_kevinspencer

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   by _kevinspencer 4y ago

   Why is that not great? I’ve been a Spotify user for years. The Discover Weekly, “artist radio, and daily mix playlists allow me to find other bands I’d otherwise overlook. Finding/sharing playlists with others is a joy.
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   by _kevinspencer 4y ago

   This isn’t true at all. I’ve been a Spotify user for years and listen to plenty of artists that wouldn’t get played on the radio.
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   by _kevinspencer 8y ago

   That time absolutely existed. Was common. Source: lived through it.
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   by _kevinspencer 8y ago

   Not only that, but just ssh'ing in and blindly rerunning the failed job isn't the answer anyway. Research why it failed. If the job has to write a file on a full disk, you can rerun that thing a hundred times and it will never w
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   by _kevinspencer 8y ago

   Well, to be fair none of those things you list are due to a failure of cron itself either.
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   by _kevinspencer 8y ago

   This. If I had too many jobs running on underpowered single point of failure hardware, I wouldn't immediately think cron is my problem and rewrite it. Rethink your architecture, write meaningful log messages, collect stats, figure ou