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by rwiggins 3y ago
> because this entire "region" is actually housed in a single datacenter From the incident report you linked: "a cooling system water pipe leak occurred in one of the data centers in the europe-west9 region [...] Europe-we
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by rwiggins 3y ago
Walkability in the US is indeed dire, but: > Add to that how America sets up situations very unsafe street crossings, often 8 lanes wide without a median I don't think I've ever crossed an 8 line highway on foot (US native). I
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by rwiggins 3y ago
Is this where I'm supposed to say Wine Is Not an Emulator? ;-) Jokes aside, totally right, and unfortunately, in my experience it's often a better experience to run the Windows port under Wine than it is to use the native version.
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by rwiggins 3y ago
It made me switch, anyway, recently - specifically another one of those "Oh, let's finish setting up your computer" (i.e., try to trick you into trying Edge again, probably, or set up a "Microsoft" account) with my
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by rwiggins 3y ago
In a previous life, for one org's "GitOps" setup, we mirrored Gitlab onto AWS CodeCommit (we were an AWS shop) and used that as the SoT for automation. That decision proved wise many times. I don't remember CodeCommit ev
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by rwiggins 3y ago
Fortunately, it seems the EU will mandate removable batteries by 2027? Caveat: I haven’t done any research into that besides the headline, so YMMV. https://www.euronews.com/green/2023/06/22/new-eu-law-to-
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by rwiggins 3y ago
I have found http://stable-diffusion-art.com to be an absolutely invaluable (and coherent) resource. It's highly ranked on Google for most "how to do X with stable diffusion" style searches, too.
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by rwiggins 3y ago
I agree with the premise of the article, I think, but I find the "good SQL" versions... uncompelling. (1) Switching `left join` to the default inner `join` changes query behavior. I'm guessing it's intentional on the aut
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by rwiggins 3y ago
Not exactly. For engineers, at least (not sure about other roles), the Google Cloud desk options are: 1. "Commit" to being in the office 4+ days a week. You get a dedicated desk as normal. 2. Accept a shared desk - assigned to y
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by rwiggins 4y ago
Yep. And which is better for the customer can vary on the circumstances. I worked for a company that licensed its software both ways (depending on the customer), although as a disclaimer I was a software eng, not in sales. One thing I&#x2
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Deploy != Release(andydote.co.uk)
2 points by rwiggins 4y ago|0 comments
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Hidden Risks of Counting 9s(dobbse.net)
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by rwiggins 4y ago
Maybe the inspiration was `-j` for `tar`, which enables bzip2 compression?
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by rwiggins 4y ago
Did they ever actually shut down SimpleDB? Last I checked, it was still online, although maybe they stop most accounts from creating new tables now.
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by rwiggins 4y ago
The application needs to be developed with this constraint in mind. I’ve spent quite a lot of time over the years doing blue/green deployment advocacy and awareness for developers in some orgs. It does sometimes substantially complicat
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by rwiggins 4y ago
There were 84 errors for GCP, but the breakdown says 74 409s and 5 timeouts. Maybe it was 79 409s? Or 10 timeouts? I suspect the 409 conflicts are probably from the instance name not being unique in the test. It looks like the instance name
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by rwiggins 4y ago
I can’t speak for anywhere else, but I’m pretty sure Google uses a Proxy Auto Config script for go links, which should prevent that from happening in most cases. Disclosure: I work for Google.
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by rwiggins 4y ago
Usually, devs use one of Google's web-based code editors. No local editor at all. The web editors are pretty well integrated with the rest of the dev stack... and they just work. CitC workspaces aren't mounted on laptops, so no Ma
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by rwiggins 4y ago
I suppose at least it tells you that. That's always my worry with the cable shenanigans - that I'll get some degraded experience and not realize it until it matters.
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by rwiggins 4y ago
Well, for starters there isn't just one dev machine :-) You at least have a laptop and a workstation. Possibly several of each. I believe there is no code at all stored on laptops, barring some exceptions. I am not entirely sure '
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by rwiggins 4y ago
Maybe I don't understand what's meant by GitOps - is it the concept of Infrastructure as Code, deployed typically automatically after merge? (Or whatever triggering event.) I don't necessarily view GitOps as requiring Product
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by rwiggins 4y ago
Even if he's forced to buy Twitter, let's not forget that... he will own Twitter. I'm not sure that's a net positive for the world. Though I'm not certain it's a net negative either. And though it may well be e
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by rwiggins 4y ago
I expect pricing is probably pretty bespoke, given there are humans involved. I worked for a company that had X% off all AWS costs, including all data transfer - except for CloudFront, which had a whole separate negotiated rate card (includ
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by rwiggins 4y ago
One random thing I've been impressed with (that I know is public) is mutant testing: https://testing.googleblog.com/2021/04/mutation-testing.html , https://research.google/pubs/pub46584&#
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by rwiggins 4y ago
There is some nuance there. Because SLA violations typically have real-money impact, they're often backed by internal objectives (SLOs) that are quite a bit tighter. So if an API promises four nines of availability in its SLA, there is
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by rwiggins 4y ago
Oh, thanks for the link. Looks like I'm out of date. Seems to be a relatively newish feature (~2020), but on the surface that does seem ideal. I haven't dug into the specifics, so I'm not sure if there's a gap preventing
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by rwiggins 4y ago
Google does use Android work profiles - if you have an Android device. Unfortunately, iOS doesn't really have an equivalent concept (e: see comment below), so device-wide privileges are necessary there. Everyone has their own level of
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by rwiggins 4y ago
Frankly, the whole "it's fraud-related so we can't tell you anything nor consider your appeal, because otherwise our adversaries(tm) might take advantage of it" has always seemed like a total sham to me. I've always
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by rwiggins 4y ago
Fair enough. It does at least let you continue to use the same commands/tooling. But anyway, agreed, I think the stateful status quo is the way to go.
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by rwiggins 4y ago
That mirrors my experience too. At my last job, we had... a lot of annoyances with Ansible version upgrades. There is a lot of churn there. Stuff unexpectedly broke pretty often, and even when it didn't, it felt like a conveyor belt

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