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by dlenski 5mo ago
"there seem", not *their seem… argh, embarrassingly uneditable
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by dlenski 5mo ago
We have similar taxes in major cities in Canada (including both metro and provincial taxes here in Vancouver). Housing is still massively squeezed and unaffordable for many in the Vancouver metro area, but the taxes definitely have encour
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by dlenski 5mo ago
I worked there. Even if I were the stupidest and least curious engineer around (and I was far from it), that's basically irrelevant to what you're scolding me for here… As part of a team with both software development and op
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by dlenski 5mo ago
You're right of course to distinguish the control plane and data plane, and it sounds like you know more about this than I do for IAM. I disagree, though, that my post was "highly misleading" despite this omission. As a prac
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by dlenski 5mo ago
Yes, you're right, but in my experience the boundary between the data plane and the control plane is not always clear, and especially unclear on these foundational and basic services. There were enough "surprisingly control-plan
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by dlenski 5mo ago
> Call it an oh shit bar. Amazon's equivalent of this (sort of) was the "andon cord." Not only was the physical metaphor that led to this name never properly explained (it's basically an "emergency stop" str
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by dlenski 5mo ago
Yes, I'm certainly aware of the other partitions. That's why I said all the public cloud regions outside China. Yeah, "govcloud" is technically available to the public, although there are other partitions reserved fo
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by dlenski 5mo ago
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by dlenski 5mo ago
Yes, I concur. Sometimes the circular dependencies get almost cartoonishly silly. Like, "One of the two guys who has the physical keys to the server cage in us-east-1 is on vacation. The other one can't get into his apartment beca
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by dlenski 5mo ago
It wasn't heavily utilized when I worked at AWS, until 2024. If your customers are clusterrd in Toronto and Montreal, it probably makes a lot of sense to use ca-central-1. If you've got a lot of customers in Western Canada, us-wes
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by dlenski 5mo ago
Yep. All of the identity and access management services for the non-China public cloud are in us-east-1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48071472
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by dlenski 5mo ago
The idea that AWS's services are fully regionalized or isolated has always been a myth. All the identity and access services for the public cloud outside of China (aka "IAM for the aws partition" to employees) are centraliz
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by dlenski 5mo ago
> there is no age at which I will stop being embarrassed by the things I do not know. I'm with you on that! An additional fun (?) fact is that Nebraska has only senators, not state representatives, due to having a unicameral legis
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by dlenski 5mo ago
Agreed. There are a lot of companies with a few to a few thousand employees which are not aiming for the kind of rapid growth that attracts VCs, but at the same time doing interesting and challenging and productive work.
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by dlenski 5mo ago
Many people reading this headline will initially assume, as I did, that it refers to one of Utah's two US senators. Why not add the word "state" and immediately clarify this?
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by dlenski 5mo ago
Problems with the title: 1. The story is not about one of Utah's 2 US senators, but about one of its state senators. The title should probably say "Utah state senator." 2. There is a missing apostrophe in "reporter&#
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by dlenski 5mo ago
I've worked for two huge tech companies. At one (Intel from 2010-2015), I was on the hardware and manufacturing side. I was one of the hamsters keeping the Moore's Law Treadmill spinning. It was a great place to work. Almost w
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by dlenski 5mo ago
> They’re currently selling for $942.72 on Amazon. The price graphs of these are wild, wow. https://camelcamelcamel.com/product/B0CHGT1KFJ Looks like prices for NAND spiked at the end of last year, a couple of month
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by dlenski 5mo ago
I've returned (?) to the semiconductor industry, which is where I was working before I became a software developer at AWS and then at a scammy-but-VC-funded scientific computing startup. I've been writing software for ~35 years, h
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by dlenski 5mo ago
Okay, so that 122TB drive costs about $330/TB. I haven't bought a hard drive or an SSD in at least a decade (I get stuff for free, basically) but…that seems a bit high, right? Seems like well-rated consumer-level SSDs cost around
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by dlenski 5mo ago
> If software development is treated as a vehicle for self-exploration, rather than just a means to a financial end, this makes a lot more sense. From my experience, it also generally produces better software that doesn't come with
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by dlenski 5mo ago
While this is interesting and newsworthy, especially for those of us who live in Canada and have to deal with Canada’s Telco/Internet monopolies… this "article" itself appears to be a crappy LLM summary of some other piece of
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by dlenski 5mo ago
> If you believe in remote work, then why should it matter from where that work is delivered? Okay, well that's easy then. In general I am highly concerned about the negative social and productivity costs of remote work, in industri
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by dlenski 5mo ago
The article is full of interesting examples of linguistics differences between NK and SK, but… As someone with a degree in linguistics, I question whether the author of this article has a sufficient grasp on the subject to put it in prope
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by dlenski 5mo ago
Agreed. I usually hate on Apple, and its terribly ancient utilities and gratuitous incompatibility with modern Linux utilities, motivated by hatred of the GPL license. But in this case, I think what it's doing is… basically fine? &quot
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by dlenski 6mo ago
Same. This is the kind of HN content that I'm here for. > But as any parent knows, changing nappies is really one of the easier parts of looking after babies and toddlers. Agreed. I tell friends that, for me, changing diapers is m
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by dlenski 6mo ago
> Kudos to Rivian for making this a supported user privacy feature. Same. This is the first thing that I've ever read that makes me think I might be willing to buy a modern vehicle.
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by dlenski 6mo ago
> Yes, indeed it does. I didn't feel this way until I worked for a YC-backed startup tho. Same, same. Nothing made me skeptical about the tech industry like working for a VC-backed startup. Ugh.
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by dlenski 6mo ago
Yeah, I'm aware of warehouses that underreport their interior temperatures so that they don't have to give their employees adequate ventilation and breaks. Amazon in particular. It's really bad, but it's not quite the sa
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by dlenski 6mo ago
> The manipulation of weather sensors for profit has a history that long pre-dates prediction markets. Okay, I'm intrigued about what I've missed. Give me more information about this history, please.

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