rhodozelia

I’m curious why advice is dangerous. Can you expand on why you feel that?

My first ‘job’ was going around to professors houses and setting up their modems and trumpet windsock so they could connect to the internet through the university’s modem pool. I was 12 and my dad came with me, the professors would reach out to him to get me to set up their internet. Hilarious!

The last bit of the post is interesting, in the author’s qualified opinion this heat wave would have occurred regardless of global warming, but global warming made it 2 degrees F hotter.

The anamoly causing the heat wave is independent of global warming.

Before anyone interprets that as a political stance on global warming, it is straight from the article.

It’s gonna be real hot!!

For most users who are emailing, reading some web forum, social media, and maybe office that matters very little.

Even fully up to date there is always another zero day, so for individuals doing nothing of particular importance the best bet is good up to date backups of the important files and when your software tools are working well to help you get whatever it is you do done, don’t change them, and don’t update them, because odds are there will be some regression, some feature removed, a change to a subscription model, some functionality now depends on the Internet, or some level of telemetry/spying.

Software has become hostile to users. Everything is nearly malware now. Easily snap shotted and sandboxed VMs are just about the only way to maintain some level of consistency over a 5-10 year span where you are depending on the software to just keep doing what it is doing.

And so it goes. A program solves a problem for you, it is good value, you start to use it, it is changed to further lock you in, and then it changes to a subscription

I’m in industrial control and the move fast and break things never ending stream of updates subscription software mentality has taken hold of the big players like Rockwell and Schneider.

Mediocre software is eating the world

Is newer one note not as good? It always bugs me to upgrade but usually the newer versions of everything are worse for the user.

Tom green was even ahead of them. Who can forget the air brushed lesbians on his dads car, his dad deciding to take the bus to his government job, and then Tom trying to pick his dad up at the bus stop in the car.

Say people with the skills and incentives to build these systems all go to faangs where they can make 500k/yr and have the budget to build the system since that system is the revenue generator.

Everywhere else it is 150k-200k a year with the bare number headcount and you are a cost center and treated like one.

So not surprising to me that every company in the world that has a large physical plant, so already has large single points of failure, doesn’t have redundant data centers or cloud based systems.

Given the number of hacks anything online literally can’t be secured, so they are damned if they do and damned if they don’t.

One answer is to go back to analog systems, which ain’t happening!

I am a heavy one note user with a group we all sync our notes to a network drive abs it works well.

Would this be equivalent but supports iOS and Linux?

A 777-300 holds 388 passengers, so 39,000 lbs extra would be significant.

Is the average American 100 lbs heavier than the average person from the rest of the world? Probably nowhere near that.

Maybe not, but the problem tarnishes the brand and erodes trust in claims that X is not a problem.

And Americans wonder why the rest of the world doesn’t want the acid bath chicken and hormone and steroid infused milk exports

Edit: exports

How much of the cost of a flight is fuel? What percentage of the mass being moved is passengers and their luggage be freight and the plane and fuel itself?