If you setup the server in the EU why would anyone in US have access to it?
Rackspace, Indymedia, 2004. Ancient precedent by now.
Readit Newsrachelbythebay commented on Hetzner Cloud Goes US (Ashburn/VA) twitter.com/Hetzner_Onlin... · Posted by u/evilc00kie
It wasn't that there was a crunch — that had always existed. There just wasn't all the tooling to implement anything like flex. At least this video was made after "buying Borg quota" was a normal thing. Before it, you had to "buy" regular machines and donate/assimilate them into Borg. Then after X days you'd receive your quota, minus a Borg "tax" of 10% to cover borglet and system daemons' overhead.
Ah, see, should've given 'em to us! Big rectangular state, you know, #3 machine owner at the time. We didn't charge overhead, probably because it never occurred to us to do it.
People brought machines, we gave 'em quota. Easy enough.
So glad to not be doing that any more.
Personally I'm still waiting for a copy of "Pusher, I have a hotfix."
Maaaaaaybe ID 10150136890464739. Maybe.
What does “serve 5TB” refer to? They expect 5TB of network bandwidth over some time period (a month?)? Or their database takes up 5TB on disk?
Imagine it as "I want to have a http://foo/~me/ type path where I can park 5 TB of stuff and other people can fetch from it when they feel like it".
5 TB of data made available, not 5 TB of transfer/bandwidth/etc.
rachelbythebay commented on Apple took over port 5000 in the latest macOS old.reddit.com/r/webdev/c... · Posted by u/rkuykendall-com
If only there was something that broadcast the availability of services including the port they're on...
rachelbythebay commented on I don’t know how to count that low lesswrong.com/posts/koGbE... · Posted by u/CapitalistCartr
I can confirm that this is a reference to an entertaining internal video with Fox Girl and Broccoli Man. Fox Girl just wanted to serve 5TB of data and Broccoli Man was explaining the many, many steps of configuration, services, and monitoring that were required to do this at Google. I agree with scottlamb; I only heard "I don't know how to count that low" in reference to the video, not as a "sign of superiority" that the post describes.
The video was also described briefly here: https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2012/04/06/5tb/
I wish I had taken a picture of that shirt before it had been run through the wash a few times. It used to look a whole lot better!
But yeah, that video was epic, and it was spot-on, too. A company that has no idea how to deal with people is going to suck at making tools _for_ people.
rachelbythebay commented on It's weird that most of “Hacker” news is dominated by business news · Posted by u/greendude29
Funny, I'd say there's less, no, a LOT less, startup / business oriented discussion here than in the past. To me, the big thing that has emerged over the past few years has been a lot more "stuff" that can loosely be described as "politics / culture / public policy / society" or whatever. And if I could wave a magic wand and change anything, I'd ban that stuff. Because I agree,
"I'd like to see conversations about software, hardware, computer science, and hacker culture resurge and dominate here"
That said, there is still a lot of that stuff. But the proportion of various topics have definitely shifted over the years.
Yes please. People trying to discuss those topics on here makes me come back less. It’s probably the worst part of the site for me overall.
I remember a story in Germany the other way around were a Tesla driver detected a car on the highway with an unconcious driver. He set himself in front of the other car, braked and stopped slowly until both cars came to a halt. Both insurances did not want to pay for the damage (voluntarily induced damage and such crap) and Tesla paid the bill for the Tesla driver's repair. [1]
[1 German]: https://www.waz-online.de/Nachrichten/Panorama/Tesla-ueberni...
Happened on the Golden Gate Bridge in 2007. No Teslas involved, naturally, but people sometimes do honorable things to stop an otherwise runaway vehicle.
> Beatty took bold and immediate action. He drove his Ford F-350 Super Duty utility truck in front of the Jeep and allowed it to essentially crash into the back of his vehicle so it would latch on, according to bridge officials. He then "slowly and safely" guided the Jeep across the bridge's southbound lanes and brought it to rest in a safe area, away from the flow of traffic.
edit: This was pre-divider, so a runaway vehicle on the GGB could have made quite a mess by crossing into oncoming traffic.
rachelbythebay commented on Sometimes it is just a bad battery rachelbythebay.com/w/2021... · Posted by u/wchar_t
I never get these articles. The writer always seems to take a super long and complicated path to the solution. Who has time for all this.
If I think it's the battery, I go into the Apple store, ask for a battery replacement, pay and leave. $49 for an iphone 8 or so.
You can set the apt up online, usually takes 2 hours.
What am I missing?
No, I’m the one missing something. It tends to make people assume I don’t know what’s up technically.
Based on your experiences, I am going to assume you are not in the same situation. You will likely have better results for an otherwise identical request.
Have a good day.
rachelbythebay commented on Your devices and your employer rachelbythebay.com/w/2021... · Posted by u/picture
> I also was given a PCI Express (see, I told you this was a long time ago) cellular device which would let me get online with the company laptop from anywhere it had service.
Was this supposed to be PCMCIA or ExpressCard? It's not obvious to me how describing a laptop peripheral as being PCI Express-based is particularly effective at highlighting its anachronistic nature.
Ah! You are in fact correct. It's so long ago, I screwed up the term for it. ExpressCard it is.
In the words of everyone who's ever done a small fix, "reload".