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by Annatar 10y ago
BTRFS is in a perpetual beta because the developer(s) haven't been able to iron out all the bugs. Not even the filesystem format has stabilized yet. (Open)ZFS, on the other hand, has ten years of enterprise production use under its bel
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by Annatar 10y ago
Kubernetes is not a provisioning system. Really? What is it then? Let's see... Kubernetes (commonly referred to as "k8s") is an open source container cluster manager originally designed by Google and donated to the Cloud N
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They do? I guess that explains why my UPS's, running on the same type of batteries, would be regularly shot after a year and I'd have a power outage. And I have industrial uninterruptible power supplies, with the current going thr
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I have yet to see a Stirling engine implementation which requires lubrication, so again, which maintenance are you referring to? Specifically, I was and am referring to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EahfGfDdgNY
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by Annatar 10y ago
And you believe that a solar panel would last longer and be cheaper than a Stirling solar power plant? Based on which data?
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by Annatar 10y ago
Comparing stirling engines to panels -> Panels are so much simpler they will perform better for any domestic and even industrial use. Maintenance is a driving cost in getting these prices down, mechanicals tend to have much higher maint
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by Annatar 10y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by "flapping," Flapping, you know, when a person who cannot swim is drowning and just flailing and flapping their body, most notably arms, all over the place in an attempt to stay above water so t
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by Annatar 10y ago
You don't. Where this comes in as useful is when you have a dual boot system, and you want to access your ext3 filesystems from Windows, for example. It would also be useful for running FUSE ZFS, since ZFS can protect data in ways whic
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by Annatar 10y ago
Because right now, batteries last only about one year and need to be replaced after that (I have lots of bad experience there), and because right now, my calculations show that for a 35,000 investement, the panels have to last 13 years befo
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This whole machination thing will collapse as soon as the solar panel prices, along with the inverter and battery costs drop low enough to be part of every house. Once everyone generates and stores their own electricity, the residential mar
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by Annatar 10y ago
I currently run close to 72,000 servers doing automated deployment and configuration management with nothing but OS packaging and shell code inside of those packages. Does that qualify as large enough?
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by Annatar 10y ago
How much more flapping there needs to be? Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Salt, Vagrant, Docker, CoreOS, runC, Kubernetes, OpenStack, the list goes on and on and on. People are going way, waaayyy out of their way just so they wouldn't learn she
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by Annatar 10y ago
I arrange my work spaces such that there is always a chair and ample desk room for anyone to bring their laptop over, plop themselves next to me, and start talking to me about the problem they want to solve. I've also planned an appren
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by Annatar 10y ago
I love pair programming; it is my favorite way to write code. I've been "in the passenger seat", I've been "in the driver's seat", and in both cases, I thought it was just great. The person looking over my
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by Annatar 10y ago
That's a seemingly innocuous question with a highly subjective answer, which ironically has very objective consequences (pick a wrong technology, for example for wrong reasons like popularity, get stuck with all kinds of unnecessary pr
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by Annatar 10y ago
The author of the article is obviously very experienced and extremely talented. Personally, I find it a tragedy that he is wasting his time on Windows, on a platform, which in his own words, in the crazy world of Windows there are a lot of
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by Annatar 10y ago
One of the biggest issues I see with this mentality going forward is a) lack of mentors for younger generations; b) repeating the same mistakes our generation made. a) is bad. b) is worse. a) and b) combined lead to fads in which one burns
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by Annatar 10y ago
That would only hold true if your or my time were worthless, or had a very low valuation. Hosting clientele is notoriously high maintenance; the more technology ignorant, the higher the maintenance in terms of support, and the more fallout
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by Annatar 10y ago
"Waiting for syndication.twitter.com" ...and this is where I click the close button. No, you will not use me for racking up your whatever.
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by Annatar 10y ago
Falls under the cool but impractical category. Of course, if there were an OpenBSD powered, functional equivalent of an Apple iPad, that would be awesome.
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by Annatar 10y ago
Yes. It's a passive-aggressive tactic of a veiled threat. However, the logical among you will realize, over time, that those people are insecure weaklings and that they are bluffing. They are basically child bullies dressed in suits an
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Actually some of them do have bats. And most, if not all of them are sociopaths in addition to being pathological psychopaths, which tends to manifest itself in the deep financial crisis we have been experiencing for a decade and a half n
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The problem is that physicists and mathematicians write the worst code I have ever seen in my entire life, and I've been programming for 30+ years. To those people, everything is a single threaded, algorithmic problem, even when it is
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by Annatar 10y ago
In my opinion, this is among the coolest / revolutionary computer products that I have seen in the last 30 years of my usage of computers. It is also great to see that LISP is gaining more and more popularity as people realize the adva
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One more completely custom method of provisioning, rather than using operating system packages and simple shell scripts inside of their preinstall, postinstall, preremove, and postremove sections. How wonderful.
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I love the apartment shots, they could make it into the centerfold of the "Dwell"[1] magazine no problem. They look like any contemporary European apartment, in such a stark contrast to the stifled, fake Baroque Midwest or East Co
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it is almost impossible to break irrevocably. This tells me you still don't get the point about using a revision control system: the whole point is NOT that you can hack the revision control system's database every which way, bu
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On the other hand, if I had to inherit your repository that was developed by "not caring about history", I would probably have to hunt you down and kill you. So there's that. Yep. Some people just want to keep taking techni
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Yep, git sucks but it's all the rage now. Mercurial is 100x nicer to use and logical, but since it's written in Python it's slow as molasses, especially with large binary files. Next on the list: Larry McVoy's Bitkeeper
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by Annatar 10y ago
As far as I am aware, Digital Ocean is running on Linux, and because Linux requires turning off memory overcommit and integrating ZFS on Linux, at a minimum, there is no correctness of operation. As there is no fault management architecture

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