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Slow and ubiquitous. Cloudflare is apparently 90% of the sites I browse...

And AdBlock Plus interferes with it, so I have to pause blocking to even see the human check dealio.

They should migrate to AWS.

Its webscale


I think you need to broaden your focus here - I can't really remember any significant downtime before the Microsoft acquisition and the data supports my memories.

Microsoft bought Github and migrated to Azure, which is explains the findings. The query performance was fine before they started serving from Azure.

I mean honestly, as though there isn't one single person competent enough to read some logs and horizontally scale a few read only dbs to meet demand? That's not it


> I think you need to broaden your focus here - I can't really remember any significant downtime before the Microsoft acquisition and the data supports my memories.

This is the opposite of my recollection, actually. I distinctly remember having conversations about Github struggling to scale well before MS was involved, and people claiming that MS had somehow saved Github because it had stabilized and begun adding features again.

> The query performance was fine before they started serving from Azure.

This may be correct though. The Azure migration seems more aligned with the timeline of struggling to scale.


> I distinctly remember having conversations about Github struggling to scale well before MS was involved

Do you have any sources to back your claim up? At what point did Github fail to scale their search endpoints?

> This may be correct

It is.


I don't know why this is downvoted. The data backs you up: https://damrnelson.github.io/github-historical-uptime/

I'm skeptical about that page's accuracy. For example, if you go to the breakdown tab, it shows Actions having 100% availability when the graph starts (Apr 2016), yet Actions didn't even exist until late 2018, and wasn't GA until a full year after that. So if the math behind the "average" tab is treating NULLs as 100% uptime, this just isn't a correct measurement.

The page also notes it obtains its data from the official status page, but big tech companies have been known to under-report outages. My general sense is they've gotten better about this in recent years; if so, that means historical data will give an erroneously rosy picture of uptime.


I think we can agree the data is correct enough to ascribe a trend with a strong statistical significance no? Enough to draw a conclusion

We can clearly draw a conclusion that their availability is getting worse, but that's not what your original comment claimed.

You said "I can't really remember any significant downtime before the Microsoft acquisition and the data supports my memories", but my memories differ (as do other commenters), and the accuracy of the supporting data seems questionable.



I mean, are any of the other forges, which I presume are also seeing logarithmic increase in commits, also failing as hard as Github?

I totally agree, you should expect a similar increase and degradation in Gitlab which we do not.

Always gonna happen. Oil margins are gigantic and they'll use every dime of runway they can. Electric is better in every single way and batteries tech is only making that more true every day. The dinosaurs won't go quietly into the night.


> encumbered only by increasingly slower animations or boneheaded notifications or apps stealing focus as they spin themselves up

> Instead, go into a three year period of major OS refactoring. Speed above all.

I cannot understand why a slow mac is acceptable at any level at all. The icons need a second to load in the applications drawer! Jobs would have thrown this thing across the room at the first MVP demo


Do you have the links for those? Very interested


Sure!

Note: these were just two that I starred when I saw them posted here. I have not looked seriously at it at the moment,

https://github.com/danveloper/flash-moe

https://github.com/t8/hypura


Great, thanks!


I have experienced 0 friction swapping between the 2 models, in fact pitting them against eachother has resulted in the highest success rate for me so far.


Interesting. I may have to give that a shot, thanks.


In Alabama regulatory capture is such that installing solar panels attached to the grid incurs fees higher than just buying the electricity from Alabama Power.


Why not install and not attach to the grid? My understanding is if you have them attached to batteries and not feeding back it is considered off grid in some places.


I don't know anything about Alabama but in California you generally can't create off-grid developments without permission from a local authority, because it's a recognized problem that "off-grid" systems are often under specified, leading to danger for the occupants. And nobody really wants off-grid to proliferate because it would tend to concentrate the costs of the grid upon the remaining users who will be the ones least able to afford it.

For a place that was two miles from a power line, I would think anyone would approve of off-grid.


Lots of places that will get $150k+ quotes for electrical service too.

At that point, off grid is a no-brainer for everyone except industrial users (and those lots aren’t useful for them anyway).


I'm interested to read a source on this if you have it


Sure.

> Alabama Power, with approval from the Alabama PSC, charges residential solar customers a monthly fee of $5.41 per kilowatt based on the size of their solar system

> Alabama Power's residential electricity rates generally range from approximately 11 to 13 cents per kWh, plus a $14.50 monthly base charge

https://www.selc.org/press-release/court-allows-alabama-powe...


interesting, ty for the follow up


USA pays the most for education per capita of any other nation on the planet.

https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/cmd/education-exp...


Same here. Great article.

I avoid both and stick with naproxen sodium. Any issues with that one? Lasts the longest too.


Both ibuprofen and naproxen sodium are NSAIDs and are bad for your kidneys especially in long term. I had kidney failure due to what was eventually diagnosed as an autoimmune disease but they first thing the ER doctor will ask is if you have been taking NSAIDs. My nephrologists told be its still safe to take acetaminophen at the proper dose.


None of us are your doctors but Naproxen has well-known gastric issues up to ulcers and stomach bleeding which is why it's advised to be taken with food and why it's also often prescribed with a PPI or H2 Antagonist. Cox-2 selectives such as Celecoxib greatly reduce this risk but seem to be associated with some small cardiovascular risk (admittedly this is a feature of all NSAIDs though less so in Naproxen apparently).


Cardiovascular risk increase is not a feature of aspirin, the original NSAID. Aspirin lessens cardiovascular risk which is why we give it to patients in the initial stages of a heart attack: It decreases the likelihood of further clotting.


Some believe naproxen sodium is worse for you because it lasts longer. Longer duration for reduced mucous membrane coverage in your stomach and intestine. Longer duration for reduced blood flow to your kidneys.

I would definitely have a chat with a doctor about it.


I had to use naproxen for some time as most effective way to control inflammation. Actually the only way, ibuprofen had some effect only in horse dozes. After visiting doctor, analyses, checking available sources was able to eliminate the reason of inflammation. Apparently it was a well known problem/solution. So far so good. Not sure about the long lasting effects of naproxen use.


Looking at the Wikipedia article, it seems naproxen is a NSAID like ibuprofen and can cause all the same gastrointestinal issues.


Naproxen sodium has much higher risk of GI damage especially with long term use.


All the over the counter NSAIDs have a similar safety profile.


wait, how are you getting naproxen?

Whenever its prescribed here, its paired with some sort of intestine protection medicine to stop it burning holes in your stomach/intenstines

Ibuprofen is much safer, so long as you eat with it.

Paracetamol is also safer, so long as you don't OD.

BUT! so long as you stay below 4 grams a day, you'll be safe. (yes yes, in some situations you can take double, but unless you are under supervision, thats asking for liver pain.)


In the US, Aleve is the name-brand pill for naproxen, available in grocery stores next to everything else. I have a bottle of 160 gelcaps. Each pill is 220mg naproxen sodium or in parentheses 200 mg of naproxen. The advertised effect is 12 hours / all day, getting anywhere near 4g would only happen in a suicidal "swallow bottle of pills" situation.


GP meant 4g is the safe limit to paracetamol (hence "liver pain"). About 8 typical doses over 24 hours. It's little known amongst the general population, who have the occasional extreme of people taking double doses every few hours


So its a bottle, not a blister pack?

wild.

I know that blister packs are a pain, but in the places that they are introduced they reduce pill based suicide by up to 40%[1]

Sorry I should have been more clear about the 4g, that was for paracetamol. I have no idea what it would be for naproxen

[1] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC526120/


That combo is naproxen/esomeprazole. The brand name is Vimovo, but they don't have a patent, so you can get it as a generic. To work, though, it has to be taken 30 minutes before food.


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