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AWS Intends for Their New Project to Be an Elasticsearch Fork(influxdata.com)
2 points by sciurus 8y ago|1 comments
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by sciurus 8y ago
I think part of the nature of Mozilla is that we end up using everything. I wouldn't be surprised if there are some groups using Discord, too. My team and related ones are still mostly on IRC. Officially, as employees we're all su
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by sciurus 8y ago
"Elastic sure looks to have collaborated with GCP" AFAICT that partnership just resulted in Elastic Cloud running on GCP in addition to AWS. If I had to guess, I'd say that Elastic didn't think it was worth their time to
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by sciurus 8y ago
The fact that the company behind rethinkdb went out of business and the community has been unable to keep it alive? https://rethinkdb.com/blog/rethinkdb-shutdown/ https://github.com/rethinkdb/
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by sciurus 8y ago
AWS explains their rationale at https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/keeping-open-source-... . Here's a snippet" " Unfortunately, since June 2018, we have witnessed significant intermingling of p
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by sciurus 8y ago
They're using https://github.com/opendistro-for-elasticsearch/alerting The main selling point of the project is providing open source alternatives to features that Elastic has kept proprietary.
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by sciurus 8y ago
Wow, I'm shocked to see they block browsers they haven't whitelisted, but it's right there in their docs: https://get.slack.help/hc/en-us/articles/115002037526-Minimu...
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by sciurus 8y ago
OpenTracing began in 2015. It was accepted as a CNCF project in 2016. OpenCensus began in 2018. Don't get me wrong, it's better for Google and Microsoft to collaborate on OpenCensus instead of continuing to develop separate client
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by sciurus 8y ago
Here's a report of the effort involved with making the Subsurface dive log desktop application run on mobile as well. The tl;dr seems to be that 1) it was a lot of work 2) users don't like the result very much https:/&#x2F
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by sciurus 8y ago
"Chrome has probably invested > 1 billion dollars into their codebase at this point. Certainly >100million into security." Let's conservatively say Google pays 1,000 developers to work on Chrome, and on average those de
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by sciurus 8y ago
OpenCensus seems like it's really a Google-only project. OpenTracing and OpenMetrics appear to have more community and vendor engagement. E.G. Datadog is basing their newer tracing libraries on OpenTracing, and Prometheus devs are behi
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by sciurus 8y ago
Toll bridges are quite rare. Most bridges are publicly funded via taxes and free to use, just like Ghidra.
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by sciurus 8y ago
Beacons are explicitly allowed. You can find the regulations covering them at https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/47/97.203 Relatedly, automatic control is defined at https://www.law.cornell.edu&#
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by sciurus 8y ago
What transition are you talking about?
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by sciurus 8y ago
It looks like LittlevGL has been around for a couple years, so it might be tough to switch now. https://github.com/littlevgl/lvgl/graphs/code-frequency
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by sciurus 8y ago
There are ore details in the story at https://www.airspacemag.com/history-of-flight/the-727-that-v...
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by sciurus 8y ago
"Abstraction without overhead" is explicitly a goal of Rust. https://blog.rust-lang.org/2015/05/11/traits.html
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by sciurus 8y ago
Unless I've missed something, Firefox still uses the system resolver. DNS over HTTPS is available but not enabled by default. Disclosure: I work at Mozilla but not on this.
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by sciurus 8y ago
This is the first time I've seen the NY Times hiding articles if you're browsing in private/incognito mode. https://imgur.com/a/Tlv6Kn3
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by sciurus 8y ago
Serverless Aurora likely has different performance characteristics than normal Aurora.
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by sciurus 8y ago
And the pay about being fired: http://web.archive.org/web/20041101091454/http://www.michael...
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InfluxData Secures $60M in Series D Funding(influxdata.com)
2 points by sciurus 8y ago|0 comments
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by sciurus 8y ago
I agree with most of this. Some ways to save money are 1) Switch to the newest instance families 2) Save up the cash then reserve your instances. 3) Don't bother with the provisioned iops volume type, just use GP2 volumes large enough
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by sciurus 8y ago
I'm confused. In another comment you said "GMass doesn't actually send any emails through its own servers." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19211369
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by sciurus 8y ago
An $8,000 a month AWS bill is surprisingly high for this service.
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by sciurus 8y ago
This is a fun idea! If you'd like to listen to the real thing, check the list of WebSDR servers at http://www.websdr.org/ I have an SDR in my office hooked up to an outdoor random wire antenna. So far this morning I&#x
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Putting Users and Publishers at the Center of the Online Value Exchange(blog.mozilla.org)
1 points by sciurus 8y ago|0 comments
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by sciurus 8y ago
LWN had good articles about Google's initial abandoned approach ( https://lwn.net/Articles/761992/ ) and Adiantum ( https://lwn.net/Articles/776721/ )
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by sciurus 8y ago
Although as always they have language giving themselves some wiggle room, most services in GCP would get at least a year of advance notice. From https://cloud.google.com/terms/ : 7.2 Deprecation Policy. Google will ann
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by sciurus 8y ago
Google doesn't offer a transactional email service.

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