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by jo909 11y ago
I'm not sure if you meant just that, but they certainly use in-house developed SDN stuff. That will at such scale still be "expensive" and "enterprise" tough.
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by jo909 11y ago
One of the (I guess intended) effects of using an aniquated slang word is to illustrate that this is not a new problem, but that this very same problem exists for so long that it got its own well known insulting term a long time ago.
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by jo909 11y ago
Fair argument that every unique id or name makes you trackable, but that is a much bigger (and IMHO long lost) battle on so many fronts, and it does not seem very fair to single out Microsoft here. And I don't think that is the motivat
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by jo909 11y ago
Isn't the real point that one should not be able to obtain that much information simply by knowing some user id or user name? I would guess plenty of services include the username in some URLs. Edit: of course the autor also stated tha
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by jo909 11y ago
But that is not the same. That is a small, but fixed size, second version of the image, embedded into the same file. With FLIF you simply read the first N bytes of the full image and have a resonable preview. You choose how big or small N h
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by jo909 11y ago
In the end its just project management. I want to keep track of the things that still need to be worked on, so I don't forget them. I can delegate work, others can delegate work to me, work that requires other work or sub-steps can be
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by jo909 11y ago
It's called saving. There are many ways to do that, but I prioritised to have enough _liquid_ capital to be able to get me through many many months without earning anything. Of course it might still be irrational, stupid and risky to q
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by jo909 11y ago
I would compare it to involuntary manslaughter vs first-degree murder. Inaction, negligence, lack of oversight etc that allows bad things to happen, when you were in the position to prevent it, should be punishable.
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by jo909 11y ago
But then you still have a totally different product. If I buy hardware and software, and can execute the software on my own systems, I can run that combination for as long as I like exactly like on day 1, and as the product was advertised.
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by jo909 11y ago
You brought up math. I never disputed that 100MB / 12.5MByte/s is slightly easier than 100MB / 100Mbit/s. I'm just saying that calculation, in both forms, gives a very inaccurate answer to how long a file transfer w
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by jo909 11y ago
You are missing my point: the raw bit rate of the network is not the rate of file transfers. There is a bunch of logic around the raw bits in the wire that make it mich more complicated than dividing by 8
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by jo909 11y ago
I can't do the exact math for that without looking up up a bunch of stuff. I don't how much I need to subtract for the multiple headers and other overhead, how fast the transfer rate gets to the maximum, how many packages get lost
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by jo909 11y ago
Even if the only reason is historical: why not, what advantage would bytes per second have?
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by jo909 11y ago
They rotate support duty, every engineer and even the founders do it for a week each.
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by jo909 11y ago
Ah, okay. Because of the way it is listed I thought it was some protocol extension or other HTTP-related speciality, not a different location. Thanks for clearing that up.
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by jo909 11y ago
What is the "EU" flavour?
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by jo909 11y ago
>German banks (as a counter-example) just won't let the transfer go through. But then you typically pay a fee to whoever unsuccessfully tried to debit you, since they have to do it again.
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by jo909 11y ago
You are correct that you maybe can combine that with dedicated servers from online.net, but managing that might be a headache. Scaleway presents itself as a cloud service after all, where easy/automated management, quick scaling, rapid
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by jo909 11y ago
For every comparison we should take into account that scaleway offers dedicated hardware, not a VPS. Also I think its important to note that they (currently) only offer one very "small" server model, so your whole application woul
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by jo909 11y ago
Exactly. The police can read all my letters if a judge allows it. They can tap my phone, bug my bedroom, track my movement, perform a cavity search, take my blood and DNA, detain me, and if I make really bad decisions even kill me. And I am
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by jo909 11y ago
That works for file and message/mail contents, and there already are functional external solutions for that (f.e. GPG). I agree that needs to be better integrated and supported. But Google needs to know my search query to be able to se
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by jo909 11y ago
I agree that any time based billing has that incentive conflict, but how does it fundamentally change when increasing the minimal unit? In the end you have to balance your efficiency and quality with your rate. For me there are many aspects
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by jo909 11y ago
I work for external clients, and when they get billed daily instead of hourly I just convert the hours into full days according to a 8 hour workday. If I worked lets say 80 hours on 20 days on their project, we bill them 80/8 = 10 days
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by jo909 11y ago
Amazon is not doing this with the intention of "killing" flash. They do this because flash ads are now no longer seen by a large enough group of users which makes them bad advertising vehicles. Maybe at some point the Prime Music
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by jo909 11y ago
High end flash is that fast. Btrfs is simply not a good filesystem (yet?).
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by jo909 11y ago
One of the important and unintuitive points is that this is exactly NOT true. The extra hours are NOT free to the company. Ok they don't pay for them in money, but also don't gain anything in additional work being done. In the ext
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by jo909 11y ago
While I totally believe the research is right, and see the same results and draw the same conclusions for myself, I don't think the research can tell anything about one individual. The way studies work is to measure the average of a la
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by jo909 11y ago
I agree, the best days are when time flies and you are just challenged at the right level - not to hard to frustrate you, not too easy/repetitive to bore you. But for me this is not the norm, most days are a mix of too hard and too eas
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by jo909 11y ago
If $5 was near their costs, wouldn't they then sell it for 2$ or something, because Amazon (and their brand partner) make money with the button later? I bet the $5 price point is something they arrived at mostly by asking what customer
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by jo909 11y ago
This is really cool. I suspect the buttons are already sold at loss, so it is probably very hard to build a similar, but more open, device at around a price point where you could just plaster the whole house with such buttons. But I wonder

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