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I just implemented bot and crawler detection as well as ASN based blocking for our website, because I’ve seen a massive rise in scraping coming from VPNs and other networks that mi…

The people I hired in my last round, with over 600 slop and fake applicants, had honest and informal cover letters that stood out. I’m sure I passed up on real decent people as a r…

Anecdata to add to the pile...I pulled three 1u epyc gen2 servers from my production rack 1.5 years ago and replaced them with lower power alternatives for a production storage clu…

We started building out a set of spam/fraud/bot management tooling. If you have any decent infrastructure in place already, this is a pretty manageable task with a mismash of techn…

Doesn’t meet all our product requirements unfortunately. We used returned hexes in certain queries, and we also hacked in directionality of line using least significant 12 bits of …

Not any differently than another indexed text field

We do something similar for some limited geospatial search using elastic search. We make a set of h3 indexes for each of the hundreds of millions of gps recordings on our service, …

I do this all the time in a dumb but effective way. Add logging statements to code paths that drop timing info. Another dumb but effective way, instead of using a step through debu…

The above works on wayland, had to make the changes specifically when I moved over to wayland and hyprland

Flameshot is the best! I've been using it for 10+ years. I have it wired up to some hot keys in my window manager, and have it dump to s3 so I can paste around links to screenshots…

So like texting and driving, but in the air? Flying is hard, I don’t think an automated text based system would be safer than what we have now.

it all depends on your philosophy on dependencies. if you maintain a small set of core dependencies that are there for good reasons and are actively maintained, then rails upgrades…

Minidsp flex ht or htx paired with a buckeye 6 channel amp. As cheap as you can get premium sound quality. Not cheap but you get the software control you actually want via the mini…

Preschool is just daycare with structure, so it costs more. Optional, privately owned. Nice to do 2-3 days a week for young kids to give them more social and learning opportunites.…

We've been running a production ceph cluster for 11 years now, with only one full scheduled downtime for a major upgrade in all those years, across three different hardware generat…

Focusing on compatible timezones, but willing to branch out for just the right candidate

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Cruwear! from my practical testing, it's been the best I've tried. From the tool, it represents quite well.

Enterprise server gear is pretty reliable, and you build your infra to be fully redundant. In our setup, no single machine failure will take us offline. I have 13 machines in a rac…

I was bit by atop a few years back and swore it off. I would get perfectly periodic 10m hangs on MySQL. Apparently they changed the default runtime options such that it used an exp…

Yup, last time I priced this in RDS I got to maybe $20k a month for two reserved instances across AZs. I pay for our rack outright every 3-4 months from what I can tell. Still take…

I'll bite, just so you get a real answer instead of the very correct but annoying "don't worry about it right now" answers everyone else is going to provide! We have a rails monoli…

Hey fellow k8s+ceph on bare metaler! We only have a 13 machine rack and 350tb of raw storage. No major issues with ceph after 16.x and all nvme storage though.

I think everyone here could be confused, here's my understanding. There were three people in the helicopter that night, two pilots and one crew member. They usually fly with two cr…

there is absolutely a reason to kill your chickens that aren't laying - it costs money to feed them. if you don't optimize for price by slaughtering your older hens you will easily…