Big fan of sel4 for this.
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The political slant in X is why.
It is also my opinion that at all levels, motives and intent are driving dynamic forces in life. Ignoring them is a great way to waste your time, money and efforts. I can understand that not everyone feels this way, but I do. So perhaps that's where our interpretations differ.
If we stop navel-gazing at our salaries for a second, we should take a look at what developers who make a real difference do. I'm not talking about people who build stuff that leeches off consumer credit cards. I'm talking about TimBL, Matt Mullenweg, Bjarne Stroustrup, John Resig, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Linus Torvalds. They do things on principle, on values, and are self-confident enough not to care about chasing status. They're people who look at a world full of problems and want to actually help by sharing their ideas.
Those people generally build open, self-hosted solutions. They want to empower people, freeing us from the modern versions of AT&T and IBM. They make stuff that can run on a Pi or an old Celeron. Their stuff is standards-compliant, open, clean, simple, and user-auditable, so that it can be trusted and contributed to.
React was developed by Facebook, an app that steals your own family members' valuable time. Angular was developed by Google, and app that drains your own wallet. If you want to emulate their outcomes, by all means use their technologies. If you want to make a difference in the world, observe those who are making a difference and emulate them.
You probably don’t need a front end stack. You should just use the web standards as designed first, and then add improvements that customers like.
Developers wasting time on unnecessary fripperies is not a new thing: https://youtu.be/wHdHCoeUbU4
As a recovering front end developer of 20 years, someone who has played with every damn framework and used most of them professionally; just stick to web standards and ignore the frameworks unless you specifically need them.
For example: we are using HN. It is simple. It works. It does not need to change. It does not need to be reddit or twitter or whatever, to be engaging. It’s good because it’s focused simple and well maintained. Almost every app I enjoy that has been over complicated or lost touch with its user base has done so while implementing these frameworks. They are business death. See; Facebook (react destroyed fb), Google (angular destroyed AdWords and G Suite), and so on. You lose analytics, accessibility, performance for the end user, less server side bugs is bad when clients are running the bugs, and most importantly you lose track of your customers needs.
If you want your shit to work, keep it close to the metal, conform to standards, scale only where necessary, and listen to your customers.
DigitalOcean offers solid uptime, a more professional operation, and typically better performance than Linode in benchmarks (https://www.vpsbenchmarks.com/screener). It has confusing marketing, but a good account dashboard and good docco/service. They're more in line with Linode, and will probably be the big winners if Linode/Akamai continue losing steam.
I wouldn't go with OVH, and I would use caution with cheaper providers, unless you're comfortable with the risk of hiring people who would willingly build wooden data centres with no fire safely. There is such a thing as "too cheap". (https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/ovhcloud-fire-rep...)
edit: Of course the M1 max only shipped in laptops, so... who knows.
A focus on individual responsibility for security and for integrity refocuses the issue on foundational Confucian principles (for every individual, be: benevolent, righteous, have propriety, build wisdom, and have fidelity), creates a culture of trust, diversity and competence. These things are much better for a thriving society, whether the label for the systems is democratic, dogmacratic, bureaucratic, or plutocratic.
(p.s. I am Australian, not Chinese. I just have an appreciation for learning from your rivals)
Tasmania is an exceptionally small state. Population 500K. Based on the renewable power sources available, they must rely on a network for stability. Otherwise, they would have to massively over-develop their power infrastructure. This itself would be unsustainable.
The issue is not that Tasmania needs to over-build. It's that Victoria needs more renewables. If TAS was a net importer, that would be a different story.
The fact that other countries appear to spend less on defense does not mean that they are unprepared.
Americans spend a lot of money on a corrupt pharmaceutical industries, and they have bad healthcare.
Americans spend a lot of money on a corrupt education systems, and have stupid people.
Americans spend a lot of money on a corrupt war industry, and they have a lot of rusting 1950s tanks, planes, and missiles.
Without being tested, who knows if anyone actually has good defense?
It requires thinking and testing, not mindlessly throwing money at charlatans.