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Re:ZFS raidz expansion is coming on Monday August 07, 2023 @03:31PM (#37039716)
Could it be related to the following?

> After the expansion completes, old blocks remain with their old data-to-parity ratio (e.g. 5-wide RAIDZ2, has 3 data to 2 parity), but distributed among the larger set of disks. New blocks will be written with the new data-to-parity

Re:IRS records reveal how the wealthiest avoid income tax on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @06:44AM (#27433178)
Not an American here but this could be related to the order in which things pay tax.

If you receive 10K USD as income one month, you would pay tax on that and then be able to buy things

If your business received 10K USD it could buy all sorts of things before declaring a profit and paying tax only on the profit.

Re:ISS throws away 2.9 tons of trash into orbit on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @11:33AM (#26478155)
Just a question: Would pushing the trash away also push the space station in the opposite direction?
I live in South Africa. Myself and all my friends are sitting on around 100 Mbps up/down uncapped unshaped, no fair use policy each at around $100 USD monthly. A few of my friends are on Gigabit down, 200 up.

How is America behind on this? Everything is hosted there and cached there. Is it big business lobbying politicians to prevent them from having to compete? In South Africa we have dozens on ISPs and as an economy we're probably not far off from one US state. The competition has been great for consumers.

You should add an affiliate link for the screen
For some time now, having installed it, it does not listen by default on 0.0.0.0 (all addresses) but instead on 127.0.0.1 - so the answer is no.
Yeah I wonder if in the future we won't see this as a terrible crime (pushing the next dopamine hit to a bunch of addicts) or if humanity needs to evolve to gain much much more self control.
Re:HopsFS: 100x Times Faster Than AWS S3 on Saturday November 21, 2020 @04:13PM (#25172822)
Do you plan on having s Kubernetes storage provider? I like the idea of present a POSIX like mount to s container while paying per use for storage in S3
Re:US Navy destroyer shoots down an ICBM in milestone test on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @08:19AM (#25136398)
It's also relavant because there is a huge debate in defence community right now.

On the one hand you have many saying that the aircraft carrier might go the way if the battleship - more and more redundant in a world with landbase anti ship missile systems.

On the other hand there are some saying that ships will envolve to meet the threat.

Re:Raspberry Pi Homelab with Kubernetes on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @02:47PM (#25062137)
I know that feeling!

Pulled the trigger on that three times now.

My first cluster was Raspis and ODroids. The two issues I had - not everything runs on Arm (yet) and memory constraints were tough to work with.

My second cluster - 4 Atomic Pis. The (Intel Atom) quad cores were fine but the 2GB of memory was a real problem when I started playing with more interesting workloads.

The current "production" home cluster is 4 old laptops. They're earlier gen i7s and I've dropped 16GB of memory and 1TB spinning disks in each one. I've never been happier with a cluster. I've been free to spin whatever I want up and it just works. Using RKE to setup Kubernetes takes about 5 minutes to build a cluster and I'm using Longhorn for replicated container native storage. I've run experiments for work and my own experience. Whether its Redis / Cassandra cluster or a Kubernetes Operator I wrote, it can always handle it.

Re:Raspberry Pi Homelab with Kubernetes on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @02:41PM (#25062066)
I had a cluster of ODroid C2s. It was nice - quad core, 2GB memory. But honestly, only for some workloads.

In my experience memory is a much bigger bottleneck than CPU, net IO or disk iops.

At the moment my favorite home lab cluster is a bunch of old laptops. They're quad cores too but I've dropped 16 GB of memory in each. It's doing a lot better. Right now the cluster is using 21GB of memory.

I'm able to run everything I've wanted as well as the occasional experiment to try something out.

If I could leave you with something - get more memory than you think you will need. That's been my experience anyway.

Re:Raspberry Pi Homelab with Kubernetes on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @02:36PM (#25062011)
I use chisel for dancing across firewalls and across Big Corp's (TM) network policies. Chisel is fantastic. It wraps an SSH tunnel for proxying TCP (or reverse proxying) in HTTP, which I expose over TLS.

https://github.com/jpillora/chisel

Re:Introduction to Google Cloud Functions on Wednesday November 04, 2020 @06:47AM (#24988192)
This advice might not be at all helpful, but anyway.

Consider checking the following: - Number of CPUs. The number of CPUs is not CPU cores but Kubernetes millicores. 1 vCPU on CR = 400m (4/10 of a CPU core). - Background processes - not recommended [https://stackoverflow.com/questions/61154349/google-cloud-ru...] - Container size on disk. Google Cloud is fast. However they need to cap the moving container images around as they can't use all the network capacity for moving a 400MB Docker image. If you're not already, use multi-stage builds with tiny final images.

Re:Useful Kubernetes Tools for 2020 on Monday October 26, 2020 @05:44AM (#24894356)
Would you consider sharing some of the tooling you have found useful for your context?
Re:Vitamin D deficiency in association with endothelial function on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @10:36AM (#24848273)
> There is emerging evidence to suggest that vitamin D deficiency is associated with adverse outcomes in COVID-19 patients. Conversely, vitamin D supplementation protects against an initial alveolar diffuse damage of COVID-19 becoming progressively worse.

Looks like Joe Rogan's advice was on the money

Hahaha. My friends and I call it Silicon Valley Syndrome. Glad to see we were not alone
Re:Gabe Newell applies for NZ residency on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @03:22AM (#24834681)
We can neither confirm nor deny that
Re:Chess’s Cheating Crisis on Monday October 19, 2020 @07:25AM (#24825301)
When I played (at a national level) people would have a laptop connected and playing in another room. They would play the enemies moves on the computer as the player and playing in the tournament would play the moves made by the computer.

I remember a few people getting caught. What's funny about this is that the top players were still better than the AI running on a laptop (back then) and the cheaters occasionally got knocked out early on.

Re:Why Everyone Builds Internal Kubernetes Platforms on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @10:56AM (#24777201)
Anyone have a link where we can read this?
Re:The Serverless Revolution Has Stalled on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @06:11AM (#24764025)
You probably know this but from what I read above it might be worth mentioning.

Your hosts are still packed with a bunch libraries and services (sshd for example) that should probably be updated with regularity.

I echo a lot of what you say here regarding run anywhere and not marrying some giant vendor.

It may also be bots. Twitter is jam-packed with bots (probably Chinese and Russian run) that push the Democrats and Republicans to fight each other. It's an interesting problem.

In some cases they create obvious bots that make each side go "Aha! See their supporters are all bots!"

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABo_72Ov9dI

I love two things here.

If the maker of goods is not in good standing for offsetting their impact then the importing state introduces taxes for that deficiency and has it handled in the importing country.

The second is the idea of showing the actual cost of offsetting. Having honest conversations about that will promote local and incentivize R&D to reduce that cost. Fantastic stuff.

And their ability to decide what people know about politics
Re:The Architecture of Open Source Applications on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @04:40AM (#24636740)
To the authors: Please drop TLS in front of your site. It's near trivial and free.

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I wonder how to take this? Is it good to use these as a recommended approach? I would bet that there could be good examples and bad? Is any of these the leader in terms of approach used for their domain? (Graph databases for example).

Could it be that these are `just interesting` but not authoritative?

Just check your home IP from your phone (off wifi). A friend found port 80 was open on the public IP and closed on the LAN....
For anyone unsure of what you meant by "The controversy comes in the harsh manner in which DHS has been enforcing those laws in the last few years. It seems like we're not even treating immigrants like human beings" see https://www.valleycentral.com/news/local-news/new-mcallen-fa...
Re:Tables: Tracking work for teams on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @10:34AM (#24554831)
What a useful app. Reminds me of Airtable in some ways. I enjoy a good flexible table app any day.

We're all tired of the obligatory "I wonder how long before Google deprecates this...;)" but I wonder if Google would get better adoption if they explicitly published what would be needed for them not to drop the product... 1M monthly users? 3M? ...xM? or that when a project actually reaches that point.

I thought so too! I wonder if this will be discussed. Would love to know what I'm looking at
Maybe I understood that wrong. I couldn't get past the paywall so there's that too.

Can't Facebook keep EU data in the EU and "deploy" ADs to the various regions?

I'm not sure I understand why the data has to go the the US. The only thing I can image is that AI models are better with larger data sets. But even then it's not too awful to have an EU ML model and another for the rest of the world. Is it enough to exit the whole EU market?

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