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I really miss The Oil Drum.

Can anyone recommend sources for news/analysis from the energy industry?

Where are your services hosted?

Adopting this tool seems risky while this issue remains:

https://github.com/Netflix/denominator/issues/374

> As much as I hate to admit it, I'm no longer a good choice to champion this project. It isn't about denominator itself, just I'm stretched too thin to continue. That's been evident in the changelog, where I've not done much in the last year. Netflix softly archived the project in early Dec 2015, but I think we should less softly do so in order to not lead people on.

> The client on ios does not support the 5c, which is a shame since I have one.

Only a guess: the iPhone 5C shipped with the A6 processor, while Secure Enclave was introduced with the A7.

https://www.theiphonewiki.com/wiki/Secure_Enclave

/edit nope, original author responded with the real answer :)

His KVM Forum talk on porting KVM to SmartOS is probably my favourite:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwAfJywzk8o

"You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, 'Look at that, you son of a bitch.'"

-- Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 astronaut

"The Engineer" is a trade publication, so its writers have a very different target to hit than, say, those of a daily paper.

I went through the video version. I found it worthwhile overall, but grew frustrated later in the tutorial as the code displayed in the video (and in the associated GitHub repo) drifted substantially from what it had actually been guiding me to build.

> This point is oddly weak in comparison to the others.

Agreed - it was senseless. SNS/SQS aren't particularly complex and they scale like crazy. Kinesis is something else entirely (N-hour record retention w/arbitrary consumers and offsets) and doesn't even belong in the comparison.

> ugh. Perfectly fine article now just reeks of google "fanboy-ism".

Do Google's core products actually run on GCP these days? I was under the impression they do not.

CloudFormation change sets make CF updates a little less painful/mysterious:

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-change-sets-for-aws-clo...

I'd love (well... hate) a Chrome plugin that maintains a personal leaderboard for longest-lived tabs.

> I'm also not sure how to make the jump from exporting AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and having my instances automatically request the permissions they need - STS?

Check out instance profiles. This feature allows any AWS API-aware application to request credentials on demand, eliminating key management/rotation:

docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/id_roles_use_switch-role-ec2_instance-profiles.html

I wonder the same, though the engineering under the hood is more interesting than I thought:

http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2015/12/vpc-nat-gateways-tr...

> The connections are managed by a fault-tolerant co-operation of devices in the VPC network fabric. Each new connection is assigned a port in a robust and transactional way, while also being replicated across an extensible set of multiple devices. In other words: the NAT gateway is internally horizontally scalable and resilient.

Maybe it just wasn't a priority.

There is speculation it compromised the cryptography used for VPN traffic, enabling someone with access to that traffic to decrypt it through brute force:

https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/67787100435437158...

Nomad appears to share some of Consul's internals, but it does not seem possible to use an existing Consul cluster as backing KV store/lock provider/etc. I'd like to understand why.

This is great - thank you!

In a similar vein is the Google+ Postmortems community: https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/11513614020301839179...

To be fair, that was not really AWS's fault, nor (apparently) a leap second issue:

http://www.bgpexpert.com/article.php?article=167

https://twitter.com/Axcelx/status/616058414746202113

Possibly related to another fiber cut this morning: https://puck.nether.net/pipermail/outages/2015-June/007911.h...

> Large leaps in technology have always, and will always, benefit the wealthiest 1% at the beginning. This is just the basics of capital in a capitalistic society.

What about the Green Revolution?

This is fantastic. Thank you!

Because it's not worth re-implementing the functionality available in Jenkins, Chef, etc. etc. etc.

Microsoft has a number of free VMs available for testing various Internet Explorer/Windows platform combinations:

https://www.modern.ie/en-us/virtualization-tools

Agreed!

As an example, HashiCorp included Jepsen test results in their Consul documentation: https://consul.io/docs/internals/jepsen.html

I had never considered altitude as a factor in takeoff weight limits.

How much load would a typical FedEx flight need to shed to operate out of Denver?

I feel good until I realize who's paying to fix it.

I've been there for sure.

I've given considerable thought to taking a 3-month sabbatical to focus on nothing but reading.

Yeah, I'm lucky enough to commute by transit. I usually get through at least a couple books a month, but I have trouble reading beyond the pace of speech. I'm a total book junkie so it's a constant source of frustration :)

When I see these end-of-year book lists, I wonder if I'm the slowest reader on the planet.

His book "Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes" is worth a read too (though a more ruthless editor may have helped even it out).

Do these vulnerabilities impact a local ntpd instance responsible only for local timekeeping? (In other words, does a compromised machine in pool.ntp.org pose a threat?)