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> It works for them because:

You missed item number 3 from your list ....

Because F1 has a shit load of sponsors willing to throw a shit load of money at the team as long as they get their logo on the side of the car.

Hospitals don't have that. Even the US has not (yet ?) stooped so low as to have corporate sponsorship for hospitals !

"Mr Patient, your heart operation is being sponsored by $megaCorp ... pay extra to remove the ads from your implanted pacemaker".


I don't follow.

In the same breath (same paragraph) you state two polar opposites about working with AI:

   - I am phenomenally productive
   - "as long as I occasionally have it stop" and "it tends to forget a lot of rules like DRY"
I don't see how you can claim to be "phenomenally productive" when working with a tool you have to babysit because it forgets your instructions the whole time.

If it was the "junior dev" you also mention, I suspect you would very quickly invite the "junior dev" to find a job elsewhere.


You don't have to follow. I'm still punching way above my weight. Not sure why both things can't be true at once.

> has anyone actually commented to you in a negative way about using Let's Encrypt?

A friend of mine has had a negative experience insofar as they are working for a small company, using maybe only 15–20 certs and one day they started getting hounded by Let's Encrypt multiple times on the email address they used for ACME registration.

Let's Encrcypt were chasing donations and were promptly told where to stick it with their unsolicited communications. Let's Encrypt also did zero research about who they were targetting, i.e. trying to get a small company to shell out $50k as a "donation".

My friend was of the opinion is that if you're going to charge, then charge, but don't offer it for free and then go looking for payment via the backdoor.

In a business environment getting a donation approved is almost always an entirely different process, involving completely different people in the company, than getting a product or service purchase approved. Even more so if, like Let's Encrypt, you are turning up on the doorstep asking for $50k a pop.


“They sent a few emails soliciting donations” isn’t exactly a horror story in my experience. Seems hardly worth mentioning!

It's not something to stop using them over, but unsolicited solicitation emails are annoying at the least. It's definitely worth mentioning letting other people know they have warts too

To be clear, I was merely answering the question posed "has anyone actually commented to you in a negative way about using Let's Encrypt?"

Well, yes, someone actually commented to me in a negative way about using Let's Encrypt ....

Don't shoot the messenger, as they say.


>one day they started getting hounded by Let's Encrypt multiple times

>trying to get a small company to shell out $50k as a "donation".

>Even more so if, like Let's Encrypt, you are turning up on the doorstep asking for $50k a pop.

Does your friend have anything to corroborate this claim? Perhaps the email with identifying details censored?

I have a received an occasional email mentioning donations. They are extremely infrequent and never ask me for a specific amount. I would be incredibly surprised to see evidence of "hounding" and requests for $50,000.


All the usual phishing checks were done if that's what you're thinking.

In terms of the actual mail with identifying details removed, I'd have to go back and ask.

I did look before posting here as I thought they had already forwarded it to me, but it was last year, so I have almost certainly cleaned up my Inbox since. I'm not an Inbox hoarder.


> Nominate NATS for the Silent Failure Peace Prize?

One or two of the comments on GitHub by the NATS team in response to Issues opened by Kyle are also more than a bit cringeworthy.

Such as this one:

"Most of our production setups, and in fact Synadia Cloud as well is that each replica is in a separate AZ. These have separate power, networking etc. So the possibility of a loss here is extremely low in terms of due to power outages."

Which Kyle had to call them out on:

"Ah, I have some bad news here--placing nodes in separate AZs does not mean that NATS' strategy of not syncing things to disk is safe. See #7567 for an example of a single node failure causing data loss (and split-brain!)."

https://github.com/nats-io/nats-server/issues/7564#issuecomm...


> if you read DeepWiki's conclusion, it is far more optimistic

Well, its an LLM ... of course its going to be optimistic. ;-)


"You are entirely correct!"

No insight here either, but I would guess it is a spin-off ... mostly because it is a US company and in the US spin-off's are generally tax free to both company and shareholders.

Spin-off is where the parent company creates a subsidiary and distributes the shares in the subsidiary to the existing shareholders. So the shareholders end up holding shares of two companies. Share allocation is done on a pro-rata basis so each shareholder still has the same exposure they did before.


> if you don’t know enough to look for the fsync flag off yourself,

Yeah, it should use safe-defaults.

Then you can always go read the corners of the docs for the "go faster" mode.

Just like Postgres's infamous "non-durable settings" page... https://www.postgresql.org/docs/18/non-durability.html


> worn down house you might pass on the street.

That "worn down house" might be good until "upper 6". Beyond that it all depends on when it was built and the associated construction standards at the time.

Source: https://isec-society.org/ISEC_PRESS/ASEA_SEC_03/pdf/St-5_v5_...


Japan has had earthquakes forever. Their building regulations mandate things like isolation and dampers.

It all stems from an earthquake in 1923 in Yokohama which killed 140,000. Since then Japan's has over time developed some of the strictest seismic standards.


> The cables seem to be mostly overground (at least in this video) and are probably easier to repair (oldschool infra ftw).

In Japan cables are (still) mostly overground. Use of underground is still a relatively new topic as addressed by the TEPCO website[1]. The first footer on the bottom of that page provides a nice TL;DR of the state of play:

     The plans for underground conversion have consisted of "Plan for Underground Conversion of Power Lines", which covered three terms from FY 1986 to FY 1998, followed by the "New Plan for Underground Conversion of Power Lines" from FY 1999 to FY 2003, and then the "Plan for the Removal of Utility Poles" from FY 2004 to FY 2008. Based on these plans, approximately 7,700 km of lines all across Japan were placed underground over 23 years by the end of FY 2008 (with TEPCO responsible for approximately 3,500 km).
     Currently, we are consulting with related personnel regarding items such as locations for conversion as based on the new "Guidelines for the Removal of Utility Poles" established in FY 2009.

[1] https://www.tepco.co.jp/en/hd/about/facilities/distribution-...

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