Tangentially related: Back in the day, the AMD Cool'n'Quiet feature had a funny effect in CS:Source where your player would move much faster than normal. This resulted in bans because of the obvious advantage, which was mistaken for a speed hack.

Kinda sounds like it was a speedhack

Something similar happened when anyone try to play un-patch Unreal Tournament (1999 game) on modern cpus. The dynamic cpu speed confuses the game engine, that results on the game slowing of becoming comically faster.

That is part of the false narrative you and many were fed and believed. Investigations, reporting from many parties, and the vicitm's own family weigh against this drivel.

The intelligence agencies and a paid contractor came up with the other story full of holes. Julian Assange has never lied to the public or published untrue information that I know of. So it is a matter of who do you trust: the government who constantly lies, or Julian Assange.

I think you are purposely narrowly referring to 1 action of many in a crisis that has had >10,000 deaths.

Wat? We are discussing the "annexation of Crimea", not the larger context. I just provided examples for comparison to show that the "annexation" itself is indeed can be called "effectively bloodless".

Consul seems to be more prone to issues than one would hope though. Imo the feature set is not worth the increased complexity and operational burden. There are simpler ways of handling service discovery and configuration without running your own consensus based cluster.

Genuine question: can you explain a couple of these simpler ways please?

Central authorities are typically simpler than gossip and consensus systems. They have failure modes too, of course, but those failure modes are better understood and potentially easier to manage.

Sometimes you can't avoid the need for distributed consensus, but you can box it inside a well defined abstraction like leader election, and then do everything else in a traditional client-server way.

Is there any way to pull data from the fitbit device itself offline?

China

I don't know why I never looked for something like this before, but thanks for the link!

Would you really move your emergency funds into a less secure more likely problematic service though?

I would have to read up on the transfer times. If it's reasonably standard (2-3 days) and doesn't have any daily limits, then yes. It's a US company, FINRA approved, SIPC insured, so the risk is minimal.

SIPC says they don't think they have to insure this.

I remember during school showing my Math teacher (who was a big Ultima gamer but also played Neopets) how I set up a fake neopets shop that prompted you for login. <form action="mailto:xxxxxx"> When you submitted the login form it sent the form inputs in an email to a hotmail address :D. One of my first experiences with HTML. I had no idea there were so many shared Neopets experiences in this community.

We saw instances which normally kept a healthy stock of CPU credits quickly burn through them and severely degrade in performance thanks to Meltdown :<