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You jest but my friend is a professor in Toyama, Japan, and makes the occasional dark joke about moving the people out for a few days and having the US raze it again from time to time.

Sometimes getting rid of ossified organizations is a good thing, but there are probably better ways than high explosives.

They do, Google had/has one in the Dalles in Oregon next to the dam and there are several in line Canada and Finland.

Part of the problem is consistent humidity management, but the other is that air, even really cold air, isn't dense enough to move specific heat as effectively as the same volume of a denser working fluid.

For a practical example in the other direction, look at combined cycle gas turbines which use heated air for the primary turbine and the recapture as much denser steam for the secondary.

The terminology varies by vendors but essentially there are authentication portals that users will log into and receive auth tickets. These are forwarded to network gateways, usually encrypted in a vpn tunnel, that allow traffic based on user RBAC, sometimes region or time, etc.

Captive portals are web auth pages for use cases the more structured method doesn't work for. They were envisioned as making you sign in hotel wifi and such but work in the other direction as well by forcing a web user login before allowing traffic from a host for some period of time.

I've been moving away from this model towards user-asssociated VPNs or (inverse) captive portals.

Used Powerbroker and cyberark for a long time and while they're good at stated purpose the integration with more flexible and modern auth systems has had a lot of friction.

The particular regulatory area I work in is also just a non-starter for federated AAA from outside the regulated systems which colors my opinion though.

Combined with command restrictions in openssh and sudo etc you end up with several wholly disjoint attack surfaces, decent logging, and granular user restrictions.

My work laptop has been on 10 LTSC for years. I don't "hate it" but I've never heard anyone talk about liking it so much as tolerating it to run the stuff they care about.

Maybe it's super great on those surface tablets but all the techy people I know using tablets on are iPads.

And largely still is. There was mass resistance to leaving windows 7 which was the last release they basically worked like people had learned to use it.

Getting stuff like user mode drivers and bitlocker and all the is nice but almost nothing had been added to the core product that users themselves much cared about.

3d object collections pinned to opening labels and the only way to get rid of it is registry hacks. Who was that "feature" ever even for?

Other than IG envy posts a lot of my younger friends seem to be switching to private or mostly private group chats. A lot of them use Discords even for non-gaming stuff probably due to the illusion of a smaller and more authentic community. Tiktok and YT may be replacing others but those seem much more heavily leaning to watching versus posting as the skill and production of what it takes to look good on it is more effort.

If I had to guess they're getting annoyed at the rapid enshittification push at some of the big platforms. We may see federated mastodon model become more popular once a few celebrities figure it out.

Gliders or ultralights are a great way to get your head around the way the aircraft moves and what you feel when it does.

Being a stickler is one of those cultural things that never makes it into the entertainment world. So much more planning goes into even the simplest flight that the sims mostly handwave. I play IL2 a lot and it's funny seeing the missions generate weather that would have grounded early aircraft full stop.

I look at it more like Excel now. It gives you just enough to do simple things easily with tools that make more complicated things ... Horrifying.

Seeing deeply nested excel IFs that parsed out individual letters of a string for recursive cell logic still gives me nightmares.

Are memory locations or labels resolved to them, probably at compile or startup time, really any different?

The whole GOTO-harmful is a product of a bygone time much as anyone needing to keep track of a jump table by hand is now.

The NYT has always gathered the zeitgeist of highly affluent and artsy new Yorkers, who tend to be highly invested in maintaining their status quo. They may not be right wing by principle, but they get there a lot on some subjects by talking to lots of bankers and financiers.

Windows notepad possibly being the most prominent text editor that ed is unambiguously superior to.

Still blows my mind that projects like notepad++ have been around for the literal lifetime of younger users and somehow MS just did not give any sort of shit about their terrible editor.

There are dated messages in the article showing this going back to at least July 2023. So yes, your second case is closer to what appears to have been the sequence of events.

Also they've been giving out these warnings for months. I'm sympathetic to the guy with the seemingly abusive legal actions from Fox but this storage problem did not just spring from nothing into the final crisis stage.

We had to move a bunch of data off gdrive too, which did little for our opinion of Google's business customer support and was a PITA I didn't need, but the first warnings were in 2002 some time and we were nowhere near as egregious in usage as some of the/r/datahoarder crowd that had multiple petabytes hiding in the lowest cost Gsuite legacy pricing.

A really slick slide deck on how your unicorn will make this person the envy of his peers.

Also amazing amounts of luck, or family connections.