These guys always have the best write-ups. I aspire to write postmortems like they do. In fact, maybe my next context for a ChatGPT query will be “you are a member of of CloudFlare’s public relations team…”
All joking aside, it occurred to me that the vast majority of internet and even tech users know very little about DNS. For the longest time, I was in the same boat. After having been in a role where it was necessary to understand the record types and deploy DNS configs, I’m quite thankful I learned. Just remember…it’s always DNS.
> And so, the question: why are there so few of them? Here is just a smattering of the official actions that don’t exist[...]
This part of the article half triggered me and half made me laugh. I was recently on a GitHub webinar to listen to the pitch for CoPilot, but of course they also talked about Actions and GHAS. Anyway, during the overview of Actions, the presenters made a comment about how Actions was "backed by the community." It felt to me like a glaring admission that the product isn't mature. But in true Microsoft fashion, they charge you like it is.
The situation you've described has never happened. Out of all the options, it is considered the safest. People forget that the dollar is backed by the ultimate currency - military force.
There are multiple places. For sure other banks. JPM and other “too-big-to-fail” banks received billions of dollars in deposit inflows over the last few days[0].
But for me personally, I’ve been moving cash to US Treasury bonds, and based on recent bond prices, so have others. Short term treasuries were nearing a 5.1% yield as of early last week, and now are below 5% due to demand.
Last fall, I moved cash to HYSA accounts for a higher yield, because my bank was still paying 0.05% interest, presumably because they were loaded with low-yield treasuries and mortgage-backed securities.
In general, a bank is not a great place to park tons of money, at least that’s what I’ve learned. I’m tired of getting screwed by them. What the media calls “faith in the banking system” I call getting bent over. Of course there are valid uses for banks, especially in business. But I’m done parking large amounts of cash there.
Over the last 10 years we've had to replace our furnace twice, and happen to have both gas and a heat pump (a hybrid system). Each time, we had a different contractor do the installation...but both guys told us that they like to run gas below like 30 degrees. The second guy said he runs gas exclusively - no heat pump installed in his home. I asked what the primary differences were in terms of efficiency, and both claimed that temperature at the register is significantly hotter, producing more heat with less effort and therefore more efficiency.
I haven't done any scientific testing; the only data I have to measure the difference is my energy bill (which of course is subject to rate changes). But I have indeed observed that with gas, our bill is lower during the very cold months, and I'm able to see this because I have years of data on what we spend each month on energy.
In fact, Canon is going after third party lens manufacturers that are blatantly violating its patent [0].
One of the problems Canon has faced recently is a flooding of the market with super cheap lenses (we're talking 50-200 dollars for total junk). The people that are buying them are justifiably upset when the photos are crap because they incorrectly think its a camera problem. Hey, a lens is a lens, right?
Anyhow, there's wide speculation that Canon will license to the quality quality third-party makers at some point [1][2].
You’re absolutely right, I’m done preordering games. I didn’t do it much anyway, but nowadays it’s just not worth it. The most recent and egregious example that comes to my mind was the latest Battlefield. My goodness was that a turd, and lots of people felt rightfully burned after preordering that game and essentially getting a totally unfinished product.
5 years of software updates - that's a lol. My wife has had 3 different generations of Pixel phones fail (hardware failure, not dropped or broken by the user).
She keeps going back to them though because the camera smokes the competition (according to her).
I have a relative (now in his 60's) who is a globally renowned network engineer from Silicon Valley. He has many patents, worked on just about every protocol known out there, etc. Truly one of the people who made the internet what it is today. From what I can see, he was always equally interested in the money and changing the world. But now, he's in the luxurious position of being able to "work for free" if its a project that he believes will change the world for the better. Both factors have always mattered for him.
I second the notion of a minimum 2 week vacation. Over the years I’ve found that 7 days is simply not enough to slip out of the work mindset. I noticed that after 8-10 days I was more relaxed, and after 14 I had basically all but forgotten work. As others have mentioned, if it continues after that, you might need to consider other options.
I was thinking the same. What we have here is a security nightmare. You have executable code on globally unique URLs with no protective mechanisms in front of it except for the ability to do IAM. Yikes.