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by simfree 4y ago
Colocation or especially server rental generally requires no persistent staffing. The datacenter has their own staff for tasks requiring physical intervention, and you have IPMI/iLO access to your servers for doing reboots and similar.
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by simfree 4y ago
Your company is hiring and retaining people who can't work with tooling outside Amazon Web Services?
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by simfree 4y ago
Trump's Tarriffs (which Biden has continued) and having formerly major Chinese exporters like Huawei, ZTE, Hikvision, Dauhua and such on the Named Entity List which blocks their hardware from import and starves them of USA encumbered c
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by simfree 4y ago
Companies like Reddit and Twitter (apparently) feel it's fine to lie to and deceive users without a non-fine print disclosure. Why confront poor behavior and encourage positive interactions when you can automatically shadowban and heav
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by simfree 4y ago
Regrettable attrition is going to be through the roof at Amazon this year. Last year was bad enough, the layoffs of these 20,000 employees are going to save significantly less than what attrition will cost Amazon this year: https:/&#x
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by simfree 4y ago
The evaluation system at Amazon drives a culture where most white collar staff won't be there 2 to 3 years from now and they realize they are in a stressful meatgrinder just around the time they start to gain a working knowledge of the
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by simfree 4y ago
From what I've heard frontend engineers are considered less skilled than backend engineers at Google?
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by simfree 4y ago
Sounds like Amazon is encountering legacy .NET Framework code that should have been upgraded to .NET 5, but Amazon's clients have spent the last few years not investing in their software and want to blame Microsoft for their own disinv
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by simfree 4y ago
Microsoft has built a first class, very performant ecosystem with .NET Core that happily plows through millions of queries on Debian and Postgres with minimal resources (512MB RAM and a slow CPU). Meanwhile, Microsoft has done an admirable
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by simfree 4y ago
No one your allowed to interact with at Amazon will be working at Amazon 2 to 3 years from now. Amazon is a meat grinder. Good luck making progress with people that are not invested in ensuring their finicky employer resolves your issue. Th
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by simfree 4y ago
Amazon burns through low and mid-level staff. The whole team your referring to probably has 1 to 2 years experience at Amazon and is under constant pressure to deliver results that look good for management otherwise bye bye job. Competence
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by simfree 4y ago
I would love to see DECT hacking on Yealink & Grandstream hardware to use these handsets with alternative basestations. DECT is much more durable and long range than WiFi for real time communication, I only wish fault conditions (batter
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by simfree 4y ago
Cloud pricing is often not competitive with an optimized on-prem platform that has noteworthy resource usage. It is wild to think some people see it as a cure all, when it has real risks of destroying a budget.
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by simfree 4y ago
Note that Cloudflare is cracking down on heavy caching, its an Article 10 violation. If they see you using terabytes of bandwidth a week (especially if your end users are in expensive regions like New Zealand or Australia) they will suspend
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by simfree 4y ago
Latency to in-region storage is not minimal like using SSDs on the same server. Often data in the same region can be at different physical data centers.
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by simfree 4y ago
More likely the cable owners or the reseller Google is going through for most of their LATAM traffic boosted their rates up, resulting in crazy transit costs. Transit costs should really be per ASN (eg: Sending 1TB to an ISP we peer with is
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by simfree 4y ago
Colo and even office/home hosting can be surprisingly affordable for non-critical workloads. $0.10/kWh power, Gigabit Fiber for $65 to $90 a month and free heating (computers are just as efficient as electric space heaters) can ma
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by simfree 4y ago
It feels like they are trying to push clients to use 3rd party storage platforms like Backblaze and Wasabi.
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by simfree 4y ago
GitHub, Teams, Office 365. Compare that to Google Chat, Google Docs and nothing for code sharing, plus Microsoft has every darn Managed Service Provider and IT guy shoving their product down businesses throats. Google has an inferior produc
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by simfree 4y ago
G-Suite is not a Microsoft 365 competitor. Only businesses with limited needs seem to use G-Suite, and theu supplement it with Microsoft software a fair bit to make using G-Suite palatable. I say this as a wholly anti-Microsoft person. Even
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by simfree 4y ago
Most use cases do not need triple redundancy with geographic redundancy. If you really do need this, just order this and use Wasabi as well ($6/TB, pricing below) and you will get all that along with having cross-provider redundancy.
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by simfree 4y ago
Sounds like you need to switch to a credit union ASAP
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by simfree 4y ago
Not just that, but you need to have sole access to said keys to ensure secure custody of your coins.
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by simfree 4y ago
They could have done a jury nullification.
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by simfree 4y ago
Crypto already is a partisan issue. There are those gullibule enough to think tokens can hold inherent value and those that don't fall prey to said crypto schemes. Everyone I have talked to in the last year who is willing to speak up f
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by simfree 4y ago
The QCI (QoS Class Identifier) for carrier provided voice and video (Android only) calls is generally much higher than normal data, and carriers monitor call handoff reliability between towers, Mean Opinion Scores (MOS, a rating of the audi
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by simfree 4y ago
This is what Apple claims, but what I heard back at AT&T was Apple demanded full payment for every sold device up front from AT&T, meanwhile every other vendor was providing multi-year financing. AT&T had much worse commissions
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by simfree 4y ago
Your flavor text has multiple misspellings and is repetitive.
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by simfree 4y ago
Stripe needs to implement real customer support. When it comes to Stripe, what choice do small businesses have? Tokenized Payment details are not portable, I can't take a saved debit or credit card in Stripe and slide it over to a Firs
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by simfree 4y ago
I don't think this is newsworthy at this point. My Pixel 6 and Pixel 7 both are unreliable when trying to call 911, calling with an over the top app or dialing the PSAP's number directly are the only workarounds. Google doesn&#x27

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