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Anecdotally and in my opinion, Azure is more complete than GCP. Between stuff like this and their product dropping stigma, most of my customers (in the cloud consulting space) are trying to get into Azure. This is across every industry we work in (retail especially). I've come across 2 customers in 3 years of consulting that want anything to do with GCP.

I think there is a lot of value in just following the k8s workflow for everything rather than a different deployment solution for every random app.

Not that I disagree with your post, I really dislike Kube and would like to see something else take its place, but there are situations where I could see using it just to use the same tools and workflows across the entire org.

I think the only thing in the parent's list that didn't catch on was WinFS, which I believe is because it never even shipped if I'm not mistaken.

Registry and Powershell are integral parts of being a Windows administrator.

I might be leading a little, but just because nix didn't choose to use these things doesn't imply they are bad. Just nix is "different".

I'm unfamiliar with BSD. Are you saying there are significantly fewer processes on BSD to be aware of when looking through ps?

I had always assumed (probably ignorantly) that BSD basically runs all of the same or similar processes to a similarly featured Linux distro.

I do this in reverse. First blaze through reading with very little comprehension, then go back thoroughly.

My reasoning is "I don't know what I don't know" on the first pass and my first goal is to understand that all of the things "exist", then how things individually work.

Should a company's employees/CEO have to be apolitical? I'd be surprised if there is such a company where none of its employees are involved in politics in any way. Especially if its a company whose sole purpose is developing software for a political party.

The Terraform example doesn't seem particularly useful to me, as something that runs Terraform would be on the CI side. I don't need to worry about dependencies locally or anywhere else because it should never ever be ran anywhere but the CI server, which we would steward over.

The AMI part of it I believe is also typically done with a "data" block to grab a new one, so I'm not sure what in particular is added there?

Dependency management for devops sounds reasonable, but to me it seems more like trying to make an NPM/Cargo/pip that is for every language instead of a particular language.

For budgeting and transaction classification, I know PNC has this. I assume (maybe wrongly) that most major banks have something similar.

Speculating for account syncing, but there is a zillion different provider integrations they would have to maintain for something like a mortgage, and such an account would change hands many times to companies with different APIs.

I would assume the majority of people (in the US, anyway) are already filtering their air enough through their central air to make any additional "room-sized" filtering negligible.

Similarly they make some very dense HVAC filters if standard ones aren't catching the level of particles you need, so I'm not sure what the purpose of these filter-fan things are for most people.

Being that there are levels to autonomy the engineers still serve a purpose.

I'd prefer an executive to be level-headed than spouting dreams that will never come true and expecting engineers to just make it happen.

If anything I respect him as a leader more than "visionary" executives.

For AWS, I was bombarded with recruiters (and still am as its listed) after receiving the associates level certification.

I believe I was hired at the time solely to meet partner level certification quotas of my current company as they definitely didn't need more headcount and there wasn't much to do at the time.

The whole thing really grinds my gears though and I wish it wasn't a necessary evil for me to pursue more of them. I think services such as acloudguru and the like devalued them from a technical perspective, but Amazon puts their finger on the scale with partner requirements keeping them relevant.

I'm not sure why they haven't tried the business communications angle with an alternate branded Slack competitor.

As a remote worker on an almost entirely remote team, we would benefit from a sort of voice channel huddle on-demand or even just watercooler chatting. There is something more casual about jumping into a premade voice channel where people may already be chatting than starting a Webex or initiating a Slack call that could introduce more "togetherness".

Something with this functionality was on my list when we were evaluating SaaS for our team and I really wanted something similar to Discord.

Of course no one would go for it as its branded, but having a forked version that doesn't bear any resemblance should be doable with minimum work.

The same could be said for robots displacing humans in factories or trucks or anywhere else. That doesn't make it less sad for people's whose livelihoods depend on those positions just because its technological progress.

Unless I'm missing something your assuming multiple (3 minimum access points, having worked on a similar project our accuracy required more to make up for inconsistencies and multi-level facilities) at home (where I get away with just a single one) and that they have been calibrated to know where they are in relation to each other.

The simpler solution is to just remotely set off an alarm. I do this frequently with the "Where is my Android" thing. Internet-enabled devices should include this capability by default, anything more is just over-engineered.

I was particularly disappointed with re:Invent for this reason. Everything I attended could be found in blogs that had been published for years and very few "higher level" sessions that were still very trivial. Most of those weren't even discussions, just follow a lab sheet that you won't have time to finish or doesn't work at the time. I'm not sure if it was always this way, but the only people who seem to benefit at all are those in sales-oriented position. It is basically only good for meeting people and you may as well just skip all of the actual content to pursue that.

It was the first real conference I've attended (luckily not at my expense) and will likely be my last.

I think the battle over the definition of DevOps has been lost. It has assumed a new meaning based on its usage.

A local Amazon delivery driver was just found to have been taking the photos then swiping the package. The only reason he was caught was someones Ring doorbell. If anything the package photos are to help Amazon refute claims.

I don't know the pay structure for Amazon drivers, but I would not be surprised that we are giving up "trustworthy" drivers for the cheapest option Amazon can provide at scale. I've heard working at UPS as a driver is a great job long-term for some people perhaps leading to more integrity, but I'm just speculating. Maybe I'm wrong but I trust UPS or FedEx with my packages more than Amazon or their flex drivers.

If we want to equate them then we should aspire to write code that is meaningless while we are alive, while living our entire lives poorly or being completely ostracized in society?

I'm not sure the startup angle jives with the artist's.

Is using some other encryption for client interactions common vs just using TLS? I don't think I've seen anyone ever recommend any of these things.

"You can't simply send a single Javascript file over SSL/TLS. You have to send all the page content over SSL/TLS."

Is this a common problem in some way? It doesn't seem like a big deal unless you are trying to shave a few bytes off of your traffic.

What is the new job? Managing all the things that now manage all the things you managed before?

This is actually pretty interesting, but still seems like more ceremony than cabs anywhere that is similar to Vegas in that they have designated pickup areas (I don't know where else this may apply).

One of my drivers told me there was some regulation coming down that would allow the cabs to be more competitive price wise with Uber (I think I paid maybe 10-20% more than the Uber on average I think). If that was the case I'm not sure what benefit fiddling with my phone would offer at all.

I guess the one good thing is it potentially keeps cab prices low there.

I had just started using the local Coach airport shuttle because it was so convenient and have begun to travel more. It announced it was shutting down a week or so ago for the same reasons.

Ridesharing will cost me double each way or risk leaving my car at the airport. I'm beginning to dislike Lyft and Uber.

When I was in Vegas it wasn't even worth using them. The lined up procession of cabs is more convenient than trying to find the one car you're supposed to get into, not to mention the same at every airport where ride sharing is just an inefficient mess of slow ubers and riders making rounds in a packed parking garage.

That may be true, but mine were half the price of a similar sized speaker and has good enough quality for my kitchen, plus all of the other things I use it for.

For simple ambient noise it does just fine. If I want better I have a Klipsch home theater system.

But I don't generally listen to a ton of music regardless so its not the primary reason I purchased either of them. If thats the reason someone picked up a smart speaker, then sure, they aren't getting the best for their dollar.

The same could be said for everything. "Those lazy dumbasses can't be bothered to order a pizza over the phone?", "those lazy dumbasses can't hail a cab themselves?". No need to insult people for making something easier for themselves. It might be turning off the lights for some, but mine saves me a trip down to and through my basement to open my garage door, which is more convenience than 99% of the crap SV is pushing out.

I've never used mine for purchasing and I use it an absolute ton. Mostly for cooking and converting units so I dont have to put my fish-covered hands on my phone to calculate things. If doing things in the kitchen was the only thing I used it for it would still have been worth the investment.

It doesn't have to be like Kanye's album at that point in time to be a paradigm shift, though. If 1 artist didn't get big or some genre blow up then it would have just been filled by an infinite amount of others that we never heard. Even considering a single artist hitting it big there are how many that are never heard of? An AI could produce an equal number of artists and only has to win once every month/year/etc. I think this is similar to the million monkeys at a typewriter thing.

A pattern implies that it can "infer" something in the future.

If we oversimplify and compile a list of traits about "the world" as it was in the past that allowed a new genre or artist to flourish, AI could predict that in the future. It isn't like the paradigm shifts just happen in a vacuum.

Granted there are probably millions of little things that lead to this, stuff like the shared experiences of an entire generation coming of age, political climate, trends in other industries, etc. Not that I believe it will ever happen to an accurate enough degree, but theoretically I don't see why it could not be possible to approximate given time and resources.

By that description, anyone working for Google, Amazon, Microsoft are inherently immoral. If you are willing to cast a large net for your own grievances then you should demonize the rest, as those companies do things that you might not find particularly important but others find "immoral".

Using amoral implies there is at least a consensus on what is moral and they are acting opposite to it. This is an entire conversation on what is even moral to begin with. It is smearing someone by associating your "morality" to a particularly grey area.