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by cranekam 4y ago
Another +1. Although I don’t necessarily believe neoliberalism is the best thing ever at least the Economist doesn’t hide its editorial stance and generally supports regulation where it’s needed. And there is plenty of really good content (
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by cranekam 4y ago
> The ability to use the phone or remote to move the car forward or back in a straight line is super useful and a cool, novel feature by itself. Is it? It’s hard to think of a situation where moving a car I’m at most a couple of hundred
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by cranekam 4y ago
Yes, definitely. A saw or bolt cutters will go through a wire or cable lock very easily. Just a few weeks ago I came back to my bike to find the bike next to it gone, with a severed cable laying on the floor in its place. The outer diameter
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by cranekam 4y ago
> You're supposed to fix the frame to the stand, why are you just attaching the wheel? Because the "wheel grabber" makes it very hard to lock the frame as well as the wheel. About all that is possible without a long wire (
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by cranekam 4y ago
WhatsApp (now, since it moved into FB's infra) connects to g.whatsapp.net, which is a CNAME to chat.cdn.whatsapp.net, which in turn is an A record to a VIP on Facebook's edge network. The A record you're returned can change —
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by cranekam 4y ago
You’re typically missing out if you don’t. The rind is delicious!
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by cranekam 4y ago
Documentation also just doesn't cover the kind of issue the GitLab post is talking about. Sure, good docs on what talks to what and so on will help someone learn the lay of the land but it's not going to pinpoint the cause of a sp
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by cranekam 5y ago
But both apps are on the same user devices, presumably? If so I can see that splitting them protects against the 1password DB being compromised but not against someone getting access to a user’s phone (which seems more likely to me).
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by cranekam 5y ago
Any examples to share? I am a parent in Europe but have lived in the US (specifically the Bay Area) but before I had kids so I didn't pay a huge amount of attention to parenting styles. That said, I expect users of parenting.stackexcha
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by cranekam 5y ago
> Free-climbing it is an incredible endeavor [..] Honnold didn’t just free-climb El Capitan [..] Or, that’s true for the free climb Minor terminology pedantry: free climbing merely means making progress using only one's hands and
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by cranekam 5y ago
> Filing taxes should be free and easy. Or, ideally, not needed at all. In the UK having an average financial situation like a job (one that doesn’t pay megabucks, anyway), a pension, a tax-efficient savings account and a student doesn’t
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by cranekam 5y ago
ulimit on Linux doesn’t support limiting RSS, only VSZ. I’d argue that limiting RSS — i.e., how much of the process in main memory — is more aligned with what someone wants than how big its virtual address space is, which can easily be dist
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by cranekam 5y ago
BGP itself didn’t cause this problem. An operational error/bug/whatever that manipulated network configurations was the cause of the outage. BGP is just the messenger: if you misconfigure it your network will break, but it’s not B
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by cranekam 5y ago
Most swag is total junk. I don't need yet another cotton bag, notepad, pen or bad coffee cup. I would rather get nothing at all. I worked at Facebook for years. In the earlier years of my tenure they gave out Christmas (or company birt
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by cranekam 5y ago
I assume it’s not really possible to make a saddle with a radically different shape that still supports the rider and allows their legs to pedal the bike. For what it’s worth after some time in the saddle your body will get used to it and i
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by cranekam 5y ago
Why? The name of a file is none of the filesystem’s business. If users choose names that make using software difficult it’s on them. It’s not like there aren’t ways to handle any kind of “weird” character in a file name, as the linked artic
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by cranekam 5y ago
It’s better to solve these problems than have N copies of common libraries, each with their own subtle bugs, different interfaces, and so on. A very crude approach to solving this is to a) require code review from some core team for changes
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by cranekam 5y ago
If your baby is due in 4 weeks it’s likely it’ll be quite a few months until a crib is needed. The first months will pass in a tired blur of the baby sleeping only on you or your partner, followed waking up the second you try to put them on
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by cranekam 5y ago
head in hands For what it's worth, my bosses all the way up to CEO of a 50k person company were all pretty pleased with the working practices I used (medieval things like strace(1), perf(1) and sort(1)) to save thousands of servers&#
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by cranekam 5y ago
> Firstly the model of sshing into your server and trying to run commands on it directly is more or less obsolete. Why do you get to declare what is acceptable (using UNIX tools) or what's now obsolete (SSHing into a host)? It'
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by cranekam 5y ago
Hammerspoon is great. I use it to manage windows (eg set vscode and a browser side-by-side when connected to an external display, full screen when not), add a hotkey to translate selected text with Deepl, to mute sound when the machine slee
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by cranekam 5y ago
In my last job our main “is everything okay?” monitoring dashboard had RPS, latency, 500 rate etc and a line for the number of user issues reported per N requests served. We didn’t alert on this but it was a useful way to detect issues that
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by cranekam 5y ago
Permanent loss of glaciers, vastly longer fire seasons, melting permafrost, coral bleaching, loss of farmland, etc. And anecdotally winters are just much less cold these days (I’m in Northern Europe).
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by cranekam 5y ago
What would you expect to happen to the tyres at high speed? I assume at some speed they’ll fall apart or something but that surely must be at more than 100kph. The things are already holding in air at 100psi+ — why would rolling quickly b
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by cranekam 5y ago
The comment I was replying to mentions "at [Google] scale", so my answer was with that in mind.
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by cranekam 5y ago
Another cool thing about the Swiss system is the derived 3 phase T15/T25 plugs: https://www.plugsocketmuseum.nl/Swiss_3hd.html Our washing machine uses a T15 plug but the socket can also accept a T12 single phase plug
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by cranekam 5y ago
I guess it depends what "infrastructure" means. If you mean "all of Google" then a cold restart would probably be very hard. At Facebook a cold restart/network cutoff of a datacenter region (a test we did periodical
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by cranekam 5y ago
It’s much more likely that other factors increased the chances of hitting the bug. Maybe the race condition was more likely to be hit if the amount of configuration data increased or the frequency with which configuration changes were compi
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by cranekam 5y ago
eBPF also does more than just tracing: it allows one to implement custom network and security policies and various other things. I don’t think LTTng does anything but tracing.
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by cranekam 5y ago
But firing someone doesn't undo an incident. It just introduces other weird incentives. People become afraid to change things for fear of breaking something, or when something does break they try to hide it rather than feeling like the

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