This Week I Learned - Week #13 2020
This Week I Learned -
* To assess on-prem servers and migrate them to Microsoft Azure, you can use the Azure Migrate Server Assessment Tool and the Azure Migrate Server Migration Tool.
* Azure Dedicated Host provides a single-tenant physical server to run your Azure Virtual Machines for Windows Server and Linux. With Azure Dedicated Host, you can address specific compliance requirements while increasing visibility and control over your underlying infrastructure. You can reduce costs by buying Azure Dedicated Hosts reservations.
* Security Best Practices for Azure Solutions [PDF]
* Comedy writers seek the funniest results, horror writers strive for the scariest, and technical writers aim for the clearest. In technical writing, clarity takes precedence over all other rules.
* For encoding it’s videos YouTube uses VP9 – an open-source codec that compresses videos with HD & 4K quality at half the bandwidth used by other codes.
* YouTube will default to standard definition video worldwide for a month
* Clever legalese - "Your uploaded documents will never be shared with unauthorized third parties."
* A tech snob's excuse for poor grammar - "Sent on the move and most likely transcribed. Please excuse any typos"
* Wuhan is one of the fastest growing cities in Central China with a population of 11 million
* University of Bologna in Italy...moved 90 percent of courses for its 80,000 students online to Microsoft Teams within 3 days...And an elementary school in Japan hosted its graduation on Minecraft, building its own virtual assembly hall and seating to maintain the sense of community and belonging so important in times like this.
* ...we are more sensitive to threats than to rewards. to ensure that helpful feedback lands as it’s intended...Be at least as concrete and forthcoming in your praise as you are in your criticism...it’s easier for our brains to process and remember specifics than to handle conceptual ideas. Tell the other person: “What I like about this is . . .” Give meaningful, specific examples of what you like, and explain why you like them. Aim for as many concrete positive points as you can. Don’t rush. Then say: “What would make me like it even more is . . .”
* The Epimenides paradox (referenced in The Simpsons Season 32 Episode 01) reveals a problem with self-reference in logic. It is named after the Cretan philosopher Epimenides of Knossos who made the immortal statement: "All Cretans are liars". Epimenides the Cretan says, 'that all the Cretans are liars,' but Epimenides is himself a Cretan; therefore he is himself a liar. But if he is a liar, what he says is untrue, and consequently, the Cretans are veracious; but Epimenides is a Cretan, and therefore what he says is true; saying the Cretans are liars, Epimenides is himself a liar, and what he says is untrue. Thus we may go on alternately proving that Epimenides and the Cretans are truthful and untruthful.
* Becoming conscious of our skills, talents, and aptitudes and then using our resources to make the most of them is the foundation of living a good life. Identify a task that sparks an outsized amount of curiosity and pleasure and use it as your guide. It’s never too late to “become” yourself. Aristotle didn’t fully devote himself to writing and philosophy until he was nearly 50. Age typically brings wisdom, resilience, humility, self-knowledge, and creativity. This is one reason the average age of founders of high-growth start-ups is 45.
* "the purpose of a corporation.....(is)...producing profitable solutions to problems of people and planet." - Colin Mayer in "Prosperity"
* To assess on-prem servers and migrate them to Microsoft Azure, you can use the Azure Migrate Server Assessment Tool and the Azure Migrate Server Migration Tool.
* Azure Dedicated Host provides a single-tenant physical server to run your Azure Virtual Machines for Windows Server and Linux. With Azure Dedicated Host, you can address specific compliance requirements while increasing visibility and control over your underlying infrastructure. You can reduce costs by buying Azure Dedicated Hosts reservations.
* Security Best Practices for Azure Solutions [PDF]
* Comedy writers seek the funniest results, horror writers strive for the scariest, and technical writers aim for the clearest. In technical writing, clarity takes precedence over all other rules.
* For encoding it’s videos YouTube uses VP9 – an open-source codec that compresses videos with HD & 4K quality at half the bandwidth used by other codes.
* YouTube will default to standard definition video worldwide for a month
* Clever legalese - "Your uploaded documents will never be shared with unauthorized third parties."
* A tech snob's excuse for poor grammar - "Sent on the move and most likely transcribed. Please excuse any typos"
* Wuhan is one of the fastest growing cities in Central China with a population of 11 million
* ...we are more sensitive to threats than to rewards. to ensure that helpful feedback lands as it’s intended...Be at least as concrete and forthcoming in your praise as you are in your criticism...it’s easier for our brains to process and remember specifics than to handle conceptual ideas. Tell the other person: “What I like about this is . . .” Give meaningful, specific examples of what you like, and explain why you like them. Aim for as many concrete positive points as you can. Don’t rush. Then say: “What would make me like it even more is . . .”
* The Epimenides paradox (referenced in The Simpsons Season 32 Episode 01) reveals a problem with self-reference in logic. It is named after the Cretan philosopher Epimenides of Knossos who made the immortal statement: "All Cretans are liars". Epimenides the Cretan says, 'that all the Cretans are liars,' but Epimenides is himself a Cretan; therefore he is himself a liar. But if he is a liar, what he says is untrue, and consequently, the Cretans are veracious; but Epimenides is a Cretan, and therefore what he says is true; saying the Cretans are liars, Epimenides is himself a liar, and what he says is untrue. Thus we may go on alternately proving that Epimenides and the Cretans are truthful and untruthful.
* Becoming conscious of our skills, talents, and aptitudes and then using our resources to make the most of them is the foundation of living a good life. Identify a task that sparks an outsized amount of curiosity and pleasure and use it as your guide. It’s never too late to “become” yourself. Aristotle didn’t fully devote himself to writing and philosophy until he was nearly 50. Age typically brings wisdom, resilience, humility, self-knowledge, and creativity. This is one reason the average age of founders of high-growth start-ups is 45.
* "the purpose of a corporation.....(is)...producing profitable solutions to problems of people and planet." - Colin Mayer in "Prosperity"
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