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by ta1243 1y ago
The second by a long shot. Detecting things are down is far easier than detecting things are slow. I'd rather that oom started killing things though than a kernel panic or a slow system. Ideally the thing that is leaking, but if not th
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by ta1243 1y ago
There's a lot of ground between Ally (which Greenland and the US were in 2024) and Active invasion Starlink removing service is nowhere near as extreme as America jamming starlink (which would be a breach of international treaties)
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by ta1243 1y ago
Starlink is run by a company based in a country which has threatened to invade Greenland, with a CEO who is aligned with the leadership of that country.
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by ta1243 1y ago
Yes. There's nothing particularly special about visible light https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_radio_emission
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by ta1243 1y ago
Normally with crime we arrest people. Half the problems in the world seem to stem from the fact companies are unaccountable.
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by ta1243 1y ago
That gives positive outcomes. People vote for "leopards eating face" party because they want leopards to eat other peoples faces . You're relying on that party to do something they didn't say (it's not "leopar
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by ta1243 1y ago
> This would change if the government stopped taxing retained earnings. No it wouldn't, because > the money is still at risk (from a shareholder’s point of view) if something bad happens to the company (lawsuit or market problem)
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by ta1243 1y ago
Even in the best case scenario where they were a major global leader in EVs (difficult when you have an American mindset on what a car is), their valuation would still be less than 1/10th what it currently is.
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by ta1243 1y ago
Which really isn't a problem, unless you're being scanned so much your bandwidth is being overwhelmed. Certainly not the case for me, despite having port 80 and 443 open
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by ta1243 1y ago
Tesla had no option -- its valuation was based on some massive new gains in software/power/etc, not on being a great car company.
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by ta1243 1y ago
The rules aren't important. What's important is, it's linear. Every time I throw this ball, a hundred different things can happen in a game. He might swing and miss, he might hit it. The point is, you never know. You try to a
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by ta1243 1y ago
We could connect distributed computers on distributed networks together using some form of internetworking protocol.
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by ta1243 1y ago
> Something like 30% of all internet traffic goes through CloudFront in one way or another. Pretty cool, huh? No. No its not. But tech enthusiasts on HN and Reddit love it. (Another 30% runs through cloudflare)
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by ta1243 1y ago
Relying on AWS is a single point of failure. Not as much as relying on a single AWS region, but it's still a single point. It's fairly difficult to avoid single points of failure completely, and if you do it's likely your sup
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by ta1243 1y ago
Zero. By the time you get to GEO your are connected to a station which is in Geostationary orbit. Your 35 hour ascent at say 1000km/h will have accelerated you sideways to the required 3km/second with a sidewards acceleration of 0
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by ta1243 1y ago
Fine, our overseas offices are different companies and bills are paid for by different people. Not that "forgot to pay" is going to result in a cut off - that doesn't happen with the multi-megawatt supplies from multiple supp
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by ta1243 1y ago
Paying for resilience is expensive. not as expensive as AWS, but it's not free. Modern companies live life on the edge. Just in time, no resilience, no flexibility. We see the disaster this causes whenever something unexpected happens
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by ta1243 1y ago
You could never run a site like hacker news on a single box somewhere with a backup box a couple of states away. (/s, obviously)
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by ta1243 1y ago
> In the end, you live with the fact that your service might be down a day or two per year. This is hilarious. In the 90s we used to have services which ran on machines in cupboards which would go down because the cleaner would unplug th
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by ta1243 1y ago
It took me so long to realise this is what's important in enterprise. Uptime isn't important, being able to blame someone else is what's important. If you're down for 5 minutes a year because one of your employees broke
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by ta1243 1y ago
I'm a tech worker, and have been paid by a multi-billion dollar company to be a tech worker since 2003. Aside from Teams and Outlook Web, I really don't interact with Microsoft at all, haven't done since the days of XP. I&#x2
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by ta1243 1y ago
I created a DNS record in route53 this morning with no issues the Billing part of the console in eu-west-2 was down though, presumably because that uses us-east-1 dynamodb, but route53 doesn't.
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by ta1243 1y ago
More likely the outage reports for google and microsoft are based around systems which also include aws
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by ta1243 1y ago
What's really interesting is that a space elevator goes to Geostationary orbit by necessity. Getting to 100km vertically doesn't save as much as you might think when it comes to getting into orbit. To get into a very low earth orb
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by ta1243 1y ago
Or they all rely on AWS, because over the last 15 years we've built an extremely fragile interconnected global system in the pursuit of profit, austerity, and efficiency
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by ta1243 1y ago
Never choose a single point of failure. Or rather Ensure your single point of failure risk is appropriate for your business. I don't have full resilience for my companies AS going down, but we do have limited DR capability. Same with t
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by ta1243 1y ago
Meanwhile my pair of 12 year old raspberry pi's hangling my home services like DNS survive their 3rd AWS us-east-1 outage. "But you can't do webscale uptime on your own" Sure. I suspect even a single pi with auto-updates
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by ta1243 1y ago
What worries me is how the HN groupthink mentions it at every possibility. If people on HN aren't capable/willing to run their own kit there's no hope. In the slashdot days you'd never get such worship of tailscale and c
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by ta1243 1y ago
I can see benefits to a closed circuit camera. I've never felt the need personally. If it's not running free software and treated in a secure fashion (camera can't talk to anything other than the server, enforced at the netwo
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by ta1243 1y ago
The best time to not buy into all this non-free surveilence-as-a-service crap was a decade ago. The second best time is today. Unfortunately the public love this stuff, and are quite happy to have CCTV pointing at your house. Privacy never

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