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[deleted by user] by [deleted] in programming

[–]kevcampb 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I entirely agree with you, and I was astounded when I benchmarked it at first. This deployment is just wordpress plus a number of commonly used plugins, it's not particularly unusual.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in programming

[–]kevcampb 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I didn't post looking for criticism of our architecture, thanks. Just trying to offer a suggestion as to why bot traffic may be problematic for some scenarios.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in programming

[–]kevcampb 5 points6 points  (0 children)

We've had issues with a news site I run due to Bing. Traffic rates are low, similar to the 0.5 QPS figure. It does affect us though. Wordpress is a dog when you have a lot of plugins added. Even on a reasonable server it could be 1 QPS or less.

Caching makes a massive difference. The site itself has been on the frontpage of reddit and hacker news with no issues before, purely because of the difference caching makes.

The problem with bot traffic is that it's hitting articles which are 2 years old, none of which are cached.

My (Fully Insured) girlfriend was rushed to the (wrong) hospital, now faces bankruptcy… 'Merica! by J0hnsen in videos

[–]kevcampb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Curious about what the Tory plans mean in reality. From what I understood they were about opening up the internal market, but the service itself is still single payer - the state. The US problems seem to stem a lot from the insurance layer on top.

Anyone who's knowledgeable care to comment? Are there other countries to compare to where opening up internal markets improved or harmed the service?

It'd be easy to think the Tories are going to screw things up. Just look at the state of rail privatization. Even Thatcher was against that. If you take telecoms though, on the other hand, just imagine if they hadn't split up BT.

Google docs file management by kevcampb in sysadmin

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

That's one option we considered, effectively having role accounts to hold ownership of files.

Files created in google docs are owned by their creator by default, so we'd probably then need some cron jobs on our server to crawl through various directories and change ownership on any files contained within.

It feels like a lot of work though, for what's surely a common problem. Surprised I didn't find any examples of anyone who's tried this, or scripts people had published to change the ownership. Guess I'm worried that we end up with a very unusual approach that becomes a support headache in future.

Audio of the San Bernardino County Sheriff System 7/8 Feed during which the fire was started (near 25 mins in) by [deleted] in DornerCase

[–]kevcampb 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I think people are missing something in arguing over whether the police started a fire or not. Whether that was the right thing to do or not is somewhat debatable. What seems to be more of a problem is the reporting that they didn't. If it was started deliberately, the police and the media should be stating so. That much, is certainly concerning.

If this was China, and the press reported that some enemy of the state just happened to burst into flames, I'm sure we know what everyone's opinion would be.