Beef Cuts

July 24, 2019 · 0 min · birdchan

Ryobi Power Inflator

July 7, 2019 · 0 min · birdchan

Kubernetes Failure Stories

https://k8s.af/

July 5, 2019 · 1 min · birdchan

Redis and Memcached

https://aws.amazon.com/elasticache/redis-vs-memcached/ Redis is a superset of memcached, roughly speaking.

June 30, 2019 · 1 min · birdchan

GPT-2

Here is how I set up ubuntu 18 in virtualbox on osx 10.12.6 macOS Sierra to try out GPT-2. First of all, install virtualbox. My version is 6.0.8 r130520. Then download ubuntu (My version is 18.04.2 desktop version). Then install it with 30 Gb disk space and 4096 Mb ram. (you will need 22 Gb disk space at least). You may notice that the virtual screen is very small, and there seems to be no way to enlarge the resolution. If this happens to you, just endure the installation process until it’s done, then shutdown the VM. Then right click on your VM, Settings » Display » Screen » Graphics Controller = VBoxSVGA. Next time you turn on the VM, you could simply resize the window to change the virtual screen size. You can also scale the window (same resolution but looks bigger), this may happen when you have a huge monitor with super high resolution. ...

June 14, 2019 · 6 min · birdchan

What is my IP address?

https://ifconfig.co/

June 13, 2019 · 1 min · birdchan

EC2Instances.info

One big table to look up EC2 instance cpu, mem and cost attributes. Very handy! https://www.ec2instances.info/

June 10, 2019 · 1 min · birdchan

Media Attribution

So we keep doing ad-targeting and spending tons of money on campaigns, but where are we going with this? No one seems to care about the effectiveness of these ads, or if the algorithms really know which ads to serve. The ads industry is a giant industry following its own set of rules making loads of money. No one is to blame I guess. But if the goal is simply to make the metrics and KPIs look good, I think that kind of spending is missing the point. It also contradicts to how engineers try to optimize the speed/performance of everything to save cost. On one hand arguing over tiny little things over CPU cycles and memory usage to save infra cost, on the other hand spending crazy loads of money on ads. I don’t have a solution to all these. I guess I am just ranting. ...

June 7, 2019 · 1 min · birdchan

Google Search

ref: https://www.reddit.com/r/HowToHack/comments/bwn8sc/search_google_like_a_pro/

June 4, 2019 · 1 min · birdchan

Surf and turf

Surf and turf or surf ’n’ turf is a main course combining seafood and red meat. Ref: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surf_and_turf

May 31, 2019 · 1 min · birdchan