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do you think they get a blank check for AWS resources?

It's important that they have a proper budget and pay near the sticker price that way they can play accounting games to make Twitch look unprofitable.

honestly not sure, but it would explain how they can keep it running

Well, I know a year (or 3?) Back they changed their retention of long videos, my guess is to lower storage spend.

we need a caching layer


> There is almost literally documented examples of…

lol


it probably wouldn’t be a bad idea to have some backups in space. It could imagine this being a premium AWS offering. A storage class for S3. Put one on the moon too. True cold storage ha!



Great, thanks!


I recall a video of a guy temporarily reducing hard drive performance by shouting at it

edit: here it is! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDacjrSCeq4


That is not just any guy though. He is the guy.


The guy if you care about systems performance, in a detailed way, for sure!

Someone ask him how many OS kernel bugs he’s found now? He finds the weirdest things… a tally would be “interesting”.


next try shouting at a wafer stepper


the sweatshirts are 50% cotton, 50% polyester which is a bit unfortunate.


Not everywhere apparently.

T-Shirts and Sweatshirts are 100% organic cotton (in the UK store at least).


ah, you’re right. I was looking at the north american store :3


Brutal


Very cool! Do you think it’s possible to do lakes and waterfalls?


Definitely! I'm planning for more landscape features for next versions. I think rivers will be a great addition, and waterfalls/rapids sound really interesting too. In the end it's a matter of adding a few classes and designing some sprites.


3 emojis in the first paragraph is where I close the tab.


This was originally a Twitter thread where emojis are customary. But you don’t have to read it.


don’t even get me started on react strict mode. I’m looking at porting a couple of my personal apps to rails 8


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