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So you can answer questions like:

"Hey, remember when we went to $ski_resort last spring? What week was that in, the conditions were great!"

"Hey, did you request vacation time for next week half a year ago? $employer says he doesn't remember you asking that.."

"Hey, since grandma passed away we need to contact her brokerage.. she told you what it was when she signed up a few years ago, right?"

"Hey, you remember the date of our first date, right?"

Being able to search my old text messages is just as, if not more, important than being able to search my old emails.
I'm saying that people who blame recent migrants for decades of urban planning policy are possessed of the rare and wonderful opportunity to reassess how they apportion blame.
Arecibo's S-Band radar was extensively used in the tracking of near-Earth asteroids, which was termed "planetary defense" by NASA. It was nearly 20x more sensitive than any other telescope capable of radar tracking.

https://www.space.com/arecibo-observatory-loss-for-planetary...
My lambdas run indefinitely. It's a bit silly, but basically every lambda spins up a bunch of threads, pulls messages, and then pushes them into internal buffers to be processed. There are reasons for this.

What I care about is:
* Scale to 0, and automatic scaling up without configuring it

* Automatic patching of the OS

* Fault isolation

Lambda gives me that. So each one runs for 15 minutes, processing all data in an SQS queue.

I do wonder if Fargate would be cheaper per millisecond? Dunno.
Naming good documentation and high quality support in conjunction with AWS is a bit weird to me. Though parent was talking about using their scale to improve prices. They might just reduce their margins at the moment.
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It was a bubble last time, and it’s a bubble this time. BTC or any other crypto currency for that matter is nowhere near passing the grandma test, and until it does it will be nothing but speculative novelty equity for the already baptized and a decent alternative for darknet drug dealers.

Ironically, the ridiculous volatility fueled by baseless speculation from people who have no idea what they’re doing is one of the main reasons why crypto currency is not being adopted, because no merchant with any serious stake takes a currency seriously that can change by tens of percent in any direction between it entering and leaving your account.

Personally I thought crypto currency was an interesting idea when I first heard of it, but now I’m completely fatigued. The eternal September has come and gone and the credibility of the whole endeavour is a guilt-by-association dumpster fire.
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On demand printing has also been horrible for textbooks/monographs, Springer being one of the worst. Very few copies are printed, but they serve as an important means of preserving this knowledge, and books that do not survive a single reading do not instill confidence in the longevity of cheap print on demand. They aren't any less expensive now either. I also buy most books used, often to avoid these terrible newer printings.
Why are great athletes more likely to be younger siblings?
And it costs even more if you need that Lambda function to have access to the internet.

A possibly useful comparison:

A Raspberry Pi 3 (~6.5 watts) costs $6.83 per year to run full-time (at 12 cents per kWh). You get a full computer with much more I/O.

However, there are a lot of other factors to consider:

- Initial cost of the hardware

- Time and energy spent maintaining/configuring the device

- Physical maintenance of the device - power/network/physical management/etc

- Lack of immediate access to I/O ramp-up and global replication

- Lack of direct integration into other AWS services/etc

AWS Lambda isn't a magic bullet, but it offers a lot of convenience to offset time and money spent on a DIY approach. I run a small static site/service that never breaks Lambda's free tier, but most of the cost goes to hosting a NAT gateway for it to have access to the internet. The benefit of hassle free, global access to the service I built and the underling services it runs on (Lambda/AWS in general) makes it worth the cost. I could setup the same service at home on a Raspi for pennies by comparison, but if my home internet goes down while I'm away, or a dog chews on an ethernet cable, it's a headache that I have to deal with personally - or I have to do remote tech-support to whoever is home: "Okay, you should see a Raspbery Pi. No...it's not a food. It's a computer. Whatever... I know it's a strange name. Anyway, is the cable plugged in? Do you see a blinking light?"

I find it similar to being able to use a rental car while visiting a foreign city vs just driving yours across the country to save some money. You might save some money, but it comes with extra time, maintenance, potential roadblocks (literally and figuratively), breakdowns that you will have to deal with personally, etc. It's really up to personal preference.
Does person need to take a Covid vaccine if already has antibodies?
If person already has antibodies is there any point taking vaccine, and is it waste of resources?
You don't need to build from a Lambda specific base image - you can use (nearly) any base image you choose. Your application just needs to implement the Lambda runtime API, which we provide clients for in multiple languages.
Lambda has a 15 minute limit, I'm not sure exactly how it compares to ec2 but for a low duty cycle application it still makes sense! It is also pretty easy to combine a lambda to SNS or SQS
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I've been chugging along at a few small but exciting startups in NYC. Fortunately, my current post has weathered most of the covid storm and is still picking up momentum. I've been working hard, just now reaching around 4 years of experience.

I'm curious where I should be looking for higher compensation if I'm not quite ready to start my own startup. Would it be better to look for opportunities at growth stage startups? Transition into a sales role? I'm not interested in FAANG as I worked at Amazon early in my career and found the culture / work stress to be a poor fit. That said, startup stress, working weekends etc does not bother me.

Mostly, I feel woefully clueless as to where I can look for higher paying jobs that I can actually acquire. Eventually I'd like to run my own startup, but that will likely be in Austin or Boston where taxes are more reasonable.
Yes, but the mechanism is not strong enough to stay put on US economy planes
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I have an app I need to compile on a Mac that I only make changes to maybe once a quarter, or four days a year. That's an ideal use case for on-demand AWS Macs, and I'll probably transition to that if the Mac Mini in the corner ever decides not to boot or not to accept a mandatory OS update when I have to use it someday.

Also, I'm more likely to transition to this because I'm familiar with AWS, I didn't know MacStadium existed before this thread.

If that's their target market (and not someone who wants a scalable Mac build farm available 24/7 and doesn't care about costs), then it makes sense - I pay a lot less than the price of a Mini to rent it 4 days a year, if Amazon can find 90 other people who want to do the same, all of us are better off.
Great question! Right now it's open ended to allow participants to leave whenever they want (not overly high tech!)

We've got loads of plans for how we can improve this over time though, using NLP & word-embedding to provide a broad participation across all the core themes and powering the order of opinoins by decision-trees, k-means clustering and matrix factoristation so that we're showing the right opinions to the right people to get a predictable view of the entire population of users.
Ironically the top tweet in the More Tweets section for me was "Being good at things is not the point of doing them." https://twitter.com/jodotcom/status/1333728719643570176
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One of my apps has a dll based plugin system, uses OCX. Requires elevation to install dll files.
> Well, every time there is a bug fix in one of your dependencies you/your distribution would have to recompile everything that depends on it. Which will use quite some resources.

This is far for more clear cut. Often some dependency bugs, might not impact my program. Even worse, sometimes by fixing a bug my program does not care about, a dependency might break my program in some subtle way. The author of the program is the best qualified person to make the upgrade/not upgrade decision.
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What's good about modern Windows, after it activated it binds to hardware. So you need to run it once connected to the Internet, ensure that it's activated. Then download Windows ISO from microsoft.com and reinstall it. It'll just work.

Another good thing about modern Windows is that it downloads all the necessary drivers after the first boot and Internet connection. Gamers might want to install latest GPU drivers, but that's not necessary for most people. And those drivers usually do not come with bloatware.

At least that was my experience with few computers. Reinstalling takes 3-5 minutes and downloading drivers takes 5-10 minutes depending on hardware and connection speed. Definitely faster than couple of hours.

The only thing that needed to be uninstalled is ads from Microsoft, but that's another 5 minutes: just navigate Settings/Apps and uninstall those unwanted games. They do not reappear in my experience.
This is awesome! Last I looked into it AWS' SAM tooling for running locally actually worked by using third-party docker images that were somehow built by ripping the file system from Lambda, and hooking your code up as a volume (and optionally adding layers as volumes) and then pointing `aws lambda invoke` commands at it. It was all built on https://hub.docker.com/r/lambci/lambda/

Having official base images, being able to think about lambdas as just a docker container in terms of tooling, and losing all the complexity associated with Lambda's custom code deployment logic will be a massive win.
Hi Chris;

One thing I'd like to see is buildpacks for that final function contract. It's been done before for other cloud-y respond-y things (we did it on Project riff, Google have done it for Cloud Run), so I am aware it's possible. The nice part is that you won't need to build all the buildpacks yourself -- just the small set that adds your specialisations.

Feel free to email me.
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Undergrad has been a joke for decades. Try learning differential equations as a 19 year old from a TA that can't speak intelligible English. At least nowadays you can watch an actually informative video on your headphones while you nod along in class.
Wait - this article appears to compare hardware costs of self-hosting against the total cost of using AWS. It's missing the most expensive component (labour) which just so happens to be extremely expensive to scale.
What happened when we A/B tested our Black Friday promotion
Sure - and looks like runtime API isn't terrible, but still not a "lift and shift my express app as a Lambda" which I can do with Cloud Run
The next most powerful radar telescope is Goldstone's telescopes (also part of the Deep Space Network). It's unfortunately about 20x less sensitive, and is at a different frequency. This means it's less suited for finding and tracking relatively unknown asteroids, something Arecibo was uniquely qualified for.

https://www.space.com/arecibo-observatory-loss-for-planetary...
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> Microsoft didn't lose anything.

Quite a few observers, including people internal to Microsoft, felt it cost the company significant momentum at the time, and confidence after.

Before the court case, Microsoft was a brutal competitor (remember the Simpsons episode?). Not so much after.
I just recently switched from a startup offering authorization to AWS Cognito because the startup kept raising their price(s).

Maybe because they know Cognito is horrible? ;)

OTOH, I have never seen DynamoDB prices decreasing.
"But I think maybe the original poster just meant lots of bad mail in the mailbox to mean mail that would take a long time to process, because of how the receiving process will handle it."

Yeah; just, if he meant that, it seems like a...weird call out. Since that's not particular to Erlang's messaging model; that's true in any system where you have a synchronization point that is being hit faster than it can execute. Seems weird to call that out as a notable problem, as such.

What's unique to Erlang, and -could- be prevented (by limiting a process to a single receive block, and having a type system prevent sending any messages not in that receive block), if you wanted to change the model, is the fact I can send arbitrary messages to a process, that will never match on them, and because it's a queue, will cause it to delay all following messages from being handled. Hence my focusing on that; yes, that's a potential problem, no, it's not a particularly likely one.
when you reason about it in a systems way, not having a default of "reboot" would be problematic from a security PoV.

It's very SV-bubble to assume that Microsoft's security needs are more important than him getting his work done.

As he stated, he missed a critical deadline. What if the client cancelled the contract because of that, causing him to go out of business? How does trying to sympathize with Microsoft feed his family?

No, the tech bubble is not more important than things that happen in the real world. Windows has security problems? Sure, all operating systems do. But Microsoft shouldn't shift its problems onto the users. That's just bad business, and bad ethics.
I'm not dismissing the benefit of face-to-face. But there's some % of material in college that you learn by reading the textbook, and using the computer -- especially in tech disciplines. These aspects of learning feel like they would be pandemic-proof. For the self-motivated, I can see where they don't miss a beat under the changed environment. And that's also why with higher-ed, the bang-to-buck ratio isn't always high. And YouTube just works.
Interesting. Now where's the Oracle-to-Postgres Translation project? ;-)
C++ apps tax the Pinephone hardware. It's just not very fast vs user expectations today. More generally you can't just recompile desktop Linux apps on mobile and expect much in terms of responsiveness/battery life. While I'm with you re: not wanting to be stuck in a proprietary ecosystem, it does have one advantage: you must specifically target the platform in order to do much useful on it which typically includes platform-specific optimizations so it performs well.

It's an interesting conundrum: right now I can probably get 90% of Linux GUI software running on my Pinephone. The problem is, it's so slow and painful to use that I don't want to. I'd much rather see the critical 5% of the software (browsers etc) optimized for mobile. I think we'll get there in time, but it's still early days.
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I highly recommend zfs with beinstall (/usr/src/tools/build/beinstall.sh ). It automatically creates a new ZFS bootenv, installs world & kernel to it, and upgrades your packages. If there is an issue, you can select the old bootenv from the boot loader prompt and be back in your old, pre-updated OS with nothing at all changed.
On your last point, I have been using Chocolatey[0] for several years now and it does a pretty good job for stuff that isn't on the Windows Store or Steam.

[0] https://chocolatey.org/
> The numbers are that of the $300-350 million/year SF budget for homeless, 60% goes to permanent rent subsidies (low-income long-term residents.)

Any idea how much effort goes into converting these individuals to productive members? Ie, getting jobs/education/etc to then exit this system?
> I can't see a good reason for using a Unix for a desktop system

People needs and preferences vary. I can’t see a good reason to expect the contrary :)
You may have seen this already, but here's some more direct photos of the collapsed pieces. https://twitter.com/NotiJuan/status/1333803305831604225
What I have observed (in my case) is that if
1. I am too tired, it actually takes longer to fall asleep.
2. If I have watched some heavy / thought provoking movie / series etc., those thoughts keep playing out in my head and then it takes longer to fall asleep.

In such cases, I have devised a strategy. I have developed a fantasy of my own which I keep playing out in my head consciously. I am fast asleep before I know it.
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Are you annoyed enough at iTunes popping up every time the in-line button on your headset is clicked to actually want to do something about it?
Me too. (Finally.)
In the "works for me"™ category, from a terminal window:
sudo chmod a-x /System/Library/CoreServices/rcd.app/Contents/MacOS/rcd
(When the sudo command asks you for a password, use the normal password for your logged-in acct.)
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Isn't this just CloudFormation?
> mostly because using it requires using gimped APIs

Yes, that's the "other crap" I was referring to [edit: specifically "special permissions lost for doing so". I was a little vague because I knew there were some additional restrictions for using the Windows store but wasn't sure what they were.]
Some of us like working with hardware
So these are for people who want to do quick compatibility testing? For that use case, how does it not make more sense to go with MacStadium? If you end up needing to test for two days instead of one, you're already in the pricing territory where you could have gotten a full month of usage from MacStadium.
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I don’t think you need all that for the important stuff.
One question - why didn't Bitcoin drop to zero? I know, VHS survive and Betamax didn't, but unlike Betamax, Ethereum is pretty popular for everything, not just for low-class commodity speculation.
"it’s more likely because of racial bias than the well-documented fact that they tip less, according to a new survey I recently published."

There's a bias because of the vast majority of people in the service industry that receive less tips from Black customers.

It may not be right, but this is why it happens. I know tons of people in the restaurant industry and it's not just a stereotype.

There should be a discussion here on why tipping your server is important, but instead, we blame the server..and the situation is never resolved. It's typical thinking of our times: it's always someone else's fault.

"Because surveys show that Black customers are less familiar than white people with the 15%-20% tipping norm, they do tend to tip less"

Regardless of the reason, this article even provides some evidence that it's true.

"Servers are thus thought to be economically motivated to give preferential service to white customers who they believe are more likely to reward their efforts."

Servers rely on tips to earn a living. If the vast majority of the time they receive no tips/really low tips from a specific group of people, it's only natural that they put less effort into serving that group of customers.
> C++ doesn't have the prevention

Obviously. But that was not the topic.

A discipline of single-writer is as easily composed in C++, and, encapsulated in a library, as easily maintained. Nothing about Rust makes this unavailable in C++. The library itself, then, becomes responsible for maintaining the discipline, not the compiler. But once encoded there, it is done.

Rust's compiler provides safety advantages, but there is no need to exaggerate them. (Exaggeration is a liability to your language community.)
> These insanely expensive defense projects are wealth transfer programs that make contractors like Lockheed and their many sub-contractors rich, and also create jobs in these communities.

I wish we'd go back to calling the "Defense Department" the "War Department" as it was originally called. And stop calling it "expensive defense projects" but "expensive war projects". Call it for what it really isn't. We aren't defending ourselves from anyone. We are the one's attacking everyone.
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