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by paragraft 6y ago
That sounds exactly like a book[1] I've been reading to my toddler. It hadn't occurred to me while reading you could experience the titular "moon" so viscerally. 1: https://mindhealth.org/store/There
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by paragraft 6y ago
Google Maps is really expensive compared to the other GIS providers. Amazon's just reselling those same services. Google seems to coast somewhat on the strength of their map (including the unique and very hard to replicate StreetView).
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by paragraft 6y ago
Yes, and you only organisationally learn this distinction really once you've been say, bitten hard by a contract renewal that completely up-ends your architecture, requiring huge efforts to stay in compliance with the new terms because
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by paragraft 6y ago
That design raises the question as to what happens to passwords. Do they get replicated in the global table in plaintext? Or are you still forced to do a global user password reset if you want to failover to another user pool?
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by paragraft 6y ago
For posterity, the above is no longer correct. They updated their example to use 200 EC2 instances, which was most of the disparity, and it seems they do actually use 1024 KB/MB in a KB/MB, while I had in my head from elsewhere in
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by paragraft 6y ago
I saw the examples, but that was even more confusing because I think the maths is wrong on almost all the calcs: From the example: "Writes cost: $ 8.64 per month. This is computed as: ( 2 writes * 100 EC2 instances * 60 minutes * 24 ho
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by paragraft 6y ago
The pricing page seems off, $0.03 per GB-hour for the magnetic store, while the unreleased SSD store is $0.0004167 per GB-hour? Comparing with S3 prices surely the magnetic store is closer to $0.03 per GB-month?
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by paragraft 6y ago
When I search for "clock with Roman numerals" on Google images I see about 50% use IIII.
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by paragraft 6y ago
One starting observation I'd venture is those countries (and Canada) base their policing on Peelian principles, which establish a basis of policing and the relationship with the public. The US police culture had different roots. Edit:
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by paragraft 6y ago
I agree, but think the virtue is as much as in the actual process of writing the summary forces the summoner to clearly work out ahead of time what the meeting is actually about and what it is aiming to achieve.
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by paragraft 6y ago
One aspect that bugs me about the situation that I've not seen mentioned is this disingenuous language Apple employs repeatedly in justifying its right to a percentage take on the basis of the services it's providing in distributi
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by paragraft 6y ago
Quite. Plenty of people who've had their small businesses targeted by various social media bandwagons for non-business reasons in the past few years.
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by paragraft 6y ago
Simple, just have an OAuth login panel at the toilet to make sure your data gets assigned correctly.
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by paragraft 6y ago
I remember being fairly asthmatic as a kid until a year of clarinet. I also enjoyed rather suddenly being able to hold my breath over the duration of a nearby bridge in car trips, a talent I lorded over my brother who hadn't opted for
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by paragraft 7y ago
I've thought about this for different reasons lately and concluded that companies that operate internally as a market would be vulnerable to second system syndrome, ie just becoming a poor imitation of the actual market. You could argu
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by paragraft 7y ago
Yes they goofed on that. They do correctly state marketshares later in the article (i.e AWS #1)
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by paragraft 7y ago
Tangentially: I don't understand why they have storage costs so high for DDB still (hasn't changed since 2013) when Aurora's charging $0.10 GB-month (with 6 way redundancy at that, vs DDB's 3x)...
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by paragraft 7y ago
Coworker used it to generate a visual history of all the changes a departing colleague had made in his time at the company. Put it up on a wall at his farewell party, was a nostalgia trip for those who remembered many of the older directory
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by paragraft 7y ago
Sounds like putting milk at the back of the store.
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by paragraft 7y ago
Auth0 (and others) and Cognito (which is a good example of the incumbents thriving because I don't know anybody who's that happy with Cognito)
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by paragraft 7y ago
I think the idea's to go like a Pringles can, with a spiraling single seam.
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by paragraft 7y ago
If you want to see them in a film then the Bond film The World Is Not Enough is for you.
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by paragraft 7y ago
Yeah the performance point is interesting, and I think it has merit in a well-defined scope . The idea of bringing DB concepts up is something I've seen done, but it wasn't a pleasant experience overall and I think everyone invol
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by paragraft 7y ago
Thanks, the Derek Sivers piece rings a bell now (and maybe was going into my thinking on this), and the other two will go into my notes to avoid having to repeat myself the next time this one inevitably comes up on the office Slack...
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by paragraft 7y ago
I'd like to see someone have a decent go at reexamining the idea that business logic (BL) doesn't belong in the DB and tease apart exactly what that should mean, if it's actually still true, or even if it's ever actually
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by paragraft 7y ago
My understanding was that was just a limitation on the first batch, as they're still developing the design, but they're intending to cross link in future. Is that not the case?
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by paragraft 7y ago
Water availability and weather events damaging crops I think are the big dangers. Greater variation in weather events isn't good for agriculture in either direction. Flooding at one end (like the midwest US got hit with badly this year
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by paragraft 8y ago
Update: nearly 3 hours now and still going. Feels like there might be a CPU benchmark here. Update final: After just over 4 hours it appears to have given up without actually filling anything.
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by paragraft 8y ago
In related news I just found a way to lock up mspaint using flood fill. 7 minutes and counting so far.
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by paragraft 8y ago
Yeah I don't see how it works. Google tells me hydrogen's got ~3x the energy density of gasoline. That's quite a numbers gap.

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