strifey · HackerTrans

il y a 16 joursdiscuss

Heck, we saw crazy performance degradation with redis when its memory usage exceeded a single NUMA block. Not much to be done about that at the k8s level when redis is single-threaded. Have to be super conscious of the underlying hardware at that point.

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il y a 21 joursdiscuss

It's very similar to styles of generating lairs/dungeons in many TTRPGs. A lot of them come with various tables/dice rolls to help build a layout and then subsequent tables to give a general prompt for what goes in said rooms. It's an extremely satisfying routine, as you're not 100% beholden to every dice roll, but the dice rolls help prime the creative juices and give constructive constraints to the process.

I highly recommend trying it out for yourself!

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il y a 2 moisdiscuss

This has been their MO with their search for a decade+ now. "Native" results hiding actual search results below the fold killed many 2010s era websites that relied on search traffic.

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il y a 2 moisdiscuss

They're not describing working for yourself? At least in terms of financial compensation. A job and some form of communal/familial uncompensated labor are extremely different in this context. Calling them both "work" in this context is muddying the waters.

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il y a 7 moisdiscuss

Totally true, but we host other people's code (PaaS, etc). We don't get to dictate their working hours.

It also doesn't mean nothing breaks when people aren't making changes. Certificate expiration is the classic example of something breaking _because_ someone hasn't made a change. Or a slow memory leak. There's a whole classification of issues that get worse when nothing is redeployed for long enough.

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il y a 7 moisdiscuss

Staring down the barrel of being primary on-call over Christmas for a dozen k8s clusters running thousands of nodes. How I wish it were true that we could trust computer programs to just keep running.

PagerDuty wouldn't exist if this were true.

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il y a 7 moisdiscuss

A bit more heavyweight, but we implemented a rotation program when I was managing an internal tools team at a previous company. We'd trade an engineer from our team with an engineer from a feature team for a quarter.

The amount of improvements to our collective understandings was super valuable. Feature devs got to help fix problems with their tools more directly (while also learning that it's not always as straightforward as it may seem), and we brought back much stronger insights into the experience of actually using our tools day-to-day.

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il y a 10 moisdiscuss

You should read Ubik

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il y a 11 moisdiscuss

Maybe it's just me, but nothing sounds simple about offline mode. The changeset resolution necessary to resync after going back online sounds TOUGH to build in a way that doesn't result in user data loss ever without being more cumbersome than it's worth.

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l’année dernièrediscuss

Sad to hear about how much the Space & Rocket center has been let to deteriorate. That place really sparked my interest in science & engineering as a child. Even went to Space Camp there way back in the day.

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l’année dernièrediscuss

Anecdotally, they've gotten much more proactive at taking unprotected lefts in my experience.

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l’année dernièrediscuss

Their wait times tend to be worse, but that's getting better too. The trip speed has also noticeably improved. I've taken about 50 over the past 2 years.

Even if they're sometimes slower in pickup or trip time, on average, I greatly value the consistency of the experience over everything else.

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il y a 2 ansdiscuss

That's so fascinating to me! "Howdy" definitely ranks higher on my hokey-ness scale than "y'all".

Love a good "over yonder" though.

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il y a 2 ansdiscuss

Y'all forever. One of the few southern mannerisms I intentionally don't drop as a lapsed southerner in California.

As an aside, I find it strange how many aspects of "the south" are labeled as "Texan" outside the south. I lived and visited all over the Deep South and y'all was standard vernacular pretty much everywhere. I'm not saying Texans don't say y'all, but they definitely don't have any unique claim to using it as second-person plural.

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il y a 3 ansdiscuss

I love this explanation. One unfortunately confusing extra piece that some people might occasionally run into is that there are two types of tag. Most tags are what you describe: pointers (git ref) to a commit (git object) and nothing more. These are usually referred to as lightweight tags.

There are also annotated tags that can contain a message, have a timestamp, and sha, etc. These are proper git objects that behave a lot like commit objects, except they're still typically only referring to another git object (commit).

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il y a 3 ansdiscuss

Oof, remind me not to move there. I wouldn't survive an allergy season. Though to be fair, I imagine most GPs would write a prescription pretty quick.

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il y a 3 ansdiscuss

Interesting, today I learned it had a more specific term. Still, saying something "isn't OTC" implies you need a prescription to most people. At least in my experience.

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il y a 3 ansdiscuss

Real sudafed is OTC, you just need to ask for it at the counter. No prescription is required. They just don't have it on shelves, because they require you to show your ID when purchasing it. I'm assuming this is so they can track how much a person is buying to track people who are using it for illicit purposes.

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il y a 3 ansdiscuss

Botulism spores do not "train immune systems". Babies don't have strong enough digestive systems until they're at least six months old to kill the spores.

https://www.cdc.gov/botulism/infant-botulism.html.

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il y a 3 ansdiscuss

A car grille is a much more prominent and expected visual feature of a car, though. This small, tucked away yet realistic-looking camera doesn't seem to fit the same reasoning for me. That said, it wouldn't be entirely surprising if some designer "couldn't stop noticing it missing" or something along those lines.

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