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the first EC2 instance was a Compaq under an intern's desk.
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Jun 27, 2022 15:16
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runnin' my cloud like a late 90s webforum
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Jun 27, 2022 15:34
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renormalize running critical infrastructure on a machine under Srini's desk
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Jun 27, 2022 15:43
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rotor posted:renormalize running critical infrastructure on a machine under Srini's desk you don't need to invest in monitoring tools when he can just tell you he can hear the fans are spinning up
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Jun 27, 2022 15:55
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i kind of want to run a web server off of old hardware from home for nostalgia value. been idly thinking about this a lot lately because i have a sickness of the soul.
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Jun 27, 2022 17:32
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post hole digger posted:i kind of want to run a web server off of old hardware from home for nostalgia value. been idly thinking about this a lot lately because i have a sickness of the soul. I've been thinking a lot about low-power, low-bandwidth computing lately
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Jun 27, 2022 17:35
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At my first job at a bearing manufacturer in Indiana we had some critical internal sites running on a 13 year old workstation and we didn't know it until the guy retired and someone turned off his computer lol
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Jun 27, 2022 17:35
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Fortaleza posted:At my first job at a bearing manufacturer in Indiana we had some critical internal sites running on a 13 year old workstation and we didn't know it until the guy retired and someone turned off his computer lol so the question is: was fixing that problem more or less work than 13 years of fuckin around with poo poo like ansible and terraform?
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Jun 27, 2022 17:42
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Fortaleza posted:At my first job at a bearing manufacturer in Indiana we had some critical internal sites running on a 13 year old workstation and we didn't know it until the guy retired and someone turned off his computer lol that’s the good stuff
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Jun 27, 2022 17:48
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Asymmetric POSTer posted:that’s the good stuff
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Jun 27, 2022 17:51
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heard from someone at my first job that he knew a guy who worked somewhere where half of everything on their internal network would regularly go down. he eventually enquired about what that was all about and was told that they had an old novell server running under a desk which was somehow critical to their infrastructure. sometime it'd stop working so they'd just reboot it since everyone who knew anything about novell's tech was long gone. the guy figured he might as well try to fix this so he picked up old novell doc, and before long he left the company since it turns out there's still a surprising amount of that stuff in the wild (or was, like 10 years ago) and you can make obscene quantities of cash going around fixing that stuff
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Jun 27, 2022 18:12
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No Industry for Antiquarians
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Jun 27, 2022 18:27
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you might think that in 2004, realnetworks would have had some process in place for standing up a production server, and maybe it did, but damned if my dev lead or anyone else on my team there knew what it was
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Jun 27, 2022 18:42
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CRIP EATIN BREAD posted:the first EC2 instance was a Compaq under an intern's desk. GCP used a pencil.
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Jun 27, 2022 18:56
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I still remember at my cjs school c.2000 where examinations were still being done in basic/dos because “some industries are hold outs and haven’t upgraded to win2k, and probably won’t”. Some exams were done in os/2. it was pretty much a low point in my life. after graduating with my shiny diploma and a hatred of computers, I gained employment outside of the industry.
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Jun 27, 2022 20:04
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its how farmers are made
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Jun 27, 2022 20:12
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i wonder how people would become farmers before computers were invented? Were there like steam engine dudes who were like "I am so tired of all this steam bullshit, I'm just gonna be a farmer instead."
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Jun 27, 2022 20:13
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at $dayjob in 2011 we ran most of our batch processing jobs on one workstation under a desk. reduced our ec2 bill by $20k a month. aws used to be expensive and terrible.
epitaph fucked around with this message at 21:12 on Jun 27, 2022 |
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Jun 27, 2022 20:17
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rotor posted:its how farmers are made
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Jun 27, 2022 20:36
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if i could get paid deecee six figgies to be an assistant to a real farmer id quit tomorrow
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Jun 27, 2022 20:37
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Asymmetric POSTer posted:if i could get paid deecee six figgies to be an assistant to a real farmer id quit tomorrow i think there's a distinction to be made here between actual farmers and "gentleman farmers" which is to say people who run farms as a hobby because they dont need to live off the money they make selling okra or whatever 
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Jun 27, 2022 20:46
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Moo Cowabunga posted:I still remember at my cjs school c.2000 where examinations were still being done in basic/dos because “some industries are hold outs and haven’t upgraded to win2k, and probably won’t”. Some exams were done in os/2. it was pretty much a low point in my life. Gazpacho fucked around with this message at 21:23 on Jun 27, 2022 |
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Jun 27, 2022 21:21
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i flunked out of college at least partially because the school i picked only had comp sci in a business school, and the entire first semester was nothing but us converting from decimal to binary and back. I now understand the concept of a washout class, but cmon man
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Jun 27, 2022 21:30
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CRIP EATIN BREAD posted:the first EC2 instance was a Compaq under an intern's desk. All EC2 instances continue the tradition by living under someone's desk. Forgotten until the end times.
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Jun 27, 2022 21:47
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CommieGIR posted:All EC2 instances continue the tradition by living under someone's desk. Forgotten until the end times. ...forever cursed to exist only as a $19.32 monthly charge that nobody can really figure out how to stop.
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Jun 27, 2022 21:49
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yeah i know i'm leaking ec2 instances. whatever, they're cheap
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Jun 27, 2022 21:50
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lol yeah, cs programs that developed under the influence of the business school (and therefore likely the influence of IBM) tend to be "special"
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Jun 27, 2022 21:54
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now you can serve your company's production from a single unmanaged instance in your personal AWS account and expense it until you quit
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Jun 27, 2022 22:00
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are they worse than the CS departments run by people who refuse to acknowledge the fact that a CS degree is almost all vocational training?
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Jun 27, 2022 22:03
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its a lot better now but i every now & then I still see interns from colleges that will spend a year talking about computability and proofs of correctness and I ask them to commit to version control and they're like "version control?"
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Jun 27, 2022 22:04
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LanceHunter posted:...forever cursed to exist only as a $19.32 monthly charge that nobody can really figure out how to stop. Till the cryptominer takes its toll
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Jun 27, 2022 22:14
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CommieGIR posted:Till the cryptominer takes its toll reminder that the weed dump i worked at got owned by this, some sales bro got his excel password spreadsheet owned by a hacker and for 20 days slovenian teenagers ran the max number of gpu instances on aws mining bitcoin until we got a $230,000 aws bill in
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Jun 27, 2022 22:18
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Jonny 290 posted:reminder that the weed dump i worked at got owned by this, some sales bro got his excel password spreadsheet owned by a hacker and for 20 days slovenian teenagers ran the max number of gpu instances on aws mining bitcoin until we got a $230,000 aws bill in lmao
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Jun 27, 2022 22:20
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Jonny 290 posted:reminder that the weed dump i worked at got owned by this, some sales bro got his excel password spreadsheet owned by a hacker and for 20 days slovenian teenagers ran the max number of gpu instances on aws mining bitcoin until we got a $230,000 aws bill in kid rules
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Jun 27, 2022 22:26
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weed dump's answer was to change the minimum password length from 16 to 24 characters btw Also they ran separate logins for every environment because the CTO "didn't trust IAM" when i got laid off i deleted 48 google auth tokens
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Jun 27, 2022 22:29
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i moved a service to EC2 from a set of 2011 mac minis that were sitting in a closet in the office as recently as last year
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Jun 27, 2022 22:34
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rotor posted:are they worse than the CS departments run by people who refuse to acknowledge the fact that a CS degree is almost all vocational training?
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Jun 27, 2022 22:55
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Gazpacho posted:idk man how much time do you want to spend explaining that there are other data formats besides csv probably about as much time as you want to spend explaining why this new prolog tool just isn't gonna work in the toolchain
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Jun 27, 2022 22:57
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"look, Barney, i agree that graph isomorphism is an important concept and we can definitely come back to this later but right now I just need you to bump the version number in the POM ok"
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Jun 27, 2022 23:00
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post hole digger posted:i kind of want to run a web server off of old hardware from home for nostalgia value. been idly thinking about this a lot lately because i have a sickness of the soul. I do this except it's reasonably modern nas hardware. it's great tbh.
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