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by alien_ 3y ago
Another alternative is to also diversify over multiple On-Demand instances, just like for Spot.
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by alien_ 3y ago
This is no longer the case since 2018, see my comment above.
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by alien_ 3y ago
Except for Karpenter and EMR, no other AWS services (including Spot fleets) failover between Spot and OnDemand when losing Spot capacity. You simply run Spot from other instance types, and if no Spot capacity is available you run at reduced
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by alien_ 3y ago
This is no longer the case. Back in 2018 AWS changed the pricing model so now there's no more bidding. This means "bidding" more won't protect your capacity, AWS will just take it if they need it. Prices are now relative
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by alien_ 3y ago
The author of AutoSpotting here, glad to see it mentioned in here and happy to help clarify such issues. Are you sharing this as an experience of using AutoSpotting or other mechanisms to launch Spot instances? What you described may still
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by alien_ 4y ago
For now it's manual but I'll automate it ASAP, that would be a great problem to have
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Skin in the Game
1 points by alien_ 4y ago|2 comments
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Show HN: Open source EC2 Spot savings estimator(github.com)
1 points by alien_ 4y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Released a new version of EBS Optimizer with many improvements(aws.amazon.com)
1 points by alien_ 4y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: New version of AutoSpotting with lots of improvements(aws.amazon.com)
1 points by alien_ 4y ago|0 comments
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by alien_ 5y ago
I love this tool, I use it and recommend it to my own customers to see how little my AutoSpotting.io tool implemented in Lambda is costing them to run and also to easily see the logs.
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by alien_ 5y ago
I wrote the EBS Optimizer tool mentioned in the article, I'll gladly answer any questions about that.
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by alien_ 5y ago
There's no risk, Amazon recommends this to customers, see https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/storage/migrate-your-amazon-ebs... My tool mainly automates the process described in this blog and does it continuously i
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by alien_ 5y ago
Thanks, I wasn't aware of this, I'll ask the marketplace support about it. Try to search for "EBS Optimizer" in the AWS console and you should find one of my tools most likely to be useful for most people. If you run EC2
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Show HN: AWS Cost Savings Tools
1 points by alien_ 5y ago|2 comments
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Show HN: Tool for optimizing AWS EBS volumes for better cost and/or performance(aws.amazon.com)
4 points by alien_ 5y ago|2 comments
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by alien_ 5y ago
I have an M1 Macbook Pro and it beats any other laptop I've seen/had when it comes to performance and battery life. I'd love to also have Linux run on it and apparently enough people do as well. Yes, the hardware is peculiar
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by alien_ 5y ago
"The average user prints exactly one colour page during the lifetime of their colour printer. It is usually the test page." So true!
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by alien_ 5y ago
There's a lot to be done to address digital divide especially for the elderly. The other week I witnessed first hand how multiple 50-something folks who own smartphones struggled with something as easy as filling a form on a website fo
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by alien_ 5y ago
That's okay, it doesn't need to be a full-time job, but more like a "4 hour work week" mini-job that pays the bills with minimal ongoing effort. The rest of the time could be spent doing other more interesting things tha
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by alien_ 5y ago
It's just a numbers game. The total number of people who consume porn is probably many orders of magnitude larger than the audience of your respectable software, so even if you're tapping into a very small niche of porn consumers,
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by alien_ 5y ago
I'd probably offer some sort of support/consultancy services and prioritize the work of the paying users, making it clear when filing github issues and pull requests. This could easily sustain you in a passive income way so you ca
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by alien_ 5y ago
That's exactly what I have been using Patreon for, it's not a donation but a subscription for an enterprise tier. Still very few people signed up for it, the OSS code is working well enough and there's very little friction in
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by alien_ 5y ago
Same here, for most of my 15+ years career in IT I've been doing DevOps stuff, mostly writing small scripts and infrastructure code, occasionally hacking on existing projects enough to do drive-by contributions. About 6 years ago I sta
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by alien_ 5y ago
The reality is that the M1 beats pretty much all Intel-based laptops when it comes to getting the sweet spot on performance, battery life and silent operation. Yes it's costly, restrictive, the hardware still has some flaws and you can
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by alien_ 5y ago
I'd probably compare it to patching tires or installing a replacement tire valve. The pressure in a car tire is around 2.5-3 bar, the bike tires go up to 4-4.5 bar.
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by alien_ 5y ago
Confiscating profits wouldn't work, many companies are reinvesting their profits. Probably the best way would be to just make the fines hurt more, by using a fixed and non-negligible percentage of the monthly/yearly revenue, much
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by alien_ 5y ago
There's this other article https://thebulletin.org/2021/05/the-origin-of-covid-did-peop... which among other things explains that gain of function is technically defined as modifying existing human viruses to
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by alien_ 5y ago
This should be relatively easy to verify, we have millions of people who have been infected early last year so we can see how many of them got reinfected recently with one of the more recent strains. If the immune response of the virus is c
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by alien_ 5y ago
I have an M1 Macbook Pro for almost a month now as work laptop and I've only heard the fan once so far, while doing a multi-file search/replace in VSCode. For whatever reason that maxed out the performance cores for a few minutes.

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