Been lucky enough to visit that park and it's a fantastic place. Take a walking tour and see the chimp groups up close.

> AWS should provide features where you are prompted to set a hard budget limit when you first signup and services fail once that's exceeded

They should, but the entire internal metering & bill generation pipeline isn't setup to support that. You can configure billing alerts but these will only refresh on updates to your estimated bill (typically re-computed every 8hrs). And since service teams are responsible for posting metering records to commerce platform their implementation may vary.

TLDR: AWS Commerce Platform is a mess.

Source: Ex-AWS SDE

How is it that they can set up a quantum computer but not up-front billing?

I'm waiting for Corey to show up and say that solving quantum spin equations is easier than AWS billing

But, in all seriousness: businesses produce products in reaction to their financial incentives, and no one(?) is quitting AWS because they don't offer billing limits

Hey Muhammad. This is your project that you are trying to play off as something you've just come across isn't it?

Have you updated to Xcode 16?

Can't you offer a free trial for everyone to test your service and potentially convert if they like it?

No, this was filed for originally Netscape Navigator which codebase evolved into modern Firefox.

For exactly the same reasons, Amazon limits message retentions on it's internal Slack platform and aggressively enforces mailbox quotas in it's internal email system. Up to some shady shenanigans, and don't have to hand it over as part of discovery if they don't got the record in the first place. Exactly the same way criminal gangs operate!

The sudden disappearance of Slack channels is definitely a thing, along with giant sets of trouble tickets. Don't forget the disappearing wikis... Can't have documentation.

It's definitely given me the opinion that the only reliable docs are what's in git.

Links to stories are useless

Links to tickets are better

Links to wikis are awful

Comments are misleading

Code review links are ok, but mostly link to unreliable sources, and older code review links are gone.

Commit history also goes missing, so don't bother leaving too much info in the commit text

Current code is mostly reliable, but might need extra knowledge to actually reason about.

It's crazy how much useful info get deleted or not migrated or gets moved in a way where you'd never find it again, or the search tools stop indexing it

Spent almost 12 years at Amazon till early 2023 and some of this is very surprising to me.

I know the annoying slack retention policy but I had never heard of tickets, issues, or wikis or even git commits being auto deleted.

When I was there I could go back a decade and open up old tickets or wikis.

Has things changed so much in less than two years?

Seems to be affecting from consumer site and publishing side (App Store Connect).

UPDATE: Looks to be more wide spread, also including Apple Music, iTunes, Podcasts.

Can't wait for a 2026 manned moon mission. Get to watch a live moon landing like my grandparents generation!

No one is landing on the moon in 2026. SpaceX is two years behind schedule building the lander, and there's not enough room in the calendar to develop and then operationalize the necessary refueling technology. The earliest feasible landing date is probably in 2028.

> is two years behind schedule building the ladder

I initially read it as that, and didn't even blink. Elon's promises are so ridiculous and inept that being two years behind on building a ladder seems entirely plausible.

I actually built 'Tembo - Bilingual Stories' while learning German myself, so hate to plug it on this thread, but we've got lots of German content, maybe you'll find something that interests you?

https://www.tembo.app