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The issue here isn't the cost to run the service, it's the name.

An analogy would be a restaurant called "free lunch" that charged money for lunch because food supplies are expensive.

I'm still waiting for the results from that whole bleach in the lungs idea Trump had. Hoping that will be the cure for all of this.

Hanlon's Razor... I highly doubt they've intentionally crippled the open source ones just to promote MSSQL. So many things are bad on azure, the slow databases are just one part.

The hum is caused by cheap or warn lamination on the transformer. I recently "fixed" an older APC by opening it, removing the large transformer, coating the fins in nail polish, and adding rubber washers to the mounting screws.

Based on the time of day of the posts, I'm guessing the majority of the anti-google sentiment is coming from Europeans. They are generally distrustful of large American corporations.

People own private cars in the US because the real cost of owning a car is hidden from the car users. E.g., subsidized roads, gas, automobile industry bailouts, and finally global warming and climate impact.

European cities have far fewer cars than similarly sized American cities. Gas and car ownership taxes are are also more expensive in Europe compared to America. The reason for this is that the actual cost of car ownership in the US is being passed on to future generations.

Because software is an ongoing living thing that needs care and feeding, but clothing is essentially disposable from the business perspective. Two very different models for management to understand.

Most MBA management types are trained to think that software development is like a factory, and that the software developers are like the manufacturing equipment that produce the code your customers buy.

Not from AWS, but what it sounds like you're asking for is better cohesion and more consistency between AWS products and services?

I've been an AWS customer for over 10 years, and have been asking them for this (on behalf of my enterprise customers). I'm always told "they're working on getting better" but they never really do.

Cloud formation features are inconsistent across products. Documentation is formatted and structured differently depending on the tool. The AWS web console is an ever changing grab-bag of new and old. Some products integrate well, other products feel like you're using an abandoned hack-week prototype.

Part of the reason that AWS is so great is how much it can do, and I think that's been made possible by the apparent level of autonomy the teams have. However, it's at the expense of the customer's experience.

No, I'm not overwhelmed by documented/structured config files.

20 years ago I was a Windows admin, discovered Linux, and it blew my mind how much easier it was to configure, experiment, validate, and roll-back config changes. GUIs are nice for discovery and exploration, but there's a very good reason they're not used for server and infrastructure configuration.

I've heard dogma from seo wizards that running the blog on a subdomain yields either negative or positive seo outcome, depending on the phase of the moon.

Also, it could just be the result of some bad ops/sysadmin decisions.

Also, working on a government project on a Sunday is very common for people who probably do not like their job.

As someone who buys their own insurance, I have to say there are so many problems with the process. You make it sound like it's as simple as ordering a pizza...

Firstly, the major insurance companies don't want to talk to you, so you need to buy through a broker. The broker is suppose to help you pick the plan that's right for you, but realistically they will email you a few PDFs with 5-7 plans that are all extremely similar, full of jargon, and difficult to understand.

Find a better broker? Hah, good luck...

So after you become an expert on insurance jargon, and ask your broker lots of question, you're now ready to start paying. For small plans with fewer than 5 people, get ready to pay anywhere from $700-1k per month for the most basic high deductible plan.

Then after about a year, you'll get an email and phone call from your broker because your plan is no longer available. So you need to pick a new one, that has slightly different features and costs $20-100 additional per-year.

The American health insurance is a parasite.

There are several big tech companies who are not good at anything other than making and managing money. Inertia machines like IBM, Oracle, and probably some other ones you can think of...

Years ago, Mr. Burgess called me a "moron" on Twitter when I asked if there was a correlation between companies that choose cfengine and companies who have challenges with security and uptime.

My implication that cfengine is a bad tool was not directed at him. So I was surprised to see a person like him (a CEO, with PHD) respond this way.

St. Paul in the late 90s, there was a series of underground (literally) parties, known as the "rave in a cave". They took place in the Wabasha caves: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wabasha_Street_Caves

The entrance to where the parties were being held has been sealed, but there are other various entrances near the river. Every few years some kids get stuck, and the city tries to restrict entrance. Caves are just too interesting.

Why would they switch back after spending so much developing their own ARM CPUs?

Please stop using the phrase "add color to". You're adding details, not color.

Most modern audio creation and DSP software use AVX, some even require it.

I recently worked with a developer who proudly told me he has over 25 years experience. Unfortunately, he wasn't a very good developer.

In talking to him, he told me he switched jobs on average every 3-5 years. And I realized this was the problem. He didn't have 25 years of experience, he had 5 years of experience, 5 times over because he never went deep enough to master his craft. He stuck with Notepad++, never bothered to understand topics like hard tabs vs. soft tabs, never added automated linting or reformat to his coding workflow, didn't bother writing tests (or testable code).

I'm sure many of us have worked with someone who's terminal is misconfigured, has a messy PATH or their computer is in a general state of disarray. This is an example of short-term usability. Long term assumes general mastery of a tool/system... But this isn't always the case.

It sounds like nationalized healthcare is the real issue here.

In also have a LaserJet 1200. On a recent video call, people were surprised to see the relic in my office. I made the joke that it's old enough to vote and then go out drinking after.

Using multiple programming languages.

Using Golang has helped me create better data structures, and using C helped me understand linking, using python helped me understand closures, and using Ruby helped me understand that I hate programming.

Lazy "writer" uses hyperbole to create an interesting headline

iOS has also been buggy

In Texas... 79f outside while sitting in your central air conditioning, while laying on your large sectional sofa?

That's great you've been successful. However, since your story doesn't mirror the majority of your peers, consider yourself an outlier.

What can you do to help more people become as financially successful as you are?

Canon's app only supports Windows

For others non AWS credentials, just use environment variables

This sounds like inflation. Didn't the economics say there wouldn't be any/much as a result of printing so much money?

All software breaks at some point. If you're dealing with this scale of load, it's mandatory to perform synthetic load testing to validate, otherwise you're just guessing what the breakage threshold will be.