Twirrim

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by Twirrim 6y ago
It's going to be out of their hands on this one. Apple have pretty strong EULAs. Microsoft's licensing for clouds is also a pain in the arse. You (the cloud platform) have to pay for a full months license the moment an instance
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by Twirrim 6y ago
A quick stab on my linux laptop has it hitting at most 25% CPU utilisation, and consuming almost zero memory. Seems really odd that this would nuke a Mac somehow.
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by Twirrim 6y ago
I'm curious, why do you have so many perl installations around. I thought I'd got a fair number of python venvs kicking around for each of the repos I'm dealing with, but nowhere near that many.
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by Twirrim 6y ago
> Dat soundz like a bank and not a cloud provider. The first stage in making something reliable, sustainable, and as easy to run as possible is to understand the problem, and understand what you're trying to achieve. You shouldn&#x
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by Twirrim 6y ago
That's me :)
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by Twirrim 6y ago
The English guy, if that's enough of a clue. It has been about 4 1/2 years now since I left Glacier, so there's every chance our paths never overlapped.
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by Twirrim 6y ago
> Can't imagine what a service refactor is like at A. I bet it sucks It's not all that hard. AWS heavily focuses on Service Oriented Architecture approaches, with specific knowledge/responsibility domains for each. It&#x
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by Twirrim 6y ago
For those not familiar, https://www.fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki , created by D. Richard Hipp, the primary author of SQLite. Fossil can be used for source control, bug/work tracking,
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by Twirrim 6y ago
> Updated manually by whom? > I'm afraid you're shifting the complexity to a manual process. You're right, that's 100% what I'm doing. Why? Because it shouldn't be that complicated to update an overall
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by Twirrim 6y ago
Not really. People will automatically assume they were in that impacted percentage and that what was happening with their stuff was entirely AWS's fault.
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by Twirrim 6y ago
Congratulations, you're already complicating the status page. The status page shouldn't be figuring out what the status of any service is. It's impossible to do without a lot of contextual information about a service and und
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by Twirrim 6y ago
Part of the problem is, engineers love shiny things. Status pages are fundamentally boring things. Who wants to work on them? It's always tempting to complicate something simple because in part "ooh shiny", and you can alway
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by Twirrim 6y ago
That's incredibly annoying, given the mandate the replacement service had. I'd be curious to be a fly on the wall during the next Ops meeting when it comes up that yet again the status dashboard got made in a way that makes it har
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by Twirrim 6y ago
> Can anyone explain why status pages are so difficult. What is an outage? When does an outage reach sufficient scale that updating the status page is the right thing to do? I used to work for AWS, and now work for another cloud provid
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by Twirrim 6y ago
They did. It came up in the post incident report, and senior leadership kicked off work to have it run on its own distinct infrastructure so that this wouldn't happen again. If you look at where the content on https://statu
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by Twirrim 6y ago
Something I keep having to remind myself, and other engineers in teams I work on is "Good enough is good enough". There are plenty of projects they're working on that could be better if they could spend another week or two wo
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by Twirrim 6y ago
There's a similar story about Star Wars not making a profit, and how that screwed over various actors on the project. Hollywood does this all the time. It's their standard dirty accounting practice. From: https://en
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by Twirrim 6y ago
It's only really in the last year, maybe two, that I've become comfortable with this being my role. I'm a jack of all trades, so I fill in the gaps within my team. About as much of my job is about ensuring everyone else on t
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by Twirrim 6y ago
There's a great talk from a company that had some Netflow SaaS product, that I can't find right now. They were suffering from GC pauses etc. on their ingestion hosts. They spent ages experimenting with various ways of tweaking ga
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by Twirrim 6y ago
Just don't update until you have to, or at least give it 3-6 months to let every other sucker find all the early bugs for you. Same goes with any operating system, not just OSX. You just don't need the "Oooh shiny".
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by Twirrim 6y ago
We use the Bolt for almost all our. It doesn't stay above 90% for any great length of time.
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by Twirrim 6y ago
This is just a temporary fix, limits the maximum charge level. They're still investigating the issue and coming up with a proper fix, they just know that it's happening to fully charged cars. For what it's worth, I popped ou
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by Twirrim 6y ago
> It's somewhat common to install a graphical environment on server machines It's really not that common. Yes there's the odd cases of servers that use enterprise software that have to have GUIs, but most linux boxes run
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by Twirrim 6y ago
The link doesn't mention anything about ARM?
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HXDP: Efficient Software PacketProcessing on FPGA NICs [pdf](usenix.org)
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by Twirrim 6y ago
I found we just went through ink like nobodies business. We don't print all the time (typically 3-4 times a year), and it would be sufficient gap that between prints we'd find the ink cartridges had dried up or just stopped worki
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by Twirrim 6y ago
> 2020-10-30 Due to no response and the deadline closing in, Project Zero reaches out to other informal Github contacts. The response is that the issue is considered fixed and that we are clear to go public on 2020-11-02 as planned. &g
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by Twirrim 6y ago
An anecdotal example of the use of TLA+ The service I worked for in AWS had to built a key service, about 18 months-ish after launch. If the service got anything wrong, it would wipe out the customer's data. Evaluating the conditions
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by Twirrim 6y ago
I went looking and it seems like a bunch of these are on sale until Nov 2nd on Steam. > Anna's quest Is on sale on steam for $1.99 > All the adventure games from Humongous Entertainment Entire bundle is 50% off, 49.99 > Machi
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by Twirrim 6y ago
> AMD GPUs have near zero support in major ML frameworks. There are some things coming out with Rocm and other niche things, but most people in ML already have enough work dealing with model and framework problems that using experimental

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