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I work at a university that is fully invested in Google Apps.

We did have unlimited storage, however last week they announced that's soon to change:

> A quota will soon be introduced on the amount of data that staff and students at the University can store in their Google account. This is part of a larger piece of work being carried out by the Google Workspace team in IT Services, to review the overall amount of storage being used by the University.

Makes me wonder if the timing is somehow related.


Looks like your admins changed the policy. Google ended unlimited storage for Education in 2021.

https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/education/google-wo...


Those of us who had it before 2021 were allowed a grace period of a few years, but the end date is approaching soon.


It's a real shame there's not a built in way to get notified in 6 months to check this stuff out. Guess I'll add it to my calendar.


There are still inconsistencies between NHS dentists, visual assessment of cavities and what justifies treatment is inherently subjective.

My first dentist retired after I'd had no fillings to date, their replacement on first appointment said I required two fillings and it continued in a similar manner.

Later on I had moved city, but was still travelling back for dental appointments. The second dentist said I needed another filling doing, but I ended up moving to a new NHS dentist in my new city. They disagreed about the filling, saying you can't fill teeth if it would go below the gum line. Pulled the tooth instead.

Even with NHS appointments, you can go 'private' a-la-carte if you can be convinced to have white fillings or similar extras and pay slightly more.


White fillings should be available on the NHS (saying this as someone that can afford the private option).


I have two yubikeys too, but I definitely found services which didn't allow me to register more than one when I first set them up (a couple of years ago now).


Not sure how it used to be, but the only braindead implementation like that I’ve seen was AWS.


They fixed this a few weeks ago.


They announced a fix but it hasn't rolled out everywhere yet -- it requires converting to a new "Amazon Web Service" login that is separate from your normal amazon.com account


Oh cool, this has been my number one complaint about AWS credentials management since early 2016 or so. Over the years I've talked to a number of their project and program managers and until 2019 (that is, before the plague) they all told me that they were aware of the problem but had no plans - or even intent to fix it. Apparently the one-set-of-credentials constraint is so deeply tied into their platform that fixing it was simply deemed infeasible.

Appears that while they couldn't fix it, they have gone ahead with a workaround and made multi-device 2FA support a feature in a potential auth replacement system.

Must have been a particularly frequent and loud complaint.


My favourite example of this in English is adjective order.

Native speakers learn that it should be "big red bus" rather than "red big bus", however most couldn't list the ~7 adjective types and order they should be used in, yet will know straight away when they're wrong.


The idea that there are "adjective types and order" is a bit misleading; the underlying order is primarily semantic/pragmatic. The order is, roughly, extrinsic to intrinsic, situational to innate, contrastive to contextual; how closely attached a descriptor is to the head noun generally implies how "essential" a property it describes. This isn't really an English thing, either—English just happens to be the language most frequently taught to non-native speakers—but adjective order actually correlates pretty well across languages.

The oft-repeated opinion-to-purpose order of adjectives has decent descriptive power, but is easily oversold; the classes described do not have consistent ordering across contexts. The same woman may be an "old American woman" when interviewed for his opinions on global politics, or an "American old woman" in the context of comparing healthcare for the elderly across countries.

The "big bad wolf" is a fairy-tale villain; a "bad big wolf" is a failure at being a big wolf.


> adjective order actually correlates pretty well across languages.

Maybe a certain extended family of languages, but not, as far as I'm aware, the language being discussed in this thread, which has no particular preference for adjective order.


Can I call it a green whittling rectangular little silver French old lovely knife? This makes no sense.

Clearly it's the lovely little old rectangular green French silver whittling knife. Any minor reordering of these adjectives just sounds innately wrong.


What's interesting to me is that I'm not a native, I don't know the exact rules for these things, and yet, the first one somehow sounds wrong to me.


"Innately"? If that were true all languages would be the same.


Whatever you do, never flash your lovely little old rectangular green French silver whittling knife in front of Crocodile Dundee. He'll give you a sharp rejoinder.


I received this email about an hour ago, so it must be being sent out progressively.


If I refresh the page twice in quick succession, the same image comes up. By refreshing on my pc/phone at the same time, I managed to get the same image come up too. So it's probably seeded by time.


My parents regularly throw out spare food (bread, meat, fruit) onto their lawn, local wildlife (birds, foxes, hedgehogs) always take it all within 24h.


Not much wilflife about it then.


The $769 is referring to the estimated money saved by fixing bugs, rather than the trade in value of the points.

> For information on how points are awarded, see the Official Rules. Actual savings may vary.

Section 5 of the official rules document states approximate retail value of the prizes as; reInvent:$4000, Resin Trophy:$60, Hooded Sweatshirt:$27, tshirt:$12

https://d1.awsstatic.com/product-marketing/bugbust/AWS_BugBu...


That's exactly my point - Amazon have given that figure as their estimated savings, so either that's an insanely overinflated figure, or my point stands and if you save one of their clients several tens of thousands of dollars they'll give you a "prize" of a tshirt. They probably spent more money producing that video than they will pay for all the t-shirts they'll give out.

$77,000 for a t-shirt. $1,500,000 for a jacket. If you're saving somebody that much money who cares whether Amazon gives you a t-shirt? So either have prizes comensurate with the alleged savings involved or don't insult people with such low value prizes.


I think you misunderstand, you fix your own code not somebody else's. The BugBust is basically them advertising trying out their new CodeGuru analysis tools for free and sending some prizes to the ones that use it the most.


> trying out their new CodeGuru analysis tools for free

I for sure did not get that impression; where did you see they're offering free analysis?


The pricing/FAQ/Sign up page on the actual BugBust site linked all tell you. E.g. from the pricing tab:

> When you create your first AWS BugBust event, all costs incurred by the underlying usage of Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer and Amazon CodeGuru Profiler are free of charge for 30 days per AWS account.


It's not that GPUs don't support fp64, it's that for domestic gamer GPUs fp64 arithmetic is normally ~1:32 performance of fp32 arithmetic.

e.g. 1080gtx

    FP16 (half) performance
    138.6 GFLOPS (1:64)
    FP32 (float) performance
    8.873 TFLOPS
    FP64 (double) performance
    277.3 GFLOPS (1:32)

e.g. 3090rtx

    FP16 (half) performance
    35.58 TFLOPS (1:1)
    FP32 (float) performance
    35.58 TFLOPS
    FP64 (double) performance
    556.0 GFLOPS (1:64)

Only generally 'tesla' class cards targeted at super computers have a 1:2 ratio (e.g. v100, A100, Titan V). Note, I believe Titan V is the only Titan series GPU with good double performance, as the Volta architecture was never available to Geforce GPUs.

https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/geforce-gtx-1080.c2839

https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/geforce-rtx-3090.c3622

https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/tesla-v100-sxm3-32-gb....

https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/a100-sxm4-80-gb.c3746

https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/titan-v.c3051


For AMD GPUs the FP64/FP32 performance ratio is twice as high compared to nVidia, it’s 1:16

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radeon_RX_5000_series#Desktop

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radeon_RX_6000_series#Desktop


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