Again, you continue to confuse separate issues as one issue. Whether it is trivial or inexpensive or difficult is completely irrelevant to the discussion that spawned this comment chain.

The discussion that spawned this comment chain was simply hardware maintenance in the cloud. And the answer is there is none. You pay a premium to have someone do that for you. That's it.

Everything else is a completely different discussion

No, they have not been the "least of your problems". It's actually a big problem especially for a lot of legacy applications running on ancient stuff like mainframes that companies often had to hire special staff to keep running.

Migrating to the cloud has solved so many of those problems.

Of course it has created new ones, but that's not the scope of this discussion. This discussion was about maintaining hardware only. Not cost.

Actually, it does. That's the point of going to the cloud. You maintain your software, but you don't maintain the hardware. You just pay for it.

I know. It's what I do for a living. People downvoting my first comment have no clue how it works, clearly.

Nah, all their hardware is likely someone else's hardware. All that shit is on the cloud now.

That's a lot less than iI expected thanks

So how much of it is hiking, really .... and how much of it is just walking flat, easy, groomed trails?

I get 40mpg in my sedan and it's becoming impossible to drive it at night. Every single vehicle out there is like a foot taller and blasting me right in the eyes even with their bloody low beams.

It's really quite annoying, compared to driving my truck.

But if you roll a 6 ten times in a row, you could just have an unfair die. So in theory it's 1/6 always. But in the real world I would bet on it being a 6 the eleventh time 🤷

Don't all small mammals have fast heart beats?

Same as the ones securing your tent to the ground ... guy lines.

Those who do remember it are the ones with enough money now in life to buy it. So in another few years that's who could potentially buy it.

It's a niche product.

It's both.

3x the population. Not 3x the size.

If you're openly gay in India, you're gonna have a bad time.

He lives in an apartment?

That is so inefficient

Since most of those nations didn't read and write, they transmitted everything through oral stories .... north American indigenous nations for sure.

I watched all of House of Gucci and did not know that was Jared Leto ....

But you still didn't borrow it for almost free. It's a stupid saying. Borrowing $1mil at 1% is still not free. That's still a lot of money in interest if you're buying an item that has no real return.... like a house you don't plan to flip but live in long term.

Nothing free about it.

Could be worse. You could be in Vancouver and that same house would be $1,000,000 and you would have a job making 30% less .... so at least you got that going for you.

Why do people continue to call it free money? There's nothing free about it. You still borrowing an enormous sum that has to be paid back in full. No different than borrowing a mediocre sum at a higher rate.

Oh godddd .... please stop.

Those will be trashed in no time.

Still a choice they made....

I get you're a hard working coal miner, but can't the face be wiped by a bunch of baby wipes while you are driving? I mean, come on 🤷