donavanm

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by donavanm 1y ago
Im like 90% sure ive seen folks (unofficially) disclose the original storage and API decisions over the years, in roughly accurate terms. Personally I think the multi dimensional striping/erasure code ideas are way more interesting t
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by donavanm 1y ago
Your phrasing _drastically_ undersells the actual relevant background and experience there: James hamilton the “mechanic” … with EE & CS degrees and time at ibm and ms. Dave Clark the “musician” (undergrad) … and an MBA focused on logis
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by donavanm 1y ago
“acoup” is also old french and middle english word along the lines of blow, strike, hit, overcome. Id always assumed it was the historic word myself.
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by donavanm 1y ago
> they could be trying to prevent someone from using their service to do a bunch of heavy lifting, then hosting the output somewhere else. I would bet a paycheck that this is the case. There was a pr/faq review that had an awkward q
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by donavanm 1y ago
If you like big beautiful storage and probabilistic structures check out https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi14/technical-sessions/... . The coho data folks ended up in AWS S3 a few years later.
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by donavanm 1y ago
In Australia, two friends who are uni professors, one in admin/leadership position for their faculty, and my partner teaches some science undergrad courses in their phd topics. It is absolutely that bad with both subtle pressures and b
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by donavanm 1y ago
Most of the access youre describing is based on AWSServiceRoleForSupport https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awssupport/latest/user/using-ser... . You can see both the IAM policy and the cloudtrail access logs in your
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by donavanm 1y ago
Good advice. Another “pro tip” i learned from an AMZN coworker; while learning a system start writing integration tests. Youll learn the existing vs expected behavior, youll improve the existing system, and you’ll see how your components in
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by donavanm 1y ago
I spent a few years at Apple, a decade+ in AWS, and now at another mega cloud co. IME expect 3 months to understand whats going on and become useful. Ask questions or “raise your hand” when stuck for a day, you should have an “onboarding bu
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by donavanm 1y ago
Dont forget the dualities of “nato article 5 is for suckers, theyre on their own” followed by “europe needs to pay us for nato protection.” Then “nato needs to increase defense spending and take care of themselves” followed by “you need t
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by donavanm 1y ago
Long term savings, productivity increases, and infrastructure investments. Buy less today to have more tomorrow. The us individual hardly saves at all, the US gov/society has financed decades of deficit spending n the outcome of ww2, 2
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by donavanm 2y ago
A late reply, but thats not how AWS IAM (or most advanced authz systems) work. AWS IAM is a “capability” system with dynamic policies; its nothing so simple as a “role” based authorization contrary to some product naming. To wit, every auth
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by donavanm 2y ago
The proximate cause seems to be a $100M claim from WB against VREG regarding additional finance costs for matrix revolutions circa 2021. VREGs counter(?) suit was recently kicked back and told to go to arbitration. VREG also claims to have
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by donavanm 2y ago
Look in to the AWS IAM “service description files” aka SDF. Thats exposed via the console Policy Builder or Policy Evaluator logic. The SDF _should_ encode all the context (eg resource attributes, principal metadat) that goes in to the auth
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by donavanm 2y ago
This is intentional. You, the caller, get a generic http 400 “resource does not exist or are not authorized” response and message. Providing additional information about resource existence or permissions opens an entire category of informat
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by donavanm 2y ago
This is pretty basic knowledge, there is only State and Collective owned land in the PRC. Individuals can only obtain _leases_ of State owned land. Property rights of _buildings_ are distinct, but will generally follow land title/lease
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by donavanm 2y ago
Honestly, he argument you make is quite confusing as it seems to conflate ideas/terms[1], redefine language[2], and draw distinctions[3] at will. It's a bit hard to reason about something when it mixes interpretations of 'wha
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by donavanm 2y ago
Entirely fair point, and it always makes internet discussions more complicated without innumerable caveats.
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by donavanm 2y ago
Thats a pretty reductive world view. I suppose “the monopoly of force and law implies control, and quote-unquote ownership, by the state.”? So, mission accomplished? The state already compels me to pay annual taxes based on the value of my
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by donavanm 2y ago
This isnt abstract, modulo reasonable thresholds Gifts are taxed as income by value in most countries. Inheritance (in the US) _is_ the weird wealth transfer exception.
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by donavanm 2y ago
Just say “ownership is theft” if thats what your argument reduces to. That said, I think the concepts around georgism and dynamic value based taxes are a bit more interesting and address the “land banking” concerns you inserted.
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by donavanm 2y ago
As others mentioned “everyone” has done variations of havac-and-racks-in-teu for the past 25 years. Heres Amazons version circa 2010, https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/amazon-sheds-ligh... You find them i
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by donavanm 2y ago
Ridiculous! His closest advisor, Conan, endorsed the era of treats and prosperity it would bring to all Argentinians! [to boil the frog for others, he's claimed his dogs (Conan) are his closest advisors]
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by donavanm 2y ago
Check out some of the reporting from before the election https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2023/09/07/meet-javie... Look at some of the actual details around his wish list, the fantasy of dollarizat
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by donavanm 2y ago
re: #3 a lot of the recent reporting (usually citing 'world gold council') points out that most of the large central bank purchasers are some combination of russian commodity purchasers, intertwined with the russian economy, or mi
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by donavanm 2y ago
Im in Sydney AU and parking spots are more like 50-100k. In the city center, or desirable suburbs you might see $150-200k. The city has also restricted parking permits to 1/residential address, and eliminated them for businesses. This
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by donavanm 2y ago
And Intrinsity.
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by donavanm 2y ago
> Not clear what happens now that Customs and Border Protection has to look at all those little boxes Push compliance on to the logistics providers, is my guess. Australia removed the low value VAT/GST exemption a few years ago. Any
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by donavanm 2y ago
I believe Qantas will be offering Sydney to London direct on a newer A350 variant latter this year. Should be about 20hrs direct. Travel to europe is a bit of a pain in that layovers and scheduling can easily blow it out to 30+ hours today,
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by donavanm 2y ago
more random support for your critique of a post-hoc, and historically ignorant, classification of "small cities". Offhand the CA capital contest was ongoing one and tracked from south/central CA towards the north in the mid 1

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