AWS is the McDonald's of computer hardware. Billions ov hamburgers served, so dey must have da best hamburger cooks n da world. Decades of corporate insistence on outsourcing every shred of hardware talent has left the software industry filled with imbeciles.
Tell HN: AWS appears to be down again
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You are close. You first rub the berry on your skin (or leaf, or whatever). Wait 24 hours to see if a rash develops. Then you taste it, wait another 24 hours. Then you eat one, and see if you get sick after another 24 hours. Now you can eat several, and build up from there. Yes, that is a lot of time to go hungry and testing just one item. And then you still don't know what actually gives you nutrition vs just not ki…
Alternatively, let the animals worry about all that and then just eat the animals.
Assuming this is in the context of some apocalyptic event requiring you to do this, relying on animal husbandry seems obviously wrong. Plus you only get ~10% of the energy from the lower trophic level.
The prevalence of meat comes from a society of abundance.
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Many years ago I stood at the window of my comfortable apartment, watching wind and cold rain rage outside. I thought about my cave men ancestors who during such a storm if they needed water would have to go out and get it, getting themselves soaked. If I wanted water, the tap in the kitchen would give it to me, in a nice controlled fashion. If I did feel like having water rain down upon me, my shower would do that,…
> Then I realized that I don't know how to build the systems that I was relying on for my supposed superiority, or even how some of them work. I used to have this joke(?) with my friends: remember Mark Twain's "A Connecticut Yankee in King's Arthur Court"? The titular Yankee basically upends the (faux) medieval society he gets transported to, "inventing" all sorts of technological miracles. Well, I'm a software devel…
A light, enjoyable read along these lines is Leo Frankowski's "high tech knight" series, starting with The Cross-time Engineer. The main character -- a real engineer -- gets transported back to medieval Poland, and he knows that he's got ten years either to bug out, or help Poland defend itself from the coming Mongol invasion.
[I only liked the first four books, but that's enough to cover the original story arc]
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#294We are barbarians occupying a city built by an advanced civilization, marveling at the hot baths but know nothing about how their builders keep them running. One day, the baths will drain and anyone who remembers how to fill them up will have died.
I liked that. It might be ever weirder though for us in the new age. We'll have robots (AI) running everything and why things are happening will degrade into unknown unknowns. Engineering and critical thinking may be a lost art.
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#295We are barbarians occupying a city built by an advanced civilization, marveling at the hot baths but know nothing about how their builders keep them running. One day, the baths will drain and anyone who remembers how to fill them up will have died.
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I do contracting dev work and my specialty is being able to drill down into any part of the engineering assets, ops, sec, dev. People think someone like me is slow and expensive until they have a problem that no one else wants to touch.
Not at all diminishing what you do, but surely you have a limit past which you say "that's outside of my expertise, or what's reasonable for me to gain expertise given the scope of this issue"? For instance, I manage a team that does "full stack" development, where full stack means I regularly interact with mechanical and manufacturing, operations, electrical engineers, battery and radio people, embedded developers,…
This was meant to be in the context of hosting software services on AWS. Certainly there is a limit. If a MBP get a crack in the case, I'm not going to figure out how to machine a piece of aluminum into a new case, I'll replace the laptop.
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#297We are barbarians occupying a city built by an advanced civilization, marveling at the hot baths but know nothing about how their builders keep them running. One day, the baths will drain and anyone who remembers how to fill them up will have died.
Or worse, we will be sitting in the hot baths and the hot spring where the water comes from will get hotter and hotter and we won’t notice until suddenly a rapid change in temperature boils the water and burns us to death.
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#298We are barbarians occupying a city built by an advanced civilization, marveling at the hot baths but know nothing about how their builders keep them running. One day, the baths will drain and anyone who remembers how to fill them up will have died.
This simply isn't true. There are lots of full stack devs out here, we will rebuild from the AWShes :P
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Many years ago I stood at the window of my comfortable apartment, watching wind and cold rain rage outside. I thought about my cave men ancestors who during such a storm if they needed water would have to go out and get it, getting themselves soaked. If I wanted water, the tap in the kitchen would give it to me, in a nice controlled fashion. If I did feel like having water rain down upon me, my shower would do that,…
Not to mention that when the power goes out, the illusion fades fairly quickly. Learned that lesson myself in the Texas snowstorm early this year.
Absolutely. My wife and I lived for a year in an off-the-grid cabin in some mountains in Mexico.
We had solar panels and a generator we used only when absolutely necessary. We were never without power, but we lived with the constant anxiety of optimizing our energy consumption. Some stuff we could only do during the day and at night we only used devices with batteries.
For a couple of weeks we didn't have running water in the cabin because we were rebuilding our water deposit tower. We used buckets for everything.
That was almost a decade ago and I still feel grateful at having unlimited energy or running water on demand.
I also feel guilty at times when doing power hungry stuff like playing video games, knowing electricity production is by far the biggest driver of climate change.
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#300HOST THE GODDAMN STATUS PAGE ON AZURE FOR FUCKS SAKE. There is zero excuse for this shit. Be professional. Acknowledge reality. It is logically impossible to run your own status page. Trying to do so just wastes everyone else on the internet's time when you have an outage.
They should host their status page on IPFS instead. If you're never going to change the contents of your status page, you might as well put it into immutable storage!