Nice!
Readit NewsI really hope we see AI-PU (or with some other name, INT16PU, why not) for the consumer market sometime soon. Or been able to expand GPU memory using a pcie socket (not sure if technically possible).
Isn't this what resizeable BAR and direct storage are for?
hhsectech commented on Almost every infrastructure decision I endorse or regret cep.dev/posts/every-infra... · Posted by u/slyall
My funny story is built on the idea that AWS is Hotel California for your data.
A customer had an interest in merging the data from an older account into a new one, just to simplify matters. Enterprise data. Going back years. Not even leaving the region.
The AWS rep in the meeting kinda pauses, says: "We'll get back to you on the cost to do that."
The sticker shock was enough that the customer simply inherited the old account, rather than making things tidy.
Eh? I've never had a problem moving data out of AWS.
Have people lost the ability to write export and backup scripts?
hhsectech commented on Almost every infrastructure decision I endorse or regret cep.dev/posts/every-infra... · Posted by u/slyall
Funny story time.
I was once part of an acquisition from a much larger corporate entity. The new parent company was in the middle of a huge cloud migration, and as part of our integration into their org, we were required to migrate our services to the cloud.
Our calculations said it would cost 3x as much to run our infra on the cloud.
We pushed back, and were greenlit on creating a hybrid architecture that allowed us to launch machines both on-prem and in the cloud (via a direct link to the cloud datacenter). This gave us the benefit of autoscaling our volatile services, while maintaining our predictable services on the cheap.
After I left, apparently my former team was strong-armed into migrating everything to the cloud.
A few years go by, and guess who reaches out on LinkedIn?
The parent org was curious how we built the hybrid infra, and wanted us to come back to do it again.
I didn't go back.
There are two possible scenarios here. Firstly, they can't find the talent to support what you implemented...or more likely, your docs suck!
I've made a career out of inheriting other peoples whacky setups and supporting them (as well as fixing them) and almost always its documentation that has prevented the client getting anywhere.
I personally dont care if the docs are crap because usually the first thing I do is update / actually write the docs to make them usable.
For a lot of techs though crap documentation is a deal breaker.
Crap docs aren't always the fault of the guys implementing though, sometimes there are time constraints that prevent proper docs being written. Quite frequently though its outsourced development agencies that refuse to write it because its "out of scope" and a "billable extra". Which I think is an egregious stance...doxs Should be part and parcel of the project. Mandatory.
hhsectech commented on Only 90s Web Developers Remember This (2014) zachholman.com/posts/only... · Posted by u/throwup238
Man, I started building sites in the mid to late 90s as a kid, for shits and giggles, then it became trendy to hire a "whizz kid" and people paid me to build garbage...web design business was so easy back then..."Your Dad says you know how to build websites? If I give you £500 will you build me one?"...hell yeah I will, we can have a big fucking banner, some scrolling marquees..."sure kid, whatever just make it look good"...no meetings, no wireframes, no bug trackers just here is £500 build me a site kid...by the way I'm a plumber. Here is my brochure...make it look like that.
Then your work began. First stop, looking for gifs of spinning spanners, cartoon dudes with hard hats on. Then you'd get the domain and hosting, put an "under construction" page up...man good times. I wish I could just "build a website" today...but you can't...you have to have 10 people involved bike shedding the fuck out of the fonts instead of having fun...and fucking soul destroying WordPress.
All of this is nostalgic.
Because there isn't much difference in the force between a 1m and a 8000m drop due to the above. So it really comes down to case, angle, and material onto which it was dropped with corners being more vulnerable.
There is. Dropping your phone follows a curve, it falling from 16,000ft it does not. There are more forces at play when you fumble your phone. They aren't necessarily stronger forces though...just more of them. Trajectory and spinning add different forces on top of gravity. There is also the catch attempt that invariably forces the phone down harder and changes the trajectory.
The terminal velocity of an iPhone is around 25-30mph. Past a certain height, it doesn't matter how high up the device is.
Dropping an iPhone out at 16,000ft is probably the same as throwing it off a tall building. I'd imagine a 3 or 4 storey building would be enough to reach terminal velocity.
hhsectech commented on In 2024, please switch to Firefox roytanck.com/2023/12/23/i... · Posted by u/Vinnl
I've used Firefox forever. I've tried for many years to convert people to it...but they can't live without "muh chrome".
It just seems like this adds a couple of steps to existing crawler scripts.