ABeeSea

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by ABeeSea 5y ago
Last big e-commerce outage I can think of was Prime day years ago when Sable browned out. But that was non-AWS infrastructure. There was also the infamous s3 fat-finger; but I can’t think of a holiday shopping and delivery day with a massiv
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by ABeeSea 5y ago
Multi-AZ deployment and multi-region failover is considered best practice.
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by ABeeSea 5y ago
If this outage isn’t the catalyst to get the Amazon side of the house to finally move out of US-east, I don’t know what will be. Or at least be multi-region. Although the cost to make all of Amazon commerce, logistics, and digital truly mul
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by ABeeSea 5y ago
I dislike crypto and have argued against it many times just on this site. But other than financial audit DBs, I haven’t seen many use cases for a cryptographic ledger db. AWS’s own ledger DB, QLDB, was discussed in the context of blockchain
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by ABeeSea 5y ago
She has a PhD in category theory. >Category Theory doesn’t deal with number theory all that much. Not sure where you are drawing the line here since algebraic geometry (aka modern number theory) makes extensive and extremely deep use of
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by ABeeSea 5y ago
>We also took advantage of our database expertise and built a very sophisticated, power-fail-safe journal-based database into the SSD firmware. Assuming this means something similar to QLDB, did they put a centralized blockchain in the f
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by ABeeSea 5y ago
Most of the article is about semi-lattices and posets which are often most usefully described in a categorical framework. Fibonacci sequence is just a toy example to demonstrate the general concept. I have a ton of graduate level math books
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by ABeeSea 5y ago
Amazon has deployed wirelessly controlled KIVA robots in the warehouses for over a decade.
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by ABeeSea 5y ago
It’s based on the nature of the Senate and Republican gerrymandering of the house. A minority of extreme views from rural areas control the politics of America. A poll of “all Americans” is useless when the Senate exists.
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by ABeeSea 5y ago
All of the known STDs at the time we’re bacterial and cured with antibiotics. Syphilis was curable for decades. AIDS scared the shit out of everyone because science didn’t know what was going on. Fauci is a damn hero.
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by ABeeSea 5y ago
> The biggest opponents of doing anything about AIDS, anything at all, were conservatives trumpeting family values. Reagan’s response to HIV/AIDS should be a shameful memory for all republicans. Mike Pence willfully made the HIV pan
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by ABeeSea 5y ago
That would not work in actuality since a large portion of American politics is based on an extreme and literal interpretation of the Bible that is inconsistent with logic.
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by ABeeSea 5y ago
I’m very worried about the US turning into a one-party theocracy. The actual institutional norms have been violated and the path has been laid. A very large portion of the country supports an authoritarian Christian theocracy as the future
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by ABeeSea 5y ago
I certainly would expect, for example, a senior or staff engineer to have far more autonomy in setting the requirements, specific tasks, and boundaries. Being able to predict the technical needs of the company before they are needed is a bi
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by ABeeSea 5y ago
> First, the reported baseline variables showed that the distribution of one variable was highly statistically different in the two study groups. Second, two variables showed different rounding to significant figures in the two groups. T
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by ABeeSea 5y ago
> Miners setting up shop in the Lone Star State can often count on a 10-year tax abatement, sales tax credits and workforce training from the state, depending on where they are located and how many jobs they add. Even without formal ince
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Texas Plans to Become the Bitcoin Capital, Vulnerable Power Grid and All(bloomberg.com)
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by ABeeSea 5y ago
My annual max out of pocket cost for healthcare is $5,000. Once I pay the $5k, everything else for free for the rest of the year. How is that worth a $100-200K salary difference?
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by ABeeSea 5y ago
Virtual box is incredibly slow and graphically buggy on even a beefy windows machine. I was very happy when I moved to wsl2 from an Ubuntu VM run through a virtual box window.
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by ABeeSea 5y ago
How do you even do serious linear algebra or probability without set theory?
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by ABeeSea 5y ago
And you think there is a difference between the two?
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by ABeeSea 5y ago
Lmao, what you just wrote is unhinged. Seek help.
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by ABeeSea 5y ago
What is “classical white culture?” I’m not aware of any global culture associated with skin color. But feel free to enlighten me.
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by ABeeSea 5y ago
I doubt quoting MLK will change your mind, but considering what the Black community in America went through for 100’s of years; it’s worth consideration… >Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. >Noth
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by ABeeSea 5y ago
I hope you properly paid sales tax on that purchase, if required, as the political system in many US states requires you to.
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by ABeeSea 5y ago
That wikipedia article doesn’t support your claims at all.
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by ABeeSea 5y ago
Define what you believe Marxism to be. It isn’t a buzz word for anything to the left of Reagan. And everything is politics. A political system could decide to outlaw computers and the internet. How would your SaaS business survive then?
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by ABeeSea 5y ago
ML engineers / data scientists are regularly moving terabytes of data around at Amazon.
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by ABeeSea 5y ago
Part of the appeal is working at a place like Amazon is having a voice in decision making in the product you’re building. Hard to make informed decisions or opinions without the data. Engineers in Amazon retail definitely have broad access
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by ABeeSea 5y ago
That is completely wrong. Income is anything of value, not just cash. If you find a gold nugget in your yard, you have to pay taxes on the value of the gold even if you never sell it.

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