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by skrause 11y ago
> If you're serving your entire site from S3 for example, you can't just alias yoursite.com to your-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com You can if you also use Amazon's Route 53 service which can resolve the A record of your naked d
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by skrause 11y ago
> One gives up a lot of freedom to be an employee. As an employee I can walk away from my job any time I want and just get another. If I had my own business that would be way harder. Because of that I feel actually more free and inde
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by skrause 11y ago
Only if you have a commercial site.
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by skrause 11y ago
You could buy a simple USB-to-Ethernet adapter like this one: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00M77HMU0/
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by skrause 11y ago
> so there are some fairly radical changes in your body's chemical functioning as it goes into starvation and survival mode. Ketosis is not a "starvation mode", it's just one of the normal ways your body provides en
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by skrause 11y ago
My main problem with the Google Cloud Storage as an individual customer in Germany is this: https://support.google.com/cloud/answer/6090602?hl=en Since I can't find a way to set my account status to "per
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by skrause 11y ago
I think the best option for backups at AWS these days is the "Infrequent Access" storage class introduced a few months ago (probably as a reaction to Nearline): https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-storag
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by skrause 11y ago
> It is about a change to Net metering and the addition of a new fixed monthly fee just for solar users. I've predicted rising fixed fees for solar customers before [1] and I think it's just the beginning. When a significant
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by skrause 11y ago
The main reason for 128 bit addresses is stateless auto configuration which wouldn't be possible with 64 bit long addresses: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6#Stateless_address_autocon...
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by skrause 11y ago
> Why fight biology? Naps are great. Maybe I'm the weird one, but my biology seems to be not to nap. A few years ago I tried for a while to take a nap during my lunch break, but I just couldn't fall asleep even after 30 minut
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by skrause 11y ago
Even enterprise SSDs like Samsung's have a guarantee like "10 years or up to x TB of written data". So if you write a lot you can lose the guarantee after a year even with enterprise SSDs.
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by skrause 11y ago
It's a constitution. You create actual laws based on the general statements in the constitution and enforce those laws. It's up to the constitutional court to interpret the constitution and decide if the other laws follow it corre
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by skrause 11y ago
I the biggest change I've seen in Germany is that Aldi started to accept VISA and MasterCard. Before it only accepted the German EC card system because credit cards probably had too high transactions fees in comparison.
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by skrause 11y ago
I guess the fact that there are official Linux packages in the download section are a pretty good hint that there will be Linux support.
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by skrause 11y ago
> Actually 30GB if you automatically upload your pictures taken on a Lumia. You actually got the 30 GB if you activated photo upload anywhere just once. I once installed the OneDrive app on my iPhone, activated photo upload while not h
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by skrause 11y ago
With that quote Microsoft basically admitted that they're browsing around in their users' files.
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by skrause 11y ago
DST is basically forcing everyone to get up an hour earlier which I'm not a big fan of. If people want to see more daylight in the summer, they should just get up at 5 am voluntarily.
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by skrause 11y ago
I don't know how it works in other countries, but here in Germany you basically have two fees: First there is the "connection fee", so you pay around 5 to 10 dollars monthly just to be connected to the grid even if you use no
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by skrause 11y ago
The German utilities just had to set aside around 35 billion dollars to decommission just about 10 nuclear power plants: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-09-16/why-german... With that in mind I hon
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by skrause 11y ago
My main question is: How is my money distributed? If I only watch a single video in a given month, will that creator get my $10 (usually called "subscriber share model") will my money go into a big pool which is distributed equall
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Historic Disk Drive Prices (1955-2015)(jcmit.com)
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by skrause 11y ago
Here is a nice list of historic hard disk prices (1955-2015): http://www.jcmit.com/diskprice.htm
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by skrause 11y ago
In your example MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH they actually only increased PATCH, Apache 2.4.0 was released in early 2012.
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by skrause 11y ago
No mention of server push, so I assume it's not supported?
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by skrause 11y ago
Discussion on the previous blog posts: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9090525
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by skrause 11y ago
And people are still saying that Intel doesn't have any competition anymore because AMD is doing so bad these days...
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by skrause 11y ago
I still think that 30 watts idle are way too much for at-home equipment. At German electricity prices we're still dealing with $75 a year just for electricity. What I want to see is a reasonably powerful machine that is <5 watts idl
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by skrause 11y ago
Honestly, how many people can get up in the morning, get ready for work, go to a car and then just fall asleep again? I guess the percentage of people who will be able to sleep on a commute will be quite low; I know I wouldn't be able
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by skrause 11y ago
You can do that in most trains, too.
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by skrause 11y ago
A four hour commute with a self-driving car will be just as painful as four hour communute with a train, except that the cost with the car will be much higher. I honestly don't see self-driving cars changing a lot here.

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