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Content Brad Dwyer AL braddwyer Sep 9 000 The cloud is horrible. Just discovered we accidentally left a GPU instance running that billed us 3000. Brad Dwyer ( braddwyer Sep 8 The cloud is amazing. We just spun up about 20,000 virtual computers to chug through regenerating 12 million image previews in our new style. In 23 real world minutes, we consumed the equivalent compute of letting my laptop chug 247 for 3 months and it cost about 10. Show this thread 195 17 2.1K 10.8K

The sacred ritual of IT support: turn it off and on again. Someone reports the server's down, tech support swoops in with confidence, and then proceeds to give the server a gentle pep talk before hitting that power button. The server blushes like it just got asked to prom because honestly, 90% of infrastructure problems are solved by the digital equivalent of "have you tried sleeping it off?" The best part? The server's little happy face at the end. Because deep down, servers are just attention-seeking drama queens that occasionally need a fresh start to remember what their job is. No diagnostics, no log analysis, no root cause investigation—just pure, unadulterated power cycling magic.

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