Is anyone still using Cloudformation?
Indirectly and/or under the hood. What alternatives are there? Terraform?
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lxrbst commented on Meta lays off 11,000 people about.fb.com/news/2022/11... · Posted by u/technics256
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The submission itself is such a link. Did you even read it, or just dive straight into the comments?
> Recruiting will be disproportionately affected since we’re planning to hire fewer people next year. We’re also restructuring our business teams more substantially.
lxrbst commented on Meta lays off 11,000 people about.fb.com/news/2022/11... · Posted by u/technics256
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These are mostly recruiters and biz people being laid off, from all of those companies. Maybe stop spewing panic infused ignorance.
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lxrbst commented on What made the NES so interesting? nicole.express/2022/the-n... · Posted by u/zdw
If you wanted to publish a game for the NES, you had to go through Hiroshi Yamauchi, the president of Nintendo. He had the final veto power at the moment of publishing a game.
If he didn't like the game, the game would not get published no matter what.
This process ensured that the NES had only quality games.
Yamauchi was 7th dan in Go, and at one point was the richest man in Japan.
>This process ensured that the NES had only quality games.
Probably some rubberstamp thing then. NES had _plenty_ of bad games though, actually the majority of games published were bad.
See LJN.
lxrbst commented on Hyper-realistic digital humans in Unity unity.com/demos/enemies... · Posted by u/Naracion
It is the opposite. Reality is easy because it is familiar. Our brains are tuned to it from the core. To make something truly alien is to make something you've never seen, heard, touched, smelled, nor felt before. That is incredibly difficult, has always been, and has the potential to birth whole new genres of art.
There will never be new genres or art or music. Everything has been discovered already. Like colours, they are all already known. Sure you can have a new take something or maybe discover a new subgenre, but the majority is already there. And just because a genre would have a new "name" (just a branding thing anyway) doesn't mean it's not part of some other genre already.
You can't capture psychedelic and or mystic experiences, which are very subjective anyway and yes, rooted in _reality_ or require a reference to _reality_ as they are the so far away from that.
Yeah one thing that these so called productivity hackers need to learn is the skill to Just be.
No need to learn anything, improve yourself or get better. Just be. It's okay to watch Netflix and play candy crush. But no, you ought to live 24 hours a day and improve yourself for God knows what endgoal.
That's just plain escapism or veiled hedonism. There's more to life than enjoying yourself 24/7.
lxrbst commented on Helsinki Relocation Package: City as a Service helsinkibusinesshub.fi/90... · Posted by u/mannylopez
Might not be. The Nordic states seem rich enough already. Norway, for example, has a fund that makes all its citizens millionaires, so you do get richer if you join them. Can’t speak for Finland, but because it’s a welfare state you are going to get more than you give, at least until you start making serious money. I think they realise that immigration helps counter stagnation, especially if their population is aging and/or the birth rate is less than 2.
Norway is rich. They have oil. Their government is actually pretty decent with money also.
Sweden is an older country and has been historically pretty wealthy also.
Finland on the other hand... Well, we mostly have have trees and lakes. Our monetary policy consists of taking it up the behind from bigger countries, having sky high rates of taxes on everything, and finally, selling the few natural resources actually worth something to other foreign companies.
While I occasionally dream about working on cars or motorcycles at times instead of sitting in front of a computer all day, I think we tend to forget how good of a career developing is.
When we picture our dream of doing a simple trade, we only think of the most awesome part of that trade. If I'm a car mechanic, most of it too is just trivial oil and tire changes or changing a basic part of two - not working on engines in depth.
Same with programming. We would want to build something cool from the ground up, but we are just piping stuff from a lib to another.
Comparing woodworking to corporate code is unfair anyway. I'd rather compare working at a furniture factory to corporate code, and woodworking to a solo dev project.
lxrbst commented on Young children would rather explore than get rewards news.osu.edu/young-childr... · Posted by u/kyle_morris_
Come on Finns of HN, we know you're out there. What's your experience of this?
The Finnish school system is nice, until you wanna go to college/university.
I think higher education in Finland isn't anything special, if you actually want a quality education you'll have to go abroad (like the actually successful people do here anyway). Even the arguably best schools aren't that good. People mostly coast through them once they get in and just want the piece of paper at the end. Good parties though.
Years later in the work force they'll wake up and see they barely make more money then an electrician with their fancy degree because of the insane tax policies here. What's the point of having a nice degree if you're still gonna have a moderately low salary compared to other European countries?