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by donavanm 5y ago
I don’t think that reading is correct. The headline 35k reinfections of 2,796k individuals is for all infections to date. The very recent reinfection data for the last few weeks, which is where omicron is circulating, is much worse: >
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by donavanm 5y ago
> However, core services like STS rely on us-east-1 so it's particularly susceptible to disruption. FYI this example hasn’t been true for a while. STS regional endpoints are generally what you should be using these days. The “global
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by donavanm 5y ago
You may not be looking at the same market. Some comparisons: AWS $16,000M revenue Q3 Azure $9,000M est revenue Q3 GCP $4,500M revenue Q3 OVH $181M revenue Q3 (~46M "cloud") Cloudflare $172M Q3 Hetzner $277M est revenue (201
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by donavanm 5y ago
Similar to what others have said try design technologist or front end engineer at Amazon/AWS. UX Designers do a little bit of development work, but more along the lines of functional wireframes from what Ive seen. Happy to make an inte
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by donavanm 5y ago
The mismatch is the "only one" vs "using one" switch comment. That would be an insane circuit with time and material costs to match to meet residential code with 18 devices and a handful of switches covering every door,
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by donavanm 5y ago
Not quite. Cloudfront predates Global Accelerator and has all its own infrastructure/routing/etc to answer client queries, get them to a nearby AWS pop, and return local content or fetch content from your single origin. GA is simi
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by donavanm 5y ago
I suspect the parent is mixing up the other weeks news about the ballistic to orbital to trans continental glide path demonstration that significantly challenges traditional ballistic missile defense due to the orbital & glide path conp
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by donavanm 5y ago
The UI is nearly the same. These large shells were used for two primary purposes. One was that early in the development cycle you wont have much hardware thats in the final form factor or specs. The work would be done in an “acrylic” asse
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by donavanm 5y ago
I think your latter pattern is referred to as “envelope encryption” or “data key encryption.” This allows you to store ciphertext and decrypt on demand. Bonus points is using a different datakey per customer/logical container/etc
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by donavanm 5y ago
I haven’t looked at your API but a subtly critical aspect of diagnostics or introspection is being able to query from multiple client locations/resolvers. It’s really important to be able to disambiguate the “view” different clients ha
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by donavanm 5y ago
What youre stumbling on is these “big tech” cos are growing horizontally when possible, and its normally local engineering roles that used to seed build and manage new teams. Thats why there some pretty extreme reactions to promotion proces
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by donavanm 5y ago
Can you clarify point two? I was under the impression that the wide consensus was for Graviton instances to have significantly better price performance for most workloads. And the current state of arm support is surprisingly good for openso
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by donavanm 5y ago
It may be apocryphal but that story is generally credited to Venom, and accident rather than intention.
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by donavanm 5y ago
With some quick and dirty `time` style tests zstd has a pretty low overhead. IIRC writing was around off = 100, lz4 = 110, zstd = 115 cpu utilization on my personal data set that resulted in 1x, 1.7x, 2.1x compression. Reading was negligibl
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by donavanm 5y ago
Youre just looking in the wrong place. Business and finance reporting has been covering the chinese property market, and commercial & consumer debt, for quite a while. The economist has had coverage of Evergrande every couple of weeks f
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by donavanm 5y ago
So the original comment was that When a person is in over their head, they can possibly file for bankruptcy. When a government gets in over their head bad things happen too, up to and including wars. For a government default is *very* sim
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by donavanm 5y ago
> When a government gets in over their head bad things happen too, up to and including wars. Do they? I havent looked in a while but my recollection (of south america in particular) is that the impact of government bond default is actual
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by donavanm 5y ago
10-15% annual attrition is normal. If this is ~36 total departures in a quarter (2%) its entirely in line. But if its 36 in addition to some unspecified baseline it would be a moderate problem.
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by donavanm 5y ago
I believe its the general term for games which were pre rendered/animated as opposed to being sprite based or rendered during game play. The most common wxample I recall is probably https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by donavanm 5y ago
Around $20 for the incredibly new mrna based vaccines. Other versions, like oxford-astrazeneca, are single digit USD per dose. As I recall ISI has set a price ceiling of about $4/dose there. These vaccines are so stupidly cheap and c
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by donavanm 5y ago
> the department shall allow the hunting and trapping “Shall allow” is the operative phrase here. This is legal direction from the legislature on what actions the executive will undertake.
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by donavanm 5y ago
> They'd rather just cargo cult an ugly McMansion that was produced at the lowest cost possible? Yes, very much. That's how a lot of trends and styles move "down market." The new consumers want teh appearance of wha
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by donavanm 5y ago
Meh, handwavy opinion piece that comes back to the “droplets vs particles” argument with plenty of misdirection thrown in. For a better survey of the research landscape try https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles&#x2F
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by donavanm 5y ago
Take a look at https://aws.amazon.com/careers/military/ and the technical apprenticeship path. No experience required, payed apprenticeship w/ real on the job training, full time offer on completion, multiple
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by donavanm 5y ago
Im a principal at AWS and hobbyist metal worker. Your welding analogy holds in more ways as well. The hobbyist or art welder simply may be able to make something thats attractive or satisfies their own needs. But it absolutely wont be su
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by donavanm 5y ago
“Regular” is the key point, that doesnt include frequency. Im in australia but did 6 trips to NA/EU in the year before the pandemic. Ideally Id aim for ~3 to cover the major business process/planning/promo cycles. Thats not t
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by donavanm 5y ago
I don’t speak for stripe, but do have similar experience with idempotent APIs. > the idempotency functionality is created in a kind of layer around the main application functionality … Yes. Think of it as a kind of request/response
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by donavanm 5y ago
Very similar to the approach AWS takes with ‘clientToken’ being an API parameter, not transport/protocol header, for operationz that need it. If clients dont specify a value the SDK will populate the idempotency token and handle retrie
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by donavanm 5y ago
Uh, what? I’m in Sydney and as I write this it looks like we’re going in to full on metro outbreak and lockdown this weekend. For the third time, IIRC. The country’s vaccinated approximately no one, there’s been near zero entry or exits of
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by donavanm 5y ago
Bringing bookings in to google maps has been a huge challenge for hospitality. This is flowing through to search as well. I recall someone from the industry doing a great breakdown of changes to the maps UI over time, and tying it to bookin

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