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Probably hosted on Azure :p

I’ve played piano for the last 20 years, starting off initially with a teacher and going through the usual sheet music pieces. I used to think as you do for the longest time - “The…

“Hundreds” = 225 in an organization of around 100k employees. smh

I have a similar day job, and would love to start consulting on the side. Legal and worries that it could be seen as “conflict of interest” prevent me from starting however. How do…

I would compare population numbers and percentages. India has 1B people. Uk is less than 10% of that.

I believe this is exactly what slot reservations in BigQuery achieve. Instead of paying on-demand pricing that is determined by data read, you purchase a fixed number of “slots” th…

That twitter handle is far from an unbiased source. Again, my question here is - Who decides that the reason someone has chosen for their conversion is “wrong”, for what is essenti…

The slow judicial system is the biggest weapon that the government and other large entities with money have. Not everyone can afford to put their lives on hold for 3 years while a …

Re. conversion - nilsocket, do you believe that every individual has agency in choosing their religion? Or do you believe that these choices should be made for them by “those that …

And this statement here (one I’ve heard before from others as well) demonstrates one of our biggest problems (speaking as someone who grew up in India) - and makes my blood boil. W…

GSuite is not just gmail - it also includes docs, sheets, slides, meet etc.

I can see how Secure boot solves real security problems. And I am definitely not blaming Ubuntu here. However, it’s unfortunate that the Secure Boot technology (or maybe this is a …

I see arguments (like one of replies to your comment here), that you can turn off Secureboot - so simple, much wow. Not all firmware allow you to turn off secureboot or enroll your…

Of course you can. Does your website get the kind of traffic google does?

This looks very similar to products like Apache Nifi, Apache CDAP and Google Data Fusion. When would I pick prophecy.io over the others?

Where can I get good quality forex data from?

My point is that stating “out of model risks is what kills you” is a tautology. For systems where known risks are modelled, it’s highly likely that any “fatality” or equivalent eve…

> For example, in AWS, a webapp with a single Region approach using multiple AZs will give you higher availablility, but similar costs to a single AZ approach. Whether your costs a…

This is a tautology, because if the risk was successfully modelled, it would not be able to kill you.

Lack of strong family ties. People blame lack of public facilities and health care, but at the root of it all, it’s the missing safety net that family provides. This is the number …

Interestingly, I think we saw (seeing?) a version of the same playbook being used at AWS - see the debacle around the AWS managed Elasticsearch service.

> Dropping their original paying customers When a Cloud company acquired a product/service for integration into their platform, I would hope that that includes transitioning to a C…

Two intellectually low quality points that get made for almost every google related news item - 1. “When will Google deprecate this feature/product/service?” 2. “None of Google’s a…

> children’s comedy novelist Do you also consider HHGTTG to be a toddler’s bedtime story? - A butthurt Discworld fan in his mid 30s.