StopHammoTime

The problem is not that the feature exists - the problem is that you are locked into it, can’t easily opt out, and if it goes wrong you lose access to a product you’ve paid for.

A good system would cater for everyone adequately.

Yeah, but you were already scared of contravening the rules and wouldn’t have cheated anyway.

It’s a false equivalency.

Almost everyone has some kind of base workload, whether it’s RDS or EC2 operating some specific piece of infra.

Some people may not be able to RI their entire workloads, but EVERYONE can reduce their AWS spend partially using RIs. It may only be a little bit but better in your pocket than Amazons.

That’s not true at all. AWS start charging you as soon as the data leaves an AZ. In fact, if you use a direct connect you only need to pay 2c/GB to egress out of the region (which they most certainly pay are) which is what you'd pay anyway to another AWS region. Realistically, the data transfer costs are negligible (compared to multi-regional/inter-zonal costs) when the network has been engineered correctly. You’re always going to pay but you can limit to what extent.

The fact they track the amount of messages is analytics to begin with even if it has a valid reason.

That is some 4D chess on your part. Well played!

That is the whole point of “printing money”. It takes value away from the money in bank accounts. It is used to forcibly redistribute money into the economy during a down turn when people would rather not spend it. If you have 100 “pie tokens” and then create an extra 900, there’s still only a single pie to go around.

Of course this targets middle class and poor people because the rich don’t keep money in a bank, they keep it in assets. At least, not enough to materially affect them.

This is the REAL conversation that needs to be happening.

What I always love about these statements from CEOs is that if there is a culture of poor performance or whatever, it is actually the companies and the CEOs themselves who are doing a poor job. Ultimately, the performance of the company is a reflection of what the CEO puts in.

I like how these CEOs never talk about leaving, even thought they're usually a big part of the problem.

You're absolutely right. Taking responsibility would be resigning.

If a normal employee missed their goals by this much, they'd be on a PIP and out the door in less than three months.

Rules for me, and rules for thee.

asdf is good, and supports more than Python

https://asdf-vm.com/

You guys are right, I completely missed that he waived his rights on this term. My apologies, I made an assumption (which was wrong) that Musk was acting reasonably.

During a merger, discovery is absolutely a right the purchasing side has. The target company should open its books, your assumption about them not disclosing is incorrect.

This definitely would not pass constitutional muster. It's been clearly established that if it's happening in public, it's fair game. Furthermore, I'd imagine the onus would be on the Police to affirmatively prove that the person is interfering - they couldn't just say "you're interfering with me, turn it off". This is a horrible law.

This is different from the Intelligence Apparatus that shares inter-service intelligence. The Intelligence Community is already a thing and is organised under the Director of National Intelligence (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Intelligence_Com...). The point of each service's Agency is to be good at collecting pertinent intelligence data, analysing it, then sharing it with each other if relevant. This way you're not duplicating Intelligence efforts and getting your best value. Inter-Agency communication is a completely different ball game and should be handled separately from organisational structure.

Should the Marines get rid of their intelligence units since the Navy has them already?

P.S. I don't mean this facetiously: what I meant specifically was - what is the bar for maintaining an independent Intelligence apparatus with this opinion? Do we consider a Secretary/Department to be the cutoff? I'm of the opinion that if the two deviate enough, then there is no reason for them to be conjoined.

This is a hot take.

The reason that you need to do things the ops way is because ops knows how to run applications in production. There's a reason the meme "worked in dev, ops problem now" exists. You need to meet all of the requirements of an app that's running in production from a technical, availability, security, and policy point-of-view. It's not easy and that's why this will never work.

Software is hard, it's just that a lot of developers used to cut their code, run it on their laptop, and let someone else worry about it. It's different these days (although not as much as I'd like).

We don't make you use these tools because we want to, we use these tools because we're required too. No one cared about ISO27001, SOC2, or PCIDSS compliance for your crappy PHP app you ran on your cpanel. They didn't care back then you were using md5 hashes to "secure" passwords. The world is fundamentally different to what it used to be 10-15 years ago, and the requirements from business are astronomically different.

Edit: and to people saying "oh you could just run it on a single server", no you can't because certifications like ISO27001 require certain levels of availability and DR. You're not going to be able to guarantee that with a single server running in a rack somewhere.

Depends where you want to work. If you're looking to get into consulting, specifically related to vendors then it's a guarantee to win. Most vendors will require their authorised resellers/consultants to have a certain amount of certified staff. AWS comes to mind as the most obvious, but I'm sure this is the case with other cloud vendors.

For a "normal" business that is more of a customer to vendors, nah not really. Your experience is worth far more than your certifications. The only place it might get you somewhere is Government, although expectations are low there so you can get away with associate-level certifications and seem amazing.

OH MY GOD. I've had to stop watching F1 in Australia because the only app that has licensing is like $27.50 a month and I don't love it that much.

This is a fantastic idea! Thanks mate!

Home licensing has not been a big deal for a very long time. Their actual cash cows are things like Enterprise Licensing which aren’t going anywhere soon. You’ve also entirely excluded server licensing as well.

Have a read of their actual results and maybe re-think your hypothesis a bit. Microsoft’s revenue went up by 18%. I think they’ll be fine without some .NET extension,

You shouldn’t really be shorting if you don’t know what you’re doing, so the parent still applies.

ALWAYS CALL BACK. If they are legitimate, advise they should block the transactions until you've been able to reconnect with them. Get their details, and advise you will call back on the company's dedicated fraud prevention hotline.

NEVER give details over the phone on a call you didn't initiate EVER.

No, because the cost of development is exceptionally high. As with the F-35 there are a lot of countries who would never be able to afford that level of capability unless the model of shared funding and development was taken.

At the end of the day, poorly implemented systems, etc are far worse than shared technology.

The ironic part of this in my experience is that the employers that want you in the office 100% are also the ones willing to pay less.

Problem solved, I’ll earn more from a company that treats employees with respect and the other companies will go out of business. Labour shortage in Australia is real right now, so it’s literally going to be impossible for these places to hire soon.

Just to clarify, it's not really no-code: pseudocode is the new bytecode it would seem and this is just compiling that into usable code.

You still need to be able to code and understand what you're doing. You can't just ask simple questions and get complex answers. You still have to be capable of asking complex questions.

A common scenario I can think if is where I struggle to remember the name or API of the exact thing I want to do but I know exactly how it works - typing that in and getting a result would improve my workflow, but it's just saving a trip to Google, we're not talking the difference between doing and not doing, just a saving a minute.

I would rate the value of this more as interesting rather than useful, simply because as another commenter highlighted it's just easier to write code. It could be useful incrementally but not for everything.

This is why I always go with Apple. I've always just walked in, yeeted my phone at them and gotten a new one. I've had four warranty issues since my original 3GS and every time the experience has been pleasant. I've also had an AirPod replaced when it no longer kept charge and was within the warranty period. The same has also applied to other family members who have had failing devices and Apple always replaces them instantly.

I recommend Apple phones to everyone in my family for the specific reason that if you have a broken Apple device, you can walk into an Apple store and get it fixed.

Successful documentation is not based on tools but company culture.

If your company is a culture of reviewing and updating documentation it will have good documentation, if it doesn’t, it won’t.

Honesty sounds like AWS is giving up on providing hosted elastic search. I hated using it, it always was failing and I spent more time administering it than anything else.

I recently used Elastic Cloud, and as much as I hate the company, their product is actually really good. I’d always recommend Elastic.

Yes, but AWS egress on EC2 is still 0.02c outbound from EC2 (4x savings). The egress fees are still egregious via a comparable EC2 instance. Then of course, once you factor in that AWS push "S3 via CloudFront" as the gold standard in static asset hosting it smells even more.

I'm suprised no one has mentioned Outline (https://getoutline.org/) which provides full capability to setup a VPN easily on any major cloud providers with 1-click. It also provides mobile apps to use as well.

A great experience, and I'd say it just works.