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A couple of things: * It's mostly hobbyists running their instances, some literally in their basement. * Most scaling glitches have usually been addressed within a few days. The co…

The UK royal family has pretty wide control over what can and cannot be said about them in the media. There is for instance, many stories about royal improprieties that have been c…

It’d be great if some sort of self-professed free-speech absolutist could just take over Twitter moderation.. Oh, wait.

Ok, the browser I buy and agree. But outside web-browsers, I'm not sure it is anything anyone wants - like you imply, in China it's probably handy, because it is a reliable route i…

"Everyone else has it (China)" doesn't make me want one.

Not sure he lied. I think he fooled himself into thinking that moderating a social media platform can be done on a rose-tinted ideological basis. Then reality hit, and the fact is,…

Forgive me for being stupid, but why would any consumer want an "everything app"? It's not exactly a compelling need I've ever heard anyone express. Yes, multiple things can be com…

Not sure it’s long term the most valuable thing I built, but definitely short-term most profitable: Built an airline pricing system as the sole developer in 3 months in the early 2…

I'm wondering if this erratic behaviour is Musk having some sort of breakdown over how things are unravelling? * Currently that revenue is cratering and things are not going well. …

Honestly, I think any "smart money" managers who invested in this should be ashamed. It's absolutely an indictment of their intelligence. The basics of due diligence is: * How is t…

I know someone personally who won the lottery twice. The exceptionally and undeservingly lucky exist.

I moved to Mastodon. 1 day later I have a pretty nice feed and good amount of followers. Many of them old familiar now Twitter-refugees.

Why yes. The point is AWS is charging people through the nose for bandwidth. Switch the bandwidth past Cloudfront, and you still pay bandwidth costs that no one else charges. It's …

AWS, GCP et al have already commoditized DB management. These are pretty well-defined steps, there are no good reason why they should require you to pay someone $200k specifically …

Depends: If you work remotely, using VS Code Liveshare or IntelliJ CodeTogether (depending on tooling) works a charm. In office environments, I once worked in a place where each wo…

Firstly, you got your _first_ swe job in August. Companies that hire juniors for first jobs shouldn't expect to have fully formed contributors from the gate. It's probably a year o…

Autoscaling groups solve the problem of ensuring you have the desired number of server nodes running. They do not in anyway solve optimal placement of jobs. It only works “optimall…