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Downloading backups for a decade is untenable

Just a single drive can be more than 16TB nowadays, having just a couple of those makes $90/TB seem quite high.

The backup and store service is cheap, general outgoing bandwidth is very non-trivial as it also applies to every other service in AWS; It's designed to keep your data in and heavily discourage multi-cloud

Outbound traffic costs always cost the same regardless of your retrieval speed to API. If you only have a couple TBs worth of high-value data, this may be acceptable to you. It's far from being a universal truth though.

outbound traffic costs don't change at all regardless of when you need your data, it will always be atleast $90/TB

This often disregards the cost of retrieving said data, which is at $90/TB for outboud network traffic on top of the costs of making the backups available.

"A sec" is very ambiguous. Asking someone if they have 15 minutes to talk about the new deployment is much more useful and allows people to prepare for it, shortening required time to converse and providing you with more useful answers. Everyone benefits

A tiny subset of the site's users have accounts to vote with, and even less make use of it let alone make comments. Any guess about the "average" would be quite inaccurate. The stance of a vocal minority on X can be quite clear on a given thread, but even that is just the opinion of maybe 20-40 people.

And this is assuming there is no point manipulation at play, which is not the case for any popular site. In my opinion points alone can't be taken for more than a slight grain of salt.

>I am also somewhat puzzled how we are having a discussion about this on HN, where adherence to open source licenses is usually a virtue. Only as long as our work is not negatively effected, I presume?

There are a lot of people on this site. Some of them may think differently than others, there is no way to fuse them into a single persona.

>if it's small and generally unmaintained, we'll just fork internally, improve 8t all we want and move on, now nobody in the wider community benefits.

Everyone can still benefit, just make your private fork a public one. Of course you now have the same problem as the original maintainer in that people will make requests of you or fork it

If paying the maintainer is not possible, you can always pay some third party or hire more people internally to maintain the required libraries. If the company chooses not to pay anyone, it's a risk they brought upon themselves.

If commanded, sure, but in many cases your job would actually be to communicate the changing environment to management so they may allocate more resources or pay the maintainer or whatever middleman company to upkeep the required software.

Silently trying to plow through problems of these magnitudes will cause the project to be late and still cost the same. It's bad for everyone

This issue would be above the developer's paygrade.

It's not the developer's job to make requirements fit in the timeframe, that would be the manglement's job. If execs have made bad decisions with regards to the developer's input on what it's going to take, the problem is solely on them.

This is no surprise, electricity prices are going bonkers in EU at the moment. Just a week or two ago it was over $1/kWh over here in Finland.

I'm not quite sure I understand, isn't there a written contract you sign that states exactly what you get for N amount of money? Paying extra because of insufficient planning sucks, but is the price of such luxury.

Think of the bright side; it's a good thing this bit your company at this early stage and not with half a million dollar contracts.

This is honestly a tough thing with other cloud-based solutions aswell. Backing up your data from say AWS isn't difficult _per se_, it's just made prohibitively expensive to export any serious amount of data

This is very region specific. Here is a similar news from Finland about a 81-year old man who shot a at a burglar who invaded their home and attacked him. The owner was then charged with attempted murder

https://www.iltalehti.fi/kotimaa/a/2df88e0a-8859-4a13-822d-9...

I'm pretty sure you shouldn't try to piggyback off of a for-profit company's name either.

In fact atleast over here in Finland naming one's company is specifically reviewed by the patent and registry bureau to make sure it doesen't resemble any existing companies. It costs around 100-450€ and is mandatory for any new company

There are some big graphs with lots of items that the article defines as cost of living

Maybe I used the wrong wording. There may be legitimate reasons for keeping it vague, because designing tamperproof public metrics for credit approval has huge risks involved, or they may be designed so conservatively that a lot actually qualifying people would now be unable to get a loan. I've personally been bitten by the latter despite making nearly six figures.

Similarily I've not really seen any sites which publish how their anti-spam filters work or what the treshold values are either for similar reasons. They're possible to figure out, but cost a lot more.

Maybe a better solution would be to somehow guarantee that they're consistent with their own rules, and regularly audited so that they're also compliant with the current law?

There is another way to look at it; a student was able to visualize what they wanted with minimal investment in learning secondary tools to their actual field.

Similar issue is often misattributed in other places like game engines aswell. For example Unity is often labeled as lower quality because of the correlation with bad code quality in many of the games made with it, while forgetting that this is precisely because it's so easy to get started with, more new developers choose it

It would be really great if any javascript binding could be turned off in about:config or it's equivalent in other browsers. It's not really a solution, but would bandaid a lot of bad design which I can't see any legitimate use for (like scroll-hijacking).

I guess you can already overwrite any existing function with your custom non-function with userscripts, but that seems quite hacky and non-portable, since most mobile browsers don't really support extensions (Firefox does, but only a small subsection)

They might be afraid their algorithms would be too easy to manipulate if you knew all of it's factors. Since testing the all of the possible factors would be cost-prohibitive for most, it's not exactly 1:1 with software development

Instead of a specific question that most of the working sector is unfamiliar with, the form goes only by the field of study to guess where you're working

Maybe it is to bring about it's simplicity, or a sarcastic tounge-in-cheek jab at it. The word "algorithm" doesen't really distinguish it's complexity in any way. It's just a sequence of steps.

What kind of instability have you had? Maybe some of them aren't listed in their repo and could benefit from your experiences

For me it's mostly been usability problems like not really undestanding seasons with more than 99 episodes or the text desyncing if rotating the phone

At times like these I'm reminded of the phrase “If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe”

You have to rely on something in life, just like in an office building you can't realistically check the structure inside-out, or if you can, how can you make sure that the individual components are actually of the material they say they are? Have you double-checked your local water table yourself? Have you done geological studies to uncover vulnerabilities the subcontracting firm building the office may not have done correctly? What is the effect of local radio-interference or power quality on your equipment? Are your UPS-devices actually performing to spec?

It's a question of whether you can have a process which can reliably detect if an arbitrary program will do X, and the answer is proved to be no: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halting_problem

In real life however we have to accept imperfections, in which good-enough is often better than not at all

Most of my peeves are addressed by this update, which is great. Jellyfin has undergone major improvements since the project's start, it really seems like an alternative for it's commercial, properietary counterparts

Personally I've found notifications to be really useful for applications which I don't want to install from external sources, but must still use for work. These include MS-teams, slack, rocket, Whapps, GMail.