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The best way to do this is to correlate downtime with main providers. If a cloud provider goes down when AWS has outages on related services, it's probably using an AWS service.

That's not a bad spread. Should probably add that it's back bacon, and not streaky bacon that the yanks eat.

I'll die on this hill.

If you want an easy language for beginners, Ruby is a much better alternative. It's like a simpler Python, and aside from a crazy loop syntax teaches clean programming principles better than most languages.

With that said, Rails IS a ghetto, and many of the kinds of companies that use Ruby as their main language are stuck in the past or are full of the biggest toolbags you'll ever meet. DHH, in particular, built a reputation on being a programming contrarian, so much so that there's a golden rule where if he says something, the opposite is probably the correct choice.

My only fear with the indie gaming industry is that many of them are starting to embrace the churn culture that has led AAA gaming down a dark path.

I would love an app like Blind that allows developers on a game to anonymously call out the grinding culture of game development, alongside practices like firing before launch and removing credits from workers. Review games solely on how the dev treated the workers, and we might see some cool corrections between good games and good culture.

How is this going to work while OpenAI currently burns through an absolute ocean of cash to keep improving its services? Alongside this, a good software engineer or applied scientist can make close to $1m a year. While I do think professionals should earn what their value is to an employer, OpenAI still loses a ton of money.

As someone that works in AI, I think most of us know it's full of people trying to make a quick buck while investors will stupidly throw money at it. OpenAI is ultimately the figurehead of this market though, because at least the big companies can prop their AI offerings with the money they make from shopping, cloud, ads, etc. The second OpenAI looks weak and needs money, the vultures will slice off a piece and we'll see the AI market reduce to a wimper - just enough for tech to focus on the next grift.

I imagine you get these questions all the time, but how did you get into stand-up, and how did you get the guts to get up on a stage and try to be funny?

I love the idea of stand-up comedy, but I've been to a few open mic nights and it almost always seems like drunk people showing off, people that are hilariously unfunny, or people in the crowd that try to shit on anyone remotely trying to entertain.

It's been a while since I was in school, but my wife is a teacher here in the UK. The packed lunch area was often where the poor kids were, and we also had issues where (in their infinite wisdom) the school gave kids on free school meals a special card to get a specific meal (and nothing more). They may as well have stamped "bully me" on their foreheads.

Nowadays, schools are smart enough to use prepaid card systems where free school meals are preloaded on the same cards. My wife's old school used to put the same restrictions, but now it's far harder to determine who gets the free meals.

The packed lunch crowd does still get a lot of scrutiny, though, especially those that shop in "less favourable" stores. Buy your lunch from farmfoods and you're asking to be picked on. It's fucked up, and social media has made things SO much worse, but ultimately kids are often extremely cruel.

This definitely happens in France and the UK. I saw the latter first hand.

While I don't agree, I used to spend a lot of time on /r/OnePunchMan. OPN is kinda a gag anime in that it plays on many stereotypes to comedic effect. One of the main characters is a woman that is very petite and didn't grow up, and is also one of the most powerful heroes - alongside her sister who...did grow up.

The reason I mention it is because that sub is 90% suggestive fan art of the girl that the show literally points out looks like a child. It's a trope on the "sexualised minor" thing, but they're fucking falling for it again! When you call them out for noncing, they argue "she has adult features" or "she's in her twenties".

This isn't unique to America. It happens across Europe too.

In-game currency and microtransactions are fine, as long as the app can pay out for the same service/item. If I can buy a sword for $5, I can also sell that sword to the app developer and get $5 back. If I can pay $1 to skip a level, I can redeem $1 for beating said level.

Well, they're dead, so not much else outside of that.

It goes to show just how effective the brainwashing is, though. So many people were afraid of what is essentially science fiction. If we could inject nanobots into someone to control their mind and body, holy shit we've made one of the craziest scientific breakthroughs in a century! They were so afraid they ignored the fact that they were incredibly ill and tried to leave on the assumption that they had been attacked.