Anything can be a message queue if you use it wrongly enough (2023)

Fiendishly outlandish idea, incredibly wrong that it should even be possible for the existence of Hoshino to even have ever been a thought, yet here we are. I love it!

On a related note, have you seen the prices at Whole Foods lately? $6 for a packet of dehydrated miso soup. This usually costs $2.50 served prepared at a sushi restaurant. AWS network egress fees are similarly blasphemous.

Shame on Amazon, lol. Though it's really capitalisms fault, if you think it through all the way.

Why is it Amazon’s fault that people voluntarily choose to use Amazon?

Even with the massive margins, cloud computing is far cheaper for most SMEs than hiring an FTE sysadmin and racking machines in a colo.

The problem is that people forget to switch back to the old way when it’s time.

Another of my online lives is on guitar forums (TGP etc), populated by diverse set of non-geek characters. An eternal question that comes up is “why are they charging so much for this guitar? The parts can’t be that expensive. I bet I could just…”

And the only viable answer is the ol’ capitalist saw: they charge what buyers are willing to pay.

That never quite satisfies people though.

Why aren't they satisfied with merely pondering strats made in US vs Mexico vs Japan vs Indonesia? Careful reviews of quality versus price (which of course varied over time) always showed more correlation with sometimes-unwarranted reputation than with reality.