Precisely. If you make mistakes like this expensive enough for the police station then the problem solves itself. The real problem is that someone promised the police and the school a magic new technology that would make their schoolyard safer. So far the system probably has zero wins, and one spectacular failure. If the political and economic fallout for the failure is high enough then the school turns off the crappy system, and it encourages other schools to do the same. Potential new buyers for the system disappear and the vendor of the system goes out of business.

And we all win.

Eventually the school might even end up with an effective system that does roughly the same thing, but it will likely be structured in a way that makes it less likely that Doritos wielding young adults get assaulted by the police. It's hard to argue against safer schools. In any system like this false positives are going to be a potential problem. If you make false positives expensive enough, however, then you likely get the outcome that you want.

AWS is a terrible place to work (by design) and has a brain drain problem. The system is now so complicated that the people remaining no lnoger have sufficient intitutional knowledge to reason about it in an effective manner, so issues are being sorted out by rediscovery rather than knowledge. This creates consistent new issues as code is deployed that nobody thought could cause issues in a system they don't truly understand.

I'm not saying a agree with it, but for your very first complain you need to understand: you're doing it wrong. That's not how public cloud is intended to be used. VMs are herd not pets. There should never be a reason to rename a VM. You spin up another and move on.

"But I need it to....." Nope. You're doing it wrong. It's not what that system was designed for and if you want to use it you need to design your workloads to operate within the theory of how it's intended to function. It's really that simple. Things will continue to be hard as long as you continue to attempt to use the wrong tool for the job at hand.

Not an urban legend when the ability to do so is far from ubiquitous. It is also in their interest to make you think this is all working properly when it's not.

This is well known. So are all of the warehouses full of CRTs that someone got paid to take and then abaondoned them in their leased warehouse. Plastic recycling barely happens. Paper and cardboard batches are routinely thrown out because of greasy food containers.........

We've all been getting this BS recycling thing pushed on us for decades. I'm not saying nothing is happening, but its in very few places and very few things that are actually getting recycled. And, surprise, it's the easy stuff. We're just trucking and shipping the rest around for no good reason (but people sure are making money off of it!).

Real recycling programs are difficult (for the processors and the consumers) and expensive. SF is (or at least was) a good example of what a more meaningful recycling program looks like, but even they can't do much of anything with most of the plastics and e waste other than shit it off to someone who pinky swears it's getting responsibly taken care of.

It's like you don't work in tech or something. Because nobody who does would have typed that out. And it's incredibly laughable that you think people are flocking to government work for a currently shut down and dysfunctional government.
Was this an attempt at comedy or satire that I missed?

My oldest was born in 1999 and the hospital sent us home with a list of foods that we shouldn't introduce to our children until they were three years old. I remember this because both peanut butter and honey were on the list, and one of my favorite foods is peanut butter and honey sandwiches. I have six kids, and I got in trouble quite a bit over the years because I gave my infants bits of my sandwiches.

What can I say, they liked them...

It's a bit funny to me that I was actually right about that particular call. Most of the times that my wife and I disagreed about something I was definitely the one that was wrong.

Most new parents don't know anything about raising children, and even the worst parents are pretty motivated to do a good job. New mothers, in particular, are desperate for solid advice on what to do with their new child. My wife isn't keen on reading the instructions for any purchase that she makes ever. No matter what it is that she buys I am the one that has to read the instructions and teach her how the thing works. That was true with our children as well. However, she made me read every pamphlet that the hospital sent home with us when our babies were born dozens of times over. If she thought I was interpreting them incorrectly she would wait a bit, cross examine me again, and force me to show references. If one of those pamphlets would have said that the best way to insure that the child grew up healthy and strong would be to murder the father and sprinkle his blood over the baby by the light of a full moon then I probably wouldn't have survived the first full moon after my daughter was born.

Someone in the medical community decided that the best way to protect children was to keep them away from certain allergens, and they put that opinion into the pamphlets that get given out to new parents. I am sure that the people that came up with that strategy meant well, but in they theory was proven incorrect.

Self-hosted Atlassian products seem to be just fine.

As for what "they said", they also said this cloud shit would be cheaper. It isn't.

Someone going to reddit for health advice is already too profoundly naive to adequately help.

Wikipedia is an interesting concept and it works decently well as a place to go read a bunch of general information and find decent sources. But LLMs are feeding that information to people in a customized, granular format that meets their exact individual needs and desires. So yeah, probably not as interested in reading your giant wall of text when they want 6 specific lines out of it.

Remember when Encyclopædia Britannica was crying about you stealing their customers, Wikipedia? Yeah, this is what they experienced.

Sounds like a vendor selection issue to me. While I agree that this is never likely to happen/find any mass adoption, your issue isn't likely to be a major reason.

Don't replace a roku with an apple tv. Come on now. There are plenty of good options running AOSP (android open source project). Just never log into the play store and it's fine. Or if you must switch your launcher to something sane like projectivy rather than the google one that pushes ads at you.

Wyoming is an interesting case. Data centers that have big NG-fired backup generation can connect to the grid only if they turn dispatch of those backup generators over to the grid operator. In high-demand intervals, the operator runs the backup generators rather than bringing in high-cost power from distant generators. Or runs them for frequency control if that's necessary.

There's been at least one case of a data center that signed the contract to allow the operator to run their NG-fired generation. When it turned out they had never actually implemented the control interface, the local utility cut them off cold. Want to buy a data center building with its own substation, the cooling infrastructure, etc? It's sitting idle just outside Cheyenne, with the current owners banned from connecting to the grid.

Just because someone may have some overlapping symptoms or behaviors doesn't mean its the same thing but less.

You have a highly social person who diagnose as autism because they get fixated on things, big woopie. That's completely different from those who are broken socially IMHO the base core of autism is they lack the ability to communicate mostly non verbal cues. Yet those social butterflies who excel at it, and always have as a normal person, get classified as autistic to the point where those who have real autism (high or low) get drowned out.

So sick of hearing people claim autism over fixation on a topic or some such. Yet they perform like an actor all without spending years of training/counseling to pretend to be human let alone make eye contact.

I'm also so sick of all the parents with puzzle bumper stickers, they don't accept autism. their kid is their autistic little "pet" that they show the world how good of parents they are. I've seen countless people who "love" their autistic kid(in most cases the kid really is), but just give him a screen to be alone in the corner, yet most of those could be nurtured into a one who wouldn't be reliant on them or even make more money by them

Sorry, guess I let the rant take over

I wasn't the one in need of a hand. I'm still not sure how you've gotten so lost.