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To expand on this, CircleCI lets you easily ssh into a run so you can debug it as if you were debugging it on your own machine. I cannot tell you how many times this has saved me countless hours because you don't need to wait for your changes to build and then subsequently fail repeatedly, drastically shortening the iteration cycle.

Application level connection pools are not enough if you're using something like k8s and have your "application" running across hundreds of pods, each with their own application level connection pool. pgBouncer helps tremendously in that situation because all those pods will use a single pool. We cut down avg open connections dramatically by doing that from over 1000 to less than 400.

Italy's obesity rate is not 42%. That's the rate for 2 year olds, which is bad in and if itself. The obesity rate overall is about 10% though, which is amongst the lowest in oecd counties.

Ontario, Canada is even further ahead, having eliminated coal completed by 2014. They botched much of it, with setting up bad contracts, which led to a lot of wasted taxpayer dollars. Even still, it shows it's possible and the outcome was fantastic. Complete elimination of smog days and far lower incidence of asthma cases.

Why are they still using Killer WiFi NIC's on these things. They are absolutely terrible. We have a bunch of XPS 13 and 15's at our office (9360's up to 9570's) and every single one of them has random connectivity problems on our office WiFi and people's home networks.

We've had to replace all of them with Intel 9260's and the problems instantly disappear. I don't know how this is not a customer support nightmare for them, and why they continue using them given the relatively low cost of the Intel cards.

AVX code is known to make the CPU run way hotter than usual. Perhaps that caused throttling that made general code running at the same time, or within a short span thereafter, perform worse?

That's still not clear. It doesn't say they will start charging for original quality shots taken before 2020. To me it just seems like if you want to keep storing original quality shots taken AFTER 2020, then you will have to pay for that going forward.

That's insidious if that's the case. I (and probably) many others took it to mean that photos taken through that date would enjoy unlimited storage permanently, not that they would start charging after that date. Would be nice if we could get some clarification.

The only thing I'd add here is that unfortunately the Nexus 5x is not an upgrade over the 5 in terms of performance. It might even be a downgrade (I own both). Because the 5x uses a 64-bit arch, it uses more RAM than the 5x (and both only have 2GB). Also, the SD808 (2GHz) cores in the 5x are hardly a step up from the SD800 (2.2GHz) cores. The only real upgrade the 5x gives you is the camera.

We have an almost identical setup to yours. How do you manage the long build chains in team city with the number of nuget packages you have? It's something we are grappling with and are considering moving everything back into a single repo with no nuget packages as a result.

To be fair, Signal desktop is really new, the author may not have known about it. But yes, the flow of adding devices in Signal is very seamless and simple.

The issue of not supporting SMS though makes usability go down the toilet, because it's not immediately obvious who you can message or receive messages from, but I understand the reason for not supporting it.

Looked at from a different light, if we had more things like this, on by default, it could force ISPs to remove their caps, or at least raise them significantly.

I'd really like to know if the current caps, low as they are, are there for a very good technical reason, or if it's just to protect existing old media outlets. It certainly feel like the later here in Canada.