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Had a similar experience with a vendor. Marketing team requests we add some DKIM settings for yet another vendor that is gonna spam people on our behalf. The requested record is

* TXT test

I explain that's gotta be a bug on their UI, we send a screenshot to the support of the vendor. The marketing team has 4 turns with an AI that refuses to escalate to a human and is convinced this is the only entry it needs us to add to our DNS. Dropped the vendor. Someone from their retention team followed up and we linked them the ticket talking to the bot about the obvious bug. Never heard back.

Google results will also rank these “high quality” sites above a self hosted domain. To the point where even a direct string search on an indexed page will never return on Google. Kagi and Brave search do a better job here if you’re looking for content on someone’s self hosted blog.

Assess the DARPA funding as a portfolio.

Linked wiki shows USTDC as inactive for about 40 years. Are there active US bases in Taiwan?

“I am actually flying into a star!”

Apparently yes. Visa/MasterCard pressure Patreon to drop users with views they don’t approve of. Most recently alt-right users. I think it’s important to protect free speech, especially the kind I don’t agree with.

Yeah the lack of acoustic treatment is a running thing I see. A few absorbing panels at primary reflection points coupled with diffusers should be the next upgrade on a midrange system. Bass traps as well depending on your sub and music.

Agree. I have been using Postgres and Oracle in production since ~2000 (oracle 8i). Postgres is an amazing project but the oracle core database has billions of R&D dollars. Don't confuse the oracle core database with the awful applications they hang off of it. Oracle will still destroy pg for most OLAP workloads, now you have to decide if the insane licencing cost is worth it.

Also just want to add an oracle developers post that I find hilarious...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18442941

Agreed, great logs are great.

My comment explicitly stated dev environment, not prod, for debugger usage.

I think there are two use cases here, I was referring to debugging during development and a lot of replies are regarding troubleshooting an active prod system.

Of course we all hope for well thought out logging to troubleshoot issues we're seeing in prod.

I'm referencing an pattern I see with junior devs who simply use "printf debugging" in development instead of learning to use a debugger properly, even with distributed systems.

Fair enough, but attaching multiple debuggers across several interacting components with conditional breaks gets me there faster than incrementally inserting progressively more print statements, in a dev environment. Proper logging is a given doping out problems in a production system to then verify and correct in dev.

Whats even better than print for debugging is using a debugger...

Seems they corrected pretty quickly, but yeah funny.

Whole Wallet as well.

Another term for a Loony Tunes Moment is a Minsky Moment[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minsky_moment

Get a cofounder.

Agreed, this is pretty standard. One production run reduces cost and if you want the advanced features you pay more.

And up to 768GB if you go with 32GB LRDIMMs for about $14k (intel oem chassis).

Agreed, these books are interesting and cover the geopolitical aspects of a mars colony attempting to break away from the control a dying earth government.

Server lifts are pretty common kit in most colocations.

http://www.material-lifts.com/client_images/catalog19960/pag...

Enterprise is changing and people are getting fired for buying IBM.

http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/outsourcing/3275270/astr...

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Subjects enrolled in clinical trials fall under informed consent and are outside HIPPA/HITECH. We actually take steps beyond either of those standards to ensure the data, costing pharma billions to create, is not breached.

> GNI is just a grand total divided by population;

Right, per capita, as I stated, but really just GNI is fine too.

> people would be making more if the money was divided up evenly but it's not, particularly in the U.S

Unfortunately the google public data didn't have enough US data but take a look at these two charts for India.

First is just India's per capita GNI the second is India's income distribution over the same time frame. Notice how the income distribution is relatively flat and how the GNI is growing.

http://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&#...

http://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&#...

> Quality of life and wages have more-or-less flat-lined while productivity is way, way up.

Can you support this? Millions of people all over the world are being lifted out of poverty.

Here is a chart of per capita GNI for the past 20 years http://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&#...

edi: linked wrong chart

ran into this graphic while installing some modeling software awhile back, shows thermal stress on the blades

http://www.comsol.com/products/multiphysics/

sensics p-sight was the best available last time I cared to look, in the $100,000+ range =/

http://sensics.com/products/head-mounted-displays/pisight-ul...

the trouble with stereoscopic curved displays seems to be keeping them calibrated to your eyes properly, slight shifts of the head clamp messes things up pretty badly

Learned a lot about optimization from the black book, might be worth a scan if you like asm.

I see this problem among less experienced developers who have a lot of talent. These devs exude 'know it all' and can back it up on some narrow set of knowledge/skills. Part of maintaining this impossible image requires not asking questions that might show cracks. Pretending to know everything is a sure path to not knowing much of anything given enough time and I've seen developers go down this path.

Description of Frozen Synapse reminds me of RoboSport, glad to see games like this are still being created.