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by wgjordan 8y ago
Related: SDG&E offers a special 'Electric Vehicle' pricing plan with much lower rates ($0.09/kwh), but this special rate is only available midnight to 6am [1]. Most residential EV users will enjoy the reduced overnight ra
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> From our analysis, with a competitive (to public charger) pricing of $3/hr, hosts can expect to make $190-$270/month in profit with just 3 rented hours per day. $3/hr * 3 hours/day * 30 days = $270. However, this do
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The post shares several pain points with Debian's slow, aging change-process and integration-infrastructure. Open question: If Debian contributors feel the need to drop out and move on due to these pain points, are there less-painful L
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> I don’t understand how aurora achieves the speed it does with a log based approach. Can someone please clarify? Aurora splits out 'database' nodes (the server instances you provision and pay for) from 'storage' node
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> But here in the paper, it compares Aurora to a MySQL synchronous mirroring setup, which is really unfair, IMO. Why the active primary has to replicate everything over the wire to the active standby? Doesn't MySQL's replicatio
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> Roundup is a herbicide. Otherwise agree with you Herbicides are actually a _kind_ of pesticide (weeds are a kind of 'pest'), so Roundup is actually both. TIL!
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Letter from Sauce Labs CEO on Outages(status.saucelabs.com)
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> Reasons to move to ClickHouse > the [VACUUM] process requires an outrageous amount of time As of Dec 19 2018, Amazon Redshift now runs VACUUM DELETE automatically, and has been made drastically more resource-efficient [1]. > Ther
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Yes, Aurora has connection pooling that allows it to scale to thousands of concurrent connections: > Amazon Aurora for MySQL comes with internal server connection pooling and thread multiplexing, which helps reduce contention and improve
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> RIPA and CCTV aren't so much of a concern because they don't impose a physical obligation and so are only going to be bothersome to suspect people anyway. This is generally known as the 'nothing to hide' argument [1
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> My first thought was to write a ruby script to parse and compare the two exports, but after spending a little time coding something up I had a program that was starting to get fairly complicated, didn't work correctly, and was too
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According to Marx [1] our alienation from ourselves, each other, and nature is the product of (the capitalist relation to) labor: > Through estranged, alienated labor, then, the worker produces the relationship to this labor of a man ali
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Forcing all humans to think one specific 'rational' way, eliminating all 'cognitive biases' to the contrary is definitely something people resist. Not everyone shares your world-view, value system, etc. And "eugenic
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In order to consolidate the consensus needed to genetically alter specific 'cognitive biases' that are 'harmful' to 'humans' in 'today's world', you'll probably first need to establish a glo
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> butterFS = btrfs, the filesystem. People often call it butterFS in conversation, even though the btr stands for b-tree. This isn't a common spelling for Btrfs, and just added confusion for me since I didn't immediately follow
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I've used CloudFormation to maintain a large-scale web-application on AWS infrastructure since 2016. I've been continuously evaluating Terraform over the years (it is indeed maturing quickly), and my team has stuck with CloudForma
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> Or they’ll make it a separately charged feature once they evaluate demand and usage in the beta, but AFAIK that would be new for GitHub. Not new- GitHub's hosted Git LFS product costs $5/month per 50gb bandwidth/storage,
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Note the FAQ [1] explicitly says comments like this asking how to read a paywalled article are ok: > Are paywalls ok? > It's ok to post stories from sites with paywalls that have workarounds. > In comments, it's ok to ask
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> Still A single service on a single machine, how do I safely upgrade it? Depending on your OS-package's provided init script (here Ubuntu), it's as simple as `service nginx reload`, (`service nginx upgrade` if upgrading nginx
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Seconded. If the primary driver of this transition was 'getting a lot more utility for a little less money', then simply adopting Auto Scaling Groups within the existing AWS setup could have improved instance-utilization with much
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Full-page, un-closeable 'sign up for our newsletter!' modal shows up ~10 seconds into article, making it unreadable on mobile.
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TCP/IP performs a handshake to establish connections so there will always be some per-connection overhead required for this, no matter the service on the other end. Beyond that, MySQL for example pre-allocates a fixed amount of memory
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On Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty), be warned that there is a showstopper bug in the latest kernel update to 3.13.0-155 [1]. [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1787127
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> Did Unicode ever have any business assigning separate code points for italic versions of latin glyphs? Here's the official answer to this question from the Unicode spec [1]: "Mathematical notation requires a number of Latin a
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> Screen readers don't do very well with this Badly-implemented screen readers don't do very well with this. The Unicode Standard provides a Normalization Form for Compatibility Decomposition (NFKD / NFKC) that screen read
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> It's at least little bit fishy that you can get a $500 million deduction for giving away stock that is never worth $500 million to anyone (since giving it away tanked the sale price, and selling it would presumably drive it down e
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Let's read the GoPro example closely: - $500m of GoPro stock was donated at about $95 per share, but actually sold by the fund at $18 per share (or so the article implies). - Assuming the highest marginal tax rate (39.6%), the $500m ta
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> Could you please elaborate? 'Bull-fucking-shit' was literally the first word in your comment.
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The courts don't disagree in general principle. In Peterson v. Wilmur Communications [1], the courts held that "a follower of the World Church of the Creator, an organization that preaches a system of beliefs called Creativity, th
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Religious accommodations are not required by law if the employer can demonstrate that granting them would impose an 'undue hardship' on the conduct of the employer's business, which in this case would be liability for claims

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