sporkle-feet

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by sporkle-feet 3y ago
The feature that caught my eye is the concept of having different targets. A fast SSD can be set as the target for foreground writes, but that data will be transparently copied in the background to a "background" target, i.e. a l
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by sporkle-feet 3y ago
Synology doesn't use the btrfs raid - AIUI they layer non-raid btrfs over raid LVM
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by sporkle-feet 3y ago
Isn't this just the same as what Apple does? Why is there outrage about one but not the other? (genuine question)
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by sporkle-feet 4y ago
Can someone explain how this works? When the window slides, how can you remove the old byte by simply left shifting the hash? Wouldn't you need to subtract the gear table entry for that byte?
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by sporkle-feet 4y ago
Not what I could call 'open source'. Basic features (e.g. 'XML and JSON export') require a subscription to the 'premium' or 'enterprise' plans, even when self-hosting.
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by sporkle-feet 4y ago
The actual problem I need solving: multiple copies of files in multiple places, older versions of documents not linked to to the latest versions, disorganized backups. Also - as a potential user, I would much prefer to read about useful fea
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How and When should we update our dependencies?
2 points by sporkle-feet 5y ago|0 comments
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by sporkle-feet 5y ago
Then how do you explain this email sent by yourself? We are announcing an extended, off-peak maintenance window for your backup account. Beginning Saturday March 5th at 9:00a PT (UTC -8) the server will go offline for approx. 6 h
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by sporkle-feet 5y ago
Not related to this technical note, but I was surprised to learn that the rsync service has scheduled downtime, like for hours at a time. Is it possible to make your service highly available? Seems that is table stakes for other cloud stora
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by sporkle-feet 5y ago
Tried to sign up, tells me I have an invalid postal code (I don't). Doesn't inspire confidence.
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by sporkle-feet 5y ago
What if we're trying to correlate prices from two different financial institutions? Maybe one uses smearing and one doesn't, who knows?
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by sporkle-feet 5y ago
If we were taking leap seconds into account, we should end up with a date/time that is not midnight. Because it does always remain midnight, it shows we are all ignoring leap seconds.
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Ask HN: How is it that programmers can simply ignore leap seconds?
27 points by sporkle-feet 5y ago|38 comments