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by liquidgecka 3y ago
This is a more formal version of a comment I made here a year or so ago. I wanted to write it up and put it out there because I still get comments on this over a decade later. Lots of people assume that it shows how silly Twitter was but ho
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Twitter's Load Bearing Mac-Mini(sreally.com)
7 points by liquidgecka 3y ago|1 comments
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by liquidgecka 3y ago
Most startups I deal with these days don't even have offices anymore, let alone network ports. =) But yea.. same deal with wifi. Its amazing how often the wifi password is posted on something visible. In fact I have found the password
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by liquidgecka 3y ago
... At the end of the the deal with had two mac mini's with auto fail over configured via health checking. Thank goodness we got rid of the service provider that refused to let us pair with the network. Once that happened the networkin
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by liquidgecka 3y ago
I saw the title and instantly thought of the "Load bearing mac mini" at Twitter. In our server closet there was a mac mini sitting on another rack mounted server and plugged directly into a switch. IT found it, asked around and no
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by liquidgecka 3y ago
That's a pretty awful take on engineering culture. I grew up in a city that is one of the most remote in the US and it creates a massive engineering pipeline. It started with civil engineering but moved into ICs, utility power, trains,
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by liquidgecka 3y ago
Thats driving on what is known as the "curtilage," the space on a private property that is effectively "partially public". FedEx can drive up a driveway, and use your walkway to deliver a package. That is okay. FedEx can
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by liquidgecka 3y ago
The people that use it (legally) are the irrigation folks. They use it every day and the property owners can not block access. The private property owners are all commercial developers that have held onto the empty land for a few decades an
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by liquidgecka 3y ago
I thought that too, but the irrigation district locked a gate when they finished up in October and yet it is still popping up. So if they are using phone traversals then its all foot traffic and that is more terrifying than it being detecte
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by liquidgecka 3y ago
Our local highway district actually makes this data available for free so I checked, its not in there. I also called them and asked about it and the lawyer seemed annoyed that google was adding county easements as public roads too since the
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by liquidgecka 3y ago
Its illegal to block an irrigation road without prior approval and people straight up ignore signs, especially when the authoritative source says "turn there NOW!" We know this because fedex trucks have traveled down this "
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by liquidgecka 3y ago
Google lets you edit (or more accurately, suggest edit) maps. It just appears to get overwritten by some process after a few days. I have fixed so many things only to have them snap back to what they were before. Its annoying and leads to s
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by liquidgecka 3y ago
Google keeps adding the irrigation access road next to me to maps. This is both dangerous as its totally unprotected and a car could easily drive into the canal, and its private, only the property owners and irrigation district are allowed
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by liquidgecka 3y ago
Ahh yes.. replace the SPOF with a distributed SPOF /s :-)
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by liquidgecka 3y ago
Fun story time! Boise State University, and the University of Idaho are two schools at opposite ends of the state of Idaho. UIdaho in the north is close to Spokane, and almost all of its connectivity comes from Seattle. Boise is closer to S
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by liquidgecka 3y ago
Woz still holds a special place in my heart. He was the first to sign my laptop at Twitter (right on the Apple logo even). Talking with him was super interesting even though he was mostly a sales figure for hardware storage. He was super cu
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by liquidgecka 3y ago
Oh lordy this so much this. As a holder of a beloved 5 character gmail address that is a common first and last name let me tell you that the misdirected email I receive is insane and countless. Services with an reputable unsubscribe get uns
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by liquidgecka 3y ago
What's interesting is that blue cruise in my car specifically says "hands off" when it's active. Though it does also say "be ready to take over at any time" and yells at you if you look away. I didn't real
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by liquidgecka 3y ago
You still have to build an office building you wouldn't need, run the AC and heater, clean it, etc.
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by liquidgecka 3y ago
I have all three of these and absolutely none of them contain (or will contain at any point) a three phase motor. All three of these use variable speed motors in my house. I suspect even more will moving forward as well. So honestly three p
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by liquidgecka 3y ago
We had hardware for time sync at Google 15 years ago actually, thats not a new thing. Actually.. we had time sync hardware (via GPS) in the early Twitter datacenters as well until it became clear that was impossible to support without getti
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by liquidgecka 3y ago
Honestly I would just prefer an interface that can be implemented (not this interface.. one like it that is better thought out). type Iterator interface{} { // Returns the next object and true, or nil and false if iteratio
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by liquidgecka 3y ago
That kind of suffers if you want to be able to cheaply cancel the iteration. Lets say the logic is: for item := range list { if condition(item) { break } } That is nice and readable, but if the thing your iter
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by liquidgecka 3y ago
Because at some point you will need to deprecate ciphers and when you do you don't want old clients to explode. The domain is the way you version connection requirements so you can support old clients with crappy ssl options without sc
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by liquidgecka 3y ago
> We were second in the world in COVID deaths as a percentage of the population. I am not trying to change your argument in anyway but that specific statement is not correct or its using different numbers than direct COVID deaths. The US
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by liquidgecka 3y ago
> While the nine justices agreed that the Sacketts should prevail, they divided 5-to-4 as to how far to go in limiting the EPA's authority. https://www.npr.org/2023/05/25/1178150234/supreme-court-
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by liquidgecka 3y ago
You use the term "This radicalized illegitimate SCOTUS" but you realize that the court was unanimous that the EPA had overstepped its authority under the law right?
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by liquidgecka 3y ago
I worked in the qualification department for a large memory company around y2k. We ran thousands of computers with samples of all our memory so we could spot issues early. One of our best tests was running Quake in a pre-recorded speed run
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by liquidgecka 3y ago
> just stop mowing Oof.. this must be regional. Around here if I stop mowing I would have a yard full of tumble weed, goat heads, and white top. All of which are invasive species. The best I can do with native plants that will live witho
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by liquidgecka 4y ago
When Twitter was still in managed hosting and basically out of space to put new equipment we started an emergency "build a datacenter" project of which I was initially one of the only FTE's allocated too it. My plan was simpl

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