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Yes, it is very likely Fooljitsu and Crapita consultants manage to convince them that existing systems do not comply with the relevant laws, and propose an in-house system. I have worked in software consultancy myself. The problem is that the project often starts with senior Engineers, who then gradually get moved to impress new clients, with the final product being delivered by overworked junior Engineers.

Until the government gets better at overseeing such large projects, this will keep on happening. However, as governments not spending their own money, but tax payers money instead, there is little incentive.

How often does their IT fail? Outsourced to Crapita or Fooljitsu by any chance?

With Google Docs/Office 365 the last time I lost a full document is years ago now.

I am old enough to have stored my laptop in the fridge when writing my PhD thesis, to keep the fault rate down. However, that is when hard drives where still mechanical, and online backups not a common thing.

The best choice might be to avoid the places recommend by Google as everyone will be there. The current AI is not clever enough to handle crowd control.

As far as I am aware there is no easy to set up open source FAAS framework. At least with Kubernetes there are a million and one tutorials, and there is a large support community.

But you would still need a boatload of a hundred unique VMS to run your serverless functions, right?

If you have a big enough SRE team to manage your serverless stack, economy of scale means that development teams utilising these can reduce their infra management costs. It is about the ratio of engineers utilising the stack compared to those that need to maintain it.

Self-hosted FaaS is only worth it if you are at the same size as Meta. If smaller companies do this, it would be a big red flag for me.

Companies like Microsoft already had internal build servers for Windows.

From Wiki:

"In 1994, Grady Booch used the phrase continuous integration in Object-Oriented Analysis and Design with Applications (2nd edition)[8] to explain how, when developing using micro processes."

Cruisecontrol and XP were building on an already known concept. By 2001 hardware also became cheap enough to have a dedicated build servers.

The XP community sometimes give a distorted view of waterfall. It present waterfall as a dogmatic approach run by incompetents. In reality waterfall was a lot more advanced, with testing, build tools and a phased delivery approach.

This classic short-termism is all too common in software engineering. The reputational damage and likely compensation will exceed by far the costs of identifying and fixing these bugs. However, the CTO at the time has long moved on, and likely got a decent bonus at the time by cutting software engineering resources.

None of these has anything to do with Agile nor XP.

This are CI/CD technologies, and perfectly fit into a waterfall deployment too.

On dating websites women mostly target the top 10% in terms of looks and attractiveness. That suggests kindness isn't high on their wishlist.

However, getting yourself a dog and going for morning runs does get you approached by eligible women, so I guess it depends on the social context.

It is a complex issue that would require an essay to answer.

However, in this specific case, avoiding buying a car because you don't like the CEO, it doesn't make a difference. Most CEOs are psychopaths.

It's reported that Tesla vehicles have an average of 171 mechanical issues per 100 vehicles. For reference, the average number for most automakers hovers around 120 problems per 100 vehicles.

Yes EVs should be more reliable on paper, but Tesla's aren't.

It is about the number of mechanical issues per hundred vehicles and on that metric Tesla scores appallingly.

https://www.topspeed.com/tesla-reliability-and-repair-costs-....

I don't like Musk, but I am also under no illusion that CEOs of other major car companies are any better. They may just hide their opinions a little better than Musk.

The reality is that Tesla aren't very good cars from both reliability, price and range perspective. Musk has done a brilliant job hyping the car, but reality starts setting in. For example, FSD will likely remain in beta for years.

Tesla's consistently score low on reliability and are expensive to repair. I would love an EV but place a high weight factor on reliability.

No, just no. K8s shouldn't be used to host database systems. Its main function is micro services.

Cloud provider provide managed versions of Postgres that are highly available. Even if you self host, Kubernetes isn't the answer.

Salesforce storage is about 1000 times more expensive than regular storage, so might not be the best example.

Data volume and Salesforce also don't belong in the same sentence, as it is not comparable to the data volume a basic Postgres database can handle.

Until recently Salesforce didn't provide a data backup facility, other than exporting CSVs, so not even sure you can call it a database.

Yes, you are right, but they also serve the US market.

LOCATION. We host our cloud instances in our own data centers in Nuremberg and Falkenstein (Germany) and in Helsinki (Finland). In Ashburn, Virginia and Hillsboro, Oregon (USA), we also provide AMD-based cloud servers and cloud features.

OFAC(Office of Foreign Assets Control) sanctions are clear-cut and they can issue very large fines for non-compliance. These sanctions have been in place for a while now. It sounds like someone flagged this to their legal department, who then advised to go nuclear, given the threat of large fines.

This higher mass would mean that any collision with a lighter vehicle could be very serious. European regulators would just need one look at the cars specs, and would dismiss it outright.

It boils down to pedestrian safety, not the external radius. The high bonnet and bumper mean that a pedestrian would likely be hit by the ultra-hard stainless steel structure of the front bumper and bodywork, where the grille would traditionally be.

The current models are static, they do not get modified by self learning. Unless someone already build in a Skynet backdoor, we are safe.

...and I am hoping all nuclear missiles are air gapped anyway...

That is having your cake and eat it. AWS administrators don't do the same job as on prem administrators.

You can use multiple availability zones and if needed even multi cloud. If you own the hardware, you do regularly need to test the UPS power supply to ensure there is a graceful fail over in case of a power outage. Unless of course, you buy the hardware already hosted in a data centre.

It is not unlikely an AWS to GCP migration would have saved them significant money too, in the sense that they likely reviewed and right sizes different systems.

I also would love to see a comparison done by a financial planning analyst to ensure no cost centres are missed. On prem is cheaper but only by 30 to 50%. That is the premium you pay for flexibility, which you can partly mitigate by purchasing reserved instance for multiple years.

"Transaction email" reminding you your subscription is up for renewal in 16,356 days (and repeat) including tons of ads for other products.

Just get a brick....too late, now every brick needs to be barcoded with the biometric details of the purchaser.

Such a law makes sense in countries like the UK, where it is extremely hard to get a gun as a normal civilian. The guns produced by 3D printer can be fired a limited number of time, and a long car drive allows you to buy a gun legally in the US.

Thanks for correcting this mistake.

My point is that the judge awarded her a life sentence on each of the cases:

"on each of the seven offences of murder, and the seven offences of attempted murder, I sentence you to imprisonment for life."

Even if the other cases turn out to be unsafe, she would still be imprisoned for life.

In two cases, the victim died by insulin overdose, Letby herself admitted that the only possible explanation was foul play. That means there is a killer on the ward. The police interviewed the other nurse on the shift, and she was cleared. Even if Letby gets acquitted from the other cases, her sentencing likely will not change.

One challenge for the defence was that there are few studies on injecting air in small babies for obvious reasons. Air embolisms are very painful, and such a study wouldn't pass ethics approval, let alone parental consent.

HR is never your friend, they are the enemy.