christhecaribou

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AWS North Virginia data center outage – resolved(cnbc.com)
267 points by christhecaribou 5mo ago|201 comments
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by christhecaribou 6mo ago
This is the world capitalists are building.
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Amazon says AWS' Bahrain region 'disrupted' following drone activity(reuters.com)
27 points by christhecaribou 7mo ago|0 comments
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by christhecaribou 8mo ago
“Gemini Rue” and “Technobabylon” were my favorites, but they recently released a new title about time travel called “Old Skies”. It actually made me cry and email the studio director. It was a masterpiece.
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Amazon bungles Wednesday layoff plan with misfired internal email(reuters.com)
23 points by christhecaribou 8mo ago|1 comments
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by christhecaribou 11mo ago
The first level or two of management are completely useless and operate more as “slave drivers” than engineers.
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by christhecaribou 11mo ago
> Yeah but they wouldn't risk disruption. Funny, they said the same thing about AWS before layoffs last year.
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by christhecaribou 11mo ago
Because investors aren’t actually very intelligent, beyond some vague desire to “make my money bigger”.
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by christhecaribou 11mo ago
Right after that egregious U.S.-east-1 outage?
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by christhecaribou 1y ago
There’s clear data that shows an increase in the frequency and severity of LSEs post RTO3 in 2023, and it looks like RTO5 has accelerated that trend.
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by christhecaribou 1y ago
“Little evidence?” If the “aws” partition doesn’t actually exist when IAD breaks, Amazon hasn’t even discovered how to make multi-region cloud infrastructure. That’s a big deal.
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by christhecaribou 1y ago
The real story from this incident is that Amazon’s “aws” partition doesn’t actually have multiple regions - effectively, it’s all IAD in a trench-coat. This is a big deal. My employer has already started to look at bringing back our old rac
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DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing(404media.co)
232 points by christhecaribou 1y ago|76 comments
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by christhecaribou 1y ago
It just makes me sick growing up in the USA, hearing about the beauty of “competition”, and then growing up to see that not only does it not exist… they cannot even be bothered to pretend.
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by christhecaribou 1y ago
Especially when big employers all collude in the open.
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by christhecaribou 1y ago
And yet here you are, perpetuating the “crabs in a bucket” mentality that continues to be a blight on our industry.
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by christhecaribou 1y ago
Great time to be a recruiter in Seattle outside AMZN and MSFT.
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by christhecaribou 1y ago
Asinine opinion. If they were going to outsource, why haven’t they already? In fact, the tech industry has tried continuously to outsource and it always gets rolled back for shoddy work. What’s the secret sauce this time?
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by christhecaribou 1y ago
Microsoft is committed to becoming as terrible as Amazon, I guess.
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by christhecaribou 1y ago
I’m so sick of seeing people justify why we cannot have nice things, as though it were a fact of nature.
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by christhecaribou 1y ago
Is brass more expensive than it used to be?
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by christhecaribou 1y ago
How does that boot taste?
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by christhecaribou 1y ago
I hope you leave the workforce so some younger, less brainwashed folk can clean up the crock of shit you left behind.
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by christhecaribou 1y ago
I hope your mediocre manager ass gets canned.
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by christhecaribou 1y ago
What a bootlicking moron.
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by christhecaribou 1y ago
I’ve only been at AWS for seven years, but it’s a completely different company than it was in 2018.
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Family of MSFT employee who died warn tech companies not to overwork workers(padailypost.com)
134 points by christhecaribou 1y ago|99 comments
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Amazon shares stricter performance review process – with culture as a key metric(businessinsider.com)
3 points by christhecaribou 1y ago|1 comments
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by christhecaribou 1y ago
Sure, if we all collectively ignore model collapse.
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Amazon says it will reduce its workforce as AI replaces human employees(cnn.com)
4 points by christhecaribou 1y ago|0 comments

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