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Strangely enough, there's even some likelihood that killing off the passenger pigeon actually promoted Borrelia burgdorferi. The passenger pigeon's main food source was tree mast. …

If you're regularly syncing from an older version to a new version, you can likely optimize further using gzip with "--rsyncable" option. It will reduce the compression by ~1% but …

Transportant | Backend Software Engineer | USA | Full-Time | Remote | $120-$160k | https://transportant.com/ Transportant helps K12 school systems keep students safe by making thei…

Transportant | Electrical Engineer | USA | Full-Time/Flexible | Kansas City but REMOTE | $120k-$180k Transportant provides hardware and software to make k12 student transportation …

Transportant | Multiple: Hardware & Backend Software | USA | Full-Time or Freelance | Remote | $120-$150k | https://transportant.com/ Transportant delivers modern hardware and soft…

psql also allows you to set local variables and interpolate them into SQL. Values can be assigned from query results or with shell style back ticks! Powerful and frightening! From …

Is there a reason you don't wish to batch inserts into transaction(s)? Otherwise, you're asking the database to commit (fsync to disk) between each insert statement. Other ideas: -…

I appreciate when technical writers use humor (those headlines!)

I've been using B2 to disrupt a bunch of ugly & entrenched vendors in the price sensitive K12 market. Thanks for building it. :)

Very interested in talking if you would like to help make it better! Email's in my profile. Cheers!

Transportant | Marketing Director | USA | Full-Time | Kansas City but REMOTE | $60-$120k Started in 2017, Transportant is a disruptive technology company building modern hardware a…

RiskGenius | Kansas City Area | Full-time | Senior Python / SQL Backend Engineer | https://riskgenius.bamboohr.com/jobs/view.php?id=35 RiskGenius is solving the hardest problems in…

Transportant | Senior Backend Software Engineer | USA | Full-Time | Remote | $120-$150k | https://transportant.com/jobs.html#backend-engineer Transportant is a new technology compa…

My CIA cookbook begins potato recipes with first blanching them in water prior to roasting, sauté, etc, which is apparently an effective mitigation.

Here's an example of doing that in PostgreSQL: create table user_email ( email text not null ); -- create a index on the lowercase form -- of the email create unique index user_ema…

I haven't used it extensively, but I've read some of the source code and I'm excited about where Minio is going -- the erasure coding storage capability in particular: https://www.…

Done, thank you! We'll probably be playing whack-a-mole on this for the next couple months...

Thank you for the feedback. I'm sensitive to this issue too. For what it's worth, we do have very strict policy about what information regular customer service staff can access or …

For what it's worth, I think of a journal as append only by definition and that's what SpiderOak does. Unless you have millions of very small files, the journal is going to be tiny…

> Your typical user is much more at risk with end-to-end encryption Not all e2ee products are created equal. I think your description is accurate for the PGP ecosystem, because for…

The change was definitely overdue.

Thank you. It would be easier to create friendly terms that describe end-to-end encryption if non-encrypted cloud providers weren't actively trying to mislead people into a false s…

Thank you for the feedback and we'll be working on it! FYI, many people do use SpiderOak exclusively from the command line. It's fairly scriptable. Here's the command line options:…

Tahoe-LAFS is really awesome open project by great people with a rich history of solving complex problems. If this space is interesting to you, spending a few days reading through …

Your second paragraph describes SpiderOak quite accurately: it is exactly a logical file system implemented client side, with all the database work to support that done locally. It…