The year starts with a new competition case re. public EV charging prices in Italy. The competition authority has decided to conduct a further investigation into A2A Mobility, as prices charged to others were higher than in their own app.
https://www.agcm.it/pubblicazioni/bolletti<…
This is so bizar and untrue....
U.S. Vice President JD Vance said on Wednesday that Denmark “obviously” had not done a proper job in securing Greenland and that U.S. President Donald Trump “is willing to go as far as he has to” to defend American interests in the Arctic.
https://apnews.com/live/donald-trump…
The US' February jobs report shows the tech sector's post-2022 job losses are now outpacing past downturns in 2008 and 2020 (Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/tech-jobs-getting-demolished-great-recession-dot-com-era-2026…
It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
"Semele asked Jove to come to her in this way. Her request was granted, and Jove, coming with lightning and thunder, burnt Semele to death. From her womb Liber [Bacchus] was born. Mercurius snatched him from the fire and gave him to Nysus to be reared."
Pseudo-Hyginus, Fabulae 179
🏛 Hermes and baby Dionys…
Series B, Episode 08 - Hostage
VILA: Me?
MOLOK: You.
VILA: Now wait a minute. Let's not be hasty. [Molok punches Vila in the stomach who cries out.]
VILA: There's no need for violence, is there?
BLAKE: So what happens now? [Pulsing sounds]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/208/549
A very heartfelt apology from Japan's Keio University regarding a data breach.
https://www.keio.ac.jp/en/news/2026/Jan/7/48-171848/index.html
Green Day with great advice for ICE during Super Bowl weekend:
“Quit your sh*tty ass job”
#superbowl #greenday #ICE
Green Day frontman calls out ICE ahead of Super Bowl: 'Quit that s-tty job you have' (Ryan Mancini/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/5728186-green-day-billie-joe-ice/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260207/p72#a260207p72
So, decided to get them rookie `/queue` numbers up so did a quick bit of caching. For a 12-job queue, I went from 240 RPS (Python/Flask) to 680 (Golang/Gin) then to 3400 RPS with some proper caching. The `/workers` endpoint would benefit as well, but I think its performant enough though I may end up adding a bit of caching later.
#golang