Just did some brief Wikipedia browsing and I'm assuming it's WatsonX and not Watson? It seems Watson has been pretty much discontinued and WatsonX is LLM based. If it is the old Watson, I'm curious what your impressions of it is. It was pretty cool and ahead of its time, but what it could actually do was way over promised and overhyped.

I’m not close enough to it to make any meaningful comments. I just see the name pop up fairly regularly. It is possible that some of it is WatsonX and everyone just says Watson for brevity.

One big ones used heavily is Watson AIOps. I think we started moving to it before the big LLM boom. My usage is very tangential, to the point where I don’t even know what the AI features are.

I really don't think that will be competition at all. People like to travel and the demand is there for faster international flights. For business travel, people either prefer to go in person or have to be in person. Also with time zone differences, virtual meetings require one party to often have to meet at odd times. The ticket price probably will be higher than what most people want to spend for vacation, but there will still be plenty of people willing to pay.

Yes, it will make a huge impact during the investigation and adjudication process. For TS and TS/SCI, even with naturalization the chances for approval will be slim and naturalization likely won't help, especially if they have family in China. For the government, it's all about calculating risk of someones loyalty, character and having things that can be exploited by financial issues (debt is the biggest disqualifier), foreign contacts or family, and anything they'd want to keep secret that could be used for blackmail.

> debt is the biggest disqualifier

If they have a good candidate and the only problem is debt, they should offer to pay it off. They have no qualms printing billions to save some broken banks.

Someone with lots of debt likely has some aspirations of foreign travel to risky locales, regardless of what they say… so it makes sense why that would be a disqualifier.

I'm not sure how that's relevant. The goal is to assess the individual's susceptibility to coercion. Maintaining safety from kidnapping while traveling can certainly be a concern when you hold a clearance, but simply taking your family on a vacation overseas is not among the high concerns. If you have bad debt where you are drowning financially, or if you have strong foreign ties or connections, or other behavioral risks, they make you susceptible to coercion. Selling secrets to adversaries to repay loan sharks, being extorted using threats against overseas family members, getting drunk or high and divulging secrets, secrets in exchange for drugs, etc.

Why would having a lot of debt make that person have “… some aspirations of foreign travel to risky locales…”?

Plenty of people get into debt just doing normal shit at their homes

High risk behaviors correlate… It’s not a foolproof assumption, but it probably will be true more than half the time.

If we’re going to be that ridiculous about risk management but not other ones that , I at least believe, are in the same tier i.e. alcohol abuse, then we might as well go full bore and have the government pay an extremely generous, generational wealth paying position.

That’s the only way you’re going to get people with self control and willing to live the life of ascetic monks for the duration of time to both learn how to build these systems and then actually build them

I think they do try to keep people with substance abuse problems from getting clearance. (Unless they are friends with then President or something like that).

Your first paragraph is incoherent… can you try to write out the actual argument legibly?

There's probably a much greater amount of energy lost from conversion to liquid form and stored and converted back into usable electricity from steam generators. I believe the article mentions it but it likely has better long term storage than batteries as well. The equipment required for the 'air' battery would have a longer lifespan and be cheaper to repair then a massive battery bank. On top of that batteries aren't exactly the most 'green' thing to produce, so from a carbon footprint perspective, I imagine the air battery is much more efficient.

I recently have been working on setting up a HA Postgres Cluster on K8's... its for a pretty small DB use case and not knowing much about the world of Postgres and Databases I ended up using the Crunchy Postgres Operator which amazingly did all of the work for me... (I honestly don't know much about Patroni other then it manages the switchover to replicas during a failure)... anyway I'd recommend the Crunchy Operator...

As a side note, we've found that it takes quite a while for the initial pgBackRest job to run (like 8 minutes) which seems like a lot for an empty DB, but we aren't using SSDs

Tizen has been 6 years now and there is almost zero percentage of smartphone market and it has become only for Samsung products (look at the association list. Huawei is the only big consumer device company). This would never threat Google.

Here's a thread from last year which have a few insightful discussions on the topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13762614

I imagine he used some of the "tools in his toolbox" he acquired from various fields of Physics. Given that it was a PDE his answer also probably was an approximation

The QC's don't completely wash out background noise. If you listen to your music loud enough (which is probably too loud), you literally won't hear anything around you. But normal use, I find that it muffles outside voices enough not to get distracted, but not so much to the point where if someone says my name I can respond. An added plus, is people will bother you less if you're wearing them. Sometimes I like wearing them without listening to any music, just to create a quieter environment.

I do this too, sometimes I just don't want to listen to other people in the other.

Hopefully it transitions into a similar way that C++ is managed.

Oh I hope not; I much prefer the much more regular release schedule of Python (though since I went from C++ to Python a few years ago, I understand C++'s development speed has picked up somewhat).

New versions of C++ are released every 3 years, very systematically. It's much more regular than Python. Did you mean "frequent"? Python's sporadic releases are a bit more frequent.

I can't imagine any competitor is anywhere near what Steam has in user numbers, however many publishers have their own exclusive clients now. EA with Origin, which actually has great customer service (you can chat with customer service reps without waiting a month), Activision-Blizzard though I think Activision still releases games on Steam, GOG which I have no experience with but hear its good and then there's Uplay which is fine, integrates with Steam. But I like many Steam users am invested in the platform, I just wish they did some things better.

> GOG which I have no experience with but hear its good

You heard right. They have quite a good setup: the Steam-style GOG Galaxy client is entirely optional, you can also download, install and run your games manually without hindrance.

Well done web site with lots of user reviews. They also have very cheap older games and regular freebies - they're such a nice seller that you feel like buying something more expensive (Witcher 3 at half-price was a good deal ;-)

Edit: they also have a 'connect your Steam account' feature that allows you to have some of your Steam library games added to you GOG library.

When I tried last fall, I was able to buy Total Annihilation on GoG on Windows 10 client, but unable to launch the game on Windows 10. That was rather disappointing - no messaging it would be broken before purchase, no insight into if it would ever get fixed.

In instances like those, they'll refund you. I haven't had to do it myself, but I understand that to be the case. Since they sell a lot of old games, some of which they have to actually use cracks to disable the DRM on, they don't always work on newer machines unfortunately.

Activision has historically released their games on Steam, but their last PC release, Destiny 2, and their upcoming game Black Ops 4, are both only on Battle.net (Blizzard's client). Looks like they'll be releasing their games on Battle.net from now on.