MystikIncarnate

I believe it does but from what I've seen of those that are classified as "high intelligence" people, well, it's not great.

Those that have been "gifted" their whole lives tend to be sheltered, and seem to live in their own little bubble of self reassurance that they're special and smart.

There's a few stand out people that I would cite as actually intelligent and made good use of their intelligence. Einstein, Tesla (the person, not the company), Hawking....

These are highly intelligent people that focused their efforts on a specific field of study and excelled.

General intelligence without any focus, you become quite good at a number of things but never truly great at anything.

There's a whole culture of people who consider themselves to be more intelligent than the rest of us; I've only experienced small parts of it and bluntly, the smartest people I know, who could easily be in that genius category, reject it because they don't want to associate with the prominent people in that community (or anyone in that community).

In addition to this an IQ test is bullshit. You can be the smartest person in the world and "fail" an IQ test, if it's presented in a way that you can't comprehend.... Like if the test is in French and you don't speak/read/write any French at all.

Even those that administer IQ tests know they're basically meaningless.

The while thing is a crock of shit if you ask me. I have no doubt in my mind that there are highly intelligent/high IQ people that genuinely exist. I don't think they're standing in line for an IQ test to prove it.

Hey, everyone, check out this person's brain!

... See, noone cares.

All good options.

I would argue that while billionaires are stealing your money, healthcare CEOs are taking lives, which is more important in my mind.

Which isn't to say that billionaires don't deserve the same treatment, this is just prioritization for the most benefit in the shortest amount of time.... Long term, a lot more heads need to roll.

This is the harsh truth. Right now, legally, their case is falling apart. A nontrivial amount of hard evidence was in that bag and this action should get everything tossed because the chain of evidence is non-existent.

The other poster is also correct, they've decided he should be punished for this, whether he did or not is irrelevant. They're going to twist every ounce of evidence they can to say he did it. If that doesn't work, he'll be found hanging from his shoelaces...

This. The chain of evidence is tainted and cannot be accounted for. Anything in the backpack could have been placed there by anyone, at any time, before, during, or after his arrest.

My feelings on this: good. One less thing that they can use against him. If his defense doesn't get any evidence from the backpack thrown out, then idk what they're even doing.

This is actually rather poignant.

By this standard, "successful" companies simply haven't failed yet.

It's standard that in human experience, we will fail at things. It happens, it happens often, and it will continue to happen. Failing at something is the first step. Without failure, how would we ever know how to "succeed"?

This doesn't, and shouldn't, imply that we are bad at a thing, or that we can't become good at it, or that we should give up and stop trying. It also doesn't and shouldn't imply that we should continue to try. "Failure" is just an outcome, whether that is good or bad is entirely up to the viewer to decide.

I would argue that failure is simply a mental/social concept. Things simply happen. "Success" or "failure" is entirely dependent on those who had some interest in what specifically happened. Even if you're trying to achieve a specific outcome, whether you do or not is entirely inconsequential. You tried to achieve an outcome by doing x, y, or z, and then a, b, and c occurred. Whether a, b, and c are the outcome that was desired or not is not a consequence that the universe cares about.

So much of this is simply social constructs.

Fun. I didn't grow up issuing a Mac, not did I grow up using Windows.... Nor Linux.

When I started on computers, we used DOS.

I'm old.

I'm not old enough to remember punch cards, I was solidly in the x86 generation, but still.

For the record, I do IT support now. I'm the one that helps you with your printer.

No, we can't. Otherwise how would people like Elon and Bezos know that they're better than us?

/s

I've been preaching about this for a while. Many modern systems are getting bitlocker turned on by default.

If your system gets messed up, or simply won't start because of some security vendors bad update, goodbye data. You need the recovery key, and if you don't have it, you'll never see your bits the the correct order again.

It really doesn't do much and the cost is barely pennies per user when you operate at scale. The largest costs will be for the DNS resolver service and the domain registration, both of which you are already required to have, in order to have a functioning presence on the Internet. The cost of the issuing intermediate certificate is probably the largest single cost of the whole operation.

To be fair to Plex, they run some intermediary (caching) metadata servers to offload the demand their users put on services like the tvdb and IMDb. Honestly, is probably not required.... But they do it. (I've seen their caching system fail more often than either site, so, it's not all good), but even with that, you can put most of that load into your existing webhost, and it's unlikely to make an impact on performance.

When you do this stuff at scale, the costs of simply having it set up, usually cover the costs of using it for thousands, if not tens of thousands of users.

Popularist and nationalist.

I wonder where I've seen that before...

I have two pieces of paper from my time in post-secondary education. One says information technology, the other says business. I've worked in an IT field for well over 10 years in a B2B capacity. I've had to handle cost/benefit and ROI arguments with customers, and justify having them spend incredible amounts for their own good.

Are we done dick measuring about what we think we know?

Listen, we're not going to agree on this. I couldn't give any fewer shits if you do or not. Bluntly, I'm unbothered.

Good day to you sir.