a “traditional battlefield experience” for me will always be the guadalcanal map. are we getting that back?

huh? every data center i’ve been to has hundreds of megawatts of stand-by power generation which is regularly used to take up slack, because data center loads are peaky as hell. when facebook was building their first european datacenter in 2012 they were heavily criticised for their planned local power infrastructure, which was and still is diesel generators. the one being built in my area, which is a colo, has planned for over 700MW of local generation despite being built next to multiple hydro dams.

they captured the “niche wiki” market as wikia, then rebranded and started serving shittons of ads. the vim wiki is unusable these days because it runs like ass and looks like a gamer rgb nightmare

*monkeys paw curls and i turn into cake*

i really wish we wouldn’t do those. feels too reddity.

but thanks.

yeah it’s almost like there as already a system for this in place

yeah i think that’s about the same time. there are so many versions at the same time that it gets confusing

I’m no accountant but surely if they were being profitable it would sound better to say something like “We’ve remained profitable throughout and our earnings per quarter are on par if not greater than before.”?

no, because profitability isn’t the key figure they are interested in. it’s growth. i recently got fired because of disappointing growth; e.g. the increase in profitability was not as large as they expected. which means they still made more money than last year.

this is why expenditures get relegated to “externality” status; because otherwise projections would make it look like a company can not grow infinitely large, and surely that’s not true

they just want all text

considering that “web 2.0” is widely accepted to be “the social web”, where the focus was on user contribution and interoperability… no.

i mean, the web server in question is the Go standard library. if there is a vuln in there we have bigger problems, considering it’s also used by the docker binary.

yeah, but as soon as the web actually had enough traffic to take off the ads were everywhere. before 1996 it was basically just a prototype.

there were so many fucking ads online in the late 90s

and you couldn’t block them because they were either served from the same domain or used the same plugin as the content and it was an all-or-nothing thing

all those goddamn blinking gifs with “click here” and “you’re our millionth visitor”, and the pop-ups, and the flash bars with “shoot the ducks”…