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by paranoidrobot 11mo ago
Well, you're entitled to your opinion. For what it's worth - my day job does involve running a bunch of infrastructure on AWS. I know it's not good value, but that's the direction the organisation went long before I join
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by paranoidrobot 11mo ago
I'm saying that if you do want to compare two different platforms on performance, it should probably be done in consultation with someone who has worked with it before. To use an analogy it's like someone who's never driven a
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by paranoidrobot 11mo ago
For years I've been collecting a slowly growing pile of old drives from old devices as I had replaced them. I finally decided to do something about them and got myself a USB to IDE/SATA adapter and spent a week or so duplicating t
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by paranoidrobot 11mo ago
I'm struggling to find a way to express my opinion about this video without seeming like a complete ass. If the author's point was to make a low effort "ha ha AWS sucks" video, well sure: success, I guess. Nobody outside
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by paranoidrobot 11mo ago
> These are all spy-apps anyway. Do you have any evidence to back this claim? Specifically as it relates to Signal.
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by paranoidrobot 11mo ago
If you're someone who's bought into the Apple ecosystem over multiple devices, or ave a partner or children who are also using devices in the Apple ecosystem, then your Apple ID is something that is very definitely tied to you and
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by paranoidrobot 11mo ago
My experience is with Aurora MySQL, not postgres. But my understanding is that the way the storage layer works is much the same. We have some clusters with very high write IOPS on Aurora. When looking at costs we modelled running MySQL and
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by paranoidrobot 11mo ago
Yeah. I'd like this too. We use Aurora MySQL but I would like to be able to point to that and ask if it applies to us.
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by paranoidrobot 11mo ago
IP locations work great for probably a reasonably large chunk of services. But it's the edges that get you. I moved home a few years back, connected a new service with the same ISP. They have an IP pool that is labelled as for one stat
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by paranoidrobot 11mo ago
I don't think Marvin Gaye was using ACMA's list.
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by paranoidrobot 11mo ago
The only people who would give one of these numbers out in real life are people who otherwise don't want to give you a real number. Anyone who needs a number for a legitimate reason should do their own validation anyway. You can try ca
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by paranoidrobot 1y ago
Lets not leave the Service people out, they want to get a bonus this year, too. So make the sponge replaceable, but only with a field maintenance call-out. The sponge unit will have an NFC chip in it that if it's removed will lock the
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by paranoidrobot 1y ago
It's really amazing to see how far HP has fallen. They used to make brilliant printers that were top-quality, easy to service, and overall met the whole "Just Works" thing. Then some time in the late 90s/early 2000s the
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by paranoidrobot 1y ago
It gets half-way through the job, but runs out of paint. You load the new paint but instead of continuing, it fills the entire site with a big test print that uses 10% of the paint. Randomly, it'll run a head cleaning cycle that involv
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by paranoidrobot 1y ago
That's a wonderful read, thanks for that.
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by paranoidrobot 1y ago
For me (Well, my grandmother) it was Family Tree Maker. To cut a very long story short - after Windows 10 restarted on her, and changed default browser and application settings too many times she was going to completely give up using the co
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by paranoidrobot 1y ago
I do this, too - but I've been running into more and more companies that block you from using their company name in the email address. It also results in awkward conversations if you have to talk to staff. I had ordered some pet suppl
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by paranoidrobot 1y ago
iirc Cloudflare doesn't act like a normal registrar, however. You cannot use anyone except Cloudflare for your DNS provider.
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by paranoidrobot 1y ago
They are normal stores. The OP is talking about how they handle keeping fresh stock of products with lower sales volume. (Or at least, that's the way I'm reading it)
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by paranoidrobot 1y ago
Yes, this was so frustrating. I had to keep prompting it to generate new artifacts all the time. Thankfuly that is mostly gone with Claude Code.
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by paranoidrobot 1y ago
> "Smart Cloud" home devices work as expected for about a year and then they fail in new and exciting ways, and then you replace them. > "Smart Local Control" home devices work as expected until the electronics fai
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by paranoidrobot 1y ago
> I think it's close to impossible to "fix" Visa without government intervention (e.g. limit fees to a fraction of a percent), but I'm still grateful to anyone who tries. This is what Australia is looking at currently
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by paranoidrobot 1y ago
I thought about Improv Everywhere recently - they had some great things in the early 2000s. Re watching this, at about 1:16 one of the agents looks familiar. "Huh, she looks kinda like Aubrey Plaza". Then the credits come on: I
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by paranoidrobot 1y ago
Tasmania. Yeah I'm assuming it's because they want to sell me more. I'm probably not earning them much with the no-interest scheme. But their approach has guaranteed I won't use them for anything else - I was looking at
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by paranoidrobot 1y ago
The government where I live has a no-interest loan scheme for installing energy efficient appliances. Handy, so I used it to fund heat pumps and insulation. The scheme is administered by Brighte. I signed up on their website. Everything goi
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by paranoidrobot 1y ago
Same deal for Ecowitt: https://www.ecowitt.net/ (sign up required) I can access any other publicly shared Ecowitt station's data.
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by paranoidrobot 1y ago
Have a cache of domains you know about with registration date. When getting a query for a domain you have not heard about, query whois for it. Store it's registration date in the cache.
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by paranoidrobot 1y ago
In my experience Uber Eats search may as well not exist. It is so fundamentally broken that it doesn't actually deliver what customers want. It doesn't matter what you search for, it's going to mostly deliver bad results. Par
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by paranoidrobot 1y ago
All the home inspectors I looked at (Victoria, where this house is, plus Tasmania) were all quite clear that they would only access areas they could find a way in. Closed up areas, wouldn't be inspected by default.
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by paranoidrobot 1y ago
If the idea of inside /obervation bee hives interests you, you might enjoy the Youtube channel run by Frederick Dunn. He has an observation hive built into the wall of his recording studio. It's quite a relaxing channel to watch.

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