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Capitalism is not a tool; it's a system of human relationships, typically intermediated by markets. Tools can be used for different ends, whereas participation in capitalism determ…

haproxy allows re-dispatching failed requests some number of times. If you have an extremely brief outage due to a deploy, redispatching failed requests 3 times may be sufficient. …

have you considered a B2B offering? I'd love to have somebody do what you do but with the software / hardware vendors that I deal with at work.

I don't think there's actually an inconsistency. On page 8 of the book linked, it describes "the charge, consisting of powder and duck-shot ...". Merriam-Webster[1] defines "duck s…

Can somebody explain what project fifo actually does? Even after spending a bit of time on their web site, I can't tell what problem it's meant to solve, or what appropriate use ca…

https://github.com/basho-labs/riak-mesos is the source link that the site doesn't appear to include. If there are more nodes requested than there are agents available, the schedule…

During a general recession, there are fewer attractive investment opportunities. However, investment funds still exist and need to be put somewhere. It's easy for a bubble to form …

The simplest option I'm aware of is to point CloudFlare to your load balancer, and have it handle removal of failed backend nodes. The only big downside is that on AWS you can't ha…

When I see security as a second-class citizen on user-visible elements, I assume that the same philosophy was applied on the parts I can't audit, even after the front-end stuff was…

I don't understand why such a drop shipper would get any orders when pricing considerably above new. Do you have any insight as to why somebody would bother? Seems like a wasted ef…

I use FPM ( https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm ) for that and it works wonderfully. You can convert a tarball to RPM/deb pretty seamlessly most of the time.

If you're curious, the "dummy key" is a bump key. It's a relatively crude tool and is relatively hard on the lock, compared to traditional picking. There's also a certain level of …

This seems like a useful service, but I've been burned too many times to start using a service before I know what the pricing will look like. No pricing == no evaluation for me, as…

I think the point of Google Fiber is to give Google a lever on big telcos. They have a credible capability to come in to just about any area and totally disrupt the ISP / cable TV …

If you're a very small operation, using a configuration management tool to provision users with SSH keys is pretty simple.

The two appear to get different results. To get up at 7:00 AM, sleepyti.me says to go to sleep at 10:00 PM, whereas jollynap says to go to bed at 10:45 PM. Obviously the latter is …

Take a look at Factorio. It's not perfectly what you're looking for, but the state of mind that it puts me in is right in between starcraft and sim city.