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by dx034 4y ago
I always thought these rental models would be great if they gave you the hardware for free. Not having hundreds of configuration options would be an advantage for buyers and manufacturers. And you'd only pay for what you're using.
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by dx034 4y ago
While I agree that they won't shut down OVH France, I'd rather go with Hetzner Finland than Hetzner US. Mostly powered by renewables, much of that water, they'll be fine regardless of the availability of gas.
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by dx034 4y ago
Hetzner in Finland is probably cheaper and with lower latency for Europeans.
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by dx034 4y ago
If electricity becomes really scarce, they'll take some large industrial processes offline. Data centers won't be shut down. You'll be fine with OVH.
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by dx034 4y ago
I'm not the person you're responding to, but also think NULLS DISTINCT makes sense in many cases. NULLs often represent missing data. Imagine storing a customer's address and the street name is NULL. If several customers have
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by dx034 4y ago
Well, Balmer's been gone for 8 years, so MSFT shouldn't be seen as it was when he was CEO.
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by dx034 4y ago
All of Europe (or at least the EU) has VAT.
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by dx034 4y ago
Maybe because of the ecosystem? Although it doesn't seem to be too invasive if you can even grow crops under solar panels.
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by dx034 4y ago
You've clearly been working with the right people. I constantly get screenshots of error messages (not even the text of the traceback so that I could copy it) with questions about what that means. It takes some training for people to b
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by dx034 4y ago
I always wondered what latency requirements they must have in a distribution center that has to route packages dynamically and make those routing decisions within milliseconds. Surely there must be a lot of logic at the distribution center,
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by dx034 4y ago
They could get back to colocation. I think even AWS & Co don't own all physical buildings, they also rent parts of data centers in some locations. You don't need to own real estate or a physical building to run servers.
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by dx034 4y ago
With airplanes especially, optimal utilization is key. Routing millions of packages a day through such a complex network around weather and other incidents while keeping SLAs is simply astounding.
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by dx034 4y ago
Or the amazon cloud becomes the new IBM mainframe and in 20 years they all work on getting off it, but can't because they are so deeply integrated.
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by dx034 4y ago
They're not really competing on price but on quality. They make the most money with super urgent deliveries. If they offer later pick up times or earlier guaranteed deliveries, customers will be happy to pay more. And their IT system i
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by dx034 4y ago
That's like running against cost limits in AWS. If no money is spent, you won't have the flexibility. But it's not the fault of private clouds, they can be as flexible as a public cloud.
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by dx034 4y ago
I've seen that with a core banking system. A decade later it's still running, with many patches in other systems to avoid its shortcomings. there's still no viable plan for migration. Just because you don't invest in a s
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by dx034 4y ago
> The hardest part about the above isn't the tech, it is the internal norms that you're fighting against (e.g. staff have had terminal access for tens of years, and know the commands to get their work done by memory). I have sy
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by dx034 4y ago
That's how you do it. You don't stick with on-prem but just build your own cloud. At that size, AWS won't really buy hardware much cheaper than you. And while you can't build every cloud product that AWS has, the most po
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by dx034 4y ago
They have up to three racks for a flight simulator? I would've never thought they're that complex. Do they need that much computing power or is it other devices that are needed?
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by dx034 4y ago
No one says you can't have both. An on-prem data center for reliable workloads and cloud to try out new stuff and products or to get short-term capacity. But in the end, 95%+ of servers in your data center will run 24/7 and for ye
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by dx034 4y ago
I'm confused about the first data center in 2008. Surely they had data centers before that, or were they outsourced before? Automatic routing of deliveries has been the standard for many decades, I'm sure the code on their mainfra
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by dx034 4y ago
Fedex isn't building their own vehicles, same as they wouldn't build their own servers. But going cloud is more like outsourcing all transport activities to other logistics companies. No one says they have to do every part of DC o
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by dx034 4y ago
For a logistics company, the IT system is the differentiator. Reliably routing and tracking packages to maximize utilization of trucks and planes allows them to be cheaper and faster. That all depends on both hardware and software. So I&#x2
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by dx034 4y ago
As any cloud, you should always have spare capacity on-prem. Spinning up a VM on-prem doesn't have to be slower than in the Cloud. At this scale, you're just your own cloud provider.
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by dx034 4y ago
> Clearly FedEx is saving $400M/year while also funding Bezo's trips to space, no? I wonder how much they'd save if they rebuilt their infrastructure with own DCs. There are huge savings in decommissioning mainframes, swit
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by dx034 4y ago
The Equifax breach also didn't cause riots in the US. I don't see how that's different here.
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by dx034 4y ago
They'd probably just buy it to have it. That much data about foreign citizens can be valuable in many ways, from immigration to foreign intelligence.
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by dx034 4y ago
Another reason why not everyone should use the cloud. Sure, the cloud can be as secure as on-prem or even safer in many cases. But it's just so easy to keep on-prem data safe by just not connecting it to the outside world. If no server
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by dx034 4y ago
Are there any governments publishing world wide data over API? Couldn't find any last time I checked.
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by dx034 4y ago
I think it's never right to pull the lever, unless there aren't any humans on the other track. I'd sacrifice an animal or objects, but people should never be sacrificed for other people, unless they actively choose to.

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