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Potentially compromised?

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There’s definitely going to be a shift over time. But it’s clearly not here just yet. So why preemptively lay off anyone? Isn’t that inefficient?

It’s an interesting thought experiment! My first questions boil down to the security and auditability of the code. How easy is it for a human to comprehend the code?

The real unit cost is worker development cost. Like any other tech company, this cost gets muddied in the platform/framework development costs versus more product focused costs.

Excellent point. Plus and Wave were ahead of their time.

I can see that working today in dentistry more so than general practice. I’ve got medication that insurance has dictated that I need to refill a weekly med monthly and it arrives precisely the week I need to take it. I need to time my vacations around this med now.

I get that I’m ranting against healthcare and not doctors, but I’d run far from any doctor that’s paper only these days.

Not everything on the internet is a “website” and then there are several website hosting platforms that aggregate the individual concerns.

I wanted to join them a few years ago but I wasn’t in the right life position to do so. I was hoping to one day in the near future. Maybe that day will one day come again.

This is a great assessment that I never realized until you said it. There are so many games from that era that I played that fit that mold. I was playing Leisure Suit Larry as a 10 year old! I can’t imagine parents these days letting their kids play that at all!

I’ve read the register throughout the years but I never thought much about the folks behind it. The obituary tells a wild story that was heartwarmingly written by a friend. Now I’m waiting for the biopic!

Time to raid the Wayback Machine!

Mythbusted?

Agreed, this feels a bit like extortion based on the way this article was written. Especially if they were engaged in a paying contract, why would Jetbrains accept disclosure?

Do you have statistics on the number of people who do not have smart phones but do have these other devices? I am not sure the intersection is as high as you imply.

Olric v0.4 and previous versions use Olric Binary Protocol, v0.5 uses Redis serialization protocol for communication and the API was significantly changed. Olric v0.4.x tree is going to receive bug fixes and security updates forever, but I would recommend considering an upgrade to the new version.

Seems like a tall order to promise updates “forever”, particularly for a v0 release.

Disaster? I am personally very impressed that site works so well! It’s a unique and complicated system, and I’m impressed the government built that. I’m certainly not a daily user, but every experience I had has been good.

Advice? Don’t push yourself as far as possible. You’re young, talented, and capable of kicking ass. Spread that ass kicking out over your lifetime and make sure you don’t burn out early.

Assuming you’re on the west coast, it’s 10 PM. Take a break and relax.

That feels close to the mission of https://oxide.computer/

It was surprisingly useful for some high performance computing niches. It was in a weird time. FPGAs were available but weren’t as performant as they are today. GPUs were around but not nearly as powerful or flexible given some workloads.

In the early years, the SPUs were not all functional due to the fabbing process. The ones that had all 8 functional ended up in servers, and the ones with about 6 ended up in PS3s. This still happens all the time with clock speeds, and core counts on modern processors today. I’m sure the fabrication process improved over time, but they disabled the 2 cores to maintain backwards compatibility.

Unrelated: Every time I’m reminded about Cell I’m reminded of the OtherOS fiasco. I purchased a PS3 for the processor solely and I was very upset when I only got a $2 check for it. I never cashed it.

Remembering this seems hard. And doing it under pressure seems very hard. I’ve forgotten my own zip code at a gas station before.

If we had duress codes for ATM, and it’s widely known, then someone with a gun will just threaten me to not use my duress code. I’m not going to bet my life in that scenario.

That’s exactly how I wound up with a Nvidia 3080 and AMD 5950 in December 2020. Microcenter is great if you’re near one.

Having a mobile hotspot has allowed me to work just about anywhere I want to. The more bandwidth the better!

Sure there’s a lot of variables here. If you’re a Windows shop I would not expect a push for docker since it is Linux based. As far as multi-tenant logical databases, that is also highly dependent on workload and failure domains (and significant cost if you’re talking Oracle).

A docker image is simply packaging. There’s a small, almost always negligible, performance hit. But the value comes in being able to ship a consistent application and configuration pairing. This becomes really valuable when shipping multiple databases for multiple services.

Woah! In all the years I used that I never put it together. “NERO burning ROMs”.

Not neutron stars specifically, but Accelerando by Charles Stross covers this.

To assume that they don’t know “what they are getting into” is a bit patriarchal.