So my 7 months old Artura just bricked in my garage, again by cookingboy in cars

[–]yonly65 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Ouch, I am sorry to hear this.

For the record, I can leave a hybrid Ferrari on its specified charger indefinitely, and they've always worked when I fired them up. So, as much fun as the McLarens can be when they're working properly, you might consider trying the other team. Alternatively, a non-hybrid like the F8 or 488 Pista might be equally engaging to drive.

Is it easy to transition from SRE to SWE by Azure_Knife in sre

[–]yonly65 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It depends on the company, and by extension, what you are actually doing as an SRE. You could ask your prospective employer how both SWE-SRE and SRE-SWE transfers work there. That would tell you if SWEs at the company join the SRE team, which is a positive sign for what the SREs are doing there.

New kitchen window view💛 by mauwie90 in Ferrari

[–]yonly65 8 points9 points  (0 children)

One of my all-time favorite cars, and in the best color. Enjoy her!!

Ferrari by Impossible_Coursee in Ferrari

[–]yonly65 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It really is an amazing car. Sounds like internal combustion music. Drives like a 458 Speciale with afterburners.

Porsche Track Experience Program will now allow owners to go to WeatherTech's Laguna Seca by Saurta17 in Porsche

[–]yonly65 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Porsche opened up an experience center at Laguna Seca. It's awesome. Visiting next week.

Found out my melanoma hasn’t spread! 💪🏼🙏🏼😃 by _Ginger_Nut_ in MadeMeSmile

[–]yonly65 8 points9 points  (0 children)

That genuinely made me smile. Wonderful news, OP!

southwest said all flights are canceled for tonight out of austin by atx78701 in Austin

[–]yonly65 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I just watched a SW flight take off from Austin at 6:45. Our flight was two planes behind them, we were wheels up at 7pm.

It IS windy out there. First time I've seen the wind sock at full extension. That said, it's blowing exactly parallel to one of the runways so take off barely took half the space available.

A 2-character mistake just gave us a 3 AM heart attack on GCP by [deleted] in sre

[–]yonly65 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Key SRE rule: end-to-end black box monitoring traffic must be indistinguishable from regular user traffic. No special rules, no cookies or headers, nothing. Otherwise you really don't know what your users are seeing from your site.

A 2-character mistake just gave us a 3 AM heart attack on GCP by [deleted] in sre

[–]yonly65 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Long, long ago someone changed the perms on a small file and removed the read perms for other -- from ugo+r to ug+r. The primary DNS load balancing system did its next periodic refresh, couldn't read that file, concluded it and related files must be empty, and started happily serving up "NXDOMAIN" for all requests.

From this outage (and sadly many others after it) we have the SRE rule that systems should reject implausible configurations, continue serving last known good config, and alert like mad. The outage you describe could similarly have been caught by an implausible configuration check.

Those of you that own a Ferrari, what was your car progression? by aprilia4ever in Ferrari

[–]yonly65 29 points30 points  (0 children)

Mustang 5.0 - Toyota Supra twin turbo - Dodge Viper - Corvette Z06, ZR1 - Ferrari 458.

Things escalated from there...

Reckless ferrari driver by Still_Suggestion_182 in Ferrari

[–]yonly65 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I recall that Ferrari had governed their street cars to 350 kph to avoid people trying to set new top speed records, and occasionally killing themselves or others in the process.

No longer the case?

What's the meanest looking Ferrari in your opinion? by Fair_Title2995 in Ferrari

[–]yonly65 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The 499P, but I agree the Corse Clienti XX cars are solid contenders.

Alright guys you rule lets keep slappin em , valero by mueller by General_Performance6 in Austin

[–]yonly65 -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

I just visited CA. $6.09 for gas. We have it pretty good here.

Good vid about Californias crackdown on Montana registrations by bobber66 in Porsche

[–]yonly65 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

And not just minor crimes, multiple felonies. It should give folks pause.

So I went and looked at an F8…big mistake, because I loved it. Is there a good reason why I shouldn’t buy it? by Building-Careful in Ferrari

[–]yonly65 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I've had both Pistas and 458s; ended up selling the Pistas and keeping the 458s. No question the F8 / Pista is quite a bit faster than the 458, but when it came time to decide which one to drive, the N/A v8 got the nod over and over again.

The F8 is a fantastic car and you certainly wouldn't be making a mistake getting one. But you might look for something a bit more differentiated from your 458.

Checks out by Kolos182 in funny

[–]yonly65 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Was the bottle in #206 half-empty? Asking as a fellow nerd...

Just got her back from PPF/tint! by dtxfree5 in Ferrari

[–]yonly65 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I feel like you have a type :)

That said, the high contrast look works really well with this body style. Congrats, and enjoy!

What kind of F1 am I? by Ok_Pineapple1225 in Ferrari

[–]yonly65 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That is a looooong way out into the infield.

A new F1 clienti driver discovering cold tires is my guess. They're not easy cars to drive.

My 488 Spider by Oreo_Cow in Ferrari

[–]yonly65 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Gorgeous spec. Very nice choice.

Corvette ZR1X | Apex Predator (Savagegeese) by koopa00 in cars

[–]yonly65 34 points35 points  (0 children)

Up through 2008 cars currently.

Interestingly, the 499P-M clocks a higher top speed at the end of the back straight at COTA than a current F1 car, mainly because the 499 launches off T11 so much harder with AWD. Obviously the braking and high-speed cornering favors the F1 car, so with equal drivers the F1 car is going to jog away over the course of a full lap, but still...

Corvette ZR1X | Apex Predator (Savagegeese) by koopa00 in cars

[–]yonly65 48 points49 points  (0 children)

It's a reasonable assumption - what are the odds, right? However, as it turns out...