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Re:4x faster network file sync with rclone (vs rsync) (2025) on Monday February 02, 2026 @12:50PM (#46858893)
> doesn't honor dropbox's retry-after header

That hasn't been true for more than 8 years now.

Source: https://github.com/rclone/rclone/blob/9abf9d38c0b80094302281...

And the PR adding it: https://github.com/rclone/rclone/pull/2622

Re:We built a cloud GPU notebook that boots in seconds on Friday November 07, 2025 @06:08AM (#45845320)
Just curious, was something like https://github.com/containerd/stargz-snapshotter considered/evaluated before designing your own lazily-loaded container FS and if so, any pros/cons for the same?
Visa/MasterCard/Amex already support such a facility in India due to RBI requirements. Doesn't seem too difficult to adapt similar functionality for other countries too, if the regulations are updated to require it.

* https://www.visa.co.in/about-visa/newsroom/press-releases/vi... * https://pgi.billdesk.com/web/sihub

Re:Supercharge SQLite with Ruby Functions on Monday January 27, 2025 @04:31AM (#42839121)
These may be useful reading:

https://github.com/TryGhost/node-sqlite3/issues/408#issue-57...

https://github.com/WiseLibs/better-sqlite3/issues/32#issueco...

Copying a quote from the second:

> The sqlite3 C API serializes all operations (even reads) within a single process. You can parallelize reads to the database but only by having multiple processes, in which case one process being blocked doesn't affect the other processes anyways. In other words, because sqlite3 serializes everything, doing things asynchronously won't speed up database access within a process. It would only free up time for your app to do other things (like HTTP requests to other servers). Unfortunately, the overhead imposed on sqlite3 to serialize asynchronous operations is quite high, making it disadvantageous 95% of the time.

From the project README:

> Thruster also wraps the Puma process so that you can use it without managing multiple processes yourself. This is particularly useful when running in a containerized environment, where you typically won't have a process manager available to coordinate the processes. Instead you can use Thruster as your CMD, and it will manage Puma for you.

Re:Blackcandy: Self hosted music streaming server on Thursday December 26, 2024 @02:59AM (#42513776)
You have Lidarr[1] as an equivalent to Sonarr/Radarr etc. and there is a pending PR[2] for adding Lidarr support to Overseerr which also has a custom docker image to try.

[1] https://github.com/Lidarr/Lidarr [2] https://github.com/sct/overseerr/pull/3800

Re:Sensible SQLite Defaults on Friday December 06, 2024 @10:17AM (#42340549)
FWIW, auto_vacuum set to INCREMENTAL doesn't do any vacuuming automatically; it just stores the information needed to vacuum the DB.

From https://www.sqlite.org/pragma.html#pragma_auto_vacuum:

> When the value of auto-vacuum is 2 or "incremental" then the additional information needed to do auto-vacuuming is stored in the database file but auto-vacuuming does not occur automatically at each commit as it does with auto_vacuum=full. In incremental mode, the separate incremental_vacuum pragma must be invoked to cause the auto-vacuum to occur.

Re:Music recommendation system using transformer models on Tuesday August 20, 2024 @03:36AM (#41297723)
Hardcover may be worth a try:

https://hardcover.app/askjules

Re:Music recommendation system using transformer models on Tuesday August 20, 2024 @03:30AM (#41297689)
Plex has something similar for local music: https://www.plex.tv/blog/super-sonic-get-closer-to-your-musi...

It requires the music to be already present, however, so not ideal for finding new music.

Re:mpv a free, open-source, and cross-platform media player on Saturday August 17, 2024 @06:52PM (#41278680)
Adding onto this is Outplayer, which similarly uses MPV for its backend, for iOS & iPadOS.
Re:Intel is selling defective 13-14th Gen CPUs on Friday July 12, 2024 @12:11PM (#40946861)
Related Videos:

Intel has a Pretty Big Problem (by Level1Techs): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzHcrbT5D_Y

Intel's CPUs Are Failing, ft. Wendell of Level1 Techs (by Gamers Nexus): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAE4NWoyMZk

And it looks like ASUS has already released updated firmware for the same: https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/motherboards/new-...
Re:Using ClickHouse to scale an events engine on Thursday April 11, 2024 @05:43PM (#40007127)
You have already gotten excellent options from the other comments, but here's another one that's not been mentioned yet.

You may want to consider adjusting your partition key (if feasible) as a function of datetime so you can just drop a complete partition when required, rather than needing separate delete queries.

In my experience, it has proven to be a very quick and clean way to clear out older data.

You can always use rclone which added ProtonDrive support 2 releases back: https://rclone.org/protondrive/

You can also mount it using rclone to present it as an external drive.

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