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AWS support (even Enterprise support) was always hit and miss. At least with Enterprise support you can yell at your TAM, which sometimes is less effective than you would think, co…

Interesting yes, but surely not "Disastrous", all the men from the Endurance survived. Now, Scott's expedition was a disaster.

This is silly though. For an IT company, what should the #2 cost be? Legal? It is an IT company....

The "old" british standard is even cooler: https://www.plugsocketmuseum.nl/OldBritish1.html

As a South African (living abroad for many years, but still with the bulk of my extended family there), this seems overly alarmist. If you review https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sout…

As long as the amounts are small, and from a variety of cards, no normal (real) card processor is going to notice/care. Cannot speak for Stripe.

More recent analog: https://simpleflying.com/tupolev-tu-22-booze-carrier-why/

84 hours/week is for amateurs. Call back when you hit 100 per week consistently.

I have used one of the original 4k TVs-as-a-monitor ( https://www.avsforum.com/threads/review-of-the-seiki-39-4k-d... ) as my central monitor (plus one on each side) for 10+ years …

All of them?

What do you mean? Prices are going up. Costs have been falling since AWS was introduced faster than they have reduced prices. I am willing to bet that their gross margin is higher …

Interesting question. Here is my take (I have both a consulting and infra/data background): * Yes, many companies need the help. * However, they typically (not necessarily unfairly…

A Mac plus docker would have been fine a few years ago, but now with Mac arm64, things are getting complicated again. Stick with a decent Intel laptop + linux for now, unless you r…

Let's be honest: if no-one (higher up) went to jail after 2008, it is not likely to happen this time.

"Tim Cook... hasn't had layoffs". Yet...

See the original at: https://archive.org/details/Esquire-Magazine-1983-12/page/n1...

There are recruiting companies that have been using AI bots for (at least) 3 years. I am not going to name names, but I have used one as a hiring manager in the past to fill openin…

Close, I think. Context: I looked into uptime monitors quite deeply about 10 years ago when I thought about doing a SaaS. Implementing a good uptime monitoring system is actually m…

As someone who has been in both tech IC (individual contributor) and higher management levels, this is often a relatively simple result of impedance mismatch (excluding bad faith i…

I think this is the wrong way to think about it. For the type of organizations that run workloads on IBM mainframes, there are three drivers: * Legacy: The application was written …

Shaka, when the walls fell.

You need to qualify massive scale, it can be on multiple dimensions: * "Large" data (these days, 10s of TB of data, maybe with multi-TB individual tables, billions of rows in the l…

Not always, and not if they are competently planned and executed. I will grant you that, in the current climate, that they are probably not competently planned nor executed.

https://layoffs.fyi/ is the more up-to-date spot for this info. It's a shame fuckedcompany.com is not around anymore. We miss you, Pud.

To be fair in the comparison; you can also query (via curl) icanhazip.com via HTTP instead of HTTPS, and it is only 5 packets and 385 bytes.