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by rsync 11y ago
I started JohnCompanies in summer/fall 2001, which was the first VPS provider. This was a fairly significant financial gamble that most people can fit all their work on even less than one server. That bet paid off. I have no idea what
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by rsync 11y ago
May I put forth a pet theory ? Indulge me ... Nature, and being in nature, is soothing and palliative because your sophistication/environment ratio goes to infinity. At any point, you can be in an environment (city, highway, coffee sh
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by rsync 11y ago
May I suggest ditching the sunscreen in favor of a very lightweight, breathable synthetic "workout" shirt ? You know, the kinds that runners often wear ... long sleeve. And then a decent 4" brim hat. OR (outdoor research) m
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by rsync 11y ago
We (rsync.net) maintain 's3cmd' and 'gsutil' in our environment, so you can do direct cloud <--> cloud transfers from either amazon or google to and from rsync.net. We don't have a cold storage product, so p
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by rsync 11y ago
"Before working with computers I drove tractor-trailers for a while and was lucky to achieve a million-mile safe driving award. I have a pretty good idea of the dangers here and I know that stretch of road well, I've crossed it ma
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by rsync 11y ago
"you have more work than can fit into one server" Many, many people believe this is true for them. Most of them are wrong.
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by rsync 11y ago
What a nicely designed website. Readable, usable, doesn't peg my CPU or do weird things as I scroll. I viewed the source and it is clean and readable - no evidence of some lame IDE sticking in forty  's or twnety nested
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by rsync 11y ago
"Just as an example, go read the Wikipedia pages and some assorted Googled info on what was listed in the article: nutmeg, ginger, “Bakul” tree, camphor, cinnamon, turmeric, Indian banyan, black pepper, long pepper, Neem and clove.&quo
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by rsync 11y ago
"Why do you say the other makers are passive? BMW, Mercedes, Nissan, VW, Ford and Fiat all have fully electric cars." BMW has an i3 that is basically an Onion article parody version of an electric car. If you had to draw a comic
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by rsync 11y ago
Even if gmail keyboard shortcuts were anywhere near as good or fast as alpine (they aren't) you still have big bloated responsive AJAX/js pages loading for every single action. With alpine over ssh I can use email on a bad 2G cell
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by rsync 11y ago
Why would Linus be using gmail ? This is an individual who, in response to broken version control systems wrote his own version control system which he uses, primarily, to control versions of the operating system kernel that he wrote . H
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by rsync 11y ago
"Plus the upcoming release is a "Snow Leopard" like bugfix affair too, which will help things." It is ? You are referring to Yosemite ? Genuinely curious...
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by rsync 11y ago
"I hope the Greek government has the guts to go bankrupt. It'd be a short term loss with a long term gain. It's not like the creditors have to lose out, Argentina showed that by paying off its debts after their currency issue
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by rsync 11y ago
That's surprising and disappointing - a lot of my value derived from these postings is from the discussions and the alternate answers / differing viewpoints. Also confusing from the point of view of the site operators - aren'
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by rsync 11y ago
"I ended up in a river because of switching a Spotify playlist." That is a profound level of incompetence along a number of dimensions. Obligatory: ThisIsWhyWeCan'tHaveNiceThings.
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by rsync 11y ago
No, I would argue that the shitty reactor designs from the 1960s (and 1950s, actually) never endure even normal levels of competence and systemic corruption. Given a long enough time horizon, those bad designs will fail. They are des
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by rsync 11y ago
Wait, what ? If you have a rural vacation house (for instance) in Denmark, and you are off the grid and ... perhaps have some solar arrays ... you would have to pay tax on the power generated ? And possibly fines ? Am I misunderstanding wh
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by rsync 11y ago
"If the threat model posits an attacker with an exploit for Amazon S3" No, I'm not talking about an "S3 exploit". In fact, quite the opposite. I'm talking about an exploit for the web server that serves stati
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by rsync 11y ago
"tl;dr what you described is possible, I guess, but so incredibly unlikely it's not even worth thinking about." How would you rate it, in terms of "worth thinking about", relative to USB keys picked up off of the gr
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by rsync 11y ago
"Not through a web application vulnerability it can't (there is no application code to break!)." This isn't true. Data is being served up to web browsers over port 80. That's a web server. It might not be like an
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by rsync 11y ago
"There's little to no culture or character or funkiness here" Oh come on - it will always be the birthplace of Illegal Pete's, right ?
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by rsync 11y ago
"I've been trying the Windows 10 betas on a fairly high-end Lumia (1520)" Do I read this to mean that older WP phones that ran WP7, etc., can then be reloaded by the end user to use other WP OSs, such as WP10 ? That seems sur
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by rsync 11y ago
"And don't forget the fact that short selling was illegal until earlier this year, and even now only a limited number of stocks are allowed to be shorted" ... which means the crash will be even faster and more brutal. Remembe
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by rsync 11y ago
"A tiny fraction of the already small number of linux users" OSX has several tiling applications that work quite well - I have been using OSX as a tiling WM since 2009 and it works great. Prior to that I used ion3 in FreeBSD. It
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by rsync 11y ago
"Most Americans live in the populated parts of the country in or near a city, not in rural Nevada or Nebraska" Yes, that's true ... but they only just got there. They, or their parents likely grew up in a much more rural,
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by rsync 11y ago
To the person talking about his downvotes: don't. Do not interrupt the discussion to meta-discuss the scoring system. Don't talk about your score or your votes.
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by rsync 11y ago
Question: would a data lake require backup ? Would you be keeping backups of the lake itself, or would you: - assume processes that dump into the lake also dump elsewhere, for backup purposes - assume that some other process pulls from
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by rsync 11y ago
A boingboing content piece without an absolutely shameless amazon affiliate link ? That's incredible. Truly amazing.
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by rsync 11y ago
Anecdote: I have found that quality scales much further with price when the consumable is raw fish. Which is to say, I have not yet hit a value ceiling on how much I pay for very, very good sashimi. And believe me, I've tried .
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by rsync 11y ago
"They aren't drinking $5,000-$15,000 wine." A $12 bottle of wine circa 2015 is (almost) universally better than any wine at any price in 1950. That's well understood and not controversial. Cleanliness, quality control

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