Yes, but why? They're up there fighting Boko Haram -- this is a war-torn part of the world. Why is the Cameroonian military killing the people they're charged with protecting?
It's something I'd really like to know, after reading through this. I don't understand anything but the most superficial issues facing this region, and it rather shocked me that the national military that's up there to quell the Boko Haram insurgency is committing these atrocities.
I mean, yes, people kill people for fun. People kill children because they're monsters, and I get that. But is that what's happening here? Or is this ethnic cleansing? Or is this something else entirely?
The french population doesn't like the English population. The English part is a minority and feel like a 2nd class citizen in their own country. A lot of them are being killed, you can google these answers. https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-africa-44459488/cameroon-c...
The thing that's difficult in Ireland is internet access if you're living outside of Dublin. We looked at moving to Dingle for a bit, but we couldn't find anything available (from America) that had high speed internet. Granted, it was out in the countryside, so I completely understand, but it was a non-starter as far as going there for a remote job was. It's just something you have to keep in mind that if you're coming from an American city you may not think about.
The way this typically works is that they were told from on high that their budget was getting cut, so they had to figure out a way to do so. Not sure if that happened here, or if these are just folks who are really interested in governing well, but that's been my experience.
If I have a single-region service, I always put it in us-west-2. It's super reliable, and gets updates after us-east-1 and us-west-1, which means all the kinks are out before they hit us-west-2.
On days like today, I without fail get a message from my friend who works at a shop where everything is in us-east-1 (multi-AZs) about how much he hates me for avoiding east like the plague.
So snow is super hard to forecast because snow bands. These happen at a mesoscale, and typically one 1-2 grid points of the models used to forecast. The exact processes that contribute to banding are not very well measured, either, so it's very difficult to get a good prediction for it.
Due to the banding, you can get extreme variations in snowfall, leading to, "I thought we were supposed to get a foot, but we only got an inch!" type of comments. Or, bands will line up with the storm motion and just pelt an area harder than expected.
Soundcloud recovering from this failure and S3 being operational are two separate issues. We use S3 and it will take us nominally an hour to recover after S3 went up, for example.
S3 has started working as of about 20 minutes ago, and things are running smoothly.
One of the nice things about the Kiva robots is that they will actually organize the warehouse based on popularity of the SKUs automagically. Things that are low volume get placed farther away from the pickers, and things that are high volume are never far away from the pickers.
Another advantage of the Kiva system is that they are not picky about the types of items that can be stored. They can store and move just about anything that fits on a shelf. Shuttle systems have some restrictions about the types of items that can be stored. Amazon has such a wide range of items that the flexibility of their shelving units allows them to get the most advantage out of their goods-to-person robots.
There are 5 or 6 vendors that have offerings in that space.
Some of them are: Opex Perfect Pick, Dematic Mulishuttle 2, Intelligrated OLS Shuttle, Witron's OFS, SSI Schafer's Navette.
These solutions are definitely more capital intensive than Kiva robots but they are faster and have a much smaller footprint.
If you have a Kiva-type goods to person robot system and your order profile changes like more lines per order or more order lines of a particular SKU, the system can run into scaling issues. There are only so many robots and so much floor space to navigate in. Shuttles to some extent have the same problem but because of their smaller footprint you run out of horizontal space slower than you do with Kiva robots.
Isn't the issue that a Kiva system is more scalable since it allows for rapid handling of far more SKUs? A key part of Amazon's retail strategy is that it's the first place you go to look for something because you know they have seemingly product on earth...they're the default e-commerce site for many. My understanding was that these shuttle-type systems simply don't allow for that. Maybe I'm wrong...if so what are the other trade-offs? Thanks
With either system you can scale in the following ways:
-Add more shelving units to store more SKUs or to store more of faster moving SKUs.
-Add more robots to process more order lines simultaneously.
-Add more pack stations/labor
Adding more shelving units is limited by floor space. The equivalent scaling for shuttles is adding more aisles. Adding more aisles scales farther than adding more shelving units because it uses the entire vertical height of the building. Even taking mezzanines into account aisles are going to scale farther.
Adding more robots or shuttles will scale until the travel paths are congested. Whichever technology moves faster is going to scale better here. I don't know enough about the speed of the Kiva robots vs shuttles to say who is better here but I suspect shuttles can move faster.
Adding more pack stations is something either type of system can do and I can't see any advantage either system has over the other there. Kiva is probably more flexible here because you don't need expensive conveyor reconfiguration/addition if you want to add more pack stations. Shuttles, with the proper supporting conveyor can probably get higher throughput.
I think where Kiva really shines is in its flexibility. It can store a lot of different types of items and it is flexible in its ability to move stuff around. It is definitely not the most labor efficient goods-to-person automation technology and it is also not a great use of space. It runs into problems if you need to scale up in SKUs per order or overall order lines per day because you don't have enough travel space available to get all that stuff to the pack stations. Based on my ordering habits and what I have seen of friends Amazon is dealing with a very low number of SKUs per order so it works for them.
I don't know enough about the others to make too much of a sweeping statement on them, but the heart of Mythical Man-Month is absolutely true and valid. It just has a bad title, so people assume it means something it doesn't.
The heart of the story is this: Adding developers to a delayed project will only delay it further. It's not about parallel vs serial. It's about project management and how to handle delayed projects. I have yet to meet a PM in my career who really understands this, and almost all of them have referenced the saying, "Nine women can't have a baby in a month."
To claim that it's "crap," "critically flawed," and "wrong" strikes me as naive, overly general, and dismissive because you can throw it into a "Gladwellian" bucket and be done with it. Fred Brooks learned his lessons from years of project management. This wasn't a guy who conjured up an idea for a book or a TED talk and just slapped some crap together.
Whoa. Timeout. This isn't political correctness--it's basic human decency. Political correctness is replacing the use of a term for a euphemism. Even putting this in euphemistic terms should be completely unacceptable. If I told somebody at work that they were so stupid, I wasn't sure how they survived childhood, I'd be asked to leave, post haste.
I think that the OSS community (and IT community in a broader sense) has this idea that "they're just words," and so therefore, they should just be able to say what they want without consequence. But, words matter. A whole lot. Empires are built upon words. People rally around words. Words convey ideas, thoughts, feelings, and everything that goes with them. Why is rampant bullying accepted in this culture? Why is it the norm?
I'm not saying that things have to be all sunshine and rainbows. Yeah, sure, it's stupid to read a byte at a time, but you don't have to be an asshole about it. You can say, "Hey, that won't work," and be done with it. People should be treated with a modicum of decency. Remember the human, and all of that.
Contrary to this, I find myself envious of a person who can dress down another in a flagrant and creative way.
If I got dissed in such a hyperbolic way from a boss that was paying me, I would leave.
In a situation where I've toiled in a position of importance in a project I work on in my free time, and I screwed up, I think I'd be hurt if I was dismissed lightly and without creative ire. I mean, I want to know that if I screwed up, I screwed up enough for someone to admonish me creatively, since there isn't any method of management. Your tool is primarily shame, you can't suspend someone without pay from a mailing list.
Well, presumably a job well done is the primary motivation, or perhaps the recognition of your peers. It is only when you have previously achieved importance and are now in a position to have face to lose; here is where shame can come into play.
Constructive criticism is helpful and should always be the first stop on the train. But if you should already know better, or that ground has already been well-trodden, then it just sounds patronizing. This is where being told to shape the fuck up is the kind of message I would expect to receive.
What would be even worse is being ignored or shunned.
"The patient developed symptoms days after returning to Texas from West Africa and was admitted into isolation on Sunday at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas."
It's something I'd really like to know, after reading through this. I don't understand anything but the most superficial issues facing this region, and it rather shocked me that the national military that's up there to quell the Boko Haram insurgency is committing these atrocities.
I mean, yes, people kill people for fun. People kill children because they're monsters, and I get that. But is that what's happening here? Or is this ethnic cleansing? Or is this something else entirely?