Real authoritarianism is easily found in Communist countries.
You will be thrown in jail for six months for saying the wrong thing.
Readit NewsOver2Chars commented on · Posted by u/kaaskop
The surveillance harms/thread of a Chinese state owned app need to be fully explained to really make sense.
Unfortunately, going into the minutiae of app based surveillance technology would run head-on into other surveillance based tech from Facebook, Google, and so on.
And it would bring up the touchy subject of data privacy. Oh gosh, if Americans had data privacy this would impact a lot of American businesses based on surveillance tech.
So let's just accept, on good faith, that what the Democrat's portrayed as Trump's Xenophobia, was OK as a natsec issue when Biden did it (no xeno here, folks!), and now that Trump has his bargaining position it's time for "let's make a deal!" (and that Republican who stalled the initial TikTok ban has probably been a good boy this Christmas, and maybe deserves a quid pro quo gift).
It says "The following is the dedication of James Lambert a soldier of the Revolutionary wars with the Americas."
blah blah blah
Over2Chars commented on So you want to build your own data center blog.railway.com/p/data-c... · Posted by u/dban
It seems a bit disingenuous but it’s common practice. Even the hyperscalers, who do have their own datacenters, include their colocation servers in the term “datacenter.” Good luck finding the actual, physical location of a server in GCP europe-west2-a (“London”). Maybe it’s in a real Google datacenter in London! Or it could be in an Equinix datacenter in Slough, one room away from AWS eu-west-1.
Cloudflare has also historically used “datacenter” to refer to their rack deployments.
All that said, for the purpose of the blog post, “building your own datacenter” is misleading.
Indeed, I've seen "data center" maps, and was surprised they were just a tenant in some other guys data center.
Over2Chars commented on So you want to build your own data center blog.railway.com/p/data-c... · Posted by u/dban
I guess we can always try to re-hire all those "Sys Admins" we thought we could live without.
LOL?
Over2Chars commented on Is the world becoming uninsurable? charleshughsmith.substack... · Posted by u/spking
Retire this meme. Google sucks now.
now?
Over2Chars commented on In Defence of 'Productivity Crap' nicky.bearblog.dev/in-def... · Posted by u/nickybearblog
If you had to write software to run the chain saw
I am both completely unqualified and intensely interested in undertaking this task.
You aren't familiar with Software Defined Chainsaws (SDC)s? It's all the rage.
I recommend against Rust.
Over2Chars commented on Is the world becoming uninsurable? charleshughsmith.substack... · Posted by u/spking
Basically houses in Japan are treated like cars -- as something that doesn't appreciate in value as in most places but rather depreciate over time. Some of this is maybe cultural from the time when houses in Japan were literally constructed with paper.
I suspect it might have something to do with the prevalence of earthquakes, the likelihood of said structures being damaged in earthquakes, and building codes (I've heard) that require re-building on a regular basis.
When you build you civilization on active volcanoes having long-lasting buildings may not be a reasonable assumption.
And, yes!, they have insurance. So if you can insure buildings in volcano country, you can insure anything, anywhere, maybe?
Over2Chars commented on Is the world becoming uninsurable? charleshughsmith.substack... · Posted by u/spking
Home values in Japan are somewhat anomalous. There are some good policies that contribute to this, but also other factors that make me reluctant to generalize from Japan. It’s a country with declining natural population, where houses are assets that rapidly decline in value to the point where they’re nearly worthless not that long after you buy them.
Average home age in Japan is 30 years. I think, maybe once or twice, I’ve lived in a building less than 30 years old in the US. I’ve spent most of my life in buildings built pre-war. There aren’t so many pre-war buildings in Japan, but the US takes the blame for that one :-(
The topic was "is the world becoming uninsurable?" with some climate-panic being implied, oh gosh.
If a country with 1/10th of the worlds seismic activity can have (earthquake) insurance, then well dammit, I think it can be done.
Insurance, afaict, is just gambling, and well darnit you can gamble on anything.
The odds might be terrible, but there's ways of hedging your bets I've heard.
I am not a gambler.
(P.s. I'm not a politician)