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Reminds me a bit of how in the UK the guinea coin ceased to circulate decades ago but it's still used for bidding on racehorse auctions.

1 guinea = 1.05 pounds

You purchase the horse in guineas, seller gets paid in pounds, auctioneer keeps the missing 5% as commission.

Re:ICAO issued new power bank restriction on flight on Sunday March 29, 2026 @04:00AM (#47561216)
'Universal' 110V AC sockets are definitely feasible and offered by some airlines (on some equipment).

E.g ANA: https://www.ana.co.jp/en/jp/guide/inflight/service/seat_plug...

Related Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EmPower_(aircraft_power_adapte...

It's more likely that the flight in question was using the three letter ICAO code in its passenger facing flight number. I have never known a three character IATA code to be used despite it technically being within the specification.
Re: on Saturday September 02, 2023 @02:15AM (#37358975)
I found that partitioning the table to allow parallel auto vacuuming was necessary to scale.
Re:Load Balancing on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @11:04AM (#35614940)
HAProxy can also do redirects
Re:Load Balancing on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @10:22AM (#35614410)
Definitely doable with HAProxy + lua. I've used it extensively for load balancing stateful apps.
Thank you for your answer. That seems like a reasonable strategy.
Presumably AGPLv3 is why Grafana would rather develop this than Cortex?
Re:The new White House memo on zero trust is a strong signal on Thursday March 03, 2022 @01:09AM (#30537746)
Any bets on how many years before PCI DSS catches up?
Re:Fixing the Unfixable: Story of a Google Cloud SSRF on Saturday January 01, 2022 @02:27PM (#29761737)
Forgetting to delete the old vulnerable app versions is pretty embarrassing.
Re:Pixel prevented me from calling 911 on Thursday December 09, 2021 @01:23AM (#29494452)
If you mean the Find My Device app it only asks for foreground location permission so I would assume the actual device "beacon" is part of the system not that app.
Re:'date -d' vs. 'date -s', and 'show foo' vs. 'clear foo' on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @05:16PM (#28778537)
Or my personal favourite; crontab -e versus crontab -r.
Re:Ask HN: DNS Outage? on Thursday July 22, 2021 @12:09PM (#27920613)
Possibly Akamai?
I would love to see it delivered
I admire her tenacity.
Re:Speeding up recovery and VACUUM in Postgres 14 on Thursday March 25, 2021 @02:42PM (#26583815)
Great news, slow vacuuming is one of my main Postgres pain points.
You can also use "Hey Google", I wonder if that would have changed her conclusion
Re:Oracle Cloud is unreachable on Thursday March 11, 2021 @12:33AM (#26420630)
There is a distinct lack of GCP products on https://killedbygoogle.com/

Would you avoid AWS because of Fire Phone?

Re:Google Cloud lost $5.61B on $13.06B revenue last year on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @01:06AM (#26011056)
I would find it hard to take a CTO seriously who can't differentiate between beta and "generally available", or consumer product and enterprise cloud product.

It's a bit like saying you wouldn't use AWS because of Fire Phone.

Re:Slack’s Outage on January 4th 2021 on Monday February 01, 2021 @09:40AM (#25989055)
Though the nuance is Slack did know how to handle it, AWS didn't.
Google don't generally seem to kill their enterprise cloud products, more the consumer ones
Re:Evil Bash Commands Explained on Saturday December 28, 2019 @04:10AM (#21897982)
I'm not really a fan of trying to make commands safer via aliases. I fear it encourages bad habits that could hurt you if you use an environment that is missing them.
Because it doesn't cost you money if you stay within the tier?
So App Engine now relies on Cloud Build which also has a free tier. Unless I'm missing something this doesn't seem like a big deal?
Re:Pgweb – Web-based PostgreSQL database browser written in Go on Wednesday December 26, 2018 @03:14AM (#18761222)
I'm a fan.

Currently using it in a simple setup. But I'm considering using it with an auth backend to provide per user access to databases with the added advantage of no VPN or local software (other than a browser) needed.

Re:OpsGenie is joining Atlassian on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @12:29PM (#17910243)
I've found Opsgenie's support and pricing to be good. Hopefully that doesn't change with Atlassian...