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Re: U.S. Government Database of Dad Jokes

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Post by theendisney2 » Fri, Dec 29, 2023, 2:08 AM UTC

hamandcheese wrote: post #17

morkalork wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

You can think that but dont tell your dad.

Re: U.S. Government Database of Dad Jokes

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Post by yftsui » Fri, Dec 29, 2023, 2:12 AM UTC

hgschmie wrote: post #47

morkalork wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

% host -t a fatherhood.gov fatherhood.gov has address 15.197.252.44 fatherhood.gov has address 3.33.237.102 % host -t ptr 44.252.197.15.in-addr.arpa 44.252.197.15.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer a05e7be9b6fd75377.awsglobalaccelerator.com. % host -t ptr 102.237.33.3.in-addr.arpa 102.237.33.3.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer a05e7be9b6fd75377.awsglobalaccelerator.com. It is on AWS.

Isn't AWS Global Accelerator just the edge CDN (like Cloudflare) here? When the actual web server went down it will not able to cover it, looks like AWS Global Accelerator lacks the Cloudflare feature of showing you the last cached result.

Re: U.S. Government Database of Dad Jokes

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Post by kQq9oHeAz6wLLS » Fri, Dec 29, 2023, 2:13 AM UTC

itsthecourier wrote: post #5

i believe we need an strategic reserve of these, Biden need to step in

> Biden need to step in

I agree, slapstick is very funny

Re: U.S. Government Database of Dad Jokes

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Post by eru » Fri, Dec 29, 2023, 2:13 AM UTC

fnordpiglet wrote: post #59

eru wrote: post #35

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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.)

Realistically we borrowed me the money from you.

That's probably true. My adopted home of Singapore holds enough foreign reserves to more than back every Singapore dollar they issued. In practice, 'foreign reserves' is mostly another name for US government debt.

Re: U.S. Government Database of Dad Jokes

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Post by lawgimenez » Fri, Dec 29, 2023, 2:14 AM UTC

TaurenHunter wrote: post #23

Related: Dad Joke APIs https://www.dadjokes.io/documentation/endpoints/random-jokes https://api-ninjas.com/api/dadjokes https://icanhazdadjoke.com/api

I’m using dadjokes.io, would recommend.

Re: U.S. Government Database of Dad Jokes

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Post by edm0nd » Fri, Dec 29, 2023, 2:17 AM UTC

eek2121 wrote: post #20

beanjuiceII wrote: post #6

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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.

FedRAMP vetted sites and vendors still get hacked too tho

Re: U.S. Government Database of Dad Jokes

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Post by PepperdineG » Fri, Dec 29, 2023, 2:23 AM UTC

imperio59 wrote: post #19

Our tax dollars hard at work on the important issues.

Ernest Scribbler helped win WWII for the British with a joke that was over 60,000 times as powerful as Britain's great pre-war joke.

Re: U.S. Government Database of Dad Jokes

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Post by analog31 » Fri, Dec 29, 2023, 2:33 AM UTC

hattmall wrote: post #52

nostromo wrote: post #25

You'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

What a change, now the government penalizes marriage through the ACA. I wonder why the shift from promoting to penalizing marriage.

ACA was a bag of compromises intended to increase health care access without disrupting the insurance industry. It succeeded on both counts.

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Post by daemonologist » Fri, Dec 29, 2023, 2:34 AM UTC

gnicholas wrote: post #2

Hugged to death? https://web.archive.org/web/20230126220339/https://www.fathe...

I was curious just how much traffic a front-page HN post generates and found this excellent post: https://blog.royalsloth.eu/posts/how-much-traffic-comes-from... In their case traffic peaked just under 10000 requests per hour.

(RoyalSloth's blog survived the hug while hosted on Hetzner's smallest 1 vCPU instance.)

Re: U.S. Government Database of Dad Jokes

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Post by selimthegrim » Fri, Dec 29, 2023, 2:34 AM UTC

gabrielsroka wrote: post #3

gnicholas wrote: post #2

Hugged to death? https://web.archive.org/web/20230126220339/https://www.fathe...

I got a 504

Would that this area code was associated with responsible fatherhood.