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PagerDuty Postmortem Documentation(postmortems.pagerduty.com)
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by sciurus 8y ago
In October Mozilla released "Ad Analysis for Facebook. It shows you why you were targeted, and how your targeting might differ from other users... The extension also displays a high-level overview of the top political advertisers based
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by sciurus 8y ago
installs != active users
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by sciurus 8y ago
Seconding this. Get their kit with the dongle and dipole antennas for VHF and UHF, plus optionally an antenna for HF. Just plug it in, make your antennas the right length for the spectrum you want to explore, and fire up SDR# or CubicSDR to
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by sciurus 8y ago
You don't need an upconverter to receive HF on the version shipped by rtl-sdr.com; it supports it via direct sampling mode. I've listened to plenty of shortwave broadcasters and hams using it with a random wire antenna. I did rece
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by sciurus 8y ago
For a non-pdf source of development stats: https://lwn.net/Articles/775440/
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This is pretty frequently debated. You can find textbooks that start at L1 and work up the stack, and others that start at L7 and go down.
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by sciurus 8y ago
I don't think it's purely a measure of cost per compute operation. That assumes you would run the same software on any cloud using plain VMs or a service that slightly abstracts them. That may be true in this case since Twitter wi
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by sciurus 8y ago
Check out Will Larson's post on time management. https://lethain.com/time-management/ He has a lot of great posts on leadership and management; here's a collection of some of them- https://lethain.
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by sciurus 8y ago
I'm not sure why this is flagged as a dupe. The previous post announced the launch of the service. This post is a review of the service.
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by sciurus 8y ago
Because Basho, the company that developed it, is dead? https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/07/31/end_of_the_road_for...
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by sciurus 8y ago
What flavor of Aurora were you using, and which RDS engine and version did you switch to? Within Amazon's Aurora and RDS product families ( https://aws.amazon.com/rds/ ), there are * Amazon Aurora MySQL * Amazon Aur
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by sciurus 8y ago
The authors conclusions seem questionable. Ryan Belgrave's comment on them is worth reading. https://medium.com/@rmb938/thanks-dan-for-the-great-post-1ef...
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by sciurus 8y ago
tl;dr is that those are different approaches to weighting documents in order to return the most relevant ones for a query. For an intro to the problem space, see https://opensourceconnections.com/blog/2014/06/
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by sciurus 8y ago
Having talked to 1) one coworker who moved from the bay area to the midwest 2) another coworker evaluating NYC vs other potential places to live in the US it seems like what Mozilla pays doesn't differ that much across their different
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by sciurus 8y ago
When you lay off 30% of your staff you have to deprioritize lots of things. https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/29/edtech-unicorn-udacity-lay...
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by sciurus 8y ago
You can. In the spotify app on my phone or computer I can choose an echo dot (or group of multiple alexa devices) as the output device. Alternately, you can pair with an echo dot and use it as a bluetooth speaker.
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by sciurus 8y ago
One advantage Amazon's Echo Dot has over Google's Home Mini is that the Echo Dot has a 3.mm connector in addition to bluetooth, so you can easily connect it to your existing speakers or receiver. Right now the 3rd-gen Echo Dot is
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The National Weather Service forecast is worse because of the shutdown(washingtonpost.com)
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by sciurus 8y ago
I agree that DevOps becoming a job title is a perversion of the term. That applies equally to an operator or a developer calling themselves "DevOps". As the article mentions, DevOps is a methodology . To quote the author, &quot
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by sciurus 8y ago
Wow, so it's not just me! I'll ask around Mozilla and see if anyone knows why Twitter does this.
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by sciurus 8y ago
Oops! I'm not actually familiar with the Thunderbird source's organization, so I just went by what was marked as owned by Thunderbird in that wiki page I linked.
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by sciurus 8y ago
Looking at the languages used in Thunderbird source ( https://wiki.mozilla.org/Tree_Rules/comm-central#Thunderbird ): $ cloc build/ ldap/ editor/ mailnews/ mail/ 3938 text files.
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by sciurus 8y ago
s/or/and
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by sciurus 8y ago
If nothing else, your site helped me uncover some kind of bug in Firefox's experimental compositor. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1515787
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by sciurus 8y ago
Why on earth would you configure swap on a system running an in-memory database? Presumably you use an in-memory database because you need extremely fast response times from it, but those are going to go through the roof when it starts swap
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by sciurus 8y ago
Speaking of phones, aren't most people's smartphones already "an always on microphone in their homes"?
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by sciurus 8y ago
> The way the user runs it means that they don't store any metrics locally Ah, that's great! I was mistakenly assuming that Prometheus would still have to write the data to disk; I didn't realize you could disable local st
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At that point you're just treating Prometheus as an agent, like telegraf or collectd, running in the customers infrastructure to collect metrics from it and publish them to Cortex. That gets to my first point that Prometheus does a lot
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If I had to speculate why Prometheus is doing well, I'd put the simplicity of deployment and ongoing operations first, and probably the great integration with Kubernetes second. I think that if it had gone with a push-based model it wo

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