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The Kansept Korvid Turns a Pocket Knife Into a Mini Cleaver

Most pocket knives try to disappear. They use narrow blades, slim handles, and familiar profiles designed to slide into a pocket without demanding much attention. That’s practical, but after you’ve seen enough EDC knives, the formula starts looking familiar. Price: $82.32 Where to Buy: Amazon Kansept goes in the opposite direction. The Kansept M+ Korvid, […]

The Kansept Korvid Turns a Pocket Knife Into a Mini Cleaver

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Proxmox: When LXC containers and when KVM VMs are the better choice

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  • LXC offers direct device access, improving I/O operations over KVM VMs
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Four Failures I Kept Repeating on AWS Amplify — Full env Replacement, Green Build but 500 at Runtime, Silent Outages, Domain Migration

From April to July 2026, I ran several Next.js products on AWS Amplify Hosting (AWS's managed service for hosting and deploying web apps).

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Lists in Python for Beginners

A List can be considered as a dynamic array. It is denoted by [ ]. The values inside a list are called elements . The values in a list can be homogeneous (i.e., all elements are of the same data type)…

  • Python lists store collections of elements, allowing homogeneous or heterogeneous data.
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The LCU Trap: Why Your Load Balancer Bill Has Nothing To Do With Bandwidth

` Most engineers assume load balancer costs scale with throughput: "We push 2 Gbps, so our bill should reflect 2 Gbps." That intuition is wrong. AWS doesn't bill ALB or NLB by throughput.

  • Load balancer costs based on Load Balancer Capacity Units (LCU), not bandwidth.
  • Optimizing non-LCU factors has no impact on load balancer bill.

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