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>snapshot doesn't provide any protection from a failure in the underlying storage

That depends on how snapshot storage is implemented by the hosting provider. They can use different storage for it, or tapes or whatever. On AWS I can easily have my snapshots on Glacier or copy them to a different data center.
There were some cool gif2ansi progs as well at the time. I had forgotten about TheDraw. Back in the days when modem communications were so slow that you could actually read the characters coming across the screen as they were received. It was like watching a really fast typist. Now entire hi resolution videos stream. Watching my dad download his first gif was revolutionary. An actual picture transmitted! I sound like my grandpa now. Ugg.
Hey Guys sorry for being a philistine about this but does that mean we have lost our domain name and how can we migrate it to another hosting platform? Cheers
How many of those companies are there?
>“But given your access to the MTA map on the MTA website, and the substantial similarities of your map to the MTA map, the only rational conclusion is that your map is based on the MTA Vignelli map.”

>But there is a potentially critical flaw in that logic. The MTA created The Weekender in 2011, two years after Berman created his map, which he uploaded to Wikipedia in 2009.

There needs to be consequences for such blatant fraud and abuse of the DMCA, ridiculous claims like this have gotten so common.
I wish I could choose how my tax dollars are spent. I'd like to avoid contributing to idiotic campaigns like this.

Perhaps some day government will modernize to the point where there's direct democracy and individuals can decide how to vote on policies and spending.
If the drops or any layer of water were staying still you'd probably get some patters, but they don't.
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In the 50s the US held huge stocks of "surplus cheese" that was bought up by the USDA price support programs. When it was close to going bad, it was shipped in large blocks to schools, where it was made into some of the nastiest mac-and-cheese on record. (Not sure whether the mac was made from surplus wheat.)

But government policy makes sense when you consider that a prime objective of government is to ensure an abundance of cheap food to feed the population. Shortages result in rapidly increasing prices, discontent among the poor, and then to demonstrations, riots, and general disorder.

Shortages in production can be widespread and severe. Examples include the Rocky Mountain locust plagues of the 1870s, the 1930s droughts of the Dust Bowl, and the current shortage of pork in China due to Swine Flu. Greening disease is threatening the Florida citrus industry. UG99 stem rust is a threat to wheat.

Therefore, government policy must be to encourage significant overproduction of food in normal times, with the surplus being either exported, eaten, or discarded.
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I don't think they can be placed on the same map.

this is the book https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0763746312/ref=dbs_a_def_r...

My ref book is high up in abstraction and concepts, it expects the reader to see the forest behind the notation tree. Williams' book is almost high school level mindset. It just takes your hand and go through the motions step by step. So that the notation's meaning is all but obvious.

People with confidence and a free view of mathematics are probably capable of bridging the gaps in the ref book style. But if you're not in that mood you'll drown.
Do you have any evidence for this? Can you point to any nuclear plant in the US (or anywhere else) that closed prematurely due to new regulations? I bet you can't.

As for South Korea... I'll just quote Wikipedia here.

"In 2012 South Korea had plans for significant expansion of its nuclear power industry, and to increase nuclear's share of generation to 60% by 2035.[2] Eleven more reactors were scheduled to come online in the period 2012 to 2021, adding 13.8 GWe in total.[3] However, in 2013 the government submitted a reduced draft plan to parliament for nuclear output of up to 29% of generation capacity by 2035, following several scandals related to falsification of safety documentation.[1] This new plan still involved increasing 2035 nuclear capacity by 7 GWe, to 43 GWe.[4] Responding to widespread public concerns after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in Japan, the high earthquake risk in South Korea, and the nuclear scandals, the new government of President Moon Jae-in elected in 2017 decided to gradually phase out nuclear power. The three reactors currently under construction will be completed, but the government has decided these will be the last built, and as the existing plants close at a 40 years end-of-life they will be replaced with other modes of generation."
How about starting with something simple, like a fibonacci sequence calculation?

More examples:

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/
That’s like saying high speed driving is balanced by roads being bendy because bendy roads force you to slow down or die.

And if you want to make that argument, you’re now arguing my point for me ;)

(My stance is that that doesn’t count as balanced. We can still figure out how to drive faster than the fastest land mammal).
Impressive. But it makes me think how far we've come; it's long been possible to do a rotating cube with video using pure HTML and CSS.
I never understand why these agencies hold such tight control over their maps and schedules. I remember there was another case where (I think San Francisco but I am not sure) they blocked an app because they asserted copyright over their schedule. Instead they should embrace and encourage anybody who helps getting them a bigger audience. In general government data should be public domain.
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For domain registrations I use a mix of Namecheap, Cloudflare, GoDaddy and Name.com, and haven’t had issues with any of them.

Gandi is the only domain registrar I’ve had an issue with.
There's a lot of space out there. We're all living on a speck of dust
If it runs Android why can't you install the Amazon Kindle app?
I had an incident similar to this with linode, which is why I use and recommend Digital Ocean nowadays.

My machine going away because you had hardware issues isn't my problem, and I'll spend my money on a more competent company.
> any modifications to that code would need to be released again publicly.

Technically, that is incompatible with the AGPL (and the GPL, for that matter). Private modifications without distribution are permitted by the GPL/AGPL, and if you don’t allow them, you are violating the GPL/AGPL license by adding this additional restriction.

Of course, this might not be a problem, for two reasons: Firstly, you might be the sole copyright holder, in which case you don’t need a license (it is instead you who give licenses to others), and secondly, for a SaaS product, any public use by a third party will make the AGPL kick in and require, from the third party, a release of the modified source.

> Also, any significant fork's code will be open source and we can reincorporate that into the original SaaS service as well.

Sure, but you will then no longer be the sole copyright holder, in which case you do need to adhere to the AGPL license terms, and you can’t require release of any modifications (except when the AGPL requires it; i.e. when the software is available publicly). Also, you can’t then release this code under a proprietary license, which you say is your plan.

Note: If you’re OK with the release of modifications which AGPL requires, then everything is fine. It’s only if you insist on the release of all private modifications that you could run into trouble.
And the tradition still continues to this day:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/104...

> Russia used complimentary 'Trojan horse' pen drives to spy on delegates at G20 summit, it has been reported

> Delegations also received mobile phone recharging devices which were also reportedly capable of secretly tapping into emails, text messages and telephone calls.
CGP gray's videos on YouTube are maybe the most concise and fun to watch materials I've seen on the subject.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C25qzDhGLx8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZYNADOHhVY

And you'll be surprised how many people _are_ indeed thinking about all of the outcomes. Have in mind though that as with any technology it is not good or bad, and if it is possible someone will do it sooner or later.

It makes no sense to not do it as your adversaries will, and then they'll dictate how it is used, probably not to your liking. If you develop it first you can talk and deliberate at your leisure and find solutions that look much better to you and yours.
> All people don't have the same boundaries.

Of course, but that's precisely why that implied negotiation is so important - far more perhaps than most people might realize. It's never okay to "move after" people who are clearly trying to keep their distance; that's creepy, almost predatory behavior. I don't care if it's Joe Biden doing it or just someone in your high school.
Really awesome project! The walkthrough was extremely well put together. This should be used for software architecture presentations and webinars - really helps showcase how everything fits together while minimising the overload of information. Well done! For projects, like any documentation, the only problem with anything like this is how much effort does it take for the diagram to stay up-to-date and relevant in a project with ongoing development.
Loaded basically instantly for me.

Facebook, on the other hand, often takes nearly a minute for the UI to be fully rendered.
No I don't think it's a good reason to do such an invasive search.

Though I also don't think they should just drop the investigation if they have evidence there was a real crime committed (the false police report). I sure don't know anyone who committed a felony, got busted, but then was allowed to just walk away because it was a hassle to prosecute them. As for the effort, I'm sure they have some digital forensics tool that will search anything for them these days. Probably just one case among many that one person is working on at this point.
> 1,500 separate repositories?! That sounds way overkill. I wonder if they'd benefit from having a monorepo.

No it doesn't. Github has at least 20 million public repositories. Would they benefit by combining them into a monorepo?
For my upcoming saas I wanted to do something similar...

-Paid hosted saas solution

-Freely downloadable to use and install for your own projects

...I want people to be allowed to make money with it even if they freely download it, but I just don't want them to be able to compete with my hosted saas.

I'm not quite sure that this is what the BSL is saying, so is there a license for something like that?
It's 4:3! 1600×1200, 285.80mm (W) × 213.65mm (H). I keep looking for 4:3 non-CRT displays; what a pleasant surprise.
Well, here’s another one - this is easily one of the most useful cli tools that I’ve installed in a very long time. This is amazing work!
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I love how everyone blames Microsoft for what was OEMs doing a race to the bottom.

OEMs had an option, yes they would had to pay more for licenses, but no one pointed them a gun, or did visits mafia style to forbid them to sell other systems.
The bandwidth between the CPU and the DIMM (and any overhead from ser/des narrowing in the physical signalling layer used to connect the two) is only a constraint if the DIMMs are, to put it in a funny way, RISC—if you have to send them a stream of low-level retrieval requests to describe a high-level piece of state you’d like to know. Which does describe most modern DIMMs, but not all of them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content-addressable_memory (CAM), as used in network switches, isn’t under the same constraints as regular RAM. The requests you make to CAM are CISC—effectively search queries—putting the whole memory-cell array to work at 100% utilization on each bus cycle.

But even CAM is still slower than the CPU. Even when it’s on the same SoC package as the CPU, it’s still clocked in such a way that it takes multiple CPU cycles to answer a query. So, at least in this case, bus bandwidth is not “the” constraint.
> It's indeed hard to articulate the problems but that’s because I've only done isolated toe-dipping for a while now, not because I don’t understand something

Exactly. I don't think your proficiency as a developer is in question, the issue is that your approach is backwards. You're searching for a reason to justify why you should use these tools, rather than trying to build a piece of software with specific requirements and then determining which tools facilitate that goal.

> JS could still use shortcuts during development, a la the Parcel tool, and turn that into an universal approach in all of its ecosystem

The ecosystem already represents millions of developer hours distilled into "shortcuts" that allow developers to achieve capabilities that are very impractical without those tools. The idea of a "universal approach" in open-source makes no sense, people use the tools that best solve the problems they encounter, there will never be a one-size fits all solution, you have to understand the problem you're facing in order to pick the correct tool for the job.
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>there is simply more retail-zoned space than is necessary in the delivery age

Although higher-end malls in growing cities are mostly doing pretty well, there's certainly no reason to think that urban retail in general should be immune from at least some of the same forces that help create the "dead mall" phenomenon.

I was walking through Cambridge yesterday for the first time in a while. In addition to a non-trivial number of empty storefronts my sense was that there was at least a bit of a shift away from retail and towards trendy-looking restaurants.
Wisconsin considers it a word.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of...
Ah cool! So you have practical experience - how’s that all going then? The biggest Dasung I saw on my quick search was ~13”, and very expensive; do you feel like yours was a worthwhile experience?
Remember when the Amiga bouncing ball demo was impressive? Ironically 3D graphics ended up being the Amiga's specific achilles heel once Doom and co came on the scene.
> In 1990, Jean-Louis Gassée, who replaced Jobs in Apple as the head of Macintosh development, was also fired from the company. He then also formed his own computer company with the help of another ex-Apple employee, Steve Sakoman. They called it Be Inc, and their goal was to create a more modern operating system from scratch based on the object-oriented design of C++, using proprietary hardware that could allow for greater media capabilities unseen in personal computers at the time.

Even IBM with OS/2 couldn't surmount the juggernaut network effect of Windows. By 1990, this was apparent to many. It's odd that Gassée and company thought they could succeed where IBM had failed.
Funny, the same thing happens to my cats if I leave dry food out for them versus feeding them wet food at morning and night.
OSBP is very solid stuff and built with a neat architecture. You can reap real facilitation, but what is most important, you can do it without taking the risk of running into dead ends. The platform is designed to combine no code, low code and traditional coding.

And it‘s open source and for free. (There is also a professionally maintained version called OS.bee that includes more no-code tools. Worth a look.)
San Francisco has nearly five empty homes per homeless resident
Then they might be liable for mistakes. Also, if they don't protect their trademark, trademark law says they could lose it.
Why didn't the modem makers pick this up in the debugging phase of the manufacturing process. They do have such a department?
Re myself, it looks like they're using FreeBSD-based ZFS filers with iSCSI/NFS exports using a user-spce NFS server:

* https://news.gandi.net/en/2019/09/exporters-detect-micro-inc...

> Gandi’s storage infrastructure consists of two environments: one for IaaS and one for PaaS. Both are based on FreeBSD-based storage units (filers), that stock each volume (disk) as though it were a ZFS volume.

* https://news.gandi.net/en/2019/03/tracking-a-storage-issue-l...

* https://www.bsdcan.org/2016/schedule/attachments/351_FreeBSD...

No mention of what they're doing for backups / "replication systems", unsurprisingly/unfortunately. I'm anxious to know what the failure mode for `zfs send | zfs receive` replication is here?
Discussions with comments in the last year:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20390560

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19104734
There's a twitter account for that https://twitter.com/justsaysinmice/status/121489166821166694...
I wouldn't go as far as saying it has "NO future". I think we are seeing a correction right now. From an over-reliance on animal agriculture and hopefully start transitioning to a more balanced relationship with animal agriculture.
There's a fantastic podcast called the Snow Plow Show that has nothing to do with this.
The DMCA was designed in an era where the web was more of an actual distributed web, where a "subreddit" was once known as an individual "forum" that had its own server run by the actual forum admin. In an age where web communication is centralized, the DMCA totally sucks.
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I had the exact same experience on Digital Ocean. Attempted to resize a VPS, the process got stuck for eternity, and support tells me all data is lost.

Always have your own offsite backups.
Perhaps they are part of one team in a larger org, perhaps the org has terrible asset management, perhaps "systems" means "applications" that can be counted different ways and this post wasn't a report to the CIO.
That's part of my point, of course - that material resources are clearly important when you're talking about someone who's truly in extreme poverty, but it's not clear whether going beyond this point matters that much more than, say, better social inclusion etc.
That’s a question for the maker of the video who thought it was worth differentiating.
Its usually a good idea to hold the lock because the other thread(s) might not have called wait() yet.

As a rule of thumb: its usually a bug to not hold the lock before notify(), unless you synchronize it with another condition
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You know, the most ironic thing about all this is that Henry George invented Georgism in... San Francisco: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_George#Political_and_eco... The more things change, the more they stay the same.
The MTA is a government org, how can it even own the copy right to ‘its’ map?
Not always an option. For instance, I use Linode’s backup service and it can only back up to the same data center (although it is said to live on a separate system).
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I'm willing to bet this is a PR attempt showing something along of the lines of "look, we protect your data by firing the people that look at your videos!"

Which is absolute nonsense if this is their data protection policy. They'll only ever catch maybe 5% of the people doing it. This is also likely meant to hide the fact that their Ring security is extremely porous and they may want to keep it like that because that may also be how law enforcement gets access to those videos right now. Changing this may mean disrupting the police's access to them for a while.

https://www.wired.com/story/ces-2020-amazon-defends-ring-pol...

Combine this with all the security issues AWS buckets have had, along with employees also accessing Alexa recordings, and it's almost starting to look like Amazon doesn't care all that much about securing your data...
This is so true. I've sat at tables in Redmond where they've managed to get their competition to take turns explaining what is and is not working for their products.
Yeah, good point. Thanks for the reminder.
Conservation of momentum, I think
It'd be business suicide to charge more just so they could offer an obscure OS as an option; in my mind, this is the kind of clear anticompetitive situation it'd be good to use the law to avoid. Instead the DOJ went after MS for bundling a web browser. So dumb.
It can be, it just doesn't have to be

Let's say a typical admin of a small shop wants to backup his postgres database.

The first thing he'll use is probably pg_dumpall which he'll output to a storage.

No replication involved. The backup is just a bunch of sql statements to recover the last known state of the database. It's a different kind of format however, which -by definition- isn't a replica anymore.

(And this process has several caveat's-one of which is that it can produce unusable dumps in some rare cases and isn't complete. users, triggers etc aren't dumped iirc.. could be wrong there)
Something I've come to value increasingly more and more in art is its canonicity. Beyond a certain quality threshold, I find that through sufficient exposure, I can train myself to appreciate and enjoy any art. For example, the first time I listened to Bach's organ works, I didn't like it much, because I had so little exposure to organ music. But after continuing to listen, eventually I got it and now I deeply appreciate Bach's organ works.

Beyond a certain threshold, art quality stops mattering as much as exposure. And beyond any shadow of a doubt, the amount of art past this threshold is already much more than anyone can expose themselves to in a lifetime. Given all this, it follows naturally that one should choose art based on other criteria, like how much it has driven history, or who you can discuss it with at a dinner party. In short: its canonicity.

Any artwork churned out by machine is non-canonical almost by definition. Even if it turns out to be "good" (whatever that means), the fact that it can be churned out en masse means any particular piece of it has zero cultural value. Maybe with exceptions for e.g. the absolute very first piece that gets broadcast live (like a "Beatles on Ed Sullivan" moment). Certainly you would never find someone else at a dinner party who would say, "Oh, yes, I too enjoy Microsoft's Still Life #565343598753. What do you think of the way the computer did the clouds in that?"
> They could shape elections by their choosing

You are basically asking for the government to break you up if you do that. The only reason the giant tech companies are allowed to exist in such powerful positions is because they act as mostly objective third parties.
Wow. I've never used Gandi but I have seen it recommended before as a low-cost option. I will actively encourage people to avoid it from now on. That's scary.
Seconded! In search of stupidity is a huge amount of fun. It can be a little mean-spirited/bitter at times, but it felt like a "Computer Chronicles: After Dark" kinda thing.
IBM also didn't quite know what to do with OS/2 and how to sell it.

Maybe Microsoft's ties to the PC industry would have killed it anyway but IBM was kinda lost on what it meant to sell an OS to consumers.
Man the amount of opinions and misinformation in this thread is staggering.
How is this even possible?
They literally use the word "backup." I wouldn't _normally_ expect snapshots to function as backups, but once they market them as such, I do. Yeah, sure, it's probably yet another case of a sales team getting over eager and taking over the company, but that's why if you value your ethics _at all_ you keep tabs on WTF the sales are doing.
Uncharitable, yes, but doesn't that item strike you as weirdly out of place?

I mean, even in this list.
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