And that will never be true, so it’s meaningless.

It would also be cheaper to build one on the moon, if it was free to build them on the moon.

This isn’t a like for like comparison though, is it.

You removed all of their logging and all of their redundancy and reliability and replaced it with shitters that will all explode if the small providers one data centre goes down.

And if someone penetrates this mega server, they’ll be able to wipe all your logs or tamper with them, to hide the attack.

If your storage servers go down, everything they have is gone. And these providers don’t offer the finest hardware. How do you know all of those drives aren’t from the same batch? They will be, because they’re a bulk buyer with a single data centre.

>You removed all of their logging and all of their redundancy and reliability and replaced it with shitters that will all explode if the small providers one data centre goes down.

they'll never need it, a misconfiguration on those service ends up costing several grands.

>If your storage servers go down, everything they have is gone

It’s just logs for an app server, not some banking critical info that will cause a panic if lost. Most of what they are using for logging is for finding some errors, not for mission-critical things which must not be lost.

> How do you know all of those drives aren’t from the same batch?

Because it's explicitly something you can request when doing your server order from your vendor. In this particular case several years ago, Nutanix did good.

AWS is aimed at enterprise, not personal projects. Personal projects wouldn’t give them any meaningful revenue because the only thing that matters is cost.

These complaints are very weak.

Lambda is incredibly simple to use, it just runs a function for you.

Not sure how you could burn so much with dynamodb. It’s serverless and incredibly cheap. Must have been doing something insane like a huge dataset where you scan through it over and over.

Being salty that Gary couldn’t sell enough of his paid service and AWS is competing with it isn’t a meaningful complaint. I want something in AWS, not on Gary’s servers.

I wish our Lambdas would spin up faster, but otherwise I've been very happy with them over the past six years. We seldom run over the free tier limits, and when we do we get a bill for a couple of dollars. Dead simple to code for, dead simple to spin up a new instance or scale an instance if we need to.

Why would you screw yourself like that when it's already a huge project?

Why do people rebuild classic cars or remodel old houses by themselves? Because they enjoy the work itself and the learning process.

You don’t have to. It’s perfectly okay to take your modern car to a mechanic and hire a contractor for your remodeling needs.

But some people like to do it themselves, even when the project is large.

Have you ever done blacksmithing? It’s tremendously satisfying.

Sure, if you want 300,000 spoons, it’s far better to use a factory process and get essentially identical results. But if you only want a few spoons and accept (or even value) that the spoons will all be a little different, hand-forging them is quite enjoyable.

I’ve written enough assembly and done enough blacksmithing to know that the metaphor isn’t quite apt. But there’s both tremendous effort and satisfaction involved in both.

Hobbies are great. Making a living is usually a separate endeavor. I don’t want to pay for an artisan spoon. There will be a limited market for artisan software. But make no mistake, we are entering the era of software mass production. Say goodbye to your chisels and rasps. If you want to make money you will need to operate the machine that builds the machine.

ChatGPT pro is garbage. It’ll spend 20 minutes on an answer, doing all kinds of ridiculous things like writing scripts… instead of just outputting plaintext.

And then the answer isn’t even right.

This is why it’s stupid to assume a randomly generated ID is unique just because it is random.

In civil law maybe, but you aren’t allowed to blame a rape victim for choosing to walk down rape alley…