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The 10K has been over to about 5 minutes and I don't think NBC hasn't put the times up. Very impressed with Nico staying with the lead group, last 6 laps he looked like he was straining.

That makes for a brutal work environment. Waiting for the axe to swing kills productivity. They still have a commanding lead, but the trend in CPUs seems like its reason enough for new leadership. https://www.techpowerup.com/322317/amd-hits-highest-ever-x86-cpu-market-share-in-q1-2024-across-desktop-and-server

Lots of analysis on the web about the $91 Million in the Biden/Harris campaign. Everyone is saying that Harris has access to that money, since they share a campaign committee, but it get's unclear if Harris is not on the ticket either as President or VP. Different sites quote different experts says different things, everything from they would have of give refunds and ask folks to donate to the new campaign, or that the Biden campaign could donate 'unlimited funds' to the DNC. If anything goes to court before the election, it's going to be that money issue.

Serious question. Without Cloak Rooming the thread, can someone explain what the outrage is. I must be missing something. Is this somehow easier for a minor to fool? Is there some aspect of this that meets the letter of the law but bypasses the intent of the law? Is this seen as faster or easier than walking into somewhere like Academy and going to the self serve ammo aisle? Or is the outrage coming from the same place as the hate for self-service order kiosks inside fast food places. I bought some shotgun shells a few weeks ago at Academy and they didn't ask for my ID. If I had paid with cash, it would have been mostly anonymous. I'm sure Academy has security cameras pointed at the registers, but I doubt they are running any facial id software and I doubt they are making sure they get a clear face shot.

I'm sure I'm feeling 100x overly pessimistic because I'm short on sleep and because I feel completely helpless. I'm on the software side of a big hardware tech company and don't work in IT. My company has a huge internal datacenter (aka on-prem cloud), that is run "as a Service". Meaning the development teams don't have direct access to the vCenter console, so we can't fix our own VMs. We have to open a ticket and wait for IT to fix them. Fuck me; there are a _lot_ of VMs. I assume most/all of the Windows ones have this problem. My worry is the tools from my team and related teams are all sales related (quoting, sizing, and ordering) tools. Nobody can sell anything with these tools offline. A few days offline can be absorbed, but if it's 1 or 2 weeks, it seems like it will directly impact the quarter. This is not good. The double whammy is the companies we sell to are also hit and are probably going to tap the breaks on new purchases. This quarter has the potential to be really really bad. I probably need to go the fuck to sleep and let IT burn the midnight oil.

I've seen lots of cases over the years where after the testing was done, a software guy decided to slip in more more change, or make some should-not-change-the-behavior type change like fixing a typo in a log message or fix the indentation in the code. Since the change shouldn't impact the final product, they manually bypass the testing process and push straight to production. Sooner or later that type change accidently deletes a line it shouldn't or changes a 1 to a 0 and breaks shit. It's very likely is going to turn out to be a manual override of the standard process. And as someone said above, QA is lower caste. If a senior developer really wants to override process, in most places, they can.

I just got a text on my personal phone from my (Global-500) company's IT department. ".....and your PC may have Crashed/blue screened..." Shit just got real. Luckily I have two company laptops. One that is IT-managed and is turned off all but one day a month. The other is a Company laptop with a a clean Windows install and just an authentication package and a VPN. I did that for performance reasons since Zscaler, Crowdstrike and all the other crap my IT department installs steal about 30-40% of the CPU cycles. I never guessed it would help with crash protection.

It appears to be 3rd party kernel-mode driver, not a user level DLL.

A lot of people are going to have a bad day on Friday. This seems to be a bad Crowdsource update that crashes windows boxes (including VMs). The workaround being reported (as in the techissuestoday.com link above) is to boot into safe mode or WinRE and delete a file. Eazy enough for a techie, but an airline ticket counter worker or supermarket manager isn't going to be doing that. I'm actually surprised, my team has windows boxes are part of our deployments to AWS, Azure, and an internal cloud, but I just checked everything is up and functioning....and my company has some type of relationship with Crowdstrike....The bad update is probably still working it's way around the world and will get to my stuff tomorrow morning. 😞

The headline blames Microsoft but the article says it's impacting AWS and the GCP as well. A Microsoft problem isn't going to impact those other clouds. The last line in the that article is now:

This. Good in this context doesn't necessarily mean any expensive saddle, it means good for you. I swapped out a saddle a few years ago and the new saddle just hit me wrong. I would get numb down below after about 30-40 minutes. I moved from there to one that has a much larger center cut-out and no more problem. I don't have any suggestion on how to test them other than see how it feels after an hour on the bike.

nm. Already posted up above...

You have to drill down a number of links from the one in the OP before you get to the methodology https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/13/how-we-are-choosing-americas-top-states-for-business-2024.html

I love all kinds of music. If I made of list of artists I really like, there would be some of just about every genre on it, from EDM to French Language Pop to Classic Rock to Hip Hop to multiple styles of Jazz, to you name it. I'm of the opinion that there are super talented people making every type music. Genius is genius. But if I start knocking them off the list, I know what the last band standing for me is. Neil Young and Crazy Horse. Not solo Neil Young, but with Crazy Horse. More specifically the version of The Horse with just Molina, Talbot and Sampedro. The video below is from ACL Fest and is cued up to a song off their 2012 record; that's 43 years after the first NY&CH album.

Dude, I'm all in on Tech Stocks, I'm flying high and have high standards. Huh? The market is doing what? F-me. I may be at the Sandra Bernhard level now, and another day like this and I'll be at the Carrot Top level.

Many iterations of a super advanced computer simulation from my childhood taught me to load up on ammo, and skip the provisions.

Girls will be boys and boys will be girls It's a mixed up, muddled up, shook up world

Sadly, its true. There was no Code Blue, it's a direct mail to all residents of Island Housing, both on and off the island. I have a daughter in Momentum and she is not happy about this. There is a Code Blue for Remote Operations on Monday, which of course is a bit of a problem for kids that actually live in the dorms. Daughter hopes the hurricane keeps going north and they send an all clear by tomorrow morning before she has to leave.

TAMU-CC pulled the trigger on mandatory evacuation by 9am tomorrow. This includes the just-off-campus housing that a sizable % of students live in. Seems early to me, but maybe they know it takes X hours to really get people out.

Where are you seeing this? Can't find a site

That sucks. I hoped you thought to upgrade your first trip into a Season Pass.

The ref has been terrible, BUT... Does anyone think the US looked like the better team?

This feels like being forced to root against Texas late in the Charlie Strong era. Damn it. Wayalda may be reporting what he's hearing, but things change. Getting knocked out of Copa early could be like losing to Kansas.

No idea. <ModernTechnologyAtWork> Now I know, and knowing is half of something.

Probably some non-printable characters. Insert a new column B and do =CLEAN(A1)