chanandler_bong's comments

Hock Tan's only goal is to increase stock value. Period. At the expense of anything and everything else, stock value.

This. 100%.

I read an article a long time ago that drew a direct correlation between the need to contain/separate livestock in the American West and the battlefields of World War I.

Basically, as settlers moved westward, they needed to contain their livestock as well as separate sheep and cows. Sheep apparently eat grass down to the ground whereas cows don't, thus sheep would deprive cows of food.

So, barbed wire was developed for this purpose and the military saw the utility of it as well. Fast-forward to WWI and the vast battlefields there and needing an inexpensive way to slow enemy advances on foot. This led to the development of tanks to overcome the barbed wire obstacles. Machine guns also became more useful as a way to spray large areas when attacking troops were held up by the obstacles.

...or Spokane. "Spo-cane" is one I've heard not infrequently.

Sad day in the food world... William Post, who helped create Pop-Tarts died today as well.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/14/business/william-post-dea...

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https://eyes.jpl.nasa.gov/dsn/dsn.html shows the current status of the DSN, including bandwidth for each stream. Pretty interesting.

Back in the mid 90s, I spent a full year migrating my company and ~800 users across six sites from Exchange to Notes. I had no experience with Notes, and absolutely hated it when I started the project.

After a year of hacking, learning from mistakes, and countless hours of RTFM, we got it done. Email, calendar, file shares all migrated, cross-site replication, and some really great new features added in with workflows. I was really proud of it.

As soon as the last migration wave was complete, I called my manager to let him know that the long-awaited day had arrived. Exchange was dead, long live Lotus Notes! Literally, during that phone call he said "Ummm. Yeah. We are going to migrate back to Exchange because of some M&A coming up."

I was not pleased.

+1000 for Trex!! I use it daily, thank you for creating it!

I am impressed how it handles handwriting and crappy screen grabs.

You're assuming there will be any trees left...

REK can also handle most jets if necessary.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reykjav%C3%ADk_Airport

Youth is wasted on the young.

The WTC towers were constructed to withstand a 1970s jet (707, DC-8, etc) that was on approach to JFK/LGA, hence at low speed and not full of fuel. This was not the scenario on 9/11.

Pretty simple, really.

Pick a couple random files that should be in the repo, restore them from a random archive, check the md5sums against the source. If the md5sums don't match (or the file can't be found), something is wrong. I am mainly backing up RAW image files, so they should never change.

Basically...

$TEST_FILE=$(ls -p /source_dir | grep -v / | shuf -n1)

$TEST_ARCHIVE=$(borgmatic -c config.file list | shuf -n1)

borgmatic extract yada yada yada

md5sum $TEST_FILE restored_file

The fact that as a customer that is impacted by this, I only found out about it when my backups and automated test restore failed is worrying.

I get that things happen, but not realising that this was going to be a service impacting event does not inspire continued confidence. Sure, this situation probably won't happen again, but what else don't they understand about their infrastructure?

The process of data sonification can help scientists better identify patterns in complex data and create beautiful music for the public.

They did have a couple of years with good commercials, though.

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9v5p4

If I were a gazillionaire, this would be my yacht. Updated (sympathetically) to modern standards and efficiency, and open to the public as a museum ship when not in use.

Their biggest miss was not hitting the fuel dumps and repair facilities. Taking out a few ships, even carriers, would be easy to replace. Wiping out the logistics support capability would mean that ships would have to return to the US west coast to refuel/repair.

That would have been a major disaster. Pearl Harbor was just an irritant and catalyst.

Mr. Fring would like to see you in his office. Now.