Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • Fast past 🏁

    McLaren have won the constructors championship again. I knew that the team was started in the 60s but not much more of the early stuff. Bruce McLaren was driving for Cooper and couldn't get them to build the cars he wanted to run in an Australian race series, so he started his own team for that. It didn't enter Formula one for a few years. This was in the time when driver life expectancy was pretty limited. McLaren said this about one of his friends who was killed.

  • Blue Jays in World Series

    Well I'll be damned. First time since I was 12.

    They looked dead in the water in game 7, down 3-1 in the 7th. But then they got two on, moved them over, and then George Springer hit probably the second biggest home run in the history of the franchise, after Joe Carter's World Series-winning home run in 1993: a drive (like Bautista's, like Carter's, like Encarnacion's) deep to left. 4-3. Two shutout innings from closer Jeff Hoffman meant that Cal Raleigh, the M's fearsome slugger, was left standing on deck as Julio Rodriguez struck out. I don't think my partner and I have ever screamed so hard at the final out of a game.

• Technology and Free Software

  • Using delta chat keys with notmuch (by ~seifferth)

  • Internet/Gemini

    • 99.9% Uptime

      Also known as high availability for network services, though the definition of "acceptable service" varies. Did you get that contract in writing? Another problem is that chasing additional nines can become very expensive in terms of system design and support—can future hires maintain this thing?—and even then what happens when your upstream DNS provider goes kablooie for a bit too long?