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Yep, but that is the point. It is group think and almost always irrelevant and has no regard for actual truth. Even the voting here shows quite a bit of reactive non-thinking emotions.

Group think explains most irrational behavior like politics. It explains why Trump supporters let him lie and gaslight and can't admit he is an idiot.

On the other side super nutty liberals (and media, but I repeat myself) can't accept he is the actual president. Nor can they admit the Democratic party really 'bent' some laws and several federal agencies probably broke laws somehow and has already directly caused a couple shooting incidents (if not more). It has been two years of investigation and the continuation just makes them mentally sicker just like racists and Obama.

We knew what Clinton specifically did and how he lied about it before there was even an investigation. The only question was whether it rose to impeachment(it didn't, though he definitely should be in jail for all the harassment/rape). Liberals protect the same agencies that they hated and would believe any conspiracy theory about 20-50 years ago (and most were true just as now).

I don't trust anyone in power and don't 'have to believe' in any group. I believe in megalomania and greed (heck the legislature's pension alone is insane) and that power corrupts and no one healthy or smart wants to be a politician.

Meh.

Linux and BSD build systems deal with most of these issues usually with wide support of a variety of recursive makes. Though RPM, DEB honestly suck and never really tried to solve issues automatically. Still drives me nuts that packages are tainted by the 'gold' systems they are built on. The complexity of build systems means very few minds are up for it and most solutions are naive and end up with tons of patchy exceptions and work arounds.

ROCK Linux supported cross compiler capabilities and auto-detection of build parameters and dependency library tracking. (I was working on automated dependency ordering and QEMU based full cross builds, before I got a real job.) It was very robust and outside package developers breaking their own builds it worked solidly. No idea what cool things T2 Linux got up to after ROCK, but maintaining a fresh build system is hard. Build systems are always going to be fragile systems with complexity. The paper seems to be a survey of what they learned vs. definitely having any solution.

Open floor plan is so horrible. I have said no to a few positions from it.

I don't mind working in team rooms, but that is still a bit distracting. The second it becomes two teams or more, I start looking for new opportunities.

Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria!

It is just about six commands to create all the pools.

  gcloud container clusters create flk1 \
   --cluster-version 1.XX? \ #put your version here
   --machine-type g1-small \
   --disk-size 20 \
   --preemptible \
   --enable-autoupgrade \
   --num-nodes 1 \
   --network flk1 \
   --scopes storage-rw,compute-rw,monitoring,logging-write

  gcloud config set container/cluster flk1
  gcloud container clusters get-credentials flk1

  gcloud container node-pools create small-pool-p \
    --cluster=flk1 \
    --machine-type n1-standard-1 \
    --disk-size 20 \
    --preemptible \
    --enable-autoupgrade \
    --num-nodes 1

  gcloud container node-pools create small-pool \
    --cluster=flk1 \
    --machine-type n1-standard-1 \
    --disk-size 20 \
    --enable-autoupgrade \
    --num-nodes 2

I remove the original small node once the pools are created.

And then other pools for higher usage nodes.. The smallest cluster I have is about $75/month.

Pre-emptible nodes seem to recover quite well and I always keep at least one container per pod/etc. on the non-pre-emptible just in case.

Pricing is key.

Right now I spin up GCE based clusters as the head and version migration is free and I only pay for 2 non-preemptible adequate nodes. The rest scale and preempt somewhat cheaply as needed.

My favorite things - analytical and sorta useless. However, it is interesting that moving the figurative to the literal could be deriving a single dimension metric and applying simple trig.

So they are bowing to pressure from liberal terrorists?? Then maybe they should retire and hide.

I hate learning about all these extinct species we used to eat. I mean, they must have been super tasty. Stop tantalizing me and start Jurassic Porking these things already.

If I was douchie enough - I am working on p2p internetless cryptocurrency transfers and distributed ID. Otherwise it would be antiphishing, improved open source debuggers, and RISCV implementations.

Coming soon as the next CEO and CTO of your favorite amazing ICO.

Have you worked in Python 2 unicode?? Over half of the work and debugging the search engine service management team I was on was fixing unicode document injesting.

But I agree, making unicode part of the language is very dumb. I just wish they would give up as it has never been good.

The Supreme Court loves to ignore the ninth. Somehow the fourth amendment is about convenience now? If we aren't detained or delayed, the government can copy, search, and scan anything they want. It appears the third now too is gone and the government can do what it wants on your land without permission or compensation.

Waiting for the day that all particles are found to just be various states of Photons and we can find the arch. :P

It is a solid rant in that there are many people at there getting paid well (or selling) dubious models that will never work outside a narrow training set. Their bosses or customers will be none the wiser, but the results are dangerous.

I witnessed similar problems in search where data retrieval was not guaranteed. Often systems were fragile and needed to be closely monitored for document feeding problems and index health. Some companies cough(autonomy)cough were selling complete shit for insane prices for critical applications like legal doc searches. Many companies keep in business by easily snowed/biased/bribed tech journals and paying off client execs with strippers, parties, etc.

BTW, search hasn't changed much and it is still dangerous to just assume it works for things as 'simple' as ELK.

You can never tell how much it was him or the team under him, but Taco Bell really is winning on novelty, new store design, and online ordering. Now that they are linked with grubhub, they are at peak.

Maybe he can at least figure out how to keep the veggies from being a petridish. Here is a hint - subway and most sandwich shops don't keep warm meat next to the veg...

I remember 20 some years ago... that I had asked a few grad students about their GPA and GRE scores before applying. I remember having a decent recommendation, gpa .5 higher than a couple of guys, and OK GRE. Didn't get into the masters program. As a supposedly privileged white guy, I think there is much more to it. I think the schools prefer foreign students as they will take the shit pay and long hours much like H1B slavery.