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I haven't bought a Dell computer in many years, but I love their monitors. I started with the first 1920x1200 they offered probably fifteen years ago now, and have been through a series of them culminating in the two 27" 4k panels I have on my desk now (P2715Q and P2721Q). In that time I've never had a problem, not even a dead pixel that I've noticed.

I haven't used more than two PCIe slots for a long time now. My current asus mobo has ... 4 I think, and I use two: one for the evga gpu and another for a usb 3.0 card I had lying about.

> Google is just horrible, when it comes to any form of support, paid or not. They make paypal look helpful by comparison.

We have been running production on Google Cloud for six years. We are not a large customer: our spend is in the low five figures. We pay for a middle-tier support plan and support has been excellent during this entire period. We very rarely need to take advantage of it, since the underlying systems are extremely stable and almost never cause us any issues (compute engine, GKE, GCS, Memorystore, Firebase, CloudSQL, etc). Just thought casual readers of this thread could use a counterpoint.

> white folks were like "but Indian food smells!"

It does smell... freaking delicious.

Came here to see if someone said "Star Citizen."

It's a polyglot world for IAC, and even standing before both tools in their current state I can imagine other axes of consideration that might rank as highly as the specific characteristics of the language. In our case we adopted TF several years back and being able to use a different language probably isn't going to be enough benefit to justify migrating all our things. I think in many cases people will adopt the tool that gives them the most confidence that it will do what they need, and deal with whatever language it uses.

I live in New Jersey, and I suspect the law of unintended consequences is going to come in hard on this one. The stores all sell cheap reusable bags so that customers don't get caught in line with nothing to carry their goods in. I've bought two so far. If the bag is in the car you obviously have to remember to take it into the store with you. If you carry the bag into your house with your groceries then you have to remember to put it back in the car. If you fail to do either of those things you'll probably buy another $.30 reusable bag at checkout, which you'll then carry into the house with your goods. I suspect people will accumulate a lot of bags, and I can't help wondering why some recycling chain involving paper bags would not have been a better solution. I'm no expert and presumably there's a reason.

It's been a long time, but I seem to recall the term being used to describe a specific animation performed over the head of a fallen enemy when playing MMOs like Asheron's Call or Dark Age of Camelot, which I played a lot of circa 2001 or so.

I live in the northeast and we seem to still have local music stores offering the usual mix of instrument sales and service, lessons, sheet music and other supplies, etc. If I understand correctly from casual conversations with the owner of our local store many of them make a lot of their revenue renting instruments to local school students.

You'll be happy to know that movie has been made :). I watched it as a young kid and found it pretty scary. Years later I saw it again and it was of course laughably bad.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059065/

Probably? I haven't been there in years, but I'll be contacting them to pay the fine.

Nice work, very fast, simple display. Also, I learned that a speeding ticket I never paid back in the 80's is still an open case, and that a few articles I wrote in the 90's have been cited in dozens of patents. Yippee.

I think there are some pretty solid reasons why certain types of people remain very interested in it. If you're a space sim nerd then it ticks a lot of boxes. I played it about a month ago for the first time, after a decade or so of mocking it every chance I got for all the usual reasons. I was looking for something new and saw enough videos that seemed to suggest it had reached a point of being interesting to me. My space nerd creds go back a long way: wing commander at release, freelancer, eve, various flavors of X3, elite, ten minutes in no man's sky, etc. I'm one of those people who wants to immerse into a game world where I can do all the things CIG promises. So I dove in.

What you can do is impressive. I'm not going into a detailed depiction, but people who've played the SC persistent universe know what I mean. It's somewhat mind blowing in scope. It's also heartbreaking because it's utterly broken in so many ways that no AAA studio that actually needed to sell new copies to new people would ever tolerate. I keep a list of the most egregious/humorous things that have happened to me from spawning in the middle of the sun for no reason, to having my ship blow away on the surface of a planet.

I think there are a lot of possible explanations for this, but I suspect the main ones combine scope creep, constant tech stack changes over a really long dev cycle, and not having to make a playable game to be rewarded financially. I hope some day it becomes playable, because it's really a neat platform, but I sort of doubt it ever will.

I got a laugh out of that with the first characters I typed. Thanks :).

>> Don't you re-watch your favourite movies and TV shows? Why would YouTube be any different?

I honestly don't very often, and when I do it tends to be over a span of time long enough to forget many of the details. I do have some music videos on youtube that I have watched several times, and some instructional videos I have returned to occasionally.

So yeah probably its the weakest of my three whines.

>> I suspect, without proof, that this is because a large segment of the global population watches music videos and variety show clips on YouTube, over and over on repeat.

That's a great point, and could very well explain showing me videos I've already watched. Fixing my other two complaints would require keeping track of how many times a video has been recommended, and consulting my watch later list when building the recommendations list. It seems safe to assume YT is not unaware of these possibilities, so they must have reasons for not adding these signals in.

I know recommendations are hard, so I don't want to be too critical, but youtube does a couple of things that drive me nuts: they recommend videos I've already watched, and which they know I've already watched because the site fills in the red progress bar on the bottom; they recommend videos I've added to my watch later list; and they recommend the same videos over and over even though I don't click on them and don't watch them.

> Right now, that is all technically possible, so they'd be defrauding their shareholders if they didn't try.

Can you expand on this? Are you saying that if a business opportunity exists and a company elects not to pursue it that constitutes defrauding shareholders? I would have thought it constituted nothing more than a disagreement over strategy.

This article on how haproxy uses SO_REUSEPORT goes into some more detail: https://www.haproxy.com/blog/truly-seamless-reloads-with-hap...

Thanks, for some reason didn't come across those when I was setting this up a couple years ago. I'll give them a try.

>> Only thing I don't like about it is that Netflix isn't on it.. but that's hardly Kodi's fault.

My main use case for it actually was wanting to watch netflix, youtube and prime on my desktop monitor from my office couch. The two main issues were lack of a remote and the lack of native support in kodi for any of those streaming platforms. The first issue was solved with this nifty little unit: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00WQG6A8C. The second was solved with a kodi plugin called web launcher. I had to mod the plugin to make it launch pages in kiosk mode on the leftmost of my dual displays (basically passing a custom command line to chrome), and I am not sure whether it has been updated for py3-based kodi.

Our systems that talk to S3 in CA and OR are timing out trying to open SSL connections. AWS lists outages in these regions on their status page.

I'm not a security expert. I spent a good chunk of time yesterday mitigating this with our security people so I have a decent overview of the bug and how it's exploited. If you aren't running an application on your home server or phone that others can connect to from outside your network then this isn't likely an issue for you. Take this as inexpert guidance until someone more authoritative chimes in. The vector of vulnerability here is user content getting into log messages, as can happen if you log headers from user connections for example.

Yeah over the last few weeks Alexa has grown annoyingly chatty. Pretty much every ask, like "Alexa, what's the outside temperature?" is followed by the answer and then "Did you know..." which is itself followed by me saying "Alexa stop" in an irritated voice.

"Computer, lay in a course to intercept the Romulan cruiser." "Intercept course calculated. Did you know, I can automatically reorder toilet paper for the bridge head?"

If any one from Amazon is hanging nearby, please pass along how annoying a chatty home assistant is.

>> It was supposed to do something useful but all it does is mine data for ads.

Gmail, docs, sheets, slides, drawings, calendar and geez just 1000 other things disagree with you. Yeah I know the ad network is paying for that stuff: that's the bargain that people who use their ecosystem of software products have made, just as people on Apple's ecosystem accept their tradeoffs. It just seems extremely cynical to suggest Google has done, or is doing, nothing useful. If there was no utility flowing the other way in return for the eyeballs and profile data I don't think they'd have a business.

We were down. Just came back. Things seem to be resolving.

I'm a grafana fan and a current user of PagerDuty. Maybe there's more to the story but after reading the post I feel like using a calendar integration to manage on-call schedules is the wrong approach. Calendar events are a result of overlaying a rotation on a date range: they're the output, not the input. I'm sure the designers here have looked at how PD enables creating and editing rotations. Curious to know their views on it.

>> I can’t help but imagine whether Google Cloud’s low market share is related to this. If the internal culture is that clients must act multiple times a month to deal with impending breaking migrations, at least some of that attitude likely falls on external customers.

We've been GCP customers for five years and I can't recall offhand an instance of a forced migration due to a breaking change. They give a lot of lead time and plenty of notices, and then continue to support the old thing for a good period of time. It makes sense to me that they would treat outward facing APIs differently given that they span many organizations by definition.

I won't be trying Windows 11 since my 4 year-old I7-6700 is not on the list of supported processors. Oh well.

So it does, reading comprehension fail on my part.