It is kinda annoying when you're in a rush and need something right there on the spot, but it says it has to update before you can use it, and then you're there for what feels like an eternity.

2mo ago

What's a completely normal sentence today that would have made no sense 50 years ago?

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blackn1ght @feddit.uk 2mo ago

Only time will tell.

2mo ago

A single point of failure triggered the Amazon outage affecting millions

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blackn1ght @feddit.uk 2mo ago

Agreed, but other cloud providers exist and it would be good if there was stronger competition in this space. But going back to self hosting is a huge step back and I think if a CTO said they were going to move from the cloud back to a self hosted solution, pretty much everyone would hate it.

2mo ago

A single point of failure triggered the Amazon outage affecting millions

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blackn1ght @feddit.uk 2mo ago

Bit of an over-reaction to one incident. I'd be willing to bet the uptime, reliability and scalability of AWS is significantly better than what the vast majority of in-house solutions could do. It's absolutely not worth going back.

Millions of customers using AWS also weren't affected - the company I work for certainly wasn't, although some of our tools like Jira were.

2mo ago

Question for people running default Androids

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blackn1ght @feddit.uk 2mo ago

I don't care enough to warrant spending any little free time I have fucking about installing a different OS and with all the challenges it would come with.

2mo ago

Inside Amazon’s Plans to Replace Workers With Robots

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blackn1ght @feddit.uk 2mo ago

From a UK perspective:

The pensioners would never vote for party that would introduce something like this. They HATE the idea of younger generations getting "free money". Honestly they're the real problem. But they're the demographic that vote the most and have a huge sway.

Just don't point out to them how their triple locked pensions are probably the biggest financial cost to our [UK] country...

2mo ago

Inside Amazon’s Plans to Replace Workers With Robots

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blackn1ght @feddit.uk 2mo ago

Technology has been replacing manual labour for a long time, this is hardly surprising. Some jobs will be created though as the robots need monitoring and maintenance.

2mo ago

Free iphone

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blackn1ght @feddit.uk 2mo ago

Why would they have to come in at 7am?

2mo ago

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blackn1ght @feddit.uk 2mo ago

Man's so high he can't even narrow down his own age range

2mo ago

Students at British campuses in China ‘made to pledge loyalty to party’, required to take ‘ideology courses’ and participate in ceremonies honouring the Chinese Communist Party

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blackn1ght @feddit.uk 2mo ago

So a British university in China follows and respects Chinese traditions/ ceremonies /laws and they're called bad/evil.

I'm assuming the students aren't Chinese due to the wording of "having to follow the same rules as homegrown students", so yes forcing non Chinese people to pledge allegence to the political party and attend parades is bad, whether it's tradition or not. It's just weird.

It would be equally bad if we forced foreign students to participate in our traditions (whatever they are), especially making them pledge allegence to a political party.

But If there was a Chinese university over here and they refused to follow British traditions and ceremonies and laws they would be kicked out.

No they wouldn't, they'd turn a blind eye and keep accepting money.