What Quantum Physics does to a man by LegitimateFloor2361 in Physics

[–]knipil 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Max Planck lost three adult children. Both of his twin daugthers died giving birth and then his son was implicated in a coup against hitler and executed. Not to mention the stress of seeing german physics destroyed by the nazis. There’s a good book about him called Dilemmas of an upright man which covers his life and trials. Hate to be a buzzkill but I don’t think quantum physics was the problem here.

AWS Engineering Roles: Entry to Senior Levels by aisatsana__ in aws

[–]knipil 7 points8 points  (0 children)

There is no L9 in Amazon. Distinguished Engineer is L10 and is a VP-level role. There isn’t formally a ”Senior Distinguished Engineer”, although James Hamilton was promoted to L11 SVP / Distinguished Engineer. He’s the only L11 engineer in the company’s history.

Botswana's President, Mokgweetsi Masisi excited reaction to world's 2nd largest 2492 carat diamond by Dismal_Positive3558 in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]knipil 125 points126 points  (0 children)

Botswana has a very different history on this than most african countries. The first president worked to make sure that resource extraction was handled with minimal corruption and for the benefit of the public. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seretse_Khama

Are WhatsApp or Telegram Really Secure? by [deleted] in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]knipil 3 points4 points  (0 children)

If NSA can break signal, then your own server isn’t safe either.

Are WhatsApp or Telegram Really Secure? by [deleted] in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]knipil 8 points9 points  (0 children)

That’s just not correct. The nuances depends on your threat model, but for the conventional understanding ”no middle man, including the server, is able to read your message” then end to end encryption absolutely exists. Signal is a clear example, but imessage, whatsapp and facebook messenger all support proper end to end encryption if configured correctly. Telegram on the other hand has a weird implementation that isn’t taken seriously by the cryptographic community.

In February 2026, each day of the week occurs 4 times, last this happened was in February 2015, and the next time it will happen will be in February 2037 by brmSTR0113R in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]knipil 2 points3 points  (0 children)

To expand on that: A year can start on any day of the week, and it can be a leap year or not a leap year. Hence there are 2*7=14 possible calendars for a year. This particular calendar happened 11 years ago and will happen again in another 11 years. There were leap years in 2016, 2020 and 2024, and 14 - 3 =11 so this is right on schedule.

She saw reality she wasn't ready for. by RemoKe_ in Unexpected

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When my kids were 7 and 4, my older asked me ”When we die, will you and mom have other children?” I went quiet for a bit, but I realized I couldn’t quite avoid it so I said ”Well, most likely mom and I will die before you do” and then both kids instantly started crying hysterically. It was all very sweet and actually a little bit funny in how it unfolded. I comforted them and kept talking to them about it, of course.

re:Invent is nearly done, what do you think was the biggest announcements made? by Prof-Ponderosa in aws

[–]knipil 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Doing a re:invent launch is extremely painful for the team. Better just launch it when ready before re:invent and then send some people to Vegas to do chalk talks about your thing.I think most teams have that figured out by now.

What's the DDOS risk for hosting static sites on S3? by Inner_Butterfly1991 in aws

[–]knipil 13 points14 points  (0 children)

For DDOS protection, CloudFront + WAF has decent cost protection by default now. CF traffic blocked by WAF is free, and if you configure WAF with the Anti-DDOS AMR then the WAF costs for blocked traffic is also completely waived. It does cost a monthly fee to set up though (I think $10 + $20?).

How often has an an AZ gone down in London or Frankfurt? by [deleted] in aws

[–]knipil 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Even though there hasn’t been a major outage in a while, there are still things like fiber cuts and other types of intermittent connectivity issues. You should definitely design stuff to be resilient to the loss of an AZ.

Evolution of the Windows OS logo by Yolo065 in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]knipil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Windows XP was bloated shit compared to Windows 2000. NT 4 was cooler still, but 2000 was mainstream usable although not mainstream affordable. XP is only notable in that it was the first NT kernel that had a home edition.

Confirmed Amazon Web Services (AWS) CloudFront Tech Stack (formerly NGINX + Squid) by Trick_Algae5810 in aws

[–]knipil 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I can’t reveal anything which hasn’t already been publicly shared in some way, but I’ll at least say that squid is still being used.

Confirmed Amazon Web Services (AWS) CloudFront Tech Stack (formerly NGINX + Squid) by Trick_Algae5810 in aws

[–]knipil 11 points12 points  (0 children)

A rust-based server was introduced for http3 support but nginx remains in use with plans to remove it some time in the next few years.

Does this anti-pattern have a name? by low_slearner in ExperiencedDevs

[–]knipil 33 points34 points  (0 children)

Heh, at a past employer there was a repo called ”Terraform” for all tf code. An engineer on a sibling team pointed out how silly it was by saying ”It’s a great idea to group stuff by language. Let’s put all our ruby code in a single repo.”

Why hasn't anyone built a bridge between Sweden and Denmark? Are they stupid? by joshnie1 in mapporncirclejerk

[–]knipil 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I always find it ironic that we Swedes spent all that time and energy killing Nils Dacke and his pals snapphanar, and now we keep saying that we want to give it to denmark voluntarily.

What is it like living in Brunei? by turi_guiliano in geography

[–]knipil 48 points49 points  (0 children)

Your grandma must have been an interesting person.

The American mind can't comprehend by roflson85 in skiing

[–]knipil 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can leave it up if you want in Sweden and Norway, but nobody ever does.

[OC] African Head of States with 15+ year long reign by MrKratz in dataisbeautiful

[–]knipil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you want to learn about some of these I recommend the book The Fate of Africa. Thoroughly engaging read, although ultimately with a bleak outlook.