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What is a storage-based billing story?
Usually there is a 300 Mbps - 10 Gbps range of offerings.
This is a slightly modified version of the serenity prayer of AA fame.
Re:OpenRA on Saturday June 27, 2026 @02:39PM (#48700612)
I was using ipx over hamachi for multiplayer c&c as recently as 15 years ago!
Re:AI Agent Guidelines for CS336 at Stanford on Tuesday June 02, 2026 @05:36AM (#48367925)
It can also mean damage (blow up, tear up) or completeness (clean up, drink up).
Re:Bitter Lessons from the ISSpresso on Friday May 08, 2026 @11:58PM (#48071689)
Yes, my grid-tied system is like this. The panels are ~410W and each one has a microinverter with ~390W maximum or something. The more expensive inverters were not worth capturing the peak. You’re better off putting that money into more panels.
Re:Distributed SQL engine for ultra-wide tables on Thursday January 15, 2026 @06:04PM (#46640690)
Scuba could handle 100,000 columns, probably more. But yes, the model is that you have one table and you can only do self-joins and it’s more or less append only and you were only accessing maybe dozens of columns in a single query.

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Re:Distributed SQL engine for ultra-wide tables on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @11:30PM (#46628054)
ClickHouse and Scuba address this. The core idea is the data layout on disk only requires the scan to open files or otherwise access data for the columns referenced in that query.
Re:GPT-5.2 on Thursday December 11, 2025 @10:09PM (#46240458)
In Google Photos shared albums there is a tab that I can only describe as a chatroom.
We flew too close to the sun
idk but I’ve definitely experienced this. Presumably it’s a bug.
UL has a standard, this article goes into some details https://www.ul.com/news/manufacturers-say-hail-yes-solar-pan...
Re:Fuck, you're still sad? on Thursday September 18, 2025 @11:21AM (#45290773)
I think it’s medicalized because often this set of symptoms is associated with inability to function and it can be treated medically with eg therapy.
Re:All known 49-year-old Apple-1 computer on Wednesday August 13, 2025 @12:07AM (#44884561)
Iron Tail Cafe iirc
Re:All known 49-year-old Apple-1 computer on Tuesday August 12, 2025 @02:02AM (#44872920)
There was a cafeteria as recently as 2018
iCloud uses both.
Re:Dépanneurs on Saturday July 12, 2025 @06:59PM (#44545925)
bodegas usually have bigger selection & hot food
Or just keep launching more so there’s always a usable one
Yeah I think I was downvoted because that’s fairly well known in cosmology and is a refutation of the parent comment.
Are primordial black holes supermassive?
Re:NASA Study Reveals Venus Crust Surprise on Tuesday May 13, 2025 @10:16AM (#43973241)
Surprised at all the dead humor comments. Is humor against the guidelines?
Re:NASA Study Reveals Venus Crust Surprise on Monday May 12, 2025 @05:14PM (#43967528)
I would absolutely demolish a Venus Crust Surprise
No. The price insensitive shoppers will buy everything and the shelves will be empty.
Re:Joining Sun Microsystems – 40 years ago (2022) on Wednesday April 30, 2025 @11:39AM (#43846752)
Great pictures. lol @ khosla.
Re:My 16-month theanine self-experiment on Sunday March 09, 2025 @12:12AM (#43306472)
Yes this sort of tolerance building is the norm. There’s somewhat reduced cross-tolerance so you might alternate lsd and psilocybin.
Re:How many ants live on Earth? on Monday February 03, 2025 @11:31PM (#42927983)
Interesting. I didn’t read the study. I wonder if that favors smaller animals? Are large mammals a larger fraction water?
Re:How many ants live on Earth? on Monday February 03, 2025 @11:15AM (#42919727)
They specify wild mammals. Humans are like 600 megatons I think.
Re:Tech Takes the Pareto Principle Too Far on Thursday January 23, 2025 @12:41AM (#42801062)
Seems analogous to me. “20% of the functionality (in a product) is 80% of the work (to implement it)”
Re:Magic/tragic email links: don't make them the only option on Wednesday January 08, 2025 @10:36AM (#42635301)
Alternatively one can press the lock button 5 times quickly.
Re:A cycling desk / Zwifting with a split keyboard on Wednesday November 13, 2024 @09:02PM (#42132402)
I still think hot tub desk is the future

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