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811.
by mh- 3y ago
We keep hot masters (typical MySQL master-master-slave(s) setup) on standby. Bootstrapping one from scratch (like if we need to stand up a new replica)? We restore a disk image on GCP from point in time snapshots, then let it catch up on re
812.
by mh- 3y ago
Several billion.
813.
by mh- 3y ago
Events that are enriched off of other data in the same DB. The system design predates me, but it is solid (albeit difficult to operate at this scale - usual stuff like schema changes, replication bootstrapping).
814.
by mh- 3y ago
My current employer has a single InnoDB table that is 14-15 TB.
815.
by mh- 3y ago
It's worth calling out for younger folks, or those who didn't visit them before that happened... They used to just have normal arcade games. I don't know when the transition happened, but I was stunned when I took my kids a f
816.
by mh- 3y ago
rtings.com describe the recording quality as pretty bad still on the XM5[0], but with markedly better mic noise suppression than the XM3[1]. (These are the most objective measurements I'm aware of.) [0]: https://www.rtings.c
817.
by mh- 3y ago
I would assume they act similarly to Apple: quickly send you a refurbished replacement, and then go refurbish the one you sent in. For the small percentage of devices they receive that aren't able to be refurbished, they recycle/d
818.
by mh- 3y ago
Faircans, perhaps. I also expected them to be in-ear when I clicked.
819.
by mh- 3y ago
Am I missing something, or did they not do anything to adjust for how many Kias/Hyundais are in those cities ? That could explain why some cities saw much bigger spikes than others - or it might not! Feels sloppy. edit: this obviously
820.
by mh- 3y ago
I see these complaints about ChatGPT's verbosity, but this is no different than when crafting an effective google query was a skill in the early 2000s. Here's a GPT4 response to a (poorly written) prompt from me to answer the pa
821.
by mh- 4y ago
True, headline deserves a (2021). But, it was news to me yesterday when it came up in a comment thread here.
822.
by mh- 4y ago
Depends on the cache control headers, but yes.
823.
by mh- 4y ago
If you're open to feedback: I'm not strictly opposed to that behavior, but it seems like a reasonable compromise to not do that for URLs explicitly entered in the Omnibox. It seems like that will provide the transport upgrade ef
824.
by mh- 4y ago
Databases are not the only contended-for resource in online games. Those queues are usually the result of intentional capacity planning. Overprovisioning is expensive.
825.
by mh- 4y ago
This is a gross mischaracterization of what caused that outage, even just based on the public information from the (excellent) blog post [0] about it. Automating master failover on MySQL without a human in the loop - in the topology GitH
826.
by mh- 4y ago
I can't speak to common practices in the popular apt repos, but for PyPi (pip) - no. No vetting.
827.
by mh- 4y ago
Their fixed-term ones are $100/year currently. so, yes.
828.
by mh- 4y ago
They eventually went down to $20 (from $199!), which is when I pulled the trigger, according to the email receipt I just found. January 2021. I archived the email's "view in browser" link here: https://archive.is&#
829.
by mh- 4y ago
Attaching Safari Dev Tools from a Mac to the iOS device should surface those errors, in my experience.
830.
by mh- 4y ago
Some phones did. FM too. Sony I think? Early-mid 2000s I'm thinking.
831.
by mh- 4y ago
> It's a multi-supplier market and prices are set via equilibrium price discovery. How familiar with BigQuery and its enterprise uses are you? There are alternatives to BQ. There are no alternate suppliers. Migrating would have
832.
by mh- 4y ago
California residents too, under CCPA, if it meets the definition of a data breach.
833.
by mh- 4y ago
It "learns" from previous searches. Which is unfortunate, because it's not very good at it.
834.
by mh- 4y ago
it's been some years, but I think it's still possible to detect the viewport resize without a corresponding window resize, so the 'docked' DevTools can be inferred distinct from a resizing of the window.
835.
by mh- 4y ago
there were a lot of decent AAA adaptations on iOS in the first 3-5 years. In-app purchases ruined consumers' expectations of app/game pricing; then subscriptions doubled down on that.
836.
by mh- 4y ago
In case the link won't load for anyone else, there's a YouTube video on the page: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfNdaYqVxR0
837.
by mh- 4y ago
How much does $300 of diesel weigh compared to the equivalent electric range capacity with current battery tech? The energy density of diesel is important to the economics of long-haul trucking. If you replace half of your cargo weight with
838.
by mh- 4y ago
Somewhere around $100k/mo or $1mm/year. This usually requires a term spending commitment and gets you an effective discount of around 5-10%. Higher spends can yield significantly deeper discounts, of course. I think you'll fi
839.
by mh- 4y ago
*Dec 2022
840.
by mh- 4y ago
Those are all very out of date. Most of them don't work anymore.

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