Interesting Links for 17-11-2019

[andrewducker]

The Difference Between Fault Tolerance, High Availability, & Disaster Recovery

(tags:design safety computers )

Last Christmas film review: One of Britain's finest Christmas films

(tags:Christmas movies review )

Before dating someone, try disagreeing with them, and see how they react

(tags:relationships advice )

"In Real Life." Olafur Eliasson at Tate Modern.

(tags:photos art viaFrancescaElston )

Comments

[rhythmaning]

I'm glad you liked the photos! :)

[andrewducker]

Frankie tweeted them, and I thought they were really good!

[j_v_lynch]

I shared that "try disagreeing" post on facebook and almost immediately got a couple of men how this behaviour would be indicative of a probably toxic relationship where the woman would always lie to get her own way. It played out almost exactly as it was described in the post itself.

[andrewducker]

I cannot imagine the mindset that leaps to that conclusion.

[snippy]

Projection? Control freak? Whatever, it's a giant red flag that they made the argument.

[fanf]

I am curious about the distinction between fault tolerance and high availability - I haven't seen it expressed that way before.

On reflection, I think the way I would describe it is that high availability is the outcome you want, and there are a number of techniques you can use to achieve it: fault tolerance is one, automatic remediation is another. (I think the article's example for high availability is better described as fast or automatic remediation.) And you often combine the techniques, e.g. using a load balancer with health checks for fault tolerance, and a process monitor to restart servers that have crashed for automatic remediation.

[symbioid]

"Before dating someone, try disagreeing with them, and see how they react"

My "Platonic Life Partner" (as she calls us) -- when we moved in together in 2001, we threw a housewarming/belated Bday party (we both have the same bday as well).

While out shopping for cake we discovered (after dating a year and half previously) that we both had different cake demands - she insisted on a rich dark chocolate cake, while I wanted a white cake.

After a lot of consternation and arguing, we finally resolved our conflict in a parallel to King Solomon, we realized: WHY NOT BOTH?

And here we are 18 years of roommate-ness (we now have been living together longer as friends than we were while we were dating).

[anef]

I love your icon!