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Bishma, in Tools of the Trade
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HAProxy is really powerful load balancing software. Not only does it go above and beyond on features but it handles a really large volume of traffic on very little compute. For example I ran a site with 350hits/sec base traffic (that regularly bell curved up to 500hits/sec) on 4 HAProxy instances running on t3.micro EC2 instances and I was terminating TLS on 20,000 domains at HAProxy. And if you’re in a position where you need to pay for support they will bend over backward to help.

Toes,

Wow, how is it with mostly heavy bandwidth loads?

Bishma,
@Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

I haven’t done it myself, but I know Vimeo was one of their keynote speakers speakers a few years ago as a high profile customer.

solrize, (edited ) in If you could go back in time and stop any one person or group's musical career, who or what would it be?

I won’t say his name but I stopped someone’s musical career once. He was an up and coming young guitarist, getting performing gigs here and there, and teaching guitar students to help pay his bills while waiting for a break. I took some lessons from him and as part of general chatting it came out that I worked with computers. He thought that was interesting and asked good questions, so I brought him some programming books. He became a full time programmer a couple months later and a very good one too. I’m glad it worked out for him, but I always wonder what we lost.

SeabassDan,

Which books? Also, how long ago was this?

solrize,

This was decades ago. I don’t remember the specific books but they were about programming in C. By now that is considered a neckbeard language. The first thing the guy did, with like zero experience, was write a video compression program in C.

Empricorn,

Did… Did you create Bill Gates and Windows??

solrize,

Nah, Windows was supposedly inspired by NASCAR. Bill saw how people loved seeing constant crashes, and he got an idea…

myfavouritename,

My coach used to tell the story of a really promising track and field athlete who might have had a serious shot on the world scene, but quit to play in his band called The Barenaked Ladies. I never fact checked that, so I have no idea if it was true or not. But it stuck with me because it made me think of all the people who might have been incredible in one field or another who just never gave it a shot.

Dagwood222,

“Ike At The Mike” by Howard Waldrop. Award winning short story. An elderly Dwight Eisenhower is invited to the White House. Ike famously gave up his West Point cadetship to become a jazz musician. Among the attendees honoring him is the young Elvis A. Presley, Senator from Mississippi.

odium, in Good “Buy for Life” Brands
fortniteplaya,

Thank you, I didn’t realise there was a community already.

TechyDad, in What's your favorite piece of bullshit advice?
@TechyDad@lemmy.world avatar

My company switched up retirement plans and they held a seminar to explain them. The person running the seminar said that we should be putting 15% of our salaries into retirement.

Nice idea, but if I put 15% of my salary into retirement, then I wouldn’t be able to pay my bills. I’m not living extravagantly or anything (buying something for $20 for my enjoyment seems like a splurge to me). Still, whenever I seem to be getting on a better financial footing, life throws me a curve ball. Need new hearing aids ($3,600). New a new dryer ($750). Might need a new car soon.

So either I need to be paid a lot more, I will be working until I’m 90, or I put away the money and go deep into debt but can retire. (Just kidding. I’m nearing 50. I likely won’t have enough to retire. Maybe when I’m 80.)

Tikiporch,

Better start working our way to a cushy desk job so we have somewhere comfortable to die.

Insig, in What's the funniest mishearing of song lyrics you've had?

José Feliciano - Feliz Navidad.

Sounds like he is saying ‘release mum and dad.’ interlace with him singing ‘I want to wish you a merry christmas’

I was in stitches at the dinner table when I heard it. Trying to tell my brother while crying and hyperventilating with laughter made it even better.

MIDItheKID,

I hear this song in my head every time I see a “for lease” sign…

For lease navidad.

paddirn, (edited ) in What's your favorite piece of bullshit advice?

“Undercover Cops have to tell you if they’re a cop,” or other variations I remember hearing all throughout high school.

Somehow though, organized crime hasn’t figured out this one simple trick to ferreting out undercover cops in their midst, just ask them.

Also: “Don’t trust anything that bleeds for 5 days and doesn’t die.”

cheese_greater,

Its the Criminal Bro Code

Caboose12000,

that second one seems way outta left field to me, what kinda contexts is that used in?

paddirn,

It was from an episode of South Park:

youtu.be/ZTuzDt-dGxA?si=QO4zlPuue0QHp3c0

surewhynotlem,

Vaginas

Dagwood222,

A one word answer that covers so many questions.

KingJalopy,
@KingJalopy@lemm.ee avatar

Like, “I don’t get it.”

Guest_User,

Hahaha burn

KingJalopy,
@KingJalopy@lemm.ee avatar

Not if you wrap it before you tap it

moosetwin,
@moosetwin@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

you can’t go wrong if you shield your dong

Squizzy, in What are your ear buds cleaning rituals?

I put them in their case and don’t think about them again until I go to put them in my ear

mvirts,

I look at them before putting them in my ear, think about how I need to clean them, then forget as soon as I put them in 😹

bionicjoey,

The buds forget how dirty they are by the next time they come out

rsh,

Wait…there are people that clean their earbuds?

shinigamiookamiryuu, in What's your favorite piece of bullshit advice?

“Snitches get stitches.”

How do you expect conflict resolution to work?

Fiivemacs,

With stitches…

DoctorWhookah,

Or end up in ditches.

TheDoctorDonna, (edited ) in Why is Australia the only "core anglosphere" country where voting is mandatory?

Because FREEDOM!

Eagle screams in the background

ETA: Fires guns “YEEHAW!”

MedicPigBabySaver,

FYI: eagles don’t really scream. That fake scream from movies/tv, etc. is from a red tailed hawk.

TheDoctorDonna,

I know, but I had to be as stereotypical as possible.

Darkenfolk,

Not enough guns and yeehaw noises. 3 out of 10.

TheDoctorDonna,

Valid criticism.

alquicksilver,
@alquicksilver@lemmy.world avatar

That response loses you another point. Should’ve threatened to bring in the cavalry!

TheDoctorDonna,

I’m too Canadian for this, sorry!

Skyrmir,

It’s easier to get a recording of a hawk that never shuts up. Eagles let out a screech too, but not often. Try stealing a fish from a bald eagle. Bring a tape recorder…and some bandages.

DelightfullyDivisive, in What are your ear buds cleaning rituals?

I tap them and blow on them before I put them back into their case. In case there are any little ear wax flakes. I don’t tend to have much in the way out of ear wax.

recapitated,

You are lucky. I have wax on tap.

ultranaut, in If you could go back in time and stop any one person or group's musical career, who or what would it be?

Ted Nugent. He is just a complete scumbag and without his shitty music career he never would have impacted so many people with his gross bullshit. The world would be better off if his music never existed.

slurpeesoforion,

That would likely have the benefit of saving us from Kid Rock too.

kinther,
@kinther@lemmy.world avatar

I was about to give the example of Ted Nugent in the body of the post because he’s just such a douche. I’m glad I’m not the only one who thought the same.

Lorindol,

Nugent is a truly despisable creature, but his playing in Amboy Dukes’ “Journey to the Center of the Mind” album is very good.

A_Random_Idiot, (edited )

Ted Nugent deserves to have more than just his career erased. Fucking admitted pedophile piece of shit.

ChillPenguin, in If you could go back in time and stop any one person or group's musical career, who or what would it be?

Chris Brown because fuck that guy.

rbesfe,

It would be super simple too, just obtain footage of him beating the shit out of Rihanna and make it public, his music career would surely be destroyed in seconds.

rob_t_firefly,
@rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world avatar

The brutal details of Rihanna’s domestic violence report against Chris Brown and the photo of her injuries are so common as to have been a copypasta for over a decade, and his fans still worship him.

ChillPenguin,

Exactly, I don’t know how he has fans at this point. The celebrity worship is crazy.

A_Random_Idiot,

Cause half of them think its okay to beat women, and half of them want to be the women he beats.

Cause the weird cults of personality that form around fame and fortune are beyond rational comprehension.

jhulten,

Better to do it early so he never beats rihanna in the first place.

SirSamuel, in What's the funniest mishearing of song lyrics you've had?

Blinded By the Light

Roll up like a douche Rev up like a deuce

bcgm3,
@bcgm3@lemmy.world avatar

🎵 Another boner in the night 🎵

derpgon, in If you could go back in time and stop any one person or group's musical career, who or what would it be?

Mariah Carey, for that obvious one song that returns every fucking Christmas.

A_Random_Idiot,

i think theres plenty of reasons to erase mariah carey’s career.

the christmas song is the least of them.

NOT_RICK, in Why is Australia the only "core anglosphere" country where voting is mandatory?
@NOT_RICK@lemmy.world avatar

Found this online:

According to the Australian Electoral Commission, the decline in voter turnout was the driving force behind the introduction of mandatory voting. It said that voter turnout dropped from 71 per cent in the 1919 election to less than 60 per cent in the 1922 elections.

In order to address the problem, a private member’s bill to amend the Electoral Act was introduced in the Senate in 1924. At the time, it was only the third private member’s bill to be passed into law since 1901.

As a result of the law, the voter turnout at the 1925 election rose to over 91 per cent.

Gradually, states across the country introduced compulsory voting starting from Victoria in 1926, New South Wales and Tasmania in 1928, Western Australia in 1936 and South Australia in 1942.

When enrollment and voting at federal elections was introduced for Australian Aborigines in 1949 it was voluntary, and continued to be so until 1984 when enrollment and voting became compulsory for all eligible electors.

captainlezbian,

Oh wow here in America we have party that banks on reducing turnout

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