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The Alaska Server
- AnimalMuppet 5mo ago"Alaska" servers. "Alaska Arctic Power". From a company in Mexico. I mean, they may be perfectly good servers. Well, if it stood for a decade before failing, it's not just. I'm just having trouble seeing past the glaring naming non sequitur.
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- ThePinion 5mo agoAs an Alaskan I am both confused and amused.
- esseph 5mo agoFormer Alaskan, very disappointed after skimming the first part of the article.
- goodmythical 5mo agoAllow me to introduce everyone to my favorite thing that isn't an artichoke and isn't from Jerusalem: The Jerusalem Artichoke: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem_artichoke https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem_artichoke
- reaperducer 5mo agoYou keep your hands off my Jordan almonds!
- dredmorbius 5mo agoAnd Rocky Mountain oysters.
- stackghost 5mo ago"Alaska" carries reasonably strong connotations of ruggedness and durability, and probably the arctic associations are also beneficial if you want to sell a server advertised as "running cool", or whatever. It's just marketing. It's no different than Toyota manufacturing Tacoma trucks in Mexico, Hyundai making the Santa Fe in South Korea, or Boston Pizza and Swiss Chalet existing despite being Canadian companies and having nothing to do with either Boston or Switzerland.
- gwerbin 5mo agoThere is a specialty coffee farm in Ecuador called Alaska del Sur.
- dredmorbius 5mo ago"Toyota Tundra"? "Kia Telluride"?
- cman1444 5mo agoThe blog actually spells it "Artic", not "Arctic". I wonder if the blog or the company misspelled it.
- Maxious 5mo agoIn the video they are clear that the company misspelled it
- jjulius 5mo agoAm I having deja vu? I saw this exact same thread a few days ago, with the very same comment about the non sequitur. When I search for it on HN, the search results say the thread was posted "3 days ago", but when I open the thread, it says "3 hours ago". What's happening?
- 1970-01-01 5mo agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308
- inigyou 5mo agoSecond-chance pool. Dang can manually reset the timestamp on an article, which brings it back to the front page, and sneakily also resets the timestamp on any existing comments so nobody will question it.
- serialport 5mo agothe Youtube video about this server was just released last night - which is hopefully more interesting than just the rather short blog post.
- MisterTea 5mo agoAny significance to this brand or just showcasing a little known white-box reseller of the past?