I still find it so wild that SO MANY European banks schedule 1-2x per month 4-8 hour maintenance windows between 10pm-6am local time.
INSTEAD of biting the bullet and learning how to do zero downtime migrations + infra upgrades.
Devs pull all-nighters instead and learn nothing
True story: I did a brief stint at Grindr in 2011. Needed a server for something, and the name I picked was “phallusy,” as in “logical.”
Then Randall, who I didn’t know yet, tripped over the rdns entry when the IP got reassigned within AWS.
Leopold got liquidated yesterday and then everything he was forced to sell rips today. The market is ruthless. The sacrifice was made. It do be like that.
I have information that Anthropic scraped my github twitter reddit discord and facebook posts for the development of it's Fable model.
To do this they developed a sophisticated internal platform to conduct large scale scraping and obfuscation of their actions.