Isn’t this just more of what caused the problem in the first place? Namely, centralisation. If you store data locally and you lose a machine, that’s bad but not the end of the world. If you store it centrally and you lose the data, that’s catastrophic. Nassim Taleb nailed this stuff. Keep the downside limited, and the upside unlimited or as he says, “Don’t pick up pennies in front of a steamroller.”
It’s even better than that. It’s a computer’s version of a story describing how a computer wrote a story which was then front-paged by a computer.
NBN switched half of my town to fixed wireless at a higher cost than FTTN just to get ‘bums on seats’ to make coalition pollies look good/less bad.
Let me put that another way.
I got a worse service, at a higher cost to the government, AND a higher cost to me, just so it could happen 6 months earlier.
I would have been happy to wait, and now FTTP is off the table for me.
Fuck 'em.
Guilty. I was reacting to the title and the deluge of wildly biased reporting on ABC radio. The article actually seemed pretty balanced once I read it.
wft. Has the ABC turned into a Murdoch rag or something?
Came here to say this.
I read somewhere that this can mean they think you might steal stuff.
Clickbait title. The graph looks pretty balanced actually.
Reminds me of Mathcad and Calca
There doesn’t seem to be any monolithic music culture at all anymore. Everyone has super customized spotify playlists.
I’ve noticed this too. In some ways it makes it harder to find new music.
FooBarBaz
Found the dev.
Optus, Latitude, Medibank, etc, etc. I have zero patience for any corporation getting prissy about me giving bogus details from now on. Just need a way to get disposable mobile numbers.
I have to admit that while I’m old enough to remember VIM from days of yore, I never found the love that everyone had/has for it. Is it really as good as modern IDE’s?
It’s fucking unconscionable. We should be taxing these fuckers harder.
This seems like the digital equivalent of burning books. Rather than controlling what people can read, shouldn’t we be doing more about the underlying reasons that mental health has taken a dive, such as the cost of living, climate change, the cost of further education and, you know, giving people a reason to feel optimistic about the future?
Firefox with containers for day to day use. Chrome for google docs. Safari for sites where I don’t want to have to go through the login process every time I open a page.
I bought a Synology NAS with 4 bays and set up Raid 6. This provides 2 drive failure protection. All files on my computer are automatically sync’d to the NAS via Synology’s self hosted cloud drive service. This provides the additional benefit of version history of files. The NAS is backed up to a single large drive on a regular basis. That drive is stored off site.
I got burned by WD’s secret SMR drives in my home NAS and they sucked! They were marketed as NAS drives, but the performance was abominable, the failed sector count grew steadily from day 1 and it felt like they failed 1 early. Once the whole sordid fiasco came to light I switched to Seagate CMR drives and everything has been mostly OK since then.
Julia looks like it is pointed towards ML programming and is fast, but I don’t see the same level of potential in a few years that Rust and Swift seem to have.
Rust seems to generating a lot more buzz and I’ve been seeing posts about Swifts ML libraries that look interesting. My crystal ball seems to be saying that Rust will follow a similar arc that Python took and gain some serious ML creds through libraries built by community/industry. I think Swift will also gain some credible ML capabilities too because it has the Apple behemoth behind it.
Sounds like another reason not to use Chrome.