tomchuk

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by tomchuk 9y ago
Seeing lots of S3 errors as well "An error occurred (503) when calling the HeadObject operation (reached max retries: 4): Service Unavailable" "An error occurred (SlowDown) when calling the PutObject operation (reached max re
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by tomchuk 10y ago
Or an S meter - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S_meter
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by tomchuk 11y ago
Worked like a charm. Thanks!
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by tomchuk 11y ago
The CC form only accepts a 3-digit CSC which prevents me from signing up with my Amex.
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by tomchuk 11y ago
I was going to stay up for a middle-of-the-night release (DB migrations, bleh). Instead, posted https://status.github.com/ into slack and am packing up and going to the bar.
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by tomchuk 13y ago
$20 for the results of bash one-liner? (by my count there are far more than 40 left) for i in `egrep '^[a-z]{3}$' /usr/share/dict/words` do whois $i.io | grep -q '\- Available' && echo $i.io done Heck, there's
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by tomchuk 13y ago
In addition to the "techiness" of io, a lot of the draw has been availability. They've been going at $50/yr for a while, which has kept the squatters away. Last time I looked, there were a plethora of three-letter English words available. I
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by tomchuk 13y ago
Nail on the head. I can only remember one or two occasions where I've needed to copy a key and waiting a couple days for delivery would have been practical. That said, I had a clever idea on my way to work this morning. They've already got
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by tomchuk 13y ago
Most decent processors have processes in place for the transfer of CC numbers. I was involved with this process at a decent-sized magazine, it involved armed security, an encrypted hard drive in a locked container and millions of dollars of
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by tomchuk 14y ago
Comparing an m1.medium EC2 instance w/ 96GB EBS volume to a 4GB Linode (ignoring the fact that you're probably getting at least 2x CPU with Linode), you're looking at ~$100/mo for EC2 and $80/mo for Linode. If you take full advantage of Lin
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by tomchuk 14y ago
Yeah, if you tell them it's for another https site, they'll make you prove you've bought the cert. A bit of a hassle, but I can see why they don't want to just hand out IPv4 addresses and have them sit there unused.
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by tomchuk 14y ago
The whole seven-step "Preparing to Save" sequence can be dramatically simplified with Edit -> Copy Merged (⇧⌘C).
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by tomchuk 14y ago
As my high school drivers ed instructor always said: "Colored lights are physically incapable of stopping a moving car." If there's one thing that I've learned being a pedestrian in NYC for the last 10+ years: Traffic lights are very loosel