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    Comment #24670811

    > I would even take it a step further and allow maintainers the ability to cherry pick certain issues they'd like to put up for hacktober. At least for Prometheus the ones we tagge…

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    Comment #24155758

    I bought it for €10 5 years ago, in terms for gaming value for money I think only the €10 I spent on Minecraft beats it.

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    Comment #23952995

    > Even more fundamental than privacy, though, is do people even know that these apps exist? Speaking for Ireland the app was heavily publicised, and there's even a prominent "Share…

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    Comment #23952914

    Indeed, and it's early days yet. From the article: > It also reveals that, whatever the people of Ireland have been told, their app is collecting centralised data on them. The sign…

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    Comment #23362319

    I don't think there's any clear standard. There's many confusions about push vs pull that make the discussions hard to follow, as they often make apples to oranges comparisons. For…

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    Comment #22695770

    Seconding this. Out of all games in that general category Rimworld is scratching my DF itch, without me having to dig all the way back into full DF complexity.

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    Comment #22683616

    > It's not purely used for video games, mind you. Indeed. I also use it to stream sports with the scores as an overlay, and to record training videos. Basically if you're doing any…

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    Comment #22683571

    This isn't about getting input from a camera (which works fine), but making the output of OBS appear as a camera to the rest of the system.

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    Comment #22546441

    At a previous company (30-40 employees) the main thing was having a blog setup somewhere that engineers could post to - clearly distinguished from the main product blog. Actually g…

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    Comment #21534208

    They had that too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_V-Chat

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    Comment #21328818

    It seems to work fine for the Irish presidential elections, which are single winner. The Irish presidency is almost entirely a ceremonial role.

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    Comment #20667719

    "Dry weight" is what you're thinking of.

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    Comment #20378808

    That works until there's ~only self-checkouts, then it gets slow again. There's a knack to using them, and unless you have a generous number of them (I know of only two local store…

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    Comment #18914800

    The deal isn't a hard Brexit for the Brexiters, and isn't a remain for the remainers.

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    Comment #18405150

    16k samples/s is not a lot. There are many Prometheus users with hundreds of thousands of samples/s on a single Prometheus server. Across their organisations it can be much more, F…

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    Comment #17461207

    We've a STV system in Ireland, I'm not sure you'd classify our independents as centrist (by the Irish definition of centrist - by the US definition almost all our politicians are f…

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    Comment #16132790

    > But as stated by others (about Ireland in their example), even companies that had their hq there asked for zip code at a time there was not any. Post codes are not generally used…

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    Comment #15652672

    > I strongly disagree that metrics and logs are different toolsets, or that you would need both of them in order to properly observe your systems. And from the link: > Logging can …

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    Comment #15652609

    Prometheus is not intended as durable long term storage, it's fundamentally limited to the size of a machine. You should also design your monitoring be able to tolerate completely …

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    Comment #15652488

    Splunk is a event logging system, compared to Prometheus which is metrics based. You need both types of systems to be able to properly observe your systems, they're complementary.

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    Comment #15651665

    There is a transition feature: https://www.robustperception.io/accessing-data-from-promethe... The problem with data migration is that the two versions of the system lay out the da…

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    Comment #15650965

    The third version of the InfluxDB database is basically the same core design as Prometheus's third database version which 2.0 uses. I'd expect performance to be broadly similar, ma…

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    Comment #15336826

    > alternatives have been developed Such as Prometheus :) Even some teams in Google use it.

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    Comment #15336795

    > What if you want to keep time-series data for accounting purposes forever? Prometheus is not recommended for uses where 100% accuracy is required, see https://prometheus.io/docs/…