Posts by Pascal Monett 19055 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Apr 2007
Why the fuck does a President have an account on X ?
You're a fucking President, for fuck's sake, and you have a public office and an official Speaker.
Make a statement the official way. X is not a governmental organ.
(does it look like I can't stand Macron, or I can't stand X ? Debate. Hint : it's both)
You don't know that. You have no idea what technology they have. Maybe they have perfected room-temperature superconductors. Maybe they have some other technique.
You are drawing conclusions based on our level of tech. That is a mistake.
I hope he gets the full charge, and I hope he doesn't get out for good behavior.
You are an Admin. You have the moral duty to ensure the proper functioning of your company's network and the duty to ensure that all employees can do their job.
If you betray that trust and stoop to actually demand ransom for the accomplishment of your duty, you deserve to be shot - so be happy with whatever sentence your jury will hand you.
Oh, so you've found a way to not bill for auto-configured auto-scalable instances that were not part of the initial contract ?
And how are you going to make money then ?
Because The CloudTM makes all its money on those companies that didn't plan their needs properly . . .
The overwhelming majority.
So let's imagine 99%.
That leaves 1% of 9.6 million which, if my maths is right, means a whopping 9600 cases where things went wrong.
Now, I understand that, in this day and age . . . wait a minute, what the fuck am I saying ? You had computers convert something to something else and you couldn't be arsed to do that reliably across 100% of your customer history ?
WHAT THE FUCK ARE COMPUTERS FOR ?!?
If you need a proper programmer to do things right, call me . . .
SAP : clouding itself into irrelevance.
Cloud is risk. And it's riskier than on-prem, given all the cloudy data hacks that have happened in the last year.
When you're on-prem, you may not know every little tidbit on how to defend your network, but apparently you're better off than depending on someone else's admin who may or may not answer your questions in the next 48 hours . . .
I agree with what you say, but it is a fact that making a new model that totally ignored compatibility with the previous model was a big mistake that cost a lot of companies their existence.
Of course, we know that today, but what could Commodore have become if it had stayed compatible with previous versions ? Would Microsoft even exist ?
Ah, power supplies.
Even today, when upgrading a PC I systematically search for a PSU that is at least 50% more powerful than the load I expect to have.
I have long since learned that, if a PSU is rated for 600W, it will give you 500W without too much trouble, in a pinch, for a while, but if you load it more, you will end up with a dead PSU sooner or later.
I beg to differ.
Space missions have one of two outcomes : either they fail spectacularly before getting into orbit (or reaching their destination), or they successfully get to where they were supposed to go and then they outperform all expectations until they a) run out of fuel, or b) run out of energy.
It's only on good ol' Earth that projects fail all the time and get endlessly rescued (eh, UK Government IT ?).
Why ?
Because on Earth, you can send a peon you pay peanuts to do a minor (or even a major) repair, and it costs less than a Learjet trip over the Atlantic. Or maybe a Learjet, who's counting ?
But, to repair things in space, it costs at least a 737 Max.
And that is why we'll never have space-rated technology on Earth.
It costs too damn much.
Count my gast flabbered.
Now I have one question : women being able to chose cars driven by women, is that not going to kind of end up making sure that women only drive cars of other women, and men are left with cars only driven by men ?
Yes, I know that men don't have the choice, but this is China. There will be so many women prioritizing their choice that men won't have much of a choice left.
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