I have never had an amazon account or used amazon to buy anything. I will admit, there has been a couple of times it is annoying that I cannot find something or I may have to buy something that is more expensive. But it has been definitely worth it. Not just for the sake of privacy, but to not support that scumbag Bezos or the millions of knockoff chinese sellers trying to undercut mom and pop stores.

The U.S. courts? I wouldn’t hold your breath.

Thanks for the share! Didn’t know who Edward Nernays was until today. Super interesting (also not great).

“That’s right, Joyce, apparently there were over 100 kilos of cocaine right here in Quahog. And yet my guy can’t get dick.”

Find a dog! Dogs are the best even when you don’t want to socialize. 🐕

Tardigrade is right. I just went to the site and searched “Taiwan” in the search bar and read a few articles. Huge pro China slant.

Because it is I think. Welcome back to the Dark Ages, population: everyone, torches provided, critical thinking not included.

This was a problem. We just acted to ban CFCs, which solved the problem. Now the ozone hole is recovering. I wouldn’t say it turned out not to be a problem though. The human race just had the brains and corporation to come together and deal with it.

“Mr. President: Think about farm land and about water resources, and a man as intelligent as you will see that the absolute position you are taking is flawed,” one user wrote. “What use is being rich if you cannot get access to water and food?”

Imagine saying “a man as intelligent as you” when talking about trump. Lol

Hopefully they don’t forget the game files.

One exception from the horrifying classic rock era is Pink Floyd. At least nothing that I am aware of from those guys.

It isnt respected in the hacker community but it is in the HR community for job postings. Sec+ has better content and is a fraction of the cost. And if you want to prove hands-on skills, OSCP is nearly the same price and well respected by everyone.

In my opinion, CEH has done a tremendous job at branding. Non-cyber tech people all know it. But the content is beginner level stuff.

The simple answer is cloud resources can scale to any number of cpus and gpus whereas on prem is static

Okay, a lot to unpack here. I work on atmospheric model development. Primarily upper atmosphere models, but have experience with forecasting models as well. Inherently, there is nothing wrong with moving to the cloud for hpc resources. However I do take an issue with the following statement:

“Cloud-based high-performance computing will accelerate the transition of research into operations by eliminating traditional bottlenecks of on-premise systems,” said NOAA Administrator Neil Jacobs in a statement.

The bottleneck in forecasting is NOT hardware but unknown and unresolved physical processes. Even at high resolution, forecasting models cannot capture physics and dynamics at spatial scales smaller than the grid of the model. We can make assumptions and use things like machine learning to improve subgrid processes but we cannot fully resolve them without an infinitely small grid, which is impossible. So moving to the cloud will not improve forecasting or the transition of RTO.

The second issue with this guy is he is a Trump nut hugger. See the following:

Sharpiegate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Jacobs

Good find! Did not know that. I haven’t used eBay since the 2000s but I certainly won’t moving forward.

“The company said the conduct “is not representative of eBay’s culture” and said it has since changed leadership and strengthened its policies, procedures and ethics training.”

All employees are now required to attend trainings that include no sending of bloody pig masks, funeral wreaths and death threats. If the old leadership only had that mandatory training this would have never happened!

I have a lightning fact! I am an upper atmosphere physicist and lightning plays a fundamental role in the global electric circuit. Lightning sends charge upward into the ionosphere where the ionosphere distributes the charge horizontally across the globe (Carnegie curve). The return current then trickles down through fair weather regions on Earth, completing the electric circuit!

I have always appreciated how connected all the layers of the atmosphere are. The ionosphere begins between ~60-90km above the surface, yet lightning still affects it!

Thst’s true. They can teach them what to avoid and how to commit warcrimes.

Whew. Not sure China would want to take any Russian military advice, but you do you, Pooh.

“Today’s action will begin to correct what is both a human rights abuse and distortive trade practice to improve the welfare of workers everywhere,” US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said.

Imagine saying with a straight face from the U.S. of all places that they think the UK and EU need to improve the welfare of their workers. I understand it is related to the forced labor goods coming from China but holy.