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[quote=Korwin;5531]Copy pasting is still not working.[/quote]
I recommend using Calibre and the EPUB edition for beta reading purposes.Excellent, just took two weeks off. Can’t spend it all on the business impact of new frontend technologies.
I’m hoping to see Tiernon pass the EM to Singkûn, who comes to visit Tommus, who passes EM to Hilda, who goes stabby stabby.
They’ll still have 99 problems, but a lich ain’t one.
Edit: LOL, after having written that I googled it, and…
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ob9tTvIEryo[/youtube]
LEO
If you can’t utilize my expertise I’m just a drag on the ticket.SANTOS
Look, nobody hired you because you’d be a brilliant campaigner. You’re a
beginner in all this. Yes, at the moment, you’re a liability, but you’ll
get the hang of it. You’re here because you know how to run a country. The
conversation I’m interested in is how do we build a four year plan where
you don’t know what kind of Congress you’re going to have to work with.LEO
That’s what transition is about.SANTOS
I don’t want to wait until transition. I want a plan in place. I want to
spend transition hiring a staff that can execute it and on day one I want
to get to work, not dickering around for the first three months. You want
something to worry about, worry about that.LEO
Okay. Well, let’s start by reframing the question. Forget about a four-year
term. The Presidency is 18 months. That’s your window. After that, there’s
midterms. No one on the Hill’s got time to do business with you. They’re
too busy getting reelected. Then, suddenly, you’re running again.SANTOS
So, I’m basically throwing out everything but my first five pages?LEO
In the garbage. Realistically, one page, but we can do this in phases.[quote=Tizzy;3674]Which will be explained in Book 3.[/quote]
Well, give it to us straight, like pear cider made out of 100% pears.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xd4FfNpYxF0[/youtube]OK, if you’re going to be a specialist reseller for relatively undemanding clients, I can relax. I was selfishly afraid we’d never see another book out of Astlan, if you started competing in the PaaS market on your own.
As long as the ESX management software isn’t https://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/cloud-computing/cloudforms or its open source version http://manageiq.org/. I helped a customer build a ESX/AWS cloud mgmt POC with it, and it was a piece of shit, to say the least. To get it to set ESX VM VLAN values post-creation, I had to monkey-patch the application (Ruby) code through its event customization feature, making me feel like a necromancer of some sort. Unclean. At the time, I recommended going with http://dasein.org/ (https://github.com/dasein-cloud/dasein-cloud/) were they to persist with the idea.
You don’t _have_ to stay independent… you could join the dark side! For example, my incentives aren’t even tied to billable hours anymore.
[quote=The Author Guy;5719]
For those who are gluttons for punishment, there are a couple earlier beta’s there too so you can read some of the stuff that was cut/compare what was changed. this only goes back to beta 2, not sure what had changed by Beta 2 from Beta 1. I removed Beta 1 so new BR’s would come in with a fresh start.
[/quote][quote=Iume;5432]Everytime I think Ares I can’t help but picture Kevin Smith from Hercules the Legendary Journey and Xena: Warrior Princess. Bad-ass leather; kept getting his ass beat. Eris was his fetish sidekick in those shows wasn’t she?[/quote]
What, Silent Bob?
[quote]Turns Out: The “Demon Weed” actually IS a Gateway Drug![/quote]
Replace the words “Gateway Drug” with a reference to how it takes you straight to the deepest Abyss, and it’s a completely different frame for what follows.While the gateway part is a fine [i]pune, or a play on words[/i], as Pratchett put it, only the author can ever make that connection, since it’s not likely that the reader will ever go back to this blurb after having read past the part mentioning gateways, and the words “gateway drug” are never mentioned again, nor is there any reference to addiction.
[quote=Iume;5332]- I just feel sad that Vaselle is so down-beaten that he needs Tom’s approval to feel he has self-worth. He’s like a kicked puppy seeking affection.[/quote]
Tom feels the same, but as a member of Jerry’s audience, I’m more accepting of different personalities and personal needs.
And in the right environment, Vaselle might well start rebuilding his personality on a sturdier foundation.
To repeat myself from the Amazon forums, one of the really great defining characteristics of this series is that the drama emerges from the way personalities naturally interact, or personalities naturally interacting is faked well enough that I can’t tell, instead of the approach many other authors on Amazon tend to prefer, contorting their characters into parodies so they fit into a pre-planned dramatic arc.
Yeah, if you’re an independent consultant, it’s different. Our clients tend to have high enough volume that they want to own their vendor relationship directly, and what we do for them is either provide them with a cloud ops team, or help them bootstrap one. When you’re paying 1k€ per day per consultant for 50-100 guys, suddenly the flexibility AWS provides to projects, and the business value throughput that follows, is significantly more important than pinching cloud pennies.
That being said, I have my private stuff on https://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produktmatrix/rootserver-produktmatrix-ex since their performance / ping / price for a 32 GB server is really very good. On the Linux side, applications are packaged in Docker images, which are very simple and hassle-free to deploy. I’ll probably do a full reinstall on vacation.
Last weekend I looked at the maturity of high-level serverless solutions built on AWS Lambda / Azure Functions / Google Cloud Functions. You basically pay for 100ms increments of CPU, and HTTP requests, but nothing while your site / API isn’t busy serving. Which is the optimal payment model for, say, your web site or forums. I’m test driving AWS Lambda in a production pilot project that’ll be deployed in a few weeks, we’ll see how it performs. Boy, will I be glad to be rid of the vagaries of customer hardware which have plagued this project… life is just so much simpler when you deploy into a data center instead of a retail location.
[quote=Burien;4993]… was Dis killed the same way (assuming Rupert is Dis v2.0)?[/quote]
And further, were the D’Orcs with them destroyed or consumed, or do the Storm Lords still have them in some pseudo-Tartarus, imprisoned?[quote=Tizzy;3179][color=red][size=4]b[/size]…[size=5]u[/size]…[size=6]t[/size]…[size=7]t[/size]…[size=8]a[/size]…[size=9]H[b]![/b][/size][/color][/quote]
[quote=Tizzy;3179]Wouldn’t that be fun? Tom could try to have them evicted as squatters![/quote]
As the demons say, “Possession is nine-tenths of the law”. Also, “Your mother sucks cocks in hell.”
