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> Can you make your on prem infrastructure go down less than Amazon's?

Obviously depends on what you need, but for a small to medium web app that needs a load-balancer, a few app servers, a database and a cache, yes absolutely - all of these have been solved problems for over a decade and aren't rocket science to install & maintain.

> Is it worth it?

I'd argue that the "worth" would be less about immunity to occasional outages but the continuous savings when it comes to price per performance & not having to pay for bandwidth.

> overestimate how important it is for their services to run uninterrupted.

Agreed. However when running on-prem, should your service go down and you need it back up, you can do something about it. With the cloud, you have no choice but to wait.
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In the mid 2000s I worked at company that used Rocky Mountain Basic in a ton of their products (electrical test equipment.) Most of their product lines dated back to 1960s and 1970s, and the software portions consisted of assembler, Fortran, C, and Basic. We were in the middle of a project porting some older Basic code to RMB when the division was shutdown due to 2008 financial crisis. (It effectively killed some parts of the industry for a few years.)

Sadly, a lot of the really old code was much easier to maintain than most of the code I work on today. The company had an excellent engineering culture, and thorough design and documentation was the norm rather than the exception.
The Bible is an account, written over thousands of years, of people's attempts to understand God. Parts of it are impenetrable unless you're on that journey yourself. What goes wrong is when people cherry-pick bits of it out of context: Shellfish, sexual mores, etc.
Magic was a hobby of mine for many years. I even produced the world's first online Magic Magazine (Merlin's Web - no longer available). I am a big fan of Penn and Teller. However, there is both good and bad magic on YouTube. If you want to see a true magical genius at work doing an effect that demonstrates several of Teller's principles, have a look at this (my all time favourite online performance):

https://youtu.be/yvURE6ueeEk

(Actually, I think it uses all the principles 1 through 7)!
Can you explain from someone not from Poland, what does 500zł mean? Is it some sort of minimal wage?
> Your argument is that IP law should be equally observed by everyone because it protects individuals and corporations alike

That is a weird understanding of what I said, and I don't really think you're arguing in good faith here. There's a lot of bias so I am choosing to not further this conversation.
Did you find any solutions for tiling windows vertically?

Windows 10 definantly does not do this well.
Looks like the SEC's Edgar website is affected. This is the site the SEC uses to post the filings of public companies. Normally there are a hundred or more company filings in the morning starting at 6am ET. This morning there are two.

https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcurrent
That's certainly true, and for most people making games on PS4; their openGL has a weird DX11-ish 'shim' that you can use to make your code cleaner (at the expense of a bit of performance).

It's used heavily in Snowdrop; but in order to work on Stadia they had to abandon the shim and work on Vulkan. So, even when porting to linux GL was not preferred. (I worked there during this transition).
How are the wait times? A year ago I tried the service when I discovered that Cyberpunk overheats my PC, and even with the paid tier, I had to wait in lines for 20-30 mins.
Imagine, after months of work and sleepless nights the day has come, you have to submit your thesis. But during the final corrections your Windows decides to shutdown and update the system for an uncertain duration.

It wasn't my thesis, but I was part of the people that helped to solved the resulting mess (the update took 4 hours and the deadline was 2PM).

That day I learned to never rely on Microsoft ever again.
How do mozilla receiving money for a setting which is literally on the first page of the settings page and is directly available from the url bar and you can set it with like 2 clicks causes you any problem? Are you donating money to mozilla in exchange for something? Or are you helping out with the code?
One of my favorite This American Life episodes where Penn and Teller talk about the genesis of this trick:

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/619/the-magic-show

Explains the significance of Penn's ball kick at the end.
> 1. Dual power in each server/device - One PSU was powered by one outlet, the other PSU by a different one with a different source meaning that we can lose a single power supply/circuit and nothing happens

Nothing happens if you remember that your new capacity limit per DC supply is 50% of the actual limit, and you're 100% confident that either of your supplies can seamlessly handle their load suddenly increasing by 100%.

I've seen more than one failure in a DC where they wired it up as you described, had a whole power side fail, followed by the other side promptly also failing because it couldn't handle the sudden new load placed on it.
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>> Also everything is measured in stone-weights and horse-lengths.

And also (American) football fields, libraries of Congress and Olympic size swimming pools.
Yes, these are the tradeoffs between client side and server side link previews. (If the sending client does it, they could lie; if the receiving client does it it's a privacy leak and attack surface increase; if the server does it then it sees private data.)
Gift cards have mainly legitimate uses. Here it's different: The main point is to scam people out of money.
I think if you put a bit of effort into classifying importance, you can likely justify backing up certain critical systems in more than one way. Let "the cloud" handle everyone's desktop backups and all the ancillary systems you don't really need immediately to do business, but certain important systems should perhaps be backed up both to the cloud and locally, like Windows Domain Controllers and other things you can't do anything without.

Backup is cheap when you're focused about what you're backing up.

In this case, the game isn't "going down less than Amazon", it's about going down uncorrelated to Amazon. Though that's getting harder!

"In more than one way" doesn't have to be local, but it may be across multiple cloud services. Still, "local" is nice in that it doesn't require the Internet. ("The Internet" doesn't tend to go down, but the portion you are on certainly can.) Of course, as workers disperse, "local" means less and less nowadays.
Apple is a fashion company. I'm not sure how AAA gaming plays into that. Maybe they aren't either.
Not a Pole, but my spouse is. Assisted my father-in-law, in a wheelchair, to make it up the stairs to vote for EU membership. So much optimism that day. It makes us so sad to see what has happened. PiS is piss, imo.
This exact thing happened to me, one day my long (years) standing account was just banned, and I had recently created a subscription. No repeal, nothing. What I ended up doing, was changing my subscription to a HIGHER tier, which refunds you the difference of the lower tier. Then CANCELLING the now new higher tier, which refunds you the new subscription amount. All through iOS subscription management. Seriously fuck Tinder.
I want to emphasize the other comment:

> The other thing that's absolutely essential for using these larger format monitors is window management software and in general a more keyboard/macros focused workflow.

My 4k 39" screen really, really drove me to use keyboard shortcuts. By default on Windows, hitting Windows+Number will take you to the 1st/2nd/3rd/etc program in your taskbar. I use AutoHotKey to take this further: CapsLock+Number and CapsLock+F1-F12 also take me to predetermined programs. I install websites as Chrome apps (chrome://apps/) in order to make going to Gmail/Calendar/Github faster. (I use 7+ Taskbar Tweaker to hide the labels so they don't take over my taskbar.) I also use this script: https://www.autohotkey.com/board/topic/79338-simple-window-p... which makes window management (resizing, centering, moving, etc) much easier. I also use Vimium and this program https://github.com/zsims/hunt-and-peck - now my hands almost never leave the keyboard.

I encourage you to spend some time optimizing your setup. It really, really pays off. The powerboard on my TV-monitor has broken 3x now - and each time I've repaired it/replaced the part because I like my setup so much.
I think there is a Pole diaspora/immigrant pop. in the UK, so Brexit would affect their ability to move through borders for employment purposes and thus affects plans for settlement, doing business and so on.
I'm not familiar with Bumble (I've never used Tinder either). My point is if you are controlling access to "the market" then a user being excluded could be a real disadvantage, and should be treated with care.
A lot of Poles moved to the UK to work.
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Penn and Teller are afaik the best in the business at highlighting how much being a magician relies on steering the audience much more than the quality of any individual trick.
Did u file a complaint on the use of swear words?
Coffee need here. 100% agree. My first encounter with Nespresso coffee was on a restaurant abroad. Ordered an espresso after dinner and, unlike some espressos from other restaurants, it was very decent. Upon repeat visits, time after time, it didn’t disappoint. Good and consistent. More consistent than some coffee houses!

Granted, it’s not as good as my favorite coffee house, which is nothing short of a sublime experience, and I still pull shots manually with good fresh coffee, but that’s more about experimentation and trying new coffees.

For good, consistent and ridiculously easy coffee, it’s hard to beat Nespresso.
Neat. I imagine it would be pretty easy to also use mRNA for this — different mRNA protein codings in the same vial.
Agree, and multi AZ is usually easy. IME with AWS and GCP the control plane is the same, the scaling works across AZ, bandwidth is free and latency is near zero. The level of effort to do that is simply ticking the right boxes at setup time IME.
I'm still waiting for a matte OLED monitor.
The Pivotal sharing station has separate keyboards and mice for each developer. Many people bring their own keyboards and pointing devices. That's fine.

"I can only be productive in emacs" doesn't fly, unless you happen to be paired with the rare snowflake that feels similarly.
Not my company, but I work with another company that does (nearly?) all of their infrastructure on premise. They have pretty great uptime, in a large part because they're not dependent on the 3-4 global state mechanisms that consistently cause outages with cloud providers (DNS, BGP, AWS's role management/control plane, &c.).

I think you're right about what we over- & under-estimate, but that we also under-estimate the inflection point for when it makes sense to begin relying on major cloud services. Put another way: we over-estimate our requirements, causing us to pessimistically reach for services that have problems that we'd otherwise never have.
Sometimes accents can make it harder.

In my first job in China, I was working on a project with Chinese colleagues and an Indian software company.

They teams had difficulty understanding one other. During conference calls, I often had to relay messages. Everyone could understand my English, and I could understand theirs, but the Chinese folks couldn't understand the Indians' accents, and vice versa.
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I assume this is like a bank stress test - they don't literally withdraw a bunch of deposits and call in a bunch of obligations, instead they just have auditors do a bunch of what if scenarios and calculations of what would happen if that happened
What practical steps did you take to go about investigating your own genome like this?
Poles who moved to Britain because they were all part of the EU and there was economic opportunity are now an entirely different status in Britain. Like an Oklahoman coming to California as an American, and then finding they're not anymore.
There is abstraction though. It's just fuzzy.

3 DNA base pairs abstract to an amino acid which has chemical properties. It's just theres some redundancy which 3 base pairs get converted to an amino acid. And if there's a single mistake somewhere with just one amino acid, the structure of the thousand amino acid long protein probably has some fault tolerance there.

Those amino acids are arranged in a way in the DNA code to make bigger motifs, alpha helices, beta sheets, active sites, coordinating complexes with inorganic ions.

It's all in the DNA code, though I suspect this train of thoughts is influenced by epigenetics. Parts of the DNA code also responsible for the regulation of how much the protein itself is expressed. That can still abstract to conditional and loop structures.

Yes some of the base pairs strongly bind together in the double helice which can influence stability of the DNA strand. The GC pairing has 3 hydrogen bonds, where AT has 2, but I think this influences the distribution of junk DNA, as you still need codons to make proteins which is the central dogma of biology.
It works both ways: it is also a cautionary tale for those who are prone to believe it's all unreliable cattle that needs constant restart because nothing is stable nor reliable...
Complex numbers have two roles in mathematics. The first is as a number system based upon SO(2) the group of rotations in 2D, the second is as the algebraic closure of the reals. That these two are the same thing is somewhat of a fluke (it doesn't work in higher dimensions).

Physics uses complex numbers in the first sense. There's really nothing too special about SO(2), there's an SO(n) for all n.

Whereas mathematics uses complex numbers in both senses. There is something rather special about complex numbers as the algebraic closure of the reals and it's what makes a lot of modern math tick.
> That's called shadowban in the case of OP.

I’d call that fraud. If you pay for a service you get to use the service.
It has a big impact on the EU as well when an EU country start flouting the EU laws.
They stated " If you want to meet people don't use Tinder, that used to work well in the past, it very rarely works now.", which if I understand them correctly means that it's hard to meet people without it. Perhaps you don't need to meet anyone, but for someone who does I don't think it's that absurd.
Mozilla needs Google's money to continue existing so I don't think that's going to happen.
Tinder didn't stop charging him when they banned him.
I don’t get the “I can’t tell what’s clickable” complaint. I just opened up spotify and it’s obvious what’s clickable and what isn’t. Same for gmail. I don’t remember having any issue learning how to use these either.
No, MrDunham didn't lie, not in any material way, but he made this comment: "After we arrived in Rome I realized I could have literally found a copy of the email on the Internet, put my name and test time in, and uploaded."

That's what I was responding to.
I think you are missing my point completely, as I said in other messages the content of the Bible on the cultural, philosophical and historical level is very important. My biggest issue, implicit in my initial comment, is that we as humanity should grow up and stop needing a mythical figure like a "God Almighty" to care about our neighbor.
Also we don't need a god that tells us that, for example, homosexuality is bad or that pork or crab should not be eaten.
Don't forget that pension funds are also share holders. People lose theirs jobs because hedge-funds funded by Dutch pension funds trash companies for share holder value (V&D is a good example, look it up). The biggest irony is unions crying foul about hedge-funds but unions stay very silent about the fact that they fund pension funds...

While the government might not always have your best interest at heart unions certainly also have agenda's of their own. Forcing everyone in to pension funds that have:

* Not adjusted for inflation for ages;
* Increased the age at which you get your pension with 5 -8 years;
* Increased the amount you have to contribute to the pension fund;

So basically every year you get less, have to work longer and pay more.

Since the people who now get a pension don't want to make the necessary changes to the system (can't even say I blame them) I seriously doubt if in 30 - 40 years when I'm supposed to get a pension there is going to be anything left.

And that's not even taking in to account incidents like pension funds where the piggy bank gets plundered due to the incompetence of unions and participants [1]. When they fly the proverbial plane in to the ground you are forced to go down with them.

[1] https://www.rijnmond.nl/nieuws/130172/Hoe-de-haven-miljoenen...
Yeah, but not the other way around. But there’s semantic ambiguity with the term “avian” – I used it to mean “capable of flight” but it can also mean “member of the clade Aves”. The dinos that survived were not flying at that time , and not all survivors were in Aves; flight evolved in Aves only after K–Pg and other dinos that survived went extinct later.

(I edited my original comment to be more precise)
Do you not think that reproduction is a basic need?
Public Charity regulation by IRS to achieve and maintain tax exempt status. Public Charity is a subset of possible non-profits and possibly 501(c)3 organizations. I'm writing that because colloquially all the terms are used interchangeably, as synonyms, but they are not.
Have a look at Interlingua too. It's essentially a modernized, simplified Latin.
You can readily understand it in spoken and written forms if you're used to the major western languages (English, French, Spanish, Portugese and Italian), and use it fluently in a few weeks.

I wish it was the official EU working language.
Now, if dotancohen had been complaining that it wasn't Edward Teller revealing his secrets, i would have had a lot more sympathy. Although i'd be worrying about what he was planning to do over the holidays.
The title seems to attribute the higher HDI solely to the communist government which is misleading. In fact, Kerala has strong anti incumbency and hence the communist government is usually elected every other election cycle. Indian state of West Bengal had an elected communist government for 25+ years but the state didn't fare too well during that time.
I think PiS is endangering itself. Exit from EU would be catastrophic strategically. Despite its anti-Russian rhetoric, sometimes I wonder whether the leadership of PiS is actually being paid by Putin to weaken Poland and the EU.
> The fewer API calls you need to make in-band with whatever throughput is generated via your customer demand, the better.

Agreed; however, this is somewhat difficult to do correctly. There are all sorts of systems that might have hidden dependencies on managed services. e.g. AWS IAM roles will almost always be checked at some point if your services need to interact with AWS managed services.

I think cloud providers could meet developers half way here, by providing ways to reduce API usage; but I'm not sure if it aligns with their incentives.
What is the pandemic playbook and how does the current response differ?

People running these simulations are obviously focused on outcomes, that's why you run these simulations in the first place. Simulations allow you to find flaws in your preparations, but it doesn't make your preparations flawless. You try to minimize your outcome downside risk .
As a sailboat owner I really want to hear the story of how you sank the boat...
Maybe they confused Bumble with all the other apps / services that are under the Match branch: Tinder, Match.com, plentyoffish, OkCupid ...
> Human brains are inherently analog

No they're not inherently analog. If they were, thinking of a bird would produce the analog of a bird within the brain, and this definitely does not occur. The brain is neither analog nor digital, but includes a signal processing paradigm that has properties of both. Signals sent through and around the brain are either/or states that are similar to binary. A neuron fires or it does not. These pulses are the most basic language of the brain, and they're all or nothing, so the brain is computing using something like binary signals. But biochemical pathways are similar to analog. Neurons also perform internal electrical signal integration in analog. But the spatiotemporal pulses of neural code looks a lot like digital signaling.
What this is:

- no due process

- no way to reverse their decision

- no way to appeal their decision

they are judge, jury, and executioner

And this is fine, unless you are a company providing a what would now be considered a critical service to the public (even if for pay).
I've worked at a few small companies over the years that had their own significant colos and/or data centers built on the cheap, and only a sysadmin or two to run them. Anecdotally, if the infrastructure is setup right, outages are very rare. Some of these were serving up massive loads at the time. I've done these build-outs a few times in my career and it isn't that hard to do, reliable software is more likely to be an issue. The only significant outage I remember is when the redundant power systems in one DC both failed at the same time for different reasons, which can happen.

It is as if the software industry has collectively forgotten how to run basic data center operations. Something that used to be a blue collar skill is now treated like arcane magic.
This 16:18 is 1.125, which is pretty close to 4:3's 1.2.
It works the same way in old fashioned setups. Barring exceptional knowledge of two peoples’ compatibility, someone looking to introduce two people to each other would propose a setup between two similarly attractive, educated, income/wealth level people.

Otherwise, the matchmaker ends up losing reputation and participants trust them less due to higher chances of failure. It works the same way in business relationships too.

A broker’s value is in increasing the probability of transactions closing by restricting the pool of candidates to those likelier to close. Otherwise, they have no value.
Good leadership that sets clear direction and initiatives followed by good middle management that takes these initiatives and disseminates it into something relevant and actionable by the teams doing the work. If you're lacking this then its worth trying to ask for this information to help inform your decisions.

For the record I fully acknowledge that this may not be possible and they very well may need to work within the system in a less-than-optimal state. Understanding the root of the problems help you navigate and ideally enact change even if it's more localized.