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longcommonname··on Is parallel programming hard, and, if so, what can you do about it? [pdf]
Level 0. Use infra like kafka, and eventing to replicas.
longcommonname··on How to handle serverful resources when using ephemeral environments
I've found the exact opposite. We have lots of gcp cloudsql instances. Each team handles their own dbs for however they decide to split their services.

Our operational costs are more distributed, they are more but they indicate the cost of each product and they separate our data very well.

Teams can do their own migrations, and we can prevent some rogue service from violating the data.

We are currently in progress for a very large migration from what you have. But I'm sure we just did it wrong.

longcommonname··on Tesla Fires Dozens at GigaFactory After Tuesday's Unionization Announcement
Wonder what this means for the tax implications and if it puts them below the threshold that they agreed to employ.
longcommonname··on A little bit of slope makes up for a lot of Y-intercept (2012)
Absolutely not. I have learned all sorts of things. But I have to seek them out.
longcommonname··on I Thought I Was Saving Trans Kids. Now I’m Blowing the Whistle
More research should be done around detransitioners. Doctors need to evaluate the whole patient and in the case of informed consent they should confirm that the patient is aware of all the potential changes.

That being said, gate keeping what I do with my body is wrong. I knew all the potential side effects when I transitioned. I read the wpath in full. I was comfortable with all the risks.

This type of critical judgment of children's health care is needed and I hope the doctors are being more rigorous than what the author suggests.

I feel terrible for the girls who made a decision they regret and lost parts of their body that made them happy. Their doctors, and parents failed them. I am also happy that so many people were able to successfully transition.

The timing of the article is concerning with so many states trying to withhold life saving care I worry that the nuance of this article will be lost.

longcommonname··on Go and SQLite in the Cloud
Would you provide a summary of how you noticed the increased traffic and how you found this post?
longcommonname··on Disney says it has more streaming customers than Netflix
Disney is primarily an entertainment company and focuses on users enjoyment.

Netflix is now an ad/ tech company.

longcommonname··on Cook shortage threatens to sink U.S. Coast Guard operations
I am a trained military lab tech, military chef and I now do computer things as a civilian.

My military training included all those things. When you are feeding a war / humanitarian effort / training you have very little budget to provide a meal that hundreds will want to enjoy in a safe manner.

Don't minimize the knowledge/ effort required to do this.

longcommonname··on New evidence shows water separates into two different liquids at low temperature
Models based on our understanding of the world provide a level of certainty lower than experimentation but still scientifically valid.

Discoveries are often statistical in their nature about how uncertain the are.

longcommonname··on Ask HN: Why do some companies build their own CICD orchestrators?
This is possible with github actions. Have one job create a matrix of other jobs for each of your runners.

Use self hosted runners if you are worried about costs or have special requirements.

longcommonname··on Airflow's Problem
Try gcsfuse to write logs to a bucket.

It's the one thing I like about our airflow. Everything else you said is echoed.

Also, the toil of dealing with many airflow instances when you have engineers who don't want to automate it.

longcommonname··on Air quality worsens as drought forces California growers to burn abandoned crops
Seems like prioritizing the common good is in line with big aggro if we don't care about the independent farmers this could impact.
longcommonname··on A 100mph basketball hoop you can't miss a shot in
He could have gotten a sponsor, or just didn't care about that part of the problem.

Sometimes the rabbit holes you might encountered aren't interesting.

longcommonname··on Pull-based GitOps moving to Gitlab Free tier
The biggest difference between the two is how it runs.

If you have many clusters then you get to chose between many or one argocd instance. We run a few argo instances that manage many clusters.

If you use flux, all of cluster needs to have access to github. If you run argo you can restrict it so that the argo cluster (which manages many others) only needs access.

You still have to have argo get access to the child clusters.

I prefer the simplicity of flux, I like the read only ui of argo.

The thing I really don't like about argocd is that you have to give the parent cluster admin to every cluster it manages. If you use git webooks you've now had to expose your controller that can manage your fleet to the public.

Argocd also randomly has really bad bugs show up. Like completely ignoring appsets. Or pathological syncing cases.

longcommonname··on Netflix Officially Adding Commercials
Ads are their own form of entertainment.
longcommonname··on Reliably Send an HTTP Request as a User Leaves a Page
Security is not the number one impact. Its bloat and poor quality.

We are rich in compute and we don't feel the need to optimize anymore. Optimization is an afterthought or a never thought and features run the world.

longcommonname··on We use GitHub Actions to build GitHub
For the majority of my pipelines I rerun from the start. The pipeline itself is idempotent, I don't care about each step and I much rather have a clean run than a fast run.
longcommonname··on An update on recent service disruptions
Our internal monitoring has seen more outages than they listed here. Theres been 4 full days where github actions have been mixed between completely broken and degraded status.

It's nice to finally get some comms, but this is incredibly late and incomplete.

longcommonname··on An almost perfect rsync over SSH backup script
If I'm writing a bash script I run manually and it's more than a handful of functions I agree. I'm there to babysit it and its probably complicated.

If the bash script is ran on thousands of containers where its not possible to babysit. My number one job is to stop immediately when an error happens and surface that error to any monitoring system.

longcommonname··on For some searches the whole screen on Google is now ads
Youtube has gotten terrible with up to five minute long ads.

Why the hell am I getting targeted?

longcommonname··on A toy DNS resolver
Its impressive that it's reliable.

It's worrying that your uptime indicates you don't patch frequently.

longcommonname··on GitHub Actions by Example
Could you provide more details?
longcommonname··on Ask HN: How Do You Budget?
Me and spouse are lucky enough to earn a decent living. Without that this method wouldn't work. We also use multiple checking accounts from a credit union that doesn't charge insane fees.

We keep track of our monthly recurrent bills. We limit this increase as much as we can. This all comes out of a special checking account. Beginning of month we transfer bills to this from savings. Currently about 40 percent of our income goes to this.

Entire paychecks go into "savings". This is used to transfer to other "budgets".

Also each paycheck has certain HSA, and retirement savings deductions withdrawn. We don't pay attention to this.

We each have our own debit card that we "pay" ourselves with. This is approximately 10 percent of our income. We use this for expenses such as eating out, hobbies, small individual expenses that we don't want to justify to each other.

The remaining money we have an agreement that we must discuss any decisions with each other before using.

There are problems with this method, and sometimes we cheat, or use credit cards. But we have long term goals and love each other and strict money management isn't as important as having a happy relationship without having to constantly worry.

longcommonname··on Hot Takes on Code Freezes
We call them change freezes, they are generally done when there are less people around. This allows employees to celebrate holidays.

These do reduce, but don't elimate incidents.

Unilateral change blocks, stink, but don't put support in the weird position of taking on something they can't.

longcommonname··on California halts Pony.ai's driverless testing permit after accident
Every other self driving company out there has the same type of incident.
longcommonname··on I Am a Transwoman. I Am in the Closet. I Am Not Coming Out
Reused alias on a different site, that now identifies you publicly through social media.
longcommonname··on PostgreSQL 14 on Kubernetes
What level of competency do you need to run dbs?
longcommonname··on Run code samples directly in the Google Cloud documentation
What? I've found their docs to be surprisingly good and functional.
longcommonname··on Amazon Elasticsearch Service Is Now Amazon OpenSearch Service
How do you manage user access to the management console?
longcommonname··on How we built an auto-scalable Minecraft server for 1000+ players
There are very few servers that would really benefit from this. But perhaps the reason is that it's incredibly difficult to form large communities in minecraft.

I could see this really changing how users interact with each other.

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