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by briffle 5y ago
Google withdrew from the original bid due to objections by its employees.
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by briffle 5y ago
They are used often in storage networks. Back when I worked at a vmware shop, we also implemented them on the vmotion network, and it cut down considerably moving very large DB servers to other hosts.
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by briffle 5y ago
You can scale load on many things in more recent versions of K8s. for example, pubsub depth of un-acked messages, or custom metrics in prometheus format. https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/tutorials&#
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by briffle 5y ago
IAM works across projects easily. The "Organization" concept it Google Cloud is used to collect projects, and manage permissions of groups (or subfolders) of projects very easily.
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by briffle 5y ago
We had a person running for government office in Oregon loudly proclaim over and over, "Why do we have have to have these mask mandates and rules. Oregon has one of the lowest infection rates".. Some people just seem to get cause
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by briffle 5y ago
> Genuine question: what do you think "defund the police" means? To some people, it means take some of the money from the police, and have actual trained counselors, mental health crisis workers, etc. I have heard of many that
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by briffle 5y ago
The Sun X4500 "thumper" server had 48 drives, if I remember correctly, and came out in 2006ish. It had hot-swap SATA disks (up to 512GB disks initially!) and was actually pretty cool and forward thinking https://web.arc
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by briffle 5y ago
I had this exact same argument with a family member who's legal name is William, but has gone by 'Bill" his whole life...
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by briffle 5y ago
I have had other customers in Oregon very, very loud and angry about me getting out and running the pump myself. They immediately dismiss my statement that it’s perfectly legal for us to dispense diesel, just not gasoline, until an employe
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by briffle 5y ago
Still an Indian school run by federal government in Salem Oregon: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemawa_Indian_School
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by briffle 5y ago
With an almost unlimited heat-sink available right next to the reactor, plus, nuclear technician training in the Navy is very, very difficult to pass.
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by briffle 5y ago
Don't forget Lockheed Martin, that said they would have one about 15 years ago "in 2-3 years"
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by briffle 5y ago
Even that would be fine, we would still see that Representative Smith inserted the language into the bill. Its the person that has merge permissions into the main branch that has the accountability
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by briffle 5y ago
I would pay a fee to some sites to keep using their service, without tracking/advertising. But they don't offer it as an option.
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by briffle 5y ago
They don't even have to close the loophole. Just tell the US Apple Corporation (as an example) they can't proceed in their current court cases, as they are not the 'owner' of the IP, they are merely a licensee. Let the
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by briffle 5y ago
You literally cannot find the upload for Comcast/XFinity until after you have gone through the sign up, and even given your credit card. There is one more confirmation before your card gets charged, and that is where it is. https:&#x
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by briffle 5y ago
Millions of people own RV's. Most people that tow them with their SUV are way, way over the limits for the vehicles they use. (the salesperson will ALWAYS say your vehicle can pull it)
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by briffle 5y ago
Dodge/Chrysler/Ram did that a few years ago when some researchers showed how they could take over a Jeep Grand Cherokee via the 4G connection in the entertainment center, and apply brakes and gas. I got a USB stick in the mail, wi
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by briffle 5y ago
I wish I could remember where I read it, many, many years ago, but a blog was talking about automating systems in a government entity. They spent much work customizing a workflow, where all requests would go to Judy, and she would decide wh
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by briffle 5y ago
Or at least auto-delete them after 30 days, in case a customer didn't get theirs, and needed it resent. Retention policies limit the blast radius when there is a problem.
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by briffle 5y ago
Obligitory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/538/
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by briffle 5y ago
Until one of those people buys a Tesla with bitcoin (yeah, I know they just stopped doing that) from a wallet that can be traced to that payment, and then its just the authorities following up the chain. People like to seem like all these c
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by briffle 5y ago
Even better, they will take the cost of their Insurance Deductible, and then do those calculations. Most businesses have insurance for this stuff.
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by briffle 5y ago
I wouldn't be so harsh, but I would stop allowing them to sue in US court for some things. Sorry, your IP is in the Netherlands, go file there. See how quick many companies pull their IP back.
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by briffle 5y ago
It was converted to natural gas a few years ago. Its quite an editorialized title.
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by briffle 5y ago
When your major enterprise outsources development to a dirt cheap company, who then basically hires in 3rd world countries at slave labor prices, don't you still blame the major enterprise? I know I do.
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by briffle 5y ago
Anatomy of a buy-out: Step 1. "We bought this company because we love the product, nothing is changing" -- At this point, smart employees (that have been here before) without retention bonuses are leaving Step 2. "We are goin
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by briffle 5y ago
I'm mid 40's, and really glad someone posted an answer, because that was starting to drive me nuts :)
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by briffle 5y ago
The Port of Coos Bay in Southern Oregon has been trying to expand their port for 15 years now. https://www.portofcoosbay.com/projects But the projects take quite a bit of time (dredging the bay deeper and wider to service
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by briffle 5y ago
But if we take an ethics class, how can we justify spending 8-10 hours a day coming up with dark patterns to trick people to click on ads? /sarcasm

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