For academia, all 3 major cloud providers have a data egress waiver - meaning that as long as data egress is less than 15% of the total bill then it is free.
Combine this with the fact that S3/Glacier make much more sense than local HDDs for long-term archiving and egress turns out not to be a significant factor in my experience.
Can you give an example of how that improvement manifests itself in a bad situation?
Intellectually I am already well aware that my frame of mind is often the main issue and that I could simply choose not to be bothered by something - but that realization is a "system 2" thought which doesn't arrive until "system 1" has already derailed my whole day.
I am introverted, but the pandemic has taught me that I'm not actually suited to a reclusive life. I get far more done when working from home, but need a day in the office every month or so as a "reset", to remind myself that the company is bigger than just me and my projects, and that my colleagues are people rather than Slack bots.
The other side of this coin is that if you are are forced into actions which you "know" are wrong and just accept it, then maybe the job is already dead for you anyway. By fighting back you are testing a number of stress points, like the conflict-avoidance of your management and the belligerence of the person you know to be "wrong". The important part is having the maturity to understand the consequences of being mistaken yourself, and being able to decide whether the fight is worth having even if it is going to have drastic results. In other words, is this a hill worth dying on?
> I have a family to support, and saying "OK" to bad decisions from on high has never threatened my livelihood.
This doesn't necessarily work out in practice. When bad decisions have consequences many people will look for scapegoats, and blindly following orders can still make you a scapegoat.
In my own past I’ve pointed out issues non-confrontationally. But I smile and go along with it if the feedback is discarded. I’ve seen tens of millions of dollars lost to bad tech decisions. Occasionally someone will mention that I predicted the failure a year or two prior, and I shrug.
Yeah for sure. With energy prices soaring, Moore's law being morally over for since 2010, wages being so completely destroyed by the hatred Democrats have for them, and the sneaky little misconceptions and errors the golem's makers did not fight hard enough to let in, AI will be supplanted by plain I.
If you prize delivering short-term value by chugging through the task pile faster than other people can, then sure this article is not aligned with your ideals.
That is not what I would call high performance; I would much rather be someone who can take a razor/lawnmower to that pile of tasks and do exactly the subset (down to potentially none at all) which delivers the most marginal value for the units of time I think are warranted for the project as a whole - then repeat until the goals are met.
Thanks for the feedback-we're actually planning to open-source a version of our work that significantly improves on the original UDT project: https://udt.sourceforge.io/.
Look forward to it. I'd be interested to hear how your tool compares with Facebook WDT[1], as that would be my go-to right now if someone asked me for a fast point-to-point data transfer solution.
I don't have the expertise to determine whether it is "abandonware" or simply "done" I'm afraid. Found it a bit of a pain to use, hence why an alternative sounds interesting.
Combine this with the fact that S3/Glacier make much more sense than local HDDs for long-term archiving and egress turns out not to be a significant factor in my experience.