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by mst 4y ago
Once I'd worked it out - which was after the problems were public and therefore the price had utterly cratered - they were by far the cheapest storage per Gb available at the time (think "by a factor of two"). I would not hav
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by mst 4y ago
The deathstars were fantastic, they almost always failed on the outer edges of the platters. So if you only formatted them (filesystem wise) out to capacity-2Gb they were a really cheap option at the time.
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by mst 4y ago
Pick a manufacturer and you'll be able to find plenty of horror stories. Some may be worse than others but diversification is the right answer anyway.
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by mst 4y ago
A friend of mine who was once at Google mentioned that in a meeting once their SRE group was told by their senior manager roughly "you've broken stuff in $time_period far less than your outage budget, and that probably means you s
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by mst 4y ago
This is brilliant and I suspect generalises to "won't" when reading RFCs.
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by mst 4y ago
Assuming you have the budget for it a worst case scenario of "I made my son happy while achieving nothing -else-" doesn't strike me as terrible at all.
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by mst 4y ago
American sweet tea is an outlier.
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by mst 4y ago
Crack open a qmail tarball, it's just a couple files.
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by mst 4y ago
Certainly seems like the sort of idiotic mistake I could make.
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by mst 4y ago
Such bots have, however, helped me to up my /ignore game.
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by mst 4y ago
In those giant meetings if I couldn't get out of them I just pretended.
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by mst 4y ago
I'd note that my attempt at "I'm not actually mad at you, but here's an explanation of why your current attitude is counterproductive" (with the obvious caveat I may've been complete wrong) got flagged to death
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by mst 4y ago
I think this is more aimed at people who couldn't quite get their head around C and were happy to have a forced function naming style that made tooling easier. (note, I am -shit- at C, but genuinely wonder if I could write this without
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by mst 4y ago
If I have that set of semantics I'll use nim compiled to C with ORC attached. You're aiming for something different, and I appreciate the idea even if I never end up using it. In the unlikely case you haven't already read it
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by mst 4y ago
This is kinda my opinion too. C is awful, C is terrible, C is almost always the wrong answer. But when it hits the spot, it's a fantastic wrong answer for a bunch of things.
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by mst 4y ago
That ... actually seems reasonable? If you need it to be first class visible outside, you declare it outside. I believe I could live with this.
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by mst 4y ago
I love being a linux/BSD server admin. I totally cannot be arsed being a desktop admin for either. So I use WSL2+Xsrv to give me my -client- environment on windows and then use that to ssh into servers to actually do stuff. Meanwhile,
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by mst 4y ago
VcXsrv + WSL2 means I don't have to care about any of this. Though note I basically only use Windows as a fat driver layer unless I'm playing games (Wintendo!)
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by mst 4y ago
http://trout.me.uk/X11/fvwm2rc Plus '#ffee66' for http://trout.me.uk/X11/xclus will result in: http://trout.me.uk/screenshot4.png Everybody else's mileage will defi
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by mst 4y ago
I phrased it upthread as "make the same mistake enough times and you can start to smell it"
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by mst 4y ago
I feel like this is a "you are not google" shaped problem. Even most Fortune 500 companies aren't.
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by mst 4y ago
I've suffered from "are you connecting to the right database" enough times that I can often psychic debug that problem for others given a couple of lines. Make a mistake enough times and you start to be able to smell it.
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by mst 4y ago
"Reading the documentation end to end" is a superpower. Some documentation is a bit large for this, but less than you think because it gets faster with practice. I'd also mention "don't be afraid to source dive on O
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by mst 4y ago
I think we've all done something like that. I try to insist on my production account being readonly and having a separate user for deploys.
955.
by mst 4y ago
I believe jwz coined the term "brand necrophilia" for such things.
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by mst 4y ago
Right, people who dislike me will call me a massive arsehole (and not necessarily be wrong) but V-lang stans leave -me- cold.
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by mst 4y ago
The way Cadey was treated by your community entirely ended my interest in your language.
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by mst 4y ago
What worries me is dealing with something stupid enough to make me go -sane-.
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by mst 4y ago
This sort of shit is what MPs (or at least the office of your local MP) is for.
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by mst 4y ago
Seperately from anything else, damn but is that a turn of phrase.

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