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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • Yes, and when write with a pen or pencil on paper it’s easier to smear your work as the writing hand is trailing, not leading.

    Coffee mugs with logos have in mind which hand you hold them with.

    Insulated bottles with handles and sip lids assume righthandedness.

    One improvement has been smart watches since the screen can flip over if you switch wrists.






  • To explain how HAproxy and competing tools solve this:

    Two servers are prepared to be the single reverse proxy, but one is active. They constantly communicate with a “heartbeat”. When the active one fails to send a heartbeat, the secondary executes the steps to become the active primary. When the primary’s heart starts beating again, it becomes active again.

    So there can be a few seconds of downtime, but the failover is automatic.








  • Part of the app resides on the GitHub infrastructure, where GitHub stores, processes and displays results. So their costs are not zero.

    But GitHub could take a “tax the rich” approach to pricing by charging enterprise customers more for self-hostingand leave it free for others.

    A lot of open source is funded like that— most funding for a project comes from a very few companies and everything else uses it free or for very low donations or costs.