Posts by Pascal Monett 18927 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Apr 2007
Yeah, well this is just a demonstration of how well we play together : badly.
Selfishness exists at all levels, individual, department, company, and country.
This storm of debris demonstrates a country-level of selfishness that is, unfortunately, not surprising.
If you want something reliable, roll your own.
Yes, it costs money. If you have a company, you're supposed to make money.
So host yourself, or be subject to the whims of multi-billion dollar behemoths who change their minds without you having any say in it.
I wish you luck with your complaint. I'm pretty sure there's some small text in there somewhere that will get Google off scott free.
Didn't your mother teach you that swearing was not a good thing ?
Honestly, with all the stupid things you've said for the past twenty years, one would think you'd have learned to shut up by now.
But no, obviously you don't learn a thing.
By the way, how's that Hyperloop going ?
Oh, yeah, it's not.
I completely agree, and I am quite fed up with this situation.
I work in Luxembourg, I live in France. I am what is called "frontalier" (trans-border worker).
I am waiting for the day when a gendarme will stop me and say that I was 10kph above the 80kph limit.
I will then make it my duty to point out that the panels at the border on the highway still specify that the speed limit on national roads is 90kph.
You want me to do 80 ? Put up a speed limit or fuck off.
I think 2028 is massively optimistic for Russia to build its own space station.
Mir apparently took 10 years to be fully assembled, and that was back when Russia had a space program that wasn't running on fumes.
I am very sceptical about Russia being able to launch and assemble a working space station in the next 6 years.
Very.
Too bad you didn't take additional time to consider complexities when you set up your useless infrastructure.
Return the money ?
So, not only are you incompetent, but you also believe in Santa Claus ?
Go ahead and file a complaint. I wish you luck.
Honestly, I would think that, if your company has passed the billion dollar mark at Wall Street, you shouldn't be taking handouts any more.
You're a big boy now, you can manage on your own.
The Government needs to keep its funds for, oh, say, education, for example. Or healthcare.
Things that don't make money, but are sorely needed.
How exactly is that supposed to work ?
We're talking about edge computing. You're not connected to the central server at the edge. What is called AI these days is hosted on a central server.
There's a contradiction there. Can somebody explain this to me ?
It's interesting to note just how dependant the world is on the Greenwich meridian. I would have thought that a Chinese company would not feel the need to reference the very Western idea that the Sun rises in the East. They are in the East. For them, the Sun rises, end of.
But no. Here we have a Chinese businessman referencing his own country as the sunrise kingdom.
Interesting.
It's unfortunate, but if the Indian Parliament felt that 81% of the proposed law was to be changed, then maybe it should indeed be retired and a better law proposed instead.
Hopefully, the new law will take into account these modifications and bring them into the law's body from the start.
Or not. IANAL.
You do not do what you want with company hardware.
If you want to surf the web and express yourself freely online, get your own laptop. Plead with your parents. Go mow the neighbor's lawn. Save up and buy your own.
But company property is to be used following company directives.
Welcome to your future.
And ?
Maybe that'll finally teach them to have their code on their production servers and not download it on the fly as they continue to do now.
Bandwidth costs are not an excuse to avoid securing your production server.
Okay, first of all, you probably don't have the required expertise to be 100% sure.
Second, you don't have enough experience managing financial transfers to secure the platform properly.
Once again we witness a bunch of people who think they can just go and create a banking environment without the required experience or the required rules.
And once again, it falls flat on its face.
How long is it going to take for your kind to realise that a banking charter exists for a good reason ?
Okay, I will acknowledge that 3.42% of over 200k drives hits the 7000 replacement mark, which is non-negligeable.
Except that it is just one model, not the entire park. Why replace the entire range of the model for just a 3.4% failure rate ?
That seems a bit wasteful to me.
That said, Backblaze is a treasure trove of drive reliability reports and can't stop saying thank you to them.
I now know that the 6TB Seagate drive is the thing to buy at the moment. I'll be thinking about it.
And why should they ?
They've been working from home for two years and things have apparently gone swimmingly.
In 2021, Apple made $365.817 billion. Why do the peons need to go back ?
It's the Foxconn workers who can slave away. Cupertino can stay empty, it has zero impact.
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