The clean up costs were referenced in the article and noted that they made up around $130,000 of it.

Now, I may well be naive - but isn't the point of these systems that you fail over gracefully to another data centre and no-one notices?

I get the impression that this has been thought about to some extent, but its a constantly changing architecture with new layers and new ideas being added, so for every bit of progress there's the chance of new Single Points Of Failure being added. This time it seems to be a DNS problem with DynamoDB

Now, I may well be naive - but isn't the point of these systems that you fail over gracefully to another data centre and no-one notices?

It should be! When I was a complete newbie at AWS my first question was why do you have to pick a region, I thought the whole point was you didn't have to worry about that stuff

As far as I know, region selection is about regulation and privacy and guarantees on that.

It's also about latency and nearness to users. Also some regions don't have all features so feature set also matters.

One might hope that this, too, would be handled by the service. Send the traffic to the closest region, and then fallback to other regions as necessary. Basically, send the traffic to the closest region that can successfully serve it.

But yeah, that's pretty hard and there are other reasons customers might want to explicitly choose the region.

The region labels found within the metadata are very very powerful.

They make lawyers happy and they stop intelligence services to access the associated resources.

For example, no one would even consider accessing data from a European region without the right paperwork.

Because if they were caught they'd have to pay _thousands_ of dollars in fines and get sternly talked to be high ranking officials.

> another data centre

Yes, within the same region. Doing stuff cross-region takes a little bit more effort and cost, so many skip it.

Assuming that the service actually bothered to have multiple regions as fallbacks configured.

That KDE are making their own first party distribution to showcase KDE, as well as making the DE.

I reckon advertising the fact you're willing to pay to get around this, which I expect is probably against ToS and the employment agreement with the company name isn't the best choice.

we're not willing to do anything against the ToS, I haven't checked them yet and we'll do things in compliance with policies, I'm just posting a problem and looking for a valid credible solution. thank you for the note!

There's no guarantee of anything being around.

Anecdotally, I recently worked on a project that used a Flag CDN - worked fine for a long time, then started sporadically failing.

As such I don't think I'd used anything in production hosted on a none static copy CDN like Cloudflare, sure Cloudflare could do down, but we probably all have bigger issues then than my flags not working.

True! but the mitigation for nothing being guaranteed is to … well avoid free public CDNs :-). Unless they are backed by a big company maybe.

Sprawling these kinds of links in your markdown instead if /assets/icons/mylocalicon.png seems a bit risky. Markdown tends to get used in Github / Local Git which can happily just reference the files stored along with it.

Also maybe hugo/jekyll type sites or internal docs. Same thing.

So the effort posted here is great but I would prefer a zip to a CDN link.

Yeah, I suppose as part of a build process you could find references to the icons generated, download them, store locally and use those - the service itself is brilliant, super useful being able to generate those icons on the fly - it's just having it as a dependency for something so key is hard.

Lovely stuff

> and derive the length of the meter from that.

I would assume they meant meter since they wrote that.

I really hope people aren’t going to just share their AirTag with a random person on the internet.

LOL ikr

There are elections.

There is farming.

There is definitely commerce (restaurants and animal parlours).

Only the dogs (and 1 cat) out of all the animals can speak so the chicken being unable to isn’t unusual.

I think those were the main things said in that article and they were all incorrect.

Source - a parent who watched them with their child.

Also, an apparently nostalgia-rich rose coloured recollection of the artistic expression present in earlier hand-animated cartoons that I suspect would not stand up to serious scrutiny.

I had to forbid Tom and Jerry to my toddler. It is just 95% violence, various forms of hitting someone on the head. And after my boy mimicked this behavior to his sister ... I stopped this good old times cartoon.

But then my peers and I watched literally hundreds of episodes of this show (not because we liked it, but because there were only 3 channels to choose from) and we never mimicked any of that behaviour further than regular dumb kid play violence.

What has changed?

Maybe you were older? I was talking around age 3.

"further than regular dumb kid play violence." And that is quite relative and hard to judge without seeing it.

    toddler noun
    : a person who toddles
    especially : a young child usually between one *and three years old *

Sorry, but showing T&J to a three years old is entirely on you. You knew what it's literally a slapstick comedy with crash, bang and explosives.

Also, where is Hanna-Barbera T&J which was made between 1940 to 1960 and was made to be shown in cinemas for the adults. And after that... there is no T&J after that.

[0] If for some reason you do think it was not, then start at ~01:30: https://archive.org/details/tom-and-jerry-1940-1950-1960/Tom...

Peppa pig, too. My wife and I banned it from our toddler after seeing older kids copying violent behaviours from it.

Maybe a toddler should not watch at all? Peppa Pig is actually interesting in that it has many puns/stereotypes in for the parents that go way over the children's heads.

As a child owning a cat, I could not stand watching Tom and Jerry because it was just mean.

I had to forbid Happy Tree Friends to my son after he tried... no, just joking

You let them watch Tom and Jerry in the first because you never saw them or because you never saw The Simpsons? Glad you made the right move anyway :)

Well, I am quite liberal by default and think children can handle way more, than most adults realize ... so he can discover what he likes and he liked Tom and Jerry, but there are certain limits of what is healthy and what is depicted as normal behavior. So bybye Tom and Jerry and Minions.

And the normal paw patrol behavior is mostly trying to figure out problems with the help of technology. So I think that is allright, even though the social interactions could be way better.