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suggest not raid 0 - with a 4 bay nas you have room for a raid level with some redundancy in the case of hardware failure. S3 Glacier is a good idea to mitigate against data loss, but recovery isn't instant
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fortunately software engineers know there is no silver bullet
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the neighbourhood cats where i live are highly territorial - do cats really try to enter into other's houses, or are rfid locks to protect against other animals getting in?
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There is no lack of fumes. They are somewhere else, that's all.
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I guess "stealing" is done by "thieves" but i didn't mean to be so harsh, next time i'll be more careful with my words. Whilst copying bits has negligible cost, the _original_ cost of production has to be borne
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Ok, point taken. Not "stealing", but still not paying the price of access. Making a movie or tv show etc. isn't free of cost, and if you want to watch it then it has a value
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I understand this, but when there is a charge for viewing then piracy is stealing. My issue with this is the use of the word "buy". If DRM can remove my access, and I don't have perpetual ownership and control of that DRM, th
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don't forget the old Microsoft is still here. We have two Microsofts now!
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at the end of the meeting they leave via the window
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Is that in 3D?
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Freakonomics did a short series on this, https://freakonomics.com/podcast-tag/stealing-art-is-easy-gi...
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It is a balance - not for you or me specifically
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i do. I don't appreciate poetry, never have. But others do, it is culture and art, and i have no right to deny this to others as a common good of the human experience
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the perils of "big car"
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Happened once when prepping for a language aural exam. With no immediate fix and the start of the exam pending, we moved some desks instead!
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Some UK streets don't have a #13, i believe because 13 is widely considered unlucky
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Most of the time in HK the postcode of "0" or "00000" is used when a zip code is required
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In a word, licensing.
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Has the microservice + backend project team ever observed the monolith project team?
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The book puts names to things that are otherwise nameless, and draws those names from places in the UK. One that sticks in my mind is a "sheppey", the distance at which a sheep stops being picturesque. It has the narrative structu
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hiring != growing
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"Twittarians" sounds lofty, a knowledgeable group. "Redditites" sounds like a mob, possibly armed with sticks. "Coinbese" sounds... like a mindless herd? But "Hackeronis" is just patronising, consider
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Perhaps include a "last modified" timestamp w/ timezone in tables of interest, PG can update this on a trigger so no app code has to change. Index this field. Then build a view on top of the relevant tables that assembles the
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I've debugged connection issues with someone in China. The same person, using the same browser and at the same time, showed up in the logs of two cloud apps with different IP addresses. The applications were adjacent in the cloud, same
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I found out from reading a plaque on a bench that an elderly lady I had known had died. She had been a neighbour of a relative, was the grandparent of a school friend, and worked part time at one of the schools we attended. Sitting in the s
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it is 100% pulling the ladder up behind them
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And further, the seller of a product should be responsible for the disposal of waste from that product (subtracting the recyclable parts). For example, supermarkets would be less inclined to wrap _everything_ in plastic if they were on the
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There's nothing as secure as a brick, not getting any data out of that
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How are their grandparents addressed?
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> should Completely agree > only Fine, but can substitute "git" as appropriate > discard any local files or changes Ok for when deployment is completely and always automated, but for that _one special case_ maybe keep a c
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