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by cheeseprocedure 5mo ago
This practice was confirmed by Elections Alberta: > Each electoral list legitimately released by Elections Alberta includes a certain number of fictitious — or "seeded" — names. These unique entries on each electoral list allow
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by cheeseprocedure 8mo ago
Yeah, the Canadian telco was Rogers. Total recovery took multiple days. From the Wikipedia writeup: > In a letter to the CRTC, Rogers stated that the deletion of a routing filter on its distribution routers caused all possible routes to
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by cheeseprocedure 3y ago
Datapacket has a number of dedicated server configurations in various locations and offers unmetered connections: https://www.datapacket.com/pricing
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by cheeseprocedure 3y ago
Yes, I registered as an individual (but was reimbursed through my employer's training budget), and did so a few months in advance as the previous session seemed to fill up pretty quickly. It was USD$1500 for the week. I'm keeping
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by cheeseprocedure 3y ago
I was lucky enough to take David Beazley's "Rafting Trip," a five-day training course that guides each student through building their own Raft implementation from scratch: https://www.dabeaz.com/raft.html I&#
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by cheeseprocedure 3y ago
A prior employer shipped a lot of systems based on Lanner and Portwell equipment: https://www.lannerinc.com/products/network-appliances https://portwell.com/products/ca-b.php
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by cheeseprocedure 4y ago
Consul’s autopilot feature makes life a little easier by automatically reaping failed instances: https://developer.hashicorp.com/consul/tutorials/datacenter-... Paired with cloud discovery, it makes for a tolerabl
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by cheeseprocedure 6y ago
You can do this below ground level, but it loses some other useful properties (catching more sunlight, improved drainage, ergonomics). Depending on where you live, one approach may work better than the other.
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by cheeseprocedure 6y ago
The permaculture community emphasizes the concept of “appropriate technology,” which depends on context but generally means “seek simple/low-impact approaches.” If you’re building large low-input beds that could last for a decade or mo
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by cheeseprocedure 6y ago
packagecloud's in-depth writeups on the Linux networking stack are a great read: https://blog.packagecloud.io/eng/2016/06/22/monitoring-tunin... https://blog.packagecloud.io/eng&#x2F
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by cheeseprocedure 7y ago
A recent Canadian example: > The data being broadcast includes the patients name, age, gender marker, diagnosis, their attending doctor and room number. Other broadcasts regarding medical tests such as x-rays are often associated with a
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by cheeseprocedure 7y ago
It’s possible to raise chickens as part of a broader regenerative system where much of the feed is an output from elsewhere in that system. This has been done profitably by folks like Joel Salatin, but it has its own constraints (for exampl
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by cheeseprocedure 8y ago
A surge from a lightning strike near my home travelled over the cable line to kill a network switch and the WAN port on a firewall. (Strangely, the cable modem was spared.) Everything was on a decent UPS... but I’d completely forgotten the
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by cheeseprocedure 8y ago
Another vote for the HiFiBerry. I’ve used their Digi+ board (which includes optical-out) with a Pi3B running Volumio for a couple years and it’s been fantastic.
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by cheeseprocedure 9y ago
Nope - silly assumption on my part.
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by cheeseprocedure 9y ago
Is hundreds of acres of solar an option in South Korea?
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by cheeseprocedure 9y ago
My layperson's understanding of the furnaces producing silicon ingots is that they can't power down in-process; best case, they take weeks to bring back into service, while the worst case is serious damage to the equipment as the
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by cheeseprocedure 9y ago
Was any reasoning made public for this decision? It seems bizarre to have left the *BSD projects in the dark.
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by cheeseprocedure 9y ago
Typical portable water filters do remove bacteria, but not viruses.
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by cheeseprocedure 9y ago
Not yet - keep an eye on their wiki page for Meltdown/Spectre: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam/KnowledgeBase/SpectreAn...
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by cheeseprocedure 9y ago
Ubuntu’s kernel package updates are pending. This Ubuntu Wiki page is being updated with relevant information and package updates as they become available: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam/KnowledgeBase/Spectre
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by cheeseprocedure 9y ago
It’s also worth noting Lambda still lacks a formal SLA.
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by cheeseprocedure 9y ago
I’m a layperson, but these sample sizes seem small. Is this a legitimate concern?
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by cheeseprocedure 9y ago
I didn't realize he wrote this after Hurricane Katrina. He posted a follow-up in 2015: http://whatever.scalzi.com/2015/09/03/being-poor-ten-years-o...
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by cheeseprocedure 9y ago
TIL there's quite a few countries that use the decimal point as a thousands separator: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_mark#Examples_of_use
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by cheeseprocedure 9y ago
Interesting! As much as I loathe the woo around the audiophile industry, I need to learn more about this.
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by cheeseprocedure 9y ago
Due to physical limitations of the medium, mastering the vinyl release of an album is often (usually?) a separate process than mastering the digital version. One of the consequences is less compression/clipping, better dynamic range, e
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by cheeseprocedure 9y ago
Yes, but it's (reasonably) excluded from their threat model: https://github.com/hashicorp/vault/issues/1446#issuecomment-...
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by cheeseprocedure 10y ago
Chances are that every system this script runs on has "mktemp," and trapping exit makes it easy to clean up when things are finished. https://www.mktemp.org/manual.html http://redsymbol.net/article
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by cheeseprocedure 10y ago
Are there public-facing data on the total energy footprint of an Amazon/Google/etc datacenter, including the lifecycle of the hardware hosted there?

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