Interesting maybe try a fresh contact import on your macs? I know about 20+ people who use IMacs iPhones and MacBooks with fastmail and have no syncing issues.
> Are you suggesting isp’s are more trustworthy in America?
Certainly not.
My comment is relating to their data encryption laws that was passed in 2018. If you care about your privacy in any way, shape or form, individuals should be very wary of using services that operate from, or are owned by individuals in Australia (and the rest of the 5 eyes for that matter) unless you have your encryption keys and all encryption happens on your client app.
Elsewhere the ride to the airport is a quick cheap train. Electronic boarding so no need to checkin. But even if you do you’ve got a dedicated counter with someone waiting for you. Controls are under 2 minutes. Less than that if you have status you essentially walk through. (Fuck the American tsa those incompetent fools). And lounges overseas at a decent airline are like high end spas or better.
Checkout cathays first class lounge in hk. Or Singapore’s lounge for pps.
Then again, status at airlines that are not American come with some pretty excellent perks that are not found in America.
I’d take a long haul to retain status. The routes I fly and the frequency makes it a necessity. Taking a hot shower the minute you step off a plane before you meet a client is worth every dollar.
Cloud engineer. Network engineer. Software engineer.... I’ve never heard of medstudents calling themselves doctors, why do cs students/grads get a pass?
Up next chefs will be food engineers, tailors will be clothing engineers, and because I changed the oil in my Toyota once, I’m now a Toyota engineer; specializing in fluids.
Words mean literally nothing anymore (ha). Titles in tech are hilarious at almost every level, especially from the outside looking in.
This argument gets rehashed in HN pretty often. When I just worked in ops or support my job title had the word “technician” in it. When I was designing systems my job title had the word “engineer” in it, even if I also had ops duties. As far as I can tell this is a regional thing, where certain jurisdictions have laws that regulate who can call themselves engineers, just like certain jurisdictions have laws about who can call themselves hairdressers. That doesn’t stop people on HN from thinking that for some reason, we can all agree on a definition for “engineer”, even though we have regular disagreements about the definition about almost every other word in the English language.
“DevOps” is at least ill-defined from the very start, so if we have arguments about what “DevOps” means, at least I can learn something.
Well, at a certain level it applies. Part of doing my job well involves designing service quality checks. That requires:
1. understanding important engineering principals like queuing theory
2. understanding the system in question well enough to modify it to emit relevant metrics for applying stuff like queuing theory
3. collecting this data into timeseries form
4. applying statistical tests to them, e.g. for normality.
5. deciding between a variety of possible anomaly detection algorithms
Another portion involves capacity planning and datacenter design, which requires a certain amount of electrical engineering knowledge, as well as forecasting. A different part of my job simply involves writing software, testing it, and signing off on changes.
Overall it sounds fairly engineery, even if the powers that be would rather prefer it if the term be reserved those who pass an internship and test (but then refuse to expand said test to include new domains).
To be fair to life labs, at least they don’t dox you aloud to an entire waiting room.
I witnessed that happen to a few prominent financiers in Toronto while I was getting some bloodwork done. It was terrifying within about 5 minutes I had all the personal information I’d need to do some seriously nefarious things.
This happens on most every occasion I visit a clinic in Canada. Nurses and secretaries do not care.
Happens in the US too. As I was waiting for my doctor's appointment, I was just listening to the secretary call up patients to obtain payments. She was just reading out their credit card information out loud. I was honestly tempted to just take one down then call the credit card company to let them know it was compromised.
This is literally how most electricity is charged. I’ve been in probably 30+ non European countries and it is frequently billed this way. Potable water is usually the same. Residential users rarely exceed the standard allowance so they never come across tiered pricing.
In fact most larger cities not only have tier pricing but also peak pricing inside tier levels.
Commercial and industrial is its own game, they have tiers and on/off peak charges along with load shedding requirements. Often it’s billed not just kWh but also peak amperage draw.
Edit: by load shedding I mean commercial/industrial end users often have to be able to accept incoming excess power from the grid that residential use isn’t consuming due to weather/events grid failures etc. Power grids are immensely complex and very interesting beasts.
The us has half iPhones of China alone [0]. And America only contains 16% of the worlds iphones. So yes, America is not a big player when it comes to iPhone usage.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eunYrrcxXfw
And then we get into hardware design...
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_eSAF_qT_FY