“…and the fluctuation stabilized in the failing state.”

Sounds like the ops team had one hell of a day.

Do a kickflip!

“McDonald’s tapped Google Cloud in late 2023 to bring more computing power to each of its restaurants—giving them the ability to process and analyze data on-site. The setup, known as edge computing, can be a faster, cheaper option than sending data to the cloud“

What fresh hell is this?

It doesn't sound fresh at all.

It sounds like McDonald's going back to the way it used to operate.

I knew a guy who used to repair the PDP-11's under the counters that ran each restaurant. He said the #1 failure mode was soda spilled in the machines.

I have a very hard time believing every McDonalds once had their own PDP-11. Despite being called “minicomputers” those things were huge!

It seems like the lack of operations during US holidays would be a big oversight.

I wonder how many super yachts are actually destroyers.

None; modern super yachts are usually on the order of hundreds of tons, while destroyers displace nearly ten thousand tons.

Some super yachts are bigger than destroyers. The longest is 590 ft long and 13,136 tons. The biggest is 20,000 tons. The top ten are all bigger than 10,000 tons.

Warships and yachts are totally different vessels, there is no place on the latter for sensors or weapons.

There are plenty of sensors on yachts. Hell, my father’s dingy has a sensor on it.

Because when you are at a rock concert and you want something light to drink, it is cooler to ask the bar tender for Liquid Death rather than a Perrier.

This. They wanted to drill a hole in my place to run a line from the pole. The line would go right past a window. It just seemed unprofessional.

I mean, do you expect them to alter the laws of physics to your preferred taste? Most overhead installs must attach to the closest point on your home to the pole.

If their experience was like mine someone from the ISP showed up unannounced and just started putting a hole in their house. They then called the ISP to ask if this was legit, and the response was "we can't answer that for you, maybe you should call the cops".

In this case, yeah, it would be unprofessional and they'd be pissed :)

Yes, actually, I do. Not alter the laws of physics, but run the cable where it makes sense. If that means running it in a conduit outside the house for a few meters to get to a sensible spot, then that's what they're going to have to do. They don't just get to put a hole in your wall "wherever".

Yeah. I went through a rigorous exercise with sales last year to try to get a good estimate on what it would cost to run the database for a year for our application. They said it would be around 150k.

I threw all of their configuration advice out the window and run all extra small at 1 minute idle. No issues for my use case and we paid 17k for the year.

I have to expect that snow will change their pricing model soon.

I had their Sonic Nurse facemask during covid. It was a kool thing.

Still have mine (and the t-shirt!)