I'm the sort of person who would tell that kid to clean up their room. Normalcy is underrated.
As for Voltaire, while I'd buy that guy some wine, the lack of meaningful progress on something at least like CFE from RFC 5984 is somewhat of a barrier. My limited understanding is that its still in development rather than anything near production ready.
This explains the recent Star Wars movies then. Well, possibly except one.
Belt tightening like that is usually the sign that the MBAs took over. This is fine up to a point except when they start running a financial services enterprise instead of ... whatever you'd call they had before. Animation media entertainment company?
I wonder when the rot set in. The creativity out of Disney is now matching Hollywood baseline and that has been dropping significantly. They're buying major franchies rather than creating them. I think this strategy is biting them. Too much financial analysis. They are losing the sharp creative edge.
Or is this my view, not based on insider knowledge, and completely inaccurate?
Oh, absolutely spot on. I remember tuning in to one of Disney's internal talks about how they make a movie, and they were so proud that they audited every movie scene to make sure they were min-maxing profitability on the scene. If the scene wasn't considered profitable enough (such as not enough product placement or focus on marketable characters), the scene would be cut (or even denied to be filmed if possible). They would do things like take all the scenes of a movie/script, critical or not, and stack rank them on profitability.
I remember being listed on one of these matrix things. I had a look one day and found someone with poor spreadsheet-fu had moved my details one row and column down. Now I magically had skills I'd never heard of and they were all obsolete buzzwords.
It's a pity I was shown this several months after I'd been let go for "poor fit".
I've always wondered what happened to the poor guy who had been assumed to have my skill set and had to live up to it. Probably got canned later for "not delivering to expectations".
I'm sure these are a good tool in the right hands, much like chainsaws. But I still have suspicions on how they are used.
Indeed, it can easily lead to disasters if not used correctly (wrong inputs, outdated, etc..). We're currently using one for our team (~5 people) but I'm looking into how it can scale up to the whole engineering organization (~100 people).
A skills matrix is useful to have. We use them to decide what contracts and projects we chase. Sometimes we use them to unearth areas we have no capability for then find a few people interested enough to dig in. Sometimes we find out there's plenty of interesting things and our competitors haven't a clue.
Its a tool. Like a chainsaw. You can use it to make ice sculptures or to hack off an arm. Metaphorically.
Rookie recruiter mistake. They should demand 20 years to get someone who has appropriate deep-level experience that can fulfill their mission-critical need for requisite synergistic juxtapositional operational efficacy.
This will pre-select suitable candidates that can spout as much gibberish and misunderstandings as their bureaucracy is obviously already used to.
Police especially don't have many excuses for hiding their actions since they are meant to enforce the law. It used to surprise me just how many pointless secrets are kept by government departments in open democracies.
But who watches the watchers?
I think police departments and government can do better. Removing data implies a lack of transparency. Transparency and being seen to be improving at "doing the right thing" should be core targets right now.
This isn’t just about police either. I should be able to look up a lot more. Open democracies, informed voters, right? Regular, yearly/monthly data dumps should be commonplace.
How else are modern democracies meant to function? Lobby groups? How 20th century!
More is not better. Repair time gets slower as the ratio for transport speed to capacity gets lower and lower. This means that more file pieces can be lost during the longer repair window resulting in possible data loss.
Keep in mind that when people calculate lifetimes and repairs they usually assume that drive failures are independent. Given that they are installed at the same time and usually from the same manufacturer and bought at the same time (e.g. same batch), it's not great to assume that all these things are independent.
In my 50 TB RAID 5, it has never finished a monthly scheduled raid sync because it takes roughly a week to complete, and performance during the sync is so bad that it is unusable.
Worked & couldn't gain traction. Capital requirements too great. Eg just a lack of funding. Limited prototypes produced but not mature enough. Tech is quietly smouldering while it is passed from company to company. Slow progress.
Worked & got absorbed. Now in some black ops lab quietly still in development with protoypes already in limited use. A limited commercial version is 5, 10 or 20 years away. The restricted version in use within 2-5 years.
Worked & still in commercial development. Fundamental issues are blocking major progress. Possible confusion over usage priorities is diluting resources, eg they are optimising for one or two use cases and those aren't particularly helping guide development, yet those use cases are also where funding is available. 10-30 years.
Don't work & too unreliable. R&D couldnt get a stable and reliable product due to fundamental issues.
Don't work & unreliable & not enough cash. The prototypes sort of worked but had issues and on top there wasn't enough capital to iron out the issues in the early prototypes.
Other options also exist. The timing started 10 years ago. Should start to see results, if any, from the "worked" options sometime this or next decade if that happened and to whatever extent. A lazy web search still shows some names. A few have quietly disappeared.
