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Much of that was just bad design decisions in the early days creating a momentum that was unstoppable and unreplacable at the speed we were growing.

In the early days they implemented a Kitama system for memcache. It worked great so long as nothing failed since a node coming in and going out could lead to bad results. In the old days they would just flush caches when that happened. Later, when memcache was the only way we could serve the loads we had it became imperative that memcache never be restarted. A single memcache restarting would overload the mysql backend so bad that the site would be down for hours. Adding memcache had more or less the same issues though it was a little easier to prewarm things. We wrote a kernel module that allowed us to change the ulimits of a running process so we could increase the file descriptor limits for memcache without restarting it.. Replacing it completely was damn near impossible given the growth rate and inability to get the data out of mysql quickly enough.

Us reliability guys worked 16 hour days 7 days a week for years trying to keep things working well enough to not fail completely. Some of the crazy hacks we did just to survive were fantastic and impressive and I am still proud and disgusted by them to this day. =)
I thought the photography community was driven to flickr because they were offering higher resolution and better quality.
10x, Sure, possible. 100x?

Most of the problem lies in Database. Rails may not be best architecture for scale. But I doubt you could even get 100x difference if the bottleneck is in Database.

I don't know any large, JVM based WebSite in large scale on top of my head, but I consider Stackoverflow, written in ASP.NET to be one of the best and most optimised site. Near 700M Pageview per month, with 10 Front End Servers. At peak it does close to 5000 RPS, Cookpad does 15,000 RPS with 300 Rails Server. But the SO servers are at least twice as powerful, so that scale is like 500 RPS / Server to 100RPS / Server. 5x Difference.
Long time no see man! =)
The GP didn't necessarily say he was running an exit relay, only that he was running a relay of some kind. As far as I know it's a lot less perilous to run a middle relay.
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2018/02/09/the-econ... lets you play around with comparing house prices vs income and rents. In Australia (where I live) and Canada (where I'm from) house prices are more overvalued compared to rent than income (i.e., rents have increased slower than house prices).

> Rents may be somewhat related to the incomes of the people who are renting in the area, but these people are not necessarily the average population.

By definition renters must live in the are where they rent, and must work within commuting distance of where they rent (even if it's a very long commute).

Landlords, however, can live anywhere, provided they have someone to manage their rented properties. E.g., my landlord lives in Singapore, but I pay my rent to a Melbourne based property management agency. But since I live (and work) in Melbourne my rent is set by the market rate in Melbourne, not the (much higher) rate in Singapore.

Unfortunately for non-techies in SF, their rents have been pushed up massively due to the much higher tech salaries. But that only proves the strong correlation between rent and income.

BTW, mortgage interest in not tax deductible in Australia. Somewhat crazily, however, rental losses on investment properties are tax deductible ("negative gearing").
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When Tesla stops advertising it as such?
Maybe also when the system aggressively disables itself when not under human supervision (hands on wheel)
> Ask about a famous Serbian scientist, and everyone can mention Tesla. Ask for the next one, and observe. But that's a good test, to see who really gives a damn about science

It is a horrible test. There’s a large difference between being interested in the history of science, and who did what and where they hailed from, and actually being interested in science.

Just because I don’t care to read tabloids about the personal lifes of actors and where they are from doesn’t mean I don’t like movies.
> I would like to have a non-advertisement internet, but it appears that people are just unwilling to do so. Also we may be facing very real cognitive limits, studies on microtransaction fatigue have demonstrated that is not likely to be a successful mechanism for funding webpages -- people just can't make that many monetary decisions every day.

There's no reason why users would need to take all those decisions individually. Just imagine adding user agents to the existing ad-placement system. By default, offer enough to win most bids. If some ad won, prompt the user to increase their bid. And by the way, page prices here would be more like $0.10 than $1.00 or more.
Thanks, Android seems to be getting somewhere with that. https://github.com/phhusson/treble_experimentations/wiki

The Blackview A20 that's listed there is a pretty cheap phone.
Yea, if I remember correctly the closest to the iPhone's look was the LG Prada one year before the iPhone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LG_Prada
Might I plug in my other project: http://roughjs.com/ which is a generic drawing library for drawing sketchy shapes. I believe people have already tried merging it with some diagramming tools.
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Others agree. Silk Labs[1] (founded by former Mozilla CTO Andreas Gal) seems to be active in this space

[1] https://silklabs.com
> Like to lactate they need to keep having babies. Like if you're a woman you can't just go produce breast milk on demand like it's some sort of tap

Not true - a woman will keep producing milk for as long as it is being taken. A woman could continue to express milk indefinitely after stopping feeding their infant. As an aside, lookup "nursing maids".
I like these two open source readers:

1. https://www.feedbunch.com
2. https://www.commafeed.com/

:-)
Seems like it happens whenever a car in front moves out of the way. It goes full stupid-cruise-control mode and just accelerates to the stored speed. Of course there's a lot of noise in terms of things in the stationary reference frame, but still, big red firetrucks don't exactly look like lane markings.

At the very least, as a driver, I'm slightly cautious when I see a car move out of the lane in front. I feel like the solution lies in: (a) separating the signal from the noise in the set of things moving with the ground, and (b) getting the car to 'understand' why other cars change lanes. Sometimes it's so they can avoid obstacles in the road. It almost feels like cars need to have a theory of mind of other cars. I certainly drive with an intuition of driver intentions stuck in my head.
Then you can't use Autopilot. Where's the confusion.
Tor project should have an official Docker image, we could just use it with watchtower, it would autoupdate itself.

https://github.com/v2tec/watchtower
Third party sites only get scraped if they want, Google Search obeys robots.txt. There's nothing hypocritical about it.
I live in Pakistan and tried it only once because it was so foul. It was straight from a farmer, though. I guess I'll try it again then. Thanks for convincing me random person on the internet!
Docker daemon is running on top of containerd, so it was an additional layer which could be avoided and that's exactly what was done. The benefit is less latency and resource consumption.
That was a period when the only people talking outside the company were the ones not trying to fix things inside of the company.

Twitter never had dedicated machines for individual users. Its just not how the infra ever worked (at least until I left). Requests landed on random boxes behind load balancers, those boxes talked to pools of memcache or mysql, etc. At no point was there ever "racks" or "machines" dedicated to specific individuals like the article claims.

That being said, some users created crazy hot shards when specific tweets went absolutely madhouse, especially Beiber and those like him.

Random twitter internals tidbit: We had a unit of measurement called a "MJ". Its the number of tweets per second that we had when the rumors of Michael Jacksons death were circling. It basically overloaded the system and had us running around on fire. It was 465 tweets a second. Within a year we had crossed a line where we never were below that number again. Hence "we are at about 12 MJ's" was jokingly used to compare "hair on fire" to every day a couple of years later. =)
> Turn the thing off if hands aren't on the wheel, end of story.

To make things even worse, there have been several instances (mentioned on Reddit and other forums) where Tesla doesn't register you having your hand on the car. You will actually have to nudge the wheel a bit. This is not universal and can differ from car to car. So just putting your hands on your car might not be good enough.
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> Pornhub (and others) are completely free and use more bandwidth than I can wrap my head around. How do you think they pay for that stuff?

Pornhub sells a subscription service with additional features / content.
Perhaps you were educated in Serbia? They might cover in much more depth contributions from a significant Serb scientist than other countries.

From my recollection of what they covered in school it went no further than that the orbit is an ellipse. I got more detail from my years on the net.
Adams has been a loon for a long time, his Dilbert Future book talks about his personal philosophy which is straight up "Name it and claim it" theology except without the Jesus. Adams basically attributes all his good fortune to his own talent and hard work.

And then of course that means everybody who is struggling, well those people just didn't want it enough, they aren't putting in the hard work like Adams. Frankly it's their fault thinks Adams.

Dilbert Future is twenty years old.
Goddamn you, Bloomberg. Auto-playing video which causes my iPad to stop playing the audio to my home speakers. I’m sitting on the couch listening to an album and this happens.

I thought iOS prevented this? Deeply annoying.
this is great, thanks, i found it to be a very good idea.
Actually i am creating an andorid app with gdpr checklists and resources, already included the gdprchecklist.io, wanted to talk to you about it. I will include the tracker as well, hope you don't mind :).
The amount of dust that would be necessary to incapacitate a mechanical keyboard would probably coincide with the amount of dust necessary to fill all the space of the key travel.

Most mechanical keyboards are basically protected from dust entering the physical area of the switches due to a hat-like dome formed by the keycap itself. On top of that a lot of the switches are closed and rated for minor dust exposure (cherry's can with stand some water and dust internally)

I've never heard of a keyboard failing because of dust with the exception of Apple's MBP keyboards.
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Does anybody know if there are long term studies about the effect on health, of drinking milk?

I have been drinking a gallon of full fat milk every five days, for 40 years (yes, that is about 3,000 gallons of milk). I am kinda wondering if it is wise to continue for the next 40 years...
i mean content-based (still requires cookies)
OK, I got it now. How improbable that this is not mainly GDPR related question with this timing :) Still my mistake, sorry.

So the main scope is with IPR and 3rd party licensing matters and GDPR is just another additional side track.

Not commenting about first two. Let me know if still some concerns in GDPR scope as I've been working too heavily with it within last months.
> Also while price was definitely a huge factor for it's popularity, the main reason IMHO was because it was the first phone that officially supported a popular AOSP at that time - CyanogenMod (now LineageOS [3]) and it even had the logo branded on the back.

Maybe for the tinkering crowd, but I think you vastly overestimate it's importance in becoming a sales hit. I don't have the numbers for how many people flash their phones, but I'd guess less than one in a thousand. They do advance the sales via favorable reviews and recommendations though, I'm sure.

As far as I see, it was simply just the price-quality ratio that made it a success.
Indeed. "It was amazing that it worked, and terrible that we had to do it."
Well they won't die from Tesla car accidents anymore. That's something, right?
Very cool! Thanks for making these.
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I got curious about ReasonML when I recently applied to a frontend job that strongly preferred candidates with ReasonML along with the standard React and Typescript requirement.

I am using the approaching the mercenary approach to my career so I am interested if ReasonML would be a good long term bet. What do you guys think?
If anybody is interested in random Twitter internal stuff I might bang up a medium post one day. I was neck deep in the infra side of things for years and have all sorts of funny stories.

Our managed hosting provider wouldn't let us use VPNs or anything that allowed direct access to the managed network they provided, but we wanted to make internal only services that were not on the internet so I setup a simple little system that used DNS to point to private space in the office and a SSH tunnel to forward the ports to the right places. Worked great, but over time the internal stuff grew up, and our IT team refused to let me have a server in the office so it was all running of a pair of mac mini's. We called them the "load bearing mac minis" since basically 90% of the production management traffic went over the SSH tunnels they hosted. =)
I see. I'm not a homeowner so haven't gone through that before.
Google is attempting to build a world in which the only way to monetise creative work is to put an ad on it.

Then why come out with YouTube Premium, and even buy a bunch of exclusive shows for it? Why does Google Play include paid music, books, shows and films?
Interesting, wonder if the same applies with cows?

I know on PETA's website they say "Cows produce milk for the same reason why humans and other mammals do: to nourish their young. But the millions of cows who live on U.S. dairy farms are forced into a vicious cycle of continuous pregnancy so that they will produce milk for human consumption." [1]

Only reason I really looked into this is I have a friend who's vegan and I'm like "What's wrong with milk? How are you hurting them?" since not eating their meat. Thinking cows that made milk were some magical special animal that main purpose was just making milk.

I've never been a huge fan of plain milk, but I do love ice cream, milk in coffee, mashed potatoes, tomato soup I like with milk better, etc.

[1] https://www.peta.org/issues/animals-used-for-food/animals-us...
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That timetable looks like it's on 5-second granularity, not 1-second. Which is still pretty tight -- the UK's working timetables are half-minute granularity. (The UK also demonstrates that it's not merely a matter of having an exact timetable, you also need to be able to keep to it in practice :-))
You too! Hope Zookeeper isn't still keeping you up.
If your car is outfitted with all of those same features, why is Tesla different? This exact news and discussion has popped up enough times among "ordinary folk" that nobody is really fooled (and I don't agree that was Tesla's motive) about the capabilities. If they are, I'm chalking it up to negligence. Tesla drivers are given ample warning from Tesla themselves, their cars, the news, and our social circles.
I believe it's a shadow dom issue. Firefox doesnt support Shadow DOM yet so a 'shady dom' is used by the polyfill
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> I thought that was universal knowledge, oscillation in earth's orbit

You thought wrong, then. This isn't a common thing that's taught in schools here, and many people go through formal education without learning it.
I feel like this is the kind of thing you should be made aware of (for real, not just in impenetrable terms of service) before you even buy the car.
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Mostly there. Firefox still needs a polyfill and some issues working with react
Instagram has the same clause too
Siri does more processing locally than Alexa does, but does upload to the cloud, and depends on the cloud, both for analyzing the statement and for accomplishing it. It can then execute local actions. The info uploaded to the cloud includes essentially all the relevant data for the query, so it doesn't particularly help with privacy -- it's just not the raw waveform.

But Siri sucks for MANY reasons, and not just technical ones. It does worse processing but also does worse cloud integration, and now vs. alexa, has a far worse ecosystem around it (alexa "skills" are pretty awesome, and trivial to create)
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Aka expat community. Those who have already moved there should work to try to help newcomers integrate.
Actually most cases of heavy metal toxicity are detected by either area (epidemiology) or asking about occupation...
The thing is Tesla will never be an autonomous car or a reliable semi-autonomous car with its current hardware. Elon needs to admit it (he insist, this isn't the case) and he needs to reliably convince his customers this isn't the case. Tesla needs to see a couple of cars before, in order to drive safely (these are no edge cases, this happens in real life a lot), but it can't see ahead without LiDAR but Elon insists they don't need LiDAR.

The problem is you can't have a pre-existing bias when working with this kind of technology, you need to be able to adapt to whatever changes that need to be made.
> The real strain in driving is the mental strain, and that is why people turn it on.

Exactly. If people were actually complying with autopilot’s TOS it wouldn’t actually be more relaxing. But then it wouldn’t be a compelling feature. You’d just be volunteering to help with fleet learning, which is a noble goal, but probably not something people would do en masse or pay thousands more for.

Tesla is implying it’s a lower mental load to get more people to use it.. while having TOS that holds you responsible if you pay less attention.
"This leaves an initial bad impression in Kyoto central station, where you have many people arrive from Osaka and you end up with people stood on both sides of the escalators."

Thanks! That explains a lot.

It was pretty clear that you usually stand on the left, except in Osaka.

Kyoto, however, confused the hell out of me, because people sometimes stood on the left, sometimes on the right. Very un-Japanese, I dare say.

Now I know why.
And what about the ultrasonic sensors?
A lot of users seem to know what they are getting into though.

https://youtu.be/QM5z0dW60KE?t=279
Theres a stand alone drawing library roughjs.com that might be useful for more generic drawings. I believe people have used it with reveal.js to use them in presentations.
Best of all, if you check the traffic, you still see it sending your info off to Google Analytics.
- Ips in general are not bound to some specific person. It's only because laws require that ISPs keep PII allocation data that they become personally identifying. Perhaps it would be easier to plug that leak right there.

- ah, well google suggests you ask consent even for content-based ads

- 99% of the sites show you what they have on you when you use them. The provision could be to have a separate download page when that is not the case. If every business must have an unauthenticated download page, it becomes easier to get other people's data via phishing.

its not fud. this is the internet. lets talk again in a few months.
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I read manuals, back-to-back. Admittingly, I skip legalese disclaimers because they are intellectual noise. However, many manuals contain golden nuggets of information revealing that most people misuse a certain product or don't use it the best possible way.

A well written manual can be a teaching lesson about the relevant stuff given by domain experts for regular users. Who'd say No to that?
Is there some name to this style? I'm seeing it more often these days, but just can't nail it down to a framework or so...
That was the most interesting takeaway.

I was really wondering if train and tram conductors are practicing a low level version of kung-fu or so.

Now I know why they do that.

Very interesting & thanks for the link.
Does anyone abduct the poorest boy in the village and then demand a massive ransom? The parents can't pay even if they want to and the whole endeavor would be a waste of time. Unless your revenue is high enough where you would even be able to pay a fine of a million here or there I don't wouldn't let that put off any side projects or small startups because of this.
How is this a footgun significantly more than the plethora of other vehicles with the same functionality?
> Apple's hometown jury decided that Apple's
> patents rounded corners drove market demand
> for Samsung's infringed device almost
> single-handedly - not their brilliants
> displays, battery, or even wireless radio
> functionality.

You're completely losing the plot here here.

The reason for the high amount of damages is not
because it's believed that Samsung phones wouldn't
have sold as well without rounded corners or
whatever other Apple patent they infringed, but
that they infringed patents and Apple should thus
be awarded punitive damages.

Leaving aside this specific case, that's a very
reasonable thing to do in a world where you have
patents. If companies could violate patents and
only have to pay damages in the amount that they
supposedly gained from violating the patent if
they got caught they'd violate them with impunity.

That would turn the patent system into some system
of enforced license fees without having to ask for
permission, which it's not, it's meant to grant
exclusivity in the market for a limited time
period.
It's fine. Very Scala/Java/Mesos heavy. Big company integration problems now instead of startup scaling problems.

They still use some of the distributed storage we built almost a decade ago though.
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> 'train spikes breaks if someone takes a step toward the edge' (Which they don't, even though it would potentially save lives).

A train's deceleration under maximum braking is far, far lower than a car. [1] suggests 1.2m/s² (paragraph 8).

[2] says the deceleration of a low-speed train crashing into the buffers at the end of the line in a station should not be more than 2.45m/s² (paragraph 35). That caused "minor injuries" to some passengers.

Trains do slow down earlier if the platform they are approaching is very crowded, but there's not really anything else they can do.

[1] https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/547c906640f0b...

[2] https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/547c906640f0b...
Do you remember the fixit kitten?
Hm. Any one hear willing to talk about the fact that the driver didn't had the hands on the wheel for 80 seconds before the crash and got away with "just" a broken foot?
Absolutely. The current 1192x580 is far too low, especially for the backgrounds with thin lines like "Particles".

By the way, the Particles backgrounds get slower and slower every time I choose a different color scheme. It seems to be calling updateEdges / drawEdge N times per frame, where N is the number of color schemes you've viewed.

Looks beautiful, though. I'll definitely be checking back for high res versions.
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"He wrote to professors in Semitic studies around the country asking for guidance. They all replied, “Nobody starts with Akkadian—you need to learn Biblical Hebrew, classical Arabic, and Syriac first,” he said. For two years, he studied those languages on his own in the library. After graduating, he was accepted into Harvard’s doctoral program in Semitic philology."

wow he learned 3 languages on his own. Very impressive.