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by mattjaynes 5y ago
"Only boring people get bored" was maybe the best advice I ever got. I was a teenager and was getting a ride home from a friend of the family. He asked "How's life going" And I was in the midst of answering "It
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by mattjaynes 5y ago
Here's an excellent video covering the data on the mice/omicron hypothesis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aH1u1GIPU2A It's by Dr. John Campbell who I just discovered and his coverage of the pandemic is by f
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by mattjaynes 5y ago
Looks very cool - first time I've heard of this one. Minor feedback note: in your demo video, the top menu bar is mostly cut off (viewing on Chrome on Mac M1 Monterey), so when you are explaining the menu bar, I can only see the bottom
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by mattjaynes 5y ago
Tangentially related: On Friday Backblaze and B2 were down for 10+ hours to update their systems for the log4j2 vulnerability. Seemed noteworthy for the HN crowd and I posted a link to their announcement when the outage began. However, the
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by mattjaynes 5y ago
Remember, if you're considering using B2 for reliable storage in production, you must look beyond the price of B2 and also add in the price for a failover. You will need it.
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by mattjaynes 5y ago
Looks interesting, but the modal for 10% off if you give them all your contact data can only be dismissed by clicking the "NO THANKS, I'D RATHER PAY FULL PRICE" link. Does this passive-aggressive dark pattern actually work? F
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by mattjaynes 5y ago
If you're looking for resilient, growth-minded friends, I'd recommend taking up a class where everyone is guaranteed to look bad in the beginning. Only those that can get through the rough waters in the beginning will make it to t
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by mattjaynes 5y ago
More details on this style of setup: https://youtu.be/6BhV-o77RqQ
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by mattjaynes 5y ago
As mentioned in another comment, don't forget to consider B2's weekly 2 hour maintenance windows during the US work day: https://www.backblaze.com/scheduled-maintenance.html
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by mattjaynes 5y ago
In any comparisons with B2, don't forget to consider that they have a 2 hour maintenance window every Thursday during the US business day: https://www.backblaze.com/scheduled-maintenance.html They usually don't go
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by mattjaynes 5y ago
Yes. It's so bad that I find Google's own messages like Google Alerts ending up in my Spam folder. You'd think they'd whitelist their own emails.
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by mattjaynes 5y ago
I didn't see Traveling Ruby in the linked list. Not sure how active its development is, but it's had activity in the last year: https://github.com/FooBarWidget/traveling-ruby
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by mattjaynes 5y ago
Another option in this space is Traveling Ruby by Hongli Lai (well-known in the Ruby world as the co-founder of Phusion and developer of Passenger and Enterprise Ruby) http://foobarwidget.github.io/traveling-ruby
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by mattjaynes 5y ago
> I’ve known people living in places like Costa Rica, China, and all over Europe. No one had to pay a cent ever. > How much taxes do you pay to the US? Anecdata won't get us very far in understanding. The point is there are plent
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by mattjaynes 5y ago
Yes, I pay taxes living abroad. Any US citizen overseas that earns over $107,600 in 2020 (changes slightly every year) may be liable to pay US taxes (depending on what other deduction they may have, etc)[1]. There is the direct financial co
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by mattjaynes 5y ago
If you haven't read or listened to this book yet, I highly recommend it: Daily Rituals: How Artists Work[1] It's a collection of daily routines of many famous and prolific artists. The surprising thing about so many of the artists
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by mattjaynes 5y ago
For many people, there's a lot they can do to turn back the clock if they wish to do so. Sometimes it's just knowing what's possible. In my thirties, I was so consumed with career that I let my health go, I was very overweigh
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by mattjaynes 5y ago
Totally agree. I love his lectures on writing which you can find on YouTube. He's a great teacher with excellent content. But great teachers aren't always the best writers. I decided to try the Mistborn trilogy. The first book was
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by mattjaynes 5y ago
To see a short interview of the carpenter along with some footage of the construction of the shelters, here's a Good Morning America segment on the story: https://youtu.be/0zkrH6yquWM
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by mattjaynes 6y ago
In practical terms, 99.9% uptime means no more than ~44 minutes per month of downtime (~9 hours per year).
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by mattjaynes 6y ago
Not often, I only remember a few times in the last couple of years. If you're just hosting backups, you're unlikely to even notice. But if you're serving live production data from B2, it can bring down your whole service, whi
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by mattjaynes 6y ago
Have had live production data on there for a couple of years and it's been very solid outside the maintenance windows. (The exception being the recent outages GoDaddy caused for them, but since they've moved to using Cloudflare as
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by mattjaynes 6y ago
If you'll be using B2 for live production data, a couple points: First, B2's pricing is pretty amazing, especially compared to S3 and similar competitors: https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage-pricing.htm
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by mattjaynes 6y ago
EEZ: Exclusive Economic Zone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exclusive_economic_zone (new acronym for me, and I imagine a few others too)
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by mattjaynes 6y ago
"UPDATE: we are coming back online slowly (as it’s a DNS issue it may take a while to propagate). We apologize for the disruption and are working to make sure it does not happen again." https://twitter.com/backblaz
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Backblaze down again due to DNS issues(twitter.com)
9 points by mattjaynes 6y ago|8 comments
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by mattjaynes 6y ago
"Update: We have a human being from @Godaddy on the phone. We were sent to the wrong department, but hoping we get a quick-route to the right place." https://twitter.com/backblaze/status/136036810207300
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Godaddy appears to have suspended Backblaze's domain(twitter.com)
74 points by mattjaynes 6y ago|29 comments
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by mattjaynes 6y ago
"light brightness has nothing to do with myopia" - that's a big claim and will need some evidence to back it up, especially given the many studies that suggest otherwise. This is still a topic with many unknowns, but we have
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by mattjaynes 6y ago
Ask yourself, how much brighter is it outside than inside (assuming a sunny day vs a brightly lit office)? Before looking into this, I would have guessed 2X or 3X, but would you believe it's actually over 100X! I bet most people's

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