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by Symbiote 8mo ago
Online grocery delivery was successful in the UK in the 1990s — Tesco started online ordering in the same year (1996) as Webvan, but could use their existing supermarkets as warehouses so avoided one of Webvan's main problems. My paren
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You mean the centralization.
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I think people also used to tip the postman, newspaper boy and binmen at Christmas.
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This is what trade unions are for. I don't know what proportion of waiters are members, but the union for hospitality workers is one of the largest (possibly the largest) in Denmark: https://cf.3f.dk/english/wages-
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Many, many people use Oyster cards for monthly or annual passes.
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A charge in zloty from outside Poland probably shows DCC has been used.
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A drive is a motor or other similar device, one that is driven or worked. But there are no moving parts in an SSD.
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The British spelling was used by Philips when they launched the Compact Disc with Sony. Disk was used by American companies inventing hard disks, floppy disks etc. British software often used "disc" for both, e.g. RISC OS on Acorn
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I was shocked when I last visited the USA (from Europe) and saw things like Walmart paper bags labelled "Made in Germany". Perhaps some of that has been replaced by "Made in USA". (Day-to-day, I generally don't buy
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Another likely source is "free" VPN tools, or tools for streaming TV (especially football or other pay-to-view stuff). The tool can make a little money proxying requests at the same time. I can't provide evidence as it's
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Alternative: https://www.thetimes.com/article/77b00d3e-0746-4e03-bcdb-3be... / https://archive.md/IwGUI The Tweet is mostly a copy of the Times article anyway.
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My helicopter went into freefall – inside an active volcano(theguardian.com)
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Looking at the location, it does seem a waste of a site very close to a railway station, park, offices etc to use it for a building which will have a staff of 10 or whatever. It makes sense to deny this application. They can ask to build it
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Does this make Lolita illegal in Australia? It's currently on sale / promotion in my local book shop.
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Your comment currently says "7 minutes ago" and 12:03:56, yet here it is 13:11.
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Unfortunately these don't work on mobile browsers (I do use them on the desktop)
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If this database is a large portion of the infrastructure required then the fixed-ish costs don't scale so well, but a smaller cloud/hosting company should be considered. But I have over 60 servers. Using the pricing calculator f
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Seems to be. Facebook's investment is to be $135bn [1]. The Channel Tunnel was "in 1985 prices, £4.65 billion", which is £15.34bn in December 2025 [3], or $20.5bn at current exchange rate. That is staggering. (I didn't
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You are welcome to criticise my DB cluster comparison: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46910521
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I think if something like that is worrisome, I'd contact a PostgreSQL consultant for advice. AWS charge about $500/month for this, so there's plenty of room to pay a consultant and still come out way ahead.
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I ran through roughly our numbers here [1], it looks like self-hosted costs us about 25% of AWS. I didn't include labour costs, but the self-hosted tasks (set up of hardware, OS, DB, backup, monitoring, replacing a failed component whi
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You can ask an AI or StackOverflow or whatever for the correct way to start a standby replica, though I think the PostgreSQL documentation is very good. But if you were in my team I'd expect you to have read at least some of the docume
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I hope this is the correct service, "Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL"? [1] The main pair of PostgreSQL servers we have at work each have two 32-core (64-vthread) CPUs, so I think that's 128 vCPU each in AWS terms. They also have 76
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Managing the PostgreSQL databases is a medium to low complexity task as I see it. Take two equivalent machines, set up with streaming replication exactly as described in the documentation, add Bacula for backups to an off-site location for
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How many problems do you think there are? I've only had one outage I could attribute to running on-prem, meanwhile it's a bit of a joke with the non-IT staff in the office that when "The Internet" (i.e. Cloudflare, Amazo
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They are certain to run the machines at 100% continually, which will cost more than a typical customer who doesn't do this, and leave the old machines with less second-hand value for their auction thing afterwards.
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I may be out of date with RAM prices. Dell's configuration tool wants £1000 each for 32GB RDIMMs — but prices in Dell's configuration tool are always significantly higher than we get if we write to their sales person. Even so, a r
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I don't think I've ever seen a non-hot-swap disk in a normal server. The oldest I dealt with had 16 HDDs per server, and only 12 were accessible from the outside, bu the 4 internal ones were still hot-swap after taking the cover o
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You are massively overcomplicating this. > I don't worry about booting them. I don't worry about provisioning operating systems or configuration to them. Or security updates. They come up with a lot of pre-provisioned monitorin
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I plugged in our own numbers (60 servers we own in a data centre we rent) and Microsoft thinks this costs us an order of magnitude more than it does. Their "assumption" for hardware purchase prices seems way off compared to what w

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