Pretty sure this was hand crafted algorithm if it happened in 2011.

It's more of a lesson in the difficulty of communicating business logic when creating a project (which will obviously impact AI, but can cause problems for people too).

Generally laid off high end talent gets 3x hourly on rehire (based on my friend's parents).

I'm shocked that Ford had a standard of quality that let them notice.

I read an article recently where Ford was bragging about testing one engine a day off an assembly line for quality control. Ford felt that was an amazing dedication to quality.

The point was even if the disc didn't contain the game itself, it allowed the console it was inserted into to connect to the server and download it without needing a key. If you got tired of the game, you could sell the disc, and someone else would just insert it and it would download again for them.

Putting a printed key in the package instead of a disc that will download the game completely kills your ability to sell the game as used, which is almost certainly the only reason they're doing it that way.

Our IT team has been switching to Macs over the past 18 months or so. Started with the network guys, then sys admins and support desk people. Dev Ops and developers are supposed to be getting them when our machines are next refreshed.

For reference, we're heavily invested in .Net, Azure, MSSQL, etc.

I imagine there will be birthday randomizers in pretty much every repo.

I've literally never seen praise for Poettering on the blogs. Only critisosm of him and all of his projects.

The fact that the projects are picked up and used by distros leads me to believe that perhaps the blogs are mistaken and there's something we're all missing.

They're going to make 30% of the population immortal and you think the number is made up?

I'd like to see corporations able to be tried as people. 5 year jail sentence = 5 year government ownership.

Tie it to GDP and use it to make sure no companies get too big to fail so we don't need to socialize the risk. It'll also assure that there's competition.

I think we're both somewhat sarcastic, but there is a certain beauty to using it as a way to foster competition and reduce the need for bail outs.

I'm not into socialism, but I'm not convinced it's worse than 1 company having control of what's today's entire GDP in the relatively short term. And that's what SpaceX is claiming they'll have in the case for their valuation.

Yes, and he's also been saying that we'll have full self driving cars by the end of the year for the last 15 years or so. He said that his tunnel in Vegas would be full of self driving Teslas. He said that 10 years ago you'd be able to summon your Tesla from across the country. He said he'd build a hyperloop from LA to SF. He said that we'd have humans on Mars by 2021. He said that he'd have a fleet of over 1,000,000 fully autonomous robotaxis driving around by 2020. He said Tesla owners would be able to let their Teslas be used as taxis that would pay for themselves when the owner wasn't using them.

Elon says a whole lot of stuff. The vast majority of it is absolute bullshit that he's spewing to further his wealth and power. The fact that anyone believes anything that comes out of his mouth anymore surprises me.

Maybe people are just tired of him spewing absolute bullshit as fact while stealing our money, destroying our government, literally hurting and killing people, and just generally being an unlikable little troll that no one would even care about if he hadn't managed to leverage himself into a fuck ton of wealth and power?

This is different from property taxes how?

We tax unrealized gains there already. Why not do that with wealth as well?

I'm pretty sure a data center cutoff is bad on an under voltage too.

1) grid under supplies and voltage drops
2a) grid requests more power from flexible (gas) plants
2b) HUGE customers completely cut their draw
3) more power with less demand causes huge over voltage