So I lived in SF for six years, and it was absolutely the dog piss that did it.
I know this because outside my apartment were two metal utility poles. One, right it outside the door, was the dog piss spot. The other, 20 feet away, was not.
Guess which one corroded and had to be replaced after three years? It was the one that absolutely reeked of dog piss right outside the door.
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
Well if i had one of these I could go off grid
Dumb.
“Are now”
Dang! So it’s not just my dorks, good to know
Cats are a mystery!
My cat has learned how… delicious? ear wax is. I was itching my ear once, she started licking my finger, and now if I even raise my right hand near my head she flips out and runs up into my space just in case it’s ear wax time.
Note I don’t actually have a ton of ear wax or feed it to her, but something about my finger after I scratch my ear just drives her crazy.
Seriously though my ears are clean 😂
Abs a bunch of it not really easily inhabitable because there’s no water sources. I keep arguing with my wife; I say the worlds getting overcrowded and she says “look at all the land in the middle of the country people could live on” smdh.
Usually no. But all my festool tools get registered since they are all $$$$$$
Algo then!
Yeah it’ll work this time, really guys. You nailed it.
Hell yeah. I only told my boss about my adhd diagnosis in case I need to use that as leverage some day. Otherwise I’m basically a mystery.
Sign me up for the not hanging out club!
“Bring your authentic self to work”
Was pretty prevalent in tech for a while. Fuck no I’m not doing that.
Yep, came here to say just that.
Also what “salt water mist?” The Castro is inland, and it’s not like there are huge waves blasting clouds of mist into the air.