Yeah, no slave labor on laptops. We save that for license plates and road crews.

In which case, Twitter should ban the account, and the President need not ban them individually.

So if Trump visits somewhere, no fees or security can prevent the people from getting access to the president?

I can see someone putting this in for support.

"Please send us the support file for troubleshooting" "What's a file"

"Please click the link to open an email with the support file attached and click send" "OK"

That's why they use "total death", so people can't say "they would have died anyway". Everyone dies. Your argument is for the legalization of murder, because everyone who dies would have died anyway, just later.

Shutting down the post office in the middle of a pandemic is killing diabetics. The total death number is how we measured the impact of the Black Plague, the Spanish Flu, and makes sense for measuring COVID-19, because the Government is lying to hide their incompetence.

Total death represents the true impact, and isn't skewed by testing numbers or other lies.

Because all numbers on all sides are lies, the non-idiots have started quoting total deaths as the only reliable way to measure the difference. This is how the Spanish Flu numbers were calculated, because we can't posthumously test people. Essentially, we are using historical methods to measure today, because we don't have accurate numbers from today.

So suicide being up will make COVID more deadly (which is what the conspiracy theorists are saying, that seeing their wife for more that 2 hours a day makes them suicidal and/or homicidal). Also, denied medical care, where someone with the flu dies because they are turned away for COVID-19 symptoms. The total deaths is the best way to measure the "impact" even if it's not the best way to measure causality.

So the headline isn't a lie. It's exactly what's being measured, and exactly what the article says.

I've visited a hydro dam battery which does exactly that. It pumps water into a mountain lake, then, when the demand spikes, it dumps the water out for hydro generation. It was put in when the generation was mainly coal, so that the low demand at night would not affect production, and the lake would fill, and in the peak times, the lake shrinks. Every day, in and out.

There are many ways of storing energy to eliminate the need to "ramp up the sun and wind". The anti-environmentalists just complain about everything, when we have the tech to go 100% renewable today. We just choose not to.

So measure everything in SFN. Seconds From Now.
Want to have a meeting 3600 SFN?
Nah, I'll be busy, how about 7200 SFN?
OK

I didn't mention snapshots. I had mentioned offline backups.

snapshots are good, if used with backups and secure storage. When I worked for a F500, the weekly backups were picked up by an armed guard every Monday, placed in a locked box the guard company didn't have a key for, then transported to an offsite vault. The box contained 7 years of backups, rotated according to a policy designed by lawyers to retain sufficient records for any legal or tax action that might happen, then tweaked by IT for usability. The nightly backups were kept off-site at an unsecured location, and returned each morning. These were encrypted incrementals, so not a full backup to be lost, and unusable if stolen. Full backups were weekly, because they took longer than 24 hours to complete, so were started Friday night, and completed some time Saturday, for a Sunday pickup. They would be checked for completion over the weekend, so that any error in the processing could be accepted to finish the job before Monday

The total loss of data would be less than 24 hours from any point of corruption. All backups 100% offline, and offsite. A compete loss of the building would lose no more than 24 hours of data, and could be rebuilt in the time it took to get suitable hardware to restore with and on.

That's the minimum I would consider acceptable, and it gets more strict from there.

What ransomware has done that? In none, then making up lies to play Devil's Advocate just makes you an asshole.

Stick to reality, not making up impossible "what if"s.

Or 10 online backups, but no offline backups. The backups were corrupted in real time, as designed...

Yeah, it's not like the Chevy Small-block has never shown up in "competitors" cars, or "suspension by Lotus" on a label on a car that isn't Lotus, or transmissions and brakes being sourced from shared companies to competing models. How many cars have Brembo brakes?

Quantity has a quality all its own. Usually this means that quantity can beat quality, with enough quantity, but in this case, means that quantity is an engineering challenge that appears to be harder than initially anticipated.

One of the strong points of a good AI is identifying failures. "Sorry Dave, I can't do that, I don't have the wind data for the Eastern Atlantic from March" So then point satellites at that area, or float some weather stations in the area. The more we AI it, the more the AI will identify gaps. Good weak AI doesn't just fail when given garbage inputs, but it also identifies the garbage for the humans to fix.