Thanks for the followup! Damn, that’s an interesting cat

You’re only stocked for now. Hope you don’t smoke weed because pretty soon it’s going to be illegal to own a gun if you do.

Only a fraction of Americans care and only a fraction of Americans own guns who will use them of those that care.

And of that fraction only a fraction of them will be legally allowed to own guns in the near future.

We are frogs and slowly warming water. Unless there is a flash event, we will boil alive and do nothing about it till there is nothing we can do about it (which is already coming up soon).

They have the budget of the Canadian military, and a budget greater than the Israeli military.

5.1 million people in Palestine and 70k deployed Israeli military.

Approximately 1% And look at what became of Palestine.

If you expect 1/100th of the effects here, then ICE has enough budget and resources to make it happen. Guaranteed.

Not anymore, they haven’t been federal workers for 3 weeks now.

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That’s… Clearly photoshopped together. C’mon now.

Let’s instead phrase it that ICE gets more budget for militarization than the entire Israeli military.

Just let that sink in for a bit. ICE and resources allocated than the Israeli military.

It’s the 16th most funded militarized force in the world.

Essentially equal to Canada’s military budget.

Shits fucked

Once you put anything on the public internet these days, it will be harvest by corporations and used against you eventually

Joke’s on them. My coffee maker has a physical button!

Yes, containers make your application logic work.

That’s the lowest hanging fruit on the tree.

Let’s talk about persistence logic, fail forwards, data synchronization, and write queues next.

Let’s also talk about cloud provider network egress costs.

Let’s also talk about specific service dependencies that may not be replicatable across clouds, or even regions.

Oh, also provider specific deployment nuances, I AM differences, networking differences…etc

I’m not sure if you are referring to the same thread.

I’m talking about the effort to build multi region and multi cloud applications, which is incredibly difficult to pull off well. And presents seemingly endless challenges.

Not the effort to move to the cloud.

It’s phenomenally expensive from a practical standpoint, it takes an immense amount of engineering and devops effort to make this work for non trivial production applications.

It’s egregiously expensive from an engineering standpoint. And most definitely more expensive from a cloud bill standpoint as well.

We’re doing this right now with a non trivial production application built for this, and it’s incredibly difficult to do right. It affects EVERYTHING, from the ground up. The level of standardization and governance that goes into just making things stable across many teams takes an entire team to make possible.

Screw the compute budget, the tripled team size without shipping any more features is a bigger problem here.

This is a good reason to start investing in multi region architecture at some point.

Not trying to be smug here or anything, but we updated a single config value, made a PR, and committed the change and we were switched over to a different region in a few minutes. Smooth sailing after that.

(This is still dependent to some degree on AWS in order to actually execute the failover, something we’re mulling over how to solve)

Now, our work demands we invest in such things, we’re even investing in multi-cloud (an actual nightmare). Not everyone can do this, and some systems are just not built to be able to, but if it’s within reach it’s probably worth it.

There’s a good reason why I refuse to use cloud connected or Internet required “smart” devices.

It’s essentially an excuse for shitty engineering.

If you really need a device to be cloud connected then it can also maintain local data when the remote server is down. Even better, it uses an open spec and you can standup your own server.

40… Is not old my friend. You do realize millennials are entering 40 right? The problem are the old fucks (60-80) that are stuck in their political power ways.

Ya know, a generation that largely supports everything you’re supporting.

30-60 is a great age range for both maturity, ability to navigate the landscape, and generationally relevant. It’s weird here because you’re preaching to the choir while also shitting on the choir…?

Side note: You seem to be assigning meaning to my words that I’m not providing. I’m not in support of old political figures who are stuck in their ways and refuse to drop power because of their corruption. I’m in support of getting people into these positions that can effectively enact change. And I believe the people that can effectively enact change are those that are able to navigate the landscape and bridge the gap that we currently have.

We both want the same thing but the difference seems to be rational versus (ironically) emotions.

Age can also be a bad thing when people making decisions aren’t mature enough to make a decision rationally instead of emotionally.

This swings both ways. Older people can be less effective at making decisions and younger people can also be less effective at making decisions. For different reasons.

There is a nice sweet spot in the middle from 30-60 where people tend to be pretty good at making decisions while also bridging generational and cultural gaps.

You’re also completely ignoring politics experience, Which is a real world requirement in order to actually get shit done. (Let’s not even talk about emotional maturity and making decisions purely on emotion instead of rationale)

If you are not mature enough to learn how to work well with others then you’re not going to get anything done because you require the contributions, help and cooperation of people you may disagree with in order to move your agenda forward. Especially on a world stage.

I’m not talking about old ass people in their 70s here. I’m talking about people 30-60. Who should be the ones in office in my opinion.

Older and younger than that and effectiveness seems to drop off pretty quickly.

Can’t wait to see you let your household be ran by a toddler if age means nothing to you.

You might think that’s an extreme example, but it highlights the same problem. Until you are fully mature (20-25) you tend to lack in areas that mature humans are capable. That’s the bar, that’s where the floor starts. Some people get there earlier than others. Some people get there later than others.

After that point comes tempering and experience. When your decisions can affect millions of other people, it’s expected that you have the experience, maturity and temperament to make good rational decisions without being overtaken by your emotions.

Younger people are more likely to be overtaken by their emotions and make irrational decisions. Maturity and experience is an expectation.

You’re not going to make a 15-year a UN secretary, or even a 22 year old, it doesn’t mean this person can’t start working their way there and gaining experience with that in mind.

FR. The (actually user ran) NSFW subreddits are so much better than any other aggregator