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What brands have you used? My Apple 96W USB-C charger is still doing fine after having it for just under two years now.

I think that's an artifact of RDS specifically. It's dreadfully slow. An EC2 instance will launch and have SSH connectivity in 17-22 seconds in my testing. (I was testing this a fair bit a while back for a silly idea I had)

My previous technical account manager got his three initials at amazon.com. One day I might join Amazon, but I don't think I'll get my initials (A. W. S.)

It's not an official AWS offering, but there is this project that can automatically add EIPs to VPC-attached Lambda functions for you. Then you don't need the NAT gateway.

https://github.com/glassechidna/lambdaeip

Given that we're talking about ALBs with Lambda targets, their limit is actually quite a bit lower than API Gateway: 1MB

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/latest/appl...

That's an interesting comment. I loved Starcraft as a kid. Played many hours every day. I'm now 33 and never got into Starcraft 2. Nowadays the idea is utterly unappealing. I just play the occasional Call of Duty Warzone (similar to Fortnite) and it's fun.

Maybe this is an ideal use case for a bloom filter. The answer to the question "is user X blocked?" is almost always going to be "no". And the "maybe" cases can consult the actual block list.

How exciting. I've waited my whole career for a bloom filter use case. Please no one tell me that there's a much more obvious solution.

You'd be surprised. Motorcyclists make up a substantial fraction of all organ donors in the USA. Fatal crashes for motorcyclists are usually the result of traumatic brain injury while leaving the rest of the body intact -- the ideal scenario for organ donation. Fatal crashes for car drivers and passengers usually invokes significant damage to the whole body.

See https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/661256

What's the distinction? I always assumed "blue states" meant a majority of voters in that state voted blue, likewise for red states. Otherwise you might as well say "there's no blue cities, only blue neighbourhoods" and keep getting more granular down to the individual voter.

What tech are you using to deploy? Lambda’s UpdateFunctionCode usually takes less than 1 sec (excluding ZIP upload time of course)

Just to clarify for others (you probably already know this), the GPL is only an issue if you distribute the binaries for your code. If it's e.g. a typical SaaS then the GPL isn't nearly as scary. The AGPL is problematic in that case though.

That seems like an over-reaction: you really haven't trusted a single word from any official because of one official being misleading?

How do you feel about the approach being taken in Victoria, Australia?

It's been legal in licensed settings for quite a while, but they're now changing to make it legal in more situations in response to requests from solo sex workers. I'm rather happy with the situation (and new improvements) as a client and my understanding is that workers are happy about it.

https://www.vic.gov.au/review-make-recommendations-decrimina...

Is that build tag necessary? I should check out what it does, because I've been deploying Go functions to custom runtimes without it. Does it skip some kind of "determine if Go-specific RPC or custom runtime" check?

EDIT: I found it. Thanks for the tip! https://github.com/aws/aws-lambda-go/blob/1f782848d89c02bf80...

It works with Go: https://awsteele.com/blog/2021/09/29/graviton2-arm-comes-to-...

I was fine with all of it except the domestic violence jokes. Those weren’t funny enough to warrant the topic.

I find that a handful of experiences with ketamine over the past few years have been very good for my mindfulness.

Something I’ve wondered for a while: is there a good modern alternative to zip?

To clarify: you’re ok with the words “man” and “woman”, but not “he”, “him”, “she” and “her”? I think you need to work on that, because you seem to be projecting a lot for something that really doesn’t matter.

Us too. I found it super useful because I have lots of Chinese coworkers and I have no idea whether to use “he” or “she” based on their name.

Edit: I didn’t see the last bit. Why did it factor into leaving? Were they aggressive about it or something?

I can't speak for NZ, but in AU domestic tourism has more than picked up the slack - domestic tourists have spent more money than international tourists

I think it depends very much on what your product does. E.g. in your case (games) bandwidth is a big deal. The last three companies I've worked at have all had AWS bills of more than $10M/yr and data egress costs were never more than 2-8% of the bill. A mixture of B2C and B2B SaaS companies.

In that case, the economics of bare metal aren't as clear-cut.

While in general I agree with your overall argument, when it comes to:

> cloud provider's equivalent service you have to keep up with their changes, price increases and obsolescence

AWS S3 and SQS have both gone down significantly in price over the last 10 years and code written 10 years ago still works today with zero changes. I know because I have some code running on a Raspberry Pi today that uses an S3 bucket I created in 2009 and haven't changed since*.

(of course I wasn't using an rPi back then, but I moved the code from one machine to the next over the years)

It's a surprisingly fantastic language. In my opinion, it's the perfect language. But here are some issues in my eyes:

* The community is tiny. A rounding error compared to Go, Rust, etc.

* The core team of contributors is even smaller. You could comfortably have an intimate dinner party with all of them. If they lose interest, the language would likely die.

* The library distribution story wasn't great last I checked.

Caveat: I haven't used Nim for more than a year now. Maybe all these issues are no longer relevant. I really want it to succeed, but who knows what the future holds.

> Not sure how AWS squares that circle unless they outsource their data centers in China to a third party that can then expose the keys for China to use.

This is in fact precisely what they do. The Beijing region is operated by Sinnet and the Ningxia region is operated by NWCD. It's documented here: https://www.amazonaws.cn/en/about-aws/china/

This raises something I've wondered for a while: is there a service or database that can give an indication of how many humans are behind a particular IP address? e.g. with CGNAT, there might be many thousands of people sharing a single IP. For some residential services, it might be 1-2 people.

It feels like this sort of data (even if only providing order of magnitude estimates) would help greatly with deciding on appropriate rate limits for small operators who don't have the time to research all the traffic they're receiving.

I agree that there will likely be exceptions, but long-haul isn't one of them. The trucking industry is already subject to a lot of regulations around mandatory rest stops, so there are well-established break points along every major long-haul route.

This has lead to things like [1] where it is significantly more economical for long-haulers to electrify their existing fleet than continue using diesel fuel. I suspect long-haul will reach 90% electrification long before last-mile trucking and private-use automotives.

That said, I imagine you are spot on regarding farming - and pushing industry to less restrictive jurisdictions.

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/apr/29/swap-...

My workflow for very similar needs:

1. Come across interesting long-form articles on the Internet 2. Click the "Save to Pocket" icon in my browser (some time passes) 3. Read these articles on my Kobo e-ink reader using the Pocket app.

It works really well.

Congrats to the WorkOS team - their extremely pleasant wrapper over SSO and SCIM has made my side project possible rather than a nightmare of integrations

Given the currency (£), I suspect so.