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I'd wager the amount on FB is orders of magnitude _more_ than on 4chan. 4chan's average severity is likely higher, though. They're different problems, but saying that online toxici…

Heck, we saw crazy performance degradation with redis when its memory usage exceeded a single NUMA block. Not much to be done about that at the k8s level when redis is single-threa…

It's very similar to styles of generating lairs/dungeons in many TTRPGs. A lot of them come with various tables/dice rolls to help build a layout and then subsequent tables to give…

This has been their MO with their search for a decade+ now. "Native" results hiding actual search results below the fold killed many 2010s era websites that relied on search traffi…

They're not describing working for yourself? At least in terms of financial compensation. A job and some form of communal/familial uncompensated labor are extremely different in th…

Totally true, but we host other people's code (PaaS, etc). We don't get to dictate their working hours. It also doesn't mean nothing breaks when people aren't making changes. Certi…

Staring down the barrel of being primary on-call over Christmas for a dozen k8s clusters running thousands of nodes. How I wish it were true that we could trust computer programs t…

A bit more heavyweight, but we implemented a rotation program when I was managing an internal tools team at a previous company. We'd trade an engineer from our team with an enginee…

You should read Ubik

Maybe it's just me, but nothing sounds simple about offline mode. The changeset resolution necessary to resync after going back online sounds TOUGH to build in a way that doesn't r…

Sad to hear about how much the Space & Rocket center has been let to deteriorate. That place really sparked my interest in science & engineering as a child. Even went to Space Camp…

Anecdotally, they've gotten much more proactive at taking unprotected lefts in my experience.

Their wait times tend to be worse, but that's getting better too. The trip speed has also noticeably improved. I've taken about 50 over the past 2 years. Even if they're sometimes …

That's so fascinating to me! "Howdy" definitely ranks higher on my hokey-ness scale than "y'all". Love a good "over yonder" though.

Y'all forever. One of the few southern mannerisms I intentionally don't drop as a lapsed southerner in California. As an aside, I find it strange how many aspects of "the south" ar…

I love this explanation. One unfortunately confusing extra piece that some people might occasionally run into is that there are two types of tag. Most tags are what you describe: p…

Oof, remind me not to move there. I wouldn't survive an allergy season. Though to be fair, I imagine most GPs would write a prescription pretty quick.

Interesting, today I learned it had a more specific term. Still, saying something "isn't OTC" implies you need a prescription to most people. At least in my experience.

Real sudafed is OTC, you just need to ask for it at the counter. No prescription is required. They just don't have it on shelves, because they require you to show your ID when purc…

Botulism spores do not "train immune systems". Babies don't have strong enough digestive systems until they're at least six months old to kill the spores. https://www.cdc.gov/botul…

A car grille is a much more prominent and expected visual feature of a car, though. This small, tucked away yet realistic-looking camera doesn't seem to fit the same reasoning for …

Those are typically just simple pieces of plastic to fill a hole. There is clearly no function to them. What seems weird is they went through the effort of installing a nonfunction…

You might have noticed already, but your reply is quoting the same person you're replying to.

If you're familiar with Python and Go, you'll likely be able to quickly spot the differences in how they handle parameter passing. Python uses references and Go uses value.