If we're purely talking voice actors, there are SO many incredible talents to choose from: Mark Hamill as The Joker for sure, Kevin Conroy as Batman, Tara Strong as dozens of characters, etc.
Clancy is an incredible actor in his own right both voice and general. I'll always have a soft spot for him as Kurgan in the first Highlander movie. He was so... unsettling.
I don't know. Mark Hamill is a voice acting chameleon. James Earl Jones was himself, which was great for many roles and impossible to improve upon for some. Their strengths lie on different axes.
To be fair, that entire traceroute never touches "the Internet". Everything after hop 6 is inside Google's backbone network, and everything before hop 7 is inside Linode/Akamai.
I mean, KIND OF, if you squint. From the trace, Akamai and Google have a direct peering link (hop 6 looks like an Akamai edge/peering router -- Akamai owns Linode so that makes sense -- and hop 7 is a Google peering router).
For it to be hitting "the Internet" you'd expect to see hops on a Tier 1 carrier like AT&T, Lumen, etc. and/or an ISP like Comcast, Spectrum, etc.
codecrafters (YC S22, http://codecrafters.io) has a new module called "Building Your Own Interpreter" that works its way through this book. It's great because you work in small chunks, each of which has unit tests to tell you if you got, e.g. scanning string literals correct.
Currently free while the module is in beta. I spent today working through all of the lexer exercises in Rust (I'm currently learning it), and had a lot of fun.
Generally speaking, if you're getting blocked (from old.reddit.com or otherwise), the workaround is to login. If you're logged in and still getting blocked (or are getting blocked trying to login, that's a different problem entirely).
I'm less surprised if AWS internally pays AWS list prices, because that's just internal accounting. From the even relatively small AWS customers I know, none of them needed to get very far into the 6 digits per year spend before a couple of quiet mentions to their account manager that they were reviewing other options was enough to get steep discounts.
Add in lots of credits, and if you pay list price, you're being taken to the cleaners..
I've done contract work for clients to be ready to migrate both as part of maximising credits and as part of negotiating posture, and the savings can be enormous (though it'd still usually be cheaper to use managed servers).
Couple of reasons: Meta's annual spend with AWS is large enough that they'll have a negotiated blanket discount that takes a fixed percentage off the top of their monthly spend. This is very common for larger AWS customers, not just Meta.
For instances specifically, any planned usage will be using either reserved instances or at minimum a compute savings plan (CSP) that drops the hourly rate dramatically in exchange for a committed number of instance hours, with or without an upfront payment.
Finally, there may be a negotiated rate for specific instance types built into the contract. Again, common for very large customers.
source: I was on one of the cloud-related infrastructure teams (left in early 2022). I have no idea about their spend (or discounts) today, but two years ago it was enough that Andy Jassy would meet 1:1 with Mark to "discuss the relationship".
They don't use AWS to run the big three apps (FB, Insta, WhatsApp). They very much use them for other things. FB data center machines tend to be highly-specialized and optimized for running the apps, not general-purpose compute.
It's a running joke that any driving directions in the Atlanta Metro Area will include the words "go down Peachtree" and "when you see the waffle house..."
Technical ones? Please. It’s a particularly poor medium for anything technical and aimed at people who spend their entire days navigating text as quickly as humanly possible
Travel has always been central to my podcast listening. Now that I work from home and have no commute, I've totally fallen off my previous habit. I was at peak podcast consumption when I had a long commute both ways.
It's not just about listening to the whole podcast while you travel - you just need to get far enough so you want to finish it. So I would imagine even short commute periods could result in a lot more listening.
I also don’t get why anyone would listen to a podcast rather than something worthwhile eg an audiobook. That’s what I do during commute, and that’s what I recommend to others. I actually look forward to commuting nowadays, it’s probably the most interesting hour or so in my entire day.
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