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Pebble had its own OS, the various fitness trackers have their own OS, I don't necessarily see things as grim as the author makes them out to be.

Especially if it lets the device last longer than 24-48 hours on a single charge.

These are fantastic for long-term storage of something that may need to be retrieved at a moments notice, but is rarely accessed.

One example from a previous job, these in a Ceph cluster as an origin for a CDN delivering video. We transcode the video to various bit rates and chunk em, then clients request them through CDN, there is not a lot of writing, with some reads when the asset is new, but once it is cached it just basically sits and is idle.

Larger capacity meant we could store more data in a single rack, our limitation for the origin wasn't CPU or bandwidth throughput, it was literally our storage that forced us to keep expanding.

The deployment I did was using 8TB drives. We used HGST with their Helium because of the lesser power draw, allowing us to install more servers in a rack without going over our maximum power draw and heat density for cooling.

It was a lot more limited before.

    gen_random_uuid()

Exists in the pgcrypto extension.

Only does UUID 4, which should work for many applications.

Nope. Almost none.

Yes, it only helps partially.

Thank you for your comments... I am on meds and have had the prednisone shots and whatnot, still have attacks that last weeks on end. Was told by my doctors that unfortunately it comes with the territory.

Pain from gout is excruciating. It is incredibly painful, and you can't put pressure on it, you can't even cover it with a light sheet, you can't sleep... and it goes on for days, sometimes weeks. My longest attack was 2 months long.

Standard opioids didn't touch. Should have tried MJ instead.

In The Netherlands everyone is on WhatsApp, and instead of sending a text message or something like that, it is common to hear "Ik zal even een appje sturen" (I will sent you an WhatsApp message), or "Ik app je wel" (I'll WhatsApp you).

It got shortened... to just "app".

Domain tasting? Get a cert for it, then it expires?

Ah, you are correct:

https://www.amazon.com/Apple-Radio-Remote-iPod-White/dp/B000...

Interesting, never knew about this.

The iPod Nano 5th edition required that the user plug in head phones to listen to FM radio, this was required because there was no internal antenna, nor would one work very well with the case being made out of metal.

Not a dongle...

> Not exactly a database but for example with ZFS it is known that ZFS can't provide guarantees that usually provides if you run it in a VM

This is true for any and all file systems. ext4 can't provide those guarantees either because it's up to the hypervisor to do the right thing when the guest requests it to flush caches to disk.

ZFS just happens to have made it very explicit that it requires certain guarantees to provide the data reliability, but those same requirements exist for other file systems.

> If we fail to meet the minimum purchase commitment during any year, we are required to pay the difference.

Being frugal until you hit the $400MM doesn't matter anymore...

Find a dock that doesn't use DisplayLink. There are plenty of them out there that pass through the USB-C DisplayPort and have an ethernet port on them as well.

Dell sells one that is pretty good and used by a lot of my friends.

Yep. Nor will he be able to get the latest version of iOS. So just like any other upgrade that removed older devices from the supported list.

Do you have stats for how plentiful iPhone 5 users are?

The Apple iPhone 5 was released in 2012. Apple has provided those users with 5 years of updates (assuming September is when they will release the new iPhone and also update the major iOS version number).

5 years is a long time in the mobile handset business... I doubt too many people will be livid about anything.

The user may be talking about DisplayLink USB displays (they install a secondary driver and create a virtual video buffer to draw in before sending it across USB to a device that draws it on screen)... not USB-C DisplayPort.

DisplayLink is pretty awful. Especially on macOS, due to limitations of macOS, they are laggy, don't display certain apps correctly and more.

There are quite a few docks out there (I know Asus had one) that use DisplayLink technology to show external displays.

I work remote, so I spend quite a bit of time at coffee shops and other places like that... MagSafe on my laptop has saved my laptop countless times. Sitting on a small table the rubber feet provide enough grip that if you give the cable a quick tug it becomes unplugged.

I am definitely going to miss MagSafe and am hoping the third party market comes up with something that will emulate it enough to where I don't have to worry about my laptop going flying because some cut doesn't watch where he is walking and accidentally kicks the cord.

Yeah, if you have it sitting on your desk and slowly pull on it the magnet will hold... but give it a quick tug, laptop will stay, cord will come with you.

If you walk in on a weekday near the end of the day, generally you can get an appointment with a 20 - 30 minute wait time right there in the store.

I always do this because I know they will have a cancelation, and I really hate booking a week out for something that is bothering me today.

Tickets, tags, labels, users information/data and more. Sounds like they also host snippets out of the PostgreSQL database.

310 GB for a database is not all that large.

Safari bookmarks/tabs sync across iOS/macOS as well. You can also access tabs/history originating from the iOS client.

The author of the article was arguing that you should add a CRC to the data being sent across TCP/IP. So that would encompass the whole payload, not just per-packet.

This has not been my experience. I have some very long running group messages that switched over automatically when my brother switched from iPhone to Android.

If you unregister your number from iMessages, group texts switch over from iMessages to non-iMessage as soon as you send a message that has a member in it that is no longer iMessage.

Why should it generate a deb file? How is this useful on anything but Debian based systems?

Why exe? How do you package libraries using this new tool you are envisioning?

> resolution management based on network speed

Not so much a feature of YouTube as it is a feature of HLS/Dash... but yes, it means you've gotta transcode the source video into multiple different bitrates.

I've got an EliteBook that has issues with this... at high load after about 10 - 15 minutes it throttles itself WAY back because it can't get rid of the heat.

It's a vendor zone, anyone can register for a vendor zone...

SuperMicro has their IOPS optimized Ceph storage SKU's, that is what was used. Looks like they have updated since we purchased:

https://www.supermicro.com/solutions/storage_ceph.cfm

We went for upgraded network capacity though, 20 Gbit/sec cluster backend, 20 Gbit/sec cluster frontend...

12 * 8 TB drives, with 800 GB NVMe for the Ceph journal. Fast, large Ceph journal was key.

Total installation was about 3 PB raw, that is 1 PB useable with replication size 3. 33 Ceph OSD nodes, 3 Ceph monitor nodes and Juniper low latency switching using the QFX5100.

Full IPv6 network on both frontend/backend. 11 nodes per rack, each rack being it's own /64 routed domain. 3 racks.

I'm no longer doing contract work for the company, but last I heard they were expanding it out to 6 racks with an additional 3 PB raw capacity added on because of growing datasets.

It's an OpenStack cluster that is connected to this Ceph cluster, 40 Gbit/sec storage backend network, with 40 Gbit/sec front-end that VM's have all their traffic on. So storage and standard traffic don't mix.

The performance and IOPS even virtualized were enough that the entire company is moving their bare metal databases to VM's. I am unable to disclose IOPS or Oracle database performance due to contractual obligations unfortunately.