The influences of capital on academia have been disastrous.
That’s why I write my PhD in all lower case.
PhD
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Most people are unaware that Google can and has closed accounts without notice or appeal.
A closed account means all your files, photos, passwords, 2fa, are gone.
Like this father who got his account closed because he took a picture of his toddler penis to send to their pediatrician.
The picture was automatically backed up in Google photo and flagged as child pornography.
Exactly. Even after being investigated by two police departments, Google refused to open the account.
It means all of those if you rely on google for those.
Never have a central point of failure, and have backups.
Hell Yeah
On-prem still has its uses
Platter harddrives are still useful
Tapes and tapedrives aren’t obsoleteOh god my story. Okay so I was building out a video transcoding service for a company. We all know video transcoding is hella expensive. So I’m using kubernetes to help manage scale, and we’re on the cloud. I warn them hey, cloud is hella expensive, this is going to be… a lot. Well what do you recommend? Glad you asked, and I pitched that we have 3 heavy server nodes sitting either in a rack if we want it official, or even we were small enough we could just have them in the office. They would be VPN’d into the cluster, members of the cluster, and those get the priority. If a transcode job comes in use those nodes, only spin up cloud nodes if the scale is too high. I quoted about 20k for 3 beefy performant machines for the node.
Executives balked at the price. Way too much money, what a ridiculous idea anyway, we’re a cloud company.
Two months into the cloud only solution they were averaging 12 grand just on CPU compute! Why is it so high?! That’s ridiculous!
Absolute fuckers, the morons. I swear I’ve seen so many companies hemorrhage money because they refuse to listen to legit experts in the field. You fuckers, I was trying to save you money, but no your MBA and accounting degrees taught you how to run fucking cloud operations.
I hate that it’s so hard to get these people to agree to capex. My current company runs a few datacenters, and we have some teams that use them for their base load. It saves a shitload of money! Like, I don’t get why this is a concept that MBAs reject. You don’t have to go all in on capex for your infrastructure, just find a nice mix of capex/opex. If you’re afraid that you won’t use the shit you bought later on, then you should probably make sure that the market is there for whatever you’re selling before you dive in headfirst.
Because data center costs are OPex and on prem server costs are CAPex, and companies very much prefer things to be in the OPex (operating expense) column.
We spent several hundreds of thousands of dollars last year doing geophysical processing in azure. But it was an emergency: It was a hot fix to avoid losing out on hundred times that amount. Turned out the contract negotiator never bothered telling operations that they agreed to deliver the data with some processing already applied.
We considered building a processing cluster on site, but buying the necessary hardware and shipping it halfway around the world in a timely manner would’ve been even more costly. Plus I would be the one who had to build the rig, and I was all tied up on a different project a few countries over at that time.
Tapes and tapedrives aren’t obsolete
But the drive is pricey :)
I’ll go first:
Matte black shower sets and kitchen faucets are the shit now. I’ve installed so many of these during the past year.
Got my bathroom redone last year. Guess which color, lol.
Faucet, sink, tub, shitter, and shower head are all matte black.
To my defense the floor is dark grey and the walls are medium grey. I don’t want it to look like a cheap “fancy” hotel with the white/black contrast I see everywhere.
Mind sharing a picture of your new bathroom? Matte black toilet seat is something I’ve yet to encounter.
Just installed a golden shower though. I’ll never forgive myself for not seeing the joke there before my gf of all people pointed it out.
I would show more, but with 4 kids in the household, it’s an absolute mess in here right now. But this should give you an idea of the general design.
Remember the gloss black fixtures that were very trendy for a brief time in the 80’s?
Saw them at a hotel not too long ago and immediately talked about how matte black faucets would be awesome at home.
Since covid, the insurance industry has been hemorrhaging people. At my company, most people that 3-4 months before they quit. No one knows what they’re doing because of this and many claims are denied/mishandled.
Social workers are all recommended to have a personal therapist for themselves. And its possible for the personal therapist to also have social work degree
75% of people working shifts around or inside an aircraft are alcoholics. Never before or at work, but days off are a shit show.
That’s true for all industries.
False. In many industries workers also drink before and during work.
A pretty huge proposal to expand the Light Sport rule is in the works.
For those unaware, in 2004 the United States made some pretty sweeping additions to the Federal Aviation Regulations, essentially adding what the rest of the world calls “ultralight aviation.” What Americans had been previously calling “ultralights” were more like the rest of the world’s “microlights.” The Light Sport Rule added the Sport Pilot certificate (lesser privileges than a Private pilot), the Sport Pilot Instructor certificate, two kinds of aircraft repairmen, and two categories of aircraft, Special and Experimental Light Sport.
The rule has been a resounding success, so they’re talking about greatly widening what sport pilots can fly and what can be built and certified as a Light Sport aircraft. They’re talking about adding night flight, allowing controllable pitch propellers, retractable landing gear, 4 seats, higher stall speeds, higher takeoff weights, higher cruise speeds, possibly even eliminating the language that requires single engines or reciprocating engines.
It’s possible there’s a boom time coming for General Aviation.
Ah yes, bacause we didn’t had enough old people crashing already…
Light Sport has proven safer than previous “not actually an ultralight but enforcement is lax” or EAB operations. Having a robust training culture including the creation of a new instructor certificate I think is a major contributor to that safety.
A significant portion of the expansion will be allowing S-LSA airplanes to be used for aerial work such as pipeline patrol or aerial photography. I see no reason whatsoever a Flight Design CT can’t be used for a job a Cessna 152 can do. With a much more modern and efficient engine burning unleaded gasoline.
No one currently makes shine-through ASA (or any SA variant) profile keycaps, partly due to the fact that current trends for mid-to-high end keyboards favor south-facing LEDs; the theory (I guess) being that since south facing is pointed toward your face instead of away from it, it’s better. But HOW is it better if there are no key caps for them to shine through?! Front-printed caps are gaining in popularity, but so far I have only seen them in OEM or Cherry profile. OEM is tolerable, but I don’t want to spend money on something mediocre, and I cant stand stubby little cherries. I see zero reason why we could not have SA profile caps with the shine through legends (the letters and symbols) on the “Bottom” of the keys, or even the front frankly. I am not the only one looking for a product like this.
Same! I think I’ll end up getting some front-facing shine thru caps as a last resort.
I reached the same conclusion, I just really don’t want to have to get OEM
We like to leave Easter Eggs everywhere. Everywhere. Fully aware they may never be noticed.
I have a habit of writing messages on the floor tile before gluing a toilet seat on top of it.
Where do you get the glue?
Easiest glue: Collect chunks of conifer resin. heat over fire in a small pan. Once its liquified mix 1 part crushed common charcoal to 3 parts wet resin. You’ve got a stickey glue. You can let it harden in the pan. When you need to use it, heat the pan and it becomes wet glue again. This is how native Americans made their canoes waterproof. It does have a charming odor.
Second easiest: Collect peices of animal hide. Dried tails,ears, and tag ends are great. Legs are good. Sinew and tendon are best. You are rendering collagen so you need very low fat and no meat attached. Dont use pig, bear, racoon, squirrel or rat-- too oily. Dont use anything decayed or that has been frozen. Soak them in quicklime (kiln fire limestone peices gives you quicklime) and water for 2 weeks, skimming the top, to remove the hair and sanitize. wash with water, then lime wash again. Dry thoroughly. Cut the material into strips. Boil peices in a double boiler until they are rendered to mush. Let them dry. Control the temperature and dont let it get too hot or cold. Add water. Well prepared glue peices will absorb the water and you have a liquid glue. Failed glue wont absorb the water.
Apply the glue to the underside of the toilet.
From the hardware store?
Was wondering since glue seems oddly specific in a bathroom setting.
Maybe adhesive would be a better term than glue. I still don’t understand what’s oddly specific about it.
Not sure if this is everywhere but I’ve been a software developer for two years almost and I was shocked that when some presses delete on anything we just toggle Archived to true. All hooks that get data exclude archived by default but we can pass a flag to get those too.
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If there isn’t a machine to do it then maybe there’s a quick product fix, or we get contractors. For a manual labour intensive industry it’s amazing to see the lengths a lot of men will go to to avoid actual manual tasks.
we live in very special times. take a step back and appreciate how transformative the recent years are.
for a billion years, life existed on earth. in the last 200 years, we invented electricity, electric cars and transistors.
And killed off 75% of all animal species.
Maybe they should swole a bit too?
