lclarkmichalek

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by lclarkmichalek 7y ago
The workplace was always politicized. It's just being politicized in different ways now.
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by lclarkmichalek 7y ago
slices generally map 1:1 with cgroups. Try running systemd-cgtop and you can see the resource usage of each of the cgroups
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by lclarkmichalek 7y ago
You understand that Angela Merkel is subject to free and fair elections, which Xi is not, right?
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by lclarkmichalek 7y ago
This article is timestamped "Friday, September 24, 2010 at 1:29 AM". The referenced outage is not yesterday's outage. I work for FB
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by lclarkmichalek 7y ago
Sales taxes are regressive - people who don't have a lot of money have to spend more of it to stay alive, and therefore pay more sales tax :/ I'd rather have a higher income tax and no sales tax. Income taxes are much more vi
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by lclarkmichalek 7y ago
The comment you're replying to is not a verbatim quote of the post, they've added the last sentence (among others). The original post states > What happens when you delete: We’re providing more detail about what happens when yo
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by lclarkmichalek 7y ago
Yes. So much business logic requires IO. Pure business logic is a great dream, but it's a dream.
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by lclarkmichalek 7y ago
This isn't a login service, this is an ACL service. Related space, but different concerns. You wouldn't send a user's password here to find out if it's correct (authentication), you'd use this to figure out if a use
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by lclarkmichalek 7y ago
It kinda depends what availability means? That .001% unavailability might be degraded service, might be .001% of clients having a bad time across the entire year, might be 'acts of god' (i.e. broken CPUs and the like). This kind o
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by lclarkmichalek 7y ago
When you're dealing with this scale of system, the number of config changes, automated or human, can make determining which config the harder issue. Once you've found out what the issue is, you probably also want the revert to go
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by lclarkmichalek 7y ago
It's always fun to have the space in your schedule to drill down to that level of issue. TLS is pretty useful in that way, as you can catch CPU issues as transport layer errors instead of way down in your application with strange decod
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by lclarkmichalek 7y ago
Making the processing of a message idempotent is the ideal way to handle that limitation
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by lclarkmichalek 7y ago
Can't say I saw that, growing up in a European country.
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by lclarkmichalek 8y ago
There's also sometimes a lack of discipline (or at least, I lacked discipline when I worked in startups) when it comes to focusing on the impactful stuff, not the fun stuff.
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by lclarkmichalek 8y ago
Err, what is evenwell? What evil things are these apps doing?
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by lclarkmichalek 8y ago
Woops, fixed, thanks :)
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by lclarkmichalek 8y ago
QUIC actually requires that request packets must be larger than the responses, until a handshake has been performed, in order to prevent reflection attacks.
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by lclarkmichalek 8y ago
What does the TLS vs QUIC look like though?
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by lclarkmichalek 8y ago
Much easier to update an app and its HTTP library than mobile device kernels. Particularly given how a large proportion of mobile devices are unsupported and won't get kernel upgrades any more.
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by lclarkmichalek 8y ago
I think you need better sources
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by lclarkmichalek 8y ago
The cable is going to be sitting in the sea. Shoes are likely not the biggest issue it will face in its lifetime.
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by lclarkmichalek 8y ago
I wouldn't say they're that hidden. Marea (MS & FB trans atlantic cable) has a nice promotional site with videos and suchlike: https://news.microsoft.com/marea/
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by lclarkmichalek 8y ago
Very happy to be getting tls1.3 support :)
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by lclarkmichalek 8y ago
I think Slack does: https://slack.engineering/taking-php-seriously-cf7a60065329
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by lclarkmichalek 8y ago
You can totally do that in a FAANG. It's hard, but it's a recognized archetype.
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by lclarkmichalek 8y ago
Yes
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by lclarkmichalek 8y ago
Some of what you want might be available here: https://www.facebook.com/ads/archive/ ( https://www.facebook.com/business/help/2405092116183307 ). (work for fb)
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by lclarkmichalek 8y ago
And that, kids, is why forwarding emails is illegal.
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by lclarkmichalek 8y ago
You get what E2E encryption is, right?
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by lclarkmichalek 8y ago
Leveraged Buy Out. You use the value of the company you are acquiring to guarantee junk bonds that you sell to raise the money to buy the company. Barbarians at the Gate is a popular book that goes into the details while telling the story o

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