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Comment · 2 months ago
Celebs having opinions that get amplified because they're celebs is simply embarrassing all round for everyone.
Comment · 3 months ago
Pity about water resistance - a blocker for me.
Comment · 3 months ago
Why not?
Comment · 5 months ago
Doesn't s3 now have versioning + POSIX mounts?
Comment · 6 months ago
Lovely. What does their power cost? How much power hungry industry do these countries have?
Comment · 1 year ago
"The world doesn't run on merit. " Critical systems do.
Comment · 1 year ago
What is your evidence for this: "... because of structural problems that push them out, be that systemic misogyny in our educational systems ..." , "the toxicity present in the industry that pushes them out ... "?

What alternative reasons have you explored?

Comment · 1 year ago
UV is super fast and great for environment management, however it's not at all well suited to a containerised environment, unless I'm missing something fundamental (unless you like using an env in your container that is).
Comment · 2 years ago
I would argue that endorsement while currently normalised, is not normal.
Comment · 2 years ago
I am extremely skeptical about this sort of thing - I suspect that it's extremely challenging to reliably make assertions about the carbon cost of running a given website given that there are so many unaccountable-for variables; at best the very "edge" of any carbon usage is being guessed at.

Added to that the opportunities for charging the various parties for "certification" are simply too good to pass up it seems.

Comment · 2 years ago
If you're writing you're REST API by hand I'd suggest that you may not be doing it optimally.
Comment · 2 years ago
Herein lies the kicker:

> In common with other on-premise servers, this terminal server was protected by firewalls and virus software, but access was not subject to Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA).

Comment · 2 years ago
Not on board with this, other than the advantages that solutions like Pulumi have over 2nd gen IaC tooling like TF. Pulumi is far more extensible and composable than anything else I've seen out there.
Comment · 3 years ago
Most impressive; 3 x launches by SpaceX scheduled on a single day.
Comment · 3 years ago
Those events occurred a long time ago to people that no longer exist.

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