I knew this was a fucked up industry when I heard they were successfully diversifying into women-centric gatcha games where the game is also centered on gooning over various character designs but the gatcha pulls correspond to specific romance scenes and interactions.
Japanese companies really have minmaxed exploiting every demographic. They have this garbage for the young people and pachinko parlors for old people and rural folks.
Sweet, looking forward to the FOSS app utilizing Perplexity API.
This accurately describes the two possible reactions to Evangelion.
The most-aggressively short timelines don't apply until 2029. Regardless, now is the time to get serious about automation. That is going to require vendors of a lot of off-the-shelf products to come up with better (or any) automation integrations for existing cert management systems or whatever the new standard becomes.
The current workflow many big orgs use is something like:
- Poor bastard application engineer/support guy is forced to keep a spreadsheet for all the machines and URLs he "owns" and set 30-day reminders when they will expire,
- manually generate CSRs,
- reach out to some internal or 3rd party group who may ignore his request or fuck it up twice before giving him correct signed certs,
- schedule and get approval for one or more "possible brief outage" maintenance windows because the software requires manually rebinding the new certs in some archaic way involving handjamming each cert into a web interface on a separate Windows box.
As the validity period shrinks and the number of environments the average production application uses grows, the concept of doing these processes manually becomes a total clusterfuck.
This discussion is both lit and bussin
What many Americans would gravitate toward in the market is a "transitional" medium SUV or crossover type vehicle that is a Plugin Electric Hybrid (PHEV). This is the best option for many suburbanites because the infrastructure isn't there for full electric for most uses cases, but most people living in single-family homes could afford to retrofit their residential electrical service at their own cost, and thereby do 90% of their driving on electricity while still retaining the capability of doing longer trips with gasoline. They need to be able to take the kid to baseball practice and fit the other kids Tuba or Cello in the back hatch etc.
Personally I know many people who would settle for this compromise as a transitional vehicle. We just need a few more options that aren't $50K+ new.
ATF literally already has a division named this.
Firearms and Ammunition Technology Division (FATD).
They do "testing" on commercial products and in recent years they've mostly been tasked with railroading people who didn't do anything.
The entire Bureau should be shut down and replaced with a hot dog stand.
ATF literally already has a division named this.
Firearms and Ammunition Technology Division (FATD).
They do "testing" on commercial products and in recent years they've mostly been tasked with railroading people who didn't do anything.
The entire Bureau should be shut down and replaced with a hot dog stand.
Even if the stated goal was to reshore large amounts of production of goods to the US, there are several problems with that.
One, history shows that it is largely not possible, at least in any practical sense. US companies make t-shirts in Vietnam and Pakistan because they can sell them to consumers here for $10. Are US consumers magically going to decide they're OK with an Old Navy (low quality) garment costing $35 instead of $10?
Secondly, standing up manufacturing and distribution domestically isn't an overnight thing. Funding, site selection, construction, supply chain integration etc. all take time. Trump thinks he can trade a few weeks of bad headlines and market hit, for some magically reappearing domestic manufacturing. It doesnt work that way. Even if it were possible, it wouldn't create positive economic conditions on any kind of timeline sufficient to offset the negative effects real consumers are already experiencing.
"Sorry little Johnny, not only can we not afford new Nikes for you anymore, but also you can forget about that Nintendo Switch 2 for Christmas because we can't even order one. But at least we know your GED-educated uncle Jimbo in northern Michigan might be able to get a lower-middle class factory job assembling widgets again... maybe... in 2 years."
That isn't a good economic pitch for most people.
Yeah, this blows. As I have stated in other threads, my last full desktop build was in 2014/2015.
Now Microsoft is forcing an artificial deadline on me, as I cannot upgrade my non-TPM hardware to Windows 11 (Win 11 sucks ass anyway). So my choices are to run Win10 past EOL on my old rig, install a Linux distro to extend the life of the old rig, or build new. Frankly I'm kinda done with Microsofts bullshit.
I would like to do a new desktop build but cannot justify $4-5K for a commensurate bump in specs.
I guess I could try to slum it with a Intel Arc Battlemage build, but I'm not sure about the Linux driver support.
AI can look at a bajillion examples of code and spit out its own derivative impersonation of that code.
AI isn't good at doing a lot of other things software engineers actually do. It isn't very good at attending meetings, gathering requirements, managing projects, writing documentation for highly-industry-specific products and features that have never existed before, working user tickets, etc.
Yay guess I get to do an Intel Arc build
Billy Mitchell can sue people all the live long day and win or lose it doesn't make him less of a clown.
"It's all Isekai?"
"Always has been"
This sucks. I love that app.
Waiting for the douche with the AWP to appear in the space between the doors.
My friends dumbass 12 year old kid was told he wouldn't be given access to any social media until he was at least 16. He claimed he understood, and then proceeded to make an Instagram account with his real name and started sending pervy messages to various insta thott accounts.
Basically as a parent you have to give them access to very limited apps and make them repeatedly demonstrate they won't misuse them. Then as they get older, assuming they don't do anything stupid or illegal, training wheels gradually come off.
... and to avoid a boots-on-ground invasion of the main landmass of Japan, which would have cost probably a million soldiers lives, and who knows how many Japanese civilians.
"Put all your changes on 3 separate sharepoint calendars a minimum of 2 weeks in advance. Also do the normal approval garbage in ServiceNow and attend a 2 hour CAB for final approval. If you didn't select the right dropdown menu option in the ticket details, you'll have to start this whole process over.
Also, why does it take you guys so long to get stuff done?"