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Ask HN: Is it feasible to run your own DNS name servers nowadays?
I'm talking for a small operation (personal blog, startup, etc).

Currently my DNS is hosted by Cloudflare, however I would like to have more fine-grain control over the zones, including DNS failover and GeoDNS.

I am looking into running a resilient pair of BIND servers. They will detect when one of my web servers goes down (e.g. for reboot) and pull the record (which will have a low TTL to avoid excessive caching). I also want to use GeoDNS to point users towards the nearest web server.

It seems to be very rare these days for people to run their own name servers. What are some of the common pitfalls and issues related to this?
I dislike the Linux Mint desktop image, but that's trivially easy to swap out.

I genuinely can't see the other problems with the image, and I feel that it's not a good example to illustrate the point.

But I'm sure parent poster is right, and that linux desktop environments use a wierd mish-mash of icons and fonts with weird sizing and line heights.
You are part of the vocal, online minority that doesn't look at Mint and cringe because it looks so amateur and dated.

Most people intuitively have a sense of whether the software they're using is elegant, polished, and user-friendly without necessarily being able to articulate that the "font heights", etc. are the problem.

By a common user's standards, Mint looks amateur and janky compared to Windows 10 and Mac OS.
Could you share a screenshot for Mint today then and describe how it's improved?
The NIST explanation of Kibble balance calibration includes this:

> Everything on the right side of that equation can be determined to extraordinary precision: The current and voltage by using quantum-electrical effects that are measurable on laboratory instruments; the local gravitational field by using an ultra-sensitive, on-site device called an absolute gravimeter; and the velocity by tracking the coil's motion with laser interferometry, which operates at the scale of the wavelength of the laser light.

Current is measured in amperes, derived from the charge (in coulombs, defined from the charge of a proton) and time (in seconds, defined from the vibration of a Cs atom). Gravitational acceleration is measured in ms^-2, derived from length (in metres, defined from the distance travelled by light in a vacuum in a second) and time. Velocity is also derived from length and time.

With these new defined constants (including the Planck constant), all of the instruments could now be calibrated by observing natural phenomena and a whole lot of counting.
Combined Action/Arms Groups are stupid effective. Armor working with Infantry and Cavalry (light armor) that also have close air-support is a thing to behold.

The thing is, the US military re-tools its organization every 10 to 20 years or so, looking ahead at the conflicts to come. In the late 80s that re-tooling began and the result was methodologies that came to fruition in Iraq and Afghanistan. We take notes from past examples (see Russian occupation of the latter), examine the fight we see coming (insurgent warfare in WWII), and rebuild doctrine to fit.

The special operations groups were part of the process. While we were creating our own future enemies in the 60s and 70s (mujahideen turned into Al-Qaeda and others) we were also getting a first hand look at guerrilla warfare and how ineffective symmetric war concepts were at facing a guerrilla opponent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asymmetric_warfare

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Being "customer obsessed" is practically Amazon's ethos. I think similar language was used in Amazon's IPO.
It’s based on the decimal system, which we happen to use in our primary numerical system as well?
> The "Google is the new Oracle" phrase

bings "Google is the new Oracle"

yeah, nobody says that.
Neutron radiation, plus the unfortunate geometric fact that the surface area/volume ratio of a fusion reactor will be low, compared to the fuel rod surface area/volume ratio in a fission reactor.

What this does is ensure that even operating right at the limits of neutron damage to the wall materials, the volumetric power density of a DT fusion reactor will suck. And that will destroy the economics.
The number of things in a mole is arbitrary. It's a dimensionless unit. However, since many things are already measured in moles in chemistry, there's no real reason to remove it. Dealing with numbers on a more practical macroscopic scale is probably more convenient than dealing with large powers of 10.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mole_(unit)#Criticism
Redhat is tiny compared to the clouds. Softlayer is aging and IBM does not have billions in infrastructure buildout to compete. Redhat can provide software but definitely not enough to put them ahead of GCP as you claim.

And Compose manages databases on AWS and GCP too, similar to Aiven and others, so I don't see how that alone makes IBM special.
I feel like imperial units are human units. they are units used on a human scale, where as metric are more 'computer'. example: a human really cant look at something and divide it by 10 very well, but 1/3, 1/2, 1/4, very easy to do. the sizes makes human sense, like a foot being about a human foot, etc.
The argument there is that avogadro's constant is just an arbitrary number and mol is not an unit, but weird case of SI prefix.

On the other hand it is fundamental-ish constant, because it is defined as arbitrarily scaled result of inherently uncertain measurement. And the new definition of kilogram had significantly increased the attainable certainity of such measurement (to the extent that it is uncertain due to practical issues, not by definition). The other proposed replicable definition of kilogram (ie. mass of Si monocrystal wih particular geometry) would fix the definition of mole as some known and defined number, but would be significantly harder to replicate (because it would define how to produce an artifact in contrast to how to directly measure the mass as the ratified definition does)
How does this differ from LKL (the Linux kernel library : https://github.com/lkl/linux )?
Keeps it competitive. We don't want hundreds of millions of people being able to program. You want to put food on the table or not?
Can you explain what you mean? From what I'm seeing there isn't any skeuomorphism in Elementary.
Can you imagine the confusion? Having the same word mean a different amount of something would cause a lot of misunderstanding. Saying "This car weighs 2200 poundsm" have two different meanings depending on the year you said it sounds awful.

The new metric definitions work because they don't change the actual amount, they just change the way the amount is defined. (Natural constant vs reference weight)
Those engineers shop themselves around and maybe move offices. Google often destaffs launched, current products so this is not too weird of a situation for a Googler to be in. It’s not something that happens only to canceled products.
As a scientist, definitely. It would be evidence that you've lost your grip on reality and are entirely a creature of reactionary twitter rage, and trusting your judgment is probably not a great idea.
> Yes, but what traits society allows men to express while still being considered "proper men" differs depending on culture, and mediates whatever biological imperatives might exist.

Having plasticity in societal expectations does not change the characteristics of 'typical male behavior' in those societies. All it does is require us to further abstract what constitutes 'male behavior'.

Studies on the effects of testosterone mainly show that it encourages men to display behaviors that gain them social status. In a violent society, this would be violence. In a peaceful society, this would be shows of benevolence. Either way, pursuing status-ful behavior is undoubtedly associated with testosterone. Violence, surprisingly, is not associated at all.

[1] https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/testostero...
Sorry, but no. They are just our old units that stuck in everyday language. They are probably not even closer to yours than yours are to antique Egypt ones, given that they were not internationally standardized and merely referenced the same body parts.

And we have expressions including other old units that you don't have (lieu, arpent, toise, etc.).
Except for in this case all vehicles, aircraft, and equipment can communicate with each other. For an adversary that would make it pretty convenient to exploit. One ransomware attack and the battle is finished.

I'm just joking...sort of. It's usually the things that we didn't think of that bite us in the butt.
I understand the motivation, but this seems like a lawsuit magnet.
> When this topic does come up -- and it does -- it's done specifically with the notion of normalizing the idea that people of all backgrounds can, should and will be scientists and mathematicians.

This line of thought always confuses me a bit. Unfortunately the image of those that question such things is so poor it's rather discouraging to even bring up. I should really try to stress that I'm not trying to say how things should be. I think these issues are more complex than most anybody gives them credit for, and everybody has their own desired outcomes, timelines, and acceptable consequences. All I'm trying to do is explain perceptions, really.

The main line of thought that tends to result in all the focus on women in science and programs to help women succeed in science seems to include the idea that the societal conception that scientists are male pushes females away from science. There are of course other issues like you brought up that impact retention of female scientists, but much of the science-specific efforts aren't focused on retention but rather initial interest. That's fine, and a decent enough issue to go after.

However, what many people seem to have trouble seeing is how these programs can reasonably provoke reactions like the one you responded to using the very same logic that promoted the creation of those programs in the first place. If you can see how media depictions and general expectations so severely shunt women away from science, is it really so hard to understand how the focus and programs promoting women in science may be having a negative impact on men wishing to go into science? The pressures aren't exactly the same, what with one being sort of a general thing while the other is more purposeful and focused. Who knows how they balance relative to each other, and people won't even agree on where that balance should be. However, I do understand how people can take the more purposeful one more personally. You have specifically putting out these influences that you can latch onto, while you can't really do that with a vague general feeling.

So, hell if I know how to even determine who is right here, though I suspect nobody is or ever will be. But I'd really like to see more thought put into how things effect everybody and some more understanding that people may have justifiable negative responses to things you personally consider to be positive. And neither of you has to be wrong. Or fix themselves.
Frankly, while mathematically speaking 12 is a great base, people don't think in twelves - you can quickly perform arithmetic and our entire education system of math relies on base 10. Kind of hard to suddenly add two fingers to everyone. Additionally, base 12, would not act like 12 does in base 10, thus if base 12 is your key point of reference, a foot should be 10 in base 12 for inches.....
Canonical doesn't seem as concerned with privacy as it could be, but at least the collection is opt-in at install time instead of being sneaky (let me know if I'm mistaken).

I wish the fsf distros could get more contributors. I understand why corporate contributions aren't aimed in that direction, but I wonder why Trisquel doesn't have more hobbyists pitching in.

edited to clear up opening sentence
Microsoft wants to put ads in Windows email – and it’s already testing them out
> lots of MS-specific fields with poor documentation

It's too easy to write a backhanded comment regarding this issue, but it's just really annoying.
Co-signed! The freezing and boiling points of water are also not particularly pragmatic points of reference. I don't think "I need to lower this to 0°", I think "I need to put this in the freezer".
A single ARC reactor will use 40% of the world's annual production of beryllium.

The power density of an ARC reactor will be around 0.5 MW/m^3. In comparison, the power density of a PWR reactor vessel is 20 MW/m^3.

Replacing the entire inner vessel once a year would be an operational nightmare. For one thing, it ensures the building the reactor is in will have to be very large, with very large secondary bays where the intensely radioactive material of a spent reactor vessel can be moved and disassembled (generating radioactive fragments and dust).
Unicorns aren’t special anymore
>They're more ... human, maybe, in that a foot is about one human foot long, and that an inch is about one human thumb width, and how 0F feels "pretty cold" and 100F feels "pretty hot", and to me the charm of imperial units begins and ends right there.

As far as we know, humans are the only thing in the universe that care about any of this stuff. A computer couldn't care less if you are using 1 foot or 0.3048 meters.

Why not optimize for humans, the things actually using these things? Optimizing for the computer just seems...silly. It seems like something somebody from the 1970s would have thought was a futuristic idea.
One of the OG xkcd's: https://www.xkcd.com/37/
Get a macbook
Unpopular opinion. Any desktop os with a top menu bar is worthless.
Fair point. You're right about consumer product shutdowns not being a good reason to disregard Google's cloud offerings.

I think both Fabric and Apigee API BaaS where indeed Google Cloud offerings. Google Search Appliance if I'm not wrong was part of something called Google Enterprise which eventually folded into GCP.
Let's predict the day we'll have ads in our commits messages
Qt was used on unity8. But it didn't (at that time, and probably not now either) have a comparable UI component library to MacOS (or iOS). I know, because we made one from scratch - which wasn't a great idea either.

Flutter would look interesting if it picks up steam for desktop apps.
The article refers to John Stuart Mill's Autobiography.

Mill talks about his amazing early education at the very beginning of the book, starting with

I have no remembrance of the time when I began to learn Greek; I have been told that it was when I was three years old.

http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/10378/pg10378-images.htm...

His father, James Mill, was one of the founders, with Jeremy Bentham, of modern utilitarianism. This essay by (JS) Mill about Bentham I think is magnificent as an appreciation of Bentham and his huge influence, and as philosophical prose.

https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/mill-the-collected-works-...
What? Get this sexist crap out of here. Do you seriously think that any educational programs are rejecting men today? Have you walked into any STEM department anywhere across the country? You can count the number of women on your hands. There is no discrimination against men in STEM.
For DT fusion, that's been known for 35 years. It's not just materials, it's power density.

http://www.askmar.com/Robert%20Bussard/The%20Trouble%20With%...
You might be interested in this PR: "[nixpkgs] elementary: init a 5.0 Juno" https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/48637

I'm actively trying to build some cool things with Nix/NixOS and then write up a series of blog posts. Several recent discussions on the Discourse and at NixCon have been focused around Nix/NixOS user experience, at least.

I've recently been building a package set of tip builds of Wayland stuff (sway, screenshot/screenrecord/notification utilities), including instructions for using them on Ubuntu via Nix. I'm also building out a set of packages and modules for Kube/Containerd/Kata-Containers for perfectly repeatable offline-first clusters. I think these two projects can be leveraged to evangelize Nix and NixOS nicely, and dovetails into UX efforts as I build my list of rough spots and fix a number of issues in nixpkgs and random OSS projects along the way.

Also, Gnome-Shell and KDE work perfectly in NixOS anyway, and can be easily made to look just like they do on any other distro... I just recently switched to Sway, coming from KDE (~1.5 years) after GNOME (6+ years?). Not any significant visual differences than when I was using Arch Linux.
I don't know. The Marine Corps seemed to figure a lot of that out in its Small Wars Manual from the 1940's. Here is the FMFRP 12-15.

https://www.marines.mil/Portals/59/Publications/FMFRP%2012-1...
I've never looked into SUSE. Could you elaborate on what they offer? All I know about them is that they are one of the really old enterprise distros and got purchased recently.
It really isn't. You're just becoming more aware of it. There are good journalists, dishonest journalists and everything in between at the Times, which for all its issues is still probably the best newspaper in the world. I'd be a fool to take what they say as fact because they say it as much as they pretend it's so.
1. I think your heart might be in the right place, but I think your facts are mistaken / misunderstood.

2. Kochs are horrible people, but historically their union-busting, and other worker rights protection attacks are the cause of income falling at their refineries and other family-owned manufacturing plants in MN, WI, KS, etc. (If you want to see what full-on Koch / Republican leadership does to a place, look at what Kansas has become).

3. You (and Ezra, and most of the watchers) misunderstand Bernie Sanders in a few ways. Yes, low income earners would be great for Koch, but Koch is happy to pay Americans low income. Because they don't need foreign workers if they just pay American politicians to screw American workers out of worker protections, health care, etc: https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/recips.php?id=d000000186

4. Misunderstanding Bernie #2: open borders was brought up in the context of increasing immigration as an opening question. And Bernie said it was a Republican idea / Koch brothers idea because the context in July 2015 was that it is a Boogeyman. It was created as an idea to scare politically conservative people away from the "left" / "Democrats", as a "these crazy Democrats want open borders", not that anyone ever actually proposed as much. How do I know? Because that shit came back again this summer, making the same claims that Dems want open borders, which again had to be put down.

5. The vast majority of illegal immigrant held jobs in the United States are not jobs that Americans want to do. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/illegal-immigrants-us-economy-f...

Maybe the Kochs are different in Texas, but most of what I've seen from them has been pretty consistent with: https://www.sanders.senate.gov/koch-brothers

So yeah, hate the Kochs. Please. They are not good people. But hate them for the right reasons, not because you think they are pro illegal immigration or pro open borders (they aren't).
The US officially adopted the metric system in 1975 with the Metric Conversion Act.
We use the decimal system for imperial units too. Thousands of an inch, millionths of an inch, etc.
Of course, that definition was made to make our current definition of the second continue to work.
A simple scan of the repo's description and the first sentence of the linked article should answer that question. LKL is a library that allows you to do Linux things (read/write linux filesystems) from outside of Linux, essentially re-using the kernel's code. UKL, is an unikernel which essentially allows you to compile an application into a standalone OS that runs it (not sure if that's entirely correct).

Now that I think about it a little more, they're kind of similar but I think unikernels are more of a way to get an application to run on hardware without all the extra bloat of a monolithic kernel (like if you're running a web service on a small virtualized machine) and the LKL is just for re-using Linux code.
ggplot2 is great as a high level plotting library, though as soon as you want to do something slightly different you end up in the rats nest that is grob and ggproto (because 3 OOP systems aren't enough, so let's create an entirely new one just for this library).
I normally give up and tolerate matplotlib instead.
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This kind of thing reminds me why I still love the Internet.

Thank you for sharing.
I mean, that does make sense. Also lowers the learning curve if it's more than superficial.
I've Dell XPS 13 4k display and its perfect for single screen (or if all your screen have same resolution). The only issue is when you are using multiple screen, it wont scale properly, i.e. stuff on one screen would look unproportionally larger or smaller.

Yes you can use `xrandr --scale` or something on particular screen, but it just spins my CPU like crazy and makes fonts blurry. So if I've to use multiple screen, I use only Emacs/Terminal on the weird one (which I spent most time on working) and start chrome with custom scaling factor.
Ah I see, that makes sense, thanks!
Easter egg? Are you trying to suggest that’s not a bug, it’s a feature?
In WWII they leaned on understanding from British occupations across the world. Insurgents were a big issue for the British, and they had started to sort out how to fight a guerrilla war as the empire was collapsing.

I wish I could remember the book I read. It details things like how the one person you had to worry about at a security checkpoint was the person with all their papers in order... I want to say it was Western Africa, or a similar holding that the book centered around.

[edit] All that to say I agree with you. A self-sufficient force seems to be, by nature, multi-talented. [/edit]

[edit2] And the book, which is quite good, is "Small Wars" by a Colonel Callwell. https://www.amazon.com/Small-Wars-Their-Principles-Practice/... [/edit2]
This seems like hyperbole chasing hyperbole.

I mean, if the lines are huge, you don't have to serve all of them, you don't have to run your staff into the ground, and you don't need to run up a debt of sanitation tasks.

If you're too popular for your favourite regulars, you can issue them little cards which get them preferential entry. If you're too popular in general and you're not afraid of scaring away the old guard, raise your prices until the fools go away, if you are afraid of losing the old card, give discounts to card carriers.

If they didn't want to scale this humble bar burger enterprise, they could just not scale it, and not grind their staff to a pulp.
Go walk a job site with a tradesman and youll see why imperial is so useful and natural to them. They walk off long distancrs, use knuckles for small ones and do complex division with ease.
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That's just familiarity though. People in countries that primarily use kilometers have the same intuitions about them.
C.I.A. Concludes That Saudi Crown Prince Ordered Khashoggi Killed
If sleep wasn't very, very important our bodies wouldn't prefer 7-9 hours of sleep each day.

I have a hard time believing long term sleep deprivation doesn't lead to an early death. If lack of sleep makes it harder to stay slim, increases chances of dementia and diabetes well then these issues probably help shorten the life expectancy?

I have a hard time believing this report.
They're globally standard, decimal, and internally consistent. One never needs to wonder how many meters in a kilometer or how many grams in a kilogram. They have some human usable qualities as well; it's convenient that water freezes at 0°C and that a kilogram of water is also a liter.
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