I think this is actually a better analogy than debt (notice that equity and debt are on the same side of the ledger); just as future valuation of the company is uncertain, so may also be the business value of the quick hack. I.e. in the same way that a certain VC investment may or may not be wise, the quick hack has the same uncertainty attached.
Add to this that the business people may have a bad grasp of the true cost of the hack, and the developers little insight into the business value of it, you get the current situation.
People probably mistook "by that time" as "at that time" instead of "since", which was what you meant. Also, use "has been" instead of "is", as the open-sourcing happened sometime in the past (although it is in the state of open-source now).
Garbage incinerators with CO2 capture and geological storage; that is a net CO2-negative process, and you can recover energy in the form of domestic heating, too. This is not a fantasy technology; everything needed to do this already exists and can be purchased. An extra bonus is that you also vastly reduce the pollution problems associated with landfills.
Off-topic, but still: There are several frightening realistic aspects with that series, but the key premise - that the U.K. would willingly allow Russia to take control over one of its energy sources - is so utterly bonkers that it spoils the rest.
> they had OSX running on x86 for years before the switch (in fact they had OSX running on x86 before it even was OSX
Although NeXTStep ran on x86, the MacOS build on x86 was John Scheinberg's personal skunkworks project until it became Marklar in 2001 (and then kept under the hood for another four years). Mind, Darwin was always written to be portable, but it wasn't a deliberate strategy to take it to Intel. This time around though, I too reckon that they have already a MacBook running on an A10X in the labs.
If the environment variable HISTCONTROL contains the keyword ignorespace, then commands starting with a space won't be saved in the history list; usable in situations like this. (Of course, the command will be visible in the process list, so if you are on a shared system, it is still not a good idea)
Maybe not in the U.S., but in Norway, as part of getting the driver's license, you'll have to take an ice driving course, where, amongst other things, a dummy is swung at your car while driving on an oiled lane in 30 mph. (It is practically impossible to steer away from the dummy, which is the meaning of the exercise; to realize the folly of driving too fast on icy roads)
Is the incident with the matching checksum that he mentions because APFS only checksum metadata (which are on preallocated space on the image), or is it his own checksum (say sha1sum), I wonder? It seems strange that the filesystem driver would cache 500 GB of sequentially written data in RAM.
Who should determine the will of this corporate-person? The shareholders? The board? The managing director? If I own a stake in an index fund, how do I propagate my will proportionately to the actions of these corporations? Corporate-persons is an area fraught with agent problems, and should therefore not be allowed.
Techies get treated well probably equals higher employee retention, again leading to higher institutional memory, meaning bugs have a chance of actually getting fixed. More happiness probably also correlates with more creativity, meaning that there is also a chance of getting more features with updates.
You may say this in jest, but RyanAir actually applied for permission to do flights with unseated passengers. Fortunately, we still have an aviation authority (in Norway) wise enough to throw it out, sneering.
But the society need not be based on internal oppression, to be an adversary to us: I don't think the kingdom of Castille in 1492 necessarily was a beacon of stability and lack of conflict; yet it financed an expedition westwards.
Not even that: The Norwegian government plans to connect the garbage incinerator at Klementsrud to a CO2 capture station, pressurize it, and ship it to an abandoned gas field for storage.
And since the capacity of the storage site is so much bigger than the Norwegian domestic production, some of Germany's CO2 will eventually be included as well :-)
Yes. So if you instead of attachments of large files in email send an URL such as https://acme.pri/?id=cafe-babe-deadbeeff00d, which is not secured by any other method than obscurity, then Edge will submit it to Bing, which indexes it and then the content is available if you can come up with some keywords that match.
It is fairly well known in Norway, due to having been in the national news earlier this spring, but I have no reason to think it doesn't apply universally.
At my previous work, we attempted to find the correlation between faulty code and the time of commit in the version control. Most bugs were written after 14:00. (And no: we didn't check-in all code at the end of the day).
Observations and models don't match, so there is some input that is missing. In this case it seems to be a heavier atmosphere (which has later blown away). Their hopes are that this added assumption will reconcile the observations and models, and thus give a more complete picture on how Mars developed.
These kind of studies tend to be riddled with methological errors. For instance, one of them found (as usual) that autumn-borns had lower grades than spring-borns. However, once adjusting for the parent's education level, the results were opposite.
I love the Internet Archive, so it would be great if some kind of archiving function could be worked out. But if it's on GitHub now, it should be exported to Zenodo today, so there's at least one reference version around for Internet Archive to backup.
It is often considered that our labor regulations and unions encumbers businesses, but when I read stories like this I can't help thinking that it's actually the other way around.