HackOfAllTrades

Wow. Just how much does he have invested in them?

Clearly Postgres is not a good database and you will wisely use any other. I can see real advantages to this. It saves you so much effort and time. In fact, it allows you to make no effort at all.

Their 'right' to do that was probably somewhere in unreadable ALL CAPS on a small piece of paper at the bottom of the shipping box that the end user never got.

Fuck 'em. Isolate your local net from the world and only let through devices you trust. Plenty of ways to do that, even at low expense. But you will have to make the effort or pay someone else to do it.

Could this be tied to Google's push to force everyone to use Manifest 3, and nerf Add Blockers?

Wrong answer. > How can costs be reduced?

Stop building nuclear reactors.

"If we judged other forms of power generation the way we judge nuclear, we simply wouldn't have electricity."

Yes, of course. I can only imagine the deaths and destruction that tsunami would have caused if it were a wind or solar plant.

/SARCASM you idiot!

I live in Georgia, and the only thing this plant will do is raise our rates.

It's late (of course) and HUGELY over budget (also of course). The planners always knew it would be way late and way over budget. None of that mattered, because the 'regulatory' system guarantees they get it all back (and more) from the rate payers.

It was also painfully obvious WHEN THIS WAS PLANNED that building Solar and/or Wind would get done sooner and far less expensively.

Can't wait to replace all the resistors in my PSU with SuperConducting Resistors. :-)

Same here. It reads like a huge list of cherry-pickings.

You'd think that quoting facts would strengthen ones argument, all these tiny and sometimes very specific facts with no context had the opposite effect.

I'm terribly suspicious when an article quotes a CEO saying "profits aren't where they should be".

God only knows what he thinks his corporate profits "should be", but I'd bet it's a lot higher that you or I would guess.

The HDD may be having to retry reads on weak/bad sectors. Run Steve Gibson's SpinRight on it. It spots sectors that are having problems but not yet totally failed, and tells the controller to swap them out for spares (which is what the controller would do when they completely failed.)

It also works on SSDs, and yes, SSDs have the same problem because the drive controllers were not written from scratch.

(No affiliation here. It's just a tool I use because it works.)

Nope. You can turn telemetry off and not see any improvement. Simple reason: your app isn't waiting for telemetry to be sent.

If you trivialize everything, everything looks trivial.

Why do people keep falling for this? This same fraud used to pop up only every 10 years. Now it's 5 or less.

I'm a PhD chemist. Please consider this: While plastics and oil are both hydrocarbons they have this important difference. Liquid hydrocarbons have short carbon chains and lots of hydrogen. Plastics have very LONG carbon chains, usually with many double bonds, and very little hydrogen.

That is why, when you heat plastic it decomposes into char -- as in charcoal. It is IMPOSSIBLE to produce oil, even theoretically, without adding a source of hydrogen.

A few centuries ago these same fraudsters would be selling you a way to change Iron into Gold.

Lousy article. For example, the author complains about a supposed 'lesson learned' that says (shortened) "If so-and-so happens it may be because of A, or it may be because of B". His complaint is "except that it may be because of C or D".

But the 'lesson' he presented never claimed to be an exclusive either-or. It just says "here are two possible explanations for something".

There's sloppy thinking like this throughout. Thumbs down for me.