Know when to shitcan a bad idea rather than death march your company into oblivion by not concentrating on the core business and customers to deliver the bad idea.
Nope. Someone else already announced what they’re doing at least a year before and also, it’s Google, who don’t have a good reputation among colleagues and friends. We all have our own Google horror stories that invoke disinterest in their products and services.
Similar weird problems in portrait mode on my iPhone 13 Pro. My youngest daughter comes out looking like an unholy tellytubby on crack for some reason.
Got fed up of trying to negotiate with the bastard thing and bought a Nikon mirrorless instead. Absolutely no regrets.
Had this on eBay a couple of times. You need to photograph the package before you send it inside and out if it’s worth anything significant. UPS and Hermes at least won’t pay out on delivery unless you have some evidence.
Other option is hire someone with a chair leg to go and get the parts back. If it’s eBay look at their for sale list - some people are stupid enough to relist what “didn’t turn up”.
HSBC are notorious bastards and I fired them ages ago.
They transferred £2000 out of my account randomly one day with no cause or explanation when there was £118 available in it. The next day they froze the account and a specific contact at HSBC forced me to make a repayment arrangement for the money. I refused and opened a dispute and it took me 14 months to get it back and all fees incurred for entering an unarranged overdraft. It ruined my credit rating for 3 years. Every contact I made with them was handled by someone utterly incompetent or disinterested in solving the problem even when I involved a solicitor.
Never an apology, never an explanation, never a true resolution.
NEVER work with HSBC. ALWAYS keep your finances distributed between multiple accounts.
With Santander mostly now who so far, touch wood, have succeeded in not fucking anything up. Halifax as a backup.
This is terrible advice. Any fads are. Ketogenic diets are not good for you in any way.
Bad behaviour starts with acknowledgement and the best way to do that is to track what you eat and learn to adapt slowly and develop self discipline. Use a tracker app and set a reasonable daily break even nutritional target and start thinking about what you eat. Slowly substitute better choices in. Eventually you will develop self control.
People want quick fixes but keto just breaks other things.
Oh yes egress pricing is horrible. That’s why AWS/S3 looks nice to backup to but that first restore costs big time.
One killer no one seems to notice is the bandwidth between availability zones. When you have a proper best practice cross AZ deployment it can be rather expensive. But still cheaper than switches and humans and cages and data centre contracts.
These comparisons are fairly meaningless even on IaaS only class deployments. Instance costs aren't necessarily the biggest cost or the best cost optimisation path in the cloud.
For example our S3 costs are higher than our EC2 costs and we made a productive saving implementing lifecycle and S3 IA migration. The biggest EC2 cost reduction we made was through careful analysis and moving some stuff to Lambda, not by changing provider or instance class optimisation.
Whatever happens though, you don't know what the costs are going to be until you get the first bill, regardless of what you estimate.
The point is commitment allows you to optimise cost of baseline capacity. The only real benefits of the cloud are one cost centre, scale out without capex.
Quite frankly if you’re in the cloud you’re locked in one way or another.