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This isn't what you mean but I can't resist: pg_dump -U postgres db | ssh user@rsync.net "dd of=db_dump"
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"For replicating sqlite databases safely there is (litestream) ..." A reminder that litestream can run over plain old SFTP[1] which means you can stream database replication to just about any UNIX endpoint over SSH. I have a favor
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Also note: sqlite3_rsync is now built into the rsync.net platform. ssh user@rsync.net sqlite3_rsync … blah blah … … just added last week and not rolled out in all regions but … all initial users reported it worked exactly as they exp
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"Unfortunately there simply isn't enough demand between SF and LA alone to justify the insanely long stretches of a direct rail project." I will stipulate that that is correct at this very moment . However, it is my contenti
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"... which kinda kills the purpose of HSR connecting SF to central valley towns to LA ..." Yes, that's exactly right. The original - and highest value - purpose was a high speed rail route between SF and LA. The meandering ro
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One issue with "CA HSR" is that it isn't even "high speed". We may have happily referred to is as "high speed rail" 30 or 40 years ago but, given a possible completion date of 2035 (or whatever) the 2:40 t
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We needed this device and satisfied that need with a Sony Walkman: https://electronics.sony.com/audio/walkman-digital-recorders... Very simple. Shows up as a USB drive and I copy mp3 files to it. My son likes to liste
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"This is very, very good advice. Dashcams are cheap, and easy to install." An excellent example of the absolutely awful behavior that can be encountered on the road: https://www.reddit.com/r/scammers/co
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The world would be a better place if more people used tarsnap…
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"Yeah do NOT do iDrive if you use git or care about symlinks, I learned the hard way. Backblaze doesn't backup symlinks either for that matter..." Gosh, if only there were a cloud storage provider that gave you an empty UNIX
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"I’d make the exception for Google Drive, OneDrive and whatever the AWS one is." No - no exceptions. We must, as sophisticated 21st century actors, insist that providers (especially providers of critical services) have financial i
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"I recommend worrying about any service where you don’t pay a fee that scales with usage." This is the issue and it is a heuristic that people need to develop. Your provider especially your backups provider needs to have interes
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Oh, you put me on your graph! "Weird Dude Who Writes Raw HTML" My most recent example: https://kozubik.com/items/wago_audio/
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Score 4753 Top 2% Avg. Years Off. 3.0 I didn't really recognize any of the current events - or anything at all - I just ... kind of knew ... In fact, it had less to do with the actual content of the photo than the qualities of the pho
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I ran into the same issue. I had no way to answer a particular question (too little information) so I reported it but ... I was still stuck on that question, seemingly forever. I would suggest two improvements: 1) "report question"
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"Just a guess though, I don't know for sure the authors intentions/meanings." I am reminded of this posting from years past: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38496499 "A lot of hacking groups, t
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The best explanation I can think of is that sanctions relief will be exchanged for haircuts (restructuring) of foreign held debt. If you’re familiar with bankruptcy - and the president is - then you know all about reduction of principal…
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I can only speak for the United States, but, generally, homeowners insurance “covers stupid” as they say in the biz..
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My son - a baseball player - saw these in use this past week and noted: “ That was dumb… They should have saved them for the playoffs…” … and I can’t help but agree.
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It is exactly what you expected - click the "body" link and you'll see the entire topic fully expanded: https://john.kozubik.com/pub/IcebergArticle/body.html
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“Inverted pyramid …” I developed a writing format that I call an “iceberg article”: https://john.kozubik.com/pub/IcebergArticle/tip.html … which qualifies as an inverted pyramid but with some additional attributes
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The purpose of a system is what it does. We speak of an arms race between cloudflare and (bad actors) that results in unintended consequences for end users and independent browsers ... and we need to stop. There is an arms race: between
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No, I don’t know that because it is not the case. I have sat in that library and read the NYT with a big, loud, front page headline critical of China and the CCP. I have never seen pages missing.
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… or just walk right into the central Shanghai library and read the paper copy. This is possible and I have done it many times.
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The OP described it as plugging into mains outlet and then, in the event of an outage, feeding power back into that mains circuit to power every outlet on the circuit. Did I misunderstand?
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I’m confused by two things… First: this is an electrical power source with a male plug… And I understand the intelligence inside of it, but… can this possibly be code compliant? Something similar to this is often referred to as a Suicide co
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No: You are protected by a good samaritan law of some kind in all 50 states: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Samaritan_law#United_Stat... Certainly we, all of us, may be sued at any time for anything but there is s
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Good design doesn’t need explanations or instructions. A well designed user interface for an automobile should be discoverable and intuitive for anyone that’s driven a car previously.
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Exactly. I, also, hate democracy when it produces results I disagree with.
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No, it is terrible that "they" continue to extend and "improve" HTML. This is the reason it seems impossible for an independent web browser to be created and maintained: because what should be a simple and predictable
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