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Of course lots of AWS services have hidden dependencies on us-east-1. During a previous outage we needed to update a Route53(DNS) record in us-west-2, but couldn't because of the o…

"Most scholars, on this basis, assume a date of birth between 6 and 4 BC" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronology_of_Jesus

In college the course on Maxwell's equations was taught by Dr. Lord. Every time I walked in to class I thought "Let there be light"

> nobody would bother re-testing all those n-1 commits after the fix was added I do.

You should do this instead: git push —-force-with-lease repo branch

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40706164

I would occasionally manage to start a bash shell without executing my profile, which means HISTFILESIZE is not set and bash would truncate my history on the first command I ran. z…

> if a card is in the Done column, you can assume the > code is in version control, deployed to production > and checked to make sure it didn't explode on impact. I guess you've ne…

Can't speak for OP, but I've heard snails are a recurring theme in medieval manuscripts: https://justhistoryposts.com/2017/11/13/medieval-marginalia-...

Not quite the same, but you may own CA taxes on stock options if you earned them while living in CA even if you don't live there when you cash them in. https://www.upstartwealth.co…

I don’t have one myself, but every time I hear the engine restart at a stop sign I’m tempted https://www.idlestopper.com/product/idlestopper/1

Careful what you say, you’ll end up with a hundred copies of this https://www.amazon.com/Gift-Nothing-Patrick-McDonnell/dp/031...

I didn’t.

#1 is Klarna, the company that will let you finance a pizza over the next 4 months. Not sure I'd be trumpeting that as innovative.

> The people above you suck. No, actually they don't. In the time I've been there they've 10x the size of the company. Maintained majority control through multiple rounds of fundin…

I know how to multiply by 12, thanks. I asked the previous commenter if the $340,800 actually made a difference and he hasn't replied.

So you saved, $28,400 a month. Did that make a material difference to the company? I often tell people above me I could save us $10k a month at AWS and generally the response is, "…

Just found this, you can buy a share of the original Listerine Mouthwash royalties from 1881: https://auctions.royaltyexchange.com/orderbook/asset-detail/... They’re asking $2.1M a…

The fact that they don't indicates it would probably produce more net emissions than not building it.

Ideas like mining bitcoin with otherwise non-economical natural gas? Too late: https://blog.upstreamdata.ca/datacenters/