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All i think about when people row, kayak or swim these distances in these waters is 'SHARKS'. Which i read and saw enough about that the chances of meeting one isnt that big, but my brain still associates these activities/areas with it.
My hope for more reasonable pricing so they sell all units is then perhaps naive?
Re:Do Not Put Your Site Behind Cloudflare If You Don't Need To on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @04:05PM (#45972065)
It's not a matter of time. And i dont want cloudflare to track me across many different sites, nor my website visitors.
Re:Kafka is Fast – I'll use Postgres on Thursday October 30, 2025 @05:56PM (#45765864)
Did you try uuidv7 yet?
Re:AOL to be sold to Bending Spoons for $1.5B on Thursday October 30, 2025 @06:04AM (#45758202)
From what i remember they did the same at wetransfer. Doubling pricings without notification.
Re:Become unbannable from your email on Wednesday October 08, 2025 @02:07AM (#45512632)
i encountered the samsung@ issue too, so that turned into sumsang@ which worked. :)
Re:Become unbannable from your email on Tuesday October 07, 2025 @06:12PM (#45509571)
I'm surprised to read they had an actual physical office you _could_ show up :)

was it a very distant location to head out to?

Re:Become unbannable from your email on Tuesday October 07, 2025 @06:11PM (#45509562)
Creating aliases for the addresses you are actually using, e.g. a netflix@ signup is preferred over a general catch all, .. and all that spam senders can generate approach.
RAG, or Retrieval Augmented Generation, is an AI technique that improves large language models (LLMs) by connecting them to external knowledge bases to retrieve relevant, factual information before generating a response. This approach reduces LLM "hallucinations," provides more accurate and up-to-date answers, and allows for responses grounded in specialized or frequently updated data, increasing trust and relevance.

I was unaware what RAG referred to, perhaps other too.

Should the acronym not be 'PSPSP'? Or that sounds too much like luring a cat?
Re:Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year on Thursday September 18, 2025 @02:02AM (#45286003)
Does give you more things to 'hack' for the club. Not all bad I guess, and saving that amount of money is worth creating some 'new projects'.
Re:Apple Photos App Corrupts Images on Wednesday September 17, 2025 @07:44AM (#45274588)
"I’ve not seen any file corruption when importing to Darktable, so I am convinced this is a problem with the Photos app."

Yes this argument is a bit unconvincing for me. Not saying Apple photos doesn't corrupt his files, but this is not real proper investigating either.

Re:US Coast Guard Report on Titan Submersible on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @04:36PM (#44803917)
Or nice idea for a new black mirror episode.
I personally think it's fair if they charge by weight. The post office does it, why not airlines?
Re:Ditching Obsidian and building my own on Monday May 19, 2025 @07:45AM (#44028779)
Even setting up your own couchdb + livesync should be a small task if one can consider to 'write a whole app' to replace obsidian

edit note, if you want to build something :) please expand livesync or a new plugin to allow easily sharing of self hosted obsidian notes :) All the ones I tried use some 3rd party hosting which I don't like even if its encrypted.

Re:A single line of code cost $8000 on Thursday May 01, 2025 @05:54AM (#43855599)
8 of the 10 Gbits I meant :) sorry I see it reads a bit weird yes. So 8 gbit for single line is the max currently. But huge competition on the horizon, so I expect soon more :)
Re:It's School time! Adventures in hacking an old kindle on Tuesday April 29, 2025 @04:07PM (#43837445)
I was just here to write the same thing :) imagine it being 0.01 degrees too warm or cold
Re:A single line of code cost $8000 on Tuesday April 29, 2025 @04:01PM (#43837369)
I got 8 :)
Re:A single line of code cost $8000 on Tuesday April 29, 2025 @11:21AM (#43833887)
Or.. Why on earth you need to check for updates 288x per day. It sounds and seems more like 'usage monitoring' rather than being sure that all users have the most recent bug fixes installed. What's wrong with checking for updates upon start once (and cache per day). What critical bugs or fixes could have been issued that warrant 288 update checks.
Re:Gixy: Nginx Configuration Static Analyzer on Sunday February 16, 2025 @01:08PM (#43070127)
actually I just dont want any python on my servers :)
Re:Gixy: Nginx Configuration Static Analyzer on Sunday February 16, 2025 @05:25AM (#43067006)
I already learned one thing regarding add_header

Worth the read already. Initially I even thought the analyzer was 'wrong' but curl tests indeed shows that add_header replaces all, surprisingly to me.

Thanks!

But I dont really like the installation of a pip/python ecosystem but that is just my issue :) I now simply copy the configurations from a python free servers and analyze them.

Re:The State of Vim on Friday January 24, 2025 @02:37AM (#42811256)
I ran screaming from VS when I noticed how much resources it used and what software it copies on remote servers in case you want to work remote. Did this improve at all in the last year+?
Dont get me wrong, I agree it shouldn't happen. But that is not really my point, I also say you should not be surprised. And you kind of proof my point 'postgres fsync _bug_ is also vaguely related to the same issue'. Which would make the switch to PostgreSQL because of this, which could have been avoided by monitoring, even less strong choice. Who says there isn't a fsync like bug there still?

Corruption, empty files etc have happened before in case of exhausted disk space, with PostgreSQL, mysql and so on, so place and use additional safeguards, monitoring of disk space in this case. Because even if the data wouldn't be corrupted, a full disk leads to a failed service anyway which you want to avoid too. And even in case the table didnt get corrupted, new inserts, updates will fail, which might lead to 'missing' data too, which imho is also a sort of corruption.

Cars have airbags to avoid you getting seriously hurt in case of a crash. But dont be surprised if you do get serious hurt in case of a crash. Additional sensors that alert to the driver of a car to avoid accidents are important too.

Please enlighten me with some software examples that are free of bugs :)
If you let a disk run full weird shit happens.

But it reads to me as _we_, not mariadb, made a big oopsie and TADA \o/ now we change software. So I do strongly hope that besides changing software, they added some disk space monitoring.

Re:Printf debugging is ok on Monday January 06, 2025 @03:23AM (#42608767)
the glorified printf :) I prefer over non glorified, as it goes to log for future reference etc, imho it has advantages over regular printf.
And as ex smoker, I find it interesting it's not the smoking itself that was 'stress reducing' for me. But those 5 minutes I would make free for myself to do nothing (smoke) and just think.
I have seen many projects where people use activerecord for their SQL interfacing. It is only the really simple queries that are okay, but as soon as there is some complexity the generated sql query are not so good quality to put it politely. Imho raw sql is always best, build your own query generator which you understand its logic fully and is tailored for your project.
Re:Video Surveillance with YOLO+llava on Tuesday October 08, 2024 @08:38AM (#41776683)

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