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541.
by 300bps 5y ago
Everything else you listed is taken care of by the market. Want to consume resources with a website that tells knock-knock jokes? Have a great time! Just make sure to pay your hosting bill. Want to host it on 10,000 servers? Again, have a g
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by 300bps 5y ago
AWS has a free tier that lasts for a year. I actually used it to get hands-on experience with enough services that I was able to get my AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Cloud Practitioner and Certified Developer certifications. I easily s
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by 300bps 5y ago
To me it seems like a simple matter of don't mess with people that have money.
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by 300bps 5y ago
Wow, impressive collection! After leaving the Commodore world I started on MS-DOS 3.30 on my 10 MHz 8088 with 40 MB Seagate ST-251 MFM hard drive. Amazing to read the summary of the history of DOS and the lack of features in 1.0. Gives you
545.
by 300bps 5y ago
Did you see that movie about Facebook? According to that movie, what you described is literally what they do.
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by 300bps 5y ago
Very insightful response. Taking your fruit analogy further - some fruit evolved to be poisonous to mammals because birds spread their seeds further. Also liked the manipulation point you made. It’s why you have things from the 20th century
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by 300bps 5y ago
I’ve said for years that the 20th century saw humanity for the first time having to learn to live in a world of infinite sugar, fat and salt. The 21st century will be about learning to live in a world of infinite information. We will all ha
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by 300bps 5y ago
LHR was one attempt at it with varying success. And it won’t take a few years to balance out. If ETH really does go PoS in the next six months then you’ll see a lot of RTX 3080 and 3090 come on the market for very cheap. A lot of ETH miners
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by 300bps 5y ago
People have been saying “not much longer” for years. First EIP-1559 which frankly didn’t reduce my profitability much at all. Now ETH 2.0 with PoS. That’s at least six months off and has already been delayed repeatedly.
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by 300bps 5y ago
ETH. I bought a new computer in March of 2021 for $1,900 including tax. The computer happened to have an RTX 3070 card in it. I have mined and sold $2,800 of ETH in the 9 months I’ve owned it. The extra power has cost me a couple hundred do
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by 300bps 5y ago
Irreversible transactions lower transaction costs Blockchain transactions are not irreversible. You just need 51% of POW miners/POS stakers to agree and they can do anything they want to the blockchain. It’s the literal reason why ET
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by 300bps 5y ago
I have a lot of nostalgia for old systems and fondly remember my 10 MHz 8088 that I bought from JDR Microdevices and built myself as a teenager. But I would not want to be back in the bad old days of changing hardware jumpers for IRQ, DMA,
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by 300bps 5y ago
I’ve often thought this was a quick work-around but wonder if it works because not enough people use it? For example, what happens if the robocaller sends 0-9 digit tones in rapid succession? Does it let them through even though they got it
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by 300bps 5y ago
We’re spoiled. 3.5 billion years of stored energy from the sun is ripe for the picking just under the surface. We’ll burn all 3.5 billion years of it in 200 or so years. An episode of the BBC Show “Bang Goes the Theory” showed me how ridicu
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by 300bps 5y ago
At my last company we hired new computer science graduates at more than $100k per year. A friend of mine has a son that just got a job offer right out of a medium tier computer science school with total compensations more than $200k per yea
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by 300bps 5y ago
I noticed the same thing probably 15 years ago when I bought a TV with a digital tuner. You mirrored my experience exactly with one thing to add - another thing that cracked me up was when they would order it in Spanish! That pausing thing
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by 300bps 5y ago
He’s not kidding. When I was 14 I mouthed off to the brother of a friend of mine on a local BBS. He knocked on my door 45 minutes later to talk to me about it.
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by 300bps 5y ago
Yes China seems to have a very long term perspective with their five year plans that they seem to take very seriously. Couple that with the treatment China received in the Opium Wars, Rape of Nanking, etc. I type on computers for a living s
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by 300bps 5y ago
Not OP but similarly offended. To me it’s that I assume these items went to a next of kin possibly multiple times to get to a person who cared so little of them that they are cashing in. It’s not just the letters either. His prestigious awa
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by 300bps 5y ago
China seems more anti-game than it seems pro-profit in this case. Otherwise why limit children to 3 hours per week of gaming? Why ban images of “effeminate men”? To me, China seems to be preparing.
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by 300bps 5y ago
I have the weird feeling of mix of sadness and loneliness I think everyone has that to a different extent during the holidays. I am very much not alone but for many of us this time of year made quite a positive impression on us when we we
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by 300bps 5y ago
I'm honestly sick of seeing these posts. Every single post I've seen on HN, I have had no down time in EC2, S3, Workspaces, FSx for Windows, Directory Service, Console, etc. Over 200 services, 86 availability zones and 26 regions.
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by 300bps 5y ago
I would’ve said email was deceptively complicated in 1996 when I set up qmail on Slackware Linux for my ISP clients. I never linked it to WWIV though I was my area code coordinator for WWIVLink. That had to be around 1988 or 1989?
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by 300bps 5y ago
I coach a FIRST Robotics team and I love to tell the kids stories like this so they can get a feel for what engineering is like in the real world. Sometimes you just need to throw some duct tape on it.
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by 300bps 5y ago
Because if you allow bankruptcy to discharge them that would make the interest rate 3-4x what it is today and people couldn’t afford it.
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by 300bps 5y ago
One of my few regrets is leaving old computers/disks at my parents house when I moved out. I didn’t value them at all at the time - they were old crappy computers. So my Commodore 64 and 128 and all the software I spent my childhood wr
567.
by 300bps 5y ago
I may have seen more of these posts than you. The last one I saw where “AWS is down” was us-west-1.
568.
by 300bps 5y ago
The 1c part is meaningless. Those letters are randomized per customer to prevent letter biases from leading to more people in 1a for instance.
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by 300bps 5y ago
Can we please stop saying, “AWS is down”? AWS consists of over 200 services offered in 86 availability zones in 26 regions each with their own availability. If one service in one availability zone being impaired equals a post about “AWS is
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by 300bps 5y ago
I was with T-Mobile until three months ago. I used their Scam Shield service - the app is still actually still on my iPhone. I received about 25 calls per day on average that slipped right through their service. Senior health coverage, car

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