Tehchops

The sentiment is correct, but there are a number of caveats depending on the nature of the work.

Dealing with any data that is defined under a compliance policy of some kind, for instance.

Too bad Planetary Annihilation was a poorly optimized, buggy, under-delivered piece of shit on Windows too.

Did some investigating when this was initially announced and we were considering moving.

Like most anywhere else, desirable areas(good schools, near water, access to public services) in Vermont are just as expensive as elsewhere, on top of the high income taxes.

>experts

>people who drafted the law

Pick one.

Whatever passes for tech journalism these days left ZDnet long ago.

It's kind of a joke to expect an objective take on whether or not this law allows judicial overreach from one of the government staffers who helped draft it.

Does the intense radiation not interfere with communications to the drones/robots?

That does seem pretty intense. To be close enough to get that dose I'd imagine thermal/blast effects would be incredibly high anyways, rendering this chip pretty useless.

How many developers are actually versed enough in C/C++ to deal with it?

Is re-writing everything in Rust really the answer?

The political climate and the absolutely horrid public school funding are doing far more to drive educated white-collar workers away than arbitrary measures of "excitement" ever will.

That's actually the most secure way to use a computer, so maybe he's on to something? ;-)

All joking aside, color me shocked a policy-maker has 0 experience with $thing they are writing policy for.

> 2018 - 280k

Well done. When I hear "enterprise", I'm assuming C#/Java?

> Oracle

Fair point.

RIP Red Hat Linux.

Can't think of any company I'd want less to be a steward of CentOS upstream.

Looks like Ubuntu is about to get much more serious consideration for production workloads.

I think it's less about the screen time, and more about what's on the screen.

Echoing some of the existing comments: Games and sites today are vastly different than they were 20 years ago.

Games like Civilization, Quake, Diablo, C&C, Mortal Kombat, Tony Hawk etc... were definitely addictive.

But modern games like Fortnite and Clash of Clans are not engineered the same way. They are specifically designed to function like a slot machine.

I was an avid "gamer" growing up. I wasn't always the most responsible with it. Probably overdid it a lot. But I can see with my own child, this is a different ball-game altogether.

Not sure what the fix is either, other than ruthless enforcement of quotas.

I worry there are long-term implications to the exodus of intellectual capital from academia -> industry.

However, I don't blame anyone who makes this obvious choice:

A)Years of underpaid, thankless, exhausting work, for a... fractional probability of getting even a livable wage.

Contrast this with:

B)$techCo, where even a decent undergrad CV will get you a six-figure job, advancement opportunities, and maybe even a modicum of respect.

What sane(or not blindly idealistic) individual would willingly choose option A?

If there isn't some kind of concerted effort by higher-ed orgs to reduce the administrative and bureaucratic overhead of post-grad education, it's going to have long-lasting consequences.

HN hug of death?

> a major US city with a lower cost of living

Offset by an insane tax rate. Highest effective in the nation. Also, any actually desirable place to purchase a house is going to be just as expensive as anywhere else minus the tech hubs.

I feel like Kubernetes solves a lot of problems.

I don't feel like any of them have to do with personal hosting/blogs.

If you really want to go simple/cheap for that, why not eschewing compute entirely and go serverless/static?

Our company is currently hiring an SRE in EMEA. US(Seattle) based. Full remote.

Can we stop linking to BI paywall.

We already used up your bandwidth quota?

>Actually it is hard. Most of your peers and yourself may be familiar with the quirks, but that doesn't mean it isn't hard. AWS's docs are terrible. Others being worse does't change that fact.

I think you've confused what "facts" are...

Doesn't matter. I guess some people are just destined to remain rack 'n stack sysadmins. Fine, more money and less competition for jobs then.

>As for rock solid colo docs- there is this thing called Google. And in fact you barely need that. It's real easy to set up.

I think you misunderstood my point. I know there are a thousand-and-one guides for setting up Nagios and Postfix and sticking HAProxy in front of it, but my point was that no amount of documentation can abstract away the actual pain points of dealing with co-los, including their owners, staff, and all the fun little problems that crop up with dealing with them.

For when it actually matters beyond a dollar value, I trust AWS engineers a lot more than I do HPE/Equinix etc...

Anything in that article address the highest effective tax rate in the nation(and it's not close)?

>Easier than AWS, that's for sure

You finding it hard != is hard

>Getting HA to actually work in AWS is a nightmare of proprietary configuration and obscure documentation

Strange. I have no problem with it. Most of my peers don't either. There is waaay worse documentation than AWS.

>Hardware-in-a-DC HA has been around approximately forever, and there is far more documentation available on the hundreds of ways to get it working rock-solid... all without vendor lock-in.

If you could point me to all this documentation you speak of that guarantees a "rock-solid" co-lo experience...

>AWS is not the solution for every task.

For self-hosting/personal stuff? Sure, EC2 is not cost effective. But you've just described a pretty powerful server for self-hosting, and you've left out a decent chunk of context around the considerations that go in to deploying HA, web-facing architecture.

I think Sam's comment is important:

>Note it is important to have full perspective on costs here...

All too often I see the "AWS is too expensive" circlejerk devolve into a flat cost argument.

It is absolutely more expensive in that regard.

That being said, I see very few comparisons that take in to account all of the engineering effort saved by some of the AWS feature set.

There are non-trivial things that simply aren't a problem anymore on AWS, and time can be spent on actually interesting/difficult problems.

>Meritocracy should be the paramount consideration in all things, and possibly a small consideration of diversity of ideas and beliefs, but not diversity of skin color or genitalia.

>If all of the most brilliant astrophysicist minds in the world happen to be Japanese women, why shouldn't they be preferred over all others in getting into prestigious colleges to study astrophysics? Why do we care if we have a certain number of European males in that situation?

The fallacy with assumptions like these is that it presupposes a completely level starting point for all demographics/ethnicities.

If everyone had access to the exact same resources throughout the entirety of their developmental lifespan, then yes, no one would rightfully care whether or not $genderNationality was predisposed to be above-average at a given discipline.

That is just not how reality plays out though. More often than not, certain groups are predisposed to excel because they simply won the socioeconomic lottery. To draw on your hypothetical example, if Japanese women happen to dominate the field of astrophysics, is it because they're predisposed to it? Or is it because Ugandan men and Mongolian women simply don't have the same access to the educational systems and resources that give them a decided advantage in preparing for a rigorous, top-10 education in such a discipline?

I think a lot of times people look at efforts like this and try to oversimplify it to "oh look they just arbitrarily think they need more of a certain gender or ethnicity".

It's far more complex than that, and we need to make an honest effort to understand why some groups are underrepresented. I'm willing to be it has less to do with pre-disposition, and more to do with inherent inequality in an adversarial and unevenly distributed socioeconomic system.

>with a strong rule of law

Not so certain these days.

>We've seen plenty of people going all in building their business on a platform they don't control, then getting mad when the platform they depend on changes how things work.

I've always wondered about this. When you depend on another, already-monetized platform to build on, your livelihood depends on a variety of factors not in your control.

What if they decide to make your functionality part of their core product? Charge for API access? Limit/remove API access?

I see you there, Ubuntu desktop :)

Interesting he's using a mbp box as a monitor stand.

On to a more serious note: is this kind of computing work sped up with GPUs?

Aren't most people running those kinds of workloads doing so on Linux already?

Doesn't seem cost-effective at scale to run on beefy Apple machines.