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by nh2 8y ago
Googlability for people who have the same problems.
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by nh2 8y ago
It's a fully supported use case of mdadm RAID to use bare devices. These are data disks containing no operating system, so there's no booting from them and GRUB doesn't come into play.
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by nh2 8y ago
No worries, this is good advice, I appreciate it. (Also note I managed to fully recover from this without data loss, and I have backups.) This RAID setup is already quite old. For newer RAID setups I routinely put the RAID on partitions as
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ASRock motherboard destroys Linux software RAID(forum.asrock.com)
226 points by nh2 8y ago|88 comments
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by nh2 8y ago
Awesome work! Having the ability to configure a beautiful-by-default GUI for NixOS makes it much more likely that I can maintain machines for my family with low time effort, remotely.
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by nh2 8y ago
> Accessible to all The website itself doesn't seem to take that too seriously. For example, it loses scroll position when navigating: * go there from HN * scroll down a bit * press the Back button in the browser to go back to HN *
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by nh2 8y ago
For me the most severe lacking feature of Zulip vs Slack is that you cannot mark messages as unread.
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by nh2 8y ago
Searching for "nixpkgs" instead of "nix" often provides much better results.
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by nh2 8y ago
But does "we partnered with Nitrokey" mean it is a Nitrokey that does? I couldn't tell.
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by nh2 8y ago
Also, this is quite related (including gist I linked in comments): https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16916633/if-postgresql-c... Some of the issues magically got faster with `VACUUM ANALYZE`, but it would be gre
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by nh2 8y ago
I found that the full-text search on JSON worked remarkably well with Postgres 10 -- surprisingly this was the least of all problems. The issue with slow counting is this from the wiki page: > PostgreSQL will take advantage of available
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by nh2 8y ago
I, too, would be very interested to find a Postgres-based replacement for Elasticsearch. Specifically replacing ELK by Postgres-Kibana. Requirements for that: * Events are (timestamp, {arbitrarily nested JSON object}) * Filtering by
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by nh2 8y ago
Nice! Next index all public Github repos?
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by nh2 8y ago
> OpenPGP ... is only adopted by the most hard core of nerds. This seems pretty inaccurate. * Lots of software projects sign their releases with PGP. * Almost all Linux distributions sign their software with PGP. If you use Linux, your s
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by nh2 8y ago
Can you elaborate why that is? Of all types I could come up with (beyond bool), integers and unsigned integers seem the most basic.
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by nh2 8y ago
Correct, Quicksort with Quickselect for pivot choice.
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by nh2 8y ago
This is wrong. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quicksort , section "Selection-based pivoting".
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by nh2 8y ago
That is not the case. https://pandoc.org/installing.html > We provide a binary package for amd64 architecture on the download page. This provides both pandoc and pandoc-citeproc. The executables are statically linked and
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by nh2 8y ago
Well, data will be lost if anything below the OS buffer cache crashes (source http://sqlite.1065341.n5.nabble.com/How-dangerous-is-PRAGMA-... ). The BBU protects from power loss of the HDs, but not power loss or general fail
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by nh2 8y ago
As far as I understand: * In general you cannot. * You can try to remove ME with non-official tools like https://github.com/corna/me_cleaner * Some vendors ship specific laptops with ME disabled ( https://fos
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by nh2 8y ago
Intel advisory: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/security-center/advi... CVE-2018-3628 - "Buffer overflow in HTTP handler" Affected processor list (simplified reordered by me to ref
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Intel patches new ME vulnerabilities(blog.ptsecurity.com)
633 points by nh2 8y ago|327 comments
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by nh2 8y ago
There really are locations where DNS resolvers don't honor TTL. For example, the public wifi in the last Hackspace in Munich I visited did not honour my 10 second TTL. But in my opinion there aren't enough of them to justify not u
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by nh2 8y ago
You are are right with all you're saying here. I was not suggesting that `docker build` executed at a given time point is less secure than `unattended-upgrades`. My point in referencing the vulnerabilities was to simply show that there
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by nh2 8y ago
> don't routine security updates mean you're constantly rebuilding and redeploying these images? It means you should be constantly rebuilding and redeploying these images. The fewest people I've seen use Docker actually
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by nh2 8y ago
> The patch-based workflow is very similar to how the Linux kernel review workflow works. I don't think that is accurate. Or there kernel its very common to submit whole patch series (branches), and to rebase them on the latest kern
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by nh2 8y ago
Out of curiosity, is there a point in using a connection pooler if your application does not follow the PHP approach to things? That is, if you don't create a new DB connection for each HTTP request, but instead create one (or a few) c
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by nh2 8y ago
Checking out submodules. Put git submodule sync && git submodule update --init --recursive into `.git/hooks/post-checkout` and never again wonder why your code doesn't work after switching branches (because y
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by nh2 9y ago
Which video codecs have that inbuilt?
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by nh2 9y ago
That article said back in the day > Right now, there is only one reliable SSD manufacturer: Intel. Indeed I find it very hard to figure out for other vendors whether they have power loss protection or not. Intel makes this easy to check:

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