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Dunedan commented on A $1k AWS mistake geocod.io/code-and-coordi... · Posted by u/thecodemonkey

rwmj · a month ago

Wait, what measures you implemented? How about AWS implements a hard cap, like everyone has been asking for forever?

Dunedan · a month ago

The measures were related to the specific cause of the unintended charges, not to never incur any unintended charges again. I agree AWS needs to provide better tooling to enable its customers to avoid such situations.

Dunedan commented on A $1k AWS mistake geocod.io/code-and-coordi... · Posted by u/thecodemonkey

CjHuber · a month ago

Does Amazon refund you for mistakes, or do you have to land on HN frontpage for that to happen?

Dunedan · a month ago

Depends on various factors and of course the amount of money in question. I've had AWS approve a refund for a rather large sum a few years ago, but that took quite a bit of back and forth with them.

Crucial for the approval was that we had cost alerts already enabled before it happened and were able to show that this didn't help at all, because they triggered way too late. We also had to explain in detail what measures we implemented to ensure that such a situation doesn't happen again.

Dunedan commented on KDE is now my favorite desktop kokada.dev/blog/kde-is-no... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

distances · 3 months ago

KDE usability really started improving when the Visual Design Group was launched during the KDE 5 cycle, spearheaded by Jens Reuterberg. There was a real cool atmosphere of designer-developer cooperation which quickly led to very sleek results that persist to this day.

VDG tackled (and tackles) not only design for the desktop itself, but also for KDE applications that had never seen a designer's touch before.

I've been long a KDE user, even through the 4.0 troubles, but also the first to admit that it used to look clunky. Looking at old screenshots is a quick reminder of how far this initiative has taken it.

Dunedan · 3 months ago

I'm not sure usability is moving in the right direction with KDE. Over the past years, more and more applications started to hide menus by default, sometimes adding hamburger menus instead.

There is also a "new way" (I believe QtQuick-based) for applications to create popups, which results in them not being separate windows anymore. System Settings makes prominent use of them for example and those popups just behave entirely different than one is used to. As far as I know it's not even possible to navigate these popups with the keyboard.

Dunedan commented on Mistral raises 1.7B€, partners with ASML mistral.ai/news/mistral-a... · Posted by u/TechTechTech

crowdhailer · 3 months ago

I guess ASML chips are selling as well as they hoped, need a bigger customer.

Dunedan · 3 months ago

ASML doesn't sell chips, you're probably thinking about TSMC.

Dunedan commented on Signal Secure Backups signal.org/blog/introduci... · Posted by u/keyboardJones

ngrilly · 3 months ago

What is the reason for saving the end-to-end encrypted backup files on Signal backup servers instead of iCloud or Google backup service, as most of us are already paying for this storage?

Dunedan · 3 months ago

FYI: "Signal backup servers" currently seems to mean either Google Cloud Storage or CloudFlare R2 according to https://github.com/signalapp/storage-manager/blob/e45aaf5bd1...

Dunedan commented on Signal Secure Backups signal.org/blog/introduci... · Posted by u/keyboardJones

Dunedan · 3 months ago

> There are a couple of problems with the existing backup:

>

> 1. It is non-incremental.

I wonder if that's differently with the newly announced functionality. Their announcement doesn't sound like it:

> Once you’ve enabled secure backups, your device will automatically create a fresh secure backup archive every day, replacing the previous day’s archive.

Dunedan · 3 months ago

@greysonp verified they're indeed incremental for media: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45170515#45175402

Dunedan commented on Signal Secure Backups signal.org/blog/introduci... · Posted by u/keyboardJones

Sesse__ · 3 months ago

There are a couple of problems with the existing backup:

1. It is non-incremental. This means you'll need about as much free space on your phone as your Signal database takes, and it may take many hours to make if your database is large (mine is 18GB). I used to wake up to find my phone had not even fully charged because it had been so busy writing Signal backups.

2. Once you have it on disk, how do you get it away from your phone? Especially after SyncThing disappeared from Play Store (because it was basically a non-Android app behind a thin Android shell that couldn't easily be upgraded to more modern native APIs), there's nothing super-obvious here.

I would have loved a better solution for local backups, but realistically, $2/month for cloud backup is really cheap, and a pragmatic solution.

Dunedan · 3 months ago

> There are a couple of problems with the existing backup:

>

> 1. It is non-incremental.

I wonder if that's differently with the newly announced functionality. Their announcement doesn't sound like it:

> Once you’ve enabled secure backups, your device will automatically create a fresh secure backup archive every day, replacing the previous day’s archive.

Dunedan commented on Taco Bell AI Drive-Thru aidarwinawards.org/nomine... · Posted by u/planetdebut

anywhichway · 3 months ago

I feel like we watched different videos.. Seemed like the AI (or other monitoring system) recognized a problem with the 18000 cups of water order and quickly transitioned to a real human. That instance looked pretty production ready to me.

Dunedan · 3 months ago

I suspect the human worker still had a headset to listen in to the orders at the drive-through and just intervened when she heard that order.

Dunedan commented on I am giving up on Intel and have bought an AMD Ryzen 9950X3D michael.stapelberg.ch/pos... · Posted by u/secure

usr1106 · 3 months ago

I guess the author runs it at high load for long times, not only for the benchmarks to write this blog post. And less than 10 kWh is a low starting point, many households would be much higher.

Dunedan · 3 months ago

That vastly depends where you live and what you use electricity for. Most of Europe for example uses much less energy [1], although that will probably change as heat pumps are becoming more and more widespread.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_countries_by_electric...