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Hopefully, they place their servers at 2x the historical peak floodpoint. Or set up standby zones in different geographies in case there’s a power or network outage.
Came upon several projects where folks hadn’t…
The cloud isn’t just for storage or compute. There are a number of managed services that let you build a full application by snapping together lego building blocks.
For example, pop together a REST API handler, an auth service, a few functions-as-a-service, a database, and a storage service. Then add a static website server. Throw a CDN in front. You got yourself a dynamic application service that can be accessed globally for a few pennies and can scale up and down without you doing anything. Add multi-zone support and auto-DNS failover and you’ve got a production quality scalable, resilient back-end, for both web and mobile. When it’s not being used, it costs very little and when it goes big, hopefully it means you’re doing well. Wrap it all in an infrastructures-as-code script and you can bring all this up in 30m.
To host all that in-house, you would have to buy a lot of equipment, stage it, manage it, add cooling, electricity, security patches, upgrades, security, etc. Now you have part of your business just doing all this instead of focusing on what you do best. I won’t bother going into the tax implications of capex vs opex.
This, is what the cloud sales people call ‘undifferentiated heavy lifting.’ There are reasons to have on-prem hardware. For a lot of applications though, it makes more sense to let someone else take care of all that infrastructure cruft.
2nd Amendment wasn’t a big thing until the Supreme Court decided in Heller that the whole ‘well-regulated militia’ part was a nothingburger. Then the floodgates opened.
All you need is for another Supreme Court to put that part back in and restrict gun use to ‘well-regulated militias.’
It’s a lower bar than a constitutional amendment, but good luck putting the genie back in the bottle.
Is this the same Shadrack Tucker White that studied practical, non-indoctrinary, apoliticial fields such as… checks notes… “Economics” and “Politicial Science” from a public university?
Voyager. Closest (so far) to Apollo UI.
There are python libraries to read and parse Excel files. Once you have the data, you can output diagrams using something like Diagrams (https://diagrams.mingrammer.com/), Pyvis (https://pyvis.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html), or NetworkX (https://networkx.org/).
Another option is to have it write a PlantUML text file then run it through the CLI to generate the output.
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Brewery in San Francisco, meeting a friend. We had both been careful and masked up. Ordered a round and went to the far end. Unmasked to drink and chat. Bartender comes over and asks if we want another round. We say yes. He brings it over. Nobody’s masked at this point.
Next day, I get a scratchy throat. Tested positive. My friend, thankfully, dodged the bullet.
- 9/11
- Bush v Gore
- GWB re-election (despite war, recession, etc.)
- Trump election
- COVID
All chipped away at notions of stability, fairness, and sanity.
Still have hope, but tend not to believe the hype so much.
I like a lot of what Louis talks about in right-to-repair. But he’s gone off the rails on this one.
Trump isn’t being sued for lying on square footage. He allegedly claimed to lenders that his property was worth X so he could get a good deal on the loans, but to tax authorities he reported a lower value so he would pay less taxes on the same property.
Both of these are big nopes. Anyone who is caught doing this will get in trouble.
