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by thaeli 7y ago
It's quietly powering a lot of private clouds these days.
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This is why I run anything online-gaming related on OVH (or SoYouStart and Kimsufi, their cheaper offshoots that still use the OVH network) - they are very good about handling the everyday DDoSes you get in that sector without taking the si
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That's reasonable prepping. "Extreme prepping" is the "bunker full of guns, ammo, 5 years of food, etc" version.
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Alternatively, for optimizing publications rather than optimizing research, there's SCIgen ( https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/archive/scigen/ ) which keeps getting accepted to questionable journals..
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That only holds up if X remains constant. Option #1 is already considered acceptable by these low-quality sites, so why wouldn't they instead choose: 3. Automatically write a relatively bogus article to drive clicks. For a business mod
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Those alerts can invoke a Lambda that shuts the service down, which is a ridiculously baroque solution but it's what you get.
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Well, a BSD-branded BSD isn't. (MacOS is technically a BSD.)
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In the US, software is "licensed not sold" so first sale doesn't apply.
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I often do multi-destination optimization manually on Google Maps desktop. It's practical to solve the small-n travelling salesman problem through manual brute force, it should be doable automatically.
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Waze has settings for this.
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I do work with people who don't think I should be allowed to exist. But they're required to be polite to me at work, and to use my pronouns, and as long as they do that no lines have been crossed.
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I have some servers at Wholesale Internet - they're located in Kansas City. Good counterpart to Hetzner or SoYouStart; with these low end dedicated hosts you end up being multi-provider to have geographically redundant datacenters anyw
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by thaeli 7y ago
Brokers ("grey market") usually pay out over time, for this reason. If a seller double-dipped by also selling the vuln to the vendor via a bounty program, it could get fixed before they actually got most of their grey-market money
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This is no longer a violation of the merchant agreement. The card brands used to ban minimums, but now merchants are allowed to require a minimum payment for credit. Too many cash-based businesses who just would not bother with a credit ca
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It may also indicate that they think this will reduce their labor pool too much in some states.
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There are exceptions. The Washington DC Metro, for instance.
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Yet another happy Postmark customer here. They're the only transactional email provider I've found who keeps full text logs of your outgoing mails (for a couple weeks) - in a complex "Enterprise" environment I cannot ove
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by thaeli 7y ago
Some methods I've commonly seen in Enterprise Duct Tape: Screen scrape the other service and do data exchange via a Selenium script. Directly interact with the other service's database. CSV files and nightly batch jobs.
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by thaeli 7y ago
* Dear writer, can you please show me some writing samples? * Dear graphic designer, can you please show me your portfolio? * Dear welder, can you please weld these test coupons? * Dear actor, can you please audition for the role? There are
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Evennia. Actively developed, and lets you write in modern Python. http://www.evennia.com/
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Disposal costs money, too, so the "trash point" is actually at a somewhat _negative_ profitability.
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Formally targeting people with medical issues makes your device a "medical device" and adds extensive certification delays. If you make something that's "totally just for weekend warriors" but it's useful for p
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More accurate timers, too. It's bizarre to think that "program a microcontroller" is actually cheaper - even in small quantity - than the 555 designs I remember building as a kid. (In single quantities from LCSC the cheapest
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You can easily pay that. Or you could go to either Rick's or Dick's on Geary and pay $20. ($15 haircut + $5 tip)
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At the other extreme, an Oster 76 is $150 and that doesn't even include a full set of combs, but it'll last several lifetimes - they'll go 20+ years in daily barbershop service even. And the 76 will cut even thick, hard to cu
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There's common advice out there that putting swap on SSD is bad, because it wears out the disks faster.
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Best part of the Strip. I make a point of going every time I'm in Vegas.
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That's a much more customer-friendly version of a common late stage strategy in enterprise software: shut down feature additions, keep the price high, milk support contracts and if all that's not enough, sue your customers! I like
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This doesn't tell you what your shrink is, though.
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> The one absolutely redeeming quality of IPv6 is that with 128 bits routing can be kept much more hierarchical and stateless. For now. Yes, 128 bits is a lot. Yes, even the 64 bit host-part is a lot. But the old-fashioned, pre-CIDR allo

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