christhecaribou

This is the world capitalists are building.

“Gemini Rue” and “Technobabylon” were my favorites, but they recently released a new title about time travel called “Old Skies”.

It actually made me cry and email the studio director. It was a masterpiece.

The first level or two of management are completely useless and operate more as “slave drivers” than engineers.

> Yeah but they wouldn't risk disruption.

Funny, they said the same thing about AWS before layoffs last year.

Because investors aren’t actually very intelligent, beyond some vague desire to “make my money bigger”.

Right after that egregious U.S.-east-1 outage?

There’s clear data that shows an increase in the frequency and severity of LSEs post RTO3 in 2023, and it looks like RTO5 has accelerated that trend.

“Little evidence?” If the “aws” partition doesn’t actually exist when IAD breaks, Amazon hasn’t even discovered how to make multi-region cloud infrastructure. That’s a big deal.

The real story from this incident is that Amazon’s “aws” partition doesn’t actually have multiple regions - effectively, it’s all IAD in a trench-coat.

This is a big deal. My employer has already started to look at bringing back our old racks from storage and switching back to on-premises. Cannot imagine he’s alone in that.

It just makes me sick growing up in the USA, hearing about the beauty of “competition”, and then growing up to see that not only does it not exist… they cannot even be bothered to pretend.

Especially when big employers all collude in the open.

And yet here you are, perpetuating the “crabs in a bucket” mentality that continues to be a blight on our industry.

Great time to be a recruiter in Seattle outside AMZN and MSFT.

Asinine opinion.

If they were going to outsource, why haven’t they already?

In fact, the tech industry has tried continuously to outsource and it always gets rolled back for shoddy work.

What’s the secret sauce this time?

Microsoft is committed to becoming as terrible as Amazon, I guess.

I’m so sick of seeing people justify why we cannot have nice things, as though it were a fact of nature.

Is brass more expensive than it used to be?

How does that boot taste?

I hope you leave the workforce so some younger, less brainwashed folk can clean up the crock of shit you left behind.

I hope your mediocre manager ass gets canned.

What a bootlicking moron.

I’ve only been at AWS for seven years, but it’s a completely different company than it was in 2018.

Sure, if we all collectively ignore model collapse.

What actually happened? You speak with such authority, how do you know what “actually happened”?

For all we know, this actually was planned by Amazon and Bezos did intervene to change their mind.

I find it so hilarious that Andy Jassy is never mentioned when discussing Amazon leadership.

Listing the impact of tariffs on product prices is some of the strongest customer obsession the retail side of Amazon has shown in years. Shame to see Trump sabotage it.

Yes.

I downvoted then thought about it more and changed my mind.

It’s a fascinating idea to consider. If we could hold shareholders of companies like UnitedHealthCare or Boeing accountable for unethical behavior… it would sure stop fast.

I would never support violence against another… But it is very satisfying to see these executives finally get what’s coming to them. I expect we’ll be seeing a lot more of this over the next few years if trends continue as they have.

The real “customers”.