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Like most people lately (I suspect) I've been using Amazon and FleaBay more than usual simply because I can get the bits I want reasonably quickly, and don't have to meet infected people ... 
And I've noticed that since the start of the pandemic, their backend systems have been getting worse and worse - most of the time now I get a "we're going to deliver your order today!" email about 6 or 8 hours after the goods arrived on my doorstep. You can sort of understand this, volume is way up, and systems are getting clogged.
And that means one of two things:
1) AWS doesn't expand automatically / gracefully to meet need / volume levels
Or
2) Amazon don't use their own cloud offering.
Neither of these exactly fills me with desire to use AWS: either it doesn't actually do what they say, it costs way too much to expand it to fit the need, or they don't trust it enough to use it ...
Anyone here from Amazon and have an idea which it is? 
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OriginalGriff wrote: 1) AWS doesn't expand automatically / gracefully to meet need / volume levels
Or
2) Amazon don't use their own cloud offering.
Both...
(I suspect that if we have here an Amazon employee we will not know it  )
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OriginalGriff wrote: since the start of the pandemic, their backend systems have been getting worse and worse
Yes, I've been suffering with that as well. 
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Ah, the famous MWS (MacCutchan Web Services) 
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3) Debug/testing code made it into production.
Thread.Sleep(new TimeSpan(8, 0, 0));
order.SendConfirmation();
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Hmmm,
Maybe your e-mails are being relayed via the SMTP server on Tethys[^] delaying the delivery time.
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Hmmm ... even I didn't try that one: "The cheque is en route to Tethys ..." 
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SMTP - Saturnian Moon Transfer Protocol?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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OriginalGriff wrote: and don't have to meet infected people
I thought you're free to do as you please now.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Never stop dreaming - Freddie Kruger
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Better safe than sorry - I've had it, but I have no idea if I can become infectious again by contacting the virus. Yes, my immune system should fight it off much, much better, but does that mean I am not infectious? i=or if I am, for how long? I don't know, and I doubt if there is much research on it.
So I prefer to err on the side of caution: I assume that I may be infectious but symptomless at all times, and maintain social distance / mask / gloves / washing as if I hadn't had it. The last thing I want to do if give it to someone else without knowing!
That's what masks are there for: to protect others from me, not me from others!
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OriginalGriff wrote: So I prefer to err on the side of caution:
Besides... there are already several documented cases of people getting it again. So that with the inmunity is not like many people was expecting / whishing.
M.D.V. 
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Nelek wrote: there are already several documented cases of people getting it again. So that with the inmunity is not like many people was expecting / whishing
Oh, well, there are always exceptions where you have people whose immune system doesn't work like it should.
If it was a real problem (For society that is, not the poor sods that got infected again) there would be a lot more than "several".
The fact that it's just "several", rather than thousands or millions, is actually good news.
That said, I would probably prefer to err on the side of cautious as well. I don't want to find out if I'm one of those people.
Actually, I'd prefer to not get it the first time if I may choose.
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Never stop dreaming - Freddie Kruger
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: I would probably prefer to err on the side of cautious as well. I don't want to find out if I'm one of those people.
Actually, I'd prefer to not get it the first time if I may choose.
Agree 100%
That's why I have been keeping a low profile anyways. For me only difference in my daily routine due to the current "partial lockdown" is to wear the mask in one or two situations more than usually (i.e. walking in open street parking-office-parking in the company ground).
M.D.V.
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OriginalGriff wrote: but does that mean I am not infectious?
Nope, that's not how immunity works, but probably much much less by many magnitudes.
It would follow the normal distribution curve, while you probably belong to the group in the middle of the curve that's hardly infectious at all if re-infected, there's always the possibility that you belong to the far off edge.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Never stop dreaming - Freddie Kruger
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OriginalGriff wrote: Like most people lately (I suspect) I've been using Amazon and FleaBay more than usual
On a side note, this is actually killing our local economy (Not that you specifically bought a few things online, but that everybody does). During the lockdown in France, most people will order on amazon for the same reasons, so all small local stores selling toys or presents will go bankrupt - if the lockdown cycles go on, amazon will be the only company alive in a couple of years.
They are already regulating who can sell and what can be sold online : no store on amazon and you have no visibility on the Internet (who checks page 2 on google search ?), so they choose who can sell under which conditions, and susprisingly the conditions are profitable for them.
They are using people as robots in their facilities, paying them minimum wage and exchanging them at will once their body cannot cope anymore with the pace. Why do people then work for amazon if the conditions are that tough ? Because they need the paycheck to survive. One amazon created job destroys 22 other jobs somewhere else.
Everybody grins when the gafas are compared to Orwell'S Big Brother, but let's face it : we are running to this very situation at a faster pace than everyone thinks - in not more than en years, google will decide what is good for us by showing us the correct search results for us, amazon will send us what we need, facebook/whatsapp will decide about who will be elected, netflix will provide chosen entertainement. I do not know what world we are leaving to our children (and I did not even mention global warming), but unfortunately, I think my generation had the best life on the planet ever - it can only going downwards from now 
All this and it is only monday... The week is going to be tough 
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We all know that there is an XKCD for everything. But is there one for "there's an XKCD for that"?
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Well, not quite but ... Relevant XKCD | Thomas Park[^]
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Hehe, that's good. Thanks.
I like the recursive link.
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I do wonder if recursion was used for that ?
Only one way to check..
click 999, click 1000, click 1001...
I am going to hazard a guess that to prevent a stack overflow, the stack resets itself once the image has been fully rendered.
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― Christopher Hitchens
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Complete with mouseover. Randall probably approves.
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Cool, is there anything[^] Randall did not think about ? 
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More like "Hello ween" 
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But what am I supposed to do? Ignore him when he asks me a question?
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