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Comment · 4 months ago
Reminds me a bit of how in the UK the guinea coin ceased to circulate decades ago but it's still used for bidding on racehorse auctions.

1 guinea = 1.05 pounds

You purchase the horse in guineas, seller gets paid in pounds, auctioneer keeps the missing 5% as commission.

Comment · 7 months ago
Comment · 2 years ago
It's more likely that the flight in question was using the three letter ICAO code in its passenger facing flight number. I have never known a three character IATA code to be used despite it technically being within the specification.
Comment · 3 years ago
I found that partitioning the table to allow parallel auto vacuuming was necessary to scale.
Comment · 3 years ago
HAProxy can also do redirects
Comment · 3 years ago
Definitely doable with HAProxy + lua. I've used it extensively for load balancing stateful apps.
Comment · 4 years ago
Thank you for your answer. That seems like a reasonable strategy.
Comment · 4 years ago
Presumably AGPLv3 is why Grafana would rather develop this than Cortex?
Comment · 4 years ago
Any bets on how many years before PCI DSS catches up?
Comment · 4 years ago
Forgetting to delete the old vulnerable app versions is pretty embarrassing.
Comment · 4 years ago
If you mean the Find My Device app it only asks for foreground location permission so I would assume the actual device "beacon" is part of the system not that app.
Comment · 5 years ago
Or my personal favourite; crontab -e versus crontab -r.

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