Not talking about individuals, homie. Talking about companies.

The snark of the following comment is not directed towards you, OP, but at the tech industry at large.

What I don’t understand is why people are still surprised when this shit happens. Today, cloudflare takes down half the internet, last month it was AWS. Crowdstrike did it last year even more severely. Akamai has also caused major issues like this before, as has Google. M365/azure outages barely get reported on because they are so frequent. Yet, they are all still being used to hold up most of our infrastructure. Every single company I’ve done IT for has used at least one of these companies for critical infrastructure. There just aren’t any other realistic options due to the refusal of non IT people to learn about IT.

If you try to use something other than one of the big companies, you’re hit with one or more roadblocks.

1. You “don’t have the budget” to selfhost. Bean counters would rather pay $100 a month indefinitely than $5k to buy new hardware that will save $1000 a month for years.

2. No approval for non giant corpo option, because using AWS is cheaper and has brand recognition. This is due to the same economics and myopia that caused Walmart to be one of the only places you can get groceries.

3. There is no other option. Every year that goes by, more small companies get gobbled up by big tech M&A. Unless your company opts to create its own implementation of a service/software, you’re stuck with one of only a few options, even if you could get the approval to use something not run on big tech.

4. Even if you manage to jump all of the previous hurdles, the Internet connected software you’re using probably relies on big tech infrastructure too. Every company has to navigate all of these hurdles for every saas/infrastructure implementation, and the only ones that successfully do it have to have leadership that not only understands why the decisions have to be made, but also need to be willing to accept the extra cost. Anyone that has dealt with upper management knows that this is exceptionally rare.

So what we are left with is a system that every professional knows is deeply broken and monopolized. The people that actually make the final decisions are largely ignorant and unwilling to invest money in fixing it, instead choosing short term savings and lack of commitment over long term security and continuity.

Because our road systems are designed around cars. This means that it’s dangerous and impeding when a cyclist shares the road. Unfortunately, we just keep building bigger roads and removing bike lanes. This just serves to make it more of a pain in the ass for literally everyone because bikers have to use the car lanes instead of just paving an extra 6 feet of road.

TL;DR america will pave every natural surface for traffic, but won’t mark any sliver of it for bikes.

This. I’m not into violence, but the Republicans are getting scary and they have a lot of weapons. It’d be easier to reconcile my issues with violence if I had to shoot someone than it’d be to reconcile the issues I’d have if I wasn’t able to fight them trying to hurt me or my family.

Plus target shooting is fun.

Oh no, the very people I’m constantly siccing on dems? They’re savages, someone help!

Half of these people are actively trying to help you with what is obviously a personality problem. Have you considered that everyone else isn’t the problem? Maybe you just need to stop being such a needy whiny bitch or fuck off back to 4chan with the other cringelords.

Holy shit you made another post rant crying about how people were mean to you because you are a bigot to homeless people? And you say that the mods are too sensitive?

If it wasn’t clear from everyone’s responses in the unpopular opinion thread: grow up and find some empathy, you’re acting like an emotionally immature man baby.

Per the IAEA report on Chernobyl, page 4:

The control rods and the safety rods of an RBMK reactor are inserted into the reactor core from above, except for 24 shortened rods which are inserted upwards and which are used for flattening the power distribution. A graphite rod termed a 'displaced is attached to each end of the length of absorber of each rod, except for twelve rods that are used in automatic control. The lower displacer prevents coolant water from entering the space vacated as the rod is withdrawn, thus augmenting the reactivity worth of the rod. The graphite displacer of each rod of all RBMK reactors was, at the time of the accident, connected to its rod via a ‘telescope’, with a water filled space of 1.25 m separating the displacer and the absorbing rod (see Fig. 1). The dimensions of rod and displacer were such that when the rod was fully extracted the displacer sat centrally within the fuelled region of the core with 1.25 m of water at either end. On receipt of a scram signal causing a fully withdrawn rod to fall, the displacement of water from the lower part of the channel as the rod moved down- wards from its upper limit stop position caused a local insertion of positive reactivity in the lower part of the core. The magnitude of this ‘positive scram’ effect depended on the spatial distribution of the power density and the operating regime of the reactor.

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The AI said that graphite tips on the control rods was a great idea! Let’s get this low power test done for The Company, it’ll be great! Worst case scenario, we just hit the AZ5 button and harmlessly scram the reactor with no problems!

They are deviants and will be treated as such.

I have a couple of hairs on each earlobe that randomly go rogue and grow to like 2 inches long. IDK where they got the idea that they should do that, it accomplishes nothing and makes them look foolish.

There isn’t really any meaning or reason for it. History remembers a select few, but most people are not destined or expected to do anything more than live. I expect to be an unremarkable footnote that enjoyed a few comforts, built some furniture, and moderately positively influenced a small handful of people. I don’t really have a set of grand aspirations, I just wanna do a few fun things for 30-50 more years (optimally).

Glad he picked up another friend. Ordering only two was getting him into a lot of trouble.

Art of the deal

That’s gonna be a big nose

Gonna have to deal with all the crap. Good luck, this is what finally killed any desire to play battlefield games for me.

Well, don’t hold out on us. How was it?

I really don’t like judging food without having tried it, but I just can’t imagine that raccoon meat tastes amazing.

A raccoon