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It’s not the same though.

When you post on social media, you’re posting information publicly (or semi-publicly). When you say, or show, something on a zoom call, there’s an expectation of privacy between the participants of the call. Zoom is now saying no, there isn’t, because they’re going to use the content of your calls to train their AI.

I thought it was a flop because it was basically impossible to actually buy one due to availability?

Right? Is there a person above 25 that hasn’t seen the episode (or clip) from The West Wing about map projections at this point?

This was the case for rider as well. By the time it released it was plenty performant.

I’m not concerned about that yet.

If it’s a static site then just dump it in an s3 bucket and be on your way.

I’ve had 2 services running flawlessly in ecs for over a year (with load balancing) without having to touch them. Took me all of 15m to set them up. It’s quite good.

Same here, but I have no ethical qualms about going nuclear. I don’t have time to run the maze of bs dark patterns that companies concoct to try to force me into paying them.

Whenever I’m trying to cancel anything, if there isn’t an obvious and easy way to do so, I just send an email to whatever customer help/etc. mailbox I can find notifying them of the cancellation with 30 days notice. In the mail I tell them that after 30 days I will claw back any payment via my credit card.

I’ve only had to do it twice, and only had to claw back 1 payment, but I’ve never had an issue.

That this is a sufficient but not necessary solution does not discredit it in the way your tone implies.

C++/COM used the term marshalling a lot if I recall.

That billing model makes it very easy to find out what the operational cost of a particular product/service/team is costing the business and I think it's one of the advantages that GCP has, personally.

One of the first things you do when learning AWS via A Cloud Guru is setup a billing alarm.

I have one that goes off monthly at about how much I expect to spend in a month.

It's not as straightforward as 'thinking differently'. Diversity of knowledge, experience, and skill is extraordinarily valuable but if you...

* hoard knowledge

* refuse to elevate those around you

* are frequently combative

* lie about your knowledge/experience

* seek to be right instead of discover optimal solutions

... then all of that diversity is lost or wasted.

It's not about diversity for diversity's sake, it's about sharing in diversity and using all of the differing perspectives to reach optimal solutions that your organization would be blind to otherwise.

Optimizing for the rarest of scenarios - that you're going to hire the bestest engineers in all the worlds - is silly and foolish.

It's not negative. It's pragmatic. If you even happen to just encounter one of those people (they're rare by definition) then do what you can to hire them, but the truth is that the vast majority of companies producing software wouldn't even know what to do with them if they could attract them.

Stable, predictable, performance has a ton of value too - and you get a lot of that from 'regular' developers.

It's very beneficial for a nation to have a skilled workforce and so funding from the top via something like this, is the general idea: https://www.dol.gov/featured/apprenticeship/grants

That is to say, the nation benefits, the government offsets much of the burden from the master, and the industry can still be competitive to attract (or retain, in the case of the master) the trained talent.

29 states have declared a state of emergency due to COVID-19...

It's not so much about certifying it as disease free and more about certifying it as unsafe.

No. The engagement will be governed by a contract, and those contracts will often require they staff a certain number of people for the engagement - especially if it's a "butts in seats" kind of engagement, which this looks like it is.

There will be provisions for backfills if/when people quit and the like, but otherwise they would have to have agreement from FB to alter the contract to have nobody billing for some period of time.

Whomever is managing the engagement from Accenture is shitting the bed and communicating poorly, for sure, though.

Sounds more like there's 2 sets of rules: the ones that Facebook corporate publishes publicly, and the ones that the contractors are held to, from the frontline/engagement management.

Yeah, anecdotes aren't altogether useful, but I'm also trying to picture the scenario where a lack of comparative data makes anyone think it's not a big deal.

This is reductive. If "10% more productive" translated into >= 10% more revenue as a percentage of their wage, it would make sense but it varies so wildly, that it's not a useful statement.

Some will translate to increased revenue, a few times over, (which incentivizes the vendor to increase the price accordingly) and some will be net negative.

Which is valuable, if your company builds those tools... otherwise you just trained your employee to work at that SaaS vendor.

I'm not sure what you're talking about. That's 420,000/y. That's no ordinary tech worker, or even most extraordinary ones. You're a C-suite executive if you're making that kind of money, even in a ridiculous CoL area like SF.

Is it though? There's a significant security bug that has a known fix, on your supercomputer. The second anything remotely security-related happens and it gets out that you've opted to hedge your bets that no untrusted code will ever execute on that machine... and you could be in some seriously hot water.

I'm not really in the HPC space, but I can't really see any vp/cto/cio reasonably putting that asterisk on a security audit.

If you've got cyber insurance, you probably wouldn't be able to keep coverage if you did that.

Mind sharing the details of your setup? Interested in doing something similar.

ACH is a file format. You generate an ACH file and then SFTP that to the Federal Bank (or another central bank... I forget which). In simple terms, the file contains a header and a bunch of batches. The header has the account info whomever generated the ACH file (a bank, usually) and the records in each batch the account info of another party.

The federal bank iterates through all of the records in the file and attempts to perform each transaction using the pair of account info, the type of transaction, and the details in the transaction record.

To answer the question about why it takes so long?

Generally it doesn't actually. Most companies will tell you it takes 24hrs to send you money, and that's because most companies generate and submit an ACH file once a day, and the federal bank will process those files at some point after that.

Why does it take weeks for a deposit to be marked invalid and reversed? Well, analytics, fraud detection, and those kinds of activities are not all real-time. More than you think are actually caught _remarkably_ fast, but many take time to find and often include collaboration with multiple banks, government agencies, and policing organizations from multiple countries. That means geo-political concerns, international treaties, timezones, communication problems. You name it.

Intel also does their own manufacturing and AMD does not.

> Does that matter?

Yes.

While the evidence provided is anecdotal (that is to say: outliers exist in successfully learning anything outside of a formal education), there are languages designed to be more friendly and more fun for newcomers (Ruby, for example) while others are designed to be translate more directly to the instructions a machine might execute. More anecdotal evidence indicating that one language might facilitate informal learning better might be interesting or helpful.

> Getting a degree is the best chance you have to becoming good at it. You can still be creative this way.

I think you're going to see these kinds of arguments made ('Don't attend University. Learn [x] instead/on your own.') and each day the argument is going to hold more merit. The university industrial complex continues to expand and become ever more out of reach for a large section of the population, or worse: it's becoming more and more fiscally irresponsible for most people to attend higher education, taking on the mountains of debt necessary to make it possible.

So the sensational stories of survivorship bias about the one-off people making exorbitant amounts of money can definitely go... but a university degree is becoming more and more impractical, and I expect it to get much worse.

Precisely because they're spending mental energy on how to cut $1,000/mo instead of spending that energy on how to bring in $1,000/mo.

Then you get both.

This is it.

I would barely consider random snips about a thing/keyword, scattered over time, to be documentation.

Certainly, a problem was likely solved with this FYI system... but it wasn't a documentation problem.

That's what the article is about. It has a screenshot of one with 1792 logical cores.