fortranfiend

I see this at there's no credible connection at this time, but these individuals have knowledge of technical details on projects and technologies that they don't want in the hands of an adversary. So they're trying to rule out a kidnapping by another power not trying to find them.

It couldn't possibly making a simple software update cost 21x the previous cost to run the software to the point changing to a competitor is cheaper than maintaining VMware.

To restart a nuclear power plant, you must go through every planned maintenance activity that was cancelled or not done in the mothballed time frame, you have to inspect every pipe, every pump, every valve, test every breaker, snubber, and emergency diesel until every single device is satisfactory. On top of that cyber security regulations rolled out between 2003-2018 world wide for nuclear you would also have to do a mountain of paperwork to either confirm with NEI 08-09, the EPRI TAM or equivalent. You will likely have to upgrade your digital infrastructure entirely to get to that point as well. You would also have to hire in seasoned employees in operations, maintenance, chemistry, health physics, engineering, licensing, procurement, and security. Going from a barebones security staff guarding a long term storage yard to one protecting a full nuclear power plant would also take time. It would be 3 to 5 years to accomplish everything if money was not an issue.

All of this spend is on top of no electrical generation. And what parts were sold to other plants that now need replacements. So every industry that supports those parts and manufacturing would also have to spin up more resources. Economically there would be positive effects.

The reason the American plants are restarting is a lot of private capital, a lot of government money and a willing regulator. 2 billion usd is a steal compared to 25 to build a new one.

I'll believe it when I see the quality increase.

I'm hybrid, but most weeks get called to site due to the nature of my job. Supposed to be 50/50 but often it's full in office. Air gapped networks that look like museum pieces are fun...

That lemon pound cake did look tempting though.

I live pretty rural and starlink has been worth the price over the last few years. When you compare it to dialup or hughesnet or viasat, it just works.

Some things should be left unknown.

Cold pizza dead center.

Guess I'm more paranoid than fairly. Id class this in a wait and see category maybe try it out on a secondary device for a trial run. You'd have to have the need to their services to justify the cost or just not care about cost.

Telnet will live on, in areas it probably shouldn't like industrial controls systems, switch management, regulated industries, printing, etc.

Electrical engineer, ti89 in the desk. Also how else am I going to maintain my brick breaker dominion.

Don't use biometrics a pin has been shown to have more 5th amendment protections. Have your phone automatically reboot at a regular time every day. When your phone reboots a lot of the exploits that can get into your phone are locked out because they rely on reading the active memory.

Did you remember to say please and thank you to copilot..../s

For a single user error, pbkac.

I use it to see what restaurants are open on holidays or late at night then I just go to the restaurant.

Hmm it just let me put Keir Starmer in a bikini.

I put all my cloud file sharing into the same local folder and let them fight it out, but also have a bitorrent sync of my monthly disk image as the backup.

Have some oe on something similar, we created two laptops that ran Linux to mimic something in our plant, the issue with them though was drivers, we got the bleeding edge and components like the network card and graphics card just didn't work for a month or two until new drivers came out. It was red hat from maybe 2020 time frame.

It could be that they chose something bleeding edge and the hardware drivers were built for windows but might be a couple revisions behind for the Linux equivalents. It could be the development cycle for windows vs that of Linux and how they integrate with new hardware. Just a hypothesis.

I still have to use Fortran 77 on vax machines at work. It's... Fun. Hope it lasts long enough for this replacement project to finish.

Hmm curious as to how loud it will make the data center.

fake frustration yet another thing named after euler.

Patches have been a mess the last couple years. Makes me think someone or a group of people either quit, were fired, or got pulled into the ai side of the business. The mistakes being made are that of junior programmers without a proper lead or review and testing team. That plus removal of features and addition of too much telemetry into the os and office products.

Are we allowed to call Nintendo the big N now? Asking for a friend.

What happens when people don't get paid for multiple months.

Wow, thanks I hate it.

Work in a large organization. Though it's a special industry in terms of being heavily regulated. One person can push over time to change management opinions on their scope of work and what the policy is. Junior engineers become seniors and leads over a decade or longer. If you're jumping every 2 years to a different company, yes you won't be changing much.

Most of the music I make on Suno is stuff that would never ever be made, a love ballad that only uses the word lizard, an anime intro to the "Lord of all Milk"

Obligatory: Oh the humanities.

They're out standing in the field. ...I'll let myself out.

Well there's now a polka about diarrhea after eating spicy food. And a rock ballad duet about macaroni and cheese with a female singer and a screamo male part.

Yup totally won't mess with their algorithms.