mmarx

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by mmarx 12y ago
Currently, we just run bacula inside the VMs, which has the benefit that VM owners can simply use bconsole inside the VM to restore files from a previous date.
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by mmarx 12y ago
We're using bacula for backing up ~20 servers and VMs onto an LTO5 tape library. While it might be difficult to set up initially, that setup has now been running for over ten years (modulo changes accomodating new hardware). It does pr
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by mmarx 12y ago
> If you offer to pay at least as much for the building as the landlord would expect to make from renting it out then any rational landlord will sell you the building. Which rational tenant would pay the same amount he'd pay as rent
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by mmarx 12y ago
> The landlord was likely losing money keeping it rented at $2145 even if he owned it free and clear. This conveniently omits the fact that there used to be two units in that house, so the actual rent would certainly have been closer to
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by mmarx 12y ago
> The future holds more use cases. Remote surgery, autonomous vehicles etc etc. Do you really think it would be a good idea to perform something as critical as remote surgery over the internet, where every script kiddy with a botnet migh
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by mmarx 12y ago
My old Thinkpad X41 didn't have an optical drive ten years ago, back in 2005, and, unlike a netbook, was very much a fully-functional laptop computer.
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by mmarx 12y ago
It's a pity that there is so much background noise on the audio, it really makes this hard to watch, especially on headphones. Vivid is an interface SuperCollider, apparently built with livecoding in mind. The talk itself is mostly exa
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by mmarx 12y ago
> higher precision than IEEE, doesn't have rounding errors, and uses fewer bits. It certainly won't provide higher precision using less bits (precision is lg(b^(l - 1)), where b is the base and l is the number of mantissa bits)
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by mmarx 12y ago
This forum post[0] is one of those places where he addresses that problem: > Right now is, hands down, the worst part of development. There are no fancy graphics to show off, no intricate gameplay, no surprising AI, no badass music, just
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by mmarx 12y ago
> So how did someone from West Berlin travel to, say, Frankfurt by car? There were few approved transit routes from West Berlin to West Germany. So you could get a transit visa (which you had to pay for in west german currency) upon gett
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by mmarx 12y ago
EStG, § 3 Nr. 51 explicitly lists tips as tax-exempt: http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/estg/__3.html
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by mmarx 12y ago
Typically, the drivers are employed by the companies, and are paid either by the hour, or receive a percentage of the fares. In either case, underreporting the fares to the company increases the driver's share. Also, tips, though they
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by mmarx 12y ago
No, altough the wording might have been misleading—I was refering to the second paragraph, while you seem to have applied it to the first. I hope this clarifies the situation a bit: For any category, the product A * B of two objects A, B (i
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by mmarx 12y ago
Any two of those many products, however, are isomorphic, and hence, while still distinguishable, they are “essentially” the same.