[-] nick@midwest.social 62 points 1 month ago

My five year old got a week out of school suspension and made to go to the kids psych ward because she pretended to shoot someone on the playground as part of a game. The other kid narced on her and it turned into a big fucking thing.

Fuck this bullshit country.

The psych ward doctors said “this is the stupidest thing we’ve ever dealt with”

[-] nick@midwest.social 91 points 1 month ago

It’s concrete, not cement. (Sidewalks for example, or foundations of buildings, etc)

Cement is an ingredient in concrete.

[-] nick@midwest.social 75 points 1 month ago

INC-224, never forget.

I am an infra engineer at a fairly large scale (not like Amazon, but we have some BIG customers) SaaS company; despite our scale, we are only like 250 people and of them only about 90 engineers. We store a bunch of data in MySQL.

15:30:00, I get a page “MySQL table is full.” I immediately know my day is ruined, since I’ve never heard of this error before, but know it ain’t great.

15:30:10, every Pagerduty escalation policy in the entire company gets bombarded with pages.

I look at the database instance. The table size is “only” 16TiB, so it’s a bit confusing.

We are hard down for several hours as we scramble to delete data or somehow free up space. Turns out, google backs ClpudSQL MySQL instances with ext4 disks instead of zfs, and the max file size on ext4 is… you guessed it, 16TiB.

We learned a LOT of lessons from this, and are now offloading a shitload of json into either MongoDB or gcs, depending on the requirements. The largest table is down to 3TiB now :D

[-] nick@midwest.social 77 points 3 months ago

Guillotines obviously.

[-] nick@midwest.social 101 points 4 months ago

“For good” someone might need to learn what that means. Google is going to axe this I’m sure.

[-] nick@midwest.social 71 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Why would you ever do something so disgusting?

Go to Mississippi I mean, it’s the literal worst state in the worst country.

[-] nick@midwest.social 75 points 5 months ago

Stop using google.

[-] nick@midwest.social 98 points 6 months ago

“If our twitter bid succeeds, we will defeat the spam bots or die trying,” wrote Elon Musk in May 2022

Option two anytime now plz

[-] nick@midwest.social 100 points 9 months ago
[-] nick@midwest.social 83 points 10 months ago

That’s not very cache money of you

[-] nick@midwest.social 99 points 10 months ago

Man he even looks like he’s starting his metamorphosis into trump.

[-] nick@midwest.social 100 points 11 months ago

The paywall is delicious irony. Or whatever makes the story unreadable until I subscribe.

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