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Agency heads can be SES and can make more than GS-15, but the max is still far lower than private sector equivalent.

Right up there with New Relic writing a blog post about how you couldn't trust Sumo Logic (and should move to NR) after they got bought by Francisco Partners, only to be bought by Francisco Partners themselves.

It was available for 6 years (2011-2017), that's hardly a failure relative to other Apple products that have only made it through 2 cycles (the most recently iPhone Mini sub-family that lasted 2 years).

Bezos isn't the CEO, and hasn't been since 2021.

It seemed like the initial Direct File rollout was limited to states that didn't have a state-level income tax, or directly cooperated with the IRS. Are they forcing all states to play ball, or will Direct File not cover state tax submissions?

Essentially. Take the Visa credit card lines for example -- Visa Infinite cards have a higher transaction fee than a Visa Signature card, and the high-end travel cards will be of the Infinite variety (Chase Sapphire Reserve).

It works (and is the best option bar-none) until the big few lobby the state to outright ban municipal ISPs as happened in my state (NC). So frustrating.

This isn't true -- all Aldi locations accept SNAP EBT.

https://www.aldi.us/about-us/snap-ebt-payment/

AWS has a UI for resources in the cluster but it relies on the IAM role you're using in the console to have configured perms in the cluster, and our AWS SSO setup prevents that from working properly (this isn't usually the case for AWS SSO users, it's a known quirk of our particular auth setup between EKS and IAM -- we'll fix it sometime).

Yep, I'd say >half of the teams with K8s services have adopted KEDA, but we've got some HPA stragglers for sure.

HPA is useful until your maxReplicas count is set too low and you're already tapped out.

My current company is split... maybe 75/25 (at this point) between Kubernetes and a bespoke, Ansible-driven deployment system that manually runs Docker containers on nodes in an AWS ASG and will take care of deregistering/reregistering the nodes with the ALB while the containers on a given node are getting futzed with. The Ansible method works remarkably well for it's age, but the big thing I use to convince teams to move to Kubernetes is that we can take your peak deploy times from, say, a couple hours down to a few minutes, and you can autoscale far faster and more efficiently than you can with CPU-based scaling on an ASG.

From service teams that have done the migrations, the things I hear consistently though are:

- when a Helm deploy fails, finding the reason why is a PITA (we run with --atomic so it'll rollback on a failed deploy. What failed? Was it bad code causing a pod to crash loop? Failed k8s resource create? who knows! have fun finding out!)

- they have to learn a whole new way of operating, particularly around in-the-moment scaling. A team today can go into the AWS Console at 4am during an incident and change the ASG scaling targets, but to do that with a service running in Kubernetes means making sure they have kubectl (and it's deps, for us that's aws-cli) installed and configured, AND remembering the `kubectl scale deployment X --replicas X` syntax.

[Both of those things are very much fixable]

They might not still have the game source and/or knowledge on how to recompile the game. There are lots of technical reasons that it might be entirely unworkable to do that even if they wanted to.

(disclosure: work in video games at a big studio where I know for certain there are things we couldn't build again at this point without a ton of work)

More info in a directive from 1/14/24, https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/directives/ed-24-01-mitigat...:

CISA has observed widespread and active exploitation of vulnerabilities in Ivanti Connect Secure and Ivanti Policy Secure solutions, hereafter referred to as “affected products.” Successful exploitation of the vulnerabilities in these affected products allows a malicious threat actor to move laterally, perform data exfiltration, and establish persistent system access, resulting in full compromise of target information systems.

Tesla's insurance product wasn't/isn't available in my state (NC), so I can't speak too much to it.

My own experience with having our (now-lease-returned) Model 3 backs up collision repairs being more expensive. I live a major metro that has a single repair shop certified to work on Tesla vehicles. They have a multi-month wait, and they charge more to repair Tesla vehicles than the equivalent luxury vehicle because they can.

A newer luxury SUV with an MSRP 2x of our Model 3 had a lower collision premium on our car insurance policy.

I brought this up in another thread, but the floor level is a couple inches lower in the A320 series so the plane feels larger because you (both figuratively and literally) have more headroom, which I personally greatly enjoy.

One very tiny thing (well, big) that I love about the A320 family compared to the 737 family is that the load floor on the 32x is a couple inches lower which increases headspace (both real and perceived) making it feel like a less cramped plane. Love it.

Maybe I'm not trying to read books in the target market that my local library is trying to serve with what it has available on Libby, but I probably have a 5% success rate with books I'm trying to read actually being available on Libby.

(Setting aside the very hostile payment structure that Libby imposes on libraries, which makes it look far less attractive as a tax-payer now that I know how it works)

Reverse engineered the API that iMessage uses and made an app for Android making use of them (while charging a fee for it). There's more to it than that (what got them smacked originally was using fake device credentials for attestation), but that's the tl;dr.

because they wanted to promote using Apple Pay

This is because Apple (and Google, in the case of Google Pay) take a small small cut for each of those NFC transactions (somewhere like 15 basis points iirc, charged to the issuing card network).

For me it’s about where I’m spending my time (YouTube), not so much the pure cost to make the content itself (Netflix, etc.). I spend far more time watching YouTube than anything else, background and foreground, which makes the $15 or whatever (am in the US, I don’t actually know what I pay because I’ve never questioned its value to me unlike Netflix, etc.) worth it to me.

I think it’s totally fair if you don’t think it’s worth it for you though. I’m very willing to (and have!) cancel most other services (except for Max which I get for “free” from my ISP) in favor of YouTube because I find the content far more engaging and I can tailor it to my interests far better.

I’ll also add that a decent chunk of my viewing is on mobile (phone or iPad) where ad blocking isn’t slightly more difficult using the YouTube native app.

it's also kinda weird for "tiny Asian nation" to be applied to Nepal with a population of 30m. Compare that to... Bhutan with 700k.

I gotta be honest, I'm not sure what was expected? They spent $2b building this thing, it's brand new tech, it didn't host many shows last quarter (it was open for 1? full month of the quarter).

I still think The Sphere is super damn cool and I can't wait to go to an event there.

Same PDX outage has been affecting Workday's WD5 dc, too.

I find "logs off" as a euphemism for passed away to be quite poor, even in the context of someone who contributed to to the computer industry writ large.

The bottom of the blog post has the eligibility requirements list/things-the-pilot-will-support:

Income reporting

-W-2 wage income

-Social Security and railroad retirement income

-Unemployment compensation

-Interest of $1,500 or less

Credits

-Earned Income Tax Credit

-Child Tax Credit

-Credit for Other Dependents

Deductions

-Standard deduction

-Student loan interest

-Educator expenses

I think there are some rules around hiring for public cos in the US too -- even if you they like you over coffee, they've still got to post the position and interview other candidates too (that's been my experience semi-recently anyway, but it's possible that some of those rules are imposed by the industries that some of those companies serve, hard to tell). Some large private companies have also clamped down on that to avoid nepotism in the form of a manager bulk hiring all of their team from another role without interviewing anyone else.

At least in my major US metro, only the electric utility can toggle their service on/off remotely. Water and gas services have a digital meter but still need a physical action by a human service worker to turn them on/off.

TX has a mismanaged power grid with no interconnects to load share by choice, how does that apply to the rest of the US? CA’s problems aren’t demand driven.

I live in a state that gets almost its entire gasoline supply from a single pipeline (Colonial) that has burst or leaked and left us with mass shortages several times in the last decade.