We’re not pretending, this is an asinine view.

Two things can be true at once. It’s surprising how difficult a concept this is to grasp.

Social media accelerated this, it provides the vehicle in which to make culture wars the only thing at the front of people’s minds. It accelerated division and hate, as these improve platform attention.

Let’s not even talk about the death of critical thinking which just allows this to happen to greater effect.

Rising wealth inequality because a side effect of us not fighting a class war which is a side effect of us being completely focused on culture wars which is a side effect of social media.

There’s an entire chain here and social media underpins most of it’s acceleration

Define “inciting”

This is where things get tricky. Leave that ambiguous and technically anything can be “inciting” if it’s in words.

Whether that’s racism, or anti-authoritarianism, or just speaking I’ll about your government.

Freedom of speech, as a concept, doesn’t work if it applies only to some speech. Controls around it will be abused and used against you at some point (Look at where the U.S. is heading).

This makes me nervous about more authoritarianism, as it sets a dangerous precedent that can be abused.

I want to reduce wasteful power consumption.

But I also desire ECC for stability and data corruption avoidance, and hardware redundancy for failures (Which have actually happened!!)

Begrudgingly I’m using dell rack mount servers. For the most part they work really well, stupid easy to service, unified remote management, lotssss of room for memory, thick PCIe lane counts, stupid cheap 2nd hand RAM, and stable.

But they waste ~100 watts of power per device though… That stuff ads up, even if we have incredibly cheap power.

That is parallelized… I didn’t make mention of threading being the concern here.

The 100+ billion operations per second isn’t exactly easy.

4k 60fps = 498 million pixels per second

Each pixel takes a couple hundred logical operations with HEVC.

A modern high end 4GHz, 8 physical core CPU at 4 instructions per cycle, at maximum capacity, can handle 128 billion operations per second.

You probably wouldn’t even get your realtime framerate in this scenario.

Yeah, because of the ASICs built into them to enable that decoding.

Without that, a 4K HEVC video is in upwards of 100+ billion operations/s to decode on the CPU. Which limits you to high end CPUs getting capped out on something you essentially get for “free” otherwise

This isn’t tech news, go post your Elon spam somewhere else

Pets are the new kids

Goldfish are the new pets

Pet rocks are the new goldfish

Kids are insanely expensive and time consuming. Which normally isn’t a problem in a healthy society with functional communities and affordable goods and services. We aren’t in a healthy society.

Does it support multi-tenancy?

For instance, being a backup and media manager solution for multiple people in my family hosted on one server.

The same with a few friends that want to get out from under Google’s thumb.

I mean, yeah, probably all of these things.

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.

Suckers never learn.

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.

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.

This… Is a very possible future

That’s the point.

It’s a anyone that don’t want around. Label them antifa and now you can do everything the law allows with terrorists and worse.