What are you talking about? I work in cloud and fiber infrastructure - the major players pay for fiber connections and close proximity to their customers.
ISPs have an obligation to their customers to provide a service at the speed their customer is paying for - regardless of what is coming down the pipe.
Am Texan. While it’s a fun little thing to kind of be proud of - that Texas was its own country before joining the United States - we stopped being a country for a reason. And today we are 100% less capable of independence from the United States compared to then.
We are taught “We can opt out of the United States whenever we want to. Other states can’t because they weren’t their own countries beforehand.” as a fun fact in 7th grade (Texas History) and no one seems to clarify that we can’t to the students or later in life when they’re grown ass adults. But by then, most refuse to believe it… like they do with most inconvenient facts.
sigh.
It’s so insane to think of this being an office perk. Just there for you to use… My office has a kitchen…
Ya know, that sounds super obvious but no that wasn’t a fact that I consciously knew. Great point! That is definitely not taught to us…Thank you for teaching me that! It does kind of change my perspective, too…
Oh. Oh shit it hurts that reading this made me self-aware of this behavior. It’s one thing to be in this mindset and not be aware of it and it’s another to have it written out in front of you. 🤢
I’ve done lots of tech projects within the retail energy industry in Texas - this is the right answer.
To expand a little bit:
Retail energy providers (REPs), like NRG, ClearSky, Just Energy, etc. make their money by forecasting the amount of energy that will be needed as far in advance as possible and purchasing that amount from power generators like CenterPoint and marking it up a few cents. The farther out, the cheaper they can get it. I’ve helped build forecasting engines for a few that ingest historical usage data from meters (all meters in Texas are smart meters), weather data, and others to use machine learning to forecast how much individuals will need and aggregate it together to help the energy traders make better informed trade decisions farther out.
If they mess up or an unforeseen event happens and they don’t have enough energy bought for that time segment (forgot the term for a window of time they use), they have to go to the spot market which is where the prices fluctuate and can be many many multitudes higher than the rate the customers are contracted to pay.
In a storm scenario or a freeze, it can be thousands of times more expensive because demand is so high and supply is so limited. This is when REPs go bankrupt if they don’t have the cash on hand.
There are also insurance plans that the REPs pay for that cover very specific conditions for different types of events or outages that can kick in to cover the huge costs they would otherwise incur on their own buying electricity at that spot rate. I’ve known a few that were only able to stay operating because someone a few years prior had bought an insurance policy that covered said weather event.
Griddy died because of the ice storm in Texas a few years ago and the huge costs people incurred. I actually met with their CIO the year prior as part of a technology assessment of their stack. Nice guy.
Edit: also you can largely thank Enron and Rick Perry for deregulating Texas’ energy - which directly led to the terrible “performance” of the Texas grid during the winter storm Uri in 2021. Same for Enron in the constant blackouts in California in the early 2000’s.
Damn you’re unionized IT? Where are you general located?
Lifelong Texan. Fuck it, you have my support. So tired of this.
Rolling onto a client that uses “O11y” for observability almost gave me permanent damage.
Sometime I don’t want to feel seen… 🫥
Ah shit, the bar must be so low then.
Whyyyyy would you actually say this out loud? We all know it’s a dick move but I’m curious what would possess them to actually broadcast it? Like you’re not supposed say the quiet parts out loud. Right?
No way! What’s Vermont’s story?!
Just a head’s up this was generated with AI. The real pic is him still pale, no beard, and his eyes are different.
He’s still an alien looking pos.
They’re shorthand for long words you don’t want to type. You keep the first and last letter and replace the rest of the word with the number of characters you removed.
Kubernetes ➡️ K8s Observability ➡️ O11y
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Maybe Im dense but why does the Finnish government carry a soda anyway?
Lmfao what? I can’t wait to watch this play out…
I don’t disagree with the sentiment but the Ilyushin Il-76 is made by Ilyushin, not Boeing. Let’s not cross the streams incorrectly.
Fucking ouch to read.
Carbon capture 🥀
You could put solar on both?
Lmfao - the guy looks like Coach and this judge looks incompetent all around, needing procedures and the impact of ignoring things explained to her.
I’ll take Coach over a clown.
The amount of people in here that are familiar with the wilderness and survival saying a week or “not long” is sobering… 😐
I don’t know who that is but fuck that guy.
What a chode.
Gah he looks worse than usual in this shot.
Haha same - clarifying that an asshole sarcastic comment is sarcastic doesn’t make it not an asshole comment.
Many people (hopefully most) knew it was sarcasm.
It doesn’t actually. It’s just an asshole.
I thought the same until the barbarians came @me with O11y and one of my coworkers asked where the f they got “oh eleveny” from.
I just thought 8 = netes.
Oh I would gladly do this manually - just have a spreadsheet pulled up of donated keys on half the screen and the revoke page in the other. Just going line by line, cross-checking, and yanking if I need to.
Would totally do it for my Friday night. Especially if I knew they’d know what happened and why.
Hwat?
I think I’d still rather type out internationalization even if it doesn’t fit on a slide lol.
lol who doesn’t hate this bot
Utopia (AU) - similar vein to Parks & Rec but more bureaucracy. I love it.
I’m here for u bro 🫂
It looks like the locker room of their job, looking downward.
I feel seen.
For sure. I meant that I’d enjoy it enough that I’d be willing to do it by hand, with a smile on my face. ☺️
But yeah just a few lines of python and a txt file could do it.
Okay yeah that’s true. I should have been cognizant that not being economically viable / efficient enough does not mean it’s impossible/I don’t believe it’s real. Definitely works.
I remember hearing that some may even have LTE to fallback to.