Both consoles are out, PS4 on the 15th and Xbox One on the 22nd, and both sold a million units in 24 hours. My own PS4 exists only as a January preorder receipt, but the group chat’s grey-import unit cleared customs Thursday and Killzone is, per intensive hands-on research at the one couch that matters, pretty. There are day-one patches measured in gigabytes for both consoles, and I’ve realized the industry quietly moved from “cartridge must be perfect” to “ship it, patch it” in my lifetime. We took the software deployment model and gave it to the living room.
Bitcoin crossed one thousand dollars. It was $13 in January. My coworker with the secret 2011 stash has started looking at real estate listings at lunch, not even hiding it. A Senate hearing was weirdly positive about crypto. I still can’t explain to my roomies what it is.
Thanksgiving this week. I’m on call. The senior folks assure me nothing ever breaks on Black Friday. They are laughing while they say it, which is concerning.
TIL: connection pools are finite. Traffic spike, pool exhausted, everything queued, site down, not because CPU or memory maxed, just a number in a config file set years ago. Capacity has so many dimensions and they all have defaults.