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by lobster_johnson 8y ago
"Live migration" refers to how Compute Engine transparently migrates a VM to another physical host [1]. Disk and memory is copied over, and they have some ridiculous technology that keeps network connections alive and re-attaches
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by lobster_johnson 8y ago
A regional disk is a logical disk that is synchronously replicated at the block level across exactly two zones within the same region [1]. Since the disks are always identical, with no replication lag, the HA control plane can seamless fail
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by lobster_johnson 9y ago
Has anyone used the beta and got any feeling for how maintenance downtime impacts things? A bit nervous about how you can only set a "maintenance window" and not be able to plan ahead for disruption; as far as I can tell, they won
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by lobster_johnson 9y ago
They actually just called me. A real human being called and said that since I have a cleaning booked for tomorrow, the fact that the site and app is (and will be for at least 24-48 hours) down, I won't be able to confirm with or commun
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by lobster_johnson 9y ago
Also USA, Brazil, Mexico, the UK, Colombia, Ecuador... there are more, but it depends on what you mean by "oil-rich". Ecuador, for example, produces less oil than Norway, but its oil production is a higher percentage of their GDP.
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by lobster_johnson 9y ago
* Terry Pratchett had a problem with endings, but his plotting is often fantastic. * Iain M. Banks. Consider Phlebas is a "heist" novel that resembles Neuromancer in structure, but where the mechanics of the plot never gets in you
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by lobster_johnson 9y ago
I think they're all deeply flawed, despite being great reading. Neuromancer benefits from a neat underlying idea (an attempt to free an AI), but reading it today, it suffers from overly linear plotting. The "heist" story is m
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by lobster_johnson 9y ago
If you run with "docker-compose up --build", it should automatically build. This requires that any app you want to work on references the local Dockerfile, not a published one, the same way as in my paste. I.e. "build: .&#x2F
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by lobster_johnson 9y ago
You can absolutely build your app once, tarball it up, and distribute it, and some people do/did it this way. But you will have to write that system yourself, and there are some challenges involved. For example, if you have binary depe
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by lobster_johnson 9y ago
What market? What kind of progress did Microsoft kill, exactly? Not to mention that back in the late 90s and early 00s when Microsoft was actively FUDing Linux, it was the server market they were afraid of. The LAMP stack was threatening II
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by lobster_johnson 9y ago
I would argue that (1) Kubernetes isn't that complicated, and (2) you're paying a one-time cost in complication that, when managed correctly, gives you an operationally much simpler substrate to run apps. To explain, consider the
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by lobster_johnson 9y ago
What? The responsibility for Linux being a "bad desktop platform" is entirely that of whoever made it. Between KDE, GNOME and the various alternatives, none of their issues were caused by Microsoft. Microsoft may have been plenty
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by lobster_johnson 9y ago
The article pretends to answer why they're using Linux instead of the NT kernel, but the answer is either incomplete or a non sequitur; it seems to imply that since the devices has very little power, their kernel isn't a good fit.
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by lobster_johnson 9y ago
If you're still struggling with the build workflow, it's probably not yet the right time to take that leap. It's not rocket science, of course. You build an image somewhere (your local machine, a CI server, anywhere), push
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by lobster_johnson 9y ago
Like the other commenters I've been to diners like that elsewhere in the US. The difference is generally in the types of food served. Lots of Jewish diners on the East coast. Lots of influence from Eastern Europe, particularly Poland,
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by lobster_johnson 9y ago
Should have (2000) in the title. See https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1251250 for publication metadata.
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by lobster_johnson 9y ago
Here: https://www.aao.org/eye-health/tips-prevention/moving-spots-...
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by lobster_johnson 9y ago
How does RecordIO compare with Parquet and Arrow? Different use cases?
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by lobster_johnson 9y ago
How does Borg express updates? With Kubernetes only deployments have rollout/rollback, and you need something like Helm -- which is frankly not that great -- to handle groups of resources that are to be updated and versioned together,
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by lobster_johnson 9y ago
Have they done so poorly? There aren't that many mainstream OSes, period, and there's not a lot of a space for a new OS. In embedded computing, various commercial sectors such as aerospace, and the military, there are highly succe
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by lobster_johnson 9y ago
Fuchsia is not a monolith in a design sense, though -- it's a microkernel, and the device interface is based on IPC, which means you can keep the kernel clean and simple, and put drivers elsewhere. For comparison, the majority of the L
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by lobster_johnson 9y ago
Can you elaborate on the "fix"? It's not in IMDb's list of alternate versions.
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by lobster_johnson 9y ago
Stalker is interesting in that Tarkovsky originally used the Strugatskys' screenplay, but went back and changed it. Tarkovsky had become increasingly disillusioned about the whole project as he entered into production — he had fights w
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by lobster_johnson 9y ago
Don't forget Dr. Strangelove, which is based on a very serious novel about nuclear war, "Two Hours To Doom" (published in the US as "Red Alert"), which Kubrick and Terry Southern turned into a comedy. (Today the boo
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by lobster_johnson 9y ago
The point wasn't to pedantically count diphthongs, it's the idea that English is biased towards them in a way that Germanic languages aren't, and which affects their pronouncation if left uncorrected. If it helps, replace &qu
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by lobster_johnson 9y ago
Another thing an English speaker needs to learn about Germanic vowel is that they're all monophthongs. In English, most vowel letters end up being diphthongs, and speakers have trouble pronouncing vowels without putting a diphthong-lik
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by lobster_johnson 9y ago
ActorDB is very interesting. It uses two-phase commit, similar to CockroachDB, TiDB and Spanner, but as I understand it, relies on locking to update the participating shards. I'm not sure how well ActorDB performs in a large cluster wi
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by lobster_johnson 9y ago
It's the second meaning of democratize, meaning "to make something accessible to everyone", that I intended, but I suppose Raft also has commoditized the technology, since there are now off-the-shelf libraries you can pick an
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by lobster_johnson 9y ago
I looked, and couldn't find any audio from the Martin Balsam version anywhere. I assume Kubrick sat on these tapes, which means they might be buried in his extensive archive [1], since it seems he never threw anything away. I hope they
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by lobster_johnson 9y ago
I bought my foam mattress from Dixie [1]. It's the Dream Bed Deluxe model, which was about $550, which seems right for a foam mattress (it's still probably 2x markup, but less than what Casper etc. are charging), with free deliver

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