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The one thing I dislike about what they offer is no message queue service seems to available besides this seemingly vaporware 'workflows' feature https://supabase.com/blog/supabase-workflows

They try to launch at least one balloon a year from Antarctica https://www.csbf.nasa.gov/mission.html

paywall

The curse of network engineering. You’re invisible and insignificant when everything is running well, and public enemy number one if you make a mistake!

I love this idea.

I agree. We have some advocates that really want to say we deploy on Friday, but even they don’t seem super pushy about a Friday deployment when they have weekend plans, and the org as a whole isn’t keen either. It’s high risk and low reward. I’ve also burned myself on this more than once.

We utilize version control for config/secret management as well…encrypted of course.

Edit: now that I think of it, for generated short lived passwords we also use SSM but for anything set by a human it’s in version control…

I get that people really want to flex that they can deploy on Friday afternoon and NOTHING CAN GO WRONG, but it’s still foolish and flaunts Murphy’s Law. It can wait.

They don’t do psych assessments anymore I believe

There’s 2/3 bars and a bunch of different parties thrown on different weekends. No wall to wall people though most people need to get up early.

I think this is called ‘happy camper’ and there is a light version where you just learn basics so you can go travel off station.

I sat beside the mechanic for the ATMs on my flight in. He got to be there for a week and do a little ATM stuff and then go home. He was cool.

Glad to see I wasn’t the only icehole on station weirdly obsessed with taking pictures and videos of the fun door latches/handles

They don’t take credit card at McMurdo, it’s cash only. There are two Wells Fargo ATMs in the main building. Cash that is spent on station gets recycled back into the ATMs. The New Zealand base does take card however.

I didn't expect to see this in the local Whistler newsmagazine.

You need to make sure it covers that altitude. They top out around a certain altitude in the fine print you usually need to pay a little extra for altitudes like Kilimanjaro. Make sure it has helo evacuation covered for all altitudes.

I did a gap year at 25 and I only had 20k in savings and I traveled all over SE Asia and East Africa on that. Was a blast.

I too noticed that the author didn’t connect the first man at the South Pole with Amundsen

Desal discharges salt waste back into the surrounding water, which accumulates on the sea floor. This salty desert kills marine life. Also, the energy needs are very high—-probably too high for our infrastructure to cope. I don’t have sources handy at the moment but a lot of research is done on this in the Middle East / Israel:

Even better would be to have the hourly cron job add the accounts to deduct the balance from to a queue and have worker services consume those queue messages and do the deduction and database write.

At least a few years ago you could self host Aruba.

Canada has only ever been ruled by the liberal or conservative parties

TwinkieDB

This isn't new, all countries usually allow you to buy your way in using a "Golden Visa" program, including the USA and Canada. Typically it costs about $1 Million and some job creation/investment in the economy.

Canadian Golden Visa Program AKA Quebec Immigrant Investment Program: https://citizenshipshop.com/product/canada-golden-visa/ AKA

USA EB-5 Golden Visa: https://citizenshipshop.com/product/usa-golden-visa/

That was beautiful

Most City supervisors run unopposed due to the high cost to get on the ballot...

The whoop strap tracks breaths per min as well

I thought this looked familiar, and my suspicions were correct. The wreck of Pegasus near the posthumously named "Pegasus Airfield" at McMurdo Station, Antarctica was a Connie.

Crashed in 1970 with no deaths, the aircraft still lies partially buried in snow on the iceshelf about 5-10 miles from the station. People stationed at McMurdo still make little field trips out to the wreckage to take pictures and walk ontop of it, etc.

Here it is on the aforementioned website: http://www.conniesurvivors.com/131644.htm

Some pretty exaggerated stereotypes. A false trichotomy?

Network Engineering: Invisible when you’re killing it at your job, instantly the enemy when you make a mistake.