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Once I rented a car in Seattle one way to Vancouver. Apparently there is some shitburg nobody has ever heard of called Vancouver, WA but I was going to the more famous Canadian city. The flunkie at the counter booked the domestic trip and I drove to the proper Vancouver. When I got there they tried to charge me over $8000 in fees. I think there is no practical upper bound to what they'll try to charge you for such things.
These are great but toward the end of the charge cycle they make a lot of high-pitched sounds.
Does 12000 windmills sound like a lot? Consider that we have 1.7 million oil wells in the USA alone.
The problem is that we need it to just barely break even and then a little bit more. Having a tremendously energetic fusion device is both useless and a solved problem: we already know how to light one off, but it only lasts a millisecond and it destroys everything for miles around.
For what it is worth, fission also suffers this problem. A promptly critical fission reaction is possible, indeed quite easy to achieve, and very undesirable. All fission technology is dedicated to keeping the reaction just barely critical.
Can you elaborate? How are pointers to floats problematic? Or is it something else?
The steam cycle has to be up and running before sunrise so they can meet their generating obligations, so they have to ramp up with natural gas while it is still dark. The facility is also capable of operating as a dispatchable "peaker" power plant.
There's a huge amount of right-wing disinformation about solar power so if you just Google for "Ivanpah natural gas" you'll get an outpouring of stupid blogs, but reading them will get you close to the truth.
Note that they _do_ heat the plant with natural gas overnight, so there is a huge fire in there somewhere.
Just looks like high pressure sodium lights to me.
Which is a good reason to hedge and replicate but NOT a reason to alert on high CPU usage of single computers.
Could you mention which FAANG so I can avoid applying or a job there? Large-scale software systems _must_ be designed to serve through local resource exhaustion. If you are paging on resource exhaustion of single host you are just paying the interest on your technical debt by drawing down your SREs' quality of life.
I stand by my beef with this article. The statement that "I've talked with engineers at Google [and concluded that a thing Google wouldn't tolerate is a must-have]" doesn't make sense. What I get from this article is you can talk with engineers at Google without learning anything.
If you have "the database" then you're fucked anyway and probably your thing isn't on the scale that we are discussing.
Don't really agree that this list could have come about through discussions with engineers at Google, Facebook, etc. The more computers you have the less important it becomes to monitor junk like CPU and memory utilization of individual machines. Host-level CPU usage alerting can't possibly be a "must-have" if there are extremely large distributed systems operating without it.
If you've designed software where the whole service can degrade based on the CPU consumption of a single machine, that right there is your problem and no amount of alerting can help you.
5G is too new for that but there was a decade-long study in which they blasted mice and rats with ridiculous EM fields similar to 2G/3G technology but at much higher power, and the results were equivocal. https://www.realclearscience.com/articles/2019/04/30/is_5g_w...
Just FYI the completion results in the omnibox have little to do with the search engine results. Clearly the search engine produces millions of hits for “Hillary Clinton emails”. The completions are a completely separate system based on what people type in the box, not what’s in the index, and it’s laser-focused on producing interactive results.
Uh no. Google has hundreds of billions of dollars invested in real non-virtual assets, majority of which are in the USA.
Sometimes sites get dropped from the results because they are malware hosts. It’s more likely to happen to small independent sites. They are also more likely to just pack it up and shut down their sites.
I recall being told at one time that the great majority of youtube uploads are never watched even by the person who uploaded them. This fact figures prominently into how they decide to transcode, store, and distribute uploads.
Isn't there something extremely wrong about the math in this blerg? Surely 12 million hectares produces a lot more than 20 tonnes of grain annually. Did they mean 20 tonnes per hectare? Otherwise it's low by a factor of ten million. Either way doesn't make sense.
Most of California agriculture is engaged in extracting fossil fertility that came from the ocean. Salmon runs -> bear poop -> soil for thousands of years. We killed all the bears and all the fish so this cycle is now unidirectional.
Interesting! Terminator 2 used the Atari Portfolio as the portable computer with hackerly qualities.
I see tiny has been redefined. Doesn’t anyone remember when there were 6” subnotebooks in the vaio catalog?
Zen 1 (Naples) had all kinds of problems including that frequency scaling would hang the machine. It seems wise to not buy the VERY first Zen 2 rig.
That is literally xterms on phones. That is not amazing to me.
Strava presents a derivation of data provided by Garmin. They don't just use it raw. It is snapped to roads and the elevation data is cleaned up and so forth.
Strava is the only social network from which I derive any real value. I don't need them to constantly mutate the product.
Doesn't it work in the opposite direction, with Garmin pushing data to Strava? Also I value having Strava segments on my Garmin bike head unit, so I'm sure the value is going in both directions here.
Just shockingly ugly. If you're going to do a pixels-under-glass UI, you really have to start with a toolkit that isn't awful, or you end up with the openmoko which looked exactly like these demos but 12 years ago. You end up with, in short, a phone where the user adjusts the volume using alsamixer in an xterm because the UI wasn't really thought through.