krellor

So take unsolicited internet advice with a grain of salt, but my understanding from friends who work at AWS and from my own time spent working with AWS folks is that most of this return to office policy is focusing on those positions that were in person before the pandemic. They still have remote only positions, and positions with enough travel that they report to be exempted from the badge metrics whole on travel status.

Whether AWS is a good place to work really hinges on the team you are on and the manager. Most teams at AWS have a lot of flexibility in their work, and aside from this return to office reset of work norms, I would expect that to continue. I also predict that the badge monitoring and policy will fade in a year or so as the new norms are established, and individual team managers will have more discretion on it again. This policy is the company trying to shift the current default and culture which takes some top down directives. Once that is done, they won’t spend the effort on the detailed tracking I don’t think.

Lol, you are right but I like the kind of weird the typo brings to the recipe. 😂

Vegetarian black bean soup:
1 pound dried black beans rinsed
1 large onion peeled and diced
2 medium bell peppers seeded and diced
2 quarts vegetable broth
1/3 cup Franks Cayenne Hot Sauce
6 cloves garlic
2 bay leaves
1 tablespoon ground cumin
Salt and pepper

Combine in instant pot, pressure cook normal for 45 minutes, natural steam release. When done, use inversion blender until smooth.

Possible Toppings:
Chopped scallions
Cilantro
Jalapeno slices
Shredded cheese
Lime wedges
Sour cream or plain yogurt
Fritos

Simple vegetarian chili:
1 cup dried pinto beans
1 cup dried navy beans
1 cup dried lentils
1 cup dried or canned corn
10 cups of water
2 cans of diced tomatoes
1 can tomato paste
2-4 tbsp ground cumin (by bulk bags online for $7 instead of overpriced jars in store and grind yourself with a cheap Mr. Coffee)
10 tsp or to taste of vegetable better than bouillon
Black pepper, chili powder, paprika to taste

Put in instant pot, pressure cook normal for 45 minutes, natural steam release, switch to slow cooker on low until meal time.

Makes multiple dinners for a family of 5. Serve on its own, over rice, or in burritos. Pairs well with sour cream, diced peppers, siracha, etc.

Obviously the more you can but in bulk the cheaper it gets per person.

I used to do some freelance work years ago and I had a number of customers who operated assembly lines. I specialized in emergency database restoration, and the assembly line folks were my favorite customers. They know how much it costs them for every hour of downtime, and never balked at my rates and minimums.

The majority of the time the outages were due to failure to follow basic maintenance, and log files eating up storage space was a common culprit.

So yes, I wouldn’t be surprised at all if the problem was something called out by the local IT, but were overruled for one reason or another.

You do you, you beautiful server hugging butterfly!

These are three topics that people love to focus on price against traditional services without looking any deeper.

Streaming is only just as expensive as cable if you subscribe to a bunch of them, but if you pick and choose, start and stop, it is cheaper. Further, it is a better experience. You can watch what you want, when you want. You don’t need an annoying DVR setup, etc. The experience is better, even if you do choose to pay the same.

For Uber and Lyft, I don’t use them because they are cheaper; I use them because they are better than traditional taxis. Seriously, how many people who say they aren’t better than taxis have even used taxis heavily while traveling? Using taxis sucks, except possibly around airports or in the rare city you can walk outside and hail a cab. Outside of that you often have to call in, wait for an extended time with no ETA, etc. Lyft and Uber are a better experience, especially when you are outside major tourist or travel hubs.

Finally, cloud is more expensive, but gets you all sorts of benefits. Those benefits may or may not be worth the cost depending on you or your org, but it is not 1-1 to running on prem. On AWS you can trivially automate events across the entire ecosystem of services, run serverless infrastructure, etc. There are many great use cases for spending the money on the cloud, and most organizations should have a hybrid approach.

Sorry, end rant, but I always get tired of the false equivalence of these three things and the tunnel vision on price.

I’m not familiar with your school background, but I suspect a watershed distinction is rural vs urban districts. I’ve had kids in both, and in rural districts, the buses are important, but not as vital for in-town kids as in the metro areas. I’n the rural districts as many kids were dropped off by car or public transit as took the school buses. In the metro areas, the bus might be required or effectively the only option.

It’s all speculation, but this isn’t Podunk Kentucky; this is Louisville. This is really something a metro of nearly a million people should have figured out by now. But easy to Monday morning quarterback, and I do sympathize with the funding constraints and public apathy.