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Comment · 1 month ago
Yes every repo is either one or the other but you fix that by rehashing the entire repo. Everyone can do this independently. It's entirely possible to maintain to identical repos in SHA1 and SHA256 mode but for the most part I suspect once updated people will simply pull down the new repo and use git 3.0 as a required version.

As migrations go, it's reading as simple to me. You'll just have to backpoint the commit signatures. I must assume there's a backwards compatible reference for them in git 3, right?

Or drop them and reference the old structure in a dire pinch.

Comment · 3 months ago
"One bad programmer can easily create two new jobs a year."

-John Cook

Comment · 7 months ago
> Overwork is an issue in general, but I don't know that it was the actual issue here.

One controller working tower duties, ground movement duties, coordinating with other ATC functions off the radio, an active emergency request, and giving clearance amendments all within 2 minutes. It's insane understaffing. On top of it, there was nobody there to take over after the crash. He worked the whole cleanup for the next 30 minutes.

This is an Olympian level elite Air Traffic Controller who was setup to fail.

I've visited towers, center facilities, and have flying (and some instructing) in the San Francisco airspace for 10 years. That kind of failure is systemic way above an individual.

Comment · 7 months ago
It's got to be one of these:

FOB Shipping Point (or Origin): Responsibility transfers to the buyer as soon as the goods leave the seller's premises. You book it when it leaves your loading dock.

FOB Destination: The seller retains risk and costs until the goods reach the buyer’s location.

The sale doesn't happen until the asset transfer occurs. Before that any cash you get from the sale is balanced by the liability to actually produce the good or refund the money. Or more likely you don't get any cash but can't record the bill as accounts receivable. It's not receivable until the transfer point is crossed.

Comment · 11 months ago
2003: http://www.geology.smu.edu/~dpa-www/attention_span. 22 Requests / second was a big deal.

Perhaps the best benchmark for the maximum potential traffic of the community at that time comes from a Slashdot post by Rob Malda (CmdrTaco) on September 14, 2001 (https://news.slashdot.org/story/01/09/13/154222/handling-the...), detailing the site's traffic following the 9/11 attacks. This load on Slashdot itself represents the full attention of the userbase and was higher than the site normally experienced:

Normal Load: 18–20 dynamic page views per second.

Peak Load: 60–70 page views per second.

Daily Volume: 3 million page views (up from a daily average of 1.4 million).

To handle this higher load, Slashdot itself had to disable dynamic content and serve static HTML to survive this load. Their database could not handle the query volume.

A typical "Slashdotting" pushed 5 to 10 Mbps of traffic. Since many sites were hosted on T1 lines (1.5 Mbps), the pipe was instantly clogged, resulting in 100% packet loss for legitimate users.

I remember when Slashdot broke because they used an Unsigned Mediumint counter for a primary key and finally overflowed it with 16 million comments over the life of the site on Nov 6, 2006.

It was a different time back then when we still measured our installed RAM in megabytes.

Comment · 1 year ago
I've advocated for this as well but called it a lease. We agree to run this for the duration of the lease and agree to determine whether we should extend / re-sign the lease a period of time before the expiration.

Keeps from changing up too often but also gives a conscious evaluation.

Comment · 1 year ago
Am I reading it correctly that you asked for a read only access token, never received the token or accessed the site with your software, and got a take down notice for your demo that only had fake data hours after asking if you could read data?
Comment · 2 years ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watchclock

I found the pre-electronic way of having a portable audit clock that had keys attached to buildings with numbers that would stamp the clock rather fascinating.

Comment · 2 years ago
If your wifi client device can't find an access point, it goes around emitting every saved wifi network you've got. You can learn an awful lot from that.
Comment · 2 years ago
Maine followed in 1978. The way life should be.
Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
Intel's profit, and revenue, have declined for 3 consecutive years. Their price to earnings ratio is 36.

Nvidia's revenue is now greater than Intel's with 20% of the employees that Intel has. Their PE ratio is 78, roughly double that of Intel.

The market valued Nvidia as growing and Intel as not.

Comment · 2 years ago
Well I'd tell you that they aren't a thing in California.
Comment · 2 years ago
But also, the hell with this. I'm still sour enough about the TSA without the concept of, "I'll buy tickets for me and three of my friends then see who wants to go," becoming impossible or gated by ticket transfer fees.
Comment · 2 years ago
Been playing since very early release and love this amazing game.

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