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by txcwpalpha 6y ago
Worse than that, "A"/"a" on AWS can actually mean AMD or ARM. An "a1.large" instance is an instance with a first-gen Graviton ARM CPU (whereas the second-gen Graviton2 ARM CPUs are something like "c6g
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by txcwpalpha 6y ago
My hope is that the proliferation of “transportation as a service” will eventually get to the point where all of those frictions you mentioned will be alleviated. If we stop treating cars like a personal sanctuary like you mentioned, perhap
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by txcwpalpha 6y ago
I don’t know how it happened (never dropped it or yanked the cord hard or anything like that), but I’ve had the little USB-C tongue thing get a slightly bent downwards in the port which made it very difficult to plug in. I’ve seen a lot of
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by txcwpalpha 6y ago
This is true for me if I’m going to the park or camping or something like that, but for a typical day at the office or shopping, I don’t really need to be carrying around a carload of stuff. There are many small conveniences that come from
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by txcwpalpha 6y ago
Regarding your first point, it’s true that the part that wears out in Lightning is in the port, but on the flip side, the port of the USB-C is much more fragile (the internal “tongue” or whatever you want to call it is prone to breakage). T
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by txcwpalpha 6y ago
It doesn't happen on something like an A380 (especially since there isn't exactly any other plane type to switch to from an A380 without huge issues), but it's pretty common on smaller jets, especially in the A320 family or 7
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by txcwpalpha 6y ago
Even within the US, women are the majority. And I really doubt that reddit's intention was to say that it's okay to be hateful specifically towards women. I think it's more narrow-minded than that. My guess is that reddit emp
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by txcwpalpha 6y ago
My mind is blown that the CEO, legal, public relations, and any other higher ups approved this. It can be spun in so many different ways and opens up a huge can of worms. Asians are the majority group globally, so is reddit saying it&#x27
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by txcwpalpha 6y ago
About time. However, this move was mostly symbolic. r/the_donald has been inactive for months without a single new post on it. AFAIK the community had already moved on to another site off reddit. Much more significant IMO is that the b
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by txcwpalpha 6y ago
>Finally, many scientific matters are settled (such as that climate change exists, that there was systemic discrimination of PoCs even long after abolishment of slavery and that Earth is not flat). And who is it that decides when a scien
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by txcwpalpha 6y ago
Even if the internal discussions were "other services do this and we want a piece of that pie", no company is going to come out in a product launch announcement and directly say "another service is doing this and we want a pi
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by txcwpalpha 6y ago
Better yet, why not have the best of both worlds? I know most devs are hesitant to try anything that's "always online", but remote development apps have really gotten better recently. VSCode with the Remote extension makes do
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by txcwpalpha 6y ago
>makes fan noise I couldn't help but chuckle at including this particular gripe in a list of otherwise very impactful downsides of docker. I mean, I hate it when my laptop starts sounding like a jet engine too, but...
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by txcwpalpha 6y ago
This is such a strange comment to me. The issue with the AWS UI isn't that it's "ugly", the issue IMO is that it is the exact opposite of the things you claim it is. > the most bare bones UI The AWS UI is one of the
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by txcwpalpha 6y ago
You're right, and I did think of that after I clicked "reply". What I meant was that a company with so much resources doesn't seem to have that capability. Even with such a large size, I would imagine Amazon of all compa
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by txcwpalpha 6y ago
>On the other hand, I absolutely loathe every single UI that has ever come out of AWS, and there is absolutely no chance I give the editor they've built here a shot without hearing lots of positive reactions first. I agree so much w
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by txcwpalpha 6y ago
I think it's great for small teams and small organizations who will likely naturally come to a standardized way of doing things. I think it also can be great for larger organizations as long as that organization has a decent way to enc
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by txcwpalpha 6y ago
Mine does. I agree wholeheartedly with the parent commenter. My personal G Drive looks similar to yours. It looks like your Drive is mostly used by you, and not many (if any) other collaborators. The problem is that my work G Drive is an u
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by txcwpalpha 6y ago
None of these things are specifically related to teaching programming. This is just the author's personal list of things they hate about Python, and they're using "what language should we teach newbies?" as an attempt to
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by txcwpalpha 6y ago
I think that is a slightly different use case, though. That demo was an x86 binary running on ARM MacOS via a translation layer. So if there is a MacOS x86 version of the app you want to run, that might be an option. But I know a lot of peo
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by txcwpalpha 6y ago
The end goal isn't just using Windows for Windows sake, the reason people use Windows on mac hardware is to get access to apps that run on Windows. And most of those apps still run like garbage (if at all) on the ARM versions of Wind
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by txcwpalpha 6y ago
>It sounded like they just said "A12Z" in a Mac. I'm not entirely sure I got that right. That is what was said, but the A12Z is the current SoC that is in current iPad Pros. Craig said that the machine he was on was a &quo
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by txcwpalpha 6y ago
"Personal Computer" has long been specifically associated with Windows machines and specifically excludes Mac and Linux. It started with the "IBM Personal Computer" and its branding caused non-IBM machines (eg Macintosh)
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by txcwpalpha 6y ago
I think parent commenter isn't just worried about the e-ink display, but the general fact that the entire device itself is going to be sitting in dirty shipping containers, warehouses, trucks, etc without any kind of covering. I know I
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by txcwpalpha 6y ago
“DDoS insurance” would almost certainly be covered under cyber security insurance, which any decently sized organization should have these days. Even without that, I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s covered by other forms of insurance, such as
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by txcwpalpha 6y ago
Zoom is primarily on AWS and some Azure. That recent story re: Oracle is talking about an expansion into OCI, but AFAIK they aren’t there yet. https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/most-zoom-runs-aw...
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by txcwpalpha 6y ago
According to Speedtest.net [0], the average US internet speed is 138Mbps down/51Mbps up. That's certainly not amazing, but on average that's only ~2 weeks to upload 8 TB. I can certainly see where this makes more sense if you
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by txcwpalpha 6y ago
That's true for hardware that's actually "in the cloud" (aka at an AWS data center) where a hardware failure simply results in your workload automatically shifting to other hardware. But if a Snowcone breaks on you, it s
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by txcwpalpha 6y ago
Holy hell. I'm looking at the pricing example on this page [0], and at $460 to transfer out 15 TB, you're telling me this is less than half the price of normal internet outbound traffic? I knew AWS bandwidth costs were absurd, but
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by txcwpalpha 6y ago
I'm with you. I think this is really cool but I have a hard time finding a use case for it. The use case for the other Snow products (Snowball, Snowmobile) are clearer, as they are for transferring petabytes of data to/from AWS wi

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