perf improvements somewhere between 6.0 and 6.5 (I forget the exact reason/version) - but it was some fix specific to the Sapphire Rapids cpus we had. But I wish we had more time to science on it, it's really fun playing with all the knobs and benchmarking stuff. Some of the telemetry on the new CPUs is also crazy - there's stuff like Intel PCM that can pull super fine-grained telemetry direct from the CPU/chipset https://github.com/intel/pcm. Only used it to confirm that we got NUMA affinity right so far - nothing crazy.
From a usability perspective, I can play Halo on my Steam Deck.

From a usability perspective, I can play Doom on my Steam Deck.

From a usability perspective, I can offline Spotify music on my Steam Deck.

From a usability perspective, I can SSH into my server from a Steam Deck.

The Nintendo Switch is cool but it is infinitely less useful than a Steam Deck. From a usability perspective, it's quite poor. The Steam Deck is the best console I've ever owned :)
The interesting thing is that, using these tactics, the supreme court has made the legal case for every other country to ban US owned social networks! My opinion is that the US government has made another stupid move.
1. Is there any real evidence of the CCP using TikTok for anything?

3. Then what is Microsoft doing in China? What is Apple doing in China? Etc. No tech company is banned from China, the only companies that choose not to operate in China are those that do not agree to follow Chinese laws.
It's completely irrelevant whether they have done it or not. The only thing that matters is the fact that they can do it.

We're not going let you have nukes just because you haven't nuked anybody yet.
> Why would you call colocation "building your own data center"?

The cynic in me says this was written by sales/marketing people targeted specifically at a whole new generation of people who've never laid hands on the bare metal or racked a piece of equipment or done low voltage cabling, fiber cabling, and "plug this into A and B power AC power" cabling.

By this, I mean people who've never done anything that isn't GCP, Azure, AWS, etc. Many terminologies related to bare metal infrastructure are misused by people who haven't been around in the industry long enough to have been required to DIY all their own infrastructure on their own bare metal.

I really don't mean any insult to people reading this who've only ever touched the software side, but if a document is describing the general concept of hot aisles and cold aisles to an audience in such a way that it assumes they don't know what those are, it's at a very introductory/beginner level of understanding the OSI layer 1 infrastructure.
FWiW I'm old enough to have navigated via LORAN and travelled through over two thirds of the 190+ countries on the planet tying in multitudes of old datums to the "new" WGS84 standard as part of a career in geophysical surveying (Gravimetrics, tides, magnetics, radiometrics, EM, etc.)

I'm not old enough to have seen Great Britain and relate isles pressed down by the weight of kilometres of ice though .. that'd be a great great great grand something that saw that.
also trees are wet inside, houses are not. fresh wood doesnt burn easily
100% this. Setting the topic of conversation for millions of Americans is absolutely unacceptable to throw to the hands of foreign powers.
I have a 2.5 GB/s USB to ethernet adapter. While I cannot say whether the performance matches that of built-in ethernet, transfer rates are fairly close to 2.5 GB/s. That is certainly faster than WiFi.

Oddly enough, point (A) is likely more relevant in the current world of laptops. At least if you use Windows. Plugging in a supported network adapter, may that be WiFi or Ethernet, may be the only way to get through the installation process, without jumping through hurdles, then install drivers for the built-in WiFi adapter, without jumping through another set of hurdles. (I own such a laptop, though I use Linux on said laptop so the WiFi just works.)
Plus, in-game clocks didn't exist until Remastered came out
You know what's by definition uninformed and vibes-based? You claiming my opinion is uninformed and vibes-based. I'm not only not American to be subject to "the current fracturing of cultural and political discourse in the US" but I also have a degree in International Relations, so I think my opinion is pretty informed.

Now if you'd like to also be informed, start by reading (or reading about) Antonio Gramsci and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_hegemony
Don't we need to have a pretty low opinion of the average american cognitive skill to feel the need to protect them from foreign propaganda for fear it would take a hold on them?

If the general public is that stupid and that this kind of protection is really needed, then it also means that democracy is no longer a viable form of government because the public is also too stupid to vote.
I'm doing perfectly fine. Just never subscribed to protestant/capitalist myth. Thank you for your concern.
That sounds like an extremely unlikely claim
What type of fire smoke is not toxic?
Because it's a good scapegoat, why take responsibility for losing an election when you can easily shift the blame to someone else?
This is absolute nonsense tone-policing. Y’all allow so many posts here saying straight up racist things, yet you have problems with someone correcting a misrepresentation of facts? Absolutely terrible look
My meal, such as it is, is a salad that fits in a small bowl (less than 2 cups of lettuce and uncooked vegetables). None of this is helped by knowing that people who are so-called medical professionals are giving me is absolute horseshit.

Yup welcome to the bad genetics club. Those calculators of TDEE vs weight/height are only an approximation. Many such cases of people who fall well-below those estimates. Many people need far less food than commonly assumed.

PS Just giggled thinking about what it would mean to the US economy if suddenly every adult over the age of 28 started eating one small meal every 2-3 days... even our stock market is arrayed against us.

Not just from less consumption, but also reduced productivity--people being tired all the time, irritable, unable to work as effectively or unable to concentrate. This is why tech companies put so much emphasis on food and having cafeterias stocked with snacks or catering.
Agreed that is a fine piece of work. But the author is Chris Domas. Which is plain from the repo readme, but it’d be clearer to link to his repo.
They're making it a forced upgrade so they can charge more for email accounts. +$2/user/month is what they want for Gemini.
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> along the Mediterranean sea in France, with wind above 100km/h

And what's the humidity?

The Santa Ana winds that affect LA are extremely dry and gusty with < 10% relative humidity. It is hard to compare them to anything else.
Little Red Book/RedNote is the #1 app on the App Store, followed by Lemon8 at #2. Duolingo reported a 216% increase in parties interested in learning Mandarin[0], people are actively boycotting the likes of Meta/Google[1], and many content creators have set up shop there (albeit with a much smaller following)[2]. It’d be disingenuous to write off these effects.

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/15/duolingo-sees-216-spike-in...

[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/meta-boycott-faceb...

[2] https://www.reuters.com/technology/over-half-million-tiktok-...
Vapor barriers limit human exposure, it has to travel into the occupied spaces to be an issue, then linger.

It also has to be the type of wool that has been treated, etc.
I took the article to be absolutely damning in its reckoning on the utility of Operation Texas, precisely because it proved that no amount of technical control would be a match for the human infrastructure that tied Tiktok to China.

Which I suppose is a different way of making the same point as you.
There's some defending it in general, but it's also just a really tough precedent to allow when it could, so easily, be used to shut down any other service they want by just waving the magic "national security" flag.

It's possible to believe TikTok is bad and that the pathway the US just proved out to banning it in the US has shown that no US court will seriously question the "security reasons" fig leaf. Telegram and Signal are both used by plenty of people the US could easily paint as "security threats" and it's unclear there's any defense to a ban that they could mount at this point.
Yes, considering the importance of the power draw, I wondered if ARM servers were used.
My point is that as long as data is being collected and sold in the US, China has access to it. They don't need TikTok for that.

The US government, on the other hand, desires to control all narratives widely disseminated among its citizens. They can do that with Facebook. They can do that with Twitter. They cannot do that with a foreign company. So they shut it down.
By data races I assume you actually mean data dependencies?
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> You could call it "colocation" or "renting space in a data center". What are you building? You're racking. Can you say what you mean?

TFA explain what they're doing, they literally write this:

"In general you have three main choices: Greenfield buildout (...), Cage Colocation (getting a private space inside a provider's datacenter enclosed by mesh walls), or Rack colocation...

We chose the second option"

I don't know how much clearer they can be.
2x4s burn much quicker than sticks. Try it.
Well that's the point -- OP said they're having a hard time even getting an interview. In my experience, once you get to the interview stage, most big tech companies care more about your demonstrable skills than the intangibles of your previous experience. For better or worse, that means you can grind leetcode and system design interview prep and get through it.

Anecdotal evidence, but I got a referral from a friend in big tech and skipped past recruiter screen and technical phone screen and went straight to onsite interviews. This was several years ago though, maybe the process has changed.
In a developed country, government would ensure its citizens receive top notch education so that they are able by themselves to understand that using a Chinese owned app is just as bad as using Facebook for instance and so these app would be dead, no one would use them.

Instead when you cut so hard on education that you get millions of flat earth believers, you got to protect them from their own behavior with law. But as far as I know, no law can prevent little Jimmy from putting crayons up his nose.

Blocking TikTok won't just make its user look for better privacy, or at least more independent alternative. They will use something else just as bad or worst.. little red book for instance.
*provably
Have you read any thread here on IQ, or immigration, or outsourcing? You can find the most vile, bottom-of-the-barrel opinions there, and the mods don’t give a shit, yet here you have a comment calling out misrepresentation (at best) of facts about eugenics and suddenly dang feels the need to sweep in and tone-police that?
> Don't we need to have a pretty low opinion of the average american cognitive skill to feel the need to protect them from foreign propaganda for fear it would take a hold on them?

No. Influential foreign propaganda is inconspicuous. There’s nothing to be mindful of other than “who benefits if this is widely believed?” and it’s not a low opinion to think most people aren’t mindful of that.
> I can't tell if people just don't know that this is happening, or if they take their memes way too seriously. I sort of wonder if they don't know it's happening because they get their news from Tiktok and Tiktok is actively suppressing the stories.

No, it's just information asymmetry shaping public opinion. The US lets its dirty laundry air out. US whistleblowers, press, and historians dig up every shitty thing the US has ever done and US citizens are free to discuss it, sing about it, turn it into movies and viral memes, etc. China doesn't allow this. No one in China is going to become famous by calling for justice for those killed by Mao or exposing MSS-installed backdoors in Chinese telecoms. That kind of talk is quelled immediately. The result is that public discourse trends more anti-American than anti-China.
The national park service does controlled burns in Yosemite and has for a couple decades at this point. You can argue they don't do enough but they're limited by bureaucracy, safe conditions, and manpower rather than willingness.
Might as well throw in the risk of being wiped out by a comet.

Climate risks are greater and more immediate than either comets or poles shifting.
Hmm, why is it sad and scary?
Only insofar as their support networks extend into the United States. But you're right to suggest that Taiwan should consider a ban also, over similar security concerns.
I read it as reverse engineering WTF challenge... cool stuff though, seriously.
> The point is that their other media so promotes a lack of curiosity by providing a false impression of being comprehensive. If you risk bursting that bubble suddenly you are first mocked, then they try to buy you, then they block you, and tell you it is your fault.

I'm not being funny but I honestly couldn't follow that.

> The US is held to higher standards because that is how it promotes itself.

You are right, they are. That's why they didn't prevent TikTok from operating and growing domestically for years. Then the Chinese government starting using it as an asset of their espionage apparatus, so in response the U.S. STILL didn't ban the content in contains, but rather told the (apparently) independent company operating TikTok that the content is free to remain as long as it's not controlled by a hostile foreign government. The refusal to sell is the most obvious public facing proof that they are in fact Chinese government controlled.

All of that is how the U.S. is different, but as evidenced by this conversation and multiple other threads, no one really cares about the nuance.

And the greater context to this discussion is this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

> if intolerant ideologies are allowed unchecked expression, they could exploit open society values to erode or destroy tolerance itself through authoritarian or oppressive practices.

The application of this principle can be seen when closed societies maintain complete control over their domestic media, while spreading as much toxic nonsense as possible abroad[1].

At the same they are completely intolerant of speech at home, they exploit the openness of the west by pushing disinfo they know to be wrong (and harmful) aboard. They continue to muddy the waters by pretending their information warfare is "just asking questions" (RT's moto is "Question More"). It's an extension of their hybrid warfare efforts, and shouldn't be seen as anything less.

[1] For example, domestic Russian media encourages citizens to get vaccinated against COVID19, while promoting anti-vaccine conspiracies abroad. This is one of thousands of examples. https://securingdemocracy.gmfus.org/russia-china-iran-covid-...
yes, this. the body decides to become super-duper efficient like a Prius. this is shown by studies in which acts like walking burn less energy . There is a lower threshold in which weight loss must occur, but this can be way lower than predicted by calculators or naive CICO estimates.
How's it worse for me, personally, to give up PII to Tik Tok as opposed to - well, all the US-owned equivalents.
I'd say that in the last two years China has advanced quite a big step with video-games.
Can you post a comment to this thread giving some of that background and explanation? If so, I'll move it to be the top text of this post. Right now it's a bit hard to tell what we're looking at, though it looks cool!