MiguelHudnandez

I feel that not only should QA staff outnumber developers, but QA staff should have access to development time to design and improve QA tooling.

If you're doing an OS right, the quality is the product. I think MacOS prior to the launch of the iPhone would be the gold standard the kind of product design I'm talking about. At that time they were running circles around Windows XP/7 in terms of new features. They were actually selling the new OSes and folks were happy to pay for each roughly annual upgrade. Often the same hardware got faster with the newer OS.

Lately Microsoft and Apple are racing to the bottom, it seems.

When you look at the scale of the reports, you find they are much lower than Azure's. seeing a bunch of 24-hour sparkline type graphs next to each other can make it look like they are equally impacted, but AWS has 500 reports and Azure has 20,000. The scale is hidden by the choice of graph.

In other words, people reporting outages at AWS are probably having trouble with microsoft-run DNS services or caching proxies. It's not that the issues aren't there, it's that the internet is full of intermingled complexity. Just that amount of organic false-positives can make it look like an unrelated major service is impacted.

It would cost a fortune in API calls, so it's not practical for anyone except internally at corporate.

Thank you for taking a pay cut to do what you do, I'm so glad your channels exist. Also please remember to take vacations! (trade shows don't count)

If only that were true

I appreciate by default any attempt to make a full accounting of the costs involved in energy transmission and storage. Many of these grid & battery costs are abstracted away from consumers and great effort must be made to understand them fully.

That said, have you done a similar analysis involving the costs of removing finite organics from the ground, burning those, and releasing the byproducts into the atmosphere? Even if one is better in the short term we should still be working toward better options.

Legal concerns aside, aren't Youtube captions primarily AI-generated in the first place? I know some authors meticulously hand-craft their captions but that can't be the case for the vast majority of videos.

Therefore isn't training AI on this basically poisoning your own model? The caption quality is good but there are mistakes in pretty much every video I watch with captions.

The database is not encrypted while the system is running. Microsoft's claim that it's encrypted is due to the machine being encrypted at rest with Bitlocker.

The databases are plain-text sqlite files within the current user's %appdata% folder.

So, literally anything that can grab those files and put them somewhere else can qualify as exfiltration. Any backup product worth its salt would be covering these databases.

This is a 1 year old post with unsubstantiated/anecdotal claims. Plausibly true but insufficient evidence to conclude it's factual.

Some mice will have buttons that toggle lighting or tracking speed, I have a feeling these are the kinds of buttons that might not work with the app. Because they are just local buttons, they don't get sent to the OS.

I think parking lots are the ideal place for large scale solar. They have already destroyed the local environment, and anything shading black asphalt will be an improvement for local temperature.

Other plusses are that they are close to electric demand (business, homes, and EVs), and people prefer to park in shade.

The downside is there's no existing structure to install the panels, so that's more steel used to mount the panels.

Remember when Comcast throttled Netflix to ISDN speeds because... hey... no net neutrality? Those were good times.

Comcast's perspective was that Netflix was using "their pipes" for free. Those "pipes" are what their paying customers are paying for. Not to mention the hefty government subsidies that go to cable companies to establish internet service in the first place. A google search today reveals plenty of VPN providers offering workarounds Comcast's throttling which is still going on today.

ISPs should deliver bits in a way that's fair to their paying customers. Period.