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I remember in high school "not wanting to go" to class. I think I was wrongly interpreting the feeling of thinking I wouldn't succeed with not wanting to participate.

When I did end up participating, attending class regularly and paying attention, putting in even 75% effort, I felt wonderful.

I know the stakes of participating in the labor market is different, but I cannot help but wonder if there are parallels.
I think it's affecting more than just AWS. Try searching amazon.com. That's broken for me.
I have passed this on to the product manager and engineering lead for Cloudflare Images. Thanks for the write up.
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Kalman filters are super useful tools across many domains.

They are a primary instrument in weather forecasting, robotics, finance, and more. Data you see every day have been touched by this technology.
Or just modify sites like DownDetector to show who is hosting each site. When{n} number of sites are down hosted on {x} one could draw a conclusion. It won't be as detailed as "xyz services failed" but rather the overall operational chain is broken. There could be a graph that shows 99% of sites hosted on amazon US East 1 down it would be hard to hide that. This could also paint a picture of what companies are not active-active-multi-cloud.
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Sure, but, assuming it's not already blocked by IT, are you going to be sending out a link to your colleagues/students/professor with the name "pornhub" in the URL?
Alternatively, make a backup before screwing with the VLAN. Then resetting the box is not as much of a set-back.
That's because the Navy doesn't rely on software to do these checks, the officers and crew are supposed to ensure they don't crash. This idea of having software check things is dead in the water, because of that. The real problem is training, and much like any other human problem, this one cannot be solved through technology; it has to be solved by culture changes.

VMS, however, was horrible a decade ago, and I'm not surprised it's still horrible. We used paper charts rather than VMS back then because it was so horrible.
They could still go into the data center, open up the status page servers' physical...ah wait, what if their keyfobs don't work?
> When the client tells you what the cause is, he's wrong.

using a software analogy, I've seen plenty of bug reports where the reporter did some research on his own that turned out to be determinant in the issue resolution. You have training, inside knowledge of the system that's failing, but you see plenty of issues everyday, cannot dedicate to each one the time they would deserve. The reporter instead is motivated to reach a solution and has plenty of time to research it properly. Discarding a potentially fundamental input just because it comes from someone supposedly untrained would be a shame.
>crypto makes you free

Free from what? Free from having to transact with third parties and the financial system? I'm not seeing the contradiction for that. Free from worrying about money? Getting rich? I guess that's a contradiction in the sense that losing money is contradictory to getting rich, but I don't see how anyone can take "we're all going to be rich!" as some sort of principled justification for the existence of something.
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Agreed. I only wish that they had two images rotating side by side - one the transparent scan and one the opaque image so I had both the transparent and opaque views simultaneously for all rotation angles.
That the Philistines existed is undisputed, whether they were of Greek origin or not. However they disappeared from history around the time of the Babylonian expansion in 600 BC, so it seems far-fetched to believe that educated people in 135 AD would have intimate knowledge of the Jews' relationship to them.

Hadrian was most likely not privy to details of Jewish culture. Both the Romans and the Greeks detested circumcision, but, for the most part, they tolerated it. At times, the Romans tried to outlaw the practice of castrating or circumcising slaves, but they never banned the practice altogether. However, in Palestine the governor may have implemented such decrees as retribution for uprisings. Note that Jews were far from the only people at the time who practiced circumcision.

> Renaming the province is consistent with Hadrian's other moves which do have a well known rational of suppressing the Jews. There's no reason to think renaming the province just after the massive rebellion is somehow different, accidental or separate from all the other moves, like renaming Jerusalem itself or banning many of Judaism's practices.

You are talking about Hadrian's decision to refound Jerusalem as the Roman colony Aelia Capitolina. This occurred at least a decade before the revolt and can hardly be thought of a move to suppress the Jews. A Roman city brought wealth and honor to the region and would have been cherished in other provinces. Hadrian perhaps wanted to mimic the great success of the Roman city Caesarea which had been built in Palestine 150 years earlier.

View it with Roman eyes. There are hundreds of peoples and religions in the empire. Most of them worship the Emperor and loves having statues of him around. So why on earth would it anger a poor Levatine people enough to revolt? Furthermore, emperors are surrounded by yes-men; no one wants to tell him that the people hates his statues.

> The Talmud has no reason to care about how the Romans name things in their own language for their own empire. It's a religious text, not a history book. It's actually noteworthy that there is an ancient text mentioning this - most ancient historians cared little for such details.

The Talmud actually describes the Bar Kokba revolt in great detail. So it is odd that the renaming of the Roman provinces (Iudaea wasn't the only province that was restructured at the same time) isn't mentioned at all.

> EDIT: I also note that Eusebius lived and wrote when the Roman Empire still existed, and probably did not have much need for guessing. A Roman historian living at that time could access Roman primary sources and common knowledge easily.

Yes, he was active in Caesarea and is one of the first Christian Scholars. He and many other Christian scholars weren't very fond of the Jews and much of their writings had a distinct anti-Jewish bent. Eusebius had a habit of characterizing all misfortunes that befell on the Jewish people as divine punishment for first having crucified Jesus and then rejecting Christianity. He also claimed that Aelia Capitolina was founded to punish the Jews for revolting, which we know now is incorrect.
These accounts are definitely interesting from anthropological point of view - how people make up nonsense. The third one is especially noteworthy.

"As someone with more than an adequate knowledge of medical and clinical sciences along with some postgraduate research experience in physical mapping using molecular genetics techniques"

"Is it not amusing to find human swabs, samples of Coca-Cola and some fruits all testing positive for “Sars-Cov- 2” using the RT-PCR protocol whilst the kit instructions, the enclosed information leaflet, as well as the print on the box clearly inform the users that the test kit detects Sars-Cov-1 only?"

RT-PCR? Sars-Cov-1? These link to rapid tests that are lateral flow based, not PCR.
I wish I hadn't seen this spoiler of a headline.
I can imagine a rather dark "Employees as a Service" future where we get paid only for each productive minute of automatically recorded work, as if humans were AWS Lambda instances or whatever
You're not wrong, but it's possible that the organization is small enough that it's just not feasible to have enough safeguards that would prevent the outages John caused. And in that case, it's probably best that John not be promoted if he can't avoid those errors.
Sort of a side tangent, but what banks are looking for specifically is demonstrable collateral for a loan that they can get access to, and the risk landscape is such that they're very constrained in what type of collateral this is with regard to people without a lot of capital. They look for employment because that's where most of the risk can be offloaded to.

What would be nice to see would be forms of collateralized loans where the lender doesn't have to take custody of the collateral until default, which requires that they can actually take possession at a later date. We see this with homes, equity loans and the like, primarily because homes cannot be moved, but more importantly because lenders have a way to stop a sale before the loan is paid. With assets that can be moved around it is much harder, but imagine a scenario where for example, you can borrow against stock or a CD or something else, and the lender never touches the asset but becomes entitled to it if you default. This would significantly reduce lender friction and allow more people to take out loans with more different sources of income.
what is mean by "PB"?
> "my headphones won't pair with my computer"

That's the other things Airpods solves (assuming you're on a Mac)

The pairing process is so simple and seamless, it's the only bluetooth headphones I've ever used that isn't a huge pain to pair every time I want to use them (and especially the first setup). When I first got them, I popped open the lid of the case next to my phone, it popped up, I clicked the button to pair, and it's paired. And any device logged into your Apple ID is automatically paired to them too, so I just went over to my laptop and it was already connected.
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The assumption that ET communicates via radio waves has always seemed unusually anthropocentric compared to the rest of SETI attitudes.

If it’s not sending lasers through wormholes, it will be something else – but it seems the height of arrogance to assume that an advanced civilization would communicate via radio waves just due to our own familiarity with them.

You don’t see this elsewhere – SETI is always keen to downplay “little gray men” (they might not even take physical form! Maybe we can’t conceive of them!) or “carbon based lifeforms” (maybe they’re made of silica!). But for some reason there’s less questioning of any assumptions about their communications media. I wonder if this is due to SETI betting the bank on radio waves.
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> cesspool of toxic masculinity that discusses elk hunting, mixed martial arts, anti-trans views, and harmful health information about the coronavirus pandemic.

This ridiculous characterization of Rogan's podcast by "traditional" media is precisely why people are seeking out content from folks who intentionally break from the pop left's worldview.
To whom exactly. All the high spend customers are not going to participate.

So that leaves a volume of shit-tier players. That's not that worthwhile.
Not really because this isn’t your biggest problem then. Leadership must be exceptionally poor at this company if you hired almost thousand employees who don’t care.
Kinesis was the cause last Thanksgiving too iirc. It's the backbone of many services.
I never used tumult but I think these are the differences:

- Moos.app has built-in "behaviors" that are sort of a template for interactions. For example the scroller behavior allows you to put text next to your visuals, when the user then scrolls your visuals will update. It also works on mobile and desktop without additional actions.
- I found that using SVG or HTML for complex animations is way to slow. That's why moos.app uses a custom WEBGL renderer.
- Moos.app works in the browser, Tumult is a mac app
- As Tumult is older it has a bigger community
- Tumult has no web hosting build in (I think). With moos.app you click a button and you get a link (or a self contained HTML file)
- Tumult is a one time payment while moos.app is usage-based-pay
Haha... This bring back memories. It really depends on the org.

I've had push backs on my postmortems before because of phrasing that could be constituted as laying some of the blame on some person/team when it's supposed to be blameless.

And for a long time, it was fairly blameless. You would still be punished with the extra work of writing high quality postmortems, but I have seen people accidentally bring down critical tier-1 services and not be adversely affected in terms of promotion, etc.

But somewhere along the way, it became politicized. Things like the wheel of death, public grilling of teams on why they didn't follow one of the thousands of best practices, etc, etc. Some orgs are still pretty good at keeping it blameless at the individual level, but... being a big company, your mileage may vary.
I was thinking of people without any connection at all - homeless families who have no mobile phones or internet connection. Those communications aren't about disability, just simple lack of access.

But that is missing the forest for the trees - the specifics of this anecdote are one small point. Standing up for yourself is the bigger point. I could be 100% wrong about the accessibility in schools, but that doesn't change my larger wish - that we would all stand up and push back when we see problems... not just dismissively say, "well, we'd never win that fight, so don't even try."
I'd take the leap to 4K. It's time. :)

I have my work Macbook Pro connected over USB-C and my gaming PC over Displayport. I just turn on whichever system and the monitor turns on and my keyboard, mouse, wireless headset etc come to life. For a work-from-home setup it's really ideal.
Sorry for the misunderstanding I created. The link between those two are how far I have gone to be able to help end users.

It is a bit tongue in cheek (since I am Norwegian) but only a bit since it is an extra hassle to try to mentally translate what translaters read in English when they created the unsearchable phrases that show up in a localized Windows version.
Personally I like using Fontsource which uses npm for achieving similar results (https://fontsource.org/fonts/acme)
I'm working on some cool submarine software here: https://adventofcode.com/
This is only an issue because of constrained supply driving prices up.

If there was more supply, prices would stabilize somewhere lower. Given enough supply that point would be somewhere one income could support.

It's the constrained supply paired with high demand that drives prices up and requires multiple high incomes to compete (especially in places where this has been taken to the extremes because of NIMBYism and entrenched anti-build regulation/incentives).
The noodle rabbit at the end will give me nightmares.
There's literally no difference between copying and stealing.
This would have been a moat in 2013. But these days, at least where I live, I get music videos on my music app.

And maybe it's just me but music videos don't have the same traction that they used to have. There are so many chart toppers that I've listened to often for which I hadn't watched the video for a very long time.

Compare this to 2011 where we discovered songs, including Gangnam style, on YouTube charts.
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Twitch is the evolution of YouTube and Twitch has an open-source competitor, the question is rather why is nobody using the competition?

Look at Mixer, and in specific Shrouds transition to Mixer. Almost nobody followed him there. When he came back to Twitch he was the single biggest streamer they have ever had with 200K+ viewers.

Technology is feature monopolistic as long as it's "free", the evolution always happens by constructive destruction. Eventually there will be something that replaces Twitch by being _fundamentally_ better at capturing our attention without needing OBS.

People that haven't moved to Twitch from YouTube simply do not know Twitch exists or haven't tried it because they lack time.

Or maybe the transition is going from passive to active and some people wish to stay passive?

As for video anyone with a computer and a range capable HTTP server can distribute it, the problem is competing with bandwidth.
Funny I literally just asked my Alexa.

Me: Alexa, is AWS down right now?

Alexa: I'd rather not answer that
> I won't ever be paying capital gains tax again if I can write it off at current value.

I'm in a similar boat. I honestly can't wait until the tax rules around cryptocurrencies are finally fully hashed out, clarified, and published.
Not entirely sure why you're downvoted. I'm nearly deaf and I fully rely on lipreading. I've basically concluded I will have no social interactions in public until masks go away. I can't even make it through checkout sometimes without frustrating others. No one has the patience to try and bother to communicate with barriers. I can't count the number of times someone has finally screamed "never mind!" and made shooing gestures. Even the bus scares me. It's very hard to tell someone's emotional state both unable to see their face or hear them. I worry about being assaulted.

I know hearing people experience a mild version of the above. It's the most visible aspect of how the pandemic of virus has led to the pandemic of loneliness.
You know why SO-teams, firefighters and military pilots are so successful?

-You don't hide anything

-Errors will be made

-After training/mission everyone talks about the errors (or potential ones) and how to prevent them

-You don't make the same error twice

Being afraid to make errors and learn from them creates a culture of hiding, a culture of denial and especially being afraid to take responsibility.
You're very welcome! I posted this on the CF Developers discord as well. Really hoping that I'll be able to fully migrate over to CF Images in the not too distant future :)
So I guess the Varjo aero might be the only contender then for (high end) consumer headsets that might already be there.
Although it does sound like this piece of software could use improvement, I would never expect a mission support system to be the only thing safeguarding me from going aground. I don't know anything about submarines, but I would expect some kind of real-time navigation system to alert me before hand.
I wasn't able to load my amazon.com wishlist, nor the shopping page through the app. Not an aws service specifically, but an amazon service that I couldn't use.
I live in Ohio and can confirm. If the Earth were destroyed by an asteroid Ohio would be left floating out there somehow holding onto an atmosphere for about ten years.
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"Fixed a bug that could cause [adverse behavior affecting 100% of the user base] for some users"
If whoever "owns" the BTC gets the fork as desired, and then tries to sell the BTC, that will massively decrease the conversion rate to fiat money (like USD). So for everyone in the current network, it is in their best interests for those BTC to remain unspendable in a lost wallet.

The only way a fork would work if the "owner" were to promise most of it to at least 51% of the current miners.

Is all that correct?
Mattermost and Slack are at least in the same class. Slack proved their market by being light-years ahead of Outlook, and Lynq. They took "the nerds who love their little private IRC server" to the masses.
There are more similarities:

- Both are not really audited

- Both have retracted claims of being fully USD backed ( only tether had to do it after court and USDC changed it a bit later)
Perl's character soup is because it's an evolution of sed and awk so Perl adopted many of the UNIX shell idioms.
Adding my piece of anecdata to this.. the process is quite blameless. If a postmortem seems like it points blame, this is pointed out and removed.
We are basically making the same point. People don't watch the videos because they're on YouTube, people watch the videos because the app on their phone only plays and searches videos on YouTube.
If my boss told me to go write a Linux device driver in C++, I'd quietly go away and deliver a working device driver that happens to stick to the C subset of C++. Trying to fiddle about getting header files to include cleanly is a complete waste of time. (Maybe you're referring to something else like reading the article.) The benefits of C++ over C that is consistent and well-written in a disciplined manner is really not as great as many managers have been led to believe. And seeking forgiveness from an idiot manager is always easier than seeking permission to do things sanely.
You can't grump about goalposts and then equate including bike lanes in a proposal with anti-BDS laws in the same paragraph. C'mon.
Both cases hurt and it shows that there is no hysteria - the problem is real.
A portion passes to your kids, the rest accrues to the state through inheritance tax. What the proportion is depends on where you live.
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AMZN has Twitch which is a competitor.
CW is not a US tax resident afaik
I'd also add to your feedback by saying that there isn't a "Simple" way to integrate it into existing CMS's or even static sites, a plugins for the top 3 CMS's would be nice + an "imgbot" equivalent for static sites.
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PB stands for petabyte.
Not really. You could enforce that as an option on certain threads but you could simply have it be open with a single switch

I tried it out and it was a weird Slack alternative that was just that little bit of clunky where you couldn't use it on a daily basis. I actually feel some of the ideas were sound. I wouldn't have minded a thread-only topic where people post a bug at the top and discuss that particular bug below. It's hard to explain but there was just something about navigating all of it that made it just slightly more painful than was bearable. I'm sad to see it go because it could have made for a decent alternative to slack but it's so dumb that it shuts down so soon
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I remember from the HBO series that the final design error was the graphite-tipped control rods.

The graphite accelerated the reaction, which jammed the rods and prevented them from being fully inserted.

Had the rods not been constructed with reaction accelerants, the disaster might not have been so severe.
They likely already talked to every active / paying customer. If not, it's really fucked up.
when working on CloudFiles, we often had monitoring for our limited dependencies that were better than their monitoring. Don't just know what your stuff is doing, but what your whole dependency ecosystem is doing and know when it all goes south. also helps to learn where and how you can mitigate some of those dependencies.
If you manage to hit the exact diagnostic questions they were trained for, that's the same, actually worse, than saying you have X, because you'll make them think they had the idea that you have X, when in reality you saw the list of symptoms, thought "I guess I have those," and then repeated them to the poor unsuspecting doctor.
> Basing your expectations on the 60’s is unrealistic.

We use historical standards to measure progress all the time. The thing we should be exploring is "why has home ownership become so expensive?" and "what can be done to alleviate that impact?" Anything else is a distraction.
I think "petabytes"
We have a SMS text thread with about 12 people that we send one message on the first of every month. To make sure it is tested and ready to be used for communications if all other comms networks are down.
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