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by sterwill 7y ago
I remember the u-bahn in Munich being like this when I visited in 2006-ish. Stations were large, clean, and efficient since ticketing is on an honor system. You just walk down to a platform and board the first train. Trains were clean, r
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by sterwill 7y ago
I've been using the nightly builds of Firefox Preview for a couple of weeks, and it supports the extension I need the most (uBlock Origin). The new preview is so much faster than the old Firefox for Android I probably won't need
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by sterwill 7y ago
I had never heard of the PICA-61, thanks! I owned a DEC Multia back in the late 90s, when they were already obsolete and plentiful. It had SRM firmware, not ARC, but I didn't have any interest in running NT on it anyway. Ran Linux r
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by sterwill 7y ago
Perhaps it lasted longer because you could actually buy Alpha computers from DEC with Windows NT installed. Could you ever buy MIPS or PowerPC computers from a major vendor with Windows NT installed?
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by sterwill 7y ago
uBlock Origin even works on Firefox Preview Nightly, which I'm really loving. Way faster than normal Firefox on my old Nexus 6. Makes the phone feel several years younger.
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by sterwill 7y ago
I said your example digital camera was 20 years old ("640x480 prototype camera from 2001"), not the CD format. I used primitive digital cameras in the mid 1990s and CDs in the 1980s so I remember the chronology here. You still ha
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by sterwill 7y ago
The more I think about it, the better metaphor is: CD is the RED 32K camera from 2025 whose product is video indistinguishable from seeing it with your own eyes, but it came out in 1982 and all the theaters can project it.
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by sterwill 7y ago
This doesn't make any sense. You haven't explained how CD is "terrible"; you just made some comparison to an obsolete digital camera. You put the CD in, press play, and a nearly perfect representation of the source sig
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by sterwill 7y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by "implication of [...] identifying the patient". Although I didn't see any personal information in the article, there isn't a law in the US that prevents a news agency like CNN from ide
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by sterwill 7y ago
I do it all the time: apt install python3 python3-pip python3-virtualenv Python packaging is one of its worst warts, but the Python runtime itself is very easy to install.
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by sterwill 7y ago
My 2006 Mazda MX-5 is super reliable and has very little modern car "technology"--the kind that requires firmware updates, Internet connectivity, phone apps, paid software upgrades, etc. I'm not claiming there isn't com
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by sterwill 7y ago
I use Firefox all the time and don't have to solve the image problems, however I always have Google cookies and Javascript enabled.
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by sterwill 7y ago
I haven't heard of a link between Firebird and PostgreSQL with regards to MVCC before. I remember using PostgreSQL 6.5 with MVCC on a project back in 1999, but Borland didn't open-source InterBase (as Firebird) until after that p
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by sterwill 7y ago
That story doesn't appear to be true. https://www.networkworld.com/article/2891297/the-myth-about-...
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by sterwill 7y ago
I don't think this is true. There are 50 states, each with different laws and definitions of acts and crimes. I am not aware of any federal anti-harassment laws except for those governing workplaces, and even those do not consider al
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by sterwill 7y ago
Pretty much, and it stores additional indexes so it can do incremental backups. It supports many different storage targets, including S3, which I use.
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by sterwill 7y ago
I love Elixir, but I don't think of guards as "early returns". They're more like preconditions or filters: they prevent the function from running at all if they don't match, and because they're applied top-do
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by sterwill 7y ago
Which services in other regions? I remember that day well, but I had my eyes on us-east-1 so I don't remember what else (other than status reporting) was affected elsewhere.
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by sterwill 7y ago
My comment used a hypothetical toxicity study where 100% of people died instantly as an example of a very large effect size. It did not address the Propofol sedation study.
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by sterwill 7y ago
The non-spammy network operators that interconnect to the spammy network operators make money through that interconnection. If you want them to disconnect their spammy customers, you have to convince them that it's worth it to lose th
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by sterwill 7y ago
And how great the effect is. If you recruited only 5 healthy humans at random and administered a new drug and 100% of them died instantly, you can probably make some useful predictions.
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by sterwill 7y ago
If you want an index on a column (and you probably do if you're going to query over 500 million rows) you have to create it at some point. Creating it after will be more efficient in your case. So what do you mean "too slow?&quot
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by sterwill 7y ago
What was your schema? What did you index? I don't have a copy of the HiBP archive at hand, but the web site says it contains 551 million entries. If we assume the 11 GB archive expands to 30 GB, that's certainly not a small tab
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by sterwill 7y ago
That's the original reason I started using XFS on Linux about 15 years ago. I needed all those hardlinks for dirvish. I haven't had a need for dirvish since then, but I still use XFS for largeish volumes with lots of files (won&
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by sterwill 7y ago
When has AWS had a "major issue" that affected multiple regions (not AZs)?
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Ask HN: Production database access and separation of duties
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by sterwill 8y ago
You can meet an at-rest encryption requirements in a lot of environments by flipping on disk-level, filesystem-level, or database-level encryption where the encryption keys aren't stored on that disk.
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by sterwill 8y ago
Although at-rest encryption of health data is an addressable part of US health regulations, not a required one, it's almost always done because it's easy and effective. Most electronic health records are encrypted at-rest.
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by sterwill 8y ago
I recommend this book every time someone asks for recommendations about computer company history. This book is one of my all-time favorites.
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by sterwill 8y ago
I used RedisLabs in a project about 3 years ago where I wanted durable storage, and the service was excellent. Latency in us-east-1 was low, the management interface was snappy, and scaling up storage took just a couple of clicks. I'

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