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Captainant

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  1. Hey man, he's a rich guy so by the law of the land he can do whatever he wants. Haven't you been paying attention? Something something job creation by destruction
  2. Reminds me of blocking COVID testing because if you don't know then it's not happening
  3. Heh, Elmo and SpaceX lost in the trespassing suit from the Cards Against Humanity folks https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/10/cards-against-humanity-gets-settlement-from-spacex-plans-pack-of-elon-musk-cards/ That'll be a fun set to pick up
  4. A ton of folks using SDK's to communicate with cloud services neglect to parametrize their region settings, resulting in their software using endpoints in an east region for doing DR to a west region. There were a few instances of regional anchoring for "global" services in AWS but those cleared up/failed over fairly quickly compared to the overall recovery time for compute. From reading AWS's outage explanation, when DDB shit the bed, it knocked over a ton of interdependent AWS services that took a while to come back to life. EC2 was back up for a few hours before serverless and other managed services stopped being marked as degraded. It'll be a few more days before they release a full RCA analysis but I'd bet a dollar they're gonna have some Correction of Error documents to release as well
  5. You would not have been impacted yesterday if you were running on AWS - you have reasonable multi-site DR configured and sensitive to DNS update. That's the biggest thing a lot of businesses overlook, really just because it's easier/cheaper to design around a single site/region
  6. Gotta love waiting until an outage to actually test a DR strategy
  7. TBH you're still subject to the same risk profile of single-source outage, you just (theoretically) have more control on the state of your single site. If you build a true multi-region architecture that doesn't hard-code its endpoints to region specific infra, it's pretty straightforward to recover. The big advantage IaaS gives is that you can burst/scale with zero opportunity cost, whereas in your own DC you're paying for that hardware for its lifespan. But if your operational model is pretty steady state, then yeah cloud is just paying for someone else's margin. If you don't want to deal with physical infra management it's a great deal - but yeah my NAS can't be beat by cloud in terms of price per GB or cost of IO operations, even including cost of power
  8. The AWS outage (simplified) in Haiku form: It's not DNS There's no way it's DNS It was DNS And this is a pretty good and easy to follow explainer, but a DNS failure caused dynamoDB to become unreachable in us-east-1, which made the shit hit the fan
  9. CO of US SOUTHCOMM resigned one year into a 3 year posting, seemingly over these strikes
  10. Sweatergawd more enterprises should take multiregion architecture more seriously. At least a pilot light backup would let you hit a 30 minute RTO to just fail over from use1
  11. Holy shit the CO of US SOUTHCOMM prosecuting the Carribean drug interdiction mission just resigned Pretty significant indicator that he resigned a year into a 3 year posting that's the pinnacle of a career. I didn't know that SecDef activated special forces assets to do the strikes after the Admiral refused on the basis of them not being legal combatants
  12. but seriously, that's the best way to watch games. I find a good stream on my phone/laptop/PC, and then cast it to my TV. EZPZ
  13. no, that's the commercial real estate market and RTO mandates
  14. surly never goes down, it's just borked sometimes
  15. [laughs in AWS] yeah even Amazon.com is down
  16. this is quite literally unconstitutional, so if you're cool with tearing that document up it's all a bit of a moot point. Congress controls taxation and spending. In the constitution, at least.
  17. If ACA was already gone (lulz) the fascists would have found another bone to chew on. Read a fucking history book, this is exactly what fascists do.
  18. You're not right, you're wong.
  19. https://www.wsj.com/business/ballmer-clippers-leonard-sanberg-aspiration-49924b19?mod=mhp This is pretty close to a smoking gun from WSJ, especially if Clippers execs were pushing this on Sanberg
  20. Ok, so not quite a Chamberlain. Mea Culpa.
  21. I'm definitely not arguing that this large complex failure is solely one person's fault. That's ridiculous. But of all the issues, Arch's sad QB performances cause the most secondary and tertiary problems. The o-line gets more heat because they can sell out to stop the run with very little risk. Because Arch has dogshit accuracy. Play calling is forced to be more vanilla and predictable to have a reasonable chance of getting positive yards. Because Arch has dogshit accuracy. It's not SOLELY his fault that the team is playing like hammered dogshit on offense, but he's high up the totem pole of shit flowing downhill. All the other units don't really make a shit while Arch is shitting all over them. Sure if Arch stops shitting, the team still has big issues. But that IF is entirely theoretical and a moot point at this time in the season
  22. That's like Mrs Lincoln saying the "play was fine except for the interruption". Accuracy is one of THE MOST important traits for a quarterback and without it, you should not be getting paid more than twice what Joe fuckin Flacco is getting paid
  23. https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-news-10-19-2025-f3d95cf76018541ff824853d1bcd3356 Good lord the peace deal didn't even last a full Scaramucci
  24. We won, but there's not much to smile about on offense. Arch is a disaster that has lost his ability to complete wide open passes, and Sark is calling plays worse than a strippers monkey
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