Gehry was known to have a high propensity for completing projects on time and on budget because he insisted on using design and modeling software to work out all issues ahead of time. Many clients got angry with him in the early stages of projects, wanting him to break ground and start building. But in the end, he always delivered.
That's largely a myth told by people with shiny new Coscast engine blocks to sell you.
They run too hot because everyone runs lawnmower-grade 95 octane petrol these days, which contributes more than anything else to liners breaking free especially with the liners being thinner on later (90s onwards) 94mm-piston engines. I do wonder if the switch from thin steel "shim" head gaskets to composite ones allowed the liners to move more?
Anyway they only break liners free completely (the infamous "dropped liner") if you run them absolutely bone dry of water until one piston expands enough to jam in the liner and start hammering it up and down, just before the engine seizes entirely.
It's cheap and easy to get the liners knocked out and the block machined to take "top hat" liners, with a lip around the top that clamps them in place, something like £1800 last time I looked.
One of the interesting quirks of the Honda K-series is that it spins “backwards”. If you try to mate one to a different transmission (or try to mate a different engine to a K-series transmission), it’s going to give you, uh, interesting results! Lots of people found out the hard way when they used their Fast & Furious inspiration to do JDM swaps :)
These are good developments, but it remains to be seen how much of impact they will have. Software developers will have to follow a bunch of “best practices”, but there isn’t a requirement that they are good at them. There are no fines for producing insecure software, only fines for not following the rules.
Software providers are also likely to be specifying narrow “fit for purpose” statements and short (ish) support window. If costs go up too much, people will be using “inappropriate” and/or EOL stuff because the “right thing” is too expensive.
To be clear, this is a step in the right direction but is not the panacea.
Universal Commercial Code says that if your agreement does not specify a place of payment you can pay at any Microsoft office building. So check the agreement and if it doesn’t specify a place of payment then take $24 in cash to any Microsoft office building. If this doesn’t work, have a real litigation lawyer send their legal department a letter about them violating UCC and that a lawsuit is incoming.
At this point, I'm already building boxes on AWS. Fortunately we're building a greenfield app and I still have the opportunity to recommend we pivot our vendor. I'll be posing this argument to my client:
"If Microsoft's solution to a simple billing issue is, 'Create a new account and start over,' then what happens the first time we have a simple issue in our production application? Or even in our development environment during the development stage? Are we just down for weeks until Microsoft tells us, 'Create a new account and start over?'"
I think I have a pretty compelling argument to pivot what would've been an easy $10M (over 10 years) project to a different vendor. I may not be able to win the argument to going to a smaller vendor, but Microsoft just lost a chunk of change if I can sway the client.
Not just rate of return, but who will be the fund providers and what will their fees be?
Even at the exact same rate of return, the difference in the (effectively compounded) fees paid on a low-cost index fund and a “low-cost” index fund can be 15% of the total value of the account over the course of 6 decades. You can do this math yourself by looking at existing funds.
The number and amount of money involved makes these a really juicy target for providers that will charge higher than standard fees if they can get away with it.
Ha, well this author certainly had her thesis and was looking for supporting facts. But I agree with the quoted people at the universities that think that the levels of undiagnosed anxiety and ADHD outstrips rich-people-cheating by 5:1 or so. Public K-12 has become awful in the US and is most definitely causing anxiety at high rates among students. School is nothing like when we were kids.
> Ha, well this author certainly had her thesis and was looking for supporting facts.
What makes you say this? Do you think she went into the assignment knowing that the rates of disability diagnosis were quite so high at Brown, Stanford, Amherst, etc.? Or do you think she might have gone in with an open mind, learned the facts, and then formed the thesis of the article?
VMS expects to be run as a cluster of machines with a single drive system. How that actually happens is “hidden” from user view, and what you see are “logicals”, which can be stacked on top of each other and otherwise manipulated by a user/process without affecting the underlying file system. The results can be insane in the hands of inexperienced folks. But that is where NT came from.
All true, all good points. Some day partitions and their unique UUIDs will be the sole valid identifiers. Then end users will have to be warned not to copy entire partitions including their (no longer unique) UUID. Sounds bizarre but I've had that exact conversation.
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