<![CDATA[The astronomy cloud computing system is down.]]>The astronomy cloud computing system is down. Again.

(It is down a lot, but I don't use it that often lately. Otherwise I would complain a lot more)

Always makes me so sad that there's just buttloads of money being dumped into AI data centers so people can make awful slop no one wants, but the science computing infrastructure is held together with hope, duct tape, and someone's leftover grant money from 5 years ago.

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hope, duct tape, and someone's leftover grant money from 5 years ago

.... describes so many worthwhile things in my experience. both online and offline!

We should do better as a society.

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