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I run a small website with 5000 unique users per month (.net core, server side rendered). It's hosted on an old Banana Pi with 1GB RAM, no ups, via my home internet connection (but with Cloudflare as a proxy).

The site doesn't go down very often TBO.
- Power shortages: happens 3x per year for 20 minutes or so. The server boots up automatically after that.
- DDOS: I have cloudflare. I have the server under monitoring. I have Mikrotik router.
- Hijacking: I use a Mikrotik router on the edge which has a pretty solid firewall (+ Cloudflare). It's good to have something like that in your household regardless of your web hosting needs. It’s just a matter of paying some attention to your own internet security.
- Active maintenance: I don't do that, lol.

It's so simple to setup all of that (server, linux, docker, cloudflare, firewall), that I think everyone should at least try. And it's fun, not an obligation.

I plan to increase the amount of services I'm going to host myself in the future.
You can't go wrong choosing freedom.

Said that, I understant the hesitation someone might have when dealign with the problem for the first time. My point is that it’s worth to take that step.

PS: the overall availability of the service is good enough on my setup to not be penalized by Google's SEO platform (that's a thing if you have persistent hosting issues).
The main message here is not "you have to/absolutely should wait 8 weeks". The main point is "countries that did stretch the schedule compared to what was in the initial studies probably didn't make a massive mistake by doing so" (EDIT: and of course it's a press release for a single study, not an official policy announcement)
Feature, I'd say. Volume Shadow Copies are used to make consistent online backups of an NTFS file system. I don't think non-admin users are normally able to make them in the first place, and if admin is required, it's hard to see the fuss.
Spending the money they earned by exploiting their workers. You don't acquire billions unless it's at the expense of many. Amazon workers are treated and paid like garbage so that Bezos can go fly in space. At the very least that money should go back towards the people on whose backs he built his empire. Of course, Bezos is not completely to blame here. The system in place here allows men like him to continually accrue wealth. But that doesn't mean that it is morally right. Hell, even the Carnegies and Rockefellers ended up donating a huge amount of money to the arts to try to clean up their reputations as capitalist monsters.
>Yeah, it was the only way to remove defender

Why not just disable it using group policy?
Sure, and I would agree with you here.

These are the kinds of categorizations that people can go nuts over. Rather than get too hung up on words I'd say that whatever this is, it can effectively be represented by a filesystem and therefore it should be as a matter of general architecture and security principle.
>I don't think non-admin users are normally able to make them in the first place, and if admin is required, it's hard to see the fuss.

shadow copies are automatically created as part of system protection (enabled by default).
That isn't really true.
There is a contact us on the bottom of the features section by "get it". Or you can just email me at larry@cloudsidecar.com. The enterprise version has some really interesting features, such as bridging redshift and bigquery.
Exactly--who would think that? It's so stupid: it's like saying give me some e-paper and someone pretending to interpret it as he wants a paper with an e on it. I thought this was fascinating. give me a lawyer dog is clearly a request for a lawyer. It's not ambiguous at all.
This is of course exactly what was expected, and why First Dose First was so clearly the right strategy until countries had plenty of supply. Good for the UK recognizing this early. The US hasn't.
As an experiment, would you try the link in a private window?

I had trouble with Axios links going to completely different articles a while ago, and an Axios support person suggested that I tried a private window. It worked for me.

The problem I'd been having went away about a week ago, but perhaps some glitches remain. Anyhow, if the problem persists, I'd encourage you to email Axios. Not only did I get a reply within a couple of hours, which included the helpful workaround suggestion, but I also received another email the next day to say that others had reported similar issues and that Axios was on the case. I was pretty impressed.
The idea that Norway would not starve if she gave up on the oil exports is quite something.

Edit: deleted a bunch of hyperbole
I think everyone is in agreement it's bad, as I said:

> Most of the actual technical issues you list have more to do with it being extended for the last 30 years in a backwards compatible way than anything to do with it being a hierarchical db instead of a filesystem.

My first line about it being a database was about point 7 in the same link:

> Back to point 1, the Registry is a half-assed, poor quality implementation of a filesystem. Importantly, it’s not a database. It should be a database!

With "not a database" in bold.
A box with an i5-4570 or similar and 8GB of RAM costs about $80 to buy, and uses ~25W or around $25-30 a year in power. A comparable VPS or Dedicated box is easily 10x the cost.

I think people see those ridiculous rack-mount servers some people run at home that suck down 300+ watts and assume that's just normal!

I went for even lower power usage, with an i3-7100u box that uses about 2W most of the day and cost $75 plus some extra RAM.
It’s a financing thing. You can pretend a building is worth more if the asking rent is high but the unit is empty vs if the unit is full for a lower rate
Finding issues with Python is the default result for that query, regardless of your user preferences. Finding things about insects and snakes in the wilderness would actually be an example of personal results giving you what you want. Computer related stuff tend to have a stronger online presence than other subjects for obvious reasons.
> The trap I often fall into

That seems the right way to do it, though—buy cheap because you don’t know if you’ll need the good version (and because you don’t yet know enough to distinguish what you want out of an expensive tool)… and if you stick with it, you buy good tools, and if not you’re only out a fraction of the cost. The hardware equivalent of “build one to throw away”.
I look for the simplest, least expensive thing that will do an acceptable job with minimal sweat-equity. All of those boxes have to be checked to some degree for consideration...
I believe the author meant "logic mistakes". I agree the current wording is confusing.
Just to share for readers, what are your personal RAM/CPU/disk usage measurements? The instance I use is shared with a small group so my numbers above may be skewed.
Depleting the aquifers doesn't benefit society. The minor value gained from exports doesn't weigh up that.

Of course we need farmers, but we don't need farmers who do that.
Cheap products an often be as good or even better than so called expensive products. A lot of times manufacturers will sell the same exact profit multiple prices at varying trim levels with just minor differences in features. For example dishwashers. Our dishwasher broke and we had to buy a “high end one” because the wait time for all the base models “the cheap ones” was over several months. Anyways I quickly realized the high end ones were no better than the base model with only a few minor features you never notice anyway.
+1 exactly right. If we had to pay the real cost of beef, there would be much less eaten. The amount the the US taxpayer gives each year to the beef industry is staggering. Down with beef industry socialism - make them compete on the open market.
You see this in effect in threads about the price of Apple products. People complain about people complaining about a new smartphone being 1200$, saying it's so reasonably priced and they don't understand the complaints. You would see fewer comments like that in a forum not dominated by software developers.
> What CVEs aren't due to programming mistakes?

Shellshock would be a good candidate: Bash is designed to be able to pass around some amount of shell scripting in environment variables, which obviously leads to some pretty severe security issues if attackers can control environment variables (say, CGI scripts). So you can argue that the problem here is a design mistake rather than a programming mistake.
It’s easy to safely dispose of this stuff, there simply isn’t enough of an incentive to do so. Sure lead and mercury for example are toxic, but they where toxic sitting in the ground before we extracted them in the first place.
I recently had to hand-over a ton of data for a police investigation. The data had to come from off-site backups, I had to write manual SQL queries because of unique data requests that required cross references. All in all a lot of work that would be hard and time consuming to get if they bypassed me and accessed the raw data from my VPS provider. It would have saved me a ton of time though had they bypassed me.
I'm actually with the author that if it were going to be rewritten a freshly written columnar database would be way more efficient than representing it as a filesystem but that either would be better than what we have after 30 years. I just don't think "it wasn't a filesystem originally" has much to do with why it's so crap now. Similar case: posix specifies network sockets be accessed as files/filesystems (as most everything in posix is) but nobody actually used that representation because it's inefficient even though it's the standard and easily mappable to files/filesystems. Well I think Solaris actually allows both but the point stands.
And I’m saying that’s also debatable. An anecdote, I can get blazed to high heaven and still perform my complex job duties with little difference in performance. I’ve won multiple trivia competitions while actively vaping marijuana. I took my driving test after ripping a bong. “Some” people may be dumber, but not all.
Your comparison seems a bit lopsided:

You mention some social support system, but seem to be assuming that it has to be organised at town level? You also mention unemployment insurance, which you seem to be implying is organised at some wider geographic level?

If you change your comparison to systems with the same geographic support area, the difference you point out would vanish, or not?

To be clear: geographic diversification is good! That's why eg the long standing US bans on branch banking were so bad for their financial system. (And why Canada whose banks had branches in all corners of the nation had a much more stable system.)

But that's besides the point. The point was that paying people to be unemployed is, on the margin, giving them on incentive to stay unemployed.

As one alternative, if you pay people a universal basic income, you have less of these bad incentives. But you also have a much higher cost to the overall system.

Designing a good system is hard and full of trade-offs.

The question about how much employers contribute to some unemployment insurance vs how much employees contribute, and how much each of them _should_ contribute is also an interesting one. But independent of our main discussion.

From an economic point of view, who contributes doesn't make too much of a difference in the long run: employers care about total cost of employment, employees care about total benefits of employment.

There's however one benefit to having an employer contribution to things like social security (or equivalents). And the government of Singapore often employs this tool:

In a recession, one reason unemployment goes up is because the market clearing wage drops faster than actual wages paid. That's called 'stick wages'. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominal_rigidity

In Singapore, when unemployment threatens to go up, our government cuts the employer contributions to our version of social security. Effectively giving everyone a wage cut.

When times get better, they raise the employer contributions back up.

(That's similar in effect to how a temporary burst of inflation can help employment numbers: because wages are relatively slow to adjust, an unexpected bout of inflation drop real wages in the short run.)
I feel that the usage of terms like “heat dome” and “polar vortex” obscure or distract from the human-centric causes of climate change. Lazy reasoning stops at these boogeyman terms. Welcome someone more familiar with linguistics to opine.
I don't think it was an "if", there is speculation that the mark is reference to Nero [0]. If true this means it wasn't a guess about the future but a commentary on current day events.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_of_the_beast#Nero
I'm saying that there's no reliable data to establish how those variables impacted the final results. The correction factors are mostly just guesswork. Signal to noise ratio is low.

Basically this is junk science. The only proper way to do such a study would be to compare the same subjects before and after infection. With so many cases such a study should be feasible.
Opt out instead of opt in.

Opt out next to impossible.
>Maybe you need to live that time to realize how pathetic today's technology landscape is.

Okay, I'm a fan of the Amiga, but this is just too far. Today's computers are "pathetic"? I remember playing with an A500 when I was really young and didn't really know anything other than a few games. I really got into Amiga with the A2000 solely based the Newtek's Video Toaster. Then, computers became all about video for me since. The things we can do now in real-time with video blows an Amiga out of the water. Toaster was all about SD video. We now do more things in real-time with 4K videos.

Your comments act like the rest of the computing world is at a stand still compared to the Amiga of yore.
I want to believe this, however, as far as I can tell, the design finds a correlation between severity of covid and IQ. One other possible explanation is that healthy immune system correlates both with lesser covid symptoms and higher IQ (less inflammation/whatever).

As another comment has mentioned, the best way to try to measure for this would be to have a pre-post, which could only be done on those who hadn't had it yet at the time of the first test but then later got at. Since vaccines are now a factor, and may correlate to intelligence, the study may not be possible in an ethical manner.
Norway is a tiny country, they are largely irrelevant as far as their consumption habits go regarding climate change at large. They are not even a particularly large exporter of oil, outside of top 10 I think.

The other countries mentioned are much bigger, not to mention that Nigeria is going to see massive population growth this century. You don't want a country that's projected to have 800 million people to get addicted to fossil fuels.

The main point of the article is right of course, the way it's communicated is terrible.
I can't remember the name now, but I picked up a flyer for a place just like this based in Amsterdam at fosdem once.

It was very reasonably priced, you were able to have physical access and is more of an enthusiast club than a business.

Seriously considered it, but I don't live in Amsterdam and they recommended being able to speak Dutch to participate properly.
He was a sexist, accusing him of some inane bias isn't going to change the fact that the man was a sexist
They note though that the follow up population that had caught covid after testing didn't differ significantly from those that didn't.

That seems to add credibility here to a causal mechanism as opposed to a background correlation of risk of infection they are missing.
You should reconsider your "until you stop" qualification: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kindling_(sedative%E2%80%93hyp...
My VPS shuts down and I get an email at 95% usage I think, I can turn it back on if needed and pay for more bandwidth.
I agree, it always comes down to how much the buyer cares about anything other than the price paid.

Markets/companies care about whatever their customers care, and the way customers vote/express themselves is with their dollars.

We can talk all we want about how wrong this is or not, but that doesn't change the underlying reality.
This kinda make it sound like everyone have time, money and know how to setup, host, secure and maintain all this stuff ... Is it important yeah absolutely, is convenience important ? also yes ... Which is more important, well choose your own adventure!
> if you want to lock-in prices for more than 1-10 years, buy.

Many people who are tenants are tenants precisely because they can't afford to do that when speculators have manipulated market forces to artificially drive up the prices.
If that's true, that's another reason to not believe in US army engagement into that topic. Some of the released videos are easy to debunk (like the "pyramid ufo" which in reality is bokeh effect as proven by Mick West https://www.youtube.com/c/MickWest/videos and others) and are still being considered as unexplained by US army or whoever did this recent UFO report.
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Until a few weeks ago the minimum wait was 12 weeks! Data on rates here: https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/vaccinations
There are apps on the market that kind of do that. They are in various stages of development, but most of them aren't really going anywhere. I believe the approach is fundamentally wrong, as it focuses on the low-hanging fruit of the problem of teaching people language.

We're the only company that makes the VR a part of an existing program of instruction, with instructors. All the other apps are self-driven, which doesn't really work for the vast majority of people. We are also the only app not leaning on speech-recognition, which also doesn't really work for language training (too many false-positives and false-negatives).
I want an AI browser plugin just for recipe sites called GTTP (Get To The Point).

Probably could build it with regex, actually.
live in a large metropolis and be a social butterfly, or be a social climber.
This article is so quick to blame a national government when the problem is squarely on oil and gas companies. It's not like the oil and gas industries haven't lobbied for decades to cover up climate change evidence so that the world would remain dependent on them. They are the ones who ensure that the biggest polluting nations enact any kind of significant climate change reform.
That's complex decision-making under conditions of uncertainty for you. The authorities themselves are partly to blame for not being totally clear that they're human and figuring this out on the fly like everyone else, but the general population is also to blame for acting like a bunch of spoiled children and feeling entitled to perfect answers and zero mistakes.
Could you elaborate?

According to Wikipedia Zakat is basically a tax on wealth (not income!); the funds are supposed to go to various needy / worthy people, but it doesn't mention anything about unemployment.

Anything I'm missing that you want to point out?
Why would Norway starve without oil exports? Surely they would figure something else out, its neighbors are not sustained on oil exports so why wouldn't Norway be able to too?
It’s unethical to gamble your citizenry on untested medical interventions regardless of outcome. There was enough time to sponsor a trial.
This is a little tidier:

https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&editio...

UnsafeSlice is a terrible idea, but let us at least give it the normal ergonomics of a wrapper type so we can say UnsafeSlice(&mut a) rather than needing curly braces to make one :)
In general I find I'm productive in Rust; however, I do agree that there are some features that produce more confusion and debugging than others. For me it seems to be async and dynamic dispatch that are tricky.
What is the relation to

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cudatext-qt5-bin/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cudatext-gtk2-bin/

that is sold as “Cross-platform text editor, written in Lazarus”, but links to an entirely different URL?
Ahh - that helps
Also there is something to go on about passively encouraging remaining oil dependent but opium wars just doesn't compare.
Freepascal is similar to C++ in that it requires the programmer to allocate and deallocate memory if you are using pointer objects.
How do you consider Blackrock and Vanguard similar?
Can you share a bit more about your autoimmune disease?

What disease was it? What kind of medications have helped you?

I'm suffering from some kind of autoimmune-like disease with similar symptoms and trying to figure out what's wrong with me.
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Reduction in production has to follow reduction in demand. Or as an agreement between all major producers. If Norway was to unilaterally stop production today, the slack would be filled by russian gas.
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I think the debate is over whether the SAT is as objective as we all want it to be. I'm sympathetic to the argument that rich kids with tutors have an advantage, but I personally don't think the solution is to drop it entirely.
The comparison to the East India Company is a bit of stretch to say the least, but it certainly seems hypocritical to continue to push fossil fuels internationally while eschewing them domestically.

If Norway really cared deeply about climate change, they could halt fossil extraction, raising prices globally, thus reducing demand, and encouraging migration to alternatives.
Meaning of Rutherford's 'All science is either physics or stamp collecting'
Norway has one of the most profitable sovereign fund in the world - valued at over $1.3 trillion

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_wealth_fund#Largest_...
well this post aged well

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22420885
Norway is perhaps the best run petro state in the history of the world. To avoid Dutch Disease, whereby an economy becomes dependent on a particular commodity, Norway long ago decided to invest its considerable oil wealth in assets located outside of Norway, building a massive sovereign wealth fund that will provide income to Norwegians long after the oil is all gone.

Compare this situation to Nigeria, whose similarly massive oil wealth is corruptly consumed and distributed within Nigeria, leading to massive disparities in wealth and no long term savings to provide for its citizens.

Someone has to produce oil and gas. It might as well be the Norwegians.
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Yup, tylr is a minimal prototype, ala Hazelnut, intended to be adapted and integrated into Hazel (happening now!)
Yeah it’s great I always just buy a cheap $20 fan at the beginning of summer and then once it starts to get cold I just throw it in the ocean.
The United States is the world's largest producer. Canada is about fourth. Norway is about 11th. The United Kingdom is about 17th.

The "Western world" accounts for a bit over 25% of the world's total production.

If they all banded together to stop domestic oil production, that could have a big impact. But maybe other countries would just increase production? And maybe higher prices would spur more exploration?

I don't think Western countries turning off the pipe is going to reduce oil consumption as much as climate experts think is necessary.

Maybe banning or heavily taxing both production and consumption would create enough advances in e.g. electric vehicles that it would help the whole world move faster?
I'm familiar with individual states within the U.S. having state-recognized dishes, fruits, flowers, etc; but I've never thought of the country having them. Interesting.
Agreed! It just generates double the waste.

Décathlon worldwide makes it convenient, but wasteful.