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New comment by craigmoliver in "AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion"

craigmoliver — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 13:36:26 +0000

Ditto on the heart attack. My cost estimate for the month is currently $223,509,270,216.17. My girlfriend suggested contacting Elon for help. Glad I found this thread. Maybe I should create new keys anyway, this stuff freaks me out.

New comment by craigmoliver in "Microsoft Download Center Archive"

craigmoliver — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 15:02:37 +0000

They have the C++ ones are available: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/windows/latest-support...

New comment by craigmoliver in "Steve Wozniak: Life to me was never about accomplishment, but about happiness"

craigmoliver — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 20:29:51 +0000

Apparently he was so happy with integers that Apple had to license Basic from Microsoft.

New comment by craigmoliver in "Starship Flight 5: Launch and booster catch [video]"

craigmoliver — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 12:50:47 +0000

That is correct, off FL. The recovered engines were from the first stage they would never have made it half way around the world. Point Nemo is used to stash spacecraft that were in orbit.

New comment by craigmoliver in "We spent $20 to achieve RCE and accidentally became the admins of .mobi"

craigmoliver — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 18:07:23 +0000

and they think cause they're scientists they can just do it because they're scientists and stuff. Very pragmatic to be sure...but horrifying.

New comment by craigmoliver in "Windows NT vs. Unix: A design comparison"

craigmoliver — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 17:23:57 +0000

You can create/export .reg files to your GIT repo/file system...but that may be one extra step and doesn't stay in sync automatically.

New comment by craigmoliver in "Cloud of Disillusion: The Broken Promise of PaaS"

craigmoliver — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 19:15:43 +0000

None of this is a problem in Azure PaaS. There is autoscaling and shared storage volumes for serverless components. Perhaps the problem is Kubernetes?

New comment by craigmoliver in "America prepares for a new nuclear-arms race"

craigmoliver — Fri, 16 Aug 2024 18:28:51 +0000

It doesn't matter where the nuclear power plants are. If nuclear war starts the world ends.

New comment by craigmoliver in "Strong static typing, a hill I'm willing to die on"

craigmoliver — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 13:18:23 +0000

I don't care how many times I see this argument; strong typing is correct. We need to keep beating this drum because every year there are more and more new developers that know nothing. We need to make good one that aren't ignorant of history and what works...because the more things change the more they stay the same.