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earless1on Dyson CameraJet: The only toothbrush with a camera and a jet

I saw this on X and assumed it was well done satire of the current state of the industry.

From a business perspective, this means they will not be investing in innovation on the platform anymore. Instead, they will focus their efforts on maintaining the current operations and keeping the lights on.

earless1on No More Hidden Changes: How MySQL 9.6 Transforms Foreign Key Management

https://www.percona.com/blog/separating-fud-and-reality-has-...

This has been debunked, they've never used Github as their main development area

earless1on Attention lapses due to sleep deprivation due to flushing fluid from brain

So biological garbage collection pauses then? skip sleep, and the brain tries to run gc cycles during runtime. Causing attention and performance latency spikes. Evolution wrote the original JVM.

earless1on Ask HN: How do you say “I don’t know, but I’ll get back to you” confidently?

In the situations you mentioned, it doesn't seem the end goal is to be 100% correct about things. Approaching these situations with a curious mindset is key. You may be able to provide a set of options that encompass your understanding of the thing being asked without pinning yourself down to a specific outcome. Once you've allowed folks to understand the potential options, you can tell them you can get back to them with specifics and understanding of implications.

earless1on Zero downtime migrations

It also works fine with Aurora, as long as you have binary logging enabled.

earless1on Emitting domain events with the outbox pattern

> The pattern also puts an additional burden on the database. Therefore, we should consider the potential performance hit on the database

Massive understatement, one of the downsides that we've found with this pattern is the increase increase in binlog size for our database replication topology. One must be very careful with this pattern as to not create downstream issues with replication delay and such.

If taking advantage of this pattern in MySQL land, you should look into filtered replication to avoid this outbox table from being copied to every single replica. https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/change-replication-f...

earless1on Bike crash left Spokane man unconscious, so his Apple Watch called 911

The watch deactivates most features and locks as soon as you take it off of your wrist. You'd need to re-enter your password to unlock it. so it is unlikely that throwing it would trigger the feature.

Also from their initial demo, the fall detection uses more input than just a fast falling motion. Apparently humans fall in a specific way that the watch detects

earless1on The reliability pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework [pdf]

exponentially delayed replication down the replica chain...

earless1on “Apps intended for kids may not include third-party advertising or analytics”

I am not familiar with the ad space, but isn't there a provider/method/framework that would allow people embedding ads on their apps/websites/platforms to select the types or categories of ads they'd be comfortable with?

earless1on Building a PostgreSQL load tester

This is a space that I am deeply interested in, but my team have not found a good pattern around this for MySQL. We currently use a combination of MySQL Slap and Jmeter, but we feel like there are better ways to do this.

Anyone have nice patterns for this around MySQL?

earless1on Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an apparent outage

What manner of failure would cause such globally deployed and distributed systems to go down like this? I'm very interested to read up on this when they release details of the failure.

earless1on UK has banned all Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft from British airspace

I'm sure Borski saw Africa and didn't even bother to look up the safety record.

earless1on One in 10 children has 'Aids defence'

Are FBI and CIA not acronyms?

earless1on Managing Apt Repos in S3 Using Lambda

My co-worker just setup something similar for RPMs. his solution was Lambda + ECS - https://github.com/erumble/s3-repo-sync

earless1on Ask HN: What do you use as a shell script replacement?

You might want to start using a proper configuration management tool like Ansibe,Chef,Puppet, or Salt

earless1on Improvements in Firefox for Desktop and Android

If you would like to force enable Electrolysis. Within about:config create a new boolean pref named browser.tabs.remote.force-enable and set it to true.

earless1on Ansible 2.1 Released, with Network Automation, Containers

Keeping a system down while waiting for a hotfix is not an option for most operations. Rollbacks have their place and hotfixes have their place.

earless1on How we found a bug in Amazon ELB

I don't really see a benefit in updating existing instances in this manner. Launching replacement instances with the new code is much easier for us, and it also provides a super fast means of rollback.

earless1on Milwaukee Protocol

I learned about this via a RadioLab podcast episode. interesting listen http://www.radiolab.org/story/312245-rodney-versus-death/

earless1on Vault 0.4 released – a tool for managing secrets

In the past I've thought about using the an ec2-meta-data style endpoint for secrets that would accessible by an agent with some sort of key. that way the application always dynamically requests the secret as oppose to setting it statically at launch.

earless1on Whatever happened to Channel 1?

The FCC seemed extremely responsive and considerate back then. I wonder how long things would have taken now-a-days to get consensus and authorizations

earless1on New Giant Tortoise Species Found on Galápagos Islands

I hope these are not as tasty as the first set we discovered

earless1on Down the Rabbit Hole of the Ol' Reddit Switcharoo

That's as meta as it gets

I could have sworn that Reddit prevented commenting and editing on post that are this old.

earless1on Down the Rabbit Hole of the Ol' Reddit Switcharoo

I really like the look of these types of graphs. Is the code used to produce them available anywhere?

earless1on The xkcd survey

You must accept that you will sound like a fool just for using this word. You can use it for anything you want to show satisfaction/approval for. React.js on fleek, eyebrows on fleek, uptime on fleek

earless1on Why most popular GitHub repos are all web related?

With web projects there exists the potential to reach many more users than desktop and native projects. I would assume that the percentage of the population with access to a web browser is much much larger than any other segment.

earless1on How We Designed for Performance and Scale

I front my docker fleet with Nginx and I need to reload config for new hosts

earless1on VPC Flow Logs – Log and View Network Traffic Flows

Thanks for the post Jeff! this is huge for us, we finally get a whole view of our networks in VPC.

earless1on In Search of the Red Cross' $500M in Haiti Relief

Do you guys ever need volunteers that speak English and Creole fluently?