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Amazon has Q, Google Gemini, Microsoft Copilot…

Names that mean everything, nothing or something based on what website you land or what sales pipeline you are on.

Somewhere in the world there is someone crying while using QIK…

There is also a community of users known for not making sane financial decisions and keeping older technologies working in their basements.

Tempted, specially for switching H3 instead of S2… I prototyped a similar solution a couple of weeks ago, so I could probably do a second pass

I was one of the backers who got his money back because they “discovered” very late in the process that selling to Mexico was not worth it. I only got a small discount If I wanted to get a regular order in the US.

Bit disappointed and had to handle the expectations of my kid, that was super excited about this for Christmas. It seems TMEC/NAFTA is worthless if even small entrepreneurs discover is very difficult to sell across Mexico and Canada. But decidedly they see less value in selling to Mexico to pass similar (in theory) regulatory hurdles to Canada. The same story with Kiwico, Lovevery, etc.

Even considered building something like this, but I don’t have time.

Honestly, I feel like people just underestimate the market size because of the language barriers.

For all intents and purposes, Colon is considered to be part of the ZMQ (Zona Metropolitana de Queretaro)^1

Funny thing the english wikipedia article does not even mention it. But yeah, Each of those Cloud providers, have at least 3 buildings distributed on multiple industrial parks in the metropolitan area and I'm not even mentioning the ones from Kio Networks, IBM (SoftLayer). We are one step away from having one from OVH and Hetzner.

The only data center I know that is in the middle of the city of Queretaro is the one from Triara (aka Telmex, one of the many companies from Carlos Slim). Most of them are in the outskirts of the urban area.

1. https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zona_metropolitana_de_Quer%C3%...

that was also my understanding. Nearby Mexico City, in a semi-desertic area (Queretaro), there are a high amount of data centers, Google, Microsoft and Amazon have a region there.

I would think they only need cheap electricity, connectivity and in the case of Mexico, far away from seismic activity.

I'm still waiting for the Solarpunk future I was promised as a child.

I would imagine you are talking about Queretaro. Google and Microsoft also have data centers there.

This is a thing that has been more than a decade in the making, mostly because Queretaro does not have seismic activity and is only a couple of hours north of Mexico City.

While the water sources are completely different, both regions are prone to intense water seasons and, in the last couple of years, intense droughts.

More specifically, Queretaro is a semi-desert, so this behavior is a bit more expected.

Aside: Coming from personal experience I don't think that current agricultural methods are the best and are pron to wasting water, at least what I remember from Queretaro

Isn’t that just a distro, similar to what AWS also distributes as Airflow, I think it’s called Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA)

Location: Mexico (operating on Pacific Time / UTC-7)

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No (but willing to consider it for the right team)

Technologies: AWS (10+ years), Kubernetes, Rust, Ruby, Go, Python, Serverless, Apache Kafka, IaC (Terraform, CDK), Docker, CI/CD (Jenkins, GitLab), Big Data, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Java, TypeScript, Rails

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cicloid/ (detailed resume available upon request)

Email: hackernews+september@42fu.com

Senior Systems Engineer with 15+ years of experience at major tech companies. Specializing in large-scale distributed systems and cloud architecture. The last 6 years have been mostly working for Data Engineering/Analytics/Big Data/Telemetry organizations on a MAMAA level (or whatever Jim Cramer decides to unveil and is the new hotness to investors).

Key experiences:

- Managed petabyte-scale systems with a small, efficient team

- Led enterprise-wide migrations to Kubernetes and serverless architectures

- Optimized legacy systems, significantly improving performance and reducing costs

- Successfully managed globally distributed teams across multiple time zones

Passionate problem-solver and team mentor. Fluent in English and Spanish. Seeking roles in cloud infrastructure, DevOps, or distributed systems, but always eager to explore new technologies. Quick learner with diverse interests. Ask me about my latest hobby!

Location: Mexico (operating on Pacific Time / UTC-7)

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No (but willing to consider it for the right team)

Technologies: AWS (10+ years), Kubernetes, Rust, Ruby, Go, Python, Serverless, Apache Kafka, IaC (Terraform, CDK), Docker, CI/CD (Jenkins, GitLab), Big Data, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Java, TypeScript, Rails

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cicloid/ (detailed resume available upon request)

Email: hackernews@42fu.com

Senior Systems Engineer with 15+ years of experience at major tech companies. Specializing in large-scale distributed systems and cloud architecture.

Key experiences:

- Managed petabyte-scale systems with a small, efficient team

- Led enterprise-wide migrations to Kubernetes and serverless architectures

- Optimized legacy systems, significantly improving performance and reducing costs

- Successfully managed globally distributed teams across multiple time zones

Passionate problem-solver and team mentor. Fluent in English and Spanish. Seeking roles in cloud infrastructure, DevOps, or distributed systems, but always eager to explore new technologies. Quick learner with diverse interests. Ask me about my latest hobby!

Currently it runs my home assistant installation at home, so, a bit more processing would help, but it is not a critical load that requires speed most of the time. The most annoying task is compiling ESPHome firmwares from the raspaberry, which could take several minutes.

I've been waiting for this, now, the question is, is this a drop-in replacement for the CM4? If so, these will sell really well (and will have shortages)

I speak Spanish and English, but then I moved on to Japanese and now find myself stuck. I'm not confident in any scenario involving Japanese. Perhaps I should explore other languages (likely French, Portuguese, or another Romance language), then revisit Japanese. From there, I might transition to Mandarin and Korean.

Either the path I chose is too complex, or age is beginning to impact my cognitive speed.

Has anyone feeling this? or maybe I overestimated the time I should have been investing into this?

*Excluding Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann

That ship has already shipped.

Even if they are able to put some control on commercial offerings, open source or available to the public models will be around.

See the behavior around Llama when it first launched. I expect an underground movement around LLM’s similar in vibes to the cracker/hacker scene of the 90’s.

You can always plug Twilio to OpenAI using serverless functions. That is what I did with my assistant.

Is there a single hand keyboard that is supported and widely liked? I remember the frogpad but I believe that was discontinued

Whatsapp, Facebook, even Twitter are free in most Mexican Carriers.

That is what not having proper net neutrality is in Mexico.

You could just use your TV’s remote control if your TV supports HDMI-CEC. Most modern TV’s do send their key pushes via HDMI back to the device.

Also there is the option of using a simpler Ir remote control to control the Apple TV. You can record the commands for a simpler operation.

Nobody has mentioned this, but Alive 1997 is the perfect work album/session/set, whenever I need to produce a “pomodoro” I play that album.

Certificates should have an expiration date, any system implemented with this pattern should expire after a couple of hours.

If manual, I would even consider doing it every week with the caveat that it would be a large attack vector.

So odd seeing it score a 9. The sad part is that we accepted that as the odd thing and not the norm

wow; that is actually one of those comments of the internet that makes you think.

The thing here is cross universe communication and legacy hardware/software stacks.

This sounds like a great mental exercise.

Just by sharing the news he is working with them helping the global effort.

Isn’t that Ubuntu?

Are there alternatives for PWS? I liked how it provided better and more localized information in comparison to official channels in Mexico

Wow, then I think that I jumped directly to that hoo-haa since I didn't even consider the technique you are describing, I wasn't expecting today learning something from dynamic HTML past of the web. Thanks!

This may be a dumb question, but would you describe the product as an alternative to something like Wistia? How does it compare to it?