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Some of these tasks are required when you run your service in Amazon Cloud as well. It's not all free and not all by default. You'll need someone experienced with Amazon Services to set up many of these things in the Amazon cloud
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> Whether this fulfills that goal, we will see, but anything that weakens the regime is good for the Iranian people. Oh, enough to look at Libya, Syria, Iraq, to see what happens next: 1. Lots of infrastructure would be destroyed. It
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1y ago
It sounds like if you rent a VPS/VDS in any other place than Amazon, you'll have to hire a separate person to babysit it 24/7. It's not true.
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> Well I imagine there was a lot less persecution by the Chinese government at that time. Is feudal society with slavery and human sacrifices better? How can we really be sure about more or less persecution by Chinese government if we do
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I don't remember all the details. But the triggering point was Amazon RDS: it was complaining every week that our DB consumed all available space and we had to increase the size and pay more with every week. Our DB and flow of data was
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1y ago
Is there a single proof? Like some Russian citizen was caught ruinining infrastructure project and it was proved that a) he is a citizen of Russia or was paid by Russian authorities, b) that the person in question had indeed done some damag
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1y ago
I'm not surprised about 90% of savings. I remember that initially AWS was promoted everywhere as being "cheaper" than your own hardware, colocation or VPS/VDS hosting. Once I was working in a quite small company (around
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Was situation in Tibet really good before China came? I've recently learned that movie "7 years in Tibet" is full of lies, starting with the fact that the main character was hardcore Nazi follower in real life. There are a lo
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There were evidence of leaks of soldiers' messages from WhatsApp. I do not know for sure if there are leaks from Telegram, but I think that Durov was pressed for enabling backdoors for CIA when he was arrested in France. It's not
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After arrest of Durov in France I think the same. Doesn't change the fact that any single Russian soldier is not using WhatsApp. It's considered compromised with very convincing evidence, along with some other apps (I don't r
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Russian soldiers participating in SMO reported multiple times that after they exchange texts and photos with their relatives in WhatsApp, that information ends up in Ukrainian military HQs next day. With photos. And later used, for example,
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My only and biggest pain point with Git is that it requires a lot of manual merging even in a small project. You have several branches that are several weeks/months old and they touch the same set of files. Eventually, when they'l
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1y ago
What about more complex and expensive infrastructure required for balancing uneven electricity output?
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I had the same experience as the OP in the beginning of the century. I've built a lot of RPM packages back then and it was clear that system of dependencies built into RPM format itself (not apt or dnf, this is dpkg level in terms of D
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Today is 2025. Rail Baltica started in 2013. Yes, I understand very well that "research" is a pipe, where you put billions of euros in one end, and get stack of papers on the other end. And somebody becomes rich in the process. Sa
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I've read your link. Where's the actual progress? But billions of euros has already been spent.
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> Was there a comparable large scale rail infrastructure change in some other country? Baltic states attempted this (project Rail Baltica). Lots of EU money were spent with no visible result. I guess, several people in Baltic states beca
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I've bought almost the same model but a few years later. I also enjoy how effortless is connecting this printer to Linux. I have to install brlaser driver manually though. But I did some research before buying (including here on HN) an
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> that actually changed the functionality under test - that's all an argument for doing exactly the opposite of what you recommend. It was an old functionality. Someone wrote a super class that for the need of testing filesystem fun
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I profiled a huge legacy tests collection using cProfile, and found lots of low hanging fruits. Like some tests were creating 4000x3000 Pillow image in memory just to test how image saving code works (checkign that filename and extension ar
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So, what is my mistake? When and where existed "Ukraine" before 1991?
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> Putin had already attacked multiple countries before. Georgia, Chechnya As always, westerners leave in an information bubble. Chechnya was always a part of Russia. It was a civil war. Ukraine was always a part of Russia until 1991, btw
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Rusofobia started in middle ages, long before Putin was born. And it never ended. > Some of it is also caused by the pervasive hostility to the values important to most humans, USA started with a genocide of a whole continent. Started mo
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As a Russian I will explain my vision: one of the oldest Western traditions is to demonize Russia and Russian people. You can find plenty of examples in the Western literature from 100 years ago, from 400 years ago, and right now on CNN or
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Still possible to ride steam train in Russia: https://naparovoze.ru/ (from Moscow or St. Petersburg to Karelia). I believe there's also a steam train router around lake Baikal.
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> And note that for most people, a week to few weeks of the exercise give stronger orgasms and ability to delay the ejaculation. I've experienced all those benefits when I started walking two times a day, 8-10 thousands of steps a d
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Regarding building of power plants, I've studied the information I could find but very briefly. Including some interviews with Czech people who built those reactors. > Czechs were last in europe to have uranium mines, some of mines
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What? Is that an LLM generated comment? Czechoslovakian nuclear power plants were build with the Soviet help by USSR blueprints.
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Wasn't banned by Imperial Russia either. There was a very short period of time (1799-1828) when all kind of waltzes were banned, but the ban was never enforced and it had nothing to do specifically with polonez or Poland.
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You can always find a way to eliminate an undesirable candidate. E.g. declare that they're "paid by Putin". That's all you need to eliminate the undesirable politician, there are usually exactly zero proofs. Declaring th
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