silviot

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by silviot 4y ago
What's the difference in price between 1km of fiber vs 1km or single pair wire? It might play a role in this solution being cheaper than immediately apparent.
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by silviot 4y ago
Nice! That was fast. Well done!
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by silviot 4y ago
I also suggest you add documentation to the github repo. The first thing I did after reading the first paragraph of this announcement was checking the source code. And when I saw no documentation at all - zero - nada - niente, I completely
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by silviot 4y ago
Thanks! I'll stop using captive.apple.com now that I know about this!
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by silviot 4y ago
I (25 years working with GNU/Linux) usually name my bash scripts `something.sh`. I think it's debatable wether it's always good or bad, and when specifically it can be a good idea to leave out the `.sh`. Also, it doesn't
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by silviot 4y ago
I'm really, honestly curious what reasons you have to believe this. I can't imagine any. It is so much different from my view and the view of the people I usually talk to, that I can't fathom where it comes from. Is it someth
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Contabo object storage EU server is down but their status page reports all good(eu2.contabostorage.com)
1 points by silviot 4y ago|2 comments
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by silviot 4y ago
I'm posting this here because it's an incident that greatly eroded my trust towards contabo, and I believe other people could be interested. I signed up to use their object storage in order to test it; today I noticed it's no
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by silviot 4y ago
And then does magic when you want to expose a volume from your macos host to your docker container. And that magic can slow down things. They improved things recently though [1] [1] https://www.docker.com/blog/speed-boo
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by silviot 4y ago
The magic trick is that when you click the card to copy it to your clipboard you'll end up with two versions of the clipboard. One will be used when you paste into a rich-text aware editor (like google docs). In this case it happens to
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by silviot 5y ago
> Screw you software, I’m in charge, not you. This is exactly my reaction: I don't understand how people can be Ok with this. I remember seeing this more than ten years ago already: you demand your computer to shut down (maybe you&#
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by silviot 5y ago
Obligatory XKCD: https://m.xkcd.com/927/
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The Abilene Paradox(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by silviot 5y ago|1 comments
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by silviot 5y ago
IANAL, but it sounds to me like a very important part of the story is that Google was not listed to end user as entity that would treat their data. Another way to read this could be: failure to inform users that their IP addresses were sent
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by silviot 5y ago
The metadata for the file do take space on the disk, but are never taken into account when mentioning the file size. > All Folders programs are 0 bytes if you're on windows as it interprets an empty folder as 0 bytes. > The ultim
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by silviot 5y ago
Apparently placebo works even with dogs: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19912522/ Given that I would not find surprising if it worked for infants too
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by silviot 5y ago
I also find that style annoying, to the point that I wonder why it's even in use. I always thought it was an American thing, given it's barely present in my country, and when it's used it sounds ridiculous to most people.
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by silviot 5y ago
Because people with children recognize how universal some behaviours are and make a good laugh out of this. Also it makes you think about what being a child might be like.
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by silviot 5y ago
> whenever I install it via apt You have the option to create a virtualenv and install it with pip, or snap, or use a docker image. See [1]. This has a couple of advantages: * you'll get the latest version from the maintainers - for
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by silviot 5y ago
Aren't trees a very efficient and cheap way to capture CO2 from air and store it in a safe way?
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by silviot 5y ago
I'm under the impression that, in Javascript, > async/await is syntactic sugar on top of the promises and provides a way to handle the asynchronous tasks in a synchronous manner. as is stated on this website I just found with o
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by silviot 5y ago
I'm confused: are you taking into account the existence of this movie? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stillwater_(film) It's one of the points of the article. You really, really should take that into account b
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by silviot 5y ago
>> "why doesn't water explode when you dissolve salt in it?". > Because you have to melt the salt first. Oh, god! You gave me a nice rabbit hole to explore. Thanks! Also thanks for understanding my attitude. I loved
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by silviot 5y ago
What I meant with my comment is that your question sounded like "Why didn't Albert Einstein become the president of the United States?", and I believe it's not a "good" question, just like "why doesn'
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by silviot 5y ago
Why didn't you?
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by silviot 5y ago
As others have already pointed out this will go down in history as the "Let them eat cake" of our times. The disconnect with the real life of billions of people is astonishing.
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by silviot 5y ago
Jealous of you guys in Bologna, and also the folks in Villa Manin: the only municipalities in Italy listed there. I dare to say, probably the only ones doing a good work collecting and publishing data.
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by silviot 5y ago
Archived version of the google search for "Hristo Georgiev": https://archive.is/ZizdK
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by silviot 5y ago
TIL about the implicit exec. Details are hard. Thanks for pointing out the way it works!
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by silviot 5y ago
How do you determine this? I tried on an Ubuntu machine and running `ssh machine sleep 100` I saw the `sleep 100` process as direct child of `sshd`. Also, in the man page for ssh it says: > If a command is specified, it is executed on th

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