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Nice this is going to be a fun project to watch for 2 weeks before everyone forgets about it!

Current month $13,648,114,178,401.01 188,253,226,212% Forecasted month end $18,729,381,032,152.4 Apparently my company owes the combined GDP of France, Germany, and UK to AWs.

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Wild to me that this is on the Snowflake blog. I understand why, but...what a sign of the times.

Okay fair point

Got it, so every country should focus on having a mediocre-at-best AI strategy by refusing to work together? Surely this will create a better future instead of pooling resources. T…

God the name was very triggering as someone who worked in the valley 2011-2018 time frame…

When you're successful and rich (enough, at least), this is a nice whimsical thing to say. When you're suffering in the trenches, this isn't very helpful.

I have a really hard time telling if this is despite the current administration’s best efforts, because the current administration’s policies, or just an artifact of government ine…

I've actually been experimenting with using Ghidra and Opus to create human-consumable, reverse-engineered software. My ultimate dream would be a buildable EverQuest client. Opus d…

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Except when "gambling adicts" end up as a cover for money laundering and funneling cash to people to buy influence.

Cue outrage from the conservative administration for checks notes quality journalism.

> political violence being much more common historically than racial or other forms of violence This is true if you take a very loose definition of "political violence" lol and pro…

us-east-1 is actually dozens of physical buildings distributed over a massive area. It's not like a single data center somewhere...

Thanks...probably an issue with Framer during the outage.

Hetzner users are like the Linux users for cloud.

Yeah I think there are a number of "hidden" dependencies on different regions, especially us-east-1. It's an artifact of it being AWS' largest region, etc.

Seems the underlying issue is with DynamoDB, according to the status page, which will have a big blast radius in other services. AWS' services form a really complicated graph and t…

us-east-1 was, probably still is, AWS' most massive deployment. Huge percentage of traffic goes through that region. Also, lots of services backhaul to that region, especially S3 a…

Configuration is a spectrum and this is close to JSON.

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