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__roland__
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Comment #40229988
Sure, that's true. The thing is: this was the same requested (and cancelled) range on the same file(s), over and over (it was a bug). Looking at this from the outside, even some in…
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Comment #40229712
Sorry for not having this made clearer (we'll fix this part of the post): the gotcha is not that AWS does not honor range requests, it's that canceling those will still add the ful…
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Comment #40229620
I can assure you this was not AI-generated, apart from the 'symbolic image' (which should be fairly obvious :). Maybe that's just our non-native English shining through. In any cas…
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Comment #40229457
You are right, this is about canceling range requests and still getting billed, not about requesting ranges and getting billed for the complete file egress. Sorry; we'll make the p…
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Comment #40229427
Sorry, I think that part of our write-up is misleading (I was involved in analyzing the issue described here). To our best understanding, what happens is the following: - A client …
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Comment #25551035
You are right: the horizontal scroll only appears if you scroll down to the bottom of the page. But there is also a (more sensibly layouted) program shown on each streaming page (e…
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Comment #23467943
Totally agree. I think his paper "Can a Systems Biologist Fix a Tamagotchi?" is really nice, shows some of the fundamental conceptional issues and very fun reading nonetheless: htt…
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Comment #23292627
Just as an anecdotal counterpoint to all the negative reviews here: I have a 2015 Tuxedo notebook that is still going strong, and never had any issue with it. There is quite a bit …
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Comment #14098892
Ah cool, I didn't know about that. Thanks!
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Comment #14096978
Instead of writing blog posts as a vital sign, maybe it would help to offer some regularly updated pre-defined "bundles" of ST together with package sets for a certain audience (JS…
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Comment #14060153
It's strange that their website is so bad (lots and lots of ads, basically unusable without an ad-blocker) while their apps (in particular, Espresso) are a joy to use.
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Comment #14022391
I think one way to 'treat' this would be to acknowledge that certain things just cannot be optimized easily with outside incentives, and to simply accept that there will be some in…
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Comment #14003719
Redshift still works quite well. Maybe it should be pre-installed and better 'advertised'. Many people still don't know that this is a very nice feature to have.
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Comment #14003340
- FLAVOR: Desktop - HEADLINE: improve VPN support - DESCRIPTION: the WLAN UI supports some OpenVPN options, but not all, and fails silently on importing non-compatible config files…
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Comment #13014722
I noticed an improvement over the last version, so I'd give it a spin.