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If you can do things yourself or with your staff, you probably don't need aws.

But when the cost of you doing something (either direct or opportunity cost) becomes higher than that of using aws (or another cloud provider), you should use them.

Yes, you can get really really really far without needing to scale if you spend a lot of energy and effort on optimisation, but that's time you're not doing biz dev, or building out capability.

And even now you probably are currently spending a lot of energy on things that are useless outside of saving $ you'd pay to Amazon. As you grow, the cost:value of doing these things yourselfor even in-house changes.

If you're successful and scaling, it's often waaaaay easier and cheaper to throw $$ at a problem short term than getting engineers to actually prioritise and look at it.

It is a _phenomonal_ waste of money in licensing fees but MSSQL server can embed C# dlls and as a result run arbitrary code via its CLR integration

> it didn’t make sense for them to jump head-first into an expensive and time-consuming migration effort just because some startup they had never heard of promised to deliver the sun and the moon

> we need to shut down Earthly CI

Is it possible that it all boils down to these two points? The technical benefits don't matter if there's even a hint that your (fundamental to my business') service could fail and be removed.

When I read this it sounds like a technically great idea which solved a problem in a way that missed some fundamental prerequisite for their target user group (and hence success).

Firefox is legitimately not bad peformance/supportwise these days.

Though, yes, they probably still get a bunch of money from Google.

Genius idea from lakera, but it was also fun, so its a fair trade imo.

Thanks, can't believe I missed this!

I've found Sandbox to be an easy way to circumvent endpoint protection (s/w firewalls and the like).

By design, its a sandboxed os without non-microsoft bloat.

Itd be handy to easily be able to run a powershell script automatically at boot though...

Overall egress/the bandwidth fee structure is probably more an anticompetitive move hidden in plain sight...

I've been directly involved in multiple systems being deployed on AWS solely to avoid egress fees

The link describes the anger, vitriol, awkward emails and response but nothing about what the policy is...

(Seems to be a min 3 days per week in office)

I'm really curious how lobbying for something like this works in practice.

I work with (non-us) government and while I don't doubt some background level of corruption, in experience there's always been an emphasis on documented probity and making defensible decisions.

How does that $3m of lobbying actually work? Do lobbyists provide arguments to lawmakers (are there any except the tenuous one that the taxpayer money could be better used elsewhere?), or is it literally just spent on wining and dining the right people and asking them to block specific legislation?

This market already exists (I get spam offering customer lead lists every couple of days). I suspect most orgs of a reasonable size are already being bombarded similarly.

Augmenting these lists with Twitter's data might improve/expand the lists bur won't create much extra value imo, because the demand side won't change.

I'm in the long tail. I'll probably buy a couple of images, and likely a few more if they turn out to be useful.

I'd never buy them via a non retail/contact us channel though.

You are not weak, you're battling against groups of some of the smartest people in the world who spend their days doing nothing other than figuring out ways to manipulate you to steal and keep your attention, in order to maximise their engagement metrics/ad dollars. It's an incredibly difficult and unfair fight.

I'd recommend Stolen Focus by Johann Hari, I've found it personally really helpful.

Oh, I get it! you're saying that .net isn't a good language. haha great one.

Sure, but as others have said, how do you get column headers appearing on each page, put metadata into your documents, make elements properly selectable etc etc

"Just run it as a container" is a bit of an industry cop-out for making stuff unnecessarily complex.

Scale/performance. The interface is also straightforward to use. Puppeteer or any nonembedded process is just unnecessary hassle/overhead in a lot of cases.

It might be worthwhile mentioning somewhere that this is for mysql and postgres.

While it does look really handy and well put together, unfortunately none of the tips in the book that I read before giving up are useful to someone using mssql

Use AMD

I can confirm at least one Australian retail bank uses this fingerprinting too.

In the past two weeks I have been locked out of an online banking portal with team viewer being one of the signals used to try to verify a suspicious looking transaction.

Team viewer used to install a font, but that doesn't seem to be how they identify that anymore.

Order and pay is the standard these days in Australia. It's pretty rare to find somewhere that has the menu but nothing else as a qr code (why not just look up the restaurant's website in that case?).

I'm not really sure what the point of the article is, though I don't see any relevance to the claim that it's a need.

It may be a new addiction, but certainly the point can't be made that the 1980s (or any other time in history) was a time where infomania was a serious concern for the majority of the population, even though more information was made available daily than in 300bc.

New sources of information overwhelm people who are not equipped for it, but this is a flaw in the individual not in our basic biology or psychology.

It depends on the venue and provider. A lot of pub type settings will have a note saying that orders placed within 5 min of one another will come out together. In my experience the more upmarket the place, the less likely they are to have ordering via phone (or payment at the time of ordering).

But you can also get someone at the table to place the order for everyone. Or often go and order at the bar (also something that you don't see too much in North America), or if its a restaurant grab a member of staff and order in a more classic way.

In my experience, they're like accountants and lawyers, eithet horrible or amazing (+never in between).

Most people think they're useless, because they've never used a great one.

The followup link is imo a much better read.

Also a mid 30s double-space person here. We exist!

Given their respective revenue, AMD's market cap does indicate they're crushing it.

Their multiplier means that the market thinks highly of their ability to continue to grow.

In Australia employees provide a form to their employer which is basically "set aside tax from my pay as though this is my only source of income" vs "tax me at a higher rate".

IIRC the wording on the form is simplified to make it seem like the question is "do you have another source of income?"

A bit of a side point but I'm a little amazed that using ssns as account ids is legal.

The approach just seems to be asking for identity theft/fraud...

I keep reading that semiconductors are on the cusp of a downturn and that the earnings multiples for eg AMD and Intel stock are too high as a result.

In contrast, there seems to be a crazy amount of investment going into fabs and improving chip processes.

These two things don't sound like they can both be true to me. Out of the two, surely the folks pitching 100B into building out their fabs have a better insight into demand than financial analysts.

Is there any way that this investment would make sense with a downturn in chip demand (/ is there some wall st malarkey going on / some other explanation that would make everyone's behavior congruent)?

All three.

Culturally, tall poppy syndrome prevents successful people from showing their success, and it is seen as a massive problem to fail. These two things alone make up a pretty chilling force.

You have few good local VCs (though maybe I'm out of the loop), a tiny stock market that doesn't "get" tech and a high cost of living/wage expectation.

At a policy level our economy's geared to property so what money there is goes there, a panel system for government which results in big overseas cos getting a huge edge and general low grade corruption/nepotism which makes the playing field less even.

Although it's kinda buggy, I found Eastshade to fit your description well. Its a bit slower than an FPS but has a solid story in a well fleshed out world and doesn't involve any violence