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> Project status: Alpha. While this project works and is used by many sites in production, configuring is substantially more error-prone than the normal Zulip installer (which Just Works).

There is a docker container but as Zulip themselves say, it is not simple to deploy.

> This resulted in a large surge of connection activity that overwhelmed the networking devices between the internal network and the main AWS network, resulting in delays for communication between these networks. These delays increased latency and errors for services communicating between these networks, resulting in even more connection attempts and retries. This led to persistent congestion and performance issues on the devices connecting the two networks.

I remember my first experience realizing the client retry logic we had implemented was making our lives way worse. Not sure if it's heartening or disheartening that this was part of the issue here.

Our mistake was resetting the exponential backoff delay whenever a client successfully connected and received a response. At the time a percentage but not all responses were degraded and extremely slow, and the request that checked the connection was not. So a client would time out, retry for a while, backing off exponentially, eventually successfully reconnect and then after a subsequent failure start aggressively trying again. System dynamics are hard.

The linked page describes exactly that - "Left Turn Calming" projects.

> At SFMTA, we’re working hard to help drivers make left turns the right way. We’ve installed Left Turn Guide Bumps at designated intersections around the City, with painted safety zones and raised bumps to remind drivers to slow down and make squarer left turns. We’ll test how well these treatments make left turns safer, with a long-term goal of installing calming project at other intersections where they are needed most.

> By the way: if you’ve ever wondered what IN means, it’s the “query class” and stands for “internet”. It’s basically just a relic from the 80s and 90s when there were other networks competing with the internet like “chaosnet”.

Reading things like this makes me feel better about the relics in my code that aren't really hurting anything but would take work to remove.

It's inconsistent for me - sometimes it runs fine and runs almost immediately, sometimes it hangs for a long time.

Since the behavior is undefined when the computer is off this implementation seems correct in your hypothetical as well.

Not at all, they're suggesting that even clear benefits like driving have some negative outcomes. Whether NFTs/Crypto is more like driving (positives outweigh the negatives) or more like drunk driving (negatives outweigh the positives) is the question.

What's interesting to me about this study is it was done with people who already actively microdose. So they have prior experience of what non-placebo microdosing feels like to them. The placebo effect might be much stronger in that population than a population that has never microdosed. That could be great news in terms of long term benefits of microdosing by using a combo of placebo and actual psychedelics.

Quickly reading through I'm most excited about the `SyntaxError` improvements https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.10.html#syntaxerrors. I can't even count the number of times a missing paren or bracket has caused a syntax error in an unrelated place, so if this is indeed improved that's enough to motivate me to move to 3.10.

FTA "Other agricultural workers" is the highest at 23%.

The lag truly makes it unusable. Trying to mute? Hit the mute button. Did it register and is just laggy? Or just missed the tap altogether? Why have an always-on touchbar that doesn't even respond to taps consistently.

I think he rather took short notes, then attempted to rewrite the material based on the notes, comparing to the original afterwards. This would seem to me to be much more effective than copying directly out of the book when it comes to recall.

Six days of every week? For how many weeks?

Seems like they listened to your feedback, the article now opens with a discussion of (1).

Wouldn't it weirder if he kept the mansion? Perhaps he might not have been able to pay the mortgage anymore so he sold it? It's a bit shocking how tone deaf the the Instagram posts are though. Not really excusable when you're totally ghosting your company.

Are they blaming them though? Is this not the actual fastest path to resolving the issue?

Not true, seat belts keep the driver in their seat and can allow the driver to maintain control when they wouldn't have been able to without one, potentially reducing the severity of a crash with another vehicle. Admittedly this is not the most common benefit of a seat belt but they are designed with this benefit in mind.

The article you linked suggests that recurring card charges that use two factor authentication will not be banned. So I think the title is still overstating.

It isn't about having money, it's about control of that money. Zuckerberg doesn't "have" the money he gives to his foundation, but he still controls it, vs taxes which he wouldn't.

Bright white roofs are currently used to reduce urban heat island effects. They're great for the building occupants but are a literal eyesore for anyone above looking down. I can imagine this paint taking that to a whole new level.

Any founders or early employees out there who have experience doing this after their startup exits or closes? This idea really appeals to me and I could see myself doing this sometime in the next five years. I'd be interested to hear how it's gone for others.

> If you have expectations (of others) that aren't being met, those expectations are your own responsibility. You are responsible for your own needs. If you want things, make them.

Great advice for life generally.

I had a similar realization after reading Radical Compassion by Tara Brach. The concept of the two darts of suffering in Buddhism has also been extremely valuable to me. The first dart is the immediate pain (laundry didn't get done) and the second dart is the self-inflicted pain caused by the stories we tell to ourselves ("I can't even get a simple load of laundry done, I am a terrible person who will never accomplish anything.") It's usually the second dart that causes the most suffering despite being entirely created in our own heads and self inflicted.

That thread is linked at the top of this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28380659

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Probably good feedback for the author. People don't have time to read every article they come across fully so they're evaluating quality as they go. Throwaway comments like this will have the effect of losing audience so best to leave them out.

My understanding is that the customers would be allowed to distribute/modify the source at that point though so you're not really getting around the GPL.

This principle applies as much to the work we schedule for ourselves (or our teams) as it does to our servers.

As teams get pushed to efficiently utilize scarce and expensive developer resources to their max they can also end up with huge latency issues for unanticipated requests. Not always easy to justify why planned work is way under a team's capacity though even if it leads to better overall outcomes at the end of the day.

While reflog is amazing, the "ever" in your statement is not true, `git gc` will prune your reflog: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-gc

Most of the time this doesn't matter in practice but you should be aware that unreachable refs don't stay around forever.

Also on the most recent episode of criminal: https://thisiscriminal.com/episode-170-ian-manuel-7-30-21