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Unfortunately, most wearables fail at giving you a break, even when it’s justified. It’s simply not built into their programming.
All I Want From My Smartwatch Is to Give Me a Break
theverge.com
In the haze, the horizons of distant peaks braided together. The nature writer Robert MacFarlane observes, in his book “Landmarks,” that a Scottish painter once described this phenomenon to him as landskein. “Skein” can mean either a coil of yarn or a flock of birds flying in a V formation. Landskein, a neologism, uses both, knitting the V’s of mountaintops together. Each time I saw the jagged, braided horizon, I thought about how happy I was to know the word.
The New Luxury Vacation: Being Dumped in the Middle of Nowhere
newyorker.com
So, I wouldn’t blame you if you were wondering what makes an EC2 instance “Classic”. Put simply, it’s the network architecture. When we launched EC2 in 2006, it was one giant network of 10.0.0.0/8. All instances ran on a single, flat network shared with other customers. It exposed a handful of features, like security groups and Public IP addresses that were assigned when an instance was spun up. Classic made the process of acquiring compute dead simple, even though the stack running behind the scenes was incredibly complex.
Farewell EC2-Classic, It’s Been Swell
allthingsdistributed.com
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