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Are you saying that on IOS 18 if you enable developer mode then each time you forgot the network it gets a new Mac? But without developer mode it does not get a new Mac each time y…

Ah ok - so googling a bit on this, you do specify the size when creating the namespace. So if you have multiple namespaces, they appear as separate devices on the OS, and then you …

> local enterprise-grade SSDs support multiple namespaces (with their own internal queues) What do you mean by namespaces here? Are they created by having different partitions or L…

Over the last few months I have been seeing a push toward using Sqlite in production, where appropriate. Some of this has been coming from 37 Signals with their "Once" products, wh…

Where are you seeing these sort of roles? Are they labeled as "devops" or something else?

One reason we have so many poor engineering managers is because the top engineers get promoted to management. The skills for the two jobs are very different. I’m sure many good eng…

I was interest in a position at Aiven some time back. Did a recruiter screen and then a manager screen and then got asked to do a 20 hour take home assignment in Python that was to…

I have a Shelly EM on my main grid circuit and solar array and find it to be an excellent product. They have lots of other automation products too.

I’m kind of similar. I write up how I set something up or some strange problem I solved mainly for my own reference but if it also helps someone else, great. Once or twice I’ve Goo…

For a job that needs to access 100's of thousands of small files, the ability to read the meta data quickly is very important. This is the wider issue with small files. On HDFS eac…

Apache Ozone https://hadoop.apache.org/ozone/ is an attempt to make a more scalable (for small files / metadata) HDFS compatible object store with a S3 interface. Solving the meta …

The biggest part of the EU cost difference is sales tax which is 20% in the UK and only 8.5% in California I think.

I got my current job through LinkedIn too. Hadoop / big data position. I've got quite a few recruiter spam type messages though, but the one I got the job through was an in house r…

I live in Belfast so I can either use a UK airport (Belfast), or Dublin. In my previous job, we flew business class from the UK to San Fran fairly regularly. It was often £500 - £1…

From the research I have been doing over the past year or two, the UK stock market has shown about 5% real return (after inflation) over the long term. I think the USA stock market…

1 in 4 likely means you are on call 24 hours a day for 1 week out of each 4 weeks. The support is then shared between 4 people. That's a fairly typical arrangement in largish compa…

I really enjoyed the Honor Harrington series by David Webber. I've also read most of the Safehold series, also by Webber, which has been excellent so far. Currently half way throug…

I'm pretty sure the Halifax card I mentioned gives the Visa wholesale rate too. I generally get same rate as quoted on FX sites anytime I've checked it.

If you shop around in the UK for a credit card, you will get one with zero fees and an excellent exchange rate on foreign currency transactions. I use the Halifax Clarity card and …

It would be great if you could set the points threshold on the RSS feed link too. That would allow all the stories that only make it onto the front page for a tiny amount of time t…

I agree that rollbacks are hard, but if you think them through, there is usually a way. For your example, to merge first and last name, you would create a backup first, ie, create …

This is an area I have experimented with in large enterprise environments, usually with Oracle databases. In one job I created a process where we used Rails style migrations with s…

The MySQL clustered index (and Oracle IOT) are, in my opinion, often over looked powerful features. To pick an example I recently encountered ... I have an Rails app to implement a…

Oracle does seems to make limit queries much harder than they need to be. I wrote an article about limit and paging queries in oracle ages ago that may interest you, but you probab…

Quite a while ago now, there was a period where you couldn't get to Stackoverflow on Virgin media. There were some quite long threads in Virgins forums about it, and apparently not…