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541.
by scurvy 10y ago
Time to find out where various "booter" sites are actually hiding.
542.
by scurvy 10y ago
Asking why Twitter is so bloated gets 300 upvotes, but asking why Uber SRE is so bloated gets downvoted? My, what a fickle crowd HN is. My assumption was that Uber SRE's played roles similar to Google SRE's. If that's not the
543.
by scurvy 10y ago
What is Uber doing with 150 SRE's? Wow talk about bloat. The rest of the story is horrible to hear, too.
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by scurvy 10y ago
+1 for replication slots. Just remember to remove the slot if you decommission a server; otherwise storage on the master will grow forever. innobackupex works fine locally on the server, streaming out to netcat or ssh on the remote side. No
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by scurvy 10y ago
Technically riding the dots is still illegal in CA even with the new "lane splitting" law. If you don't ride, you see everything as lane splitting. If you ride, you damn sure know the difference between lane sharing and ridin
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by scurvy 10y ago
Reminder to never bring up motorcycle topics of discussion to people who don't ride. There's jargon and terms that cagers just don't get. (Example)
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by scurvy 10y ago
Thanks for the follow up! This looks to be a new law. For years it was always lane splitting illegal while lane sharing OK. I've been riding for decades and didn't know about this change. I wonder how long it will take the cagers
548.
by scurvy 10y ago
Not to be pedantic, but it's lane sharing, not lane splitting. Lane splitting, aka riding the dots, is illegal even in CA
549.
by scurvy 10y ago
Yes, the restore process checks in daily; alarms are thrown if it doesn't check in. MySQL is also pretty good about not starting if the data is corrupted for whatever reason. The process not starting is a pretty obvious alarm, too. Che
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by scurvy 10y ago
LVS/IPVS is OK, but what does it have to do with SSL termination and certificate churn?
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by scurvy 10y ago
My point is that there are sanity checks built into the process. It's not difficult. There doesn't need to be a human verifying things there. Is the row count increasing over the previous backup? Check. Is the checksum different?
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by scurvy 10y ago
It's in there now. Row counts per table and checksums are written out with the backup for every table. If things don't match up, alarm in a loud and noisy way.
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by scurvy 10y ago
I was also wondering about this. I would have put in the engineering effort to migrate to nginx (at least as a front-end proxy) from Apache for this. Seems like a lot of reloads that could be avoided (even doing graceful reloads in Apache g
554.
by scurvy 10y ago
We've done this every day for 2 years now. Anyone can do it (and should). You don't need to be Facebook's size.
555.
by scurvy 10y ago
Check your backups daily. The whole process is automated and shouldn't cost much.
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by scurvy 10y ago
At my $currentJob, we restore 30TB worth of database restores every day in automated processes. We do this because the DBA insisted that the DB backup process was fine. We tried to restore 3 backups as a test, and they all failed. We no lon
557.
by scurvy 10y ago
Ironically, that's the way that Microsoft used to operate. They were very big on providing the platform and API, then insisting that partners built the solutions. That was back in the Gates and Ballmer era. I guess that they've le
558.
by scurvy 10y ago
All but the hottest 10mm loads have the same ballistic characteristics as 40SW these days. Sure, the Army could specify a hot load for the pistol but that's unlikely considering past choices. The hot 10mm rounds are usually reserved fo
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by scurvy 10y ago
.40 S&W is basically an American 10mm. Both 9mm and 40cal are still on the table.
560.
by scurvy 10y ago
It's still important for the Dow Theorists (if there are any left).
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by scurvy 10y ago
Lack of parent investment and activity in school functions because the school is 40 minutes across town (in a city that is hostile to car use). Oh and if you have multiple kids, they can be sent to different schools. If the parents are upse
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by scurvy 10y ago
You end up with universally bad schools instead of good and bad schools. Most parents would see that as a bad thing and the very rich pull their kids out and send them to private schools (which cost $30k+/year). So now you're left
563.
by scurvy 10y ago
Or as Peter Thiel put it, "San Francisco is structurally hostile to families."
564.
by scurvy 10y ago
One problem is that SF doesn't have a gifted and talented program until near high school (and the junior highs are terrible across the board). Even with more schools, the school board would mismanage them. It's easier just to move
565.
by scurvy 10y ago
When you say bad school districts in SF, you mean the one district, right? SF school assignment is a (failed social experiment) lottery system where your kids can be assigned anywhere in the city, regardless of the fact that you live a bloc
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by scurvy 10y ago
Yes and no. It was still there in the late 90's and early aughts. That said Parisians just don't like anyone not from Paris. They look down on other French people not from Paris. When you're from Paris, then you'll be ju
567.
by scurvy 10y ago
Any thoughts on Blackrock's smart alpha ETF offerings like MTUM, QUAL, etc?
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by scurvy 10y ago
I had massive issues with the others (KDE5/Plasma, Unity, Gnome 3, etc). Cinnamon is actually the best in terms of usability. The other windoow managers were straight busted in terms of UI scaling, ability to sleep, disable the touchpa
569.
by scurvy 10y ago
Yep, CPU's too. On the E4500's the CPU's and memory were on the same boards. You could remove the board after sending the right ASR commands. Then again, you were constantly swapping boards to find the ones not affected by ED
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by scurvy 10y ago
Linux has HiDPI issues, too. Things are getting better but it's far from good.

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