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Geo location aside, putting things off shore is really a way to drive up cost such as maintenance like mad and it makes even less sense when you are working with large surfaces rat…

China seems happy to export solar panels to anyone.. Taiwan would probably not like to be a big importer of something it can't procure from other trade partners at similar prices t…

I suppose a headline that doesn't have much to do with the content is also such a technology?

This is GPL code so decompiling isn't necessary or the problem. Accepting over the wall low quality code and having a submitter for it who may know nothing about it makes it diffic…

I'd categorize a cypherpunk as a very specific form a cyberpunk, so to me that's normal journalistic form to use both terms at some point in an article.

My teachers only commented/deducted if I mixed spellings in a single essay. If a teacher can't teach someone who uses either variant they probably have a stark educational deficit …

Spending this much on a server's CPUs has been a pretty normal thing in DC/server rooms for a very long time, the rise of X86 in servers is a similar cheapening like the rise of AR…

We are seeing justice from the many ways. There aren't many people who appreciate waiting on justice in crimes that are ruining a lot to steal a little.

Why keep running an attack that didn't even work? Every second probably causes a loss of some bots up to a point..

Maybe I deceive myself when I think its too early to know if the Marshall plan through Glasnost was the intelligent half of an eternal cycle.

It doesn't really track that the original creation of .io being sordid means a political change won't have implications, (possibly even) modelled on and/or justified by the questio…

Unless I missed something this is a VPS in a cloud, so really its not about replacing hardware to get back up. There's certainly an interesting problem of scale and redundancy wher…

Funny, I can imagine bash is a real improvement on ansible. I once started with bash, switched to bash in ansible and then to "good style" ansible and then to a nixops cluster. The…

Most memory safety errors are from not being able to test things like whether you are really dropping references in all cases or whether your C++ additions are interacting with eac…

There are developers that earn that much, and the probability goes up at MS, Mozilla, etc, but I think a lot of qualified experienced Compiler developers exist who are earning less…

Apparently the nature of markets is offensive when the description of them doesn't go along with pavlovian expectations? I've met a lot of people who couldn't find the job they wan…

On the plus side, adding profanity once it is scanned for sounds like another way to weed out some commercial use without explicitly weeding out some commercial use.. That could be…

Fine, but then the US has spent a terrifying amount of my money on sports and I want it all back if the point of their sophisticated pro-social spending (which strangely has to inc…

Er no, not really (past results != future results).. This high pay has worked out because there are jobs to move people to because demand has so far been expanding. If we are sick …

Grades are almost guaranteed at Harvard Undergrad. A grader who gives out any Bs or less for any properly submitted paper can expect an outraged Professor to make them stop before …

That's a problem, but I think the problem is checks and balances for actual repairs to the checks and balances that would restrict a role are prohibitely hard to make while privile…

Biden was never an entertainer like the other 2 demented old men (entrusted with WMDs) under discussion. If we send you to space you'll have to pass a fitness test.. Because we are…

Right, AI is really just what I use to replace google searches I would have used to find highly relevant examples 10 years back. We are coming out of a 5 year search winter.

A demented figurehead with other people behind him directing the show. It's as if acting was the perfect training for the worst idea for a position in a system of checks and balanc…

Single core containers are also a terrible idea. Life got much less deadlocked as soon as there were 2+ processors everywhere. (Huh, people like hard OS design problems for margina…