Fails to mention that 80% of the profits are coming from the AI's OnlyFans account. Just kidding. It's insane how many niches like this there are to make some quick money with available open source libraries, if you know what you're doing and you have some time on your side.
This is such an unfair comment. You're basically saying that once people are out of prison, they should commit to a life of poverty and continued suffering. The whole point of prison is to rehabilitate and make a net-positive contributor to society, which clearly this person has. The man did his time, what else can they do? Also, saying, "getting a diversity department job at MIT" is such a racist thing to say overall.
The last Oracle DB migration was just for one part of internal retail operation that was particularly difficult or just needed more resources. Most of retail had been using AWS for quite some time before that (earlier than 2009). Source: worked there and knew the team that did that migration.
It's not even the reduction in storage costs in this paper that is groundbreaking. They talk about a way to not only reduce storage costs, but optimize for repairs. Repairs are costly at scale and reducing resources where possible: network, cpu, disk reads, etc is ideal.
I have been a user of repl.it for quite some time. I use it occasionally to work on small projects with my younger sister who is a CS major. I would actually really love something like repl.it for my work. There are a ton of places where the normal code, review, deploy, validate, etc lifecycle of development is way too slow for small projects or for prototyping.
Why do you think they are abusive to their workforce? They are clear about their culture and pay top dollar for engineering talent. There are no surprises when you join.
That's a pretty weak advantage. My closest walmart is much further than my local ups/usps/amazon drop off. Also, don't forget that Amazon grew 30-40% last quarter y/y.
Everything is simple when you're starting out. Over time, you'd see that users can have wildly different load patterns, which will affect how you scale and shard your database over time. It's a huge pain to manage and grow.
What are you going to do if your company makes an adjusted cost of living to your compensation? My company is already advising people to come back near our address due to tax reasons.
Go browse Blind for a few hours and you'll see how people really feel about these issues. I know some of the comments are in the minority, but even then, some of the comments are straight up vile.
Totally agree that we, as in the world, are having issues right now and this is clearly being observed. My only point with this is to say that the impact is not being felt by most people just yet. The economic incentives for reducing our carbon footprint are not there for the public market to make any significant improvements to the situation. If the economic incentives are not there for the public markets, then that means new policy needs to be enacted in order to tackle this, which given the state of the world right now, seems unlikely.
I think the general marketing problem with climate change is that people know it's going to happen, but not exactly when. Are we going to have issues next year, 5 years, 20 years, etc? How will these issues impact me and my neighbors? It's difficult to predict these things, so I think many people become skeptical of the milestones we are supposed to be hitting due to climate change and we just become reactive as a society rather than fully proactive.
The only thing these pastors who are keeping churches open is money. To ignore every health professional out there right now means they don't care about their flock at all.
For large corporations like Amazon, there are huge opportunities to move to Lambda. Back when I worked there, teams would over-provision their services like crazy. Most of it to scale for the holiday season. Most teams would not give that extra capacity back.
Getting access to your social media handles is now part of the application process for many different kinds of visas. To me, it's just another way for CBP agents to make arbitrary decisions. There's not even much accountability as-is. They have the ultimate say if they want to let you in or not. Now, it's even crazier since simply liking a page 5 years ago could turn into a disaster if that page evolves into something 'anti-american'. God-forbid you get hacked and someone sabotages your online persona'.
I have no idea how many other people are like this, but I already don't look at my receipts when I'm in a grocery store. If I do, it's because I realized I forgot something and want to know if I actually forgot something. So for me, the experience ends up being the same.
Another FANG = Amazon? If so, Amazon is pretty restrictive in how it wants employees to communicate about internal activities. Most people err on the side of caution and don't comment publicly.