As a treat!

60k lol.

I regularly work with data in the 16tb range and weirdly my computer is fine. Git gud, doge scrubs.

I use Fastmail with ten custom domains.

I was going to switch to proton but im glad I never out in the effort.

Dumb.

It’s the European version yeah. I pirated a copy of eu windows and don’t have any of that trash either.

No.

Factorio. I think I’m 300 or so hours into the new expansion save, and 4000h total playtime.

Pirate a copy of windows 11 N. It’s the eu version that doesn’t have any of this dogshit in it.

lol what, a graph database for spreadsheet work?

Kagi is good. I’m very happy with it.

Bout ten years ago I pissed off some GNAA idiot trolls on twitter, so they did a whois on my domain. I never updated it from my mom’s address so over the course of a week my mom got three cases of qurans and several large pizza orders (10+ pizzas each time), all of which she declined to accept.

Lucky she didn’t get swatted, though this was before they became such a big thing.

You bet your ass all my domains now have privacy settings enabled.

Great for spammers too. I’ll stick with my privacy.

Same

Well if you want to be the one who retrofits google cloud to support it more widely, go to town. But I’m sure as hell not going to bother, I have other work to do. And also I don’t work at google.

Cloud infra engineer here.

Answer: I don’t think about it. Nothing fully supports it, so we pretend it doesn’t exist.

I have a closet in my home office. On the floor of it is a sleeping mat and soft blanket as the base, and I have a weighted blanket on top. When I start getting overwhelmed (or just need a quick mid-day nap) I’ll go in there, close the door, and lie down for a bit. It’s isolated and quiet.

When my cat hears that door open she will rush to be included, and will cuddle with me.

Delete this entire post or shut up, bro. You’re being nuked with downvotes.

That’s not really… possible at this point. We have thousands of customers (some very large ones, like A——n and G—-e and Wal___t) with tens or hundreds of millions of users, and even at lowest traffic periods do 60k+ queries per second.

This is the same MySQL instance I wrote about a while ago that hit the 16TiB table size limit (due to ext4 file system limitations) and caused a massive outage; worst I’ve been involved in during my 26 year career.

Every day I am shocked at our scale, considering my company is only like 90 engineers.

Just had to restart our main MySQL instance today. Had to do it at 6am since that’s the lowest traffic point, and boy howdy this resonates.

2 solid minutes of the stack throwing 500 errors until the db was back up.