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by ctvo 4y ago
List your preferred retailers for the various product categories that meet the requirements in the comment you quoted. No need to cover Canada, the EU, and other regions that Amazon supports. US only is fine.
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by ctvo 4y ago
I love when we don't acknowledge the suggestion is the pain point. I can't get to work because I lack access to transportation. Crazy idea buy a car! Geez, why didn't I think of that? Finding a reputable online retailer, wi
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by ctvo 4y ago
Things that just work and are delight to use and the AWS Amplify CLI are not often mentioned together. The Amplify CLI is a growing collection of poorly thought out, poorly implemented functionality that looks good in demos, but falls apart
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by ctvo 4y ago
At Twitter's scale? It is not.
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by ctvo 4y ago
> The headline may overstate whatever happened. Or... it was broken for normal users and is now fixed. The newspaper said there was a fire at this building? Yet, it looks fine to me now?
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by ctvo 4y ago
No one gets cots tonight. Everyone is sleeping on the cold, concrete floors.
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by ctvo 4y ago
I agree, we don't have enough data. And a common mistake is extrapolating too much from limited data, but here's the most important data point and why we continue to use these practices: these companies are worth trillions of doll
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by ctvo 4y ago
> Why is that controversial? I don't know if it's controversial, but I think for most people, keeping up with your current card statement isn't something you do daily. Sometimes companies have a way to notify you of new ch
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by ctvo 4y ago
I assumed it was T-Mobile after I wiped the phone and had the follow-up incident where a verification code via SMS was successfully verified. I used an iPhone, Safari mobile, Google search engine.
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by ctvo 4y ago
2FA with authenticator. As someone correctly points out, Google appears to keep SMS as a recovery option unless you specifically opt out? Edit: I can't actually find a help article, but it's under "Try another way to sign-in&
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by ctvo 4y ago
> BTW - give me some of that big-swinging-credit-balls you seem to gotts... 15 * 500 = 7,500 USD. Having a steady job should put that within reach.
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by ctvo 4y ago
2FA on everything. No password reused. Only similarity is both had the T-Mobile number attached to them. I initially thought only Amazon was compromised. I thought it was due to us throwing away a FireTV device (assumption: we didn't l
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by ctvo 4y ago
I was a victim of this last October and November on a T-Mobile number. This is what occurred: - My Gmail account was compromised - My Amazon account was compromised In Gmail, they added a filter to hide any shipping or customer service mess
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by ctvo 4y ago
... seems like a quick thing to level set for all involved? Ignorance on how management processes work due to lack of exposure doesn't seem to support you hinting at there being a mismatch of aptitude.
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by ctvo 4y ago
> Caught up in Stripe’s Nov 2022 layoffs, which primarily affected new hires like me. Both in the author's resume and in the article they felt the need to clarify that Stripe layoffs hit new hires primarily (... it wasn't due t
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by ctvo 4y ago
> I have - and the numbers show that much of the big cloud growth is in AI services. The "we need to throw in AI somewhere" concurrent trend is heavily bolstering what would other wise be much more drastic retractions in growt
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by ctvo 4y ago
AWS is a 75 bln a year business still growing 20%+ YoY. It’ll break 100 bln this year. I would examine the numbers yourself.
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by ctvo 4y ago
> This is why any criticism of AWS reliability is meaningless to me. Is anyone tracking reliability for these public providers? Would be curious how AWS compares to Azure and GCP. My experience is it's better, but we may have avoid
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by ctvo 4y ago
> Doesn’t mean it’s a nonsense position to hold. I'm not sure on that. It's backed by very little legally or culturally. Lawyers, doctors, finance professionals, and other high paying, salaried professions include the expectati
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by ctvo 4y ago
> Then, they can do the job themselves after my 40 hours. Are you in the US? Do you work for hourly wages? I've always been confused why salaried workers think they only need to work 40 hours a week. There's an employment agree
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by ctvo 4y ago
Somewhere, someone hit bingo for guessing a reference to Teddy Roosevelt's speech re: the man in the arena would be invoked. - https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/man-in-the-arena.html
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by ctvo 4y ago
I think we're on the same page. I only wanted to further contrast for readers the difference between something like fly.to and AWS. There's a lot of pros / cons, and one of them is selection. I wasn't sure what the dedic
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by ctvo 4y ago
> When you consider ARM vs AMD vs Intel vs current-gen vs last-gen, AWS sells several 8-core 32-GB machines that have wildly varying performance characteristics. This is actually a benefit of AWS and other large public clouds. You have
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by ctvo 4y ago
Anything not these: > The EC2 burstable instances consist of T4g, T3a and T3 instance types, and the previous generation T2 instance types. Your point still stands. Here's a m6g.2xlarge with 32GiB of memory and 8 vCPUs (AWS Graviton
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by ctvo 4y ago
The folks over at SO picked a stack (C#, SQL Server, IIS), and optimized the heck out of it to keep this "simplicity". Much of SO is custom built from the ground up to push performance and stay within the purity of the canonical .
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by ctvo 4y ago
> Blizzard didnt lose the battle in terms of customer experience. Those people mostly played in servers like ggarena with low populations, kinda like WoW. They most certainly did in this case. This was for the private beta of WC3, not th
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by ctvo 4y ago
They tried very hard to stop it. Eventually the lead developer of the WarForge (emulated server) effort was approached with a job offer from Blizzard. One thing about Blizzard is they’re extremely litigious wrt to piracy and emulated server
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by ctvo 4y ago
Does anyone remember when Warcraft 3 was in beta and got leaked? Pirates created an emulated Battle.net that could work with the beta assets and had matchmaking, ladder, etc. working. Hundreds of thousands played. Blizzard released patches
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by ctvo 4y ago
> Employee morale doesn't matter when the market is full of hireable workforce (when/if they hire). I'd take the bet that it takes just as much time on average for Meta to hire a new engineer as it did before 2021, across
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by ctvo 4y ago
> as it turns out, uncaring data collection machineries don't care about patients. I'm not sure this is true. The current implementation -- maybe. But the incentives, from an outsider's perspective, seem to align? 1. Healt

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