It's been a struggle with a few teammates that we are trying to solve through explicit policy, feedback, and ultimately management action.

Yeah, a slice of this is technology related, but it's really a policy issue. It's probably easier to manage with a tighter team. Maybe I'm taking team size for granted.

I couldn't help but think of that classic "How to talk like a Minnesotan" video.

Does the study mention anything about how much male caregivers meow back?

It says females are more verbally interactive, possibly for cultural reasons , study was done in Turkey.

Anecdotally i can see that being similar in europe though

cats being cats, perhaps a little verbal reticence is what it takes to inspire them ;)

Their linux driver support isn't so great, though. I really considered an AMD GPU for my most recent build, and based on the driver support for just the integrated graphics on my new AMD CPU (7900X), I opted for an NVidia card instead.

How so? Switching from an Nvidia card to an AMD one I am now able to upgrade my kernel whenever without getting a blinking cursor after reboot. How are in-tree drivers worse than whatever Nvidia does?

I have a 9060 in one PC and a 9070 in another, on Fedora 43.

It runs great. Run all my steam stuff through them. Those days to mention have been long gone for quite awhile.

I'm running a 6900XT on Arch and have no problems so far. Steam, Heroic launcher and every game i tried so far worked like a charm. You can even OC with LACT [1] if you want to.

[1] https://github.com/ilya-zlobintsev/LACT

Quite the opposite these days. AMD just works and Nvidia is a crapshoot

It's not clear to me that the UK even has a mechanism to discover the operators of such sites. If I found myself in such a position, I imagine I wouldn't even bother trying to block UK IPs and let them sort out their own internet blocking.

Bizarre. A human driver would face zero consequences for hitting a cat in the street.

Even if consequences for humans are minimal, shouldn't we hold autonomous vehicles to a higher standard?

The current CEO doesn't care like the previous one did. Culture of excellence was replaced with financialization.

CloudFront isn't just for CDN, but also for DDoS protection. Writes through CloudFront are not an anti-pattern.

There is always more than a way to do things with AWS. But CloudFront Origin groups can’t use HTTP POST. They’re limited to read requests. Without origin groups you opt-out of some resiliency. IMHO that’s a bad trade-off. To each their own.

WAF is cheaper on CloudFront and so is traffic (compared to the ALB). It keeps bad traffic near the sender rather than near the recpient.

That really depends on the interest rate. If the going rate is good (especially 3% or below), why tie up the capital in a car purchase when you can be putting it to work elsewhere?

In that case, you don't have to get a loan, but you do anyways.

Isn't that the default? Even trying to fund a 4 thousand dollar beater may take a loan.

Nope. This one out of all the comments in this thread screams out of touch tech guy. 80% of car purchases in America are financed. There are over 100 million car loans in America. Though in a more ideal world car loans should not be necessary, in this one, they very much are.

Just because its necessary to get a car, which folks do usually need in our society, doesn't mean they can afford it...

Most purchases being financed through debt isn't a compelling argument that people can afford the purchase. It's a highly predatory market for something that many people need just to survive.

So are they going to give back the money they got from the feds to build them?

Intel didn't cancel any fabs in Arizona, one just came online. They killed plans Fabs in Poland and Germany, and the Ohio fab is on hold. You don't get the money up front, so nothing to give back.

Though the relevant governments in Poland and Germany probably spent a lot of time and effort (and money). Only some of them they will get back.

But I guess that's a risk they knew they were taking.

I doubt there was much; the sort of outright subsidy the US sometimes does is usually classed as unlawful state aid in the EU (there are exceptions; in particular member states were allowed to bail out/nationalise their banks in the financial crisis. But subsidies to random foreign companies would generally be illegal; see the Apple tax case).

Well, I'm also taking about all the bureaucrats time wasted on wooing Intel.

The time of government officials and civil servants ain't free.

Didn’t the feds just get 10% of the company?

The way that worked is that part of the CHIPs act after Intel reached a milestone the USG handed them a bag of cash.

Intel failed at finishing a bunch of milestones so there was a large pot of money Intel did not get. Trump gave them that pot of money in return for 10% stock.

You can make up your own mind about whether investing money into a company that couldn't achieve milestones is a good idea.

I guess they could make the argument that holding 10% of the only company with an x86 license that manufacturers them at scale in the US was worth it.

If you consider it a hedge against missiles flying in the indo-pacific.

I don't know that I would but the US gov could - it's similar in terms of strategic goals as the Jones Act.

I mean the Jones act was pretty practical for it's time. When you could obtain a ship via a cheap lease from the US Navy then the lack of capital spend building the ship is fine to spend employing US sailors.

However, now that the navy is out of the business of buying overpriced ships to rent out (with the idea that they'd be repurposed if a war broke out) now the Jones act isn't very effective.

However, unlike the Jones Act there's no criteria that Intel be able to supply chips. At least with the Jones Act we're going to have US citizens practiced sailing ships. With the stock purchase Intel doesn't need to have capacity to build chips for missiles/drones/etc; especially with the government treating them as non-voting shares!

If the USG wanted a hedge they should've just forked some money over for an option to buy X chips for $Y. Or some more complex option about fab time / output. You hedge production concerns with futures not equity!

It's also not great to hedge by using a vendor that wasn't able to meet previous goals you gave them. Counterparty risk is a real thing.

Yeah hence the “I don’t know that I would” it was more an attempt to see it from their point of view and assume a rationale, there may not have been one or not a sensible one we can infer with what is publicly known, as an outsider I can’t say the US is a rational actor at this point.

The govt got shares instead already