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My money is on expired domain somewhere or security certificate.
A Windows update restarted a critical server automatically. A core service is blocked from starting by a Candy Crush ad installed by the update. The Crandy Crush ad is somehow expecting a Copilot key to be pressed on the keyboard to let the system keep going. MS engineers are waiting for an online purchase of a new $400 keyboard with the Copilot key to complete and planning to run to the data center to plug the keybo…
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So basically DDG is the wrapper for Bing Search, not an "independent" search company as they claim.
Yes it is one of many metasearch sites and not actually a search engine. Other engines include Kagi, Yandex, Brave, Mojeek, Quant, and something called Google.
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>are distributed systems naturally more resilient? All else being equal: Yes. It's like asking if a RAID1 is more resilient than a single drive.
RAID1 is mirrored. That is not what I would call a typical distributed system. It is a very redundant system. Like a cluster. A distributed system without redundancy would rather be something like data stripped across disks without parity. And that actually makes it less resilient, because failure of one component can bring down the whole system and the likelihood of failure is statistically higher because of the hig…
The term "distributed" has been traditionally applied to the original design of the TCP/IP protocol, various application-layer protocols like NNTP, IRC, etc., with the common factor being that each node operates as a standalone unit, but with nodes maintaining connectivity to each other so the whole system approaches a synchronized state -- if one node fails. the others continue to operate, but the overall system might become partitioned, with each segment diverging in its state.
The "RAID0" approach might apply to something like a Kubernetes cluster, where each node of the system is an autonomous unit, but each node performs a slightly different function, so that if any one node fails, the functionality of the overall system is blocked.
That second approach seems more consistent with what we traditionally label as "distributed" -- for example, the original design of the TCP/IP protocol, along with lots of application-layer protocols like NNTP and IRC, have each node operating autonomously but synchronized to other nodes so the whole system approaches a common data state. If one node fails, the other nodes all continue to operate, but might cause the overall system to become partitioned, leading to divergent states in each disconnected segment.
The CAP theorem comes to mind: the first approach maintains availability but risks consistency, the second approach maintains consistency but risks availability. But the second approach seems like a variant implementation strategy for what is still effectively a centralized system -- the overall solution still exists only as a single instance -- so I usually think of the first approach when something is described as "distributed".
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#344So much about DuckDuckGo's claim that Bing is only a part of their search results.
I‘m pretty sure it was always just a proxy for bing. Just stripping away the Microsoft tracking. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27394925
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>are distributed systems naturally more resilient? All else being equal: Yes. It's like asking if a RAID1 is more resilient than a single drive.
To the GP's point - if you lose the RAID controller, then you've lost a whole lot more than just a single drive failure.
With RAID1, there's also nothing specific to the RAID configuration inherent in the way the data is encoded on the disk. You might have to carefully replicate your configuration to access the filesystem from a failed RAID0 array, but you can just pull and individual disk out of a RAID1 array and use it normally as a standalone disk.
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#347I had to use Yahoo today, ew.
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#350Single point of faaaaiiiiiluuuuure - Sing it!