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With DO, these days, they don't run me out of bandwidth, but my instance falls over (depending on what I am doing - which ain't much), but with AWS, they auto-scale and I get a $5000 bill at the end of the month. I prefer the former.

I don't remember PoF being famous for that, but they got a lot of bang for the buck on their serving costs.

What I do remember, is that it was a social data collection experiment for a couple of social scientists, that never originally expected that many people would actually find ways to find each other and hook up using it.

I miss their old findings reports about how weird humans are and what they lie about. Now, it's just plain boring with no insights released to the public.

Unlike Reddit, logged in and logged out users largely see the same thing. I wouldn't imagine there is much logic involved in serving personalized pages, when they don't care who you are.

Well, for one, TPS is attempting to optimize the manufacturing of a fixed design.

With software the design-made-code, where software is what in automotive would be considered the design process is 100% of the cost, the shipping of bits is 0%. In automotive, it is more like 5% design vs 95% building the car, goes the other way.

When people apply manufacturing methodologies to design practices, it rarely works out. "Design" is messy, but people expect to be able to apply a manufacturing-like "LEAN" process to it. They are mixing goslings and goats.

If you aren't a software products or services company (engine of revenue), won't IT always be a cost center? If you are in IT at a bank, in retail, logistics, telecom, O&G, even trading, if what you produce isn't what you sell, then is IT not a cost center?

If you were the CEO at a retail giant, like Target, how would you account for IT's in/out budget and expectations?

I'm frankly amazed that Xerox PARC got away with being unaccountable rogues (with great unmonetized results!) for so long given that they didn't support the revenue side of the house one little bit. (Amazing place and time, though! And the director of the lab appears to have been a hell of a manager of unruly computer scientists!)

"Pink" also brought us Dylan, Kaleida and Taligent. The old Mac team was pretty core to General Magic w/ IBM, Motorola and AT&T as partners. A lot of it was pretty good! But it suffered from a top-down "from on high" market introduction, and somehow never got traction. Which is too bad. (General Magic's mobile agent model also had some unfortunate dynamic security effects when an agent "traveled to a 'bad neighborhood' to compute on the results of a query, it wasn't allowed back into the gated-community good neighborhoods to deliver results. Large distributed systems got pretty unusable pretty fast. Unfortunate - because I liked the vision - and some super-smart people worked on it - and I was surprised they didn't catch that early on)

Where is it up to the same density. It isn't here (Austin, TX)

I tend to read back a little further than that, and I will not deny that they are aggressive in your time-frame or mine.

If you say so.

I lived in Japan for about 10 years, and have subsequently made a lot of Chinese, HK, TW and SG friends (partly because of the businesses I have been in), and except for the TW and SG folks whose opinions seemed to be mixed by generation, there is a lot of focus in modern history education on how badly the Japanese behaved leading up to WWII and in WWII.

And, fair enough!

But there doesn't to be much education on any side of the aisle about the 1000-or-so years leading up to their mutual antagonism.

I don't think that anyone is served by having sections of their history books snipped out - and the Japanese are no saints in this regard either. (Of course, I say this in the US, now, when some people are trying to have literature and history books snipped out)

The short version:

  - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh5LY4Mz15o

You are right. I tend to not like to lose lives on American soil or American lives overseas, but the cost of "Big Brother" while unquantifiable can be guestimated by the abuses of the CI and Federal LEO communities to date (which I also don't know how to quantify).

It makes me uncomfortable having to make calculations on sparse data, but my bias is to believe that the Feds don't need more data, because they (and the IRS) already don't deal with the data they have responsibly.

Oh. Yeah - that makes sense.

You mean centralized authorities on both sides? If so, that's probably true. Anybody who wants to be in charge has a baby totalitarian in their chest wanting to get out...

If not - can you clarify?

How so? We all hate to be secure in our persons? Or are you looking at other clauses of that very brief paragraph?

I'm moving into your territory, I think. I find that I absolutely love the smell and flavor, but the caffeine is starting to be an irritant as I age. I don't (and never have) like sugary soda drinks, and water is "OK", but boring. I just like sipping on ice-coffee as I work.

I don't know. Just about a pound/day ground, I guess?

Ummm. Pretty close. 3 pots of coffee - poured over ice - from about 4am ~ 10pm or so? I tend to pretty obsessively sip during coding sessions. Although as I have aged, I have noticed that it might be disrupting my aging sleep patterns, so I may need to start cutting it back. But, in Japan, in my youth, when I was working in semiconductor - people considered it excessive, but not extraordinarily, you know, extraordinary. (I didn't drink or smoke at the time - now I do - so I think the combo is ganging up on my biology's ability to support this scenario)

EDIT: I was thinking about this a bit more... The first pot is 4am~6am, the next is 6am~10am(or so), and the 3rd pot is nursed over the next 12-or-so hours). I guess I am bootstrapping the system pretty hard at the beginning of the day... I haven't done a cost-benefit analysis, or even thought about it much, but looking at this conversation, it might turn out to be more cost-effective to take up meth (just kidding, that stuff sucks. Coffee is smooth).

I moved into a "new" apartment just over two years ago, and ordered TP on Amazon. 24 or 36 rolls or something. I fat-fingered the "Add to Cart" volume button, and got like 4x36 rolls. I'm a single guy - so I accidentally stocked up in advance! (I am not even half way through two+ years later - happy accident, in retrospect!)

I drink about 36-cups/day, so this sounds as if I would be really irate if I had that little...

Flutter?

Except me, and everyone one else is a jerk. Including you.

Idk. I've slung about 2M lines of C over the years, and it doesn't take much time to get back into it...

Yeah - It's actually pretty neat because it headlines the stories that people (blogs) are talking about.

There used to be a browser plug-in (Memeorandum Colors) that did an SVD breakdown of the top 1500-or-so commenting sites and came up with a "line" from Deep-blue to Deep-red (blue, baby-blue, white, pink, red) and would shade every commenter according to their "bias".

https://www.wired.com/2012/04/opinion-baio-site-bias/

It was neat! I liked the site a lot more when the add-on worked. I fixed it for a couple of generations, but FF (which I use) started making it a lot harder to keep up with.

It's a bit tighter than Memeorandum. That's kind of cool...

Ha! That's probably the problem - I don't know what I am doing.

Why oh why did I ever leave silicone...

That's great to know. Thank you. The stuff in your 3rd paragraph is something I have always tried to do, but it largely depended on the largely reliable single node instances. I tend to (currently) handle single disk failures with master-slave configs locally, and it has worked at my volumes to date, but I am trying to learn how to grow without getting increasingly (too) complicated or even more brittle.

My biases are probably 5+ years old, but it used to be that running PostGres on anything other than bare metal (for example, running it in Docker) was fraught with all sorts of data/file/io sync issues that you might not be able to recover from. So, I just got used to running the databases on metal (graph, postgres, columnar) with whatever reliability schemes myself and leaving docker and k8s outside of that.

Has that changed? (It may well have, but once burned, twice shy and all that).

I've always been baffled by this. Especially in pop-up dialog boxes, you can have drop-down arrows hiding the ugly bits (but that said, a core dump is usually not that useful).

I always thought: "Something Happened" might be the worst, ever, but I recently came upon this when setting up a Dell Desktop running Windows 10, trying to use a wireless keyboard. (I learned to always keep a USB keyboard around for bootstrapping purposes):

  - "No keyboard detected, press any key to continue…."

Ha! We don't know! It's new! Give us 5~20 years, and I'll get back to you.