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Have you tried terminating the EC2 instances abruptly to test the resilience of your solution? aws ec2 stop-instances \ --instance-ids i-12345678 \ --skip-os-shutdown

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The negotiatons can be considered a big success because Israeli leaders did not order the murder of the negotiators this time. This will open doors for more realistic negotiations …

Java can work with transparent hugepages (in addition to preallocated hugepages), but you just use +AlwaysPreTouch to map them in during the startup so that at runtime there won't …

World economy will be better off with the 1-2% fee ($2M per tanker) that Iran asks if USofA leaves middle east, compared to the Trump 100% price hike on oil.

What options are there? 1. Manufacturing defects in satellites. Either accidental or sabotage. 2. Someone using them for target practice. With an energy beam or projectiles? Did bo…

I would recommend using PTP on all clouds. The accuracy is more than 10x to NTP. It consumes less CPU. It does not use network traffic and thus can not be attacked, even if UDP is …

When I pull the trigger and the bullet kills an another person, it is just how technology works. Why would I be responsible if I choose to use it or not?

https://www.phoronix.com/news/SDL-Lands-Wayland-Pointer-Warp Wayland and SDL got support this summer. And Xwayland has had support for past 10 years: https://www.phoronix.com/news/…

Don't you always need a database after reading events from Kafka to deduplication? So the competing solutions are: PostgreSQL or Kafka+PostgreSQL Kafka does provide some extrs ther…

I think he was trying to say that phone theft can benefit the same way as credit card theft. The thief uses the phone to buy stuff before the user reports it stolen. In this case t…

I have bookmarked the play store update view as separate icon by long pressing the play store icon, then long pressing/dragging the my apps section to an own "app". That way I can …

If there is no sprained ankle diagnostics and doctors just tell you to ignore not being well: just jump and run around as normal there is nothing seriously wrong. And doctors only …

I've used https://instaguide.io/info.html?type=c5a.24xlarge#tab=lstopo to browse the info. It is getting a bit old though.

I've been thinking of using git filter to split the huge asset files (that are just internally a collection of assets bundler to 200M-1GB files) into smaller ones. That way when ar…

There are occasionally 61 seconds in a minute when they insert leap seconds - or did they stop that to avoid crashing millions of computer systems?

Same has been happening for for a few months. I get thrown out of all o365 services multiple times each day.

The gas station is supposed to release the authorization after the real payment clears when you stop the pump. So they should not pile up even if you do many visits in short period…

I would assume that the engines cur of due to fault in the shared control system. And to restore power the pilots toggled the switches to off and then back on to get them running a…

Why would btrfs or btrfs snapshot require single disks? My btrfs is combination of different size disks bought over time (3T to 24T) and snapshots works just fine. I've configured …

Doesn't the futex2 syscall allow 1 byte futexes on recent kernel? Double checks. Nope. The api is there and the patch to implement them has been posted multiple times: https://lore…

I would initially add it for WAL writes and reads. There should never be another read in normal operation.

I don't think there were western armaments in Ukraine even though Russia invaded Ukraine over ten years ago and they have been fighting ever since. In the second phase of the invas…

Wouldn't it be fairer to remove the lowest tax bracket, or move all tax brackets higher?

SMS in Europe was max 140 bytes and they had various custom 7bit encodings for most western languages. SMS also supported ucs-2 aka Unicode with fixed 16bit codepoints which cannot…