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solarengineer

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About solarengineer

www.sriramnarayanan.com

sriramNRN at gmail.com

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    Comment #49223532

    "This also helps explain why the models had nothing to cause them to hold back. Those safety behaviors are added much later in the process." I am a fan of Asimov and the three laws…

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    Comment #49143465

    Would ansible meet some or all of your needs?

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    Comment #49107788

    Wow.. what a gem that did not appear on the front page. I chanced upon it only because I searched HN for "K3". I'm going to take a look.

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    Comment #49067491

    There are regulated sectors in countries where data sovereignty is important enough that the sector sticks to air-gapped on-prem hardware and does not use cloud services at all. Th…

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    Comment #48882930

    If it is acknowledgement that you ( and others, I have spoken to various people on this topic) seek that UPI incurs costs, then here you go - I, a fellow tax-payer, acknowledge tha…

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    Comment #48846573

    Thank you. I went back to the link I shared and saw that there is section just below on thin provisioning via snapshots.

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    Comment #48835847

    When we allocate space to an LVM snapshot, the COW data is written to that space and then when that space is used up the LVM snapshot must either be given more space or must be del…

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    Comment #48833216

    "It is important to regularly monitor the snapshot’s storage usage. If a snapshot reaches 100% of its allocated space, it will become invalid." [1] ZFS snapshots use Copy-on-Write …

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    Comment #48820719

    Indeed. I scoffed at your comment and went to the website. After scrolling a bit, I find myself having a mild headache and slight dizziness. I would request the author to consider …

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    Comment #48524666

    You can try via a usb bootable and see if the hardware is recognised

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    Comment #48524580

    Very good work by Peter Tribble

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    Comment #47831573

    They live beneath the ground (nest building, building the nests, raising the young, etc) and go above ground to feed. No much different from building hives in caves and then buzzin…

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    Comment #47818139

    https://hex.ooo/library/power.html When future humans rediscover mathematics.

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    Comment #46930945

    I apologise for the incorrect "make the world a better place" attribution to you. It does appear that for many of us "saving the planet" has become akin to "making the world a bett…

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    Comment #46922842

    Hi Brendan, I am a long time fan, I have the physical copy of each and every book that you have authored, I have watched each and every video that you are in, and I walk team membe…

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    Comment #46572331

    https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS While CSS Zen Garden will likely not accept new submissions, there are many good designs on showcase: https://csszengarden.com/page…

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    Comment #46510529

    It is actually OK to state that you are researching for ideas. This is HN, after all. Try the HN search. There have been so many discussions about SOC2 over the years. https://hn.a…

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    Comment #46483186

    The benefits definitely do not accrue to you, though. There is no direct or indirect benefit to you supporting the invasion of another country where you can now bomb locals with im…

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    Comment #46483165

    Ordinary citizens were bombed in Caracas. There are videos of such bombings. Please do consider that the loss of the lives of ordinary people is a risk.

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    Comment #46476441

    Which laptop was this? Could you share the exact model?

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    Comment #46470371

    It would appear that your comment is about ECC itself. The way I explain ECC RAM and file systems is "Since data is present in RAM before it is given to a file system driver to sto…

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    Comment #46470313

    ZFS: The last word in File Systems: Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRoUC9P1PmA Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwCXVp_u86o ZFS In the trenches: https://www.youtube…

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    Comment #46393099

    Assume that your cash runs out. What will you then do? Until you rebuild your cash base and have some cash flow, please hit the pause button on seeking your calling. One's calling …

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