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God, you never tried Oracle Cloud. It's not an UI, it's an escape room. I would pay to switch to Azure.

I'll be more nuanced.Doing operational security can enhance your security posture, but the real trick in cybersecurity isn’t just putting measures in place, it’s keeping them up over time. That’s where checklists come in.

A lot of companies get it wrong. They think the checklist is the security. But really, the checklist is just there to remind you that you did something right before and you need to keep it up. Treating the checklist like it’s the goal is where things go off track.

This is a CISO's nightmare fuel. Shadow IT is a real pain, consisting of systems with no ownership, no control, and possibly a tight link with the inner IT system.

And the majority of this is only exacerbated by the complexity of the decision-making process.

I'm using EF Core with SQL Server and PostgreSQL for two different production projects; it works like a charm, and the performance is great.

All recent projects in my company are PostgreSQL based (> 2000 production applications), and we have far fewer troubles with PostgreSQL than with Oracle, not to mention the licensing.

Wouldn't it be simpler to plant trees instead of using energy to capture carbon? To absorb 1000 tons of CO2 a year, you'd need roughly 200 acres of land, which seems more feasible.

Pinging microsoft.com [20.236.44.162] with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 20.236.44.162: bytes=32 time=2767923ms TTL=56

This makes me think of the loop quantum gravity hypothesis. It's sad that we probably won't find the answer in my lifetime.

Horror story here our servers are in a basement datacenter under another datacenter. An intervention on the upper datacenter caused water to flow on our servers on 23th of december.

Needless to say that was a pretty rough week.

Same experience here, my company was unable to choose a collaborative software, but in just one day 250 people had to work remotly while none before.

Teams is somewhat good, good tools to create wikis and integrate third party solution like Jira and office integration. One selling point to me is that "it just works" even with non technical users.

Right, in some countries doubling was every 3 days.

Productivity by automation is constrained by the available energy, also economic growth could already be limited by the lack of availale energy.

https://energyeconomicgrowth.org/sites/eeg.opml.co.uk/files/...

As a guy who lives in a finite world where energy comes mainly from fossil fue in a way or another, I do not assume that any constant progress in energy supply is something achievable.

God, this is insane. I live in France, I earn 30k€ net worth a year, my wife is 23k€ and we feel well. We're far from rich, but at no time in those last 12 months I asked myself "can I buy this ?".

Last year I had to go to the hospital for an emergency, I stayed 3 days and paied... nothing. I'm thankfull for this even if I pay for that service.

What you earn is fondamentaly dependant of the place you live. It seems like SF is quite a hard place to live.

Thank you ! f.lux is a blessing, i use it since a few years and if it happens to use a computer on the evening without it I feel assaulted with agressive blue light.

Another really interesting conference [1] about energy, economics and physics. Bill Gates is right and the path to reduce our greenhouse gas emission won't be easy.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGt4XwBbCvA

It's 2018 and we're back in 1998 where website proudly showed "Optimized for Internet Explorer".

have you even tried to use TypeScript on a real project to say something like that ?

We have the same architecture. It's really versatile, simple to administer, and with the help of scripts and automation a new client can me mounted in less than 3 minutes.

I agree with you. Have confidence in a international company whose main revenue is internet advertisement is not the best way to grantee people to have the Internet freedom.

Browsing with a Google browser make me feel like riding an Exxon car.

I think the third point is about that testimony:

https://www.gamedev.net/topic/666419-what-are-your-opinions-...

From a programmer background with very few knowledge of mathematics, keras helped me to create some quite efficient CNN without all the code needed by tensorflow.

This simplicity implies limits for advanced users, but the tool is fantastic to apprehend deep learning.

In France some companies "outsource" their support out from Paris near other french cities.

The business offices price and cost of living is lower, you can have a proficient team for 1/3 of the price.

Even if I'm in web development I use Firefox on a day to day basis. When it comes to debug a large SPA Chrome has nicer features, but companies are not working for the commun benefit and Google is no exception.

You are right on this one, bitcoin is a large an noneffective resource waste. Our world need to have ideas to make an energy transition, and bitcoin is based on energy waste, mainly produced by carbon resources.

Our future world need energy, and we cannot afford burning real material to create a virtual money with no practical value, this is a nonsense.

The problem is not the virtual character of the money, but the energy involved to create it.

The idea behind it is that you need energy to gather money (metalic money for example). but this is pointless for bitcoin, it's just wasted without any utility.

No one is afraid of the ecological cost of crypto currencies ?

We are in a world where the energy has a frightening ecologic cost and people to spend it in gigantic quantities just to create a virtual money...

Do you trust a company whose major revenues are coming from online advertising to improve Chrome for the web or for the companies revenues ? Think to ChromeOS for instance.

I don't want to be too suspicious, but to improve the web I'd rather bet on the Mozilla fundation.

Elite: Dangerous is a gorgeous game... The game's team is something like > 100 people (Frontier Dev is nearly 250 - 300 employees).

They solded more than 850k copies, but the revenue per employee is indeed much less than Prison Architect.

Here's a talk at AWS Invent 2015 about the network architecture

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvJPyjmfdz0

wow... does it mean that anything microsoft touches is ruined just "because microsoft" ?

I must agree on that, knockout make things much nicer. KO components are a great thing also.