I used to work on a little "SWAT" team of Oracle and CISCO types... one of the most technically challenging projects we had was creating an Oracle cluster for 80+ super tankers around the world... via satellite. We had to build a system (both network and app layers) that would do normal Oracle Cluster type stuff with 5+ second latency. It was by far the smartest team I've ever worked on... and zero ego among them.
It stuck with me because of all things it was about the iOS app. The thing least connected to Facebook's scale. It's like building a front door to a mansion that somehow weighed 2000 lbs and was difficult to open, and then excusing it with "but did you see how big the house is?!"
Wait... are you talking about the iOS app? As in, Apple's iOS? LOL I thought you were talking about the IOS command line interface for CISCO network gear. The original IOS. There was a huge "how do you expect us to manage a global network with a shitty CLI" complaint that the Facebook network engineers were bitching about, claiming that their scale was unlike anything that CISCO had ever dealt with before. That is a common belief with Facebook Engineers... that they are the biggest scale EVER and that they are in a league of their own.
Yes, the app for iOS on iPhones. The literal definition of a front-end client that does not give one shit about the scaling issues of the back end. But they apparently were too big not just for Git (which may have some validity if they insisted on a monolith for all Facebook code) but for Core Data, UIKit, AutoLayout, and XCode.
Interesting Cloudflare writeup on the outage: https://blog.cloudflare.com/october-2021-facebook-outage/
Facebook, Twitter, and Microsoft in the same day. The rest of the FAANG gang must feel like they're in a Final Destination movie.
No wonder Minneapolis wants to disband their police force. They should. Most of them seem to be as bad as Chauvin. What a bunch of psychopathic pieces of shit.
https://www.chron.com/news/houston-...ooting-student-arrested-released-16516942.php School shooters in Texas don't even have to spend the night in jail.... GOD. DAMN.
On the other hand, if he really DID shoot his bully then there’s an upside. I mean, don’t bring a GUN to school, just sculpt a shiv in shop class and stick him the locker room.
It’s because he’s BLACK, ISN’T IT! IF HE WAS WHITE, THERE’D BE WALL TO WALL COVERAGE ON CNN AND THEY’D BE BLAMING TRUMP! Actually, this whole story is like all of the aspects of a school shooting that don’t fit the narrative, mixed together. Minority, hard evidence of an altercation, willfully surrendered to authorities, taken in and questioned, and released.
dude got beat up, bullied, whatever, then went to school to get his gun which he brought back into the school. Self defense and stand your ground goes out the window when he literally went back to the people who allegedly assaulted him. Bringing the gun into the school (not in his car in the parking lot, provided it was out of view and locked) was illegal itself. He's facing a litany of charges, and he has zero hope for any of those bullets which hit anyone who he wasn't physically assaulted by. Regardless, he posted bail because the system is fair regardless of if we agree with it or not. Know how it still works? Cases like this. He'll have his day in court, and he'll put up his self defense claim, and it'll be something but it won't work based upon the facts as we currently know them. If something else comes out? That might change things, you never know. But bail is bail, and he wasn't deemed a flight risk. This isn't a news story, it's the justice system at work.
At my school we made mini "baseball bats" on the lathe. Clubs, they were clubs. The bopping power of those things was off the chart.
Word. I know for a fact that a half-sized baseball bat is a great defence weapon to have if somebody tries to pull you out of your car. We made our own custom-made rugby cleats our high school machine shop. The kind that rip laces, shin guards and flesh.
during one of our cross country races, I had on metal spikes due to the terrain. Some dude ran around me then, for some very unfortunate reason, slowed down right in front of me. My cleat dug into his Achilles, and the screams he made, along with the sound of my leg snapping and the death rattles I heard in the hospital for my brain surgery, are the only sounds that stick with me to this day. that's one very unfortunate boo boo right there