liquidgecka

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by liquidgecka 4mo ago
> I've been using GitHub for other projects and for the life of me I can't see a single area where its better. Triggering github actions manually is way, way cleaner. Also the pipeline configuration feels cleaner to me bit that
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by liquidgecka 9mo ago
That meme started in early 2007 I believe. I started in 2006 and was in ZRH by 2008 and it was around long before I made that move.
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by liquidgecka 9mo ago
There is confusion here because Greenland is not part of the EU directly (they were, they left) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland_and_the_European_Uni... Its citizens are members of the EU but its territory is no
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by liquidgecka 10mo ago
Yeah.. I have a five letter email that's a common first and last name @ gmail.com. I second everything you said. Getting report hits every few days are useless given how few sites do any kind of validation. :-/
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by liquidgecka 1y ago
My former company would send out rewards as a thank you to employees. It was basically a “click here to receive your free gift!” email. I kept telling the security team that this was a TERRIBLE president but it continued none the less. The
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by liquidgecka 1y ago
yea I totally missed the CDU. I thought this was a project I had talked with a hardware person about a few years ago where there was no intermediate transfer and when I read the article I completely missed the section between the images. R
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by liquidgecka 1y ago
> > CDUs exchange heat between coolant liquid and the facility-level water supply. Oh interesting I missed that when I went through in the first pass. (I think I space bared to pass the image and managed to skip the entire paragraph i
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by liquidgecka 1y ago
It has not been true for a LONG time. That was part of Google early “compute unit” strategy that involved things like sealed containers and such. Turns out that’s not super efficient or useful because you leave large swaths of hardware idle
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by liquidgecka 1y ago
> The part that is new is not having an air-interface in the middle of the cycle. I wasn’t clear when I was writing but this was the point I was trying to make. Heat from the chip is transferred in the same medium all the way from the ch
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by liquidgecka 1y ago
[I am not a current Google Employee so my understanding of this is based on externally written articles and “leap of faith” guestimation] Yes. A supply and return line along with power. Though if I had to guess how its setup this would be d
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by liquidgecka 1y ago
[bri3d pointed out that I missed an element of this. There is a transfer between rack level and machine level coolant which makes this far less novel than I had initially understood. See their direct comment to this] I posed this further do
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by liquidgecka 1y ago
As somebody that worked on Google data centers after coming from a high performance computing world I can categorically say that Google is not “re-learning” old technology. In the early days (when I was there) they focused heavily on moving
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by liquidgecka 1y ago
… isn’t that basically what CentOS did in the early days?
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by liquidgecka 2y ago
Its worth calling out that abstractions can kill you in unexpected ways with go. Anytime you use an interface it forces a heap allocation, even if the object is only used read only and within the same scope. That includes calls to things li
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by liquidgecka 2y ago
I wrote a tool to handle micro blobs specifically because we were being heavily rate limited by S3 for both writes and reads. We got about 3k/s per bucket before S3 rate limiting started kicking in hard. Granted we also used said tool
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by liquidgecka 2y ago
My brother used to own <our uncommon family name>.com and wrote on it a bunch. Eventually he bailed out and let it expire. It turned into a porn site for a few years and now its for sale for like $2k from some predatory reseller.
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by liquidgecka 2y ago
If they try make sure you assert that you do not consent to searches, and would like to be on your way.. Then when they try to hold you ask them if the detention is inline with `Rodriguez v. United States` which specifically forbids cops fr
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by liquidgecka 2y ago
I dealt with the Twitter office move stuff and there was a real honest to goodness push to get is to love to an office in South San Francisco so we could avaint the payroll tax and have parking. Had it not been for the tax break I suspect t
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by liquidgecka 2y ago
My last five or so takeout runs just failed with no reasoning why. When I try to save to google drive it just fills up the 2TB storage allocation I have without ever making actual files, or worse, making dozens of oddly names files of incor
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by liquidgecka 2y ago
yep.. And it would split uploads across dozens of accounts with parity so that if any account was disabled it could re-create the data from what was in the other accounts. (think bittorrent using imap uploaded content in gmail)
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by liquidgecka 2y ago
libgmail was the least of our problems. There was a Polish software team that wrote a bittorrent layer on top of Gmail. That thing was a pain in the butt as they constantly improved it to get around abuse filters and such. Plus it had parit
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by liquidgecka 2y ago
Pre-AI we had a system that watched user patterns and would identify possibly suspect patterns that were outside of the norm. We also had system that would content-id the images and attachments to see what was going uploaded in a general wa
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by liquidgecka 2y ago
I was apparently not watching this well enough, sorry for the delayed response. Deliver was because we ran the SMTP and queuing infrastructure at the time. We started as Gmail SRE, then split out some of the delivery and abuse services into
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by liquidgecka 2y ago
And Gmail and Google groups, and Google drive, and Gchat, on and on. The data you store doesn't even have to be public. With Gmail they would distribute credentials to log in and read attachments that they uploaded via imap. (I am a fo
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by liquidgecka 3y ago
I just migrated my blog and popular posts from medium. I noticed a ton of issues as well. What's interesting is that a metric ton of traffic to domain is directed at articles unrelated to me. Somehow medium was serving a ton of content
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by liquidgecka 3y ago
In 2010-2011 time frame the mongo team sponsored an effort inside of Twitter to replace MySQL with mongo. There was a group of us that worked to migrate the tweet store to Cassandra that were able to talk with leadership and get that initia
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Raining fire – How Twitter's first Data Center went all wrong(sreally.com)
3 points by liquidgecka 3y ago|0 comments
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World Cup outages changed how incidents were handled at Twitter(sreally.com)
1 points by liquidgecka 3y ago|0 comments
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Some Twitter users profile pages are inacessible due to feature URLs(sreally.com)
1 points by liquidgecka 3y ago|1 comments
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by liquidgecka 3y ago
I couldn't think of a better title here but Twitter's use of /<username> causes problem when they launch features, or have other static content. I was there when we first discovered that @Flash's profile have becom

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