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RIP John C. Been listening to No Agenda since episode 1. Cranky Geeks and Silicon Spin before that. And the occasional appearance on Computer Chronicles long ago. I always loved yo…

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Unfortunately, the 14 layers of management are also responsible for deciding how the 14 layers will get cut. It's likely that all or most all of the middle management will survive …

Sometimes you need capacity and you have to choose where the capacity is not where you would like it to be. Unfortunately, the days of cloud bursting, and thinking of the cloud as …

The needless processes / bloat still burn electricity though. I'd have to guess that given the millions of installed macOS machines it's a non-trivial amount of wasted electricity.…

Such sad news. As a kid growing up in RI I used to love watching Computer Chronicles on our local PBS station each weekend. Stuart and Gary were the best. RIP to a legend

Great match up of technologies. Congrats to Ben and the team! I had the privilege of working with Replicate when I was at AWS, such a great team.

I was thinking the same thing. Can you imagine the headline? "Forget Hackers! Phone Company Delivers Your Private Info—Including Your Home Address—Directly to Strangers!"

That's a great point. Sometimes we look for architecture or technology solutions for a problem that could be easily solved at the sales level by negotiating a PPA (Private Pricing …

That is for S3 not AWS as a whole, AWS has never claimed otherwise. AFAIK S3 has never broken the 11 9s of durability.

Good startup idea would be to work with medical practices to use AI to automate the disputing of the "downcoding" by insurers.

For a workload of that size you would be able to negotiate private pricing with AWS or any cloud provider, not just CloudFlare. You can get a private pricing deal on S3 with as lit…

Yes, the lottery has rules and governance. It's a much safer bet. Startups can decide to devalue their employees' shares. I'd venture that the odds are at least stated on the back …

Look up "pig butchering" (seriously). That is what those texts are all about. John Oliver did a whole segment on his show about it this summer. TL;DR they are scams https://www.you…

I do the same thing at AWS, except use a 100, 200, 300, 400 level scale. I am just looking to see what the candidate thinks they are strongest on and weakest. If the candidate says…

Hadn’t rented from Hertz in many years until last week. Made sure to fill the tank back up as high as it would go just in case. Get thru security at the airport and already had a $…

This may be a dumb question, but is law enforcement investigating this? Is it even technically a crime?

After having worked in retail for 20+ yrs, both in the field and in IT, what I saw as the largest cause of shrink was always just simple accounting errors. For example, I saw all t…

No "Punch the Monkey"? https://twitter.com/meyerweb/status/1454563559577370635?lang...

I've always heard that as "scheduled uptime" or "unscheduled outages". When I worked in a mainframe shop, they used to IPL (reboot) the mainframe every Sunday morning. That down ti…

I have a similar experience here in MA. Our town owns the power company as a non-profit and we have amazing service. We never lose power unless someone crashes into a pole or somet…

I always thought there were license restrictions from Nvidia preventing the use of their consumer grade GPUs in datacenters / cloud environments. Is this not the case?

Is there any decent tool to determine areas where symmetric broadband coverage in a given area is available? From what I can see on the FCC map it just using their "broadband" defi…

I agree. Not sure why all the hate. I’ve used SpinRite to recover some bad drives of mine and friends/family over the years and it’s worked quite well. Had one Windows box that was…

In addition to the advice already commented, if you are using AWS I'd recommend checking out our recently released AWS Startup Security Baseline Prescriptive Guidance: https://docs…