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New comment by pageandrew in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

pageandrew — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:45:05 +0000

The IAEA said earlier this year that Iran had enriched uranium to 60%. Uranium is enriched to 3-5% for nuclear energy, and 90%+ for weapons.

Don't be silly. Iran has a nuclear weapons program. Were they actively racing to a bomb? No. (That's what the CIA was saying). Did they enrich uranium to near-weapons grade so they _could_ race to a bomb, in a matter of weeks, if they decided to do so? Absolutely.

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/iran-stored-highly...

New comment by pageandrew in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

pageandrew — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:25:14 +0000

Source? Do you seriously think the US just agreed to accept Iranian nuclear enrichment?

New comment by pageandrew in "Apple Studio Displays have 128 GB of storage"

pageandrew — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 00:21:17 +0000

Is the iMac gone? I'm able to add an iMac with an M4 chip to my cart and Apple says it'll deliver tomorrow.

https://www.apple.com/imac/

New comment by pageandrew in "Don't rent the cloud, own instead"

pageandrew — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 08:45:33 +0000

The point was about redundancy / geo spread / HA. It’s significantly more difficult to operate two physical sites than one. You can only be in one place at a time.

If you want true reliability, you need redundant physical locations, power, networking. That’s extremely easy to achieve on cloud providers.

New comment by pageandrew in "European Alternatives"

pageandrew — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 07:23:49 +0000

Person above you did, my bad

New comment by pageandrew in "European Alternatives"

pageandrew — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 07:18:56 +0000

Have you ever been to San Francisco? How many 6 lane highways do you think exist in the city of San Francisco?

I can tell you (I live here) -- there are none. SF is one of the most beautiful cities on Earth, and I'm trying my hardest to visit as many cities on earth as possible.

New comment by pageandrew in "Prism"

pageandrew — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 07:16:39 +0000

These things don't really seem related at all. Its a pretty generic term.

New comment by pageandrew in "European Alternatives"

pageandrew — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 00:03:44 +0000

Quality of life in places like San Francisco and New York is very high, and you get the insane salaries, and your healthcare is oftentimes mostly if not completely covered by your employer (I pay literally $0 out of pocket for high quality healthcare here in San Francisco).

New comment by pageandrew in "European Alternatives"

pageandrew — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 00:02:11 +0000

The person you're responding to is claiming that Americans have to pay $10,000 for a 2 bedroom apartment, thus that is why the salaries are so high.

That isn't true unless you're looking to rent a luxury apartment in a big city.

New comment by pageandrew in "Say No to Palantir in the NHS"

pageandrew — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 04:58:18 +0000

Would you prefer that militaries have less-capable software to make targeting decisions?

New comment by pageandrew in "AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1"

pageandrew — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 07:45:08 +0000

Can't even get STS tokens. RDS Proxy is down, SQS, Managed Kafka.

New comment by pageandrew in "DBCrust – A modern database CLI"

pageandrew — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 06:41:32 +0000

Not just you

New comment by pageandrew in "Anthropic signs a $200M deal with the Department of Defense"

pageandrew — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 20:52:59 +0000

What's unethical about selling to DoD?

New comment by pageandrew in "Cloudflare was down"

pageandrew — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 19:08:12 +0000

Google is claiming the root cause is with some of their central IAM services, which would have a cascading effect to the rest of their services.

New comment by pageandrew in "Tsunami Warning for Northern California"

pageandrew — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 19:29:34 +0000

How do these detect tsunamis? They must be observing elevation changes, right? Is that GPS based?

New comment by pageandrew in "CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops"

pageandrew — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 07:59:42 +0000

Why would the BitLocker keys not be recoverable?

New comment by pageandrew in "CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops"

pageandrew — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 07:47:29 +0000

Can they recover this OTA considering the systems can’t even boot?

New comment by pageandrew in "CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops"

pageandrew — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 07:42:36 +0000

I don’t know Windows systems. I’ve read it’s causing Blue Screen of Death.

I take that to mean that systems can’t even boot. Right?

Can this be fixed over the air?

New comment by pageandrew in "Pilots hide mental health problems so they don't lose their licenses"

pageandrew — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 04:42:30 +0000

Not an airline pilot / medical examiner, but I do read r/flying quite regularly.

Your story is not uncommon. The general wisdom on DWIs is that yes it does hurt your chances of getting into airlines, but if it was (1) minor/borderline, (2) a long time ago, and (3) you have shown a pattern of recovery, it is not a career ender.

New comment by pageandrew in "OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman"

pageandrew — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 21:00:18 +0000

Ousted from his board chairmanship, but still works at OpenAI.