8 weeks max, probably more like 6. disclosure - I raise meat chickens at a small scale

because building the infrastructure takes N period of time and X cost.

possible the infrastructure won't be complete before prices go down. possible that prices will go down before you recoup the costs.

On the other hand, depending where you live and local rules, it is easy to have a few layer chickens for eggs. Having 4 or 5 chickens can mean 3 eggs a day which can keep you supplied. Costs would be a coop, food, water, and chicks. Layer feed where I live is 18 bucks for 50 lbs which can last for quite a while with that small number of chickens.

Let's say we have an announced release schedule on may 1st. With the tools down, there is no way to meet that date. For a 4 billion dollar company, this can make a huge difference in revenue. For a public company, the stock will definitely drop when it's announced the revenue goals were missed because the tools were down.

For companies of size, the cost of tools being down for 3 weeks can easily be in the multi-millions of dollars.

Again, part of the trouble is it's hard to gain enough certainty that the thing you switch to—self-hosted, or another service—won't be at least as bad. You can look at their past record, but then, when's the last time Atlassian had this happen? (or maybe they've been having similar issues every year or two and I've just not noticed, in which case, yeah, it's probably a safe bet that switching to almost anything else would be an improvement)

if only, my sister was behind the recycling truck that just picked up at their house and saw it turn into the landfill.

I remember watching this on Fox and being transfixed. I curious how my reaction to it would be today. Need to watch it again.

It was on ABC which I find very amusing as it means Disney is ultimately responsible for that amazing incomprehensible strange mini-series.

Maybe white dwarf was on fox?

You would have to add in the "clunk" the optical drive made.

Thanks for writing this. What you wrote describes me perfectly with the exception of the redemption at the end.

Yup, there is a group of people who think that we should add brakes and lcd displays to horses because cars have these nifty things. For some reason, they don't understand it's ok that horses are not used for everyday travel anymore.

I hate the mess that c++ is. It started out with a object based programming paradigm with c like syntax. Then generics/templates were added. Then we have modern c++. It's 3 different languages crammed into one. The c++ committee has a serious case of nifty-itis.

FYI: pihole does not block taboola ads because they are not served from a separate network that can be filtered.

You need to use a non-dns method of filtering them out

Oh yeah for sure you can block it using PiHole. Just add (^|\.)taboola\.com$ to your blacklist.

Bonus: add (^|\.)outbrain\.com$ too while you’re at it.

Thanks for the reminder, just added it to my house-wide blocklist.

The vast majority of these ads are rendered by JS from a third-party domain so they can be filtered out easily with DNS.

I think the test is pretty straight forward and is basically an issue of risk and is not really directly related to the internet.

If having anything to do with X creates the perception of Y being liable for any legal and civil improprieties, then Y will dissolve any of its relationships with X.

<my take> For the parler case, Amazon didn't want to be held responsible for hosting content that (maybe) caused the problems in that nations capital, and certainly doesn't want to be held responsible for any future content/actions.

I think this can be justified by preservation of shareholder value. </my take>