Posts by Claptrap314

I'm not going to explain the reference. You need to work it out yourself. Until then, consider yourself very uneducated on the subject of international relations.

Re: Spinning like the oozlum bird?

The ENTIRE point of these drones is that they are supposed to be relatively disposable & low-cost. A mission success rate of 1/3 is TERRIFIC if you typically have 3-4 missions active in the same area at a time.

I don't believe for a second that we expected these drones to survive a significant EW attack--based on what I learned about EW while I was in SatCom in the USAF 1987-91. The physics doesn't change.

No, it's having a starving alligator instead of a healthy one.

Certainly, a starving alligator is more likely to be foolish & desperate. But in the end, it is still less of a threat.

Re: So someone steals something that doesnt exactly exist

I think you've skipped a couple of points.

The first is inherent value. In the old days, the inherent value of gold was that it made good jewelry. Today, of course, it is important or critical component of a lot of manufacturing processes. The inherent value of fiat is that it pays taxes. There is no inherent value in coin. The fact that there is a cost to their manufacture, and that, absent a change accepted by 50% of the miner power, the supply is limited, is designed as an aid to stability, but with no underlying inherent value, holding coin needs be a purely speculative play. And a long-term bad play should the boys with the guns feel threatened.

The second is transferability. Gold is a physical thing, and the limits on its transfer are precisely what has driven the move to paper. As pointed out by another, the blockchain of BTC is equivalent to a database, which means that the CAP theorem applies. In order to function, the blockchain is CP, which means that A is "whatever". Historically, I guess that transactions have taken an hour to settle.

So if by "digital gold" you mean "a philosophic token which has proven unworkable for general economic use", I can go with that.

Re: More numbers

2 location is NOT resilient.

Source: I learned SRE at Google.

This was for our OWN products, not for GCP. Cloud haters SEVERELY underestimate the cost of actually delivering 4 nines. (Note: Azure does not appear to be capable of delivering 4 nines.)

Of course, Google's systems were engineered for 5+, not just 4. But few businesses actually need 5.

If your business does not need 4 nines, then yes, you might be able to save money by dropping down to only having your data and systems in two places.

Re: That maths is way off

Resilience. You might want to look that term up.

Certainly, deduping is/can be a major save, but if BaseCamp is even 1/4 as good as DHH says, they are already doing that in S3.

Re: Fervor and China

Tell that to the Irish.

Re: Last of the autocrats?

Dream on, sweet prince. We've been through some version of this MANY times in the last few centuries.

Re: Sure

You're assuming that if NK nukes SK that we will nuke NK. Interesting theory. Not buying it.

I doubt any president after Reagan would actually order the strike.

Re: Bit ridiculous

Also 1/8th. Also not "Apache"--can't be bothered to remember which tribe it is.

Also COMPLETELY fed up with the professionally offended.

Also decided opposed to a name change for any reason. If you need my permission to keep using it, you have it.

Re: Bit ridiculous

Which is wrong because why? The "spaghetti" in "Spaghetti Western" is a reference to the fact that the director (and I think the production company) were Italian, and the movies were filmed in Italian.

You ALWAYS hire people living nearby when filming. Should they be required to fly folks in from Mexico?

Re: Russia's illegal invasion of Ukraine

The ICJ was explicitly formed to be hostile to the US and Israel. I've not bothered digging far enough to figure out who else was on the original hit list.

But a court which does operate according to the classical Western concepts of the law is one I'm not interested in submitting to. And yes, this means that my list of countries that I would be interested in touring is relatively limited.

Re: Restrictions != F(L)OSS

"It has a rather large population that traditionally values society and education more than we do. They've invested massively in STEM education and research, we haven't. Basic population distribution suggests that if you've got 1bn people, they're going to produce more intelligent people than a country with a population of <100m."

I have an interesting datapoint to the contrary, and a major theoretic problem as well.

This is a story of two Indians I worked with at IBM. One, raised in the US, was one of the best programmers that I have worked with. He was certainly much better than I was at the time. The other held a very senior position at IBM, and had a responsibilities including managing a team of twenty Indian programmers. Over the course of a program (almost three years), that team identified 0 unique bugs. As opposed to the team of four (including the first mentioned Indian) who identified dozens.

It's not the size of the population. It's not the level of education in the formal sense. It is the culture.

American culture has historically been much more encouraging of risk-taking and challenging authority than other places. THAT is where you get the new ideas that revolutionize things. A population of a billion people fearing for their lives if they offend the wrong member of the Party is NOT going to invent at the rate of a much smaller group that encourages hackery.

Re: Code is speech

"Fact can be stranger than fiction, because fiction is limited by what we can imagine."

Wow. I'm afraid to look if if that's how it actually happened...

Re: Keep politics out of open source

Inasmuch as OS is an umbrella term involving licenses, which are matters for courts, which interpret and apply laws, which are passed by politicians, you are correct. But breathing increases the CO2 in the atmosphere, which...

You have to draw the line somewhere or you lose the ability to clearly communicate.

This effort is clearly part of a broader effort to politicize more or less everything, to the advantage of the hard left.

Re: Serves Google right

Where do I start? I guess the first paragraph...

If you have the misfortune to work for a company using Gmail with guessable addresses, and you make the mistake of advertising your current employer on LinkedIn, guess what? I average at least two blind recruiter emails per day that I cannot block. Clearly, they have paid G off to deliver these emails. That, by itself, makes the experience substantially less than acceptable.

Email is neither dated nor a hodgepodge of protocols. Certainly, it shows its age, but if idiots did not INSIST on displaying inline HTTP, no only would I LOVE YOU have remained an urban legend, but the space in our mail boxes would be substantially reduced as well.

Of course, email is not a reliable transport, and anyone who doesn't understand that is an idiot. It was never designed as such, however. So what?