You know you are in HN when people use S3 to upload photos, and not imgur.
S3... Harder to use... Gotta pay egress.... It seems worse all round.
Throw it behind cloudfront. You now get a terabyte of egress free.
LackRack: IKEA's cheapest table is perfectly sized to rackmount computers (2020)
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Re: LackRack: IKEA's cheapest table is perfectly sized to rackmount computers (2020)
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If you’ve already got a bucket ready to roll for this sort of thing, S3 is cheap, straightforward, with a stable interface and API, ownership over your assets, and a much lower chance your content will end up placed on-page and strongly associated with stuff that isn’t yours.
Free beats cheap. Imgur and its comeptitors are also straightforward. You don't really need an API for a single upload. The ownership and control argument is great in theory, but this is now an image on the internet. Anyone can link to it which will cost you money. Anyone can download it and upload to somewhere else. That means all appearances of control are artificial. I don't see much benefit here.
Cloudfront makes S3 effectively free for hobby applications. That’s what I use for my self hosted version of Imgur.
Re: LackRack: IKEA's cheapest table is perfectly sized to rackmount computers (2020)
#183Is this just a random coincidence? Is there some explainable reason why the dimension is perfect? Surely IKEA did not have this use in mind when originally designing this?
Numbers game. Lots of tables exist with a lot of dimensions. Only the ones that have the perfect dimensions are mentioned.
Re: LackRack: IKEA's cheapest table is perfectly sized to rackmount computers (2020)
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How about you read again what the GP wrote and then review your comment?
I don't know, it just seems wild to me that I am the one receiving accusations of being antagonistic when other people are writing comments like this. You could try answering my question rather than giving this opaque answer that says nothing. I legitimately don't know what upset that person. Was it that I assumed they browse the internet the same way as 99.9...% of people?
Re: LackRack: IKEA's cheapest table is perfectly sized to rackmount computers (2020)
#185Watch out: newer Lack Tables from Ikea are less sturdy than their older predecessors. IKEA has made them even lighter than before, particularly the legs are almost cave inside, so beware that server racks might be too heavy for it
wow -- how can that even be?
I have a five or six year old lack I just disassembled due to wobbly joints. The entire thing was made of cardboard + a few small particle-wood reinforced areas near the joints, and a hard thick veneer.
the veneer shell is doing 85% of the workload already. I can hardly fathom how a weaker version would even work as a table.
Re: LackRack: IKEA's cheapest table is perfectly sized to rackmount computers (2020)
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In my experience, even cheap IKEA stuff is pretty solid and well worth the cost as long as you treat it with care. Some stuff is garbage even if you're careful but I've never personally seen something from IKEA that isn't great if handled gently.
On trick is to add some glue when you are assembling the furniture.
the lack I used for my prusa was , over time, covered in printed gusset features and additional L-brackets to get rid of sway and movement within the table itself.
it looked god-awful but it was sturdy for years and years of production-quantity printing. It was only disassembled when the print lab got rebuilt.
so, in other words, I support your idea of modifying the construction of the lack wholeheartedly. The joint lines are one of the only 'strong-ish' elements on the entire table, and I think they'd take glue nicely.
Re: LackRack: IKEA's cheapest table is perfectly sized to rackmount computers (2020)
#187The less advert laden site: https://wiki.eth0.nl/index.php/LackRack
Ok, we've changed to that from https://boingboing.net/2020/08/14/lack-rack-ikeas-cheapest-t.... Thanks!
Re: LackRack: IKEA's cheapest table is perfectly sized to rackmount computers (2020)
#188You know you are in HN when people use S3 to upload photos, and not imgur.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32521279.
(Nothing wrong with a whimsically off-topic observation like this, but boy did the subthread turn lame.)
Re: LackRack: IKEA's cheapest table is perfectly sized to rackmount computers (2020)
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>what I “didn’t really need” was an entire image processing and sharing platform run for someone else’s benefit. Do you think AWS is run as a public service? If you aren't hosting it on your own hardware, someone else is benefiting. >That image sharing platform is itself only accessible via the use of a grossly overweight multiple-API client called a “web browser”. The web browser that you are using to post this comm…
hard to imagine someone stooping to this level of antagonistic misrepresentation because they disagreed with someone else’s preference for image hosting, but there it is. “two clicks of a mouse” - that’s a negative, not a positive, attribute. I’d rather not use a mouse, when possible. And yes, my S3 “workflow” is a very short shell script. are you actually interested in which user agent I use to access HN, or was tha…
Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar. It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for.
Please especially avoid tit-for-tat spats, which are especially boring and tedious.
Re: LackRack: IKEA's cheapest table is perfectly sized to rackmount computers (2020)
#190Earlier quoted context omitted.
hard to imagine someone stooping to this level of antagonistic misrepresentation because they disagreed with someone else’s preference for image hosting, but there it is. “two clicks of a mouse” - that’s a negative, not a positive, attribute. I’d rather not use a mouse, when possible. And yes, my S3 “workflow” is a very short shell script. are you actually interested in which user agent I use to access HN, or was tha…
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Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar. It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for.
Please especially avoid tit-for-tat spats, which are especially boring and tedious.