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New comment by earless1 in "An Update on Heroku"

earless1 — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 16:12:56 +0000

From a business perspective, this means they will not be investing in innovation on the platform anymore. Instead, they will focus their efforts on maintaining the current operations and keeping the lights on.

New comment by earless1 in "No More Hidden Changes: How MySQL 9.6 Transforms Foreign Key Management"

earless1 — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 22:49:07 +0000

https://www.percona.com/blog/separating-fud-and-reality-has-...

This has been debunked, they've never used Github as their main development area

New comment by earless1 in "Attention lapses due to sleep deprivation due to flushing fluid from brain"

earless1 — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 14:40:32 +0000

So biological garbage collection pauses then? skip sleep, and the brain tries to run gc cycles during runtime. Causing attention and performance latency spikes. Evolution wrote the original JVM.

New comment by earless1 in "Ask HN: How do you say “I don’t know, but I’ll get back to you” confidently?"

earless1 — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 14:42:58 +0000

In the situations you mentioned, it doesn't seem the end goal is to be 100% correct about things. Approaching these situations with a curious mindset is key. You may be able to provide a set of options that encompass your understanding of the thing being asked without pinning yourself down to a specific outcome. Once you've allowed folks to understand the potential options, you can tell them you can get back to them with specifics and understanding of implications.

New comment by earless1 in "Zero downtime migrations"

earless1 — Thu, 05 May 2022 14:56:07 +0000

It also works fine with Aurora, as long as you have binary logging enabled.

New comment by earless1 in "Emitting domain events with the outbox pattern"

earless1 — Fri, 05 Nov 2021 02:09:03 +0000

> The pattern also puts an additional burden on the database. Therefore, we should consider the potential performance hit on the database

Massive understatement, one of the downsides that we've found with this pattern is the increase increase in binlog size for our database replication topology. One must be very careful with this pattern as to not create downstream issues with replication delay and such.

If taking advantage of this pattern in MySQL land, you should look into filtered replication to avoid this outbox table from being copied to every single replica. https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/change-replication-f...

New comment by earless1 in "Bike crash left Spokane man unconscious, so his Apple Watch called 911"

earless1 — Wed, 25 Sep 2019 02:57:51 +0000

The watch deactivates most features and locks as soon as you take it off of your wrist. You'd need to re-enter your password to unlock it. so it is unlikely that throwing it would trigger the feature.

Also from their initial demo, the fall detection uses more input than just a fast falling motion. Apparently humans fall in a specific way that the watch detects

New comment by earless1 in "The reliability pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework [pdf]"

earless1 — Sun, 21 Jul 2019 00:31:11 +0000

exponentially delayed replication down the replica chain...

New comment by earless1 in "“Apps intended for kids may not include third-party advertising or analytics”"

earless1 — Wed, 05 Jun 2019 21:42:35 +0000

I am not familiar with the ad space, but isn't there a provider/method/framework that would allow people embedding ads on their apps/websites/platforms to select the types or categories of ads they'd be comfortable with?

New comment by earless1 in "Building a PostgreSQL load tester"

earless1 — Mon, 08 Apr 2019 16:03:17 +0000

This is a space that I am deeply interested in, but my team have not found a good pattern around this for MySQL. We currently use a combination of MySQL Slap and Jmeter, but we feel like there are better ways to do this.

Anyone have nice patterns for this around MySQL?

New comment by earless1 in "Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an apparent outage"

earless1 — Wed, 13 Mar 2019 18:46:42 +0000

What manner of failure would cause such globally deployed and distributed systems to go down like this? I'm very interested to read up on this when they release details of the failure.

New comment by earless1 in "UK has banned all Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft from British airspace"

earless1 — Tue, 12 Mar 2019 15:25:29 +0000

I'm sure Borski saw Africa and didn't even bother to look up the safety record.

New comment by earless1 in "One in 10 children has 'Aids defence'"

earless1 — Thu, 29 Sep 2016 15:41:33 +0000

Are FBI and CIA not acronyms?

New comment by earless1 in "Managing Apt Repos in S3 Using Lambda"

earless1 — Sun, 07 Aug 2016 15:35:01 +0000

My co-worker just setup something similar for RPMs. his solution was Lambda + ECS - https://github.com/erumble/s3-repo-sync

New comment by earless1 in "Ask HN: What do you use as a shell script replacement?"

earless1 — Tue, 02 Aug 2016 20:28:15 +0000

You might want to start using a proper configuration management tool like Ansibe,Chef,Puppet, or Salt

New comment by earless1 in "Improvements in Firefox for Desktop and Android"

earless1 — Tue, 02 Aug 2016 19:57:34 +0000

If you would like to force enable Electrolysis. Within about:config create a new boolean pref named browser.tabs.remote.force-enable and set it to true.

New comment by earless1 in "Ansible 2.1 Released, with Network Automation, Containers"

earless1 — Thu, 26 May 2016 15:06:51 +0000

Keeping a system down while waiting for a hotfix is not an option for most operations. Rollbacks have their place and hotfixes have their place.

New comment by earless1 in "How we found a bug in Amazon ELB"

earless1 — Thu, 28 Apr 2016 19:06:31 +0000

I don't really see a benefit in updating existing instances in this manner. Launching replacement instances with the new code is much easier for us, and it also provides a super fast means of rollback.

New comment by earless1 in "Milwaukee Protocol"

earless1 — Tue, 15 Dec 2015 19:29:26 +0000

I learned about this via a RadioLab podcast episode. interesting listen http://www.radiolab.org/story/312245-rodney-versus-death/

New comment by earless1 in "Vault 0.4 released – a tool for managing secrets"

earless1 — Sat, 12 Dec 2015 04:27:12 +0000

In the past I've thought about using the an ec2-meta-data style endpoint for secrets that would accessible by an agent with some sort of key. that way the application always dynamically requests the secret as oppose to setting it statically at launch.