I "ping 1.1" as my go-to network availability test.
It checks to see if Cloudflare is responding, which 99.9% of the time is going to tell you if your internet is working :)
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Former: New Relic, BrowserMob, Selenium, Java open source.
It checks to see if Cloudflare is responding, which 99.9% of the time is going to tell you if your internet is working :)
It's one monolith Java repo, split into two major workloads that have the same runtime code but are configured differently. In our case, the two workflows are "api" and "jobs". This allows for operational issues on, say, jobs while still allowing user-facing APIs to be less likely to be impacted. The source code itself has many modules, but we deploy it as a single unified runtime.
We're very happy with this approach and so far have only been tempted a few times to break out micro/mini-services. I suspect we will eventually break out a few services, but by the time we do, it'll be for very good reasons.
We would get lunch and catch up from time to time. He was always friendly, welcoming, and supportive. Truly a good person.
I cried for a long time this morning. I'm heartbroken; for his family, for the whole world that is worse off with his loss; and for myself.
I will miss him.
The money behind the $250k isn’t magic and can’t just be multiplied like that. each FDIC-insured bank pays a premium for each qualified account. 10x the accounts means 10x the money into the pool. So it scales logically.
This is a separate issue from the recent trend of the US federal government helping ensure that all deposits, even those beyond the limit, get assumed/recovered.
We were reluctant to move our funds most of the day yesterday. Felt like a lot of dumb panic. We had emails from a few investors, most saying "stay calm" but one saying "move your money to this bank that I'm invested in!" ugh.
We decided near the end of the day to move at least half our funds (in a money market) out, but by then it was too late to initiate anything. Now we're finding this morning nobody at SVB is returning our calls. We are able to log into the online portal just fine. So not sure if/when we'll be able to to move anything.
Annoyingly, we're moving it because everyone else is moving it. I know it's a really dumb, self-fulling prophecy but at this point you don't want to be the last in line.
Note: I'm still not actually worried that our money will evaporate permanently. But I can definitely see a situation where it is inaccessible for several weeks, causing issues with payroll and operations. I expect worst case a large bank will swoop in last second and buy all the dumb investment vehicles/bonds for pennies on the dollar and then our access to cash will come back.
Communication of an architecture is partly an artistic exercise. The job is to communicate the meaningful parts for the audience and context, and simplify or gloss over entirely the unnecessary details.
Sure you could invest in code generation for said art, but it’s still distinct from the code it represents. Whether you should make that investment in optimization is uniquely a value prop of how important it is that THAT piece of art is always up-to-date + how hard it is to manually update the visualizations in a non-code manner.
So… maybe?
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The circumstances surrounding Amazon’s sales to both Kristine and Ethan were highly irregular. Amazon has a policy that people under the age of 18 can only use the service with the involvement of a parent or guardian. However, Kristine, at just sixteen, had created her own account to purchase the poisonous chemical and was never asked her age when she set up the account. The package delivered to Kristine’s home was addressed without a last name. It read only “Kristine.”
Seventeen-year-old Ethan used the account that belonged to his mother, Nikki, to purchase Sodium Nitrite. When Nikki received the email receipt for the purchase, she immediately called Amazon’s customer service to tell them there must have been some mistake and that nobody at her home had ordered the item. Amazon told Nikki the order was cancelled. Instead, the Sodium Nitrite was delivered to her home four days later.
When Amazon has had to do this 1000+ unique times, then we can have the debate of whether their extra work is worth the lost lives of kids. Probably still a loser of an argument IMO but let’s just take a simple first step yeah?
And I *AM* parenting my children when I insist on this. The only thing I’m thinking about is if my kid goes to a dark place again and starts searching the internet.
But please: why don’t you tell me how to be better parent to prevent this?
I have a young child who has voiced suicidal thoughts and and it’s so fucking hard. The pandemic has been really rough on a lot of kids.
Thank god we are we’re finally able to get professional help (after almost a year of waiting for an available therapist).
You don’t know shit about the circumstances of these families, and jumping to the conclusion that the parents are at fault and not at least considering that a $1T company could lift a finger is kinda messed up.
Sorry for the angry tone but I’m seeing a few folks make comments like yours and it’s infuriating. This isn’t some joke topic and the Silicon Valley contrarian attitude really is frustrating to see on this thread.
I believe the case is specifically focusing on the promotion of the kits to underage children. As a society we have already embraced censorship for children.
If we can count how on Amazon to not offer up R rated movies to children via Amazon Prime (which they dutifully do), it seems reasonable that we should expect (and sadly now demand) that they not promote combinations of products to children that are designed to lead to their death.
Amazon is a $1T company. They have the resources. This is willful negligence.
Is this your main/primary calendar, or a sub-calendar inside of your Google Calendar account? I ask because if it's shared perhaps it's a weird case where Google thinks there are two owners? If it's your main calendar (the ID is your gmail email address), then you should have full and absolute control over sharing for sure.
Note: you can delete even your primary calendar (very bottom of the calendar settings), so before you stand up an entire new Google identity, you can also try that.
Best of luck!
(PS: I know stuff about GCal because I'm a cofounder of reclaim.ai)
Five hours later I finally made the change. UGH.
I’m surprised only a small fraction of Stripe customers collect sales taxes.
What I'd love to see is a place where I could view a bill and also the code it impacts, with inline diffs for the relevant bits (but not the dumb formatting / bullet numbering stuff).
Is that too much to ask for?
Not sure I agree that the government is very good at this at all, or maybe I'm just looking in the wrong place?
Example: https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/3967...
> (1) EXPANSION.—Subsection (e) of section 1710, as amended by section 102(c), is further amended— > (A) in paragraph (1), by adding at the end the following new subparagraphs:
I never really realized that this symptom was common with RFCs as well.
Is there something about how governing bodies work that lead to this style of output? Why aren't we using a bit more modern techniques now, more akin to how word processors let you see the diffs inline but also the final format? Or git-style PRs that show the deltas but you can always just view "main"?
For example, have some time blocked to do something but then got distracted? No problem: just delete it from the calendar and we'll reschedule it :)
Seems like from a cost standpoint Neon does a good job of avoiding EBS entirely and thus this particular problem would be sidestepped. Is that right?
Every few months, while pulling out of a parking spot, my car will just SLAM on the breaks violently, sometimes when I'm in reverse and sometimes when I'm inching forward. Even at low speeds it's super unsettling.