Note that they were running psql on ec2 instances, which implies bare metal with SSDs.
Yes you can get actual hosts in AWS if you pay for them.
The article also implies that they were never able to get psql to replicate effectively.
Whomever their DBA was was couldn't do it, so they were like "fuck it, let's move to Aurora." Their database brought no actual value, so it make sense for them.
They likely were running data on EBS volumes instead of bare metal SSDs, due to ease of recovery (a failed instance does not lose data on the attached EBS volumes). You can only run your DBs on bare metal SSDs if you are prepared to lose a node’s data completely.
In fact, many instance types no longer have any ephemeral storage attached and it’s a default practice to use EBS for root and data volumes.
There are some instance types that have extremely fast EBS performance (EBS io2 Block Express), which has hardware acceleration and an optimized network protocol for EBS network I/O and offers sub-millisecond latency. However, these are expensive and get even more so if you go up in IOPS.
The amount of ingredient in the pill is huge relative to the shot, and you need to take it daily...which shows how hard it is to get drugs into the body.
Real question: given the dosage, how would you go about getting the pill and liquefying it? That would provide a huge, cheap supply of semaglutide.
The reason you didn't just drop stuff in /usr/local? Space.
One of our devs was also a gimp contributor, and he dropped gimp into /usr/local and filled up the filesystem. And back then package managers didn't exist, so you had to read the makefile and hope you didn't remove anything that was shared
/opt/gimp or /usr/local/gimp.
Local because in some places they mounted an nfs share, and local was local to you.
I'd like to think orthopedists would rather be overjoyed at this. My wife had her knee and hip done by a cracking orthopedist, and his primary concern was her quality of life. He even went to the state physicians' board to argue that her hip surgery should be considered necessary rather than elective for purposes of COVID restrictions, so that we could get it done months before it was originally scheduled.
afaik surgeons are able to perform quite a few types of surgeries, obviously the ones working on brains more advanced than ones working on knees it's probably only a few years to transition to a different type of category.
Nobody seems to have asked the US Navy about the crash. The Indian Ocean is a well-known hangout for boomers, and the USN listening posts should have heard the crash.
I think the theory is, even if they heard something, they would've shrugged (1) and said "I dunno", because they don't want to reveal to e.g. the Chinese about their listening capabilities.
The sentence is also true if you replace "they" with "the Chinese Navy" and "Chinese" with "Americans".
I have two solar panels that can generate around 960w/hr. Both panels cost around $400 ($200x2). Cheap.
Storing that energy is quite expensive. an Anker Solix 3800, which is around 3.8kwh, costs $2400 USD. To store 10kwh would cost $7200 USD (which gets us more than 10kwh).
If that cost asymmetry can come down then it becomes feasible to use solar power to provide cheap/local electricity in poor countries at a house scale.
I'll check that out. The goal is to get to something that runs all night (or almost all night) with around 1kwh output using as little space as possible. I've just started poking around, but this'll help.
In the third world there's plenty of sunlight, but you don't need the power during the day necessarily. That price'll get to $400 for storage, $400 for panels, which is ballpark.
GP only has two panels that generate 960 W (I’m going to generously assume NMOT and not STC). That’s hardly anything, and certainly not what I would use to try and charge 10 kWh of battery like they’re suggesting.
But sure, I agree it would help if battery prices came down.
During the day when nobody's home the panels are charging the battery.
Obviously more panels are better.
The goal is to be able to run a small window AC unit and various small appliances at night. That's a tremendous quality-of-life upgrade for a huge number of people. $1000 USD would make it somewhat affordable, in the window for a viable small business/NGO opportunity. There's obviously a whole lot more (installation, labor, maintenance, etc), but material cost needs to be low for it to work.
The YouTuber Will Prowse has an excellent site where he tracks his most recommended batteries (and other equipment like inverters) at any time. The prices are always changing, and there are new products all the time so check on the his list any time you are looking to buy:
Like the other commenter said, batteries are a lot cheaper if you are willing to shop around. His top recommended budget battery today is a 4x your Anker Solix's capacity, and around 1/4th the price. You can find many 5kWh server rack batteries for under $1000 now.
Here's a quote I got for a solar install in the Philippines this week:
51.2v 314ah cells (15kwh battery)
16x 580-590w solar panel
Installed for 310k PHP = $5,275
I've also specced out 15-16kwh batteries using the Yxiang design for around the price of your Solix. The problem in the US is regulatory and a particularly predatory tradesman market at the moment.
Is that "regulatory" the problem or is it the solution? We'll know more 20 years from now, looking back at fire incident statistics.
(yes, I'm leaving it open if regulation makes a difference or not - for all we know it could even make a negative difference, helping companies that are better at regulation than at safety. But if I had to bet, I know where my money would be)
Are you saying you bought an electric car with functional 84kwh pack for less than 3 grand? If so I think the outlier is you. That is a better deal than I have seen.
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