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It's been a struggle to allocate cost-optimized VPS at them for months now (in some regions), they were very often out-of-stock.

Most companies have region-specific price lists. My Spotify subscription costs about 60% of what the same plan costs in the US (2200 HUF vs. 11 USD). In the electronics industry, everyone has a separate price list for China.

Btw. the western list price is just an indicative at-most number anyway. Even a small-sized project gets discounted prices when you start talking to a sales rep.

What you "more bandwidth more noise" people miss is the difference in randomness: the noise is random while the signal is not.

In case of gaussian noise, double the bandwidth means 1.41x more noise. For signal, double the bandwidth double the signal.

The same essential skills make a great PO/business analyst as a great engineer: the ability to think in abstract terms and the ability to debug.

When successful POs write a book or something, they present the best-practices. They don't share the most important wisdom though: there are pretty smart to start with... Applying their practices without the ability to think does not work, and it's not something one can pick up on the go.

Nothing comes from nothing.

After doing some math it doesn't feel like a ddos:

- $104k at ($55 / 100 GB) = 189 TB of traffic

- It means the popular ~3.5 MB media file was downloaded ~54M times

- Which sound like a lot, but if you get popular in a country with 1.4B people, it's not (~3% accessed).

What if it happens at AWS Cloudfront? At $.1/GB it sums up to ~$18k. In the light of these, Netlify's offer of ~$5k seems generous.

There is a little to no consumer market for quality stuff (ppl buy based on price, maybe lm/W, maybe CRI95+).

You'll see great LED installations at:

- offices & commercial buildings, where it was designed by an engineer

- medical, where identifying things like skin-tone is critical

- transportation (often street lights), where it's optimised for night-time contrast

The risk of an accident is much lower than the risk of full-on wars w/o them. Nuclear weapons are the reason I can raise my children in a relative peace.

This project is a great showcase of what whitelabel streaming providers can do. Back when Youtube and Netflix started streaming, it was a huge deal technically (codecs, infrastructure, cdn). Now companies like uscreen offer this at a flat rate, and they themselves use 3rd-parties (Akamai/Cloudflare) for video storage and distribution.

So far Orban's regime is the only eu/western government involved in this scandal. I see that no surprise.

There is no need of official government approval to conduct such surveillance. It's enough to have weak access contol to such technologies, political roles within the agencies, and poor work ethics in civil servants: there alway will be someone with will and motive to act in favor of the system, off the record. Orban deliberately shaped the government this way.

Search ebay/etc for "EC/TDS meter", it's ~10 USD. Cheap ones do work, no worry. Keep your drain water at a stable EC, somewhere between 500 and 2500 uS/cm, and you're golden. If the drain water's EC is low, use irrigation water somewhat richer (+500..1000 uS/cm). Some tap water is already high on minerals, in that case use mainly nitrogen-rich solution.

Btw if your plants look healthy, no action is required.

My experiences are different.

I think most assembly-houses self-source some parts, and they do it in large quantities (like 1M+ parts/year). As such, they buy at extremely good prices. They overbuy themselves, and in order to get the same good pricing next year, they keep overbuying. Some of their inventory is then sold locally, and ends up in the Shenzhen market or at unauthorized resellers.

For the quantities I buy (sub-1000 pcs typ.) the pricing is usually 0.2-2.0 times the known good parts from known (authorized) sellers.

The problem is that I can not be sure what I get, and I have to implement really extensive testing for each batch.