@grammargirl Oh, Siri can do more cool and useful things. When it first came out I reviewed Talking to Siri: Learning the Language of Apple's Intelligent Assistant, and one thing I learned how to do is say, "Siri, when I get home remind me to put out the trash [or Call Brad]." It knows what spot you have marked as Home, for instance, so it pops up with a reminder or suggests the phone call.
I don't use that feature often, but golly it's handy when I do.
TIL In the early days of the U.S. space program, NASA didn't offer astronauts life insurance for in-flight missions, and private life insurance was extremely expensive. To get around this, the crew of the Apollo 11 mission signed hundreds of autographs for their families to sell if they died. If the mission went wrong, NASA planned to cut communication with the astronauts and let them either suffocate or take their own lives. https://bigthink.com/the-past/apollo-11-plan-b/
Do you ever deal with an edit that won't leave you alone?
I have a sentence like this:
The company that invented the device was located in the same building as ...
I took out the word "located." It shouldn't be necessary. "In" means the same thing. But now it doesn't feel right to me, and I keep thinking about it.
[Update: I changed it to "worked out of," and now I'm happy with it.]
Does anyone know of a tool to monitor #redis pub/sub topics? e.g., messages per second on topics, average message size in bytes, etc.
I know the INFO command gives total stats for all commands, but it'd be nice to have more detail into pub/sub. I'm sure we used to have this at pusher.com, but not sure how, and that was over a decade ago, before they moved to an in-house developed messaging infrastructure