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pwarner

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python developer know a bit about network stuff
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pwarner··on Using grape harvest dates to estimate summer temperature over 650 years
And pH, and certain enzymes help extract more color.
pwarner··on Using grape harvest dates to estimate summer temperature over 650 years
I imagine viticulture techniques have changed too. France is surely more stable than many places, they place huge value on traditional techniques, but fertilizer, trellis technique, yields could all evolve.

Not that this disproves the data, or global warming, but climate isn't the only thing changing.

pwarner··on S3 isn't getting cheaper
Yeah this is magic price wise
pwarner··on S3 isn't getting cheaper
There were use cases with gp2 where one would over provision capacity to get IOPS. gp3 let you just dial up IOPS which was much cheaper than over provisioning. This may seem a corner case, but it was moderately common. Also AWS should cut their prices, well in this environment maybe holding them is a cut....
pwarner··on My Poor Experience With Azure (or why I'm sticking with AWS)
I mean, there is no right and wrong answer I suppose. You can have all the code for your project in one file. Forget a class per file or whatever, maybe it works for you.

What I saw is that the more you co-locate in an AWS account or Azure subscription, the higher the bar goes on ensuring your cost reporting and access control are also completely aware of resource group boundaries.

You really want to know is that $ for project A or B? You really want to ensure folks on project A have access to their cloud resources, but not project B. You can do that even in AWS, combine them and use IAM to segment things. I think there is just more room for error if you combine.

Also I think Azure has some per subscription quota limits and you may not want team A and B competing for them.

Again, no right answer, but I know we've done projects to split accounts and have never done one to combine them..

pwarner··on My Poor Experience With Azure (or why I'm sticking with AWS)
Yeah the tiered pricing makes Azure super complex. Azure App Services is crazy. The problem there is there are technical differences too, so it's very hard to sort out what you need. Storage is more complex too. While AWS has lots of challenges from those 700 teams, each services is simpler.
pwarner··on My Poor Experience With Azure (or why I'm sticking with AWS)
Resource groups seems awesome, and are nice in some ways, but they are sort of this slippery slope that encourage you to put more into a single subscription than you probably should.
pwarner··on Volkswagen enters battery business with $20B investment
People still ride horses...
pwarner··on Lawn mowing frequency affects bee abundance and diversity (2018)
Zoom is actually good lately too in my recent experience
pwarner··on Infrared laser spectroscopy at your fingertips
This is massive. I can't imagine how often we guess at what's going on today, where knowing for real will result in better outcomes.

As an amateur wine maker, this would be magic, it's very difficult to measure alcohol concentration, ratios of acids etc.

pwarner··on India's richest man pouring $80B into green energy, including new ventures
Long term we need a lot more energy globally than we have today. Think like 2x USA per capita total energy consumption, but all as electricity. Take that model global, and we need a lot more electricity.
pwarner··on Ask HN: Has remote work made you move to a new location or consider it?
Yes, moved from SF North Bay / wine country to Buffalo NY to be closer to extended family, lower cost of living. I miss wine country, but it's been a good move. My company is based in EST so it's easier. I worry a bit about next job but it'll be OK I suspect. I work in IT management and software development in the past. It's no easy choice, but since we had kids the family factor won out.
pwarner··on [dead]
There are likely real hardware limits on consumer oriented Internet access gear. Some Googling suggests they may hardware accelerate NAT and I'm sure there are limits on the number of NAT entries that fit in the Broadcom memory. ONTs have to be very cheap, think $100 or less, and there's a lot of functionality in there. If you need beyond consumer functions you may need to upgrade to business service or similar.
pwarner··on Microsoft Teams: 1 feature, 4 vulnerabilities
These bugs and regressions are so bad that I'm convinced no one at MS actually uses Teams.
pwarner··on Stealth bomber in flight on Google Maps
Yeah I panned over to the munitions bunkers (I think there is a better name I forget) and there seemed to be so few, but I guess you don't need much space for nukes...
pwarner··on Tell HN: AWS warns us about irregular activity related to Log4shell
I think this is what AWS GuardDuty is supposed to do?

Edit: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/using-aws-security-ser...

GuardDuty In addition to finding the presence of this vulnerability through Inspector, the Amazon GuardDuty team has also begun adding indicators of compromise associated with exploiting the Log4j vulnerability, and will continue to do so. GuardDuty will monitor for attempts to reach known-bad IP addresses or DNS entries, and can also find post-exploit activity through anomaly-based behavioral findings. For example, if an Amazon EC2 instance starts communicating on unusual ports, GuardDuty would detect this activity and create the finding Behavior:EC2/NetworkPortUnusual. This activity is not limited to the NetworkPortUnusual finding, though. GuardDuty has a number of different findings associated with post exploit activity that might be seen in response to a compromised AWS resource. For a list of GuardDuty findings, please refer to this GuardDuty documentation.

pwarner··on Netflix Executive Sentenced to 30 Months for 700K Bribes, Kickbacks from Vendors
I haven't even gotten a new Datadog shirt in years :-(
pwarner··on Akamai and Micro Segmentation
Does anyone know of a a tool that leverages AWS or azure flow logs save security groups to go this? I'd love to skip the agent
pwarner··on Intel breaks ground on $20B Arizona plants as U.S. chip factory race heats up
you use a lot more water than oil, maybe 100x? I think 100 gallons / person / day is not crazy for water, and I hope you don't use that much oil, maybe a gallon a day?
pwarner··on Did a Chinese hack kill Nortel? (2020)
IP theft or not, the entire tech company was hit very hard around that time. Telecom was especially hard hit. Nortel was hardly unique. Disclosure: I'm in that business, work for Ciena which now owns one if the remainders of Nortel. Opinions are mine. Sycamore Networks: From $45 Billion to Zilch: https://online.wsj.com/article/SB100014241278873239261045782...

Telecom's big fall: https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-2002-04-07-02040600...

pwarner··on Intel’s Turnaround and the Future of Chipmaking
I think Intel is shipping every chip they can make at 14 nm? They are selling more chips than ever before. If they could get newer designs and processes out that would be nice, to but I don't think they are sitting on production capacity. I don't have a source, other than their financials. Well and this: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-cpu-shortage-tsmc-ou...
pwarner··on Comparing SARS-CoV-2 natural immunity to vaccine-induced immunity [pdf]
I think they are working on that, and it will be important, but they just need time. Break through cases seem to be high recently, but folks need to recover, then they need to run around in the wild and get (or not get) COVID, and then they need to write the paper... Stay tuned, I can't wait to see, since I feel like this is where most people will end up.
pwarner··on California's Dixie Fire Is Now the 2nd Largest in State History
Many of the larger ones were "complexes", near by started at the same time, bit distinct fires added together I think. (Not a fire expert)

https://www.fire.ca.gov/media/4jandlhh/top20_acres.pdf

pwarner··on California's Dixie Fire Is Now the 2nd Largest in State History
It's not just one or the other? Who knew things were complex and sometimes didn't align with one political ideology?
pwarner··on The largest wildfire in the US is only 7% contained
What is it's both? Which I suspect strongly is the case...
pwarner··on Windows 365 Cloud PC
And until now at least, workspaces seemed nicer than Microsoft VDI. I presume this changes it. Look forward to testing
pwarner··on Windows 365 Cloud PC
I work in IT now and would love to get out of VDI. Other stuff to do!
pwarner··on Windows 365 Cloud PC
I hope they open it to consumers soon. I need a personal VDI to keep personal stuff off my work laptop. AWS workspaces is OK, but they seem to charge for the directory now, so it's kinda expensive
pwarner··on Bank of England to crack down on 'secretive' cloud computing services
How is the problem of PII better solved on premises?
pwarner··on Stop using your work laptop or phone for personal stuff, because I know you are
I use a personal AWS Workspace as my personal machine, that I can access from my work laptop. It's handy, although I wish the cost was lower. Does anyone have a better managed VDI suggestion?
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