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The odds of all services rm -rf / at the same time are pretty small to be honest. The point is to have your work in multiple places, such that you're not reliant on a single service.

Vegas is a fantastic bang/buck proposition if you can stay away from gambling. It isn't that vegas has the absolute best of everything, it's that the average in vegas bests everyone else's mid-high end options.

Also understand that, the conference, no matter which conference mind, is half the draw, the other half is being in vegas itself. Move it elsewhere and it'll be much, much smaller for that reason alone.

Headline makes it sound like it's intentional, like Boeing knows the moon's haunted and wants to prevent people from going.

Turns out they're just a giant company suckling on the teat of mommy government and have developed severe structural dysfunction that prevents them from effectively executing their plans.

Most computers sold are prebuilts, and most computers sold are for commercial use, ie office bees, so video game oriented PC's are a relatively small corner of the market.

We changed our current order for workstations to AMD parts. They arrive today or tomorrow I think.

Odds are it would have been fine, they were just i3 worker bee boxes, but, it's not really worth the risk when there's a viable alternative.

When they stopped having first time presenters to do a shot of vodka before their talks I stopped caring. That was the end of real defcon.

As a business decision, having on-staff developers mainly comes down to value.

Can those employees generate their salary in value? How long can they do so?

It makes little sense to in-source dev if you have 6 months of work that revolves around bugfixes. Less still if what you're building isn't saleable, which in your case it sounds like it isn't.

The other side of this coin is, you suck at dev management. Your whole company does. All companies start at that point. Any project you pickup at this point is going to feature creep to the moon and cost 2-3x as much as it should because it's not going to be well defined, and it's not really going to accomplish what you'd like to accomplish.

The best advice I can bring you is, take on a SMALL project first, very small, like a single-purpose app, pick one thing at your company that really sucks to have humans do and isn't complex, build an app to do that. Probably use outsourced contract dev/devs to do it, have them bid on it. Make sure your product requirements are bullet pointed out and crystal clear. Your mother should be able to understand them. Do not set an open ended timeline, because you're going to get high bids as it's a clear sign you're a newbie and are going to be expensive to work with. Project check-ins/meetings should be defined and scheduled, create stages and meetings for those stages, and review them upon completion, again, all defined in the project pitch.

Basically, you want a developer to be able to take what you've written, and complete the project with no surprises.

Do that a few times, make the project a little bigger each time. You will learn alot, and once you have a few things under your belt, you can start to consider hiring your own dev team.

The methodology is simple enough, the issue is the devices.

Sure you can run hardened, stateless linux, but how many SOC's are in your laptop? Those aren't trustable. Your phone's even worse.

Sure meatspace is full of surveillance gear, and has been for years. Face rec/id has been around for a decade longer than people think, plate readers, traffic cams basically everywhere, etc etc. The problem those systems all have is filtering out the signal from the noise. They don't know that person-X is someone to watch until they're tagged. Once they're tagged, it's basically over, but, how do you tag them? Right now, that's mostly manual, and based on external data. If there is no external data, there's no risk of being tagged.

The real question is, can someone remain normal enough while not generating suspicion while they're up to no good. I'd say they certainly can, most don't, but, it's far from an impossibility.

I would hazard to say if that's your threat model, you're better off not using the internet in general. VPN provider won't really matter ultimately, there's a hundred things on either side of that tunnel that you have to take care of.

I'm immune because I don't answer my phone if you're not in my limited contacts list, and if you're an unknown number, you automatically go straight to voicemail.

Drastic measures like this had to be taken because I had a DBA for awhile and foolishly listed my actual number with the business. Basically my number is forever 'on the list', so, I made my own list.

Of course, if you're on my list and you call asking for ten bucks, well, I'll probably give it to you.

Not much of a friend then eh

They didn't pull those numbers out of thin air, those were intel's specs when those boards were designed. They are, obviously, dangerous specs to run a chip at, hindsight being 2020 and all.

Intel trying to pass the buck is as much of a problem as the CPU's themselves really, because now you can't trust them.

Remember that the manufacturers recommendations are designed around keeping the car operational through whatever warranty period they sell the car with. It's not some sort of ideal program and some benefit exists from changing fluids more often than specified.

Specifically, transmission fluid is often considered 'lifetime' fluid that doesn't need to be changed, and, if you follow that advice, you end up replacing the transmission, an expensive endeavor, whereas if you don't, you can typically double its usable lifetime.

You also have to be careful about engine oil, because the margin of error is very small. Most modern cars have an oil minder, and those work well provided the oil itself is in spec.

Suggesting that users install software outside of official repos isn't more convenient than using a repo and standard package management tools. As soon as there's an update, you'll learn exactly why that is the case.

Just host them all on the same server, keep the URL's hot because there's google juice tied to those URLs that you'll lose if you change them now.

Many ways to go about doing that. Wordpress supports it https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4751530/wordpress-multip...

As do many other platforms (namely ghost, which seems to have good google visibility)

Ultimately, this is trying to solve a human problem with tech, which is rarely a solution. If a display has garbage data on it because it's broken, the untrained person trying to read it is going to misread it regardless of the failure mode.

That and you can make 7-segment displays fault tolerant, ie, detecting when segments are out/partially out, because you can measure current draw. Not exactly difficult, also not exactly common because they don't really fail that often.

Usually when these displays initialize they turn on every segment before displaying data for that reason.

Also, fairly trivial to detect if a display has a segment out and throw a fault if needed. It's also not likely you burn out a whole segment at once if you have it wired up with that in mind.

Manjaro, it's basically arch with some herbs and spices.

I do realize that the whole point of arch is that you're the one with the spice rack, but, I generally like what manjaro's doing. Not to say it's been all roses, just that it's been fun.

>60 percent of workers were making about the same or slightly more under the new scheme. But we felt that it was important to shine a light on those 40 percent of workers

Absolutely pathetic investigative journalism on display. This is a hit piece thinly veiled under the guise of being pro worker that fails to support the main point of algorithmic management of gig workers is worse for everyone but the corporation employing it.

If anything, they proved that shipt's algo did exactly what it was designed and reported to do, make payments more fair.

I talked to a relative from nigeria one time for a couple months. He was actually in nigeria, spoke pretty good english, and was scamming to get by and fund his way through college. He said his group was doing ok, and he was living better than most. He sent me pictures of himself, and where he worked, his motorcycle, all sorts of things. Not as a pitch either, like, he was proud of those things and I was interested so he was happy to show and tell about his life, we even exchanged some recipies.

Then one day he just stopped replying, and his email address would bounce. My best guess is it got shut down, for, you know, scamming. Bummed me out though, he was cool, except for the scamming thing.

And I'm sure every one of those 100k devices has a unique ssh key right?

Surely you can see the problem.

How do I analyze my sleep quality? I gauge how tired I am when I wake up... as man has done for eons.

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I suppose at least this makes sense, storage is cheap, but it's not free.

I do find it very odd that every established platform with a free version has adopted the same model of "make the free version suck more" in hopes of boosting sales. I'm not sure that's the most effective model to be honest. I'd think that actually looking at why free tier users aren't converting would be a better long term move, being that, if you alienate free tier users via rugpull, they're less likely to give you later, and much more likely to leave entirely.

Also, if anyone wants something slack-ish, pumble.com is pretty good. Sortof a hybrid of slack and discord, we're using it a little and aside from the windows client hanging after its left open for a few days and occasionally needing to restart the app when an audio device is added in order to use it, no real show stopping issues. I don't doubt that the same thing happening to slack with happen to pumble eventually, at very least it's cheap and their tiers fit smaller teams well.

Oh and because they absolutely burry their pricing page, it's /pricing if you want to skip the marketing wank. It's much better when signed in to find it, but, I think an overall shitty onboarding experience if you do actually want to pay for it.

Even if mobile v1 was simple level by level text output, it'd probably still be useful.

It's the only way I've found to explain it that actually holds up to scrutiny. That's not to say it's correct, just that it's the best I've found.

Space is an incredibly, and unrelentingly, harsh environment to exist in. The station is literally rotting, and it's getting to the point where the things that are breaking aren't really fixable. It's time to ol'yeller it and build something else. This isn't your classic car that can be restored to like-new condition, this is orders of magnitude more complex, and it's an incredible feat of humanity that it's lasted as long as it has.

It's not really a waste of money inasmuch as, the things you put into space are consumables, and you have to replace them before they turn back into dust.

Also, as a complete aside, and unrelated to any of the above, why do you think we left all that hardware in Afghanistan? Don't you think we could have recovered at least almost all of it if we'd wanted to? Because it wasn't like we were really having a ton of hot combat at the time. And, if we could, why didn't we? It certainly wasn't cost, the MIC has the unlimited money cheat turned on so cost isn't a factor in anything really. Couldn't have been public perception, being that it was almost universally viewed as a blunder. When I look at it though, I don't see a blunder, I see a strategic move. Have a look at a map, who's next-door neighbors with Afghanistan? Iran. Does Iran get along with Afghanistan? No. Why don't they get along? Afghanistan is overwhelmingly Sunni Muslim, Iran is overwhelmingly Shia Muslim, and those two groups HATE eachother. Iran, by far, as the better military forces, so, if you want to keep those two countries busy murdering eachother for the foreseeable future, well, you "give" a bunch of semi-modern military hardware to Afghanistan, obviously.

So the real question is how much is that strategic move worth? It's cost somewhere ~6 trillion dollars since 2001 to run military operations in the middle east. We left ~8 billion dollars worth of hardware in Afghanistan, so, if that strategy works, well, it's substantially cheaper than just fighting a hot war with Iran, probably by a few decimal places.

$843M is the contract cost, basically to just do the R&D. The vehicle itself will be sold separately.

What it offers is additional market capture, which leads to additional data capture for their AI projects.

On the old internet, there was a rule, which was, "if you let users create dicks and swastikas, they're going to create dicks and swastikas".