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by ckdarby 3y ago
Lot of folks are already doing this with remote simply without the pay cut. It's fair when someone is able to accomplish the expectations before the allocated time but a lot of individuals are not equipped or built for remote and don&#
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Ask HN: Why hasn't AWS bandwidth egress cost come down?
6 points by ckdarby 3y ago|3 comments
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by ckdarby 3y ago
But did you give up your citizenship? Not much to regret when you always have the plan B.
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by ckdarby 3y ago
This is where feeding all written communication, tickets, docs, etc into a model solves this. The model provides that "Google search" experience, but for specific to the company.
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by ckdarby 3y ago
From my perspective, the upkeep of maintaining such versions is far from trivial. It involves dedicated resources ensuring the regularity and reliability of backups. Furthermore, it's rare to find organizations conducting comprehensive
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by ckdarby 3y ago
Coming from a Canadian, you're in for a shock if you think New York doesn't have intense winters as well.
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by ckdarby 3y ago
Isn't the Jones Act the same act that has to be waived every time Puerto Rico needs aid? Sounds like a terrible legacy law that needs to be reworked.
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by ckdarby 3y ago
"these assholes", with statements like that I'm discouraged to take the post in good faith. I've used Amazon for 10 years and I'm beyond a 1000 orders with them and everything in OPs post runs counter to my experien
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by ckdarby 3y ago
Cross key syncing service. You plug both yubikeys in. Authenticate on both keys using the tool and then you're able to transfer/backup. Corporate management offerings around Yubikeys, inventories, call back home to renew an expiry
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by ckdarby 3y ago
Grafana has been down the path of being a sell out for the parent company to drive towards their other offerings to make money.
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by ckdarby 3y ago
If you use GPT4 as a "routing" service to send down to other models the journey is only beginning and most of the industry hasn't understood we're well beyond a doubling at the moment.
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by ckdarby 4y ago
It was a great way to get out of paying large severances and people quit over it.
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by ckdarby 4y ago
That has always been the recommended strategy I've seen being told. Most people get stuck in lifestyle creep while there and aren't able to properly save.
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by ckdarby 4y ago
> * I thought it would be okay to be unemployed a few months so long as I have savings to tide me over. Up until recently did I not know it also makes it harder to bargain for higher pay. False, it shouldn't make it harder to bargai
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by ckdarby 4y ago
I worked at a company where a DevOps team was 5 to support a team of 35. They hired someone incredibly talented, knowledgeable and driven for change. They shrunk in size and are still over capacity and could now be 2 only. Don't look a
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by ckdarby 4y ago
> "Over the past year, electricity prices have gone up 2.5 times, which, with a large number of servers, gives a significant increase in costs that we have no way to balance." They could have reinvested the earnings in the past
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by ckdarby 4y ago
Monday, FDIC allows $250k. Let's say within the same week they're able to provide 50% of the depoits back. There are still many companies that will not survive waiting +3 months for the other potential remaining 50%.
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by ckdarby 4y ago
Uneducated in this space, but why don't we see more T-Bill ownership transfer? I owe vendor $100k. I transfer $100k of T-bills. They are paid cash equivalent, no? The obvious thing that comes to mind is I am guessing there is some lock
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by ckdarby 4y ago
I worked at a company for about four years with the payments processing in that time ranging from $300M to $3B. The rate is the area to give the least concern to, but novices in the field always get hyper focused on. Approval ratios, charge
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by ckdarby 4y ago
Why would a company shut it down and not just use it for their own internal productivity gain?
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by ckdarby 4y ago
While correct that few services out of the total are cross-region I think only a few need to be to get the bulk of functionality. If restoration(S3 & snapshots) and networking are both cross region it is possible to avoid outages withou
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by ckdarby 4y ago
Isn't this partially solved from the software side though? It is common in my work to see read replicas of 2-3. Sometimes those replicas are split up into smaller "shards" across multiple disks even further. Restoring might b
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by ckdarby 4y ago
Large scale power management like this can help smooth out the supply and demand fluctuations.
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by ckdarby 4y ago
Depends on where you live. In Quebec, Canada I'm paying $0.064 to $0.098/kWh
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by ckdarby 4y ago
Ha, isn't that what basements are for these days?
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by ckdarby 4y ago
I am an amazing "2nd in command" employee. I struggle taking nothing to something and the dedication required to get market fit to build revenue. On the other hand I find building profit one of the most enjoyable and fun things! I
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by ckdarby 4y ago
Two good friends were running a sketchy Instagram business back in the day. They had a massive churn issue around 3 months. They knew this was a cash cow that was printing money but someday it'd come to a end abruptly. I suggested to t
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by ckdarby 4y ago
The last 5% isn't needed. I'm already seeing companies shift to not needing ~20-60% of their staff.
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by ckdarby 4y ago
I work with +1 PB datasets all day, two tech workers working from home, and I even stream to Twitch without a hitch for the same speed. Move the heavy lifting "lots of data" out of your home network into your works network. Seriou
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by ckdarby 4y ago
200 mbit down & 20 mbit up is meh for a household of two?

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