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Makes you appreciate the noprocrast mode feature.
CTRL-SHIFT-n (or -p) -> n -> ENTER
Ah the elusive PorN method
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Yep: if you buy a pair disks together, there's a fair chance they'll both be from the same manufacturing batch, which correlates with disk defects.
Yeah just coming here to say this. Multiple disk failures are pretty probable. I've had batches of both disks and SSDs with sequential serial numbers, subjected to the same workloads, all fail within the same ~24 hour periods.
Had the same experience with (identical) SSDs, two failures within 10 minutes in a RAID 5 configuration.
(Thankfully, they didn't completely die but just put themselves into read-only)
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#173Whenever I get frustrated by cloud complexity I wonder if its all worth it, as HN, stackoverflow, camelx3 etc are still on real servers. Maybe it is worth it after all.
I've wondered about this a lot recently as I've spent a lot of time recently fighting with Terraform, Atlantis, CircleCI, github and AWS. The first half of my career was deploying code to various UNIX machines. When there was a problem I could login to that machine and use various (common) tools to diagnose the issue. I may not have had root but I was at least able to gain insight into what was likely the culprit. The interface was immediate and allowed quick iteration to test out a solution.
It feels like we've lost a lot of that observability and immediacy with the cloud. It's not as easy to quickly understand the larger picture. You can understand the state of various services with the web console or command line tools but tracing a path through those services is much less obvious and efficient.
I'm kind of nervous to even discuss this as I wonder if it's just my age showing, especially since I see very people mention this as one of the downsides of various cloud solutions. Maybe I'm just jaded?
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A hundred years, I give it 10 tops.
It’s already been around since 2007. How many decades does HN need to be around before people realize it’s an institution?
Slashdot has been around since 1997 and people still rave about its moderation system today. However, while I have high hopes for HN, it could very well go the way of digg overnight
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#175What happened?
wasn't resolving at all.
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A hundred years, I give it 10 tops.
It’s already been around since 2007. How many decades does HN need to be around before people realize it’s an institution?
The reason it's an institution is because it hasn't been bought by some corp trying to squeeze value out of eyeballs, which is why it hasn't really changed much.
However, it takes money and time to keep it around in a not for profit way, so it will be an institution as long as it's funding is the same.
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#177Interesting though, HN is now hosted on AWS and no longer on bare metal (m5 hosting). % host news.ycombinator.com news.ycombinator.com has address 50.112.136.166 and also interesting: DNS TTL is set to 1 (one).
Oh that is interesting, I guess they just spun up a beefy EC2 instance. I'm noticing slower performance, I used to get about NetRange: 50.112.0.0 - 50.112.255.255 CIDR: 50.112.0.0/16 NetName: AMAZON-EC2-USWESTOR NetHandle: NET-50-112-0-0-1 Parent: NET50 (NET-50-0-0-0-0) NetType: Direct Allocation OriginAS: AS14618 Organization: Amazon.com, Inc. (AMAZO-47)
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#180Whew!
Thanks Dang and company.
I appreciate you all.
@my HN peers:
Have a great weekend and thank you all for being you. I learn a ton here and enjoy the perspectives often found on these pages. It is all high value.