I recently ran into an overload issue and it turned out to be a not-obvious "hard limit" that was mentioned. Everything would be smooth for a bit and then my throughput would be halved after I walked away, backing up the queues indefinitely and paging me again.
I had moved a single-broker RabbitMQ from GCP to AWS and the instance type I chose had bandwidth "up to" 10Gbps. Being less familiar with AWS, I did not realize they will actively throttle based on credits because "up to" means "burstable to" regardless of available capacity. My messages are pretty large and I was running out of credits after about an hour.
Bandwidth was the last thing I considered since I hadn't had the issue on GCP. Switching to a larger instance with guaranteed bandwidth was a band-aid. Clustering to spread the load between multiple instances will be my longer term fix. Lesson learned, hopefully this helps someone someday.
In General Aviation at least, there are varying levels of autopilot (depending on how nice the system is you can maintain heading and altitude or fly a pre-programmed course with navigational waypoints), but all of them will fly you right into the side of a mountain or into restricted airspace if you let them. You can't just set it and stop paying attention. It seems that is what people want when they think of "autopilot" for their cars.
Is the relay for your heater controlling the main voltage input or is it controlling at the thermostat connection?
I've been wanting to do something similar with the units in my apartment (they're similar to what you'd see in a hotel window unit). The thermostat and controls are integrated and I can't disassemble to access them, so I either need to build a rig to push the buttons (hard) and turn the temperature dial or just put a relay at the mains and manually set them for AC\Heat depending on season. Adding a relay to the mains seems straightforward, but it's 220v and I don't want to mess up.
If I regularly used that as a known-good site that should be up with no SSL, I'd trust that an apple-maintained site (backed by akamai) would be up before "example.com".
I'm sure there are plenty of others, but someone might remember that URL over another so I thought it would be helpful.
As "extrapickles" pointed out in another comment thread, the spectrum requirement for this is an even bigger hurdle than getting all of the expensive equipment together to pull it off. The tech requires an amount of frequency separation that spreads outside the bounds of the ISM spectrums, so you'd need licensing or would need to be running in a third-world country with no regulations (which is actually a viable use for the tech).
For the unaware, ISM = Industrial, Scientific and Medical. These are the shared unlicensed frequencies that the general public may use. Wifi falls inside of this range.
Yes, the project he talks about is OSMOCom, Open Source Mobile Communications. http://osmocom.org/ will give you a little more context. I'm assuming this would allow you to route data over these types of networks given the proper hardware in your own environment.
This isn't anything out of the ordinary or directed at 4chan (like the tweet is trying to say, in my opinion). Google Analytics is free for up to 10 million hits per month and then they ask you to upgrade to premium. Most people just assume that Google Analytics is free forever but there is a limit. I would agree that 150k per year is exorbitantly high for that service, however.
I had moved a single-broker RabbitMQ from GCP to AWS and the instance type I chose had bandwidth "up to" 10Gbps. Being less familiar with AWS, I did not realize they will actively throttle based on credits because "up to" means "burstable to" regardless of available capacity. My messages are pretty large and I was running out of credits after about an hour.
Bandwidth was the last thing I considered since I hadn't had the issue on GCP. Switching to a larger instance with guaranteed bandwidth was a band-aid. Clustering to spread the load between multiple instances will be my longer term fix. Lesson learned, hopefully this helps someone someday.