invertedohm

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by invertedohm 8mo ago
Kernel 4.18 is _ancient_, weird to test on that. Also I wonder if the whole performance increase can't just be achieved by lowering the readahead size a bit. I see in their notes they have a decent SSD but set the blockdev readahead to
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by invertedohm 1y ago
I get the feeing you're looking at this through the specific lens of a programmer. Terraform isn't made for programmers - you'll miss all the flexibility a real language gives you. It's made for ops people who deal with
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by invertedohm 3y ago
Personally I just push to an offsite restic backup on a cheap Hetzner storage box. It's not super fast and only hosted in EU AFAICT but it fits the bill for being cheap and reliable enough. It's just there for me to retrieve senti
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by invertedohm 7y ago
As others have noted, PowerToys ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_PowerToys ) has a long history. I have some fond memories of the TweakUI utility by Raymond Chen as it made the OS much more usable.
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by invertedohm 8y ago
Oh yeah it's definitely a weird Translate bug. "Krigsskipet gjør en unnamanøver" translates to "The war ship is doing nightmare". "først en unnamanøver" to "first a young man", "unnamanøver
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by invertedohm 8y ago
The original is "Krigsskipet gjør først en unnamanøver i siste liten". Now, I don't speak Norwegian but I'm guessing the word "unnamanøver" is pretty versatile considering the translations you get when making m
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by invertedohm 10y ago
Workload is mostly writing incoming metrics from many dynamic instances (AWS). In 2015 Influx was at pre-1.0 and definitely had a tendency to "fall apart" under stress - for one, there were no memory limitations implemented, so an
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by invertedohm 10y ago
While it's a relatively young product, I've been running InfluxDB at scale for over a year in production and it's been a joy to use. Hundreds of hosts reporting stats every 10 seconds and the query language is straightforward
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by invertedohm 10y ago
I'd like to second this, while also noting that a side-effect of this noodling-with-languages is that my fully English OS and browser is getting a page with some content (full paragraphs!) in Dutch, while other content is in English. O
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by invertedohm 11y ago
Kind of amazing that the state of the art in this area hasn't changed in nearly 10 years. The marketing angle is funny as well - everything has to be a cloud now. I think I used to call what we built at Optiver a "private cloud&qu
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by invertedohm 11y ago
> You don't hear the former at all; but you hear the latter as "plus plus," don't you? I really do not. A short silence, both of them. I suppose it depends on how you normally code. I have never had a need for speaki
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by invertedohm 12y ago
The "it works after traceroute" line was the moment I was sure it was ARP caching. Then I was just wondering if it had anything to do with AWS specifically, which could have pointed towards a serious VPC bug. That doesn't see
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by invertedohm 12y ago
Ants. This is a drone in the insect hierarchical sense. It implies independent behaviour of duties and expendability, mostly.
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by invertedohm 12y ago
No matter how incredible the software is, I don't see a solution for the core problem that they will need to solve: battery vs weight. It's revealing that there are no prototypes shown at all. Very curious what their weight goal i
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by invertedohm 12y ago
In the video, Adam glances at the guy behind him in line as he says "checking my statement for sketchy charges". Dude looks a lot like weev. Not sure if it's the guy himself, but that has to be intentional.
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by invertedohm 12y ago
This is what I believe will be a (perhaps minor) roadblock towards adoption of these devices. It's relatively cheap compared to what's on the market now and appears very high quality. The problem is that flying machines are not we
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by invertedohm 12y ago
Indeed, cssh is great for getting a quick visual on a few servers, but you're pretty much limited to what will fit on your screen. Ansible really shines when you scale it up a bit further, and it grows well, allowing you to add bits an
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by invertedohm 12y ago
Exactly. The simplest explanation in my mind is that it's a white balance issue. Most photos are taken in some form of daylight, which is generally in the orange range without a pure white on a "correct" exposure. On average,
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by invertedohm 12y ago
This is simply a side-effect of how DNS updates. The data is propagating right now, as the root nameservers for the .biz tld are already returning the Microsoft DNS servers as the correct response. The TTL for the root appears to be a day,
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by invertedohm 12y ago
Leaving aside the obviously deficient sysadmin work here: the timeline of the story doesn't add up. I can only hope this explanation is not accurate. You find notes in your AWS control panel saying you should contact some Hotmail addre