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This is the world capitalists are building.

“Gemini Rue” and “Technobabylon” were my favorites, but they recently released a new title about time travel called “Old Skies”. It actually made me cry and email the studio direct…

The first level or two of management are completely useless and operate more as “slave drivers” than engineers.

> Yeah but they wouldn't risk disruption. Funny, they said the same thing about AWS before layoffs last year.

Because investors aren’t actually very intelligent, beyond some vague desire to “make my money bigger”.

Right after that egregious U.S.-east-1 outage?

There’s clear data that shows an increase in the frequency and severity of LSEs post RTO3 in 2023, and it looks like RTO5 has accelerated that trend.

“Little evidence?” If the “aws” partition doesn’t actually exist when IAD breaks, Amazon hasn’t even discovered how to make multi-region cloud infrastructure. That’s a big deal.

The real story from this incident is that Amazon’s “aws” partition doesn’t actually have multiple regions - effectively, it’s all IAD in a trench-coat. This is a big deal. My emplo…

It just makes me sick growing up in the USA, hearing about the beauty of “competition”, and then growing up to see that not only does it not exist… they cannot even be bothered to …

Especially when big employers all collude in the open.

And yet here you are, perpetuating the “crabs in a bucket” mentality that continues to be a blight on our industry.

Great time to be a recruiter in Seattle outside AMZN and MSFT.

Asinine opinion. If they were going to outsource, why haven’t they already? In fact, the tech industry has tried continuously to outsource and it always gets rolled back for shoddy…

Microsoft is committed to becoming as terrible as Amazon, I guess.

I’m so sick of seeing people justify why we cannot have nice things, as though it were a fact of nature.

Is brass more expensive than it used to be?

How does that boot taste?