Posts by Necrohamster 482 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Jan 2022
Incredibly niche lifestyle phone, depending on which Bob-The-Builder brand you identify with.
And there lies the problem. As a tough-phone maker, is it better in the long term to develop your own brand or piggyback on the brand recognition of Land Rover or Caterpillar?
As others have pointed out, you can go on AliExpress and buy a no-name Chinese tough-phone for a hundred quid.
"You will likely find the VAST majority of those gun deaths are committed by a small group of people"
The VAST majority of gun deaths in the US are actually suicides, followed by mass shootings (which are *not* performed by gangs, but by people who are questionably mentally ill)
"A good start would be to stop medicating people as a 'quick fix' and to stop the current 'treatment' of mental health issues with affirming 'care'.:
Yawn. Another AC making a poor attempt at trolling.
Not enough people with mental illnesses are being detected and treated.
Not enough people with detected mental illnesses are being treated.
Not enough is done to prevent people with detected mental health issues from possessing guns.
The EU's population is broadly comparable to the US, and I don't believe the EU has had 5,000 gun deaths (or gun and knife deaths) in the first six weeks of 2024.
The US is a sick joke country
The US Department of State will go to quite extreme lengths to rescue even non-resident citizens from various worldwide perils
It's well known that you have to pay back the rescue costs, as we've seen recently in Afghanistan and elsewhere. If they decide you're worth rescuing, they don't do it for free. Even if the US government organises for another country to evacuate a citizen, the citizen still gets a bill.
Generally, individuals evacuated on a U.S. government-coordinated transport, including charter and military flights or ships, even if those transports are provided by another country’s government, must sign an Evacuee Manifest and Promissory Note (Form DS-5528) note prior to departure. The Department of State uses the Form DS-5528 to document who got on which transport, and it lets us know how to contact evacuees for billing purposes.
It's also a right to a relatively safe place to reside if your preferred home country goes tits up.
lol no. Now I know you're having a laugh... Somalia's safer than the US.
Almost 5,000 people have died in U.S. gun violence so far in 2024
I'd imagine that modding the source code is a big no-no in the OEM's agreement with MS.
Most likely they were imaging their machines with a dodgy copy of Windows they got from BitTorrent.
I guess the infection was unwitting as it got picked up by Defender when the end user turned on the PC. Also shows they don't do much (or any?) post-install testing.
It's hardly a first though. We've seen the same kind of thing before with cheap Android phones and TV boxes.
"Such as... TV+, News+, Apple Music, whatever they call their game subscription thing, AppleCare(+), the entire landing page for their app store... those are the obvious ones, which pop up pretty aggressively on a new install,"
lol ok keep dreaming, my friend.
It's obvious you've never used macOS for more than a minute because it doesn't upsell "TV+, News+, Apple Music, whatever they call their game subscription thing, AppleCare(+)" pretty aggressively (or otherwise) as you claim...
On the other hand, an app store, by its very definition, exists to sell apps. This concept is hardly unique to Apple...but please keep struggling to make your point...a broken clock is right every once in a while :D :D :D
From the post 'TIM' seems quite aware it cost money...
Indeed.
...racking up $14K in just 2 hours seem a bit above his expectation
Never ASSUME... it makes an ASS out of U and ME.. Well, it made an ass out of him anyway.
He was using a python library that did not present the warning as in the webgui.
That's why you make a dry run query before running a script that can cost you (or your employer) money.
From the linked discussion:
"Do you know about the dry_run option in the Python client? Granted, the estimate is provided in bytes, but it should give you an idea of the costs."
I don't understand it, and I don't see how people have managed to convince business (who like fixed determinable costs) to go down that path."
OpEx versus CapEx I suppose.
Beancounters like OpEx because they can fully deduct expenses in the same year they're incurred, and the infrastructure costs are someone else's problem. Subscription costs are pay-as-you-go (to Tim's detriment in this case).
Disclaimer: I'm not a beancounter, and the above information doesn't constitute financial advice or may be completely incorrect. :D
But back to the present case, it seems the company didn't enforce limits in its GCP billing settings.
...However, the user, Tim, came back into the conversation. He said he was running queries from a Python script with the official GCP libraries, which, unlike the web UI, does not have a mechanism to show costs for a query, he said.
Sounds like Tim the power user was aware that queries cost money. How could anyone expect 2.5 PB of processing to be free? Just because you use a script, not the web interface? lol
Tough luck. Sounds like a classic case of someone-didn't-RTFM.
A mass-produced car is never an investment opportunity (except in very limited cases). Only a gullible moron would believe otherwise.
It's just that most of the gullible morons crying about their car's value these days happen to drive Teslas, but I've no doubt that some ICE drivers have buyer's remorse too.
"you need to start big and expensive because you can't build a new car company selling 20k vehicles to teenagers."
You must not have read the article.
TL:DR: Rivian's in trouble... the "big and expensive" thing hasn't worked out for them lol
Also I didn't mention 20k cars for teenagers...
The only sensible way to "own" an EV is through a lease for the first few years of its life. You don't want to be funding a battery replacement out of your own pocket as the second or subsequent owner.
Depreciation is insane too, as companies like Tesla slash prices and burn owners who thought they were making an investment rather than buying a car. In fact, leasing companies in Europe are demanding money back from EV makers as the cars' values plummet (Tesla Model 3 and the Audi e-tron are the worst value apparently):
https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/international/2024/02/22/761780.htm
...or 3,855 kilograms for our non-American friends.
This gross vehicle weight means you can't drive one on a category B car license in Europe, and possibly elsewhere.
It was a bit short-sighted on Rivian's part not to build some small cars that people outside of the US might want to drive but meh...
Permission [from] Americans [required to] Launch system
Many a true word said in jest. I'd find it hard to believe the US hasn't included some protections in software to prevent the UK from striking them...as unlikely as that is.
3. Removal of classified items from US software
British experts will be hampered in their attempt to validate the [Trident] software by the constraints of US security restrictions. The Joint Strike Fighter deal showed the difficulties of purchasing equipment which is dependent on sensitive American software. In the case of Trident the US does supply the software codes, but not in their original complete form.
Aside from that...on the subject of PAL, I read somewhere years ago that some branch of the US military (Air Force maybe?) wasn't too happy when PAL was introduced.
They set the code to 00000000, so I guess they complied with the spirit of the safeguard.
"Astute wasn't ordered until 2001 - so there was gap and a lot of skills/staff were lost. You need a lot of welding, checked incredibly thoroughly, or your submarine goes down but not back up again. And they had to train an awful lot of people to get the production line going again."
From memory, the 2014 BBC documentary "How to build a nuclear submarine" covers this topic
"There is no single person who can launch an armed nuclear missile in Russia by his own "mad desire". Neither is it possible in the U.S. or the U.K. or France.
Re. the U.K.:
"Today, [the SSBN's] Trident D5 SLBM are at several days’ notice to fire and, since 1994, are not targeted."
Well, that's good right? But...
"Owing to the nature of the UK’s “last resort” policy there are no Permissive Action Links (PALs) in the system, either physical or electronic. It can be deduced from the concept of last resort, therefore, that each SSBN sails with all the information onboard necessary to conduct a strategic missile launch, when so ordered, against a wide range of potential adversaries."
Source: https://nautilus.org/napsnet/napsnet-special-reports/united-kingdom-nuclear-weapon-command-control-and-communications/
"Fools and their money. Some people place great value on valueless things just because it tweaks their ego"
If someone's enjoying doing something that has zero effect on your existence, leave them the fuck alone and be happy for them.
It would be a boring world if we all had the same interests.
Why do you persist with whataboutism? If you want to have a discussion with yourself on the demerits of Russian colonisation you can feel free to start a new thread.
Scroll back up to my comment about Britain's colonial past and ask yourself why you're rambling about other colonial powers.
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