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by rtp4me 10mo ago
You want prison sentences for execs if you were charged $1.50 for a can of corn instead of $1.45? Surely you can't be serious.
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by rtp4me 10mo ago
Thanks, I appreciate your perspective. One note about asking for a refund/price adjustment. Occasionally the store workers forget to pull the sale prices off the shelf when the sale is over. In these situations, the manager/work
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by rtp4me 10mo ago
I have been to the Dollar Store (and similar) many times and have never witnessed anyone getting yelled at for saying, "Hey, I think this was a mistake. Can you correct it, please?" (or any other place I shop - especially the gro
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by rtp4me 10mo ago
Resources to read the receipt? Are you saying poor people can't do math? Honestly, how much effort does it take to look at your receipt and look for errors? If you are really on a tight budget, I guarantee you will be looking over y
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by rtp4me 10mo ago
"The people that would have the ability to push back"... And they can. Just bring it up to the cashier or managers attention, and voila, they adjust the price. Please let me know if you have had a different experience.
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by rtp4me 10mo ago
Yeah, queue the HN fake outrage about big companies and their C-Suite who are billionaires on the backs of the little people. So predictable. Fact is, Dollar General and similar stores provide a real value to people who live in rural areas
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by rtp4me 10mo ago
Sorry, real people who are on a real (strict) budget pay attention to the price of goods when they shop. If you are really hurting from a $3 overcharge, chances are you pay very close attention to the register receipt and bring it to the s
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by rtp4me 10mo ago
Yes, I have used iVentoy very much in the past as well. However, running a dozen (+12) simultaneous installs of Linux seems a stretch for 1G NICs. Using a small PC with a 2.5G NIC could probably do just as well as the 10G one - just sligh
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by rtp4me 10mo ago
I have never been to one of these "fests" but wouldn't be easier to just bring a small PXE server with an SSD and 10G NIC with an 8-port switch for net booting/install? Are the machines so old they can't boot off t
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by rtp4me 10mo ago
Painful? What's painful when someone has a different opinion? I think that is healthy.
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by rtp4me 10mo ago
Sorry, carefully read the comments on this thread and you will quickly realize "real" coders are very much threatened by this technology - especially junior coders. They are frightened their job is at stake by a new tool and take
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by rtp4me 10mo ago
My suspicion is because they (HN) are very concerned this technology is pushing hard into their domain expertise and feel threatened (and, rightfully so).
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by rtp4me 10mo ago
Humbling indeed. I am utterly amazed at Claude's breadth of knowledge and ability to understand the context of our conversations. Even if I misspell words, don't use the exact phrase, or call something a function instead of a th
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by rtp4me 10mo ago
You and I must be using very different versions of Claude. As an infra/systems guy (non-coder), the ability for me to develop some powerful tools simply by leveraging Claude has been nothing short of amazing. I started using Claude a
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by rtp4me 10mo ago
For 4) - consider PGHero[1] and PGTuner[2] instead of a full-time DBA. We use both in production and they work very well to help track down performance issues with Postgres. [1] https://github.com/ankane/pghero [2] h
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by rtp4me 11mo ago
Thank you very much! So much to learn...
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Ask HN: Our town faces a 300MW DC proposal. What are the real risks?
5 points by rtp4me 11mo ago|2 comments
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by rtp4me 1y ago
In my naïve of opinion, AI is not necessarily about coding or making things better, it's more about creating a system to control the message to the masses. Just like Facebook controlled the message during the Clinton/Trump campai
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by rtp4me 1y ago
Sure, but realistically, how often does this really happen? I have probably replaced 3 or 4 DIMMs over the past few years. Hardware is very reliable these days.
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by rtp4me 1y ago
Thanks for this. I agree, there seems to be some sort of resistance to building and maintaining a CoLo infrastructure. In reality, it is not too difficult. As I mentioned above, spare parts on the shelve with the CoLo "remote hands&
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by rtp4me 1y ago
Not really. Have spare drives on the shelf and use the "remote-hands" feature from the CoLo provider. Just open a ticket to have the drive swapped. Pretty easy. For remote server connections just use IPMI/iKVM and iPXE.
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by rtp4me 1y ago
For drive issues, this is easy. Have a stack of replacements on hand and just open a "remote-hands" ticket with the CoLo provider to swap out the drive. This can usually be done in 1-2hrs from opening the ticket. For server issu
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by rtp4me 1y ago
I have done a ton of iPXE boot setups in the past. We use iPXE at our DC location for imaging, system recovery, etc. In fact, I just finished up a new boot image that creates a 100MB virtual floppy drive used for BIOS updates. Reach out
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by rtp4me 1y ago
Just updated to Sonnet 4.5 and Claude Code 2.0 this afternoon. I worked on a quick project (creating PXE bootable files) using the updates and have to say, this new version seems much faster and more accurate than before. I did not go rou
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by rtp4me 1y ago
After lots of trial and error, we have everything running pretty well. We mainly use ZFS for the cost savings on virtual drives (compression=zstd). Previously, we were using XFS and the DB sizes were >5TB or more, and now we can use mu
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by rtp4me 1y ago
Based on our testing, we get much better compression using ZFS than PGSQL. As a side benefit, we also get snapshots and the ability to easily find out how much compression our DBs are getting. According to a quick google search (to refresh
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by rtp4me 1y ago
I am looking forward to testing this feature on our DBs running in Azure (on our own VMs - not hosted by Azure). We heavily use ZFS for compression (5:1 to 8:1) and tend to do lots of sequential scans. ZFS can hit about 150MB/sec on
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by rtp4me 1y ago
Speaking as someone from the US, how is this a meaningful comparison in anyway? Honest question. Sure, wage growth sounds good in an upward trending market, but let's say the market has gone down 30% over the past five years. Would
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by rtp4me 1y ago
Honestly, I would love for the keyboard input style to go away completely. It is such an unnatural way to interact with a computing device compared to other things we operate in the world. Misspellings, backspacing, cramped keys, differen
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by rtp4me 1y ago
Because the person serving a beer at a bar simply poured me a beer. I walked up to the bar where I ordered from the menu. The level of interaction with staff = 1. Effort from staff = 1. The the waiter/waitress had to come to my tabl

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