greggyb

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by greggyb 3y ago
If you're running in one of the big 3 cloud providers, the bottom-level hypervisors are not-linux. This is equivalent. Are you anti-AWS or anti-Azure for the same reason? This is the substrate upon which you will run any virtualized in
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by greggyb 3y ago
I don't think I would ever consider RSV and Parquet alongside each other. I also don't think I've ever personally had a use case where the proposed RSV format would have been a good fit. Nevertheless I found it interesting. E
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Rows of String Values (RSV Data Format) Specification(github.com)
2 points by greggyb 3y ago|2 comments
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by greggyb 3y ago
I believe their next sentence took away the need to try to infer anything, and in fact made their point quite clear: > A grid with monospace characters is perfectly suitable for that.
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by greggyb 3y ago
That is exactly what is happening here. The Mastodon server is handling the firehose, and creating sub-streams for each user based on followed accounts and tags.
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by greggyb 3y ago
https://mikrotik.com/product/hap_ac2 Mikrotik's product names are sufficient to uniquely identify them and easily searchable. This differs from many hardware vendors, so your question was reasonable, despite alrea
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by greggyb 3y ago
Thanks for the quiz and free advice. I'll ask you a few questions in return: does it seem like I have not put a fair bit of thought into my storage needs? Do I seem ignorant of disk topologies and their tradeoffs? In fact, I have run L
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by greggyb 3y ago
It is annoying and time consuming to recover. There is a whole sort of middle area between ephemeral and needing 11 9s of resilience that you seem to be discounting. Perhaps you live in a world where those two extremes dominate. Maybe you c
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by greggyb 3y ago
As an example, one thing I use my storage pool for is streaming movies via Plex (from Blu-rays I own). If these were stored in S3, in addition to paying for that storage monthly, I would have to pay >$2/movie to stream it to my own
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by greggyb 3y ago
For the third time, my plan for growing the pool is based on being able to swap in new drives to trade them out with one existing drive in current mirror vdevs. As described previously, this allows me to grow two drives at a time and reduce
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by greggyb 3y ago
It is objectively measurable and subjectively it feels better than tests on a single drive for day to day activity. Objective and subjective improvement is good enough for me. Two mirrors == two vdevs, each a mirror of two disks: $ zp
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by greggyb 3y ago
That would be awfully hard to do as I am not using Linux (: 1. Yes, two mirrored vdevs are not the highest performance configuration for four devices, but they beat a single raidz vdev, which was the suggestion from the prior poster. 2. Ran
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by greggyb 3y ago
I sure could, with 1. write performance equivalent to the slowest drive in that single vdev, rather than being striped across two vdevs 2. reads that cannot be distributed across the devices 3. riskier resilvers in the face of a failed driv
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by greggyb 3y ago
For years, I have been convinced that the only reliable storage solution is an array of drives from different suppliers. My primary desktop runs ZFS with 4x10TB HDDs for bulk storage. These are in two mirrored pairs, so I have 20TB usable s
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by greggyb 3y ago
Your experience sounds terrible, and I am sorry you had to go through that. To be clear, the thing that I am saying is good is the topic of the article at hand, Amazon automatically applying discounts for insulin. This is orthogonal to thei
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by greggyb 3y ago
This is a good thing, regardless of whatever else Amazon is doing. Large organizations do not monolithically fit one description or judgment. Amazon does lots of other questionable or downright malicious things. This is not one of those.
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by greggyb 3y ago
The power is part of why I prefer the embedded boards like the one I linked. Especially putting one of these not in a rackmount chassis, you can opt for quiet cooling and fans that do not draw 10s of watts each. The idle loads can get fai
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by greggyb 3y ago
The top spec 32GB RAM on the qualified list for the specific board I linked earlier runs $40-$41 on ebay. The same speed and capacity for generic DDR4 runs in the mid $30s. The board has 4 RAM slots. So the premium for QVL RAM for that link
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by greggyb 3y ago
I noticed this as well. The patch panels seem only to bring some wire to the front of the rack, only to immediately send the patched wire toward the back of the rack again.
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by greggyb 3y ago
I'd start with something like this[0]. The only search term I used was "xeon-d". You can easily find other form factors and combinations. This line of CPUs is lower power (the linked one is rated at 45W), so should be trivial
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by greggyb 3y ago
Ah, cool. I didn't know that about the connection. Thanks for sharing.
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by greggyb 3y ago
The Pis are using GPS receivers to serve as NTP servers on the local network. The specific appear to use GPIO pins. You would not be able to wire these to the ESXI machines as readily. You typically also want time-sensitive workloads runnin
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Libellux: Up and Running(libellux.com)
2 points by greggyb 3y ago|0 comments
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by greggyb 3y ago
I see lots of challenges on Firefox, but I attribute this to my use of container tabs. Is this a reasonable expectation?
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by greggyb 3y ago
Common Lisp has been standardized for longer than Java's life. Also in the lisp world, Clojure has a fastidious dedication to backward compatibility. Perl 5 has maintained backward compatibility (though I am not certain if it is 100% c
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by greggyb 3y ago
I see that you are quoting someone else, so I will let you continue your argument with them.
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by greggyb 3y ago
Municipalities aren't always great. That is an entirely different point than the uniqueness of municipalities. I don't disagree with anything you said.
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by greggyb 3y ago
A co-op is owned collectively. Therefore collective ownership is not a unique feature of a municipal service. Additionally a municipal service can certainly be contracted out to a private company (for-profit or otherwise). So there may stil
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by greggyb 3y ago
There are more organizational structures than "large, profit-maximizing corporation" and "municipal government". In support of my argument, I present: co-op and not-for-profit. More broadly, since I wrote more than one s
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by greggyb 3y ago
You make some good points. I was very focused on speed/price/quality of network service in my post. This also reflects my own biases and preferences. All I want from an ISP is a reliable uplink at a decent price. The last piece of

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