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Captainant

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  1. 3 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

    https://www.texastribune.org/2024/05/24/dade-phelan-david-covey-texas-house-speaker-runoff/

    Next year will be brutal as Abbott tries to destroy public education.  Here’s hoping the rural realize how fucked they are of Abbott gets his way.

    This is gonna push my wife and I out of the state. We don't want our daughter getting a shitty and overpriced primary schooling, especially when I had such a rich and wonderful public schooling experience and a traumatic private school history

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  2. 6 hours ago, Rex Kramer said:

    Dogs die generally every 10-12 years and putting them down is the worst.

    Also, humans are capable of reacharounds. 

    Rex doesn't like dogs because they won't give him a reacharound. Weird 

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  3. 1 hour ago, immamac said:

    Why do that when you can just replicate off site? DR site is exactly that. A site that can scale up in the event of DR to serve traffic, it still has to have a complete copy of the data there. The data hotel I was talking about setting up as a tertiary never to serve up anything place is what you are suggesting, which isn't a bad idea I just don't know if it fucking matters. 

    The reality is it wouldn't have been worth flipping to DR then having to wait till night to take the downtime and switch back to main and have circular replication or an extra redirect for another day because DNS propagation is potato even with 60s TTL. I'd rather just take the downtime up front if it's only an hour or 2 than to spend 12-16 hours of my own time making sure shit goes well and is fine.

    Posts are only one part of the whole thing that makes the site go. 

    Check this out. I had to use a Dallas DB server that I replicate to just in case some shit happens in the rack to serve traffic for the day. This is what that looks like. Sustained 300+Mbps and averaging well into the 400+Mbps range. Just for the database. I think people fail to recognize how big the site is constantly.

     

     

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    Is that 300-500Mbps for just the DB server? Or is that the front door app server? 

    Sorry for all the probing questions lol, I have a customer that puts a ton of work into their DR but almost never fails over because of DNS headaches as you describe. They're trying to decide if it's really worth the power and man hours of maintaining a copy in a DR location given they've never actually used it in the last decade lol. 

    It's crazy that the persistence isn't maintained in the DB or ES layer, where you could more easily keep a synchronized copy in a cluster config. I don't know the ins and outs of the board software, but it seems surprisingly stateful and brittle in that a new instance of the forum couldn't just read/write to the same data layer 

  4. I didn't realize surly was rawdogging it to the internet with no CDN, that definitely makes the fail over and fail back much more complex. But on the other hand, if you rarely ever use the DR resources because of the hassle to change over, what's the point in maintaining it? Why not just do change data capture for the posts to the off-site and rebuild when needed?

     

  5. 16 hours ago, WhatTheBuck said:

    RIP Bill Walton, one of my favorite Deadheads.

    I got to high five him at the 2018 Boulder show and my FIL had him sign a drum stick at a meet and greet event, he was a super chill dude. RIP

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  6. 2 hours ago, NeverMarryAStripper said:

    This has induced more rage in me than any other cop on citizen unnecessary violence.  I guess it’s because I like dogs more than people.  If I was that dog’s owner I’m sure that I would currently be under arrest for capital murder.

    It's just the purest expression of a cops casual disrespect for the citizenry and their property and families. The cop didn't want to deal with an elderly dog so he killed it. And he killed it because he knew he would be reflexively backed up on it by his superiors

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  7. 4 hours ago, Pancho said:

     

    Member when one of the favorite attacks on LGBTQ folks on surly was to call them "groomers"? I member. 

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  8. I watched the shit out of Burn Notice while I was in college lol. The episode where Michael pretendeds to be the devil and has Sam and Fiona blowing shit up on cue is one of my favorites

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  9. 14 hours ago, Bullneck said:

    We carried the flag at a game at a basketball game at the Erwin Center one night and were told NOT to dip the other flags (USN, USMC, Texas . .  but not US) until the band started playing the Star Spangle Banner. Welp, I guess someone told the band not to begin playing until we dipped the flags. So what followed was the world's longest drum roll . . .  Eventually they started played, we dipped the flags and everyone lived.  But during all this some asshole in the crowd yelled 'C'mon!"  

    That is fucking hilarious lol. If I weren't in the pep band I probably would have been that asshole

  10. On 5/25/2024 at 11:32 AM, jimmyjazz said:

    The Karen vibes are strong to very strong:

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    On 5/25/2024 at 11:32 AM, jimmyjazz said:

    The Karen vibes are strong to very strong:

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  11. 10 minutes ago, Buzzrock said:

    You should try the cloud. Clouds don’t get hit by tornadoes. 

    IIRC, he's running surly for almost nothing on some extra capacity he already had in a DC so moving to cloud would be a big jump in TCO for the site. That said, it may be good to find a co location so that the two nodes can't both be knocked offline in the same storm lol

  12. 10 minutes ago, Buzzrock said:

    You should try the cloud. Clouds don’t get hit by tornadoes. 

    IIRC, he's running surly for almost nothing on some extra capacity he already had in a DC so moving to cloud would be a big jump in TCO for the site. That said, it may be good to find a co location so that the two nodes can't both be knocked offline in the same storm lol

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