My South African colleague tells me he is happy that you have adopted him.
Readit Newshggigg commented on Starship's Sixth Flight Test spacex.com/launches/missi... · Posted by u/hnburnsy
hggigg commented on Starship's Sixth Flight Test spacex.com/launches/missi... · Posted by u/hnburnsy
hggigg commented on Starship's Sixth Flight Test spacex.com/launches/missi... · Posted by u/hnburnsy
And they wouldn't work there if musk wouldn't fork tons of money and wouldn't aspire to the highest possible standard...
No musk fan here. He is an idiot, but probably a useful one.
There are plenty of engineers that won't work there because of Musk. Being divisive and unpredictable is not a good characteristic and not how you run a business.
Basically there are better ways without making the sacrifices that have been and will be made.
hggigg commented on Starship's Sixth Flight Test spacex.com/launches/missi... · Posted by u/hnburnsy
Err he's South African, probably shouldn't even be in the US if judged by the same standards as any other immigrant, Cybercab is a shit show and the campaign support was the sort of thing we'd expect from a Russian oligarch.
If you're going to give anyone credit, the thousands of SpaceX staff who keep this thing on the rails are who need some love.
Edit: so by the downvotes I would assume that people are happy to violate immigration laws, try to buy elections and completely pave over the achievements of the staff to be a billionaire simp? Enjoy your future under the boot.
hggigg commented on DB48X: High Performance Scientific Calculator, Reinvented 48calc.org/... · Posted by u/qwezxcrty
Yes, that series is really good. The calcs I use most often:
* HP-25 (yes, a nearly 50-year old calculator, but you can hold it in one hand and it does most things I need very well)
* HP-11C or 15C (doesn't matter which, I don't use the extra features of the 15C)
* HP-12C
* HP-50G (very useful for unit conversions)
Great to hear of another user :)
hggigg commented on Trump wins presidency for second time thehill.com/homenews/camp... · Posted by u/koolba
What industry if I might ask?
Finance
hggigg commented on Trump wins presidency for second time thehill.com/homenews/camp... · Posted by u/koolba
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Buying shares in popcorn here.
Our company, US based, thinks this is bad enough that we have contingency plans for his presidency.
hggigg commented on Why Companies Are Ditching the Cloud: The Rise of Cloud Repatriation thenewstack.io/why-compan... · Posted by u/panrobo
No way that is true if you did it properly. Practically nobody has a workload where this could be true - and it's definitely not a workload smaller than several DCs.
It doesn't work out well if you just create some long lived EC2 instances and call it a day. But that's not really using a cloud, just a VPS - and that has indeed never been cheaper than having your own servers. You need to go cloud native if you want to save money.
It’s easy. Lift and shift, then fuck it up by not quite completely migrate everything to numerous badly managed kubernetes clusters. That’s what we did.
You might be thinking of "POTUS" rather than "politician".
eg:
Mitch McConnell, senior United States senator from Kentucky since 1985, the longest serving senator in his state's history. McConnell has been the leader of the Senate Republican Conference since 2007, including as majority leader from 2015 to 2021, making him the longest serving Senate party leader in U.S. history.
Even for POTUS it's a two term, under ten year total limit, doesn't have to be consectutive terms.
Assuming the incumbent doesn't push through legislation to change that. Not sure how enshrined in constitution that is so can't comment on the feasibility of it.
(I have been to both and would rather spend a week in Cape Town than Chicago for example)