Someone has already done this work with exactly this technology for MH370 right after it crashed and corresponded the location with other triangulation techniques

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.reddit.com%2Fr%2FMH370...

Hosted services are even more insanely priced, I was just referring to VMs. Some of the services I've calculated are closer to 100x more expensive in the cloud than to do it yourself even when including redundancy. You have to ask yourself if that database is worth $1000 a year yourself or $100000 a year in the cloud. That extra $99k is half an engineer salary and we're just talking about 1 database. Generally Kubernetes is about double the cost of non Kubernetes in GCP, so we're approaching 45x more expensive.

I can tell you that EBS blocks are not redundant, I've lost a few when they just show an error and then disappear, data was gone.

Sure, my company does dynamic scaling exactly like that as I mentioned in my first post with the cheapest GCP preemptive instances and I add on physical machines when it makes financial sense to do so as our base load moves higher.

The $100 a month is the cost of hosting at a datacenter. The machine costs $5185 last I checked. Take that over 5 years with the total passmark score of 31510 and compare it with cloud costs. I've got a whole spreadsheet of it here, but probably can't share it.

We can run the math on one. I can tell you that a Google n2d-highcpu-32 costs $8700 a year to run and is close to half the CPU power of the above machine, total two of those up over 5 years to match and you get $87000 which is obviously a lot more than 5 years*12 months * $100 + $5185 = $11185 for 5 years. Then you add in your cloud bandwidth costs which are astronomical.

Only because I do this for my own company, just wait until you see how much cheaper it is to host your own machines in a datacenter.

Here's a quick summary of CPU costs with Passmark scores factored in from the spreadsheet I created to model it all. We use Dell R7525 Epyc 7282 128GB at a physical datacenter with about a cost of $100/month per server including power and 250Mbps bandwidth. These were about the most cost effective servers I could find per Passmark unit. All costs are factored over a 5 year timespan including hosting, power and bandwidth usage for our specific application.

Here's the comparisons to the cloud in order of cheapest to most expensive:
Google n2d-highcpu-32-preempt us-central-1 is 2.8x more expensive than our hardware solution (we use these preempt instances to burst into the cloud to handle peaks) For some weird reason AMD in us-central-1 is crazy cheap compared to other zones
Amazon c5.2xlarge-spot (Variable pricing) generally comes in this area, but because the pricing is variable, it varies
Oracle Cloud E4 32core 128G is 10.5x more expensive than our hardware solution
Google n2d-highcpu-32 us-central-1 is 17x more expensive than our hardware solution
Azure F32s V2 est Xeon 8168 is 17.3x more expensive than our hardware solution
Amazon c5.2xlarge 17.3x more expensive than our hardware solution
Digital Ocean 8VCPUs 20.7x more expensive than our hardware solution

Also of note, bandwidth for most of the cloud providers is on the order of 50-100x more expensive than what a datacenter will charge you.

AWS has only one availability zone down right now, US-EAST-1. With proper redundant design across multiple availability zones, this outage isn't an issue. All it does it show us the companies who are bad at reliability engineering.

It's only one availability zone (US-EAST-1) that's down. Being down right now mostly means that you didn't build your service to be redundant across availability zones. Amazon isn't going to do that for you.

Just the coincidence that Wuhan has the highest security level virus lab in all of China studying bat coronaviruses and the virus popped up here first, logically the idea that a lab worker collecting samples without using PPE and accidentally infecting themselves would be the most likely culprit. One even admitted he was sprayed with bat blood or urine. There's even photos: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thesun.co.uk%2Fnews%2F...

This won't make any difference as most tech CEOs are paid in stock and have $1 salaries

The same goes for washing dishes by hand vs using a dishwasher
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Obviously you didn't realize you could do it directly at https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.midomi.com%2F

SoundHound is the only one I know of that could do it. Shazam can only recognize real music. Then again I worked at SoundHound for 8.5 years so I'm a bit of an insider. It was amazing tech that didn't get a whole lot of use compared to music recognition.

Or you can use the https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.soundhound.com%2F app otherwise known as https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.midomi.com%2F who have been doing this for 12 years now and likely has a much bigger music database

No this isn't a face mask, these are just really big sunglasses

Is the government going to start making circumvention devices like earplugs illegal?

In addition to that, without asking you, they uploaded all of your mobile phone contacts when you installed their mobile app: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffpost.com%2Fentry...

This is why I only access facebook from the web on mobile