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New comment by waiwai933 in "Incident with multple GitHub services"

waiwai933 — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 16:51:35 +0000

https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/ suggests that their combined uptime doesn't even meet 1 nine, let alone 2.

New comment by waiwai933 in "Fran Sans – font inspired by San Francisco light rail displays"

waiwai933 — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 01:19:15 +0000

I'm struggling with deciphering the punctuation symbol between the £ and the |. Any help? (Possibly the @ symbol but my reading of the text suggests there isn't a glyph for it, but maybe I'm wrong there)

New comment by waiwai933 in "NTSB Preliminary Report – UPS Boeing MD-11F Crash [pdf]"

waiwai933 — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 21:45:21 +0000

Looks like it's been moved to https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/Documents/DCA26MA024%20P...

New comment by waiwai933 in "Questions for Cloudflare"

waiwai933 — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 17:24:07 +0000

> Maybe some of these questions are obviously answered in a Cloudflare control panel or help document. I’m not in the market right now so I won’t do that research.

I don't love piling on, but it still shocks me that people write without first reading.

New comment by waiwai933 in "Near mid-air collision at LAX between American Airlines and ITA [video]"

waiwai933 — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 21:26:59 +0000

I can't speak to the first question, but as to the second, correct, US air traffic controllers are not currently being paid.

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/travel/shutdown-air-traff....

[2]: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/us/politics/shutdown-air-....

[3]: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/28/air-traffic-...

New comment by waiwai933 in "More than DNS: Learnings from the 14 hour AWS outage"

waiwai933 — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 12:02:55 +0000

You're both partially right. Some regions have random mapping for AZs; all regions since 2012 have static AZ mapping. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/global-infrastructure/latest/reg...

New comment by waiwai933 in "Boeing has started working on a 737 MAX replacement"

waiwai933 — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 20:41:49 +0000

I believe I read somewhere that announcing new emoji drives noticeably more OS upgrades compared to more boring security and stability update release notes.

New comment by waiwai933 in "iFixit iPhone Air teardown"

waiwai933 — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 14:08:27 +0000

I don’t own any AirPods, so this may be incredibly obvious to anyone who does, but what’s the moving part in them?

New comment by waiwai933 in "Apple introduces AppleCare One"

waiwai933 — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 13:54:34 +0000

The pricing on that page is From pricing; more expensive models have more expensive premiums - see e.g. https://www.apple.com/legal/sales-support/applecare/applecar... says iPhone AppleCare+ costs between $7.99 and $13.99 on a monthly plan.

New comment by waiwai933 in "Japan Post launches 'digital address' system"

waiwai933 — Thu, 29 May 2025 00:35:56 +0000

But now you only need to notify the post office, rather than every company who sends you physical mail.

New comment by waiwai933 in "Try Switching to Kagi"

waiwai933 — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 15:12:41 +0000

I did a free 30 day Kagi trial a month ago, and while I'm not sure I'm convinced the search results are better, they're definitely not worse. I've only fallen back to Google thrice, and in every case, Google didn't find anything useful either.

That said, the most astonishing thing was that I apparently do 100 searches a day, so 3k a month... I'm a bit sad that Kagi doesn't offer opt-in search history because I want to know what it is I'm searching for! (it's across three devices so looking at browser history is just above the threshold of how much effort I want to put in)

New comment by waiwai933 in "Most promoted and blocked domains on Kagi"

waiwai933 — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 01:03:53 +0000

I'm surprised - simply because I never get Pinterest results on Google. Now admittedly most of my searches aren't the kind where Pinterest is likely to have relevant results, but even then, surely I'd at least see them _sometimes_. But I literally can't remember the last time I saw a Pinterest search result.

Unless, as you suggest, they take over Google Images but not text search results? I could believe that I use Image search sufficiently rarely that I wouldn't have seen a Pinterest result.

New comment by waiwai933 in "In S3 simplicity is table stakes"

waiwai933 — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 15:05:16 +0000

S3 is great for being able to stick files somewhere and not have to think about any of the surrounding infrastructure on an ongoing basis [1]. You don't have to worry about keeping a RAID server, swapping out disks when one fails, etc.

For static hosting, it's fine, but as you say, it's not necessarily the cheapest, though you can bring the cost down by sticking a CDN (Cloudflare/CloudFront) in front of it. There are other use cases where it really shines though.

[1]: I say ongoing basis because you will need to figure out your security controls, etc. at the beginning so it's not totally no-thought.

New comment by waiwai933 in "In S3 simplicity is table stakes"

waiwai933 — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 13:38:11 +0000

> I’ve seen other examples where customers guess at new APIs they hope that S3 will launch, and have scripts that run in the background probing them for years! When we launch new features that introduce new REST verbs, we typically have a dashboard to report the call frequency of requests to it, and it’s often the case that the team is surprised that the dashboard starts posting traffic as soon as it’s up, even before the feature launches, and they discover that it’s exactly these customer probes, guessing at a new feature.

This surprises me; has anyone done something similar and benefitted from it? It's the sort of thing where I feel like you'd maybe get a result 1% of the time if that, and then only years later when everyone has moved on from the problem they were facing at the time...

New comment by waiwai933 in "It's not a crime if we do it with an app"

waiwai933 — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 20:24:17 +0000

Ah thanks, for some reason the description had made me think there was some dodgy HR/payroll startup rather than the gig economy generally.

New comment by waiwai933 in "It's not a crime if we do it with an app"

waiwai933 — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 15:54:16 +0000

> It's not wage theft if we do it with an app.

Which one is this? (Taxi = Uber, Hotel room = Airbnb, Unregistered security = various crypto?)

New comment by waiwai933 in "US newspapers are deleting old crime stories, offering subjects a 'clean slate'"

waiwai933 — Sat, 04 Jan 2025 19:35:09 +0000

The US has a very weak legal deposit scheme compared to e.g. the UK. IIRC, legal deposit is only required where the author applies for copyright registration, so it’s extremely unlikely that a newspaper would be subject to the legal deposit scheme.

New comment by waiwai933 in "Daisy, an AI granny wasting scammers' time"

waiwai933 — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 17:42:02 +0000

They're not intercepting calls over their network from suspected bad actors; rather, they've created some phone numbers that always go to Daisy - see https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2024/11/virgin-media-o...

New comment by waiwai933 in "NYC Subway Station Layouts"

waiwai933 — Sun, 10 Nov 2024 00:06:10 +0000

London's are available at: https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/3d-maps-of-every-underg...

New comment by waiwai933 in "UK rail minister got engineer sacked for raising safety concerns"

waiwai933 — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 10:58:39 +0000

My understanding is that the crush risk at Euston is entirely an operational issue of Network Rail's making (NR being the station facility owner), by deliberately not announcing platforms until the last moment, causing passengers to run to the platform en masse. If platforms were announced earlier, the crush risk would be seriously mitigated.

The obvious next question is whether platforms _can_ be announced earlier - to which the answer is, as I understand it, yes. The platforms are known about much further in advance and the reason for the delay appears to be a combination of intransigence by Euston management and a lack of sufficient ticket gateline staff by the train operators.