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If you can do $250/month with all ops costs and features of lambda for 5,000 or 10,000 requests per second - you would be silly not to offer a service.

There are plenty of us who can run a system that scales to 10krps. That's relatively easy? I personally can't stand lambda and don't use it FWIW. I like EC2, I actually like fargate a lot of all sorts of things including lambda like services without a separate lambda for each request.

But for folks with a payload, that want the lambda like experience - if you have a solution, all ops cost included (ie, no well paid developer or ops person needed for customer) for $250/month for the scale we are talking here (2,500 x 250MB = 625GB etc) then you have an amazing solution going especially if you can do the networking, IAM controls etc that aws provides.

The problem I've seen, when folks say amazon is "insanely expensive" they are usually not actually comparing the AWS offering to a similar offering. If your cheap solution is not lambda like, you need to compare to EC2 or similar (with perhaps a good programmer doing something a bit more monolithic than aws).
No, they wouldn't. Sound travels at the speed of sound. That speed is the same regardless of the frequency (although it varies by temperature and air pressure). Supersonic things travel faster than sounds.

You could get around this by, say, making the air itself move directly towards the person nearly as quickly as the meteor, but that is probably safe to exclude as a possibility.
>There's a decade of evidence now that DNNs are incontestable discriminators in numerous domains, relative to pre-2012 ML technology anyway.

Do we know that this is due to inherent superiority of DNNs, vs just experiencing a virtuous cycle of success leading to increasing investment leading to more success?
They're pretty close. If you're a descriptivist, then they're both interchangeable in practice.
I talked to a non-techie friend and they had an interesting idea: that it was like going into a store and upsetting store displays. Creating a "mess" of disorganized matter (heated) that needed to be put back into order (cooled).
Are you me?! This basically was my experience working for a very large school district in the early 2000's. My favorite was they asked me to train a school bus driver to be the newest member of the IT staff because "they wanted to learn computers", it also just so happened that this person was the only person their budget could afford (less than 40k/year).

I worked for them as a contractor for a while and one of the big issues they had was they had tons of money to implement new technology (mostly from grants and things like that), but nearly nothing to maintain old tech. They could buy new computers all day long, but if something needed to be repaired/updated/maintained, there was no budget or resources to do it. So there were all sorts of fun issues, like they would buy computers and before they could get deployed their warranty would expire (since they weren't allowed to buy 3 year warranties on the computers) and computers with bad HDDs would get disposed of, even though the fix might be $50 and 10 minutes of time.
Unless you had a special case for the hijacking machines to ignore the spoofed ARPs, the whole thing probably fell apart when they ended up with a loop between each other rather than a path to the real gateway.
It's also possibly for some of the same reasons: baseline expectations coalesce around some predominate experience (shared social experience / shared road experience) that becomes the default, to the point where it becomes difficult to imagine a different experience unless you've shared it, much less validate and address that experience.

I don't currently bike but once upon a time that was how I usually got around Los Angeles and boy was it eye-opening. And yet, as someone who's primarily been a motorist and pedestrian since, sometimes I catch myself forgetting.
It's fun to see an insider's view. This presentation from their SRE book paints a very different picture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqU8TZDnFFA

Especially around who the burden falls on when a backwards compatible change needs to be made.

Agree with the point in the post that their mentality leaks in the way they support products.
Fusion has diseconomies of scale. The larger a fusion reactor is, the worse its volumetric power density becomes.
bacon in my pockets usually manages it, just give it to the dog when he gets interested.

airport staff usually hate it, but you can always play dumb and be like "doggie was hungry"
I have had a lot of trouble in the past with Lambda cold starts timing out Slack slash command requests, so you may actually be better off without it.
As a relative Lisp novice, I think this article is excellent! I really enjoyed it, both from a technical and also an entertainment perspective. Time to put the rest of the blog post series on my ever-growing reading list….

One minor typo (I thought it was pretty funny): “it seems like it was actually a performance hack in order to make a dynamically typed language performant on the hardware of the early 1890s.” Or, did Babbage’s machine run Lisp the whole time?
It’s lucky that our ancestors selectively bred them so that we get to benefit from them today.
Thanks - NOT GOOD on AWS there at all!
This is really overreaching philosophically when it suggests that external software is "freedom" while monorepos aren't.

What the author seems to be objecting to is that teams that manage upstream deps make breaking changes and those changes become interrupt-driven work.

From the perspective of the upstream devs that makes their lives tractable, because people get off of old versions and they don't have to support it, and security teams do not have to audit old code, and that prioritizes burning down tech debt and not putting it off endlessly.

The work that the author is complaining about is work that probably needs to happen one way or another. The monorepo as a forcing function to burn down tech debt seems to actually be working there. It would probably be a 10x bigger nightmare of years of tech debt if they didn't do that.

There might be tweaks that could be made to the process so that there were windows every year where breaking changes could be made so as to batch up the breaking changes coming down the pipe -- and require a variance if someone needed to push an emergency breaking change due to an external requirement.
Interesting article. How much requests can you support for 20/month before losing money with this stack?

Also, I am curious though, what does his partner do usually if not frontend stuff? Unusual to go into business with a frontend engineer who then does 0 frontend work, no?
I will admit that I'm not an engineer of any relevant area here. So I offer this only as a matter of general judgment & experience, which you are welcome to say "does not apply." (But please say why it doesn't.)

It's always been my impression that building things on a huge, factory-wide scale is a radically different problem than building a demo, or even reasoning about it. The latter is what you are all doing.

As long as "energy crisis" has been a Thing, I've been hearing about some uber-cool new thing a scientist did, which has the potential to transform everything. Usually that's the last you ever hear of it. I always wonder "whatever happened to X?"

I figure that "X" might look good in the lab, but no one can build a factory around it. The people who build factories (or power plants) are much less starry-eyed than we all are.

That's what we mean by "skin in the game (SITG)." Don't tell me what stocks to buy -- tell me what's in your portfolio.

So if I'm deciding whom to believe in an area where I know next to nothing, I'm much more likely to listen to someone who has, or had, SITG. Obviously if no one's ever built a fusion plant before, then exactly no one has had SITG. That makes it a tough one.
> NFTs give artists and photographers a new channel to sell their work without being constrained too much by middle men.

This is a benefit of cryptocurrencies in general, but doesn't explain specifically how NFTs themselves (rather than a generic selling platform not utilizing NFT tokens) increase the artist's economic freedom.
I think you make a good point here that someone can be pro-vaccine while being against a mandate. I hadn't thought of it that way. I don't really see many Republicans going out of their way recommending vaccines though, either. Trump got his in secret initially.
@dang: can you change the title? Simple typo meterorite → meteorite
I'm living in the reality where health authorities saying "we are trialling this, although until more is known we recommend not..." is generally taken as evidence that the politicians promoting the "cure" must be right, authorities saying "at present there is no evidence" or changing their recommendations is seen as evidence of their untrustworthiness and a reality where the people who have been consistently, loudly wrong have big fanbases in some cases precisely because they stick to their guns even in the face of overwhelming evidence.

Haven't paid particular attention to your favourite celebrity doctor in your country so I'm not sure whether he's said anything particularly outrageous or whether you are simply denying the present scientific consensus that natural immunity to COVID appears to wane, but then again, you appear to have experienced extreme difficulty in parsing the word "most" in my post...
If some evidence was proffered that Steve Jobs actually did contribute to creating Linux in 1978, as a user, I would much prefer to see that, than to have Google hide it from me because it's against the "current consensus opinion". A policy like this just seems like a recipe for disastrously persistent misinformation.
I think it needs a different notation. Could be easily confused with Mg Taurate.
The thing that made Google SRE scale was in the fine print and covered in this article. SRE is a premium service, and in order to get the premium service you had to meet some criteria to show you weren't about to turn highly paid, highly knowledgeable folks into professional firefighters.

During my time as a SRE at multiple organizations what I witnessed was executives that owned Operations teams renaming the team, paying for a Python course, and calling it "change". Operations Engineers have a culture unto themselves that will not be broken in a years time. A culture of firefighting and heroism as opposed to proactivity and dull standards. They're rarely, if ever, programmers which was a prerequisite for a SRE-SE and SRE-SWE. You don't need to be a master in logic to know that if you dress your old pig up with lipstick and a new title that it's still a pig.

I agree with the article: read the SRE book and understand why they did what they did, and if you hire SRE-SE or SRE-SWE types, don't colocate them with Operations types or make them a 1:1 map with your dev teams that haven't earned them.
There's also Upton Sinclair's famous comment: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."
The article says the QR check-in in the neighbouring state of Victoria works offline, but it didn't for me a couple of months ago when I lost 4G signal. Perhaps it's been changed since then – one would hope so, given the existence of mobile blackspots in rural Victoria.

However, the way the codes are used in Victoria is different, which means the size of the QR code doesn't matter much. (They tend to be about 1/4 of an A4 sheet, so larger than in NSW.) No-one is checking your phone to ensure you checked in; rather, it's an honesty system. So the codes are generally in the window near the door, and you stand off to one side. In those circumstances, if the code were larger and you could stand farther away, it would actually be less safe because it might encourage more than one at a time to use the code. As it is, a queue forms with polite distancing, like an ATM. (Remember those, and cash?)

We also have QR codes at every tram and bus stop in Victoria, as laminated A4, so they definitely do need to work outside. I haven't used those, but ones in shop windows work fine when it's raining. The only problem I ever encountered was a QR code on a bendy laminated piece of A4 indoors, under coloured lighting.

Vaccination status is integrated with the Victorian app, because it was that state that was tasked to work with the Federal government to implement and (together with the NT and Tasmania) test that. It is currently undergoing testing in rural Victoria, although anyone in the state can load their Federally-issued vaccination certificate into the app. NSW have not yet taken the code and put it in their app, probably because the people doing that expected the restrictions to be eased on the original timetable.

While loading the certificate into the apps should be technically simple, it isn't, because of 1980s Federal laws to do with sharing of medical data. (They know my phone number, Victoria knows it, but it is against the law to match it. I must log in to the Federal site or the Federal app on my phone and authorise it to copy the certificate into the state app, and I must keep doing it every few months.)
Accompanying article:

>Revealed: Facebook’s Secret Blacklist of “Dangerous Individuals and Organizations”

>Experts say the public deserves to see the list, a clear embodiment of U.S. foreign policy priorities that could disproportionately censor marginalized groups.

https://theintercept.com/2021/10/12/facebook-secret-blacklis...

UPD Twitter thread by author:

https://twitter.com/samfbiddle/status/1447974771522564097
A synchronous online connection. The app stutters and generally hangs/freezes if you have poor connection, which is precisely what happens in most shopping centres.
>Recruiters at FB seem to earn ~50-60% of the total compensation of Engineers at equivalent levels

...

>they'd have to be earning ~60k to be earning "half of the base of an L3 with no RSUs"

The people that email you are not L3s. They're actually often contractors. When they're not they're definitely L1s (or maybe L2s since I think L1s are actually service staff).
I have an acquaitance who got hit; he didn't realize it until the next day, though. It was probably literally a meteorite and not a meteor.

It was during one of the showers (Leonids?). He was outside watching the show, and felt something hit his leg. He looked around the next day and found a little piece of rock that looked likely. Sent if off for analysis and it was verified as a meteorite. He thinks it bounced off the ground before it hit him, so was technically a meteorite and not a meteor.
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No, it couldn't.

It would basically be a few Chernobyls in the worst case (a 1 in 1000 year asteroid impact winning the 1 in 100 million lottery and hitting the dump) and that mostly means extra birth defects and cancer (you wouldn't want to live somewhere that gave you a 10% chance if dying due to cancer age 40, but you could still have a civilization in such a location). It doesn't end life in the impacted area.

For intentional attacks there are much much easier ways of killing a lot of people.
> The only way to end climate change is to have a serious debate about population control.

It’s always disturbing how quickly this stuff goes from here to “we have to prevent other people from having kids rather than having Americans stop consuming”. Get your neighbor out of their F150 before trying to sterilize the global south.

> Nuclear fission once pulled off will make things much much worse.

Fusion. Fission has been done for your entire lifetime.

> I foresee a population explosion into areas once uninhabitable.

Apparently your foresight doesn’t involve actually bothering to check the fertility rate in any nation. If you’d done that, you’d realize that birth rates drop as nations get richer. Most of the world is below replacement rate, and world populations are expected to peak in the year 2100 and begin falling.

The thing that actually limits reproduction isn’t resources, but child mortality and interest. Once you can expect your children to survive infancy, most people want fewer of them.
Helicopters have landed on the top of Mt Everest, more than once.

True that not every helicopter can do it, but it can be done.
> That's peak power. You don't run at 100kph straight for hours

Have you been to the US? I regularly drive 4+ hours at 125kmh+ anytime I'm trying to get to the Sierra, or Utah or Arizona, which is often.

In fact, almost every weekend I drive at least 3 hours round trip, half freeway half mountain roads, if I go to the closest good climbing. 5+ if I go to my preferred locale. The distances people regularly cover are enormous.
It kind of makes me wonder if my intuition about how rare meteorites are is a bit off; for one meteorite to almost hit a person, there must be many more meteorites that weren't noticed, or were never found.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_event#Frequency_and_ris...

> An estimated 500 meteorites reach the surface each year, but only 5 or 6 of these typically create a weather radar signature with a strewn field large enough to be recovered and be made known to scientists.

I wonder if there are places on the sea floor with piles of these things that have accumulated over the years and for whatever reason not been buried in sediment? I suppose iron meteorites would probably rust and disintegrate; maybe some of other materials might survive.
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The magnesium l-threonate is better able to pass the blood brain barrier as opposed to other magnesium sources. There are some interesting studies on PubMed around it being helpful for Parkinsons, alcohol related issues, and even short term memory in chronic pain sufferers (some are non-human studies).
> "If I was running things, I would tell people that they have no power to punish anyone whatsoever and design the Covid rules with that in mind, making them focused entirely on helping people instead of controlling them."

to be fair, i agree that we should avoid punishing people for making different risk calculations, and resultant choices, because as a population, it's advantageous to have a variety of strategies employed simultaneously to any potential catastrophe. folks who are trying to coerce a singular "right" approach are literally wrong in their meta-approach.

however, the phrasing of your initial comment fails to recognize that a range of responses could be entirely valid, and suggests 'helping' people find the one right and true way. the better phrasing and intention is to admit that many approaches can simultaneously be valuable, and focus less on being right. being humble is recognizing that no one of us (or even a group) ever has perfect and complete information, and that we should act compassionately and acceptingly towards our fellow humans in light of this truth.

yes, we should share information with each other, but we should also accept that people will actualize that information differently because we're each touching different parts of the elephant[0] and are acting in accordance with our different senses.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_men_and_an_elephant
I feel like this has been said a lot and only works in very specific disciplines like physics and maybe math. Just grasping concepts isn’t always sufficient and memorization is underestimated.
You are making the same assumptions as the original commenter:

* assuming that the distribution of experiences is oriented towards a single "cluster" (probably a better statistical term for this)
* assuming that your personal experience just happens to be aligned with that cluster so as to be representative
Engineering studies over the years have come to the opposite conclusion. Fusion reactors will be much larger than and much more complex than fission reactors, and hence much more expensive.
I agree. Wanting to keep supplies to healthcare workers wouldn't have even been all that hard. Thanks to the horrific amount of consolidation in retail they could have gone to only a handful of major players like amazon and walmart and said "Please pull these masks off of shelves and help us save them for healthcare workers" and that would have kept them out of the hands of the vast majority of the population. A few might have tried ordering them from overseas or spent hours trying to get them from random places online hoping that they were getting the real thing and not overpriced knockoffs, but most people were not going to do that, especially if the reasons they shouldn't were communicated to them.

Claiming the masks are useless to the public but critical for healthcare workers made no sense. I mean, I think most people would accept that putting just about anything in front of your gaping virus-spewing face holes would have some benefit. Health agencies have pushed for things like the vampire cough/sneeze for ages to reduce the spread of all kinds of things, although the crook of your elbow is hardly a panacea.

I think either way we'd have ended up with a bunch of dumb or selfish people who refused to put a mask on, and there were already plenty of people distrustful of the CDC and WHO but they sure didn't do themselves any favors.
That's very different. Birds have a full lung load of air stored in sacs and bones and that fills the lungs as the stale air is expelled.

Mammal: Inhale -> burn -> exhale
Bird: Inhale -> burn
-> inhale -> exhale

I think I've over simplified the bird method but basically they inhale and exhale at the same time as required. They literally have double ended lungs, you push air in at one end and exhale CO2 at the other end. We mammals use the same route in and out of our lungs and the whole thing is driven by our diaphragm which pumps the bottom of our pleural cavity.

The bird mechanism is obviously efficient for oxygenation but it must have a cost that our body plan discarded or at least failed to even consider many millennia ago.
The best developers I have ever worked with never said “Best Practice”. The worst/most inexperienced developers I have ever worked with say it all the time. Because they don’t have any clue what they are talking about. If you can’t explain why a so called “Best Practice” is useful in this specific context, and what the pros/cons are, then you should honestly just keep quiet and wait until you learn/know more.
> Climate science is politicized because moneyed interests have a strong incentive to continue to deny the science and conservative individuals have both a shared financial interest with liberals to conspire with those interests and a unique political interest in drawing a contrast between themselves and progressives by spreading propaganda and lies.

Except that climate change is funded and backed by wall street, banks, media, etc. The real monied interests are on the side of climate change.

> Thus while Democrats and Republicans both vote against all of our interests only Republicans because of their unique interests have an incentive to spread lies.

But monied interests back both democrats and republicans.

> Specifically people used to literally argue that warming wasn't even real and now 2/3 of people in the US hold that its an issue and that government isn't doing enough to address it.

Wonder why that is? Oh that's right, the monied interests are backing neverending ads pushing climate change.

It's funny how everyone from the world bank, goldman sachs and google is backing climate change and you are saying it's the "monied interests" who are against climate change.

Think about it. If monied interests were against climate change, then google wouldn't be banning anti-climate change ads...
Oh, yeah. That's a very good point. That's probably why it stopped working. I always thought the network admins pulled the plug assuming they'd been hacked.
Can you expand on your thoughts on distributed web??