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by xiaodown 9y ago
That's not the only issue; there's also a lot of compliance issues that having a hosting company can take care of. There's whole sections of PCI and HIPPA compliance that you can just write off as "not our problem, talk
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by xiaodown 9y ago
Nah, there's no role-play. The difference is between "Ok nerds, log in your eve clients, get on mumble, and undock and press F1 to shoot this guy. Someone pull up the map on Dotlan so we can see where we're going. Someone p
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by xiaodown 9y ago
He ... has a history. Plus, I mean, trying to get out-of-game details like address/name is a big no-no in Eve (and should be in any internet game). Leave it in game.
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by xiaodown 9y ago
Dreddit is recruiting, if you want to come back! https://dredditisrecruiting.com/
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by xiaodown 9y ago
I was there; AMA. I'm in Test Alliance Please Ignore. I was sitting on coms when this all went down - The Judge stole everything not nailed down, flipped the citadel to Goonswarm, and everything went to hell. Some background: TEST and
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by xiaodown 9y ago
> While I love reading Hacker News posts about the amazing infrastructure at successful companies, I worry that these discussions may encourage an over-emphasis on perfection and scale. God yes! I read all these blog posts about people&
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by xiaodown 9y ago
I mean, "apachectl graceful" has existed for 20+ years. Sending a graceful (USR1) to apache will cause it to re-read its config, close and re-open log files, and send a signal to all children that they should exit after their cur
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by xiaodown 9y ago
So, for reference, I'm a guy who has multiple cards. I have two debit cards and a credit card. The credit card is a credit card (and I mostly use it for company purchases that get reimbursed). The two debit cards correspond to two dif
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by xiaodown 9y ago
It wasn't going to be so much that, as a card that you could put multiple credit cards on, but that still functioned entirely like a credit card - meaning it could be swiped in vending machines, by waitresses, and everywhere that accep
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by xiaodown 9y ago
From the website: > What This Means For Backers: > It’s been a long road with a lot of obstacles. The support of our amazing backers has been incredible, which makes this announcement even harder. We were so incredibly ready for produ
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by xiaodown 10y ago
So, as a sandbox, it's fairly complete. The full version will include a story campaign, but that's not been released, even in part. In other words, there's not really a reason you couldn't play it now.
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by xiaodown 10y ago
Yes, the map is always the same as in the terrain is the same and the major buildings are in the same spot. However, every playthrough, the resources are distributed randomly throughout the map (in designated spawn spots; for example, there
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by xiaodown 10y ago
There's lots of not-so-deep ones out there in the new "board games renaissance", too - like Forbidden Island / Forbidden Desert, Sheriff of Nottingham, or recently this year, Secret Hitler. They take like 2 minutes to se
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by xiaodown 10y ago
Oh god, my mom has a glass (pyrex?) cutting board. It's SO BAD for knives, and all of her nice knives are so dull, I can barely stand to cook in her house.
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by xiaodown 10y ago
Yep, i'm no expert, but a BGP looking glass seems to suggest that all of the best paths (chosen by AS pathlength?) are not being advertised to peers... But some routes are being advertised? Idk Router: Palo Alto, CA - US Co
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by xiaodown 10y ago
Yep. It's always good to know there's a [preexisting solution]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_protocol ). Queue hordes of people typing "man finger"...
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by xiaodown 10y ago
status.twitter.com redirects to https://status.twitterstat.us/ which presumably is their official status page. Which, by the way, reports that all systems are operational.
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by xiaodown 10y ago
AWS response: Hello, Some customers have reported intermittent resolution issues with .io domains. We can confirm that Route 53 DNS services are operating normally at this time and these issues seem to be related to the .io top-level domain
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by xiaodown 10y ago
Yep, rather than no such domain or a bad delegation, the "bad" servers seem to just be down now.
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by xiaodown 10y ago
Getting significantly worse now.
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by xiaodown 10y ago
Ubuntu vulnerability list: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2016/CVE-2... (TL;DR: Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) is listed as "needs triage", no other releases are affected (14.04&#
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by xiaodown 11y ago
Eh, yeah, but it usually links to the "basic" version (which, I assume, is compatibility mode for old school vi). root@dicks:~# which vi /usr/bin/vi root@dicks:~# file /usr/bin/vi &#