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Re:Sitters and Standers on Thursday December 05, 2024 @12:12PM (#42330159)
This is a hard business decision to make as it doesn't directly increase revenues and directly reduces productivity.

Might be smart in many instances to do cross training, and on the job perspective expanding, but at the end of the day: it's usually better to let the animous live...and the spice flow.

Re:Bitcoin has made a new all-time high price on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @09:53AM (#42063218)
How well do investors understand the underlying network of computers required to maintain the public ledger and the trust and integrity of the digital currency, though?

Until nation-states fund and invest in the infrastructure, finding your confidence in cryptocurrency with little to no regulation is a massive risk.

Re:Can SpaceX land a rocket with 1/2 cm accuracy? on Monday October 21, 2024 @01:40PM (#41906424)
Epic trolling, you're sane.
Re:Ioccc Flight Simulator (2010) on Monday October 21, 2024 @01:29PM (#41906309)
I’m sure you’ll be making your own scenery files very soon!!!
Wild that as they grow and scale, sustainable or climate-sensitive power can't be sourced or relatively (directly) scaled.

It will be interesting to see over the next few decades if sustainable power sources (arguably Nuclear, especially under the recent Advance Act) won't just be a lagging situation.

Re:A small tool to view countries' GDPs on Tuesday June 25, 2024 @10:33AM (#40789161)
Filtering (out) the meta categories would be nice (so you can look at just the meta categories or just the countries).

Something that I don't think is available at the source that would be a nice addition would be a per capita (looking at the population and using it as a basic sortable column for quick reference).

It's a very cool tool and resource, though.

Re:Flying Fish Stays Airborne for 45 Seconds on Tuesday June 25, 2024 @09:01AM (#40788050)
Great example of ground effect, between that and the amount of relative wind against its 'wings' providing a great angle of attack...the really impressive component to the entire situation is: how much thrust did that little guy start off with that it was able to maintain lift for so long?
The Jonestown massacre was actually grape flavor-aid:

https://www.vox.com/2015/5/23/8647095/kool-aid-jonestown-fla...

They really do appear to be all in on avoiding memory leaks from C/CPP:

> Over the next few years we plan to continue replacing C or C++ software with memory safe alternatives in the Let’s Encrypt infrastructure: OpenSSL and its derivatives with Rustls, our DNS software with Hickory, Nginx with River, and sudo with sudo-rs. Memory safety is just part of the overall security equation, but it’s an important part and we’re glad to be able to make these improvements.

It seems like a really challenging endeavor, but I appreciate their desire to maintain uptime and a public service like they do.

Big "lifelock" vibes...and if I understand it correctly, that lifelock character has had his identity successfully stolen and impacted multiple times.

Sometimes the person who says "I'm really smart, like mensa level", does some really ignorant and stupid things.

Re:Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide on Wednesday June 19, 2024 @10:01AM (#40728396)
Could easily be considered the precursor and parallel to LPTHW, been around for a lot longer than 10 years it feels/seems like...
There's a high bar to set for most organizations. Leveraging certificates is excellent if the supporting and engineering actors are all in accordance with how to manage and train the users and workforce how to use them (think root authorities, and revoking issued certificates from an authority).

I've seen a few attempts to leverage certificates, or GPG; and keys nearly always are an 'easier' process with less burden to teach (which smart(er) people at times hate to do).

Not always, as quite often the donation is on hand, but not necessarily used.

Also: better to save a life and either average down whatever PFA count they have, or bolster their blood volume so they can start producing their own lower PFA infested hemoglobin.

Lesser of evils, and kind of a win win: if everyone was blood letting for the safety and humanity of others.

Re:Reddit Blackout Tracker on Monday June 12, 2023 @09:21AM (#36292977)
Did the site get a hug of death maybe?
Re:Choosing a Name for Your Computer on Wednesday May 24, 2023 @08:35AM (#36057143)
Coming from a systems background (administrator, engineer, and architect for many years): this is horrendous, but insightful as to how things were back when it was written.

Coming up with a uniform, concise, and easily decipherable scheme is really the best for naming nodes on a network (be it at your home, or in a data center with 10s of thousands of machines (virtual and physical)).

GUID is a bit extreme, but leveraging DDNS, and having a plan is always the best (and not naming things after a finite index like: planets, cartoon characters, mythological objects, or models).

AWS has the trusted advisor, and it will offer to assist you in cost savings in terms of:

* Idle Load Balancers

* Underutilization of EBS volumes

* Unassociated Elastic IP addresses

* Idle RDS intsances

* R53 latency resource record sets

* etc...

Re:Ethereum from scratch – Part 1: Ping on Thursday July 20, 2017 @10:15PM (#14817612)
Basic smart contract found here:

https://blockgeeks.com/guides/smart-contracts/

Re:Japanese 'rent men' who are paid just to listen on Sunday July 24, 2016 @09:19PM (#12155894)
Not all priests join before they accumulate life experiences....some have their fill of life and give back by way of taking holy orders or the like. ;-)
Re:Robin on Sunday April 03, 2016 @02:14AM (#11415140)
There is a pi symbol on the bottom right of every page.

It stinks of dynamic demand, or elastic compute...

...hopefully it helps in their quest to continue serving the drooling masses and being the 'front page' of the Internet.

Re:Fiber UI Experiments on Sunday July 19, 2015 @09:52AM (#9911179)
Seems like there is not: http://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/phoronix/latest-phoroni...

Source code or GTFO was the response, and seemingly its all theory so far....

Re:IPv4 Address Market Takes Off on Monday April 06, 2015 @03:45PM (#9330274)
You mean a /14 - you went two bits in the wrong direction.
Re:Count to ten when a plane goes down on Tuesday July 22, 2014 @11:50AM (#8069592)
Possibly a cp or an scp from a remote system with a working set of binaries.
It is an interesting scenario that they play out in Toronto. However, this is a programmatic feature built into the traffic systems - and in the current location I live in completely different.

Here the countdown hits zero well before the lights shift to yellow and finally red. Perhaps Toronto needs to readjust if there is a high number of rear-ends occurring due to drivers going off of the pedestrian control devices instead of vehicle control devices.

That makes no sense what so ever.

Pinging your loopback address just shows that your localhost is still there.

If you were to write a script that instead pulled the local IPv4 address you are getting - that might be a little more sensical?