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by arpinum 6y ago
Does GDPR apply here? They might not be selling to the EU, and they aren’t monitoring EU persons but just selling historic information. I don’t read GDPR as applying globally to any and all trade in EU personal data. https://gdpr
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by arpinum 6y ago
Google's e-commerce had been floundering for years, I'm glad they brought in fresh leadership and upped investment to keep Amazon from having a near-monopoly. Customers will benefit.
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by arpinum 6y ago
Managed service offerings are the main difficulty. Bare servers aren't a problem.
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by arpinum 6y ago
I work in a sector with a requirement to keep data out of the US. It is VERY hard to find providers who can promise not to do this. Even when servers exist in the EU, many provider's contracts have clauses that allow transfer to the US
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by arpinum 6y ago
The ruling notes that standard contractual clauses are still available. Most providers offer a Data Processing Agreement that can be signed and amended to the standard contract for businesses in the EU. It then gets muddy though as a DPA ne
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by arpinum 6y ago
I instruct HR to give developers a letter clarifying the statement "In the course of your employment" to not include original software written without the assistance of company materials and outside of company hours.
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by arpinum 6y ago
Drugs are more streamlined, but most of the NHS looks a lot like the US system. There are 8 major private electronic health systems, and many have not signed interoperability pledges. 145 CCGs. Foundation Trusts, remember just 10 years ago
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by arpinum 6y ago
Question: Have there been bankruptcies where shareholders aren't wiped out, other than government meddling? How much do shareholders who aren't wiped out typically get?
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by arpinum 6y ago
This can't be stopped. Better to stop resisting tech advancements and instead learn to adapt. Airports are starting to do this scanning as well, and they won't go away; travellers don't know they exist and have few rights whe
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by arpinum 6y ago
I’ve seen rumours that AWS lost a lot of money developing their ARM chips. I haven’t seen a strong source confirming this, but it does pour cold water on the idea that ARM is ready to take on x86 for general server compute, though no doubt
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by arpinum 6y ago
Try finding a cognito user from a cognito identity, you can't. Visit the amplify-js and amplify-cli github repos and search for cognito issues. Try using the cognito console, it is a litter box of warning messages and exceptions. Try c
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by arpinum 6y ago
except unix pipes don't often deal with at-least-once delivery, service limits, role and policy management and runtime deprecations
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by arpinum 6y ago
Too much marketing, not enough content. Glossing over the dumpster fire of Cognito is enough for me to not trust the rest of the content. There is so much custom code to essentially fling data between services. I imagine only a small percen
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by arpinum 6y ago
You are disappointed the comment is about the subject of the book from someone who read it and didn’t find it a compelling read? I didn’t like the book because it continued a trend in mia-selling DynamoDB and my comment reflects that frustr
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by arpinum 6y ago
> RDS maxes out RAM at 768GiB RDS goes 4TB on X1e instance type. But the point is RDBMS systems handle a large amount of data and workload types before needing to reach for specialist systems I don't know how you are doing write tra
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by arpinum 6y ago
> Workloads w/ serverless compute (aka Lambda) due to how well it fits with the connection model, provisioning model, etc. This is only true for AWS. Azure functions share resources and don't have this issue. The speed is actua
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by arpinum 6y ago
The indexes are not immediately consistent. Its not just that it is put in the database category, but that its champions at AWS make statements like "if you are utilising RDBMS you are living in the past", or that "there are
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by arpinum 6y ago
7x the cost. I find it interesting that the DynamoDB cheer squad points out most databases only run at 10-15% utilisation and are burning money every hour. In the next breath they suggest running on demand "till it hurts" and payi
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by arpinum 6y ago
I bought the book, I read the book, I've used DynamoDB for awhile. It didn't change my mind. DynamoDB makes tradeoffs in order to run at massive scale, but scale isn't a problem many people need solving when 2TB of RAM fits i
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by arpinum 7y ago
Their pay is 30% below market, so they wind up blowing even more money on contractors. I’m pretty sure increasing pay will save them a chunk of change, but the NHS ties itself up in knots to prevent sensible changes.
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by arpinum 7y ago
I’ve looked at nhs login [1] as a developer. The process is a mess of filling out forms, waiting months for reviews (the service is being rationed like many things in the nhs), answering questions about political imperatives and executive s
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by arpinum 7y ago
One area of growth - Accidental Oracle customers. Oracle makes software acquisitions and bases the new version of the product on Oracle DB. Customers are forced to upgrade and take on an Oracle DB, or get a firm push into the Oracle cloud.
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by arpinum 7y ago
Amazon is shipping and forking the elastic suite of tools, you are describing Elasticsearch itself. When licensing is at a source file level that is ambiguous for sysadmins. I understand you are approaching this as a developer, where it mig
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by arpinum 7y ago
Elastic mixed open source code with source available code, possibly as a landmine to sue large hosting providers, like Amazon. Amazon's fork includes removing these landmines. Elastic's hands aren't clean.
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by arpinum 7y ago
Pointing out that words like 'always' and 'any helmet' are overly broad. It was one study on car driver behaviour. It was on roads I use. Most experiments on helmet use shows increase in risk behaviour of the wearer. Obs
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by arpinum 7y ago
> Wearing a helmet is always better than no helmet. Any helmet. This isn't true when wearing a helmet alters behaviour of the user or other road users. In the UK it has been found that motorists leave less space for cyclists who are
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by arpinum 8y ago
payng Different wages where there is freedom of movement does not make sense to me, especially since only 1/3 of wage difference gets eaten up by rent in my location. It almost traps people to stay in London when they could be much hea
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by arpinum 8y ago
Spent 10 minutes trying to prevent TC / Oath from using my personal data. 5 clicks and proving I'm not a robot before reaching a privacy dashboard. Except, to actually set my preferences to not track me I first need to agree to tr
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by arpinum 8y ago
The most popular use cases for serverless are gluing different services together, where critical metrics are network throughput, network latency, and CPU scheduler. Fibonacci is not an interesting use case on its own, nor is time-insensitiv
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by arpinum 8y ago
Squidex is MIT license and has reasonable pricing for their cloud offering, also has graphQL support and more feature rich.

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