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by athenot 5y ago
I wish I could use Backblaze to back up a Time Machine drive (second-level backup, offsite, daily/weekly) but that a use case they specifically don't do. What do other people use for this?
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by athenot 5y ago
I wonder how many of these businesses were still able to pass their SOC audit, yet have these kinds of holes.
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It's exhausting because the stories exaggerate the findings. Most everything in science is nuanced. Small sample, preliminary finding, caveats, unclear results… Really, this is more of an issue with modern storytelling which is often m
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by athenot 5y ago
This one is in line with The Register 's style. It fits in when on their site and reading from there. But out of context and seen in a news aggregator, it indeed looks really funny.
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Ads in question are most likely not about treadmill but high-margin supplements / meal substitutes with dubious results.
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Counter point from experience working with a large team (~2k ppl) that's distributed and working from home well before the pandemic: decorum, protocol and consistency also exist at home, they just required a different discipline and di
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Previously discussed at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9762331 (2015)
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Apparently they can spell it in all uppercase and then it can be trademarked. Thinking of REALTOR®... which is as descriptive as it gets.
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At other jobs, even committing an infraction that didn't injure nor kill anybody but was against company policy is enough to get terminated. It's often a liability issue for the company.
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> "Our tests are bad, so lets[sic] not test" is not a thought worthy of respect. Correct. But that's not the issue here. Current tests can detect benign tumors, and do. People go in for their regular tests, hear "ca
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by athenot 5y ago
Why not both? Resiliency of a cluster with k8s or similar orchestration, AND resiliency of the individual nodes within that cluster, taking advantage of supervision trees. (Also, to complete this picture and provide resiliency of the servi
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That is awesome but the article's date is April 1st 2014.
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I stopped searching on Amazon for this reason. It's optimized for selling me crap based on some probabilistic machine-learning thingy that's trying to guess what items have the highest likelihood to make me spend money. Amazon no
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> The way the accountability aspect is supposed to work is that voters are horrified and hold their elected representatives accountable by voting them out. As it turns out, though, most people are profoundly ignorant and have no idea who
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A single TCP socket may not be reliable, but I understood the parent comment at the application layer. With enough redundancy, checks, retries and caches, it's possible to conduct business reliably[1] over the internet, tolerating fail
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by athenot 5y ago
To add to that, with a laptop (tactile keyboard), it's also easier to type notes while maintaining eye contact. That goes a long way to show respect and look engaged. On a side-note, I do this on video calls too, keeping the window nea
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by athenot 5y ago
So a fair response would be to start broadcasting the whereabouts of Sundar Pichai until he decides to opt-out of this by legally changing his name to Sundar Pichai_nomap .
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To be followed by "Windows Infinity SP2". We joke but these are marketing names intended to make a big deal of a large batch of features. With today's continuous delivery (ie. incremental upgrades) this is no longer needed,
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by athenot 5y ago
Even without climate change, pumping more water than the amount refilling the aquifers is not sustainable. I understand why dry climates with artificial irrigation produce the best outcomes for many types of crops. But that's just not
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This is good advice since some DBs (like MySQL) store booleans as 8 bit ints anyways.
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That's a good precaution. Another one might be to log queries and check for use of that old column. 2 caveats: (1) ensure this logging doesn't cause performance bottleneck and (2) this might not catch queries that use globs (ie. &
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by athenot 5y ago
Because the lack of housing should not be an identity that we assign to the women, men and children who happen to be going through a rough time in life. They are—first and foremost—human beings. Losing sight of that can lead to dehumaniza
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Oh thanks for the correction!
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+1 for drone. Note that it's intended for dockerized deploys, so it won't fit if you're not deploying containers.
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> Noise means you can't do US domestic Part of that was also political. It's petty and I wish it weren't true, but a domestic-made plane making noise will be better accepted than a foreign-made plane making noise.
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The heavy load of advertisements is a point well made, however the cost is a bit more nuanced. By your calculation, it would cost $2,166/month (+price of service) to just watch that amount TV. This is an opportunity cost but only if
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> It's like they want to bring cable TV back to the internet, and you had massive bills just for channels subscriptions. Basically, yes. More precisely we have a handful of companies who worked to "disrupt" the cable TV bu
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> the bankers often ask for information on the company like website presence of marketing materials. It's not too long ago they would ask for information faxed using company letterhead, as a form of legitimization. The signals they
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> OS: Mac System 8.5 → MacOS X Indeed, it was first described against MacOS 8.5… that's a memory trip!
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Thankfully, your URL can be lengthened to this: https://aaa.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...

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