bluemellophone

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[–] bluemellophone@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Dang, I used to have so many Juno disks. What a flashback.

[–] bluemellophone@lemmy.world 25 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Using your own WiFi router also bypasses the wireless security settings to access the school network.

Some resources are only available while on the network (printers, access to library, academic papers, other student hardware). Now imagine a random person in a coffee shop next door had u limited access to these resources via an unmanaged access point.

[–] bluemellophone@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I refuse to put anything on my phone, she as naked as the day I got her.

[–] bluemellophone@lemmy.world 56 points 3 months ago (6 children)

A live stream with tens of thousands of simultaneous viewers is, almost by definition, a scheduled DDOS. Even Apple struggled for years to get it right for their WWDC Keynote events back when they were live.

[–] bluemellophone@lemmy.world 35 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Fundamentals: Intel powers the US military industrial complex, they’ll weather this storm.

[–] bluemellophone@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

Yep, and Llama 3.1 just came out, which is the most open state-of-the-art LLM out right now.

[–] bluemellophone@lemmy.world 16 points 4 months ago

I agree, the speculative execution failure feels like the start of the bad times for modern Intel.

[–] bluemellophone@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago

This.

You’d be surprised how much of a place’s physical infrastructure depends on a physical line. Automated fire alerts for high rises, security alarms, remote access for gates and doors, backup phone connections. A lot of this still uses old physical lines because it is easy to fix and highly reliable.

Now consider the infrastructure needed for specialized services like EMS, police, secure and classified buildings, federal agencies, embassies, smart traffic signals. Shutting down a network like that has massive implications for anything in society that relies on it, which is well beyond your cell phone plan.

[–] bluemellophone@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

$350k includes the salary but also all of the health insurance benefits, taxes, stock options, office space and perks, compute hardware, software services… the works. An employer will have an averaged overhead factor for their skilled workforce, which can be anywhere between 1.5 and 2.5 typically. A worker with an annual pre-tax salary of $140k could cost Google $350k in overall expenses per year. Labor is expensive.

Also, these people weren’t just making simple Python scripts. Most of them were contributing core functionality into Python itself and managing the internal Python version and the ecosystem of Google software stacks that depend on it.

[–] bluemellophone@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago

Yes, pretty sure on both accounts.

[–] bluemellophone@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

The Chevy Volt PHEV was an absolutely fantastic car, I was very sad the day I sold it and even more sad when GM said they were discontinuing the line. Whoever brings a PHEV truck to the market with 100 miles of all-EV range, I’ll buy it day one.

[–] bluemellophone@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Nah, they will simply sell the planes to other markets. I’m sure there are plenty of non-US airlines willing to gobble up planes at a discount. The pundit and lobby machine would get engaged and magically there would be a big industry bailout to cover the losses.

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