Your playground says the login is "Only used for verification against abuse."

Immediately after signing in, I get an email from you. Serious uncool and an instant "nope" from me after that.

If this was 2016, I'd think there could be a possibility. Given that the candidates for the election are almost 100% a foregone conclusion at this point, what purpose would it serve?

Fueling clickbait conspiracy theories is one probable outcome that comes to mind. For example, even a winning candidate may claim that a "woke" employee sabotaged the site in an effort to subvert the will of the people to have free and open discourse, they won despite the media deck stacked against them, etc.

What platforms have anywhere near the reach and services that Meta does for a marketplace/advertising?

I'm not personally a fan of most social media, but saying "they could go somewhere else" is a pretty naieve/ignorant response.

Blaming an outage on DEI... Man that's a new one for me.

Could you let us know where you work? I want to make sure I never apply there.

Bwahaha, just wait until you see the shrapnel flying over the next year.

You don’t think the steady erosion in system reliability and ever increasing outages is unrelated to these pressures do you?

I’ve seen the sausage being made at the middle manager level in big corp for a long time. It’s never any one person/hiring decision, but the pattern and it’s impact has been obvious (and getting unavoidable) for a long time.

That no one seems to want to talk about the actual issues, but doing character assassination and black listing (like this comment) is part and parcel of the problem.

> You don’t think the steady erosion in system reliability and ever increasing outages is unrelated to these pressures do you?

Outages have steadily decreased at major companies. I don't know what you're looking at.

Remember AWS taking out a good chunk of the internet many times a year because their east coast data center kept going down? Remember the fail whale meme-ing because Twitter was so unstable?

Industry site reliability has only gotten better over the years.

Bwaha, so now everything is actually getting better and more reliable in big corp land!

I’m sure AT&T, Google, Facebook/Whatsapp/Meta, BofA, Apple, MS, and many others who have had prominent massive outages and embarrassing product launch failures this year will be happy to hear this.

Notably, Amazon is one of the few companies that has managed to avoid a lot of the DEI noise somehow. Perhaps due to their reputation for having such a brutal work culture already?

I can’t wait to hear what you’re going to say next.

Big Corp Software quality improving AND running faster on existing hardware?

This is kinda my thought too.

You can also look at it as a "perk" of the more expensive ticket. First class passengers on an airplane are the only ones that get a full meal on most domestic air travel. How is this different?

> First class passengers on an airplane are the only ones that get a full meal on most domestic air travel. How is this different?

Why go to meal comparisons instead of something more directly relevant? First class passengers get unlimited free alcohol (same with Comfort+ and above on Delta and many other airlines too), and economy class has to pay per-drink.

Part of the reason I feel like a meal analogy is not good is because it varies heavily per airline and per flight distance.

As far as I'm aware, the cheering is outside of the main control room (which is where the broadcasters are).

Also: there are no people on board. If it blows up, it's "only" money that's lost.

Yes, big distinction between manned vs unmanned. I don't remember if the situation was the same for the first crew dragon launch. It's just something that stuck with me since watching one of the first broadcasts of high profile falcon launch.

Really fun game! I'd love more :)

SEIZURE WARNING: Once you win, there is a lot of flickering.

So while some of my info was there, there was DRASTICALLY more data listed that has nothing to do with me. I've had this phone number since ~2001, any idea why that would happen?

Some one may have used your numbers randomly and that database may be leaked

This is an awesome idea!

Any plans to implement Fargate as an option? You mention the limitations of Lambda and Fargate pretty much takes care of all of those, without needing to provision EC2.

Thank you!

Fargate is more of a maybe for us as it doesn't seem to offer a ton of advantages over EC2. It still takes about 30 seconds to launch a Fargate job, and as far as I can tell there's no way to "keep an instance around". With Meadowrun-on-EC2 or Lambda, when you run two jobs run one after another with the same libraries and the same code (or even slightly different code), there's almost 0 overhead for running the second job. So Fargate is only slightly better for a cold start (30s compared to 45-60s for an EC2 instance in my experience), and significantly worse for a warm start (still 30s). And that's the core experience we're trying to make amazing--run some code, look at the results/data, tweak it, run it again, repeat.

Meadowrun is taking care of all the messy details of provisioning and managing the EC2 instances, so Meadowrun-on-Fargate won't be any easier to use than Meadowrun-on-EC2, and I don't see a ton of advantages to make up for the inability to get a warm start on Fargate. That said, AWS is super dynamic, so we're definitely keeping an eye on Fargate.

Wow, I had no idea something like that exists. Happen to have a link to the one you did? I'd be really interested in trying something like that.

Milsim West Saratov Insurgency. It's very interesting. Half meme kids yelling at each other, half very interesting fake firefights.

Search for something like "milsim <your geographical area>"