Joke’s on them. My coffee maker has a physical button!

This is a good reason to start investing in multi region architecture at some point.

Not trying to be smug here or anything, but we updated a single config value, made a PR, and committed the change and we were switched over to a different region in a few minutes. Smooth sailing after that.

(This is still dependent to some degree on AWS in order to actually execute the failover, something we’re mulling over how to solve)

Now, our work demands we invest in such things, we’re even investing in multi-cloud (an actual nightmare). Not everyone can do this, and some systems are just not built to be able to, but if it’s within reach it’s probably worth it.

There’s a good reason why I refuse to use cloud connected or Internet required “smart” devices.

It’s essentially an excuse for shitty engineering.

If you really need a device to be cloud connected then it can also maintain local data when the remote server is down. Even better, it uses an open spec and you can standup your own server.

40… Is not old my friend. You do realize millennials are entering 40 right? The problem are the old fucks (60-80) that are stuck in their political power ways.

Ya know, a generation that largely supports everything you’re supporting.

30-60 is a great age range for both maturity, ability to navigate the landscape, and generationally relevant. It’s weird here because you’re preaching to the choir while also shitting on the choir…?

Side note: You seem to be assigning meaning to my words that I’m not providing. I’m not in support of old political figures who are stuck in their ways and refuse to drop power because of their corruption. I’m in support of getting people into these positions that can effectively enact change. And I believe the people that can effectively enact change are those that are able to navigate the landscape and bridge the gap that we currently have.

We both want the same thing but the difference seems to be rational versus (ironically) emotions.

Age can also be a bad thing when people making decisions aren’t mature enough to make a decision rationally instead of emotionally.

This swings both ways. Older people can be less effective at making decisions and younger people can also be less effective at making decisions. For different reasons.

There is a nice sweet spot in the middle from 30-60 where people tend to be pretty good at making decisions while also bridging generational and cultural gaps.

You’re also completely ignoring politics experience, Which is a real world requirement in order to actually get shit done. (Let’s not even talk about emotional maturity and making decisions purely on emotion instead of rationale)

If you are not mature enough to learn how to work well with others then you’re not going to get anything done because you require the contributions, help and cooperation of people you may disagree with in order to move your agenda forward. Especially on a world stage.

I’m not talking about old ass people in their 70s here. I’m talking about people 30-60. Who should be the ones in office in my opinion.

Older and younger than that and effectiveness seems to drop off pretty quickly.

Can’t wait to see you let your household be ran by a toddler if age means nothing to you.

You might think that’s an extreme example, but it highlights the same problem. Until you are fully mature (20-25) you tend to lack in areas that mature humans are capable. That’s the bar, that’s where the floor starts. Some people get there earlier than others. Some people get there later than others.

After that point comes tempering and experience. When your decisions can affect millions of other people, it’s expected that you have the experience, maturity and temperament to make good rational decisions without being overtaken by your emotions.

Younger people are more likely to be overtaken by their emotions and make irrational decisions. Maturity and experience is an expectation.

You’re not going to make a 15-year a UN secretary, or even a 22 year old, it doesn’t mean this person can’t start working their way there and gaining experience with that in mind.

FR. The (actually user ran) NSFW subreddits are so much better than any other aggregator

They always love you once the scared and trust portion of your relationship is past.

Generally, people who think cats are evil are people that don’t understand that cats aren’t dogs. Dogs love you unconditionally. Cats are entirely trust-based. Cats are more like humans than dogs are in that they are fearful social creatures that will only open up once trust has been established.

Earning that trust and building that relationship is part of owning and taking care of cats. And a large part of why it is so rewarding for cat lovers. Establishing a hard-earned trust-based relationship with another creature who doesn’t love you unconditionally is… More personal in a way.

You mean:

Dog owners who have a cat

Cat owners, people who care for understand and love cats, don’t necessarily have this attitude which is usually just a lack of understanding of the considerable differences between the animals.

She’ll get there. There’s still tempering to be done that comes with more experience and age which benefits and strengthens a political position.

I look forward to it.

This isn’t technology news.

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Edit: You’re making a false dichotomy out of this, seemingly out of bad faith.

Your analogy is broken in just about every way imaginable as treating the symptoms is often done in conjunction with treating the disease.

Why? Often treating the symptoms is a life-saving measure in the short-term while treating the disease is a long-term solution. Done simultaneously. In cases where symptoms are not life-threatening it is still treated for comfort and ability to function.

Both have to happen simultaneously.

If all you do is sit back and try and fight the big problem and you don’t tackle the little problems eating away at the fabric under you. Eventually there won’t be any more fabric to stand on to fight the big problem.

tires

What a weird way to spell back.

The fact that live kidnappings and abductions are met with so little resistance is terrifying.

This… Is a very possible future

But I wasn’t facility. I was a student.

The dorm itself did not have internet and had no plans of running ethernet or providing internet to students.

I got internet through a wireless access point, positioned very carefully in window for a WISP. And they distributed that to rooms near me.

It’s old magic too and in a pinch it works reasonably well.

We use this as a networking option for an old dorm I was in which didn’t have ethernet and the concrete walls between rooms made Wi-Fi unusable.

Blocks of rooms were not separated on different circuits which made this possible

Im not, and you can take your Reddit flavored conversation back there with you please!

Where instead of actually engaging in a topic, you instead resort to personal attacks, and then followup with something that doesn’t even address the original comment to begin with.

Begone with that bullshit.

What profit incentive is there for bots that don’t interact? (There are edge cases, scrapers and such, but that’s a minute amount of traffic for large services)

Bots in this context are a tool for manipulating opinions and facts for political gain, marketing, personal benefit, or some other social or economic benefit.

They cost money to operate and maintain, and generally need a clear benefit to be used at scale.

That said, bots have only gotten complex in their language capabilities over the last couple years.

My point still stands regardless, use pre -LLM numbers if you want, it doesn’t necessarily change the picture all that much.