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I used PagerDuty for more than a decade at my previous job. I didn't care much for the UI. But you know why PagerDuty does so well? Basically bulletproof reliability. 99% uptime wo…

I disagree on Airtable. Their homepage currently says "Part spreadsheet, part database, and entirely flexible, teams use Airtable to organize their work, their way." I'm a software…

I was at CanSecWest, though I wasn't in the room while these vulnerabilities were being exploited. The claim I heard was that the qemu toolset, compared to the VMWare toolkit, are …

Ah ha! Thanks. Data deduplication. Well, yeah, that makes sense to me. Thank you very much for clearing that up.

I have heard that ZFS (at least, ZFS on Linux) requires about 1 GB of memory for every 1 TB of storage. Is this an accurate statement? That's certainly a critical flaw for many use…

This article does not mention how TRIM on SSDs comes in to play.

I'm quite capable of running a half-marathon and decided to try the HIITs. They were terrible for me. My knees couldn't handle the added stress, and I had to give up HIIT and go ba…

Yeah, tvongaza is correct. Admittedly, it's not a _big_ issue, and perhaps I'm going about things the wrong way. If you could tell me a better way of getting this issue fixed, I'd …

There's been a few people suggesting that, if you are bitten by a bug, you fix it and submit a pull request. That's a good idea. I did exactly this to a regression introduced in 3.…

I don't get it. You've linked to page 28,842 of the Latest Blog Posts index. It shows articles more than ten years old. So what? What am I missing?