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It was bound to happen. The military industrial complex throws around too much money for Microsoft to ignore it.

It is sad, though, that they couldn't stand firm about what's right and become a building block for long-term world peace.

Anecdote: My wife has been in volunteer management for quite a while now, and in her multiple roles has used Volunteer Match. It’s a good platform, both for volunteers and organizers.

Intel is suffering financially. This is the phase in which they, regretfully, cross all ethical boundaries for the sake of the company's bottom line.

Right? They even sell dedicated HSM through Azure with their partner Thales.

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-dedicated-h...

A very small number of people should have access to their HSMs. This shouldn’t be too hard to figure out.

I think the biggest problem is there’s no anonymity. Most people aren’t willing to share their real opinions under their real name.

Great point. I downloaded the official Reddit app just to see if the negativity surrounding it was warranted. As soon as I tried to scroll past my first ad, a tap was registered and the ad website loaded. It was suspiciously erroneous in its handling of my scrolling up.

I guess we’re in a state where any reporting is meant to change behaviors?

MTU is ridiculously difficult in telco networks. Because most transport is moving packets via Ethernet at the endpoints, you’ve got to make sure your customers can use whatever MTU they want, including 9000+. This means a lot of variation in frame size support, even within individual vendor product lines. Now, let’s see here…is a jumbo frame 9000, 9192, 9216, 9500, 10000, 16000 bytes in size? Who knows. That’s just Juniper. Extrapolate this uncertainty to dozens of different vendors and models of networking gear, AND how they each count bytes, interframe gaps, 802.1q and 802.1ad…

I’ve experienced the same. In fact, I recently tried migrating to Ubuntu. The user experience is a lot better than it once was, but it’s still not great. For instance, if I want to see what the temperature outside is on gnome, I need to install a weather app. There are several, and amongst them, the Ubuntu software installer says they’re not verifiable because a 3rd party developed them. Ok, fine, I just want the one most people are using, because I assume that is the one that is best maintained and has the best features. I’m not sure which one that is. Oh well, install the first one after a brief search to determine which is considered most “native” to gnome and Ubuntu. After installation, I don’t see the weather on my top bar. I open the weather app, look around the settings, but there’s no option to see the weather displayed on the bar. I give up. Later, my machine seems to be stuttering a bit (64 GB RAM, AMD 5970, RTX 3060), so I reboot and it’s back to normal. I try to play a game, and get an error stating that Vulkan isn’t installed (it is). I reboot instead of fiddling with it to find the root cause, and it’s working again.

I don’t have to do this stuff with Windows. It just works. I don’t mean to downplay the efforts Ubuntu developers have gone to in order to get it to its current usability. It’s pretty good, it just has a bit more maturing to do before I can make the permanent jump. A while back, I read that Ubuntu was hiring a product manager for the desktop, or maybe gaming? Anyway, I wish them luck, and hope they’re able to make strides on the experience.

I learned to weld in high school. The first priority is safety education. While this is neat, that is a very massive missing element that students must become familiar with when learning to weld.

With regard to lead, I recently found out that most faucets manufactured before 2014 have lead in them. I found this out while replacing parts for a faucet in a house built before 2013.

https://www.mwra.com/04water/html/Lead_Faucets.htm

tl;dr: if you think your faucets are older than 2014, run the cold water for a bit before filling a glass for drinking.

I've heard from Google employees that the internal AI they use is better than ChatGPT, but the leadership doesn't want to make it generally available.

This is an HR problem. If they’re happy with their job, it’s not possible for them to get a raise with the current company that likely comes anywhere close to what they can get jumping ship. If HR would be willing to say “Hey, we recognize that this person is doing good work and want to keep them, but also recognize they can realize a 50%+ increase elsewhere. Let’s open the checkbook.” Instead, they’ll say that the most they can give them is somewhere around 10%, maybe the manager can fight for 15%. In the end, they’re going to take the 50% increase, even if your corporate culture and everything else is great.

NETCONF doesn’t abstract anything though. All it did was provide a programmatic method for configuring devices.

Having done LSD, I can’t imagine doing anything resembling coherent productivity while tripping. The best I could do was try to process all the crazy shit happening. There was certainly no room for note taking.

This is going full Streisand.

Elon is the brand. They don’t advertise. If he’s really as smart as most people think he is, then all of this pandering to right wing politics is just a way to sway people who wouldn’t otherwise buy an electric car into buying one because they side with him politically. At least, it’s possible that’s the long game. It’s also highly possible he’s a narcissist and doesn’t care or have enough self control to stop harming Tesla with his antics. Ultimately, I don’t think right wingers are going to buy Teslas en masse because he “freed the bird”.

You are in the minority of drivers. Most people want updated tech in their cars, including (what I consider to be) very valuable backup cameras. I'm shocked to see this sentiment about "dumb" vehicles rising on HN.

Let’s say it together, slowly:

Cloud gaming… Is not going to take off… Until latency is unnoticeable by users.

Even turn-based and other game types that don’t require twitch reactions aren’t going to be enjoyable with input latency that is obvious to the user.

I sincerely believe that cloud gaming engines are going to have to be developed, such that the entire video frames aren’t being pulled from the cloud, and peripheral input is a first class citizen on fast networks like PON and 5G.

Skip to 47:45 for relevant section.

I've been reluctant to try getting my coworkers into VR because they'd probably just laugh at me, but a couple of friends and I met up in VR (we're all fully-grown professionals) and it was great. Meetings in VR would be a lot more productive, IMO.

Exactly this. The labor market has been heavily weighted for the laborer lately, and this whole "macroeconomic headwinds" chant we're hearing from leaders of every Fortune 500 right now is simply them trying to stave off further increases in wages. The macroeconomic issues aren't going to realistically affect Google or most large companies.

Oh, the irony. I remember when Fox was caught taking talking points directly from the GWB administration.

The old adage "you get what you pay for" applies here. Yeah, it's cheaper than buying Meraki, Aruba, Fortinet, etc, but the IDS/IPS on their Dream Machine is awful, logging is awful, reliability of anything but wireless gear is awful, Protect storage equipment is awful...

Traditionally, that was the case. However, telcos are now moving toward Open RAN as an alternative to building their RAN networks on purpose-built hardware such as baseband units for 5G, and instead moving to a disaggregated, open radio access network. These ORAN networks are built on containerized platforms, primarily. So, we're moving away from traditional, dedicated NEP hardware to x86 machines running Kubernetes - something a lot more people than 4G/5G phreakers are familiar with.

I recently purchased an EV, and there is an emergency high voltage battery cutoff in the rear. Do you guys know about those, or if so, are they effective?

CAD software.

I have two kids. One of them was an "honor" student from 6th grade on.

The difference was one teacher. My younger one was tapped by their teacher for a special program in 5th grade that put her in a class with other "smart" kids for a day each week in 6th grade. From there, those kids blossomed to honors classes later.

For my other kid, the distractions in classrooms full of kids who didn't care about learning proved to be too much at times. The honor student had to occasionally take classes with "normal" students, and found the environment very distracting. It matters how much the kids in the class want to learn, as opposed to make fun of each other and the teacher, or be disruptive in other ways. The older one still did fine, has a degree and a job, but it was a struggle.

So, I get your point. I have strongly felt for a long time now that even average students should have received the experience my honor student did in 6th grade. It was a great break from the average day of going from class to class, broke up the monotony of standard curriculum, and provided those kids with a good foundation for thinking out of the box and learning to learn in a focused environment. It provided a clear pathway through honors curriculum in classrooms full of students and teachers who cared.

I want that for every kid, but with Republicans doing their damnedest destroy public education and the impact it's having on teachers' mental well-being (for those who can even be bothered to become teachers anymore, given the low pay and guaranteed bullshit from not just students but parents and the government itself), it's hard to imagine it becoming a reality in the short term.