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by throwaway20371 5y ago
I completely agree that scheduling has to be controlled by the customer (you) and having more context on the change helps. In AWS I can schedule the maintenance windows, and I know if it's because it's a major version bump or a pa
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by throwaway20371 5y ago
First, it's not forever. Over time, when we know more about the virus and it changes more, there will probably be less-severe variants where we can mostly rely on vaccination. Second, there are plenty of ways you can mitigate the need
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by throwaway20371 5y ago
......? Herd immunity is herd immunity. It doesn't matter what caused it. Natural immunity is great, but most people clearly don't have and won't get natural immunity. Having had COVID-19 already also does not make you later
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by throwaway20371 5y ago
Well nobody has ever succeeded in doing a lot of things that haven't been done yet. But more to the point, we have to define a rich economy, and inequality. Is a rich economy just a bigger economy than most? Or an economy with surplus?
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by throwaway20371 5y ago
Sure, but there's different levels of complexity, risk, cost, recovery with different services. And it depends on your design. If you do go with a NoSQL distributed DB, I would absolutely push the maintenance off to cloud hosting; th
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by throwaway20371 5y ago
I'm not an expert, and I'm not saying they're doing it wrong. But for what it's worth, just because they thought for a long time doesn't mean they made the right choices. Some of their design decisions have been not
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by throwaway20371 5y ago
"Database performance is the single most critical factor in our ability to scale while meeting service level objectives." Ah, that's unfortunate. It's hard to get RDBMS reliability/performance "right" in
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by throwaway20371 5y ago
> Covid is no different. Covid-19 is literally a neurological disease. It causes the body to attack itself, like an autoimmune disease, which is what is leading to the incredibly high number of severe cases leading to death. And all of t
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by throwaway20371 5y ago
I think the OP was referencing this: https://letsencrypt.status.io/pages/history/55957a99e800baa4... September 12, 2021 20:30 UTC Service disruption September 12, 2021 05:39 UTC Production
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by throwaway20371 5y ago
And I want to be able to climb a mountain, drink alcohol, taste pizza, and live past age 70. All of those things can go out the window with a severe case of COVID-19, and potentially even with an asymptomatic case, due to the long-term effe
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by throwaway20371 5y ago
Five reasons why COVID herd immunity is probably impossible https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00728-2 Here’s why herd immunity from Covid is ‘mythical’ with the delta variant https://www.cnbc.co
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by throwaway20371 5y ago
> The most basic case is if there's absolutely no method of exchanging information from point A to point B. Then agents at A and B will not be able to communicate. That's it. That's not it. The most basic case is if there&
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by throwaway20371 5y ago
I'm pretty sure even back then you could edit the hard-coded limit in the source code and recompile. I remember us doing something like this as it was too expensive to just keep buying servers and our apps were connection-happy.
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by throwaway20371 5y ago
> "netsplits" exist in every distributed system, be it a chat app or a database, it's just the CAP theorem Well let's not get carried away. Network partitions happen everywhere, but everything is not about the CAP the
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by throwaway20371 5y ago
Why are Linux distributions hosted on multiple mirror servers that they don't own? 1) money 2) availability 3) trust 4) security 1) If you don't have a lot of money, you take the servers you can get. Donated mirrors means you don&
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by throwaway20371 5y ago
There is nothing more you need to know about what your company thinks of you than how much personal and communal space they provide. Cubicles and a tiny kitchen? Do your work and shut up. Open office with elbows touching your neighbors, but
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by throwaway20371 5y ago
Speaking specifically of Greeks and Romans. And in general, Ancient peoples did not consider slaves to be as animals, but American slave-owners often held the belief that they were sub-human and not more than talking beasts. There was a cla
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by throwaway20371 5y ago
> Another interesting bit was how it's historically rare for slave-owning societies to have more than 50% of their population enslaved Probably worth noting, then, that in 1860, South Carolina and Mississippi had over 50% population
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by throwaway20371 5y ago
Yes, if the robber is a baron.
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by throwaway20371 5y ago
Society's mores are pretty fungible. Who'da thunk that half of society would be fine with killing people if the alternative is sometimes wearing a paper mask and getting an injection?
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by throwaway20371 5y ago
If I'm a hacker and I have an Apple 0-day, why the hell would I report it to Apple if I can quickly get a tidy payment on the black market?
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by throwaway20371 5y ago
> migrate every engineering team at Venmo to GitHub Actions Oh jesus christ. I feel for you dude. We evaluated GHA, and we still are trying to use it, but there is a barrage of problems and limitations, including cost, lack of functional
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by throwaway20371 5y ago
The ironic thing is that Docker became successful only because of the tremendous hype they generated about themselves, and then failed to see the K8s hype train barreling towards them. Swarm is still what 99% of companies need when they ado
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by throwaway20371 5y ago
I don't have to take my shoes off airports. A govt contractor looked at my birth certificate and driver's license and charged me $78, and then gave me a special number to put on my boarding pass. Now a man at security gives me a l
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by throwaway20371 5y ago
STARTTLS and its ilk are what happens when technology companies (& their minions) are pussies. It has been clear for decades that secure e-mail transport would be a good idea, but not if we had to actually upgrade software / syste
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by throwaway20371 5y ago
Software has become slower and less efficient because we have faster hardware to run it on and nobody's asking for the software to get more efficient. Back in the day you had inefficient, expensive hardware with limited software. There
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by throwaway20371 5y ago
You can also handle 50 requests per second on a 66MHz 486DX2 with 16MB of RAM and a 10Mbit/s network card. Not with modern "I have infinite resources" software, but we used to handle more than that traffic regularly in the ea