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Loved this post! Could anyone recommend a book (or other medium) with similar content about RMBDS internals?

This was doing the news rounds recently 'UK second most miserable country' so surely something doesnt add up. https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/nri/latest-updates/uk-i...

Because when the grocery store employee picks the fruit for you online order they don’t care about getting the ripe ones with no blemishes. Additionally they seem to always pick th…

Taurine is said to have an anti-anxiety effect. I have taken it for this reason and believe it is effective (or placebo ..). My assumption was it helps ease the stimulant effects o…

Basically a fender bender, but you landed Score: 53.6 point landing Speed: 9.8mph Angle: 1.4° Time: 566 seconds Flips: 182 Max speed: 635.2mph Max height: 62510ft Engine used: 109 …

If you want to learn more about these murals this might be of interest - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000pm01

Around 10 years ago i worked in a company that had lots of software and physical VOIP phones. One of the models of phone had a pretty nice colour screen on it. I forget the brand .…

The reason the OP mentioned those people (including Da Vinci) is because they are all known gout sufferers.

I have been suffering from gout for the last 4 years or so (36 y/o now) with roughly 1 attack per year, prominently in the right big toe. There is a history of gout in my family. M…

Its really going to depend on budget. At this level of quality of speaker the accoustic properties of the room (and the location of the speakers) will have a bigger impact on the q…

I wondered the same, according to the site its not possible to parallelize: http://www.numberworld.org/y-cruncher/faq.html#distributed The nth digit type computations are too slow.…

That's not even accounting that Hetzner doesn't bill incoming and internal traffic, which AWS does. This is incorrect. AWS does not charge for incoming traffic nor does it charge f…

We spend lot of time thinking about making our services resilient against failure at the infrastructure level yet the domain registrar is often overlooked. Not only do you have to …

I was kinda onboard untill “bring the lit Apple logo back”. What’s professional about that?

Do we know that the kernel used in OSX is vulnerable at all? I haven’t found any discussion of it.

We had a large % of our longer running instances have scheduled reboots in Dec. Is it linked and if so does that mean AWS have already patched?

Long time unhappy user of Lastpass here. Would really like to hear what alternatives people are using that have at least the following features: 1. Mac/Window/Linux support 2. Abil…

You can use the Google cloud storage connector ( https://cloud.google.com/hadoop/google-cloud-storage-connect... ) which works with hadoop (and therefore spark).

Due to network issues in AWS us-west ( https://status.aws.amazon.com/ ) or conincidental...

I wonder what 1.2Tb would do if pointed at a ELB or an AZ in AWS. Someone must have tried at some point but i've never heard of any widespread outages caused by DDOS on AWS. Is it …

This is cool. I dont think it would be useful in my case though. 99% of the time the cause of lag I see is some heavy inserts on the master. These hit the slaves at the same time s…

AWS does support ipv6 in ELBs in a fashion. ELBs will have both an ipv6 and a dual stack DNS entry created for them, in addition to the ipv4. example.us-east-1.elb.amazonaws.com (A…

We use Riemann to track all requests on Apis amongst other things. Have become rather fond of it. It happily handles 40k events p/s on rather modest hardware. The dashboard is not …