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This is very clever of Apple because it solves a lot of problems in one go. Namely, it lowers their costs as they're not running infrastructure to power the AI/ML options available to iPhone users; it distributes the compute of that to the edge, again saving them money and taking advantage of the costs they've already laid out for the manufacturer of the device; and it gives consumers the privacy they want - the data never leaves the phone.

My wife and family were there only a few months ago. Good timing.

For some, sure. I don't bother customising or changing the adverts that YouTube shows. I let them determine that. Just keep in mind that YouTube will show you adverts whether I enable monetisation or not, so I may as well turn it on.

So as a content creator, I can give you some insights into why this is. Keep in mind this will change eventually, and doesn't apply to every creator.

Simply put: if I make a video that's eight (8) minutes long, or longer, I can change where the mid-roll advertisement is placed. If it's less, I cannot. I also get less adverts the shorter the video is. If it's ten (10) minutes or longer, I get more and more adverts.

That's why when my wife and I watched a video about how a certain food stuff was made (I think it was a type of pasta), they made it 10m 30s long and used b-roll footage of pasta moving along a conveyor belt for 2-3 f-ing minutes.

Welcome to IT.... no seriously, this is how a lot of executives behave in IT.

Nice! Are you willing to share the list somewhere/somehow? Maybe in a Gist?

I wonder if there's a desire for a western equivalent with the same rules?

It's differently work, for sure. I know from experience: my DevOps Discord is 5000+ members strong :)

Good question! Not sure. Yeah probably, or Discord/Slack?

Can anyone invite me to Lobsters?

Not a side project, per say, but I answered questions on my local Linux User Group almost daily. After applying for a job and not hearing back, I got a request to come in for an interview weeks afterwards. Long story short, the boss told me he saw my responses on the mailing list and it turns out I knew more than the RHCEs and CCNAs walking into his interviews.

That landed me my first job ever in IT as a Junior NetEng and eventually a Linux SysAd.

I do the same. I fast between 8pm and 12pm the following day (classic 16/8 model), but I have a black coffee around 10am as I find it helps reduce hunger.

Let me ask you a question: all of those changes you made would require discipline and tracking. How did you go about solving those problems? How did you implement these ideas/systems?

I do miss the ability to customise the hell out of KDE (I'm on Windows 11 + Linux headless for work), but at the same time, I would often spend times making the UI look how I wanted only for some app to simply ignore the GTK+/Plasma/QT theme and look well out of place.

Just not worth the time anymore.

I know what you mean. One thing I'm trying to get into the habit of doing is using yt-dlp to pull videos from YouTube so I don't have to use their website, and I have _YT premium_ ffs -- it's just nasty.

I think this can be simply boiled down to: have posts delete themselves if they do not get attention after X time. I don't know if the "garden" or gamified UI is required.

We just need healthier social networking and I think that comes with limits on availability, data being deleted after certain time frames, and so on.

Thank you! I'm not affiliated with the project, but I do use it. I appreciate any and all efforts put toward improving it.

I can't use Keychain on Windows, I assume?

I want to test this now heh!

I want to say no, purely based on the idea that if that were the case all my inboxes - spreads across several providers - would be overwhelmed with spam? Surely the (organised, educated) spammers are all over this sort of thing and would be using that to break through?

I’ve been using YNAB as of late. Cheap enough it’s a no brainer and it’s really good.

(It's worth noting this about the author's personality: "... as an antisocial autistic person, I am afraid that I can't bring myself to understand the importance for such things ..." - so the author is antisocial and autistic. Worth knowing when reading my thoughts, below.)

Writing and speaking have their places. It depends on context and the situation, really.

If I'm in a room with someone, and I say, "I dislike the work you've done", but it's delivered with a sarcastic tone, with a smile on my face, and a flowery movement of the arm to denote that I was joking, ideally the whole statement will be taken as a joke.

However...

If I'm in a room with someone, and I email them to say, "I dislike the work you've done", then everything else mentioned above is lost. How is this perceived by the other person? I, as the author of the statement, have to do extra work to portray meaning which can _still_ get lost:

"I dislike the work you've done! ... lol j/k ;-)"

That's not superior in this simple example, so I doubt it's going to be superior in more complex examples.

So I would ask the author this: why do we attend courts to solve complex legal matters? Why not do it entirely in writing? Would that not allow the highly educated, skilled labour that supports the legal system to "scale" better? Could a judge now not handle many cases at once versus having their time pinned to a physical location in which one case can be heard at a time?

On a somewhat related note: how come we, as a society, have never really adopted the daily "video log" (except for the YouTubers amongst us; the Neistat wannabes), but we have _heavily_ adopted the idea of the written journal?

Right.

My wife and I went to Germany once and my wife, being in TV/movies/theater, took me to some German theater... which was obviously all in German... which she speaks, and I don't. Thanks love /s

Anyway, although I couldn't understand what was being _said_, I could understand what was being _shown_ to me _visually_. I got the idea of each scene: that guy is a gangster and has a blood feud with that guy, who is chasing that chick's heart, and also is on the run from the cops, and so on.

Without the language, I understood easily 70-80% of what was going on.

> ... I also reduced our monthly spend from $15k to $5k. This was a fully auto-scaling, redundant and highly available system.

I believe you, but most people don't do this, sadly. You very clearly _get_ Cloud, but most don't, and financial optimisations often come much later down the line.

This is exactly right.

Would you write a web app in it? (Just out of interest. I'm not trying to be an ass.)

> I'm keeping things simple, so I've got mostly Go services, pg + caching, and a svelte webapp. I deployed my Go services on a low-ish end bare metal provider, and for now it is fine. Deployments are triggered via scripts, and so far so good. Is it sexy, using all the latest and greatest tech? No, its just simple shell scripts. But it works?

Don't change a thing. This is perfect.

> Am I wrong to think that I could probably scale like crazy and avoid AWS completely with my stack? Why should I pay hundreds/thousands per month plus a premium for bandwidth? I'm also enjoying staying sane avoiding IAM.

You're not wrong at all. Check out the hardware stack for Stack Overflow as of 2016: https://nickcraver.com/blog/2016/02/17/stack-overflow-the-ar...

Don't over think it. Focus on the software and its features. Focus on getting users and ramping up your MRR.

Good luck.

All processes are fallible, but some are less so than others because we've automated a large part of them.

DevOps, and CI/CD, would have prevented Knight's issues 100%.

CI/CD would have have solved this 100%:

> ... one of Knight’s technicians did not copy the new code to one of the eight SMARS computer servers. Knight did not have a second technician review this deployment and no one at Knight realized that the Power Peg code had not been removed from the eighth server, nor the new RLP code added.

Read this part again:

> ... one of Knight’s technicians did not *copy the new code to one of the eight SMARS computer servers*.

Yes, of course a CI/CD pipeline can fail midway through and only partially deploy the code to a partial number of servers, but I doubt it. And even if that were the case, just off the top of my head I can guarantee an Ansible Playbook would have not only stopped the moment that particular transfer failed, the whole Playbook would have therefore failed, and none of the services would have been restarted (because that would be a final step that wouldn't be reached.)

This was due to human error and is the very reason CI/CD/automation is a thing.

> Knight did not have a second technician review this deployment and no one at Knight realized that the Power Peg code had not been removed from the eighth server

CI/CD would have have solved this 100%. A "Pull Request" made against a repository of Ansible code (or whatever you flavour is) would have *PREVENTED* the first technician from ever being able to merge the code into master/main (because you have master/main protected right... right?), completely preventing the entire process from ever rolling out without a review, which would have hopefully caught the misaligned configuration.

DevOps, which is mostly underpinned by CI/CD, would have solved this 100%. I'm very certain of this.