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mikrotik for the win

lying of any type is always grounds for termination. "consistently candid" is just a more PC phrase for lying.

I stopped supporting Hollywood years ago.

I would imagine this is more common that we know or expect. The incentives are too great and university administrators exist is such large numbers that cheating your way into those positions must be a common tactic for 50% of the people in those positions.

Are they comparing CHatGPT 3.5 with GPT4 or ChatGPT4 with GPT4? Because you can now select GPT4 when using CHatgpt.

We need to evolve past the point where we expect to rely on government.

It's not bonkers, that is what Apple has done.

You can thank those politicians and those electors that voted for them that made it cost effective for textile manufacturers to move to China.

Or a state backed initiative in the early stages. In order to get to 5 million you have to pass 5,000.

probably going to be spent mostly on executive compensation for the charity execs

They call it forced labor, why not use the word: slavery

We could with the proper incentives and support from our legislators.

Doing less than the speed limit is indeed strange, that behavior is probably exhibited by drunk/doped up drivers more often than sober drivers. The fact that you get warnings demonstrates that they pull overs are not due to ill will, if they wanted to steal from you they were half way there: too slow is probable cause for a traffic stop and they could easily plant some drugs or just lie, the statement of a police officer is evidence. Set your cruise control at the speed limit or 1 mph over and don't swerve.

Poor people mostly want opportunity. For 2 hundred years that opportunity came in the form of middle pay manufacturing jobs, those job mostly don't exist. Ask a non-disabled non-drug addicted person next time you have the chance, they would rather work and earn their way than get a government check. This has been proven many times going back the Milton Friedman/ Thomas Sowell debates. But you are correct, the rich class prefers to stay rich, that much is bloody obvious. If they could stay rich and have the goods the sell manufactured in the US, they would do that. But the politicians sold us out.

Re Covid, I'm not sure what the government can do, the news of the virus was plastered all over the news. I don't need to government to tell me that if a novel virus is circulating that I need to avoid contact, the people who continued to live normally decided to roll the dice at their own or elderly family members expense, those people made personal decisions and the poor souls they cam in contact with are paying the price, it's not appropriate to blame the government for those actions of private citizens. There is simply no legal precedent to order people to stay home, would you have declared martial law and arrested anyone seen outside their home?

I'm speaking about republican citizens, not "republican in name only" politicians, don't conflate the two. Politicians of all parties are guilty of saying and doing different things.

People absolutely realize the government has been doing the exact opposite of what orthodox republicans want, that is what made Trump seem worthy of a dice roll, he campaigned on a bunch of goals that claimed to try and reverse those decisions.Those goals were either thrown out once he realized how difficult it would be to actually accomplish them or thrown out because he never cared to give it a real go. Given the long time government employees that either quit or were fired and the resistance from establishment politicians both D and R I lean towards the first reason.

Indeed the military budget has been increased, that is driven by our need to fight two full-blown wars on two fronts, our military strategy is based on a worst case scenario. That is the goal that is not talked about publicly but is true. We can expect the military budget to continue to increase.

Re tariffs, they are the right strategy. The primary job class that has been reduced is manufacturing. A large chunk of those jobs were lost to China, the only way to bring those jobs back is to make those Chinese government subsidized imports less attractive to buyers. The tariff strategy can work but it looks like we need to tax imported goods that could feasibly be made in the US by 100-300%, only then will you go to Wal-Mart and find that the US Made goods are in the same price range as the Chinese goods. This is the same strategy that Euro zone and Asian countries use to keep their citizens buying local. Our politicians sold us out circa ~1979. The implementation of these tariffs was a half-measure, it takes years to plan/design/build/ a factory and bring those products to market, Trump should have focused on a 20 year plan that both parties agreed to continue after he left office.

Eventual consistency.

IF they truly believe they have more to gain from the welfare state and big government they are mistaken. Maybe someone who need immediate help will benefit from the welfare state but the best long term plan is always self reliance and hard work, the goal should be to create a robust and free economy such that the individual is free from reliance on the government. This is the root of the conflict in the US now, democrats want to foster a system that increases reliance on the government and republicans want to reduce this reliance.

Do the other 30% have no ear wax?

I'm guilty of using it as a DB, my home weather station writes to kafka topics, sometimes the postgres instance is down for months, no problems letting the kafka topic store the data until i get around to rebooting pg and restarting the connector.

I don't have fiber but I do spend slightly more on business class internet, they have tech support that is an order of magnitude more helpful and knowledgeable than normal residential internet. With business class you can get real static IPs and better support SLAs.

Our prototype was on DigitalOcean but we started collecting issues and feature requests that were solved more easily by AWS. Including IAM, we were an early adopter of S3, it's a great product. Now that I'm thinking about it, I'm going to open an issue to evaluate the other cloud providers. But honestly, the team is going to hate me, they have all spent a lot of time learning AWS.

I have stopped ordering from amazon.com but do still use AWS. I should probably evaluate other cloud providers, when I made the decision to use AWS about 5 years ago there were no other providers that offered all the functionality I wanted. It was also easy enough to throw a rock and hit a certified aws consultant.

Kind of related: Wussification of America: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2010/12/the-wus...

To quote the article directly: "Caballero reasoned that if the source was some other life form, it would likely be living on an exoplanet.."

The author does not claim the signal is intelligent.

After posting that I went back through my invoices and it does appear that at some-point Chart upgraded me from 100/10 to 200/10 at no extra charge.

Indeed. When Apple become extortionist you go to another handset maker, when the government becomes extortionist you either pay or go to jail. There is a scale of Evil.

This seems more likely than Charter, ATT, et al. investing massive amounts of cash into their networks. I think there would be massive PR campaign if the actually almost doubled available bandwidth in a year. The capacity was always there, they just needed to be paid in order to open it up. I upgraded from 200/10 to 600/35, they just flipped a switch.

Being an Apple apologist is one thing but being an apologist for corrupt government officials is reprehensible. I side with the underdog in this case.

This really throws water on any claims that corporations are the entities we need to worry about. It's clearly over reliance on governments that is the problem. Restricting the 2nd amendment is bad enough but then extracting value from others to exercise the 2nd amendment is laughable. Anyone that holds California up as a model for the rest of the country really needs to start paying attention.

Is there any runtime performance gain to be had in the interpreter at runtime when adding types. I understand the benefits to your workflow but is there an opportunity to allow the interpreter to do less work when types are used?