It's an interesting question. I've never encountered a "do work for us" but i've certainly spent hours, once a few days on some projects for interviews and i've also given them out.

I've also had full day interviews for jobs. Sometimes multiple half days. Most places i've worked had fairly short interview processes and even that would be at least 6 hours of involvement to get a job.

The movie industry is mulling it over too:
https://web.archive.org/web/20...

And idk what the state is of no cost estimates for like plumbers, and other contractors. Some of them do... others charge even to come out and look at your supposedly broken thing. Definitely the "repair" kind charge. The "maybe we'll build something" type do bids / proposals for free?

If you're like a "strategic" consumer of books rather than impulsive, you could probably ask them to order the books for you and then just wait until it shows up. This is purely in the "it's not economic but i want to pay 30% extra and wait 2x or 3x as long just to keep these people in business because they're 'part of the community' "...
It's something i sometimes do but prob. not often enough to make a real difference. I should do it more. (although sadly in my case the "local" store is a Barnes & Noble )

Well, idk specifically about bandwidth, but in the US a while back T-mobile had some deal where Netflix (and maybe Spotify) didn't count against your data caps.

And at other times they even included a Spotify subscription. I have no idea what money changed hands among the players in this space.

Also, if you run a content company you tend to have to pay for "transfer" by buying from large internet providers. This is different than getting to the consumer, but e.g. AT&T and Xfinity sell bandwidth that way too. And it's almost certainly faster to get to Xfinity consumers by directly getting the stuff from your source into the Xfinity network than by jumping through other carriers first.

I can't find a link i like but "multihome autonomous systems" and "BGP local preferences" (https://networklessons.com/bgp/how-to-configure-bgp-local-preference-attribute ) are some of the basic pieces/tools to implement it.

ah... the good ole "for 0.25 to 6 hours in 30 of the last 38 days record".
What the heck kind of tortured cherry picked thing is this?

The plain reading of "Exceeds 100% of Energy Demand With Renewables Over a Record 30 Days" is "did not dip below 100% for 30 consecutive days" which is very far from this.

Seriously what threshold is being claimed? is it "there has never before been a period of 38 days during which 100% was breach during 30 of them ?"

I'm glad if it's working out but this kind of boosterism (in the headline and article, not in tracking the peak performance) is just bizarre.

you say bandwidth management is fine, but in these debates/articles/bills I don't see that coming through. The techniques and tools for "evil" QOS are the same ones for "good" QOS.

The orders of magnitude difference in size and latency sensitivity of different types of traffic makes it hard to just throw everything together and not with about it except if you have crazy over provisioning. Fortunately bandwidth availability due to improvement at link level and processing power in router has grown incredibly over the past 30 years and kept ahead of real use... but that execs capacity isn't going to last forever.

like, 1gbit symmetric to the household with no cap is only possible as long as it's 99.9.... % (idk how many nines) idle.

Pretty much.

Well, it's more that the political and educational system likes to pretend outwardly that all kids have ~ 115+ IQ and that if only we increase funding some more and find the right curriculum then everyone can grow up to be a doctor or engineer. That's been like the past ~30? years of American educational philosophy. (or maybe educational political marketing and posturing )

SOC 2 and HI-TRUST specifically, compared to some others like the lower levels of PCI, require you to have a have 3rd party auditor check you out. They demand "evidence" of various things and then do "fieldwork" where they poke around to spot check things ("show me X", "show me the config for Y"). So they have some significant correspondence to reality.

You can count on the fact that they at least have VPNs , encryption, RBAC, firewalls ... and some documentation of who accesses what / who can change what , and some tracking and auditing of same (and some other tech and processes like that) in place.

Though how tight some of the stuff is really is day to day ... there's definitely room for slop / interpretation / incompetence.

In my experience, most Terms of Service, Employee Handbooks and the like are not read, understood or thought about much by people in the company. Some contractor , lawyer, accountant , HR person (depending on the document), put it together as "best practices" and most of it wasn't closely considered by stakeholders.

Only exception is if you have some persnickety nerds in charge of those areas for some reason, which is the exception rather than the rule at small and medium companies or to specific clauses that let them do something or get out of some liability. Otherwise they're given as much attention by the people publishing the docs as the people who supposedly are reading them (but actually just clicking "agree" ... if there is even something to click on )

This whistleblower sounded like a dweeb even before i read to the bottom of the article where there is this update:

Of course the statement that their Dynamics 365 "does not rely on any SQL database" is highly unlikely, imo. Dynamics 365 is the branding of Microsoft's suite of CRM/ERP/accounting big enterprise software and while i'd never worked with it (or heard of it, tbh) of COURSE it's backed by SQL Server (what ELSE would it be backed by ? this is primarily what "SQL databases" have been used for as long as they've existed). As evidence here's an article about the new-in-2021 feature that allows you to connect to said database: https://dynamics-chronicles.co... (in a read only manner)

All of these people :
1) re the whistleblower: like you guys and others have said, "the schema is undocumented and it's lacking constraints" is more a "yeah, and there's a pothole in the parking lot, and unrest in the Middle East, and also it's a weekday" sort of thing than "let's run to the press and the government hotline" thing.
2) re the whistleblower part 2: the guy seems confused about their data warehouse vs their OLTP system (which , if in fact is Dynamics 365 they don't have control of the actual schema or constraints at the DB level)

3) but then the retort is also technically just wrong.

(ofc now that i've said this someone will come out and correct me and point out that Dynamics 365 totally doesn't work that way. and then i'll have to add myself to the list )

ok. 2009. so "early 2010s"

It's one of the mostly-in-memory distributed NoSQL databases from the early '00s that's trying to monetize their open source.

Seems they missed the boat on going public so now they're trying to monetize harder.

the quote is from some other article, but this one covers this dynamic/relicensing thing pretty well. that's been going on for a few years https://techcrunch.com/2024/03...

Sounds like the CEO knows what's coming:

Well, i care about stuff like clean air and clean water, hormone disruptors, microplastics, noise, etc. CO2 and global warming... less. But in all cases scale matters.

In this case the article says that normal pants have 14% fabric waste and this process has 3% fabric waste. That sounds nice, but incremental and on dimensions that aren't particularly important.

More importantly it's only a very minor aspect of the "robots make [eventually] custom sized pants for [relatively] cheap!" story. So top of interest is: "neat, robots!" and maybe "well fitting pants!". Next is hmm... impact on trade and labor including "the robots are gonna take my job!"[not this robot, but the programmer ones]. Only well after that is environmental concerns in this story.

The whole thing is virtually not an environmental story. based on some handwavy math from the web it looks like saving that fabric will take ~5% off the overall CO2 footprint of jeans. So something like 5-10 miles of driving a car. ( using info from here and some other articles. it comes out similarly https://prezi.com/3djo2xfdoj-r... ) . If you account for not going across the Pacific maybe it's another 10%. (but then you're giving money to Americans who eat more meat and overall have a higher footprint so... who knows how it comes out )

Sure incremental change is nice, but overall the mention of these things is largely a marketing ploy.

Well, they claim they're 4x the speed of 3d-woven stuff. For me... i'm not moved by the environmental issues, but if the quality is decent, and "made in the USA" and the price is ok... i'd go for it.

The Walmart partnership seems strange to me though since this is more something to start at the tech early adopter types at a somewhat premium price and then move it more broadly. (OTOH i prob shouldn't presume to tell Walmart how to make money. they're much much better at it than i am)

So i've been following the icecream machine story for years, but for the slashdot crowd this buries the lede:

wtf is "right to repair" for "programmable logic controllers" and "enterprise IT"? Is everything going to require published APIs? everything going to be open source?

I don't entirely disagree, but in this case it sounds pretty hollow when coming from the governments who are themselves obsessed with biometric tracking.

e.g in Europe you're fingerprinted for a passport (and it's stored in the passport, though protected)
In the US you're not, (yet?), but your picture, the OG biometric, is in there and readable (w/ physical access to the passport which prints the components of the key in it)

(see e.g. https://stackoverflow.com/a/21...)