I had the privilege of having lunch with an entomologist once, and yes.

Also, some of them keep advanced databases for looking up cool bugs in case they can’t remember them later.

Oooh, 16

If I was born deaf, in an era where a safe surgery could give me the gift of hearing, and my parents elected not to, I would be angry at them. Probably forever.

As a former member of the deaf community, I too have mourned what will be lost when we fully cure deafness.

But the beautiful community is still just a work-aorund for a disability. It’s a consolation prize, not something to be sought. And yeah, I’m kind of a traitor to the deaf part of my heritage by saying that.

Also, while deafness isn’t an immediate life threat, it can get someone killed. Being able to hear makes a person safer, throughout their life.

I can’t fathom not getting my kid the surgery and then losing my kid to an accident that hearing could have prevented. Ugh.

Again, the deaf community is a huge blessing. But being able to hear is still better.

I realize we do this every fucking week, because the average CEO doesn’t give a shit about Cybersecurity.

But even in that context, this one is a serious fuck-up with some very real consequences for some folks.

“threat actors” who just happen to be interested in people’s personal call records and ongoing police investigations…whoever this might be, they’re not just looking for a quick buck - or at least their buyer isn’t.

Edit: seems many victims are “individuals who are primarily involved in government or political activity, and the copying of certain information that was subject to U.S. law enforcement requests pursuant to court orders” and then a bit about going after records on burner prepaid phones…

I’m trying hard not to jump directly to spy novel conclusions, but I’ll just leave it at - this isn’t what successful operational security looks like.

Maybe they just have a big sign that just says “HERE”.

The hand-book says we roll 1d6. On a one or a two, we save the monkey torturer. On a 4-6, we put both doses back in storage.

I’m banking on that, myself.

Give directly to the charity yourself, you’ll get a sticker and sometime a free pen.

Lol. I can confirm, it’s true!

Joking aside, some of my most cherished possessions are hand-written thank-you notes from worthwhile causes that I support.

(Especially ones from children! “Donors Choose” is great when I need some crayon drawn notes in exchange for buying some school supplies.)

(And given the context, I should clarify, from my own money, not someone else’s.)

Suoer-computing is a pain-in-the-ass, so my guess is some combination of SUSE picking up top talent that left other Linux vendors as IBM has been purchasing them, and SUSE just being willing to put in the extra work for the added brand recognition.

Yeah. Thankfully, Windows server cleaned up that stupidity starting around 2006 and finished in around 2018.

Which all sounds fine until we meditate on the history that basically all other server operating systems have had efficient remote administration solutions since before 1995 (reasonable solutions existed before SSH, even).

Windows was over 20 years late to adopt non-grapgical low latency (aka sane) options for remote administration.

I think it’s a big part of the reason Windows doesn’t appear much on this chart.

Heh. I don’t think that number was ever official, but I heard it as well.

Heh. I don’t think that number was ever official, but I heard it as well.

That’s certainly a big part of it. When one needs to buy a metric crap load of CPUs, one tends to shop outside the popular defaults.

Another big reason, historically, is that Supercomputers didn’t typically have any kind of non-command-line way to interact with them, and Windows needed it.

Until PowerShell and Windows 8, there were still substantial configuration options in Windows that were 100% managed by graphical packages. They could be changed by direct file edits and registry editing, but it added a lot of risk. All of the “did I make a mistake” tools were graphical and so unavailable from command line.

So any version of Windows stripped down enough to run on any super-computer cluster was going to be missing a lot of features, until around 2006.

Since Linux and Unix started as command line operating systems, both already had plenty fully featured options for Supercomputing.

RIP legend. O7

May his prompt always read “READY” wherever his legacy may GOTO or RETSUB.

For my trip I’ll take this fine list above, plus a copy of all of the legal ethically made pornography.

“I like cuddles, but there’s really no chance that I’ll trip you during cuddles, so I don’t want to do that right now.”

Was the election not cooked though?

Due to a new and novel conspiracy? Almost certainly not. The people who care don’t need a new solution, their original solution still works fine.

Cooked through gerry-mandering and voter disenfranchisement practices?

Yes. Absolutely. Once again. As usual. Gerry meandering and voter disenfranchisement is well documented, and has been being done by powerful people against the rest of us, for a very long time.

Neat! I’ll check it out. Thanks!

Un-Fun fact, that’s 32 more than the historic average for folks who have held that job.

And I heard the average was affected a lot by an outlier.

Where did you find that azure runs on linux?

I dont know of anywhere that Microsoft confirms, officially, that Azure, itself, is largely running on Linux. They share stats about what workloads others are running on it, but not, to my knowledge, about what it is composed of.

I suppose that would be an oversimplification, anyway.

But that Azure itself is running mostly on Linux is an open secret among folks who spend time chatting with engineers who have worked on the framework of the Azure cloud.

When I have chatted with them, Azure cloud engineers have displayed huge amouts of Linux experience while they sometimes needed to “phone a friend” to answer Windows server edition questions.

For a variety of reasons related to how much longer people have been scaling Linux clusters, than Windows servers, this isn’t particularly shocking.

Edit: To confirm what others have mentioned, inferring from chatting with MS staff suggests, more specifically, that Azure, itself, is mostly Linux OS running on a Hyper-V virtualization later.