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#2Julia Evans continues to do so many cool projects! The blog, the zines, now this, such great work! It always amazes me when one person can create so many useful things.
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#4There's another AWS outage, & presently the top comment is talking about us as barbarians that have stumbled into fancy hot baths & are amazed but have no idea how to keep them running. And a wonderful follow-up reply[1] talking about living in an apartment in a storm versus living in a cave during a storm. It presents another severe image of how much drift there has been in the world, how much more built up, but how we ourselves are not necessarily more advanced, smarter, wiser.
It's work like this (Mess with DNS). This is the stuff. Revealing, experimenting, inviting people in. Tech that illuminates & shows off, that is there to explain & help create understanding. This is the stuff, this is what keeps humanity powerful & competent & connected. Tech does a lot for us, but when it helps us become better wiser more creative people, when it reveals itself & the world: that holds a very dear place in my heart, is the light & heat in a vast cold and dark universe. I love this project. It's a capital example of revelatory technology, of enlightening technology.
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#5There's another AWS outage, & presently the top comment is talking about us as barbarians that have stumbled into fancy hot baths & are amazed but have no idea how to keep them running. And a wonderful follow-up reply[1] talking about living in an apartment in a storm versus living in a cave during a storm. It presents another severe image of how much drift there has been in the world, how much more built up, but how…
Humans individually are pretty useless. Abandon a random human in a jungle and they will likely perish soon no matter how smart and well educated they are.
The strength of humanity is teamwork, working together to build things other groups can build things upon. Abandon 100 random humans in the same jungle and they will build a town.
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#6There's another AWS outage, & presently the top comment is talking about us as barbarians that have stumbled into fancy hot baths & are amazed but have no idea how to keep them running. And a wonderful follow-up reply[1] talking about living in an apartment in a storm versus living in a cave during a storm. It presents another severe image of how much drift there has been in the world, how much more built up, but how…
Humans individually are pretty useless. Abandon a random human in a jungle and they will likely perish soon no matter how smart and well educated they are. The strength of humanity is teamwork, working together to build things other groups can build things upon. Abandon 100 random humans in the same jungle and they will build a town.
How many would actually be able to build anything if it was purely random? How many tries of 100 people batches until they've built something?
Not arguing, just questions that came into my mind.
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#7There's another AWS outage, & presently the top comment is talking about us as barbarians that have stumbled into fancy hot baths & are amazed but have no idea how to keep them running. And a wonderful follow-up reply[1] talking about living in an apartment in a storm versus living in a cave during a storm. It presents another severe image of how much drift there has been in the world, how much more built up, but how…
Humans individually are pretty useless. Abandon a random human in a jungle and they will likely perish soon no matter how smart and well educated they are. The strength of humanity is teamwork, working together to build things other groups can build things upon. Abandon 100 random humans in the same jungle and they will build a town.
>Abandon 100 random humans in the same jungle and they will build a town.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_of_the_Flies
I'm not sure -- but I do think it would be interesting how that would turn out. Australia would founded in this sort of fashion. I think there's a bit more nuance though.
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#8Julia Evans continues to do so many cool projects! The blog, the zines, now this, such great work! It always amazes me when one person can create so many useful things.
Because she loves it! She also cover her strategy here(https://jvns.ca/blog/2021/09/20/teaching-by-filling-in-knowl...)
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#9There's another AWS outage, & presently the top comment is talking about us as barbarians that have stumbled into fancy hot baths & are amazed but have no idea how to keep them running. And a wonderful follow-up reply[1] talking about living in an apartment in a storm versus living in a cave during a storm. It presents another severe image of how much drift there has been in the world, how much more built up, but how…
Julia Evans's cool stuff aside (and it is _very cool_, we need all the high quality didactic material we can get!), all this info _is_ on the net. I'm always surprised when I see engineers (like in that linked post) who don't understand how to do things like regional failovers, DNS load balancing, load balancing strategies, load shedding, circuit breaking, AZ balancing/failover, etc. These are pretty standard concepts in the world of high reliability net services, writing the code is the easiest part! I guess that says a lot about the problem domain I'm in and how different reliability guarantees tend to be in other problem domains.
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#10This looks great!