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You know someone said that there will never be more than 100 requests per second in a meeting
Next meeting: "our page went down because of a hacker attack!!"
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U.S. Government Database of Dad Jokes
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Ya you can tell a govt site when it falls over from a finger flick
Nah, the US govt is actually usually pretty good these days about solid infrastructure, website designs, security practices, etc. It is unknown why this particular website (if it ever existed?) got hugged to death, but much of the Government uses AWS govcloud and similar solutions.
Seconded. At this particular point in my career “govcloud” sounds like a normal word. Our project has an overbuilt but robust cloud native architecture (even if I’m not a cloud services evangelist myself) that I think would surprise many folks in the private sector regarding its sophistication.
Don’t get me wrong, there’s still a lot of waste, inefficiency, and BS in government contracting. But some aspects of it are getting better. In our case, we were explicitly told by our “customer” to allocate more resources to scaling than we may in the private sector so that our application would not get hugged to death.
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#33You'll never guess what bill funded this site... ... the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 of course! It's in Sec 7103: Grants for Healthy Marriage Promotion and Responsible Fatherhood
Efforts to reduce single motherhood probably serve to reduce welfare expenses more than most other efforts
On those grounds, you can probably argue that any spending anywhere reduces the deficit in the long run.
EDIT: to clarify, an argument that providing dad-jokes leads to less single motherhood (which then leads to less spending) is so tenuous, that if you accept it, you can accept almost any kind of mental gymnastics.
I agree that reducing single motherhood would probably lead to less spending. It's the connection to dad-jokes that tenuous (at least without any further evidence).
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#34Distributed Dadnial of Service is happening I think.
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#35Our tax dollars hard at work on the important issues.
Joke's on you: those are not my tax dollars. Foreigners get those premium dad jokes free of charge.
(Though I wonder whether the Chinese can claim dumping with the WTO? That's what the Americans do with Chinese goods that are delivered cheaper than they would like to compete with.)
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#37These are funny, but there is something jarringly dystopian about the words "National Responsible Fatherhood Clearinghouse".
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#38I've been using this in my shell profile for a few years now: curl -H "Accept: text/plain" https://icanhazdadjoke.com/
`-m 1` might be good with that.
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Yup and you know what? That's exactly the kind of detail I don't need a government IT worker sweating over. They should just pay the premium to cloud providers and move on to more important things
I could not disagree more. Government already suffers a huge stigma of waste and overspending, no need to add to that stigma by overspending on checks notes a list of dad jokes. That's not to say I'm not glad this exists - I am! But I don't think it deserves a large budget.
Just toss the page into a pool that should be served to the public. No need to advance SOTA on a government budget to serve content.