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New comment by wafflerewire in "Reading for pleasure is sharply down among schoolkids, report shows"

wafflerewire — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 19:12:30 +0000

Speaking for my own personal experience. I graduated from high school in the mid-2000s. I had any passion, joy and desire for reading crushed out of me through my school years. Between being forced to read books/topics at school I had zero interest in, my parents forcing me to read hours a day after school, writing and presenting book reports, Accelerated Reader tests and who knows what else, I haven't causally picked up a book to read in... a very long time. Thanks to a friend, I have just now picked up audiobooks as a way to potentially reintroduce books to my life.

As a parent of school aged kids today, I know that rubs off on my kids too. I happily read to them and share a joy in a book with them. But I don't set a role model of reading a book causally on my own.

I've wondered if some of this is the home life and some of the frustrations from our own school years running off a bit too.

New comment by wafflerewire in "Claude Platform on AWS"

wafflerewire — Tue, 12 May 2026 04:38:37 +0000

This is my day job. I couldn't get access to the Claude Platform even with a business goal justification because of the management overhead while having Anthropic model access with Bedrock.

Through AWS, assuming the underlying data governance is reasonable, this will be a much easier pill to swallow.

New comment by wafflerewire in "Akamai to shut down its CDN operations in China"

wafflerewire — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 20:20:37 +0000

My enterprise sized day job is an Akamai customer. Nothing in China directly so we won't be directly impacted.

As a hypothetical, if we got told that we had to switch providers to stay in a region, we'd need to rebuild pipelines, EdgeWorkers, edge caching rules, origin routing configurations and probably more I'm not aware of. Plus testing all of those changes in a non-breaking way across the entire enterprise. Along with all the normal business delivery priorities.

It'd probably take a solid year for us to fully execute it.

New comment by wafflerewire in "Toyota to invest $1.3B in Kentucky factory to build battery packs and new EV"

wafflerewire — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 03:12:16 +0000

RAV4 Prime owner here. I completely agree with wanting more battery capacity. For my use case, it has been a minor complaint. Been very happy overall with it.