I believe they are referring to the dumpster support model. The hardware is so cheap that, if it fails, you toss it in a dumpster and buy more by the gross. Using Kubernetes to spread loads across your less reliable nodes ensures high availability. Sometimes this can be even more reliable because you are regularly testing your recovery and backup features and your hardware is more varied.
The downside is that if some piece of firmware or hardware has a vulnerability you have a larger attack surface.
> While you abide on this island you are in the constant practice of horrid cruelties for you not only skin them Alive, but you burn them Alive also to cook their Bodies with. You take a kettle with you into which you put a Penguin or two, you kindle a fire under it, and this fire is absolutely made of the unfortunate Penguins themselves. Their bodies being oily soon produce a Flame; there is no wood on the island.
Java Minecraft has always been super transparent. I remember being shocked when I signed up for their early modding SDK prior to Microsoft and it was literally just the source code for Minecraft that I could compile against.
What you are seeing in America right now is not democracy. We have transitioned into an oligarchy that is run by a group of billionaires. The only reason we still have elections is because the elites get to select the candidates and we only get to choose between the two options they chose for us.
“I tried to keep to Shelley’s unusual (and non-standard) rhyme scheme for the sonnet, but I departed from it in the second-to-last line for poetic reasons. For a language which excels in stealing words from other cultures, English has an appalling lack of rhymes.”
Perhaps with deeper analysis, and a few choice new words this issue could be remedied.
Although that’s a paradoxically tedious engineering solution to improve a languages beauty.
From another angle how comes other languages are more poetic, are they older and have had more time to evolve to be more poetic? Or were the speakers who wrought the language just more poetic.
Good software developers/engineers spend most of their time trying to replace themselves. This is because the amount of work they have to do is constantly expanding to fill the work day and they just want a dang weekend. It is my deepest hope that AI will do that for us, even just a little. But I suspect it will just make more work for us and damage the prospects of a younger generation of developers.
I like AI, it's a step in the right direction for humanity; ending our dependence on human labor for horrible jobs. But I shudder to imagine what the mouth breathing monsters at the top of our society are going to do with it.
I suspect that we're in for a rough few decades that will make the early 1900s look like a Sunday picnic.
I suspect we will see something similar to CRAM that is a little less aggressive for these drones. CRAM uses a huge stream of rounds because it has to target supersonic munitions. But a drone doing 200-300 knots could be taken out with a proxy fused shell shot from a computerized turret on a HMMWV.
In addition you will probably start seeing FIM-92k missiles (Stinger) on loyal wingman style Predator, Reaper and Viper drones using link 16 guidance from F-35 and E-3. There has already been an air to air kill with the Reaper.
The downside is that if some piece of firmware or hardware has a vulnerability you have a larger attack surface.
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