AndrewDavis

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by AndrewDavis 2y ago
Even though I have a CRT and NES, I bought one of the NES minis when they released. I played some Mario Bros 3 and... I kept dying. Jumping too late led to running into holes and enemies. It was so bizarre, I couldn't believe how bad I
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by AndrewDavis 2y ago
We didn’t replace all servers at once, it was progressive, therefore due to availability the models we used changed over time. Our first batch of all nvme machines had SSDPE2KX080T8, they became harder to source and we moved to SSDPF2KX076T
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by AndrewDavis 2y ago
A few more than one, but it has been a lot less than when we were dealing with spinner. I think I requested about one or two replacements a year, a far cry from the one a week I was doing before.
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by AndrewDavis 2y ago
It's not uncommon in configuration management. Ansible has ansible-vault which encrypts secrets you then commit. When you need to use them you decrypt them and run your ansible commands. https://docs.ansible.com/ansible
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by AndrewDavis 2y ago
Modern AEDs have voice guidance telling the person what to do. So you can follow the instructions as you do it. Also, you should call the emergency number in your region and (at least in Australia) they'll transfer you to someone who c
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by AndrewDavis 2y ago
> Now we just need Oracle to decide not to want to maintain the Virtualbox kernel modules If I remember correctly you can already select KVM as the backend in Virtualbox. And in Windows you can use HyperV as your backend. Not sure about
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by AndrewDavis 2y ago
So this is great, if you're just looking to deduplicate read only files. Less so if you intend to write to them. Write to one and they're both updated. Anyway. Offline/lazy dedup (not in the zfs dedup sense) is something t
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by AndrewDavis 2y ago
The linked blog post covers this, and the improvements made to make the new dedup better.
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by AndrewDavis 2y ago
I'm substantially more productive at home. Not for any single reason, but as a result of small things coming together, for example. More sleep. I can set my alarm 15 minutes before I start work instead of an hour and a half. So I'
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by AndrewDavis 2y ago
> as it's how HAProxy runs all of their containers Could you elaborate on this? I'm curious about using s6 as a container runner.
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by AndrewDavis 2y ago
Absolutely, if you can't use a filesystem with checksums (zfs, btrfs, bcachefs) then rsync is a great idea. I think filesystem checksums have one big advantage vs rsync. With rsync if there's a difference it isn't clear which
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by AndrewDavis 2y ago
I had a significant data loss years ago. I was young and only had a deskop, so all my data was there. So I purchased a 300GB external usb drive to use for periodic backup. It was all manual copy/paste files across with no real schedule
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by AndrewDavis 2y ago
> But lithium ion battery costs will keep falling I question whether increased demand for grid scale batteries will create so much demand that lithium won't drop significantly any time soon. I certainly hope i'm wrong.
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by AndrewDavis 2y ago
My favourite are queries "why are you rejecting my email?" Ehh... Because your dmarc policy told us to?
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by AndrewDavis 2y ago
Possible. That's not uncommon for podcasts. Subscribe to an RSS feed and when you download the file the server based on some heuristic (I'm guessing most geo ip) sends you a file with ads targeted for you.
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by AndrewDavis 2y ago
> Some time later I saw a Pacific Bell truck and crew trenching the street. (We had underground utilities.) I excitedly asked them, "Are you running fiber?" "No, just more copper." During the Australian NBN^^ rollout.
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by AndrewDavis 2y ago
I think it's a bunch of reasons but agree it's probably 50/50. I can certainly relate to having no where to put stuff when my grandparents passed away, so I took one item I could fit into my bedroom. Another reason is, the cr
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by AndrewDavis 2y ago
I remember discovering his Youtube channel, it was either during my first year of University and i'd watch them as much for entertainment as education. Every so often i'd find myself following along. Between semesters I watched s
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by AndrewDavis 2y ago
> zfs was baked in How baked in? I think Alpine is one of the few distros to ship a binary zfs kernel module. So it's just a quick apk command away from getting it. There's some pretty decent documentation to install zfs on
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by AndrewDavis 2y ago
I carry those old games from old windows installs. They won't run "natively" on modern windows, however someone ported a subset of WINE, winevdm, to windows called otvdm. I was playing Chips Challenge yesterday! https:/
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by AndrewDavis 2y ago
I used ME for a while. I must say it was extremely performant, shaved off about 15-20 seconds of boot time (compared to 98 SE) off my Athlon XP 2000+ machine. A cold boot in about 25 seconds. Which was a real time saver because it crashed e
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by AndrewDavis 3y ago
This has been my solution too. I have a vpn into my home on all my devices, so even away from home I can typically rely on it. As a side note, for Android I've been using (and can't praise enough) Material Files [1]. It's the
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by AndrewDavis 3y ago
Ahh interesting. Didn't realise there were such significant differences in storage. Thanks!
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by AndrewDavis 3y ago
That's interesting. In Victoria Australia (Melbourne to me more specific). LPG (liquid petroleum gas) cars were more very successful. Throughout the 80s and 90s almost every taxi was LPG, basically every petrol station also had (and ma
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by AndrewDavis 3y ago
Even appliances that aren't internet connected are going down this terrible UX path. My old washing machine had nobs (dials) you turn. You put the clothes and soap in, close the door and press the button. My preference of type of wash
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by AndrewDavis 3y ago
Entity component system. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entity_component_system
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by AndrewDavis 3y ago
Could you please explain what you mean by a separate repair tool kit?
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by AndrewDavis 3y ago
This bug shouldn't really scare people. It's requires such an incredibly specific workload to hit Here's a post by RobN (the dev who wrote the fix) on the ZFS On Linux mailing list > There's a really important subtle
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by AndrewDavis 3y ago
RobN has opened a PR consisting of the patch he asked people to test in the issue. https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/pull/15571 Pretty crazy the bug might date back 10 years.
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by AndrewDavis 3y ago
This happened to a friend of mine. He had no programming experience but was tech savvy. The organisation was using an excel spreadsheet for a bunch of things. The org identied his tech savvy-ness and asked him to add some functionality. He

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