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by longwave 5y ago
I got one, at 1:01pm. I explicitly enabled the two "test" options in Emergency alerts on my Android phone beforehand, however I don't know if that is why I saw it.
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by longwave 5y ago
You can write custom VCL snippets directly in the Fastly control panel. Migrating all existing customer VCL to another language would be an enormous task.
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by longwave 5y ago
They already have: $ host m.media-amazon.com m.media-amazon.com is an alias for c.media-amazon.com. c.media-amazon.com has address 99.86.119.84 (which is a Cloudfront IP)
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by longwave 5y ago
Amazon UK usually refund you as soon as the package is scanned into the shipper's tracking system. I've dropped off a return at a Hermes point and received a refund notification while walking back to my car. There is the caveat th
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by longwave 5y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27286628
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Goiânia accident(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by longwave 5y ago|0 comments
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by longwave 6y ago
Amazon CloudSearch hasn't had any serious updates in 6 years [1]. It is Apache Solr behind the scenes, but with a proprietary API on top. I suspect everyone with serious search requirements has moved to Elasticsearch or another product
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Drupal 9.1.0 is available(drupal.org)
1 points by longwave 6y ago|0 comments
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by longwave 6y ago
The Walkie Talkie building in London has already achieved this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/20_Fenchurch_Street#Solar_gl...
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by longwave 6y ago
Academic networks in the UK[0] actually got this the right way round from the start, but DNS won the battle in the mid 90s. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JANET_NRS
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by longwave 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/867-5309/Jenny
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Suspicious CentOS 7 AMIs on AWS Marketplace(reddit.com)
3 points by longwave 7y ago|1 comments
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by longwave 7y ago
Jenkins works reasonably well as a job scheduler. The UI is functional if not pretty, it is fairly easy to configure and use even for a large number of jobs, and the plugin ecosystem allows you to extend it in many ways without writing any
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Disruption at Victoria and London Bridge: how it happened and what we are doing(networkrail.co.uk)
4 points by longwave 7y ago|0 comments
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by longwave 7y ago
I think that would be difficult to calculate accurately. We can collect user-agent statistics from browsers but mail clients don't have an equivalent when reading mail.
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America's DIY Phone Farmers(vice.com)
5 points by longwave 7y ago|0 comments
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by longwave 7y ago
They were already buying bin liners to use at home. When bags were seen as disposable they were often put in public litter bins (where they do not always stay, in busy areas with full bins) or simply discarded in the open environment. Anecd
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by longwave 7y ago
You might have been doing that, as was I, but a lot of people were not - and their flimsy bags were ending up as litter. This is what this policy is designed to prevent.
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by longwave 7y ago
Borg has an append-only mode [1] that prevents clients from overwriting data. [1] https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/usage/notes.html...
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Breach at IT Outsourcing Giant Wipro(krebsonsecurity.com)
200 points by longwave 7y ago|67 comments
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Goodbye Open Core – Good Riddance to Bad Rubbish(medium.com)
4 points by longwave 8y ago|0 comments
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by longwave 8y ago
That is me, I found a Dropbox link containing the repo on Twitter and thought it might be a good idea to preserve it.
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by longwave 8y ago
Yes, this. Quite often I start writing out complex pipelines using head/tail to test with a small dataset and then switch it out for cat when I am done to run it on the full thing. And it's often not worth refactoring these things
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Introducing Verizon Media Group(verizon.com)
2 points by longwave 8y ago|0 comments
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by longwave 8y ago
As the Z3 cannot perform conditional branches I assume it was difficult or impossible for the hardware at the time to do anything other than move the tape in a linear sequence in a single clock cycle. A stored-program computer that uses a p
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by longwave 8y ago
A stored-program computer requires the program itself to be stored in electronic memory, the Z3 uses electronic memory for input and output but tape for the program.
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by longwave 8y ago
Point in time restores to the last daily snapshot and replays logs since that snapshot; this can take quite some time (hours) if your database has a lot of writes, especially if the snapshot was 23 hours ago. The blog post doesn't quit
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Large scale Twitter bot farm targeting Londoners(ianvisits.co.uk)
2 points by longwave 8y ago|0 comments
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by longwave 9y ago
Throughput is proportional to total data size - 50Mb/sec per Tb - and burst capacity above this is severely restricted until you have at least 1Tb of data.
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by longwave 9y ago
Mk3 coaches are still in use on a number of routes but most will be withdrawn by 2020 due to changes in disability access requirements.

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