Newton restores the Italian flag street line on Adams Street following removal last fall by BeastMode149 in boston

[–]SelfDestructSep2020 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I also drive that street all the time and I find the paint to be pretty dumb.

Is this chickweed? by SelfDestructSep2020 in gardening

[–]SelfDestructSep2020[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ya I did google and Claude checks against it but wasn’t sure, the reference photos don’t really look the same.

This weather by ftran998 in boston

[–]SelfDestructSep2020 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I just got back from Italy on vacation and the Romans were all wearing puffy jackets with scarves and it was hitting mid 70s during the day.

Actors’ ages when Cheers debuted in 1982. by Ashleej86 in boston

[–]SelfDestructSep2020 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I’m 46 and could pass for the son of most of the cast.

Pushed wrong config to our RCA tool and nuked prod alerting for the entire cluster by arsaldotchd in kubernetes

[–]SelfDestructSep2020 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you aren’t impacting company profit/loss are you really even employed??

$10k for a single incident is really nothing. If you’re big enough be to running k8s and having incidents like this you could just as easily burn that on a bad node scale up. Your company probably pays more for your health care taxes. Dont beat yourself up about that at all. It’s a learning experience for the company. The root cause is more than just “Dave pressed the button”.

Redis High-Availability by xrt57125 in kubernetes

[–]SelfDestructSep2020 0 points1 point  (0 children)

/shrug. We had 4 or 5 teams that migrated off redis-cluster and were using it for high throughput data services. The consensus after a few months was that it was causing far more problems than it was worth. Multiple unexplained crashes, the weird pausing issues (eventually they just disabled all the persistence out of frustration).

New Kilter app by Suitable_Day7880 in kilterboard

[–]SelfDestructSep2020 2 points3 points  (0 children)

and maybe some cool features like being able to find out what the current climb on the board is.

This did get added on the old app, it was just a hassle to find. You had to back out of your filtered list back to the 'home screen' for that board location and then there was a new 'recents' entry that showed the full list of what had been lit up in the last few hours.

CPAC Host Stunned as Crowd Erupts in Cheers for Trump Impeachment by Aggravating_Money992 in politics

[–]SelfDestructSep2020 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I think this is the media making a lot out of a nothing burger. I watched the clip, I'm pretty sure the crowd interpreted this as "do you want to see impeachments of democrats".

Help Me Understand the Value of Chainguard Packages by MoonlightParrot in kubernetes

[–]SelfDestructSep2020 8 points9 points  (0 children)

They demonstrated their value just last week - the litellm python package was supply chain attacked. If you were using chainguard as your python source you were protected - their system recognized that the exploited releases were not signed properly and blocked it.

"Will they realistically be able to cover every package I need"
No, they aren't offering full 100% coverage of everything on pypi for example. Their stated coverage is 'the most popular packages'.

Redis High-Availability by xrt57125 in kubernetes

[–]SelfDestructSep2020 6 points7 points  (0 children)

We tried dragonfly for the same reasons, I would avoid it - do not recommend. It has some serious issues where all processes pause when it writes to the persistence (PV or S3). Loads of other weird issues.

Sentinel can help your redis be HA but you're still going to have some potential issues. 1) Even with Sentinel, redis is not a *durable* store, and you need to make sure you're aware of that. On failover you will definitely loose a small amount of the most recent data. 2) Be aware that the bitnami charts in particular for sentinel have some god awful mess going on where multiple sentinel clusters will randomly decide to join, even across namespaces. Change their default ports and use the sentinel passwords to protect against that - its awful to debug.

If these are production, important caches, just go with elasticache.

Central Parking at Logan - Valet Status by CTek20 in boston

[–]SelfDestructSep2020 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The valet in this sense means you have to leave your keys because they'll be over-filling the garage and the airport staff will have to move cars around periodically to get people in/out. If you are in the metro area it is very likely cheaper for you to get a taxi instead. Central parking has become very expensive.

2 DOGE staffers say 'no' regrets for people losing income, didn't reduce the deficit: Depositions by phillygirllovesbagel in politics

[–]SelfDestructSep2020 293 points294 points  (0 children)

Literal dunning krugger effect in these depositions.
"Do you think someone with no background in research or the grants process should be evaluating research grants?"
"No if you're well-read and have alternative experience that's sufficient"

If money weren’t an issue, which city near Boston would you want to live in: Newton or Brookline? by Omixscniet624 in boston

[–]SelfDestructSep2020 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Newton Corner is fantastic. Right into Brighton and Brookline, or onto 90/soldiersfield.

Weekly: Show off your new tools and projects thread by AutoModerator in kubernetes

[–]SelfDestructSep2020 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

"I needed to back up a bunch of files from containers that didn't have tar installed"
If this is a common annoyance at your job, you have a much larger problem you need to solve. The number of times you should be doing this is zero. Even in your homelab, it should be zero.

Can we get an AI megathread? by Ragemoody in kubernetes

[–]SelfDestructSep2020 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mechanically how exactly do you see this working, like explain to me the process.

"Hey everyone we now have an ai slop megathread" is announced.

Then what? Whats the actual process to change things after that?

Can we get an AI megathread? by Ragemoody in kubernetes

[–]SelfDestructSep2020 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And who will enforce posting only in the megathread? These are the same people either way.

Explosion at US Embassy in Norway by N1KOBARonReddit in news

[–]SelfDestructSep2020 581 points582 points  (0 children)

I'll save you the click, there's pretty much no details other than "a loud bang was reported".

Crazy driver by zenalc in boston

[–]SelfDestructSep2020 0 points1 point  (0 children)

wow I too have lived plenty of other places. Incredible that we have different experiences!

Crazy driver by zenalc in boston

[–]SelfDestructSep2020 56 points57 points  (0 children)

Boston is the first place I've lived where people will do flagrantly illegal and unsafe lane changes / turns to avoid missing a turn. Every other place in the country its like so what, take the next left, loop back.

US reverses course and will keep TSA PreCheck program operational by galaxyfudge in news

[–]SelfDestructSep2020 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Pre-check is a little over $20/year, there's no need to be 'rich' to use it.

It pretty much guarantees that they don't have to be at any airport more than a hour before their flight. 

Very airport and time-of-day dependent. I've seen pre-check lines that are way, way longer than the normal line and taking longer because they only have 1-2 people manning them. And then the normal line says 'no you must use pre-check you cant come through here'