I'm a Windows sysadmin and I desperately want Microsoft to just make the OS that everybody clearly wants.
Actually, they already make the OS that most everyone wants. The LTSC version of Windows 10 and 11 are both eminently usable. They just don't sell it to anyone unless you have an enterprise account and buy the keys in bulk.
First step is that everything gets connected to the LAN and you can only access the PLC network from within the building's network.
Then some time later, management finds out that keeping someone on-call to go out costs a fortune, so they request that access be made so they can make the change from anywhere.
The IT team argues security, but no new hardware can be provisioned and a developing a new process is too hard. Then the magical phrase is uttered: "Just make it work". So IT punches a hole in the firewall, adds a NAT rule, and job done.
The specific advice they give is to disconnect all PLCs and only access them through a VPN, enable password protection and change the default passwords, and only allow IPs from known engineering laptops and other critical assets.
This is absolutely doable and any IT professional could manage this change. The only barrier that prevented this from happening before is that you need buy-in from someone with access to the purse strings
Greed has been a problem in the AAA game space for a long time. It's just that before reliable Internet connections, it was harder to exploit people.
Before this, it was lootboxes and gambling mechanics, before that, it was microtransactions, balancing the game to incentivise spending money, and before that it was chopping bits off the game and selling it as DLC.
Prior to that, the worst we got was cheap sequels and shovelware.
On policy, Fauci did pretty much the same as the rest of them which is follow advice from official organisations like the WHO. He didn’t save the world by coming up with some crazy idea which ‘might just work…’ like the final scenes in a Hollywood film. He’s just took the advice of the agencies whose job it was to provide it, and then relayed that advice to his staff.
This is literally his job. His role is to be a central figure with the medical knowledge and training to be able to understand the reasons for those recommendations and to approve them for dissemination to the general public.
Where there was uncertainty about best practice he didn’t even do particularly well, nor particularly badly either, both of which, of course can only be judged in hindsight. America’s experience policy-wise was about middling.
He certainly obfuscated more than was helpful about the likely origins, which doesn’t make him a great person, but I’m not sure that made any difference to the course of the pandemic.
Like every credible medical professional, Fauci is a scientist. Scientists don't deal in absolutes. Ever. With a situation like COVID, where basically every virologist was clamoring to study the thing, there was very little truly provable information around. In that position, you cannot make blanket statements about policy when the foundational data you're working from is not trustworthy.
The choice to obfuscate any information about the origin was done for this reason too. In that position, it is simply unethical to state something as fact when the information you have is unverified. RFK does that shit all the time and every single time it happens, scientists have had to come out and say "No. The thing the secretary of health just stated as fact is untrue and you should not trust it." Maybe it's because I'm old enough to remember what things were like before, but it's fucking insane that the general scientific community has to come out and refute official policy.
The real answer is rough, because there are no shortcuts.
The best way to do it is the same way you learned your primary language. Learn just enough through study to be able to use a little bit of the language, and then actually start using it.
Talk with people who speak it, and learn to read and write all over again. Sound like a tourist for a couple years as you pick up more and more. Eventually you'll be fluent.
I crave that feeling you get just after getting past the basic understanding of some new subject where it feels like you're drinking from the firehose and you're picking stuff up left and right.
It's very difficult to achieve that feeling in a structured learning environment.
Historically, the church was a place to connect with the local community. They were a proper third space. That seems to have changed a lot over the last 20 years. Now, it seems that the only people that still attend regularly are the "true believers" with their shitty politics and opinions.
There is probably a fascinating sociology paper somewhere about the knock on effects of the Internet becoming mainstream as it relates to church attendance.
It really depends how much they're willing to spend and which studio ultimately gets the project. There have been some really impressive animation feats done in the last decade.
Animation has always been a money pit on the business-side of things, but if the resources are there, you can end up with a pretty incredible work of art.
Haibane Renmei is a series that left me deeply unsatisfied. There is so much more I want to know about that world, but you can only fit so much into 13 episodes
Joey just didn't want to hurt his feelings by telling him what he thought about his weird skinny joints full of seeds and stems
The processor they advertise only supports up to 16GB
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/231800/intel-processor-n95-6m-cache-up-to-3-40-ghz/specifications.html
I'm guessing that the Terramaster documentation is wrong
When this happens, the only thing that can make you feel remotely human again is to fully shower afterwards.
That was the crux of that famous Penn and Teller bit about it too.
Like, even if it were true that vaccines caused autism, it would still be worth it to do it because autism is better than dead.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109962/
It's a great film
For real.
I'm a Windows sysadmin and I desperately want Microsoft to just make the OS that everybody clearly wants.
Actually, they already make the OS that most everyone wants. The LTSC version of Windows 10 and 11 are both eminently usable. They just don't sell it to anyone unless you have an enterprise account and buy the keys in bulk.
It's good, but I'm not sure if it holds up if you aren't already nostalgic for it.
It has so much of that Joss Whedon wry sarcastic dialogue that has become the replacement for comedy in modern movies
It usually happens in 2 steps.
First step is that everything gets connected to the LAN and you can only access the PLC network from within the building's network. Then some time later, management finds out that keeping someone on-call to go out costs a fortune, so they request that access be made so they can make the change from anywhere.
The IT team argues security, but no new hardware can be provisioned and a developing a new process is too hard. Then the magical phrase is uttered: "Just make it work". So IT punches a hole in the firewall, adds a NAT rule, and job done.
This is absolutely doable and any IT professional could manage this change. The only barrier that prevented this from happening before is that you need buy-in from someone with access to the purse strings
The customer is always right.
If people buy the thing, then it wasn't stupid to make or sell.
Greed has been a problem in the AAA game space for a long time. It's just that before reliable Internet connections, it was harder to exploit people.
Before this, it was lootboxes and gambling mechanics, before that, it was microtransactions, balancing the game to incentivise spending money, and before that it was chopping bits off the game and selling it as DLC.
Prior to that, the worst we got was cheap sequels and shovelware.
This is literally his job. His role is to be a central figure with the medical knowledge and training to be able to understand the reasons for those recommendations and to approve them for dissemination to the general public.
Like every credible medical professional, Fauci is a scientist. Scientists don't deal in absolutes. Ever. With a situation like COVID, where basically every virologist was clamoring to study the thing, there was very little truly provable information around. In that position, you cannot make blanket statements about policy when the foundational data you're working from is not trustworthy.
The choice to obfuscate any information about the origin was done for this reason too. In that position, it is simply unethical to state something as fact when the information you have is unverified. RFK does that shit all the time and every single time it happens, scientists have had to come out and say "No. The thing the secretary of health just stated as fact is untrue and you should not trust it." Maybe it's because I'm old enough to remember what things were like before, but it's fucking insane that the general scientific community has to come out and refute official policy.
The real answer is rough, because there are no shortcuts.
The best way to do it is the same way you learned your primary language. Learn just enough through study to be able to use a little bit of the language, and then actually start using it.
Talk with people who speak it, and learn to read and write all over again. Sound like a tourist for a couple years as you pick up more and more. Eventually you'll be fluent.
This article is over 23 years old. I'd be curious if they're still entirely open source.
I crave that feeling you get just after getting past the basic understanding of some new subject where it feels like you're drinking from the firehose and you're picking stuff up left and right.
It's very difficult to achieve that feeling in a structured learning environment.
This is the correct thing to do.
Everyone in Chrono Trigger gets their real name in my playthroughs
::: spoiler mild spoilers Chrono = Chrono
Lucca = Lucca
Frog = Glenn
Marle = Nadia
Robo = R66-Y
Ayla = Ayla
Magus = Janus :::
Historically, the church was a place to connect with the local community. They were a proper third space. That seems to have changed a lot over the last 20 years. Now, it seems that the only people that still attend regularly are the "true believers" with their shitty politics and opinions.
There is probably a fascinating sociology paper somewhere about the knock on effects of the Internet becoming mainstream as it relates to church attendance.
It really depends how much they're willing to spend and which studio ultimately gets the project. There have been some really impressive animation feats done in the last decade.
Animation has always been a money pit on the business-side of things, but if the resources are there, you can end up with a pretty incredible work of art.
Oh, you're who Bad Dragon goes to for those size comparison photos
Haibane Renmei is a series that left me deeply unsatisfied. There is so much more I want to know about that world, but you can only fit so much into 13 episodes