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- Comment on Surreal Convergence 2 weeks ago:
This image woke me up. Downloading it now. I had not realized that models could handle this type of scene composition nowadays.
- Comment on Last View 5 weeks ago:
If you have a craft capable of launch and re-entry, do you even try?
It is basically having to choose between two inhospitable nuclear barren lands. But one has oxygen on it. Hell yes I try.
- Comment on Crimson Mist Apparition 1 month ago:
Straight from Avalon.
- Comment on The cloud is over-engineered and overpriced 4 months ago:
I’d have a slightly different take: managing things in-house is going to be cheaper if you have a competent team to do it. The existence of the cloud as a crucial infrastructure is because it is hard to come up with competent IT and sysadmin people. The market is offer-driven now. IT staff could help the company save money on AWS hosting but it could also be used in more crucial and profitable endeavour and this is what is happening.
I see it at the 2 organization I am working at: one is a startup which does have a single, overworked “hardware guy” who sets up the critical infra of the company. His highest priority is to maintain the machine with private information that we want to host internally for strategic reasons. We calculated that having him install a few machines for hosting our dev team data was the cheapest but after 3 months of wait, we opted out for a more expensive, but immediately available, cloud option. We could have hired a second one but our HR department is already having a hard time finding candidates for out crucial missions.
On the non-profits I am working on, there is a strong openness/open-hardware spirit. Yet I am basically the only IT guy there. I often joke they should ditch their Microsoft, Office and Google based tools, and I could help them do it, but I prefer to work on the actual open hardware research projects they are funding. And I think I am right in my priorities.
So yes, the Cloud is overpriced, but it is a convenience. Know what you pay for, know you could save money there and it may at some point be reasonable to do so. In the end that’s a resource allocation problem: human time vs money.
- Comment on Inadvisable Eggsperiment 5 months ago:
“Cooking with my stepmom”
- Comment on Darkness Holds Light 7 months ago:
In the barren lands the faint sobbing voices of innocents dying was generally unheard by anyone except the uncaring cold winter tundra. Yet, occasionally, through some obscure motive of a somber chtonian deity, the useless tears would be magnified as drops of martyr blood calling for more blood. It would become a beacon of red light for the righteous and the outraged. Grief turned to flame and blood. Indifference turned into fire and statu-quo into chaos. In such times despair could become hope and indifference was banned. But even the heroes of these times of change knew better than to praise the nightly hands that ignited the ashes.