Ah, these pop ups to accept new T&S can be obnoxious. You even may not be able to access control panel without accepting it.
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Few years ago I was at a cloud conference and met who worked for a failure large and known security company in a tech position. They have all kinds of offerings. While he was talking to someone, I decided to speak to one of their sales guys. I shared a bit about what my company did and what kind of infra we were using and then asked him what they offered and specifically what they could offer to us. This was one of dumbest conversation I had ever had. The guys had no f*cking clue what his company was selling beyond "we sell turn key enterprise security solution", it was so painful. I even tried to steer him into trying to sell us some vulnerability scans or traffic analysis for threat detection.
Yeah, I get it, it maybe niche, he is in a non technical, they have many offerings, he hadn't been there too long (iirc about a year, which is long enough for sales), but it was still unacceptable. To me it's the same phenomenon – lack of clarity in communication – not exactly sure what the root cause.
Also how is perpetual irrevocable links to commercialize your content in any way they want is required for providing the service?
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> “Prince Jim”—as some long-timers used to call him—repeatedly invoked a slur for longtime engineers and skilled machinists in the obligatory vanity “leadership” book he co-wrote. Those who cared too much about the integrity of the planes and not enough about the stock price were “phenomenally talented assholes,”
> commercialize the User Content in any way that Vultr deems appropriate
Also, why perpetual?
They are essentially data processor, they act on your behalf and should not do things with data that you have not asked for.
* In the rules it says that whenever a voce completes its obsessions a test for control happens. Doesn't it mean that the voice needs to reveal what the obsessions is at that moment, before the end of the game?
* Same goes for skill, seems like for it to be used it needs to be revealed before the end of the game.
* Who determines the level of obsessions?I love architecture and find it can be very inspiring. But if one’s personal creativity is hamstrung by facade of their home, then I assume they don’t have much of it to begin with.
How much time did you spend changing oil?? It's a 20-30 min job once you have done it coupe of time and know the ropes. I sometimes do it myself not because I want to save few bucks, but because it's sometimes faster than going somewhere.
The article is specifically talking about a large saw. A modern mill is gonna do a much better job ripping large pieces of wood, then 3 dudes sawing for hours and constantly resharpening their tools. A good joint is the one that holds the load well. A non-masochistic way of building things is not shitty, it simply means you are did get trapped in a cult thinking.
> Efficiency is not the goal. If you are into wood cutting, then sure. Go for it. Cut it in any way you want, with any imaginable tool. But then it's wood cutting, not building things.
Having a data storage accessible for every service that needs authentication and authorization (and ideally every service needs at least authentication) is non trivial in distributed enterprise environment. To have a stateful token, you need to have a distributed scalable storage, unless you have only one instance. You need to be able to connect to it, hence distribute and manage database password. Anything symmetric requires a more sophisticated secret management.
I respect carpentry, woodworking and the skill required to rip a piece of wood with such a saw, but I bet most of medieval Japanese craftsmen would ditch their hands saws for a Harbor Freight table saw in a heartbeat. In modern times to spend 7 hours ripping one piece of wood has little to do with woodworking.