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PhilipRoman

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2018-10-20

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  • One thing I would really like to see is the mathematical and/or notation with the tall single curly bracket (with nesting, when appropriate).

    I've seen a bulleted list being used for both conjunctions and disjunctions within the same document and in both cases it was not obvious from context (it was related to conditions for receiving funding)

  • They're not really a moving target (since some distros ship ancient kernels, most components will handle lack of new syscalls gracefully), but the surface is still pretty big. A single ioctl() or write() syscall could do a billion different things and a lot of software depends on small bits of this functionality, meaning you gotta implement 99% of it to get everything working.

  • You can, in fact that's how Arch wiki suggests doing it: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/DNS-over-HTTPS

  • Interesting, I've had the exact opposite experience. My oldest HDD from 2007 is still going strong. Haven't had even a single micro SD card fail in a RPI. I built some fancy backup infrastructure for myself based on a sharded hash addressed database but so far have only used the backups to recover from "Layer 8" issues :)

    I had a look at my notes and so far the only unexpected downtime has been due to 1x CMOS battery running out after true power off, 1x VPS provider randomly powering off my reverse proxy, 2x me screwing around with link bonding (connections always started to fail a few hours later, in middle of night).

  • To be honest I never understood the purpose of RAID for personal use cases. RAID is not a backup, so you need frequent, incremental backups anyway. It only makes sense for things where you need that 99.99% uptime. OK, maybe if you're hosting a service that many people depend on then I could see it (although I suspect downtime would still be dominated by other causes) but then I go over to r/DataHoarder and I see people using RAID for their media vaults which just blows my mind.

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