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by jlokier 4y ago
I had two phones break on me this year, due to the internal electronics failing. Not dropped or cracked, just screen gradually losing the ability to display correctly then eventually going dark continuously. That's when I found out my
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by jlokier 4y ago
It depends a lot on the non-profit. As someone who co-ran a non-profit with a mission full time, I ended up deeply in personal debt as a result (of not being paid for years but still having living costs). Those running the non-profit ended
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by jlokier 4y ago
Usually that doesn't happen because their replies don't conflict within the time interval of a round trip between the two of them, so one can see the other's action first, and decide to agree. But if it does happen, either th
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by jlokier 4y ago
Maybe they do, but this article is about prosecuting a type of tax fraud by some intermediaries. It shouldn't affect honest contractors working with honest companies. (Unfortunately, the article gave me the impression of risk to cont
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by jlokier 4y ago
Hey Katie :-) If taking requests, it would be great to be able to test occasional root servers before committing, even if it's only a few hours access. I have my eye on one of those new ARM many-core servers, but I'm not going to
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by jlokier 4y ago
It's more expensive to provide AWS-type "assume you can be trusted" service at a low-cost provider - and Hetzner is one of the lowest-cost big providers. Low-cost attracts more fraudulent customers, using stolen credit card n
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by jlokier 4y ago
Their server auction is great if you find one you like. Much less than a day. I found new auction servers took only a few minutes to be up and running after selecting them. Same with default config new servers (no extra SSDs etc).
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by jlokier 4y ago
I've been using Hetzner for 10 years for a wide variety of bespoke networking services, in-store VPNs for commercial clients, video content distribution, and standard services like websites, mail servers, compute resources, and develop
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by jlokier 4y ago
I had a similar problem, where my AMD server kept freezing up about once a month. It was my critical mail server, and used by other people, so not good. Unfortunately I just kept reacting to it by rebooting, instead of writing to Hetzner s
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by jlokier 4y ago
Not as much as it looks. It seems there's currently another director who could use the available legal mechanisms to take over from the missing director-CEO but is not doing so, and previously a board that resigned rather than use the
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by jlokier 4y ago
Current work sent me a Dell Lattitide 7330 with Windows 10 Enterprise. It's not a bad little machine. Light, small, obviously designed to be portable. One of the first things I noticed was after I closed the lid to suspend on a full ba
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by jlokier 4y ago
On point 3, you can achieve the same cache locality, without losing the ability to take slices or append, by having the string object contain a pointer to the string bytes, and allocating the bytes by default immediately after the string
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by jlokier 4y ago
You joke, but my current job sent me a Dell laptop with a tiny screen and a fancy 4-video port USB-C dock. Seem I'm expected to have my own monitors. (Turns out I do have my own monitors, but they are for my own laptop, and are HDMI an
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by jlokier 4y ago
I'd use "history | grep ..." at that point, if I can't remember an old command. Possibly "history | grep ... | less" and finish searching inside less.
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by jlokier 4y ago
When I was in Switzerland I ordered a vegetarian dish at a restaurant, and it came with bacon in. "I think there's been a mistake. There's bacon in my vegetarian meal." "Oh, that's not a mistake. Bacon isn&#x
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by jlokier 4y ago
Last time I tried using Docker Desktop on my MBP (x86), the reason to not use Docker was that it was excruciatingly slow for the test suite I had to run in it, compared with Docker on Linux. I abandoned Docker on the Mac because of that, an
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by jlokier 4y ago
The well paying companies have no trouble hiring someone good, but I wouldn't say they have "their pick" of employees. There are a lot of people out there who politely decline or ignore every approach from FAANG recruite
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by jlokier 4y ago
Startups that give out shares are rare. Startups tend to give options. Options take years to accumulate, and don't give any significant rights by themselves, such as voting or profit share. Employees can typically only afford to exe
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by jlokier 4y ago
> A database traversing a tree-like index cannot issue the next read until the previous one has finished. This applies to a single point query in a single tree. The latency is reduced by overlap in obvious ways as soon as you have (1)
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by jlokier 4y ago
I measured ~1.2M IOPS (random reads, 4kiB) from 3xNVMe in a software RAID configuration on a commodity server running Ubuntu Linux in 2021. Using Samsung SSDs, not Optane. If that scaled, it would be 9.6M IOPS from 24xNVMe.
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by jlokier 4y ago
> Even putting your company logo in decent resolution would push you over the limit :) Not wishing to disagree with the rest of your comment, but I expect many company logos can fit within the limit and look good when represented in co
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by jlokier 4y ago
Ah, home ownership. For so many people these days, all of those "work on the house" bonding activities they saw their parents doing are unavailable because they don't own a home and don't expect to. I grew up with seemi
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by jlokier 4y ago
Same for me. I avoided getting into Git for years (long ago when it was new, before GitHub) and found the man pages unhelpful. Git From The Bottom Up totally turned it around for me. Ever since then I've been comfortable using Git in
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by jlokier 4y ago
Wait, the popular author J K Rowling was in the list of wealthy people whose financial actions you've said are a problem. J K Rowling wrote some books that lots of people liked and accepted a modest payment for each copy, making her we
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by jlokier 4y ago
> Zero knowledge proofs also havent really caught on. And its not a new idea. The Fiat–Shamir heuristic is from 1986. There's been a lot of advances in recent years in ZKPs, accompanied by a lot more interest. Fiat-Shamir is still
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by jlokier 4y ago
(if (condition) ;; <- must be when, not if! (do-this) (do-that)) I didn't find that to be a common problem when writing Emacs Lisp at least. The "misleading indentation" warning is relevant thre. If you
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by jlokier 4y ago
> This is how we end up with tools on top of make like configure, autoconf In the case of configure and autoconf, it isn't. Those were created to solve a problem which a Makefile by itself wasn't able to do, which is portabilit
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The people stuck renting who can't afford to retire(bbc.co.uk)
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by jlokier 4y ago
The BSD kernel is actually older then Unix V7, so it could plausibly have been added to BSD first.
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by jlokier 4y ago
> Help me understand Reducing costs might help, but how would you go about reducing the costs? As GP points out, the most of the cost isn't government fees. It's paying your own private lawyer or law firm, for their time and

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