Maryland is a pretty rich state, spoiled by military and government connections. It is a poor choice to use as a baseline for the entire nation when plenty of rural areas are still barely scaping by economically and in terms of access to the Internet. Raising the baseline ability of our communications networks is anything but a terrible economic investment, the fact that you cite Netflix shows your focus is only on the short term. I challenge you to look beyond your short sightedness, once people have had their fill with the benefits to media consumption afforded by higher bandwidth connections, and into the future where such connections will be necessary as our infrastructure and information expand in the decades to come
Maybe because they have been preyed upon since birth by corporations, advertising, and media, shit on by the previous generations and perpetually viewed as children incapable of thinking and acting for themselves. "Maybe it's not the people that are sick... Maybe it's their environment." - Dave Chapelle
Please describe how Spotify and Netflix offer these lifetime price one-time purchase options.. quite well hidden in their exclusively subscription pricing
I find it so odd that people complain about a system enforcing efficiency and sustainability.
For example, I would never say in a whiny voice, “that plant only grows because it gets watered!” or “that student only works hard for good grades!” or “that product is only good because the brand wants to make more money!”
My point is: the why is less important to observe than the how. In this case, the WHY is that this company is just looking out for its own interests (it’s obvious, that’s what they do). HOW is it looking out for it’s own interests? By recognizing that it needs to be accountable to the critical, ethical public.
It's one thing for an engineer to resist (or resist in principle). It's another thing entirely for an organization to resist. One team taking the expedient route can wed the organization to AWS forever.
It's how the mainframe and Windows ecosystems worked. Kudos to AWS for figuring out how to capture the exploding market for Linux- and OSS-dependent stacks.
Yes and no. I will say its depends on what else you are running on AWS. As long as you don't code yourself into a corner so it could be a right ball ache switching providers moving away from AWS shouldn't be too much of a problem.
Remember (not you but the people who made your comment dead) AWS aswell as every other provider want to lock you in.
I say this as someone who uses AWS. But their are things that still tick me off with the platform. As an example They don't make it easy to RDNS a light sail instance verses an EC2 instance so you want to RDNS to help with that outgoing email server you want to set up its easier to pay for a micro ec2 then use lightsail for the same purpose (which comes with included bandwidth and its an outgoing email server so its not like CPU is a major issue) or use SNS, but its more beneficial to AWS for you to use ec2 or sns even if its not to you because of your end of month bill.
Anyways my point is its possible to resist the AWS lock in with a bit of forward thinking as long as you code for the possibility that you might want to swap providers.
Looks like a good time to jump in :) I've always been interested in playing around with sourcegraph, been saving for a little home server upgrade to run some projects!
Not always but a lot of machine learning techniques now are effectively just brute forcing and highly expensive band wasteful to compute. Machine learning is getting close but I don't believe we will get there with our current methods
