> As always, I asked the EC2 team for access to an instance in order to put it through its paces. The instances are available in Dedicated Host form, so I started by allocating a host.
Dedicated Hosts (https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/dedicated-hosts/) are more pricey than virtual instances (most EC2) and Dedicated Instances. Not sure if it's possible to containerize/sell as many virtual instances off a dedicated server without paying a separate high license fee to Apple.
Also maybe worth mentioning the PyPI team has 1-to-1 UX feedback/study for `pip` https://www.ei8fdb.org/thoughts/2020/03/pip-ux-study-recruit.... I'd be more interested opting in for open web survey (question and answer field) though. Nevertheless, great to see they're open to user feedback in forms other than Git issues.
This initiative is launched quicker than I expected, considering the pressure on federal budget due to the pandemic. It's part of National Quantum Initiative Act, signed into law in December, 2018. https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/6227
Mostly things against Russia. Only one thing that was particularly interesting that, unlike US, EU never did an investigation on possible influence of Russia in their 2016 referendum/Brexit even though they were aware of it.
> We have not been provided with any post-referendum assessment of Russian
attempts at interference, *.53 This situation is in stark contrast to the US handling of
allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, where an intelligence
community assessment54 was produced within two months of the vote, with an unclassified
summary being made public. Whilst the issues at stake in the EU referendum campaign are
less clear-cut, it is nonetheless the Committee’s view that the UK Intelligence Community
should produce an analogous assessment of potential Russian interference in the EU
referendum and that an unclassified summary of it be published
> A hypothesis suggests that, female birds may habituate to the common songs over time, and that drives the male bird to adopt novel songs to maintain female's interest.
> Other free ebooks don’t put much effort into professional-quality typography: they use "straight" quotes instead of “curly” quotes, they ignore details like em- and en-dashes, and they look more like early-90’s web pages instead of actual books.
True. I hope you guys get proper funding and keep this project on.
- Keep it "concise", "ascribed", and "specific". By concise, avoid irrelevant details; by ascribed, write necessary data even though it's obvious but saves time for the reader by not having to look up, i. e., complete date mm-dd-yy instead of yesterday/tomorrow, links for references; by specific, avoid ambiguity, separate lines for each required query.
- Use proper text formatting, i.e, <bold> important texts, wrap links with titles.
- Divide long email into separate paragraphs, each can contain its subject. i.e., the way most SaaS services publishes postmortem about an outage or vulnerability.
Note: I've read many articles on writing good emails, this article focuses on the technical team, which in itself follows its guidelines.
> Within AWS, that same pattern has recurred many times. For example, we invented DynamoDB, a highly
scalable, low latency key-value database now used by thousands of AWS customers. And on the listening-
carefully-to-customers side, we heard loudly that companies felt constrained by their commercial database
options and had been unhappy with their database providers for decades – these offerings are expensive,
proprietary, have high-lock-in and punitive licensing terms. We spent several years building our own database
engine, Amazon Aurora, a fully-managed MySQL and PostgreSQL-compatible service with the same or better
durability and availability as the commercial engines, but at one-tenth of the cost. We were not surprised when
this worked.
Is there something wrong with acm's load balancer or whatever? First managed to read to the end of the article, but to download the PDF showed "Oops!
This website is under heavy load." Now article page is under heavy load too.
Edit: It worked again right after I posted this comment.
rcloud (https://rclone.org) is great too if you want an open source client solution for syncing to the commercial storage service. If you can setup your own server for rcloud like you'd do with Syncthing, rcloud can be enough.
I believe what your point is since the subscription costs 23 times more of what Netflix HD costs, there should've been a warning since Netflix and many other companies do even for their low prices. From my experience this is nothing new, but there should've been a fair refund system.
Many of devs might already know Visual Studio offers free 1-month (it was 3-months before) of Pluralsight, I'm not sure if you need to sign up with your CC now, but it's a nice deal. https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/dev-essentials/
> How often does this happen? I've worked with complete Linux noobies who were "forced" to use Linux in a VM daily and I've never seen this happen.
Depends on the noob, and just because you never met a situation like that doesn't mean nobody else experiences too (disclosure: it happens all the time)
I was somewhat a noob, I tried to edit Ubuntu's Yaru theme and I messed up and deleted the corrupted system files. There was nothing to worry since I already made backups of the original files, the distress came when I realized I accidentally deleted my good backup files (was bad regex). I wasn't really worried at that moment cause I hoped there would be some repository out there, I could just fetch my files. There was none, none of the latest Ubuntu version or any close old version. Turns out distribution packages are so big (sensibly) it's not that simple to deploy a remote master repository. That was my "wtf open source" moment. I still somehow managed to fix it without any stackoverflow or AskUbuntu. Anyway that's just one case top off my head.