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by cure 6y ago
> * Zoom - worst video conference product __EVER__. Can't say a single good word about it. There are tons of problems with Zoom, no disagreement there. But the heaping pile of crap called Skype for business formerly known as Microso
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by cure 6y ago
Start by looking at the breakdown of your costs in the cost analyzer. Look for the categories of your biggest spend. Is it storage? EC2? Something else? For storage; see if you can clean up things you don't need anymore. See if you can
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by cure 6y ago
> Batteries have come down in cost, but natural gas is far, far cheaper than grid scale batteries. Source please? Natural gas peaker plants are not cheap to build and have a terrible utilization rate by nature, so they are not cheap to o
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by cure 6y ago
> There are certainly abuses in the copyright, trademark, and patent systems. But throwing out the baby with the bathwater is not the answer. Identifying the abuses and improving the system is the answer. That sounds nice and reasonable,
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by cure 6y ago
> To properly price the product. Otherwise, people at higher risk are subsidized more heavily by people at lower risk. But that's the very definition of insurance: spread the risk over the entire pool. US health insurance does not w
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by cure 6y ago
Nitpick, it's Poul Anderson. Yes, that is an odd spelling of his first name.
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by cure 6y ago
> It's not that precise I think you're being too kind. That map is a disgrace. The 'latest public release' is from June 2019, a whole year out of date. One self-reported hookup in a census block is enough to mark the
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by cure 6y ago
> Feinstein (D-CA) co-introduced EARN IT. She might be up for re-election one more time before she retires. Yes. I call her Senator Hollywood. That's the only constituency she really represents. She's been on the wrong side of
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by cure 6y ago
Something like that, yes. Coreboot lets the relevant driver in the Linux kernel do most of the hardware initialization. The firmware does comparatively little, just enough to make the driver recognize the hardware and configure it so it fun
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by cure 6y ago
Perhaps just that that combination does not have the best track record in that regard. Their war on science, etc.
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by cure 6y ago
Thank you for xen-tools and xen-shell :)
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by cure 6y ago
But if you ZFS, avoid the crappy WD red SMR drives! Cf. https://www.servethehome.com/wd-red-dm-smr-update-3-vendors-...
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by cure 6y ago
If it is true, then good bloody riddance. Nobody is going to miss those rent seekers. The future belongs to open, unencumbered standards.
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by cure 6y ago
EKS, GKE and the like have a number of limitations. For example: they can be pretty far behind in the version of K8S they support (GKE is at 1.15 currently, EKS at 1.16; K8S 1.18 was released in at the end of March this year.
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by cure 6y ago
That is correct; I've always found it a missed opportunity in Terraform. I still like it a lot as a tool. A unified abstraction layer would certainly work for a subset of cloud offerings. Think the more basic stuff like EC2, VPCs, etc.
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by cure 6y ago
Yay for Vermont, but I hope they give their plan some teeth when the big telcos (who presumably would be doing the work) inevitably do not deliver on their promises. It would be much better if they turn it into the state-wide equivalent of
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by cure 6y ago
Odd name, French for 'leek'. Maybe they were thinking of Poirot?
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by cure 6y ago
> The real problem is far too much authority was vested (taken?) by the federal congress. Smaller government is the key to keeping the government in check. That feels like a bit of a non sequitor. Can you elaborate? Genuinely curious.
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by cure 6y ago
Azure storage is definitely the black sheep. They cleaned up the VM/compute layer a few years ago with the introduction of Azure Resource Manager (ARM), but storage hasn't gotten that big an overhaul yet. And it shows. They seem t
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by cure 6y ago
Whoa. You were lucky. Very lucky. If you are going to use hardware raid, please do make sure you have a spare raid controller, same firmware, same model. If not, you will be SOL when your controller dies. RAID5 these days (with our very lar
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by cure 6y ago
I believe Australia has a system along those lines, with forgiveness for people who work in the public service sector.
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by cure 6y ago
Yay for public.resource.org. Carl Malamud does excellent work. You can donate here: https://public.resource.org/about/donate.html
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by cure 6y ago
No, actually: because they started out as ad-only, then added paid subscriptions while still forcing their subscribers to watch ads , and that is when I decided it was not for me. Maybe they've been evolving in a more positive directi
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by cure 6y ago
This is correct. Most other countries are undercounting Covid-19 deaths significantly because they are only counting confirmed cases. The problem becomes obvious when the total death numbers for the last few months are compared to the histo
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by cure 6y ago
This is why Hulu is a nonstarter for me. If I'm paying, no ads, period.
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by cure 6y ago
Fravia's ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fravia ) old site on geocities in the second half of the 90's. Some of the content lives on in the wayback machine under the 'www.searchlores.org' domain, but
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by cure 6y ago
Everything is relative: compared to Azure virtual machine family naming, AWS is not so bad!
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by cure 6y ago
That sounds right. I got a WD60EFAX and a Seagate ST6000VN0033 a few months ago, and the WD is significantly lighter than the Seagate.
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by cure 7y ago
Sen. Feinstein has always been "Senator Hollywood". She is completely in the pocket of the media industry. Mickey Mouse copyright act ( http://www.copyrightextension.com/page06.html )? That was her. DMCA? Yep. SOPA?
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by cure 7y ago
> Since when is this ability to dial-in such a hard requirement? The main reason I see people use dial-in, is when their audio or meeting client is not working, for whatever reason. The phone is a nice backup in those cases, and it (almo

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