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by sterwill 4y ago
I don't have any experience with ZFS, and very little with BTRFS, but the reason I pick XFS is that has "just worked", out of the box, on every Linux distribution I've managed for about 20 years. Back then, it was one o
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by sterwill 4y ago
If you have the time, you might consider scanning some of those manuals and uploading them to a site like http://bitsavers.org
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by sterwill 4y ago
I think it's fair to say a nuclear power plant "uses" the water that it discharges its waste heat into as it flows out into a river or large body of water. If it didn't use that water, it would have to dump its heat som
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by sterwill 5y ago
With AWS, the "datacenter" isn't a concept users have to worry about (or can even discover or manage). Each AZ comprises many datacenters, each region comprises many AZs, and AWS makes it easy to deploy most services across m
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by sterwill 5y ago
That's one heck of an edge case! How does fsck manage to completely confuse filesystem metadata and data like this? Surely this is only if there's corruption in the (outer) filesystem, right?
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by sterwill 5y ago
I re-read your comment and you do say "same" prefixes (I think I read it as "shared"), which AWS hasn't changed the behavior of (AFAIK). You're right that objects with the exact same prefix are still routed to
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by sterwill 5y ago
IPv6 works fine. It's all over my house, my mobile devices use it all the time (they're probably IPv6-only over LTE at this point), and I don't have any problems when I occasionally have to type in an IPv6 address. I don&#x
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by sterwill 5y ago
In my testing (years ago, don't have the data) there was no detectable difference between PKs of the uuid and bigint types in my application, but there was a difference between uuid and int (int was faster). uuid is 16 bytes, bigint i
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by sterwill 5y ago
This used to be the case, but it's not true any more. For example, previously Amazon S3 performance guidelines recommended randomizing prefix naming with hashed characters to optimize performance for frequent data retrievals. You no l
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by sterwill 5y ago
There should be a rule that before you create a new Python package manager, you have to kill off an existing one first.
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by sterwill 5y ago
I have a couple of Reolink PoE cameras that live on their own VLAN without internet access except for NTP. I can access them through the LAN, and outside the house using a Wireguard VPN.
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by sterwill 5y ago
That's right. I bought the book for a few dollars, not an AS/400 system, though I'd probably find a decorative use for one if I found one that cheap. I look at eBay and Craigslist every so often for cheap used mainframes (o
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by sterwill 5y ago
Thanks for all those technical details! For anyone else who'd like a broader tour around the AS/400, I can recommend "Inside the AS/400: Second Edition" by Frank Soltis. I bought it used for just a few dollars and
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by sterwill 5y ago
I doubt the amount of dextrose (anti-caking agent) you consume with table salt could ever be nutritionally significant. Have you seen other sugars added to salt? I never have.
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by sterwill 5y ago
I don't have specific numbers, but I think each AZ comprises many data centers. us-east-1 is a very large region, and I don't think any single AZ fits in one building.
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by sterwill 5y ago
There's a lot of uncharitable talk in this thread, where comments like yours assume bad intent on behalf of businesses who find GDPR compliance challenging. It's a giant body of regulatory law, of course it's complicated! T
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by sterwill 5y ago
Having worked in a US health tech start-up (and done some compliance work there), and now working with GDPR as a US company, I'm similarly frustrated with how imprecisely the regulations are worded. US health information privacy laws
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by sterwill 5y ago
I'm using Ubuntu 21.04 with Wayland and, yes, screen sharing works in Google Meet, Slack, and Zoom. I haven't tried Teams in a while, so I don't know about that.
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by sterwill 5y ago
Congrats on hitting 1.0, Alex and Abel!
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by sterwill 6y ago
Interesting, that's a pretty low threshold for such a high rate.
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by sterwill 6y ago
I haven't been in a position where I needed to finance work on my home, but I have wanted a safe and easy way to pay individual contractors. Some of them prefer cash or paper checks (and their tax liabilities are their business), but
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by sterwill 6y ago
I understand the desire to avoid paying tax by taking cash, but is it common that a tradesperson is paying 50% income tax? I only have a US resident's perspective, but that rate seems very high.
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by sterwill 6y ago
We're definitely not fans of Joe, and were a little concerned about the association early on, but we've talked with hundreds of potential customers since we started and it hasn't come up yet. A lot of them get the RPO pun qu
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by sterwill 6y ago
We're aware of Joe, but we thought people might rather imagine ancient mythological creatures or recovery point objectives instead. :)
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by sterwill 6y ago
Unfortunately, we aren't able to read users' passwords from Cognito user pools, so they do have to reset them in the recovery environment. We'd love to see an AWS API for exporting user secrets from user pools. We'd ad
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by sterwill 6y ago
Before this update, S3 provided "read-after-write" consistency for object creation at a unique path[0] with PUT and subsequent GET operations. Replacement wasn't consistent. So I think you could have worked out some kind of
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by sterwill 6y ago
Putting the name of the cheese (style) he's making in the thumbnails is his usual format. I've watched a dozen or more of his cheese-making videos. I don't think his Grana Padano thumbnail differs in any significant way.
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by sterwill 6y ago
I wasn't following the Python 2-to-3 transition that closely, but I don't think Python ever forced anyone to use UTF-16. On Unix platforms (the only place I've used Python for 10 years) the strings are UTF-8 internally. On
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by sterwill 6y ago
I only watch YouTube on my PS4 using Google's app, so I don't think SponsorBlock is an option there. I was really happy with Red/Premium in the early days because I felt like I was getting a great deal for the price. Appare
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by sterwill 6y ago
I've been a Red/Premium subscriber for years, and I'm out the second there's a single ad. I'm annoyed at the increasing number of creators jamming sponsorships into their content. I don't know what my thresho

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