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The Morning After: Facebook and Instagram's Image Outage(engadget.com)
1 points by thrusong 7y ago|0 comments
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by thrusong 7y ago
Seems to be completely back online from my end in central Canada.
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by thrusong 7y ago
I'm pretty sure this data is kept in MySQL and memcached.
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by thrusong 7y ago
It's really only gone down for short periods of time here- maybe a couple of hours at most, but it's usually just limited to one of the major banks or retailers (like all the Walmarts in town).
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by thrusong 7y ago
I would say cash is used much less often in Canada than it used to be and most people just tap or swipe their Interac debit cards. Outages happen from time to time, usually during the mad Christmas shopping season, but life goes on.
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by thrusong 7y ago
I think Zuck himself said recently they're moving to encrypt everything and merge infrastructures for single login across properties (which a lot of us think is them sneakily trying to make their web properties a lot harder to split up
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Boeing warns of potential wing problems in some 737 aircraft(ctvnews.ca)
2 points by thrusong 7y ago|0 comments
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by thrusong 7y ago
The Nancy Pelosi videos tread on propaganda. It's being used to convince people "Wacky Nancy" or whatever Trump calls her is not fit for office, using actual news clips. It's clearly different from parody provided by a c
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by thrusong 7y ago
I'd say Safari, particularly the versions of it in iOS with the different WebViews, is the new IE.
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by thrusong 7y ago
I understand why this is generally not recommended but there are situations where someone like you wouldn't have to submit a bug report, so chill man.
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by thrusong 7y ago
Cool! Thanks.
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by thrusong 7y ago
Looks really cool, but it's a little above my skill level. Does this mean you could protect your PHP source code if you wanted to compile and then distribute it?
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by thrusong 8y ago
I haven't owned a microwave in 10 years and I do not miss it. It changes the texture and taste of my food while not heating it all the way through consistently. Microwaves are a gateway to processed junk foods. I don't mind waitin
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Boeing has made nearly 100 flights to test a 737 MAX software update, CEO says(globalnews.ca)
2 points by thrusong 8y ago|2 comments
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Newly discovered DNA switch could give people the power to regrow limbs(nationalpost.com)
10 points by thrusong 8y ago|0 comments
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by thrusong 8y ago
Are we even going to get a post-mortem on this? It seems substantial enough to warrant explanation, but they're usually a lot quicker than this...
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Animate on Scroll Library(michalsnik.github.io)
1 points by thrusong 8y ago|0 comments
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by thrusong 8y ago
I thought outages weren't supposed to be posted here? Every time I've posted one about Facebook, it's been flagged and removed.
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Facebook’s 15th birthday is clouded by controversies and concerns(venturebeat.com)
2 points by thrusong 8y ago|0 comments
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by thrusong 8y ago
I'm echoing the sentiment that a self-driving car would either head home or be part of a ride-sharing/taxi-like service. Hopefully we can eliminate street parking and put those lanes to use as vehicle and bike lanes.
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by thrusong 8y ago
In a world where everyone has a video camera in their pocket and AI can generate deep fakes, maybe we'll come full circle to where traditional gatekeepers are needed once again to verify the accuracy of the information out there.
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by thrusong 8y ago
That just makes it seem like their algorithm is powered by bad code or bad management, or both. They know what I've watched. They should know if a video is likely to be watched repeatedly (ie. classifying songs/music videos differ
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by thrusong 8y ago
Why do they recommend the same five videos of a series (like Barefoot Contessa) over-and-over when I've watched them already? I don't want to say "not interested" because I don't know what that means... I want a fea
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by thrusong 8y ago
I've used them exclusively for the past 10 years in my web servers and I couldn't be happier. I've had the occasional drive fail on me here and there, of course, but some of those 10-year-old drives are still humming along ni
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by thrusong 8y ago
Lake Winnipeg, near Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, is the 11th largest fresh water lake in the world and became infected with zebra mussels in 2015. Already, things are looking bleak.
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by thrusong 8y ago
In journalism/media school, we're taught "show, don't tell" in both our news and creative writing courses. You want to use detail to set the atmosphere/tone without flat out saying it.
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by thrusong 8y ago
If that's true, why haven't they open sourced Haystack? Clearly they're holding onto it due to competitive advantage.
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by thrusong 8y ago
Didn't Google have a motto of "Don't be evil," and then new management retired the saying? What's stopping that from happening again in this case?
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by thrusong 8y ago
I watched a video of a recent presentation from someone at Facebook who manages their operating systems and he said they use CentOS across their fleet, so that's probably a sizeable amount.
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All TMX markets suspended early after technical issues(theglobeandmail.com)
2 points by thrusong 8y ago|0 comments

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