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by pronoiac 8y ago
This is a sequel to their 2016 book, Site Reliability Engineering, which is free to read online at the same link.
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New Google book Site Reliability Workbook, free download until August 23(landing.google.com)
3 points by pronoiac 8y ago|1 comments
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by pronoiac 8y ago
It's a use case the author didn't consider, likely for a snappier article. Even if Lynx were dead, other text-only browsers followed, and were available in, say, Ubuntu, like Links2 and ELinks.
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by pronoiac 8y ago
The linked model viewer is great: http://phoboslab.org/wipeout/
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by pronoiac 8y ago
It looks like there's a copy in CTAN: https://ctan.org/pkg/basix
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by pronoiac 8y ago
I'd avoid using this. This is a format that's lossy re: text, so text and numbers can get silently rewritten; it reuses a letter image, placing it throughout a page wherever it's recognized. A low resolution scan or bad ocr r
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by pronoiac 8y ago
This paper provides background for their software, recently discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17392977 / https://github.com/dfd-tud/deda
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by pronoiac 8y ago
I'd prefer ddrescue or just pv, just for the progress meter, and saner arguments.
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by pronoiac 8y ago
> In the modern era, there is some specialized hardware that can digitize a floppy disk at the level of magnetic flux changes. For a variety of reasons, the hardware developers focused on non-Apple II platforms, and a few unresolved tec
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by pronoiac 8y ago
Your math is bogus. 7-8 bits? If there's one entry, that would give false positives of 1/256, or 0.3%. Even given 1k entries would likely hit the vast majority of entries. Or, flipping this: every time you add a password, you chec
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by pronoiac 8y ago
Huh, I thought they wrote in Java and compiled it to JavaScript? Searching, I'm thinking of GWT - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Web_Toolkit - and it seems like a good candidate for Google Docs.
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by pronoiac 8y ago
I'll just link this short story: https://www.wired.com/2016/12/jon-rogers-a-martian-goes-hunt...
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by pronoiac 8y ago
The Metafilter Wiki has a page about finding help: http://mefiwiki.com/wiki/ThereIsHelp#Therapy I run this wiki, and I'm proud it's a useful resource on this topic.
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by pronoiac 8y ago
Huh? There were computers with built-in BASIC around 40 years ago, like Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Commodore 64, TRS-80, and more, I'm sure. There were magazines with program listings you could type in. Or do you think that labeling kids n
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by pronoiac 8y ago
Ah! I had high hopes for this, but these appear to be OCR'ed, and they could use some proofreading.
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by pronoiac 8y ago
Note, some of them require signing in. I wonder how well this list would work as a mailing list.
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by pronoiac 8y ago
Cuba has "Paquete Semanal," a weekly-updated offline selective mirror of the Internet, passed around via hard drives: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/23/cuba-offline-i...
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by pronoiac 8y ago
You could add "(done!)" after those, perhaps in a different color.
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by pronoiac 8y ago
This, and the thread from the parent tweet, is a fun read!
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by pronoiac 8y ago
I'm jobhunting now. Two interviews come to mind. 1. During a technical phone screen for an SRE role, the questions delved into, well, the nitty gritty parts of containerization, as if I were building my own Docker. Afterwards, I regret
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by pronoiac 8y ago
If you shuffle a deck of cards, do you ever get a 2/5 of heart/diamonds?
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by pronoiac 8y ago
Funny thing: if that added number isn't relatively prime to 100 - and 60% of random numbers would share a factor - then they've just made a lot of smaller cycles. And it's easy to break if you can swap two. Say the warden add
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by pronoiac 8y ago
The Verge review [1] has more specs: > Its screen is a 5.5-inch display with a 2560 x 1440 resolution (1280 x 1440 per eye). It’s based on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 821 processor from 2016... [1] https://www.theverge.com/2018
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by pronoiac 8y ago
I read some musings by Warren Ellis [1] which brushed up against easier space travel, very briefly: "The Olympus Mons mountain on Mars is so tall and yet so gently sloped that, were you suited and supplied correctly, ascending it would
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by pronoiac 9y ago
I thought I'd read it in a blog post by Jason Scott at textfiles.com, but I couldn't find a reference quickly. It could have come from conversation, as I've visited the Internet Archive a few times.
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by pronoiac 9y ago
Apache was an unstable bottleneck before I set up nginx as a reverse proxy.
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by pronoiac 9y ago
That's interesting! I wonder how it scales relative to, say, nginx.
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by pronoiac 9y ago
Yes. Instead of deleting anything, I think the Archive tends to mark stuff as "do not show this for a few decades."
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by pronoiac 9y ago
Huh, they're using Github pages. I thought if you set up a redirect - a C dns response - to whatever.github.io, that would soothe the ssl complaints in the browser. Looking at the dns records, it looks like they didn't do this, an
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by pronoiac 9y ago
Going from the title, I was going to talk about how I can get DVDs, CDs, Blurays, and ebooks from my library; I'm a regular. I wasn't expecting "housing," though nice that you mention it, why yes, I would like to live in

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