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by cheeseprocedure 10y ago
I really miss The Oil Drum. Can anyone recommend sources for news/analysis from the energy industry?
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by cheeseprocedure 10y ago
Where are your services hosted?
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by cheeseprocedure 10y ago
Adopting this tool seems risky while this issue remains: https://github.com/Netflix/denominator/issues/374 > As much as I hate to admit it, I'm no longer a good choice to champion this project. It isn
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by cheeseprocedure 10y ago
> The client on ios does not support the 5c, which is a shame since I have one. Only a guess: the iPhone 5C shipped with the A6 processor, while Secure Enclave was introduced with the A7. https://www.theiphonewiki.com/wik
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by cheeseprocedure 10y ago
His KVM Forum talk on porting KVM to SmartOS is probably my favourite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwAfJywzk8o
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by cheeseprocedure 10y ago
"You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. Yo
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by cheeseprocedure 10y ago
"The Engineer" is a trade publication, so its writers have a very different target to hit than, say, those of a daily paper.
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by cheeseprocedure 10y ago
I went through the video version. I found it worthwhile overall, but grew frustrated later in the tutorial as the code displayed in the video (and in the associated GitHub repo) drifted substantially from what it had actually been guiding m
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by cheeseprocedure 10y ago
> This point is oddly weak in comparison to the others. Agreed - it was senseless. SNS/SQS aren't particularly complex and they scale like crazy. Kinesis is something else entirely (N-hour record retention w/arbitrary cons
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by cheeseprocedure 10y ago
CloudFormation change sets make CF updates a little less painful/mysterious: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-change-sets-for-aws-clo...
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by cheeseprocedure 11y ago
I'd love (well... hate) a Chrome plugin that maintains a personal leaderboard for longest-lived tabs.
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by cheeseprocedure 11y ago
> I'm also not sure how to make the jump from exporting AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and having my instances automatically request the permissions they need - STS? Check out instance profiles. This feature allows any AWS API-aware application
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by cheeseprocedure 11y ago
I wonder the same, though the engineering under the hood is more interesting than I thought: http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2015/12/vpc-nat-gateways-tr... > The connections are managed by a fault-tolerant co-
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by cheeseprocedure 11y ago
There is speculation it compromised the cryptography used for VPN traffic, enabling someone with access to that traffic to decrypt it through brute force: https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/6778710043543715
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by cheeseprocedure 11y ago
Nomad appears to share some of Consul's internals, but it does not seem possible to use an existing Consul cluster as backing KV store/lock provider/etc. I'd like to understand why.
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by cheeseprocedure 11y ago
This is great - thank you! In a similar vein is the Google+ Postmortems community: https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/11513614020301839179...
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by cheeseprocedure 11y ago
To be fair, that was not really AWS's fault, nor (apparently) a leap second issue: http://www.bgpexpert.com/article.php?article=167 https://twitter.com/Axcelx/status/616058414746202113
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by cheeseprocedure 11y ago
Possibly related to another fiber cut this morning: https://puck.nether.net/pipermail/outages/2015-June/007911.h...
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by cheeseprocedure 11y ago
> Large leaps in technology have always, and will always, benefit the wealthiest 1% at the beginning. This is just the basics of capital in a capitalistic society. What about the Green Revolution?
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by cheeseprocedure 11y ago
This is fantastic. Thank you!
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by cheeseprocedure 11y ago
Because it's not worth re-implementing the functionality available in Jenkins, Chef, etc. etc. etc.
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by cheeseprocedure 11y ago
Microsoft has a number of free VMs available for testing various Internet Explorer/Windows platform combinations: https://www.modern.ie/en-us/virtualization-tools
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by cheeseprocedure 11y ago
Agreed! As an example, HashiCorp included Jepsen test results in their Consul documentation: https://consul.io/docs/internals/jepsen.html
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by cheeseprocedure 12y ago
I had never considered altitude as a factor in takeoff weight limits. How much load would a typical FedEx flight need to shed to operate out of Denver?
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by cheeseprocedure 12y ago
I feel good until I realize who's paying to fix it.
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by cheeseprocedure 12y ago
I've been there for sure. I've given considerable thought to taking a 3-month sabbatical to focus on nothing but reading.
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by cheeseprocedure 12y ago
Yeah, I'm lucky enough to commute by transit. I usually get through at least a couple books a month, but I have trouble reading beyond the pace of speech. I'm a total book junkie so it's a constant source of frustration :)
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by cheeseprocedure 12y ago
When I see these end-of-year book lists, I wonder if I'm the slowest reader on the planet.
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by cheeseprocedure 12y ago
His book "Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes" is worth a read too (though a more ruthless editor may have helped even it out).
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by cheeseprocedure 12y ago
Do these vulnerabilities impact a local ntpd instance responsible only for local timekeeping? (In other words, does a compromised machine in pool.ntp.org pose a threat?)

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