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Re:Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7? on Friday October 09, 2026 @03:18PM (#50025400)

A RAID 5 setup is more exposed to that. He had to damage all of his disks to lose all data, you need to damage two of your disks to lose all data

Re:Nintendo Switch 2 Dock USB-C Compatibility on Monday September 01, 2025 @04:58AM (#45090888)

Presumably, sticking with USB lowers costs. Just buy mass-produced ports rather than invest in tooling to build a bespoke port.

Re:Ask HN: What do you monitor on your servers? on Sunday August 18, 2024 @05:30AM (#41281228)

First mention of [ -f /var/run/reboot-required ], which is important to ensure security updates have taken effect

Re:A cheap barcode scanner helped fix CrowdStrike'd Windows PCs in a f... on Sunday July 28, 2024 @05:15AM (#41092111)

Woltz is pleased that his idea translated into a swift recovery, but also a little regretful he didn't think of using QR codes – they could have encoded sufficient data to automate the entire remediation process.

I don't follow this, what could they have done with QR codes?

Re:Salad Fingers and the dawn of ‘weird YouTube’ on Saturday December 02, 2023 @02:56AM (#38496821)

I'm fairly certain that played on British TV and was subsequently uploaded to YouTube (though the sequels did originate there).

Re:McDonald's Just Dropped a Brand New Game Boy Game in 2023 on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @08:42AM (#36325017)

Yes. Only once you truly love eating your big mac will the hamburgalar murder you.

Re:Slide to Unlock on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @02:16PM (#36141729)

It's a dexterity game. Think of it like Jenga, even if you know which block to pull out, the tower can still fall if you don't do it cleanly.

At least with this you don't need to rebuild the whole tower!

Re:The AI revolution already transforming education on Sunday May 21, 2023 @10:49AM (#36021504)

Paul Krugman, is that you?

Re:Show HN: DocsGPT, open-source documentation assistant, fully aware ... on Saturday February 04, 2023 @08:02AM (#34654124)

> Several of us are running GPT-3 workloads locally.

Do you mind sharing how? I didn't think the model was available to download and thought it was api only?

Re:Introducing ChatGPT Plus on Thursday February 02, 2023 @03:17AM (#34623699)

Bad take. He's actually asking for them to directly gather data as he trusts them more than the random middle-men who are currently providing the services he's interested in.

As someone working for a random middle-man, I hope OpenAI maintain the status quo and continue to focus on the core product.