scardycat

Bringing CI/CD mindset to cars is probably not a great idea. Software updates to commuter vehicles should have a high bar for operational standards, and a simple thing such as an expired certificate should have never been deployed. Having isolated networks in vehicles helps but doesn't prevent broken updates from, eventually, bricking the cars.

Innovation means more duds than hits and it should be encouraged at every level. For business critical applications, yes, there should be a well defined path, and in this case, I am sure there is.

People lose their head every time Google sun sets service. In some cases the criticism is well deserved but not in all. In this case, I am sure there is a path forward for the customers. Heck, they even refunded all costs for Stadia. Google goes well above and beyond what is expected in most cases.

It's a shame this is closing. I love this program and more importantly, our local school PTO is a beneficiary and will feel the loss of this program.

Having said that, I am sure there are people misusing this and its a burden on Amazon to make sure they are not funding / supporting malicious users. I get it but closing it is not a solution.

Have you considered switching to a non-profit? I am not saying for-profit is bad but you may have more avenues for fund raising as a non-profit.

Alternatively, gofundme for this would be very successful I would assume. You could also think of a some sort of corporate sponsorship. Corporates can write off for supporting program like this. Again, non-profit here would help a lot.

Congratulations to AMD, HPE and ORNL! This is an amazing achievement. Can't wait to see the spectacular science results coming from this installation.

Intel was supposed to build the first Exascale system for ANL [1] [2]. to be installed by 2018. They completely and utterly messed up the execution, partly drive by 10nm failure, went back to the drawing board multiple times, and now Raja switched the whole thing to GPUs, a technology that Intel has no previous success with and rebased it to 2 ExaFlops peak, meaning they probably expect 1 EF sustained performance, a 50% efficiency. No other facility would ever consider Intel as a prime contractor again. ANL hitched their wagon to the wrong horse.

1. https://www.alcf.anl.gov/aurora 2. https://insidehpc.com/2020/08/exascale-exasperation-why-doe-...

The Pixel 6 Pro camera, which they showcase and market as capable of representing true skin tone [1], has been a pain in the neck for me. I am a brown skinned person with a balding head and the camera preview and final product are completely different. The final product adds random blotches of dark tones on my face and head. None of the photos are usable. This is 100% reproducible especially in bright day light. I filed a bug report with offer to send in my pictures as samples, not a single response, its been 4+ months.

1. https://store.google.com/intl/en/discover/realtone/

> better off without it

Umm ... No. This blanket statement is certifiably false that it only applies to a company running maybe 1 or 10, or at most 100 physical machines. My work needs across the world presence, networking, fault tolerance and a boat load of storage and compute. I cant shift all those to on-prem or a cheaper, alternative provider.

I was there when this happened. So many short term decisions to boost stock price, company objectives focussed on market cap than innovation etc. It was very painful to see in from the inside, first hand.

CGI should be a tool to tell a well crafted and well narrated story. Unfortunately, CGI has become the driver for how a movie should be made. Once it becomes the only tool for telling the story, everything else falters. CGI should absolutely be used to support making a good movie but a movie should not be defining the scenes and the movie.

I want one for my desk, its sold out.

More fluff from Intel - over promise and cancel after 2 years with nothing to show for that investment. They should focus on rebuilding their core capabilities - manufacturing and design. Let others sell the integrated systems, you focus on improving and innovating the components.

Just in time manufacturing contributes a lot to this shortage. We rely so much on integrated supply chain logistics, the pandemic clearly brought in to focus the "optimizations" of JIT manufacturing. The lack of local supply pools as buffer is so short sighted.

They did try replacing faulty cells and modules before the full recall, even though other manufacturers using the same LG cells were doing a full recall and replace. They also tried software fixes. I dont know enough to understand why it did not work.

You cannot have choice without fragmentation, you cannot complain about lock-in without wanting choice. Choice and fragmentation go hand in hand, and customers get to decide who wins and who loses.

More choice is always a win for the customers. Customer can get to decide who is providing a better quality of service and go with them instead of the current situation of having one choice forced down their throats because the vendor decides that is whats best for the customer.

They (aviation authorities) did not seem too nitpicky in clearing Boeing 737 Max and are culpable in the deaths of hundreds of people.

Pretty cool but no dice for me. First I was intrigued but then they all looked the same. I saw a lot of these movies and tried to relate to the poster, but I could not. Then I thought , would I watch the movie if this were the poster on Netflix or Prime or at a theater and I knew I would not. It feels very much like abstract art, which I don't particularly enjoy.

I also missed the personal connection and the prompt I get from seeing human faces, actors I like and enjoy.

This is a step in the right direction. I witnessed the semiconductor industry abandoning their own designs in favor of Intel/x86. Better diversity in chip design is always a good thing, even if its in closed ecosystems (Google TPU, Tesla Dojo)

Have you seen the levels in Folsom lake recently?

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-07-27/historic...

There. Is. Not. Enough. Water. Anything else you hear is just a lie. I drive by it every day for the past 10 years, it goes up and down a lot but the levels this year are just record breaking, in a bad way.

Dean is an amazing technologist, does not mean he is a leader in the sense that an organization needs. I wish he played this his strengths and left the leadership to others. I don't see the value of putting everything under Dean and hoping for an amazing outcome.

What an interesting find! The biodiversity of our home planet is amazing.

If you enjoy learning more about carnivorous plants, I highly recommend 'Plants Behaving Badly' on PBS[1].

1. https://www.pbs.org/show/plants-behaving-badly/

Itanium was one of the best processors I worked on and I worked on at least 20 different ones. It was way ahead of its time and the software was not ready and of course it cost your arm and leg and the next three generations, so it was really only ever taken up by large enterprises. I wish Intel and HP were more sensible in how they brought it to market.

right ... ISPs are not a public utility but a web service provider is? If you want to tackle this, best to start with the most common sense place, the ISP

What does "undermines its corporate existence" mean? Why is the government of a country characterizing itself as a corporation?

amazing

Sure, I am sure they have something to say about how smaller internet companies move fast and break things with no concern for how it affects customers. I am sure you would rather have your bank just work than have some nifty tool with insufficient testing and that flakes out every other day.

Everyone to their own, I am just stating that there is a need.

I went to school in India and we were taught about major civilizations that existed BC, including the Indus valley civilization, which was ~3000 BC.

Unfortunately, what we all learn is true to the facts but what the local authorities is important. It is not surprising at all that some communities that lean heavily in to religion may choose to say anything BC is Pagan, uncultured, etc.

Customers like having choices. Enterprises typically will "certify" one config and would like to stay on that till they absolutely need to move to something else.

Conjecture:

* Worked at Google / FB / blah startup for long enough to put some serious $$ away

* Don't care about working becasue see above

* Pick a fight / select a topic that is niche enough to wrote a blog post about

* Quit (cough , retire,) young and afford to live luxuriously

* Stop working becasue now you are too lazy to give a shit about anything

* Bitch about how everyone attacks you

* Get a shitty rating in perf review becasue you stopped giving a shit

* Whine and whine

* Get a shitty rating again * Quit and make scene about how they were victimized

Here is a thought, * Quit

* thank the gods and Google for making you rich

* live life and relax

And we finally make it.

Go change the guidelines. No need to tell anyone anything at that point.