looking forward to CVEs for memory
With persistet memory it will be like disk today. Not looking forward to the CVEs comming. But it will create lots of work.
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Friend do not underestimate what desperate people can do with a large stockpile of nuclear weapons.
Russia is no longer a superpower, they can't produce modern weapons except for lots of cannon shells.
For US there is a no-brainer to support Ukraine. It is all weapons produced and developed in the US. Excellent for the economy and the military lobbyists. The get an other nation to tear down the iron curtain power, so the US can concentrate on China and Asia.
THIS Germany that imports electricity from aged and decrepit nuclear plants placed conveniently far outside the borders as to be immune from the anti-Atomkraft lobby in the Bundestag, yet close enough to annihilate quite a damn lot of it, should they go boom as the misguided fears of the past foretold – the same fears that were over-played by, yes, the Greens, in fighting against Atomkraft and achieving a massive win for Big Coal, back in the day?
Iit is going to be powered by greenish hydro electric imported via underwarer cables across skagerak from Norway.
Our uttelry incompetent politicians used billions to lay cables to UK and Germany so we can sell electricity cheaply depleeting the water deposits and lay off all power intensive industry.
Endorsing the horribleness that Firefox has become is not good.
Compared to years ago, it is now quite good. and It gives me a nice feeiling I'm not pumping metrics to google or microsoft, except for the
search. I prefer duck duck go, but then Mozilla do not get any revenues. And I have a bad concious since I've not donated the last two years .
I cleaned the wrong database and wiped a 40 person department entire days work.
Luckily the DB-admin could do a rollback to last backup and then rollforward to exact at my delete operation.
But we lost 40 persons * 20 minutes of productivity because it was no cases in the queues coming from the mainframe.
In this case it was IBMs DB2 and a very nice DB-admin that saved my career.
(He actually got a cake from management for fast problem solving)
The new name is what irritates me most. The X is way to ambiguous. When someone refers to it they always say "X formerly known as Twitter" or "X/Twitter". Nobody other than the Musk himself will ever associate X with a centralized social micro message platform popular in the early 2000s.
US can just print more money, they have the benefit of being the worlds default currency. and All the major lenders have all the interest in keeping the Dollar stable.
https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/datasets/debt-to-the-penny/debt-to-the-penny
march 2023 = $31,459,291,842,710.78 total debt / 334,721,373 population = $93986.50 per capita,
Poor lenders that will never see their money:
https://ticdata.treasury.gov/Publish/mfh.txt
What happens if China just stop to lend US more money? if the Yuan becomes the world currency?
Ramping up US inland production with Chinese financing that seem to be the answer. More Debth, more p#### of lenders.
I've done java maven and node npm and they are terrible and bloated.
a maven pom under 300 lines are seldom. and you need a artifactory or nexus local repo to build fast. and all the plugins.
npm a bit better but the directory stucture completely messy. typescrip ,
And this stupid audit every time you try to reduce the Oracle footprint.
Is there no license manager that takes care of this so you only run what you have license for?
I've used the free version Oracle Express 1core/4GB ram/16GB disk for porting away from oracle.
I had a hard time with the native blobs format, different from DB2 and MSSQL the blob format seems to be some oracle internal.
Since then I always store binaries as raw strings in cblobs. Someone says it has a performance penalty, but it makes oracle way more portable.
Oracle give you Golden Gate for free. So my DBA love it and cant it praise it enough. But it is a major part of the lockin strategy.
>Excel is great.
I hated programming in rows and columns. I used this module: https://metacpan.org/pod/Excel::Writer::XLSX
Banking people got nice html reports from their data-warehouse and payed me to convert it to excel.
A customer had a >1TB database with financial data, they wanted extracts in excel, so I created a script that every morning created around 15000 spreadsheet.
After some time they wanted a way to import changes from the excel spreadsheeds back into the database. That was really hard. Worked a long time on it.
Ended up with adding alter transactions operations we feed into the transaction system.
They were wizards in excel, but learning a few lines of splunk, perl or python were no option.
Nowadays I program in dataframes in R and Python and present it in jupyter workbooks on a website. A dataframe is just a simplified CSV version of a excel spreadsheet.
hm 16 year agos SGI discontinued Irix, the best unix Ever,
still have a green 2xR10K 175MHz/2GBmem Octane/MXI in the attic,
It doesnt power up, So I'm not sure whats wrong It was last powered-up around 2010.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRIX
- xfs now the default filesystem on redhat
- CXFS - clustered filesystem long before Lustre or ZFS
- Geometry Engine and Open GL
- openMP - shared mem MPI
- 4DWM - Still miss the minimize into icon, you could easily have 100 windows arranged on a 1024x1280 screen.
- 4DWM also had backing store so, for the first time you could drag full video windows around.
- smake - sgis parallel version of make, when you had 4+ processors it was very nice
Databases with lots of nulls often have a lot less meaning than ones where the designer thought of the problem and fixed the representation of the data so they would not need null. When I see a null in a row, what does that mean?
You describe a perfect excample for boyce codd normalization. Perfect normalization results in a missed table row and no nulls. In my previous job I had this normalization wizard that fixed our 17Tb 120 tables 25 year legacy into a 12Tb 320 tables a with 300% query performance. Developers over the years had just added collumns to existing tables in stead of making new tables with foreign keys. Joining tales with loose connections and lots of ORs kills performance and waste memory.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boyce%E2%80%93Codd_normal_form
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Zeloof is already at 300nm in his parents garage with its 2nd hand 90ies tech and homegrown equipment.
Most universities should be able to jumpstart this.
You can also do a lot similar to xilinx with massive FPGAs, I think they are at 7nm with Versal.
I bet there are lots of ways to improve still.
Microsoft did not disclose the suppliers for its renewable energy agreements, but other sources have identified Norwegian energy company Statkraft and Ireland's Energia Group as two that are involved, with the energy coming from a mix of wind and solar projects.
Unfotunately this is hydropower draining our dams in areas with little line capacity to import energy from middle and north.. Norway used to have a healthy surplus of water based electricity but all the greenwashing projects have exhausted it. The worst project is to electify europes largest fertilizer plant in Porsgrunn. It will need 4TWh yearly. Another idiocy is to electrify the oil platforms where they have today have gas turbines using excess gas from drilling for all their energy requirements. In north and middle Norway we have built lots of wind turbines and little capacity to export to south where we have megawatt cables to uk,germany,denmark and sweden. here the price per kwh is below hydropower maintenance rate so they let the dams flod over. while in the south is is 15 times higher rates and danger or rationalization. The result is a terrible poll for the ruling parties and massive small businesses layoffs. Our inflation is 90 percent energy related. Nothing you can solve with higher interests rates. Lots of talks to tax the powerlords and energy-companies but not much will because it is mostly owned by local counties which love the extra money for healthcare and social spending. hope they wake up before the last local business shuts down.
You give your name and phone number and location data and taste of videos and friends to a chinese company. This is a nice starting point for further data probing.
Nothing more than Google, Apple, M$ or Meta is doing, but sending it to Beijing.
Are there any metric gathering entity that can back up the decision?
There is nothing as good as showing numbers for management to contradict their decision.
And it happens a lot. in the IoT space there are lots of protocols and hardware now outdated, but still being used.
When you see 10% of your customer-base still using a dead protocol with old hardware, it will cause riots to abandon it.
We're still on premise v6.2 from 2017. we do not have this feature :-)
To get to the cloud we need to upgrade to some versions, but there are lots of database issues.
You have to take each update step by step every version, will take forever.
Feature maturity and terrible administration made atlassian drop on premise, just managing atlassian products are a full sys-admin/uber dba expert skill position, no one can afford.
We use private nexus3 pypi repos where we add packages when safety or snyk complains about outdated packages.
You can also simply create a parser for https://www.cvedetails.com on python. I'm pretty sure pypi is already full of them. The main drawback of cve is the long delay from it is being discovered until a cve is issued. but this can be solved by only using popular packages and wait some time until upgrading.
Just device a backup and restoration recovery plan. and test it. Store all data on servers encrypted and only allow access via certain applications running in containers as standard users.
Just today I logged in as admin on a windows server and found the history in powershell holding anything needed to log in to a critical oracle database, leftover from last person being root on the system.
I've had the pleasure of working with brilliant people from https://www.infopulse.com/ since 2015. We have been i Kyiv and they come to Norway 4 times a year for planning, social events and knowledge sharing. Most of the people have been with us for years, and even during war they work and deliver. They are real heroes. Infopulse have helped relocate their employees and their families out of Kyiv to more secure parts in the west. I'm really impressed by their morale, discipline and how they care for each other.
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NS2 will be ready next year, then Putin can circumvent Ukraina, and pick pocket his friends for cheap gas.
But Europe have themselves to blame, especially Germany decommissioning and neglecting nuclear power-plants. Now full of solar and windmills, but what do they do then there is no sun or no winds (like most of the autumn and winter), they have to buy expensive power from elsewhere. In Norway we usually have a a 15% (10TWh) surplus of ACER-friendly generated electric power from waterfalls. And we have -10C and belov lots of the winter.
This winter the high prices in Europe tempted the incompetent leadership of StatsKraft to sell all they had emptying the water-magazines and viola, we have to set the power price higher than all of Europe to prevent export. resulting in a on average 600% increase this winter.
The fallout are unemployment and shitload of bad publicity for the ruling parties. they show a 40% decrease in the polls.
We have two new cables to UK and Germany with 600GWh capacity each, 10 fold the old cable capacity, On top of it we also have the Nettleie, a charge on top because of impedance in the cables, because of all this export we need to pay based on our max utilization day of the month to promote freezing and cold dinners (This was luckily avoided and turned down in the last hour).
We get some refunds via the goverment a 20%, but my powerbill for december was still NOK5000, it uses to be NOK1500. This refund does not yet cover small businesses and flat complex.
Now they talk of electrifying a 4TWh Ammonium plant and all the 50+ oil platforms in the North Sea around 10TWh, Statskraft earned around 64Bill NOK (£6.4Bill) into the government koffers last year and the government is giving back around 6Bill NOK in support.
Norway the battery of Europe, while its population is freezing.
IBM also have another kick ass database - https://www.ibm.com/products/informix/editions
The latest v14.10 patch was releases just a few weeks ago, it has nosql and json and great python drivers frequently updated with https://github.com/ibmdb/python-ibmdb (same driver as for DB2)
I use the embedded C version on a raspberry pi and the developer version is free for personal use. I have 1.4TB of data in the largest one.
>>Hey give Biden credit, he's protecting American companies! If Whitman is off acting as an Ambassador
>>in Africa (Ambassadors dont actually do much except attend parties and sign documents written by
>>their staff), then she cant destroy any more American companies by being appointed as their CEO!
She got the job because Ginny is still busy Consulting IBM.
According to: https://www.starlinkinternetbroadband.com/starlink-satellite-internet-coverage-map/, there are few satellites if you move above the 55 latitude. I know it is optimal to be around equator because of the viewrange. but we call Tromsoe the Paris of the North :-), And you have taxfree in Svalbard :-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard_Satellite_Station
$32bill borrowed and Mrs Romettys fallouts take their tolls. Rometty reigns in declining market cap. IBM used to have money in the bank, but now it is all debt. Stock buybacks to keep the value bloated emptied the coffers. Those interest rates could have payrolled the seniors.
China goes for riscv. Their numerous universities work on riscv designs. Arm is more desirable than Intel because they can do production themselves. One thing holding china back is wafer printing https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-wants-a-chip-machine-from-the-dutch-the-u-s-said-no-11626514513
The top 3 supercomputer in the world the Chinese Sunway uses riscv, the cpumesh is quite impressive assuming it is 28nm from 2016. So when they shrink this to 3nm?
Interestingly, Bitcoin, and some other "cryptocurrencies" are designed to be cryptographically secure in a way that controls the supply (there will only ever be a finite number of Bitcoins, Ether is another matter), and prevents "forgery"
The weighting used by BTC where you get your fraction of a BTC based on your fraction of the summed compute power spent is an environmental disaster. They could instead used this power to fold DNAs or Seti analyzing or something, just not heat you need to cool down.
IBM calls it Capacity On Demand:
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/capacity-demand-users-guide
Same with oracle Exadata:
https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E80920_01/DBMLI/exadata-capacity-on-demand.htm#DBMLI147
And Azure,GC,AWS,Facebook etc surely have this in their datacenters.
But this is becomming commodity:
|I played this on the PlayStation. It's the epitomy of average - if you've played any open world action
|game you've played this one.
And if you buy a $50 500GB SSD and replace the HD in PS4, you reduce the loadtimes. Due to the crappy old controller you can go fine with the cheapest slowest ssd there is and still halve the load times. And it the fan does not run that much.