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0x0nyandesuon Summary of the AWS Service Event in the Northern Virginia (US-East-1) Region

Saying "S3 is down" can mean anything. Our S3 buckets that served static web content stayed up no problem. The API was down though. But for the purposes of whether my organization cares I'm gonna say it was "up".

0x0nyandesuon Evidence for the “great resignation” is thin on the ground

Just gonna say that it's super relative cause in march of 2020 it was only worth 60k maybe. Then it peaked at 1.5 million in may 2021. Of course I wasn't able to time the sell off perfectly.

It made one thing perfectly clear to me though. Building wealth is more about investing than saving.

0x0nyandesuon The $11B Webb telescope aims to probe the early universe

Basically none cause it's outside the typical orbit

0x0nyandesuon Evidence for the “great resignation” is thin on the ground

There's no way I'd have been able to get the house without the crypto and it was mined, not purchased. So what I'm saying is yes I could have afforded an apartment but never a house and those are two totally different levels of wealth in a place like LA.

0x0nyandesuon Evidence for the “great resignation” is thin on the ground

That's the thing. I make a bay area salary working for an east coast tech company. If silicon valley thinks they can pay less they are shooting themselves in the foot and talent will leave. They seriously want to cut salaries in this inflationary market? Lol.

0x0nyandesuon Evidence for the “great resignation” is thin on the ground

I just bought a house for 900k outside of LA 30 minutes from Malibu. We could have lived in an apartment easily enough but I liquidated 50% of my crypto and stocks to use as down payment. The house is already worth 75k more.

It was always the dream. I have no regrets. Yes I could have retired to somewhere cheap but I'm only 34 and my skills are in high demand seeing salaries in the 200k+ range.

They are building housing here but so many people want to live here that no matter how much they build it will just all be absorbed immediately.

0x0nyandesuon Microsoft’s new Windows prompts try to stop people downloading Chrome

You use vastly fewer things than I do on my daily driver. I'm not complaining about stability. I still maintain windows boxes for work and yes I get uptimes measured in years. In fact I used to be a windows fanboy.

The issue is really that the front end experience has gone to shit and that windows boxes are inherently zero day hackable at random. With gaming there's memory leaks out the ass. When doing updates windows regularly ignores and resets settings. Not everyone wants to use defaults and not everyone has time to edit group policy settings every time there's a changes. Your IT team is definitely 100% debloating your system before imaging.

I'm over here coding, running vms, setting up ssh tunnels, streaming, recording video, playing music, doing teleconferencing and all manner of other nonsense. So yes my standards are a little out there.

But frankly I don't think windows should be able to be HIPAA certified because I don't believe it's possible to secure it. And trust me that's my job.

The workers at my job that use Chromebooks are by far the most secure in our entire IT stack.

0x0nyandesuon Microsoft’s new Windows prompts try to stop people downloading Chrome

Not every windows update generates them but it is still possible to hit two in a row that do when you update old installs of 10 from 2020 that have precached an incremental update. I'm not writing a research paper here. If you want citations you can put on your research hat and find them yourself.

0x0nyandesuon Microsoft’s new Windows prompts try to stop people downloading Chrome

Both.

0x0nyandesuon Microsoft’s new Windows prompts try to stop people downloading Chrome

Run two upgrades in a row..see how it goes for you. I ran insider edition for years and that's a pretty common scenario when doing updates. And that's not even the legit bugs that have occured as well.

0x0nyandesuon Microsoft’s new Windows prompts try to stop people downloading Chrome

Lol who searches for bing info on Google? Seriously?

0x0nyandesuon Microsoft’s new Windows prompts try to stop people downloading Chrome

Oy vey. You're objectively incorrect. It's definitely a Microsoft issue. They use the old OS upgrade procedure to do quarterly updates now which means if it finds a Users directory it will rename it to Users.old and make a new one. However if it does two upgrades in a row in the background without telling you the old Users.old will be deleted from your disk.

Now all it would take them is a second to check the sizes of both and not remove the one with actual data but ya know that would be a actual useful feature.

And before you complain about to me about my "setup"... The scenario I described above is entirely common in IT departments the world over.

Now please stop blaming victims and start blaming the people that have the power to change things.

0x0nyandesuon Microsoft’s new Windows prompts try to stop people downloading Chrome

You're being intentionally obtuse. Google is a search engine product and a company. Microsoft is just a company. It stands to reason more people would search for the former.

0x0nyandesuon Microsoft’s new Windows prompts try to stop people downloading Chrome

Every windows since 7 has been a train wreck by my standards. The amount of times I've had a system update just clear my windows profile is objectively abysmal and yet every HN thread someone will go and defend them.

No one cares about HDR. How about some decent data retention?

I get better frame rates in Linux running wine than I do in windows 10 since the 2020 updates.

0x0nyandesuon Texas woman wins round in lawsuit challenging swat teams destruction of her home

Cops used to be held in check by the mob. Can you imagine them pulling any of this in an old Italian or Irish neighborhood? Nope. We ended up with just one gang and they walk around with badges.

0x0nyandesuon Texas woman wins round in lawsuit challenging swat teams destruction of her home

Insurance that uses the year's bonus as collateral.

0x0nyandesuon Texas woman wins round in lawsuit challenging swat teams destruction of her home

When police do stuff like this it's just an excuse to use toys with no repercussions. They get to blow up a house with zero personal accountability. So they are either man children or cowards. Probably both. Not a great look either way.

0x0nyandesuon PHP 8.1.0

Less oops and more "let me try this out"

0x0nyandesuon PHP 8.1.0

I see php sort of like a trusty hammer. It's a hammer. Doesn't have to be elegant. It's a hammer.

The nails are http requests and PHP is a damn good hammer.

0x0nyandesuon PHP 8.1.0

That's still much slower with JavaScript. We use both in php land.

0x0nyandesuon PHP 8.1.0

I've been working with php since 2001 and that whole time I've been cleaning up bad ruby and nodejs and PHP implementations and knowing JavaScript well enough to code in whatever front end nonsense comes out from PrototypeJS to jQuery to ExtJs to angular to react on and on ad nauseaum. Throughout PHP was my actual workhouse. It's kinda frustrating when I meet someone super into JavaScript as a backend because I still choose PHP even though I have 20 years of JavaScript under my belt and love Es2015+ promisable JavaScript.

I'm not even really sure why python is so popular for DevOps cause I do everything in php and it's unit tested and works well with reproducible results.

0x0nyandesuon Flatpak Is Not the Future

A typical system will end up with 10 versions of some .so library on disk. Sometimes more. Disk usage waste everywhere. You're better off having a package manager that can link multiple versions at the same time to the programs that need it instead of bundling.

0x0nyandesuon Flatpak Is Not the Future

Agreed

0x0nyandesuon Flatpak Is Not the Future

Nah they take up too much disk space. Rather use Gentoo

0x0nyandesuon I test in prod

Same. I'm processing fitness data 24/7 and I can easily repull and overwrite the normalization. There's no actual down side to testing in prod with this style of data syncing. In fact the dev versions of our oauth2 app on fitbit have only one test account so there's no real data for me to access. 99% of the edge case issues happen with real data only and you will never catch them without it. I only use the dev version for setting up new features not yet in prod but once I've confirmed basic workability the rest of the dev is on my admin or test accounts but with production data.

0x0nyandesuon ‘Dancing molecules’ successfully repair severe spinal cord injuries

Person A: this is not a good venue to have a debate.

Person B: yes it is

debate ensues

Person B: I thought you were against debates.

Picard facepalm

You know I dated someone with bipolar disorder once. It went exactly like this. It's funny that HN threads exhibit the same behaviors.

0x0nyandesuon ‘Dancing molecules’ successfully repair severe spinal cord injuries

The people insisting on this just want to use HN as their megaphone. There is no debate. They have already made up their minds.

It comes off about as well as an insufferable teenager at Thanksgiving dinner. Some feature.

0x0nyandesuon ‘Dancing molecules’ successfully repair severe spinal cord injuries

Recently every thread on HN about life and death has been devolving into a debate with people who insist that these things need to be addressed in the comments and those that simply don't care. It's honestly exhausting.

It's sort of like making food and having someone at the table try to discuss the morality of the meat you're using.... Except it's every. single. time.

Lab mice are killed off everyday after experiments end even if there's nothing wrong with them. Excuse me if I don't lose any sleep over this experiment.

0x0nyandesuon Why thieves love to steal catalytic converters

You keep talking about how you can't take back killing. The thing is I don't want to take it back. The kind of person that would steal things that people rely on to survive has ceded their equal protection under the law.

0x0nyandesuon Why thieves love to steal catalytic converters

https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/catalytic-converter...