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Data has "gravity" -- as in, it holds you down to where your data is, and you have to spend money to move it just like you have to spend money to escape gravity.

This isn't a loophole. This is by design. AWS wants you to use specific services in specific ways, so they make it really cheap to do so. Using an endpoint for S3 is one of the way…

In my teens, I had so much ability to process all kinds of stuff that I would pay attention to too much and get too distracted, and as a result, I would turn up music loud enough t…

Magnets. How do they work?!

We believe that babies' lives should have rights after birth, too, and if you look at infant mortality rates in states that whose politicians are against abortion, you see that obv…

I’m apparently still known for my snark during a reply-all storm at TAMU on an internal mailing list, 15 years ago.

There's a lot of other things I'm going to die from before I die from artificial sweeteners.

> Meanwhile, HVAC guys near me charge $700 to run a thermostat wire 5 feet. Yes, in many areas that’s what it costs for a worker and helper to not be able to work on another more p…

Turns out some of those things that got broken outside of the company were important and people cared about them. Funny how things that work great in software development don’t wor…

Good. Needs to happen. Was talking to our HVAC repair dude. He makes as much as I do with a high school education and two years of trade school. Adjusting for age, he definitely ma…

A bunch of Google’s lack of focus is their internal management culture and nothing will change (and google/alphabet will not be worth being a customer of or being investing in) unt…

Also seems to have gotten a crew list from the CommutAir’s CASS or possibly from other airlines as part of the shared deadheading crew list, which includes crew addresses and emplo…

> calling a staffing emergency saying all hell is about to break loose That memo is specifically about ground operations at DEN, and specifically because of the arctic weather cond…

Funny, I’m not a police officer either, and I’ve somehow managed to go my entire life without being in ANY situation where a gun was pulled. Maybe you should re-evaluate your perso…

More delivery drivers are murdered every year than police officers, but you don’t see people rolling around with “thin bread line” bumper stickers.

They don’t. Employees are responsible for checking the math of the scheduler. in the case of pilots, the employee has liability in this situation as well as the airline. Especially…

I liked DSP but it was a bit lacking in complexity once you got past the point of dedicating entire planets to pumping out, say, sphere structure. There's only so large you can bui…

Lots of good advice already, but if I can make another one -- find a different type of company to work for/with. Not all companies are, can be, or need to be the go hard get big ge…

It's scary enough in a 400hp/3600lbs RWD car. Even with traction control enabled, the car likes shaking it's ass any time you tap the gas and turning the wheel on anything remotely…

It also glosses over that arctic land isn’t usable for agriculture. There’s nowhere near enough fertile soil in former permafrost. The areas that did have fertile soil are now dese…

What’s funny is how much property values and rent have risen in the US in 2020 to 2022, when population growth has been flat due to Covid. (Population has increased 1 million in th…

Imagine trying to pay for fuel with a cargo hold full of Rubles.

Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai had already almost disappeared before the eruption. A picture taken two hours before the widely publicized explosive detonation showed that the 2015 erupt…

Considering that the link is an anti-vaxxer, probably bias.

People aren't as densely packed in most parts of Texas, so it might be explainable that way. A lot of the state is also hay fields instead of food crops that are more intensively c…