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by manacit 9y ago
I agree - there are not very many internet-scale (for lack of a better term), completely free and fast DNS servers who have an IP address that's easy to remember. Is that specific? sure, but I'll tell you when I go to set a new sy
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by manacit 9y ago
I always use http://http.rip , topical and easy to type :)
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by manacit 9y ago
There are absolutely people doing this professionally for organizations like the National Guard, US Navy and other responders https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2017/08/28... There we
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by manacit 9y ago
This is either a huge straw man, or I'm not understanding what you're getting at. The original article doesn't even delve into the specifics of each city, and there is a ton of nuance when it comes to getting around in NYC (w
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by manacit 9y ago
It definitely does in NYC. The distance that you can get via car is significantly less than the distance you can cover via a number of different rail systems: * Amtrak * LIRR * Metro North * NJ Transit
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by manacit 9y ago
This is what SRV records were (largely) created for. There have been a couple of attempts at making this a reality: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-andrews-http-srv-01 https://tools.ietf.org/html&#x2F
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by manacit 9y ago
I think there's power in telling people that the expected way of using this service is that they'll return some of the items that they order via the service. A lot of people see a stigma about returning clothes (i.e. "I didn&
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by manacit 9y ago
Perhaps not just when prices are negative, but it's not an uncommon practice to 'store' power by pumping water uphill when it's cheap and demand is low (generally at night), and then using that potential energy to genera
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by manacit 9y ago
There was a time when running out of IPv4 addresses meant that ISPs and other providers _had_ to switch to IPv6, or they would run out of addresses (or spend too much acquiring them). With NAT and stuff, that risk has seemed to decrease sig
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by manacit 9y ago
The same thing that their load balancer project offers over HAProxy + Ansible - the ability to configure it via their API (or their Web UI) and have DigitalOcean own the implementation and management of everything. This includes making impr
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by manacit 9y ago
Features like this feel like table stakes for cloud hosting in 2017, so it's nice to see DigitalOcean on board. It'll be interesting to see what the tooling support looks like for this, it looks like it's launching with API s
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by manacit 9y ago
It looks like a hybrid of Big Query / Looker for your financial data that lives in Stripe, with a lot of help to make it easier for users. Imagine if you were a small and/or non-technical shop who used Stripe for your payments. Th
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by manacit 9y ago
This would actually be significantly harder than you would think - definitely much more difficult than a 'flag' on your address. Below constitutes my (limited) experience working as an engineer at a company with a big logistics co
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by manacit 9y ago
That's basically what https://www.shoprunner.com/ is trying to be, I think? It's not as integrated as it could be, but it accomplishes the same thing.
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by manacit 9y ago
I love it, actually. It feels very non-Amazon, but in the best way. I find their website to be far too information dense and confusing when I'm just browsing for popular books, to the point where I just use goodreads instead of botheri
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by manacit 9y ago
Considering the collateral against that student loan debt is nothing (hence them not being dischargeable in bankruptcy), I would think it's much worse than an increase in mortgage values. Of course, there have been other articles on th
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by manacit 9y ago
I don't know if it's a "bubble" (I am not qualified to say that), but I can't imagine that the current trend with student loans will continue. Looking at the numbers for someone entering college in 2017, it feels ne
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by manacit 9y ago
The university that I went to has ~40,000 students between undergraduate and graduate students, and an additional ~20,000 faculty, staff and other people there at any given day. There were thousands of people living in student housing on ca
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by manacit 9y ago
There are some airlines that do not set out to oversell/overbook flights - JetBlue, for example. Even in a situation where a flight is only sold to capacity, there can be various reasons for people to be IDBed. Damaged seats, Equipment
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by manacit 9y ago
I believe your understanding is incorrect - someone can be denied boarding regardless of when they have checked into the flight. If there are 100 seats, they may sell 105 tickets and permit 105 people to check in - if they cannot find 5 vol
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by manacit 9y ago
Someone on a different message board put this situation very well: By the letter of the law, United was correct - morally, they were not. Their 'contract of carriage' allows them to IDB (Involuntary Deny Boarding) to passengers du
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by manacit 10y ago
I live in NYC with old, thick walls (and a lot of interference, even on 5GHz). Even though my apartment is small, there are 3-4 walls separating where my AP is (at one end) and the other end of my apartment (the bedroom).
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by manacit 10y ago
5GHz isn't a panacea, at least in my experience. It doesn't penetrate walls well enough to reach to the edges of my (quite small) apartment, so my laptops and other devices drop down to an acceptable rate on 2.4GHz. In addition, I
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by manacit 10y ago
Yeah, I noticed this for the first time a few weeks ago when I was ordering one. Their time estimates are already pretty horrific in Midtown NYC traffic, assigning me to someone that is "5 minutes away" from dropping someone off &
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by manacit 10y ago
I applied (and was offered) a job at EPIC out of college - their recruiters did not at all mention MUMPS or anything of the sort until I was on-site and explicitly asked some of the engineers interviewing me what languages they used. I reme
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by manacit 10y ago
IMO, the idea of printing something to STDOUT every 9 minutes (or 5 minutes, or 1 minute, or whatever) is totally fine, and maybe this will even be helpful to someone. There's no need to be a dick about it though, which seems to be the
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by manacit 10y ago
Because many automated systems/image hosting website (imgur, etc) will process JPEGs to optimize them, which I assume would no longer cause there to be a collision. On the other hand, PDFs are almost universally sent as-is, increasing
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by manacit 10y ago
Matt Levine is a treasure, he writes a daily newsletter called "Money Stuff" ( https://www.bloomberg.com/view/topics/money-stuff ) that I really enjoy
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by manacit 10y ago
Keep in mind that bandwidth bottlenecks can happen on both sides - depending on the peering that is chosen between Comcast and DigitalOcean, there might be a significant oversubscription between two peering providers that's causing thi
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by manacit 10y ago
Aurora is a 'better MySQL mousetrap', IMO. This is a globally-available, nearly-CAP-beating datastore that powers one of the biggest websites on the internet. It's not quite apples and oranges, but this is definitely a differ

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