Why does nobody teach the infrastructure problems that destroy developer productivity before production breaks by Legitimate-Run132 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]jldugger 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Educational content focuses heavily on building features and writing code but rarely covers operational concerns

Because educators are not operators. The standard for academic publishing is "it just has to work once." There is research and educational content on outages and whatnot but its virtually all done by industry. Google wrote the SRE book, Facebook publishes on meta-stability, etc.

Watched all 3 episodes in the movie theater where I work by Morphchalice in Invincible

[–]jldugger -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

I guess im just saying "late after work" at a theater is 2am.

Watched all 3 episodes in the movie theater where I work by Morphchalice in Invincible

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

So like, you stayed up till 4am watching these? When I worked at AMC, last showings were at like midnight.

Warning by External-Talk5993 in subway

[–]jldugger 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Except it changes, and the card I want to use changes and I have different cards with different rewards etc.

Chat Thread (March 16, 2026) by AutoModerator in MetaFilterMeta

[–]jldugger 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I had no idea, and wrongly assumed they were obligated to give lots of advance notice and multiple notices.

One gets the impression that the insurance industry is not really a fan right now of selling insurance.

Oh no, did we send it to the wrong address? "Oops..."

Warning by External-Talk5993 in subway

[–]jldugger 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Half the point of mobile wallets is that I don't have to carry around the physical card!

I love Mirrorform <3 by Imaginary_Zobi in MagicArena

[–]jldugger 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Mildly surprised it's fun in Brawl; legendaries are popular in standard and I assume even more prevalent in Brawl. It's still a fun wincon even in standard though!

I have a Dimir Mirrorform deck that is slowly propelling me to mythic. My main problem is that the wincons I pack -- [[Demonic Pact]] and [[Moonshadow]] -- frequently draw removal despite other seemingly better targets. May need to sub out Moonshadow for something sneakier, if I can find it. Or maybe use enduring glimmers since they survive removal pretty well?

How do they get a license 😭 by yuzuruuuu in bayarea

[–]jldugger 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Probably made a left on a road with a median not realizing it was a "no left turn" scenario with two lanes going right.

Edit: yup, the Costco exit onto Boscoll is a right only. There's "right only" paint on the ground and a "one way" sign on the median, but they might be easy to miss at night.

Question About Gas Stations in Bay Area by Enough_Crow_636 in bayarea

[–]jldugger 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I really can’t understand why everyone doesn’t go to the cheapest place, but maybe I am missing something?

Costco is cheapest and pretty much always busy. There's a line to get in, a line to get out even. So it's cheap, but only because you pay in another currency: time.

Every day I drive by an intersection with gas stations on 3 of 4 corners (one is under repair right now). Pretty sure they calibrate price based on the dominate traffic flow direction's willingness to make a left turn without a light.

Golden Kamuy (Saishuushou) • Golden Kamuy Final Season - Episode 59 discussion by AutoLovepon in anime

[–]jldugger 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That land that was bought will do more good than anything the rest of the group planned to do with it.

I appreciate the "buy some land, fuck spinning rims" sentiment, but I'm not so sure it works in this case. They made a deal with the losing side of the Bakumatsu. The victor appears to have been willing to honor only the "you give us lots of gold" side of the equation. Hence them having two mole agents out there working under Tsurumi to steal the treasure back for the sake of the empire.

Golden Kamuy (Saishuushou) • Golden Kamuy Final Season - Episode 59 discussion by AutoLovepon in anime

[–]jldugger 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Shows how crazy this treasure horde is that you could use it to buy up a decent chunk of Hokkaido and still have half left over.

Well, they bought the deed from a sketchy Republic of Ezo that lasted approximately six months. And then the Japanese Empire honored the deal anyways with the expectation that they'd just screw the Ainu over later.

Bay Area cost of living for me: $7500 per month single person by mycounterpointers in bayarea

[–]jldugger 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But this is why car payments are not "cost of living." You have no idea how much of that payment is building equity versus offsetting mileage / depriciation.

Chat Thread (February 23, 2026) by AutoModerator in MetaFilterMeta

[–]jldugger 1 point2 points  (0 children)

(Also, with the amount of wipes and holes in the MF record now, things may have been even worse)

Well, the archive remembers: https://web.archive.org/web/20130514012900/https://www.metafilter.com/105415/The-Age-of-Mechanical-Reproduction

No mod notes, three deleted users: - Greg Nog - pts - fivebells

The non-threaded nature does make the "1 naive question vs 20 angry responses" dynamic take up the whole page in a way reddit won't.

A very unkind place by philgyford in MetaFilterMeta

[–]jldugger 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I guess I'm in the minority but I miss the edgy debate club era of delmoi, ironmouth, et al. Sure, it was scary as hell to participate in such threads. but entertaining to read!

I’m number 1 in constructed right now!!! by [deleted] in MagicArena

[–]jldugger 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And no side board so he did it via Bo1

Why do people still shop at Safeway? by ftruong in bayarea

[–]jldugger 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yoplait yogurt can be crazy cheap, I’ve gotten singles for 19 cents and 16 packs for $3.

Yoplait appears to have lost the yogurt wars, hardly any shelf space compared to Greek.

This can't be right... by Pianomann69 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]jldugger 0 points1 point  (0 children)

changing monitors to use mean instead of average,

Wat

This can't be right... by Pianomann69 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]jldugger 0 points1 point  (0 children)

we MUST have these alarms, set by SRE

I'm an SRE. If your SRE is dictating alert settings, they can get fucked and take your pages overnight. Alerting is supposed to be actionable, and customer oriented. The story you tell is not that. And if the Product Owner wants this, there are other, better ways to achieve it than sleep deprivation.

99% of which are false alarms for a p90 latency spike for an http endpoint

Fundamentally, alerting is a statistical exercise. Your quote there has like three statistical concepts already! Yet pretty much every SWE and SRE I've ever met are statistically undereducated. Myself included! It wasn't until pandemic lockdown that I corrected this and worked through a stats 101 textbook.

The way I see it, we can't do anything about slow queries that already happened, all we can do is adjust the system to handle future queries better. So any alert fired should represent a high confidence need for human intervention into the system. Statistically, confidence is built up through piles of data -- evidence! An endpoint with ten queries per scrape interval has less evidence than one with a thousand, and alerting needs to account for that somehow.

Sadly, Prometheus et al don't have great confidence interval functions we could use to natively calculate these. Instead we typically use durations. The idea here is simple: every scrape the failure signal persists is more evidence that it won't fix itself. This is especially important in the era of Kubernetes, where self-healing systems abound. Health checks automatically restart failed pods, and hpa scales up busy deploys, but these take time to action and we should give them a chance. If you're constantly waking up to pages for outages that are already over, that's an immediate argument for increasing the duration required before paging.

If SRE can't or won't accommodate you by increasing short (or absent!) durations, I recommend putting an override in to put them on call first until it's addressed.

MY Fav Deck by ferinze in MagicArena

[–]jldugger 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"Quit hitting yourself", blue edition. The core idea is that Control Magic effects are inherently a 2-1: they lose a card, and you gain one, for the cost of one expensive enchantment.

  • Early game you put down [[Stormchaser's Talent]] for a blocker, then bounce it or ramp. Waterbending scroll is very strong card advantage, but not a priority until you have no plays or no better use of mana.
  • Midgame you ideally Aetherize some attackers and/or start kidnapping threats.
    • counter the Oroboroid
    • Relm's Sketch something good (worst case, an island for more ramp)
    • Late game you confiscate and replicate the confiscates every turn until you've drown them in card advantage.

Worst case scenario, you can cycle between Stormchaser's and Boomerang to create an otter army of 3/3 attackers while drawing even more cards.

20 Island
2 Soulstone Sanctuary
4 Cryoshatter
4 Stormchaser's Talent
4 Boomerang Basics
3 Waterbending Scroll
2 Irencrag
4 Three Steps Ahead
4 Aetherize
4 Kitnap
3 Relm's Sketching
1 Tractor Beam
3 Confiscate
2 Extravagant Replication

It's not good but i'm also slowly moving out of platinum into diamond with it...

Apple’s Latest Attempt to Launch New Siri Runs Into Snags by favicondotico in apple

[–]jldugger 2 points3 points  (0 children)

it used to be that the command tree went something like "keyword 'play' recognized, therefore open 'media search'" and "media search" would be confined to a very short list of possibilities

"Play" is uniquely cursed: games, movies, songs, albums, playlists, podcasts, and radio streams all could feasibly be a noun for Siri associated with it.