opsunit

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by opsunit 4y ago
I've often wondered how others get the multiplication tables to stick. When I was in school and tasked with learning and being tested on them I remembered them - just about - for long enough to be tested (primarily from a quick reminde
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by opsunit 4y ago
I do the dots thing too. I've never heard anybody else describe it and, to be honest, it's quite comforting to hear I'm not the only one. In fact I don't just imagine dots, I imagine die faces. This obviously gets proble
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by opsunit 4y ago
> We start by finding a number that forms a perfect square that is close to 33. Here, let’s pick g=6, since 6^2=36. As somebody who is numerically essentially blind I'm not only incredibly jealous and in awe of most of the comments
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by opsunit 4y ago
They bought and then shuttered Slicehost in an attempt to occupy that market segment.
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by opsunit 4y ago
Estonia beg to differ: https://e-estonia.com
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by opsunit 5y ago
https://runson.cloud and the associated Chrome extension
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by opsunit 5y ago
On the same topic, this is an excellent read: https://www.wired.com/2008/02/ff-seacowboys/
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by opsunit 6y ago
If you are unsure of the tenancy of any given site https://runson.cloud may be of some help.
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by opsunit 6y ago
Having worked on the PL/1 and Assembler that formed the core accounting systems of a bank: yes. Not only did I have source control I had flow diagrams of the entire system for all points in the chain. My code reviews had me doing line-
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by opsunit 6y ago
An availability zone (AZ) in AWS eu-west-2 was flooded by a fire protection system going off within the last year. It absolutely did affect workloads in that AZ. That shouldn't have had a large impact on their customers since AWS promo
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by opsunit 6y ago
render.com
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by opsunit 6y ago
I did a lot of the work to get sub-second timestamps working within the fluentd+ElasticSearch ecosystem and the thing is a tire fire.
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by opsunit 6y ago
I built https://runson.cloud to help you identify which Cloud or CDN a site runs on in the first place.
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by opsunit 6y ago
Wavefront brings a number of things to the table that aren't core competencies we wish to maintain in-house. I know it can scale to massive volumes without interaction from us. I know it'll be available when our infrastructure isn
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by opsunit 6y ago
Why should I run this instead of renewing my Wavefront contract?
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Show HN: Runson.cloud(runson.cloud)
3 points by opsunit 6y ago|1 comments
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by opsunit 6y ago
A query interface to the public IP address manifests published by the larger Cloud providers and CDNs https://runson.cloud/
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by opsunit 6y ago
It is interesting to note that elastic.co is hosted on Google Cloud: https://runson.cloud/search/elastic.co
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by opsunit 6y ago
I have a tool that makes parsing that file easier for some query types: https://github.com/sampointer/digaws
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by opsunit 6y ago
Mobile game development is heavily biased around Mono across Android. It is perhaps the biggest existing proving ground of the architecture independence of C#.
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by opsunit 6y ago
I've worked on zSeries machines running S/360 binaries from the early 70s. It is one of the primary reasons banking and related sectors that are heavily regulated stick with such platforms for core accounting. The single whole-ban
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by opsunit 6y ago
As a counterpoint, the suspected murderer of Abigail Williams and Liberty German in Delphi ("The Delphi Murders") was captured on video by his victims[1] and remains at large three years later. [1]: https://www.youtube.
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by opsunit 6y ago
This isn't in any way a criticism, but I found it really amusing that your post contained almost exactly the error you were describing ("hat") before correction.
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by opsunit 6y ago
Britney Spears = Beers. Brad Pitt = Shit. "Get the Britneys in, I'll be back in a minute - I'm off for quick Brad".
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by opsunit 6y ago
I had both experiences and found neither valuable. I am in awe of anybody who can learn a foreign language full-stop. My French teacher fully explained the grammar most of which passed me by since, certainly in my case, one doesn't rea
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by opsunit 6y ago
Same experience, same outcome. "They" attempted to teach me both French and German and in both cases I quite literally had no idea what was going on. A* pupil in English and English Literature. I am sure it is different today but
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by opsunit 6y ago
2x the line item cost but generally much cheaper in terms of Total Cost of Ownership.
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by opsunit 7y ago
Or goalposts.
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by opsunit 7y ago
If that is true and they're not on the ball they have another hard deadline fast approaching: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/amazon-rds-customers-u... (yes: the URI says February 5th whilst the article
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by opsunit 7y ago
Wavefront: https://www.wavefront.com/

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