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Are you related to "bobince[^]" by any chance?
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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As enterprise data security concerns grow, security experts urge businesses to back up their GitLab, GitHub, and BitBucket repositories. There's a case for not?
OK, it's actually, "Your repositories are not a replacement for backup". Less silly.
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Huh, sounds like when you lend that one friend an item and they keep it for all eternity.
And when you ask for it back, he says one of two things: "You gave it to me!" or "This is mine! I bought it!"
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The inanity of the question was... unbelievable.
We have 10 days of nightly backups of our source control that's easily accessible. If the building gets destroyed, there's an offsite copy of last night's backup. A backup walks home with me every couple of days. This ignores the backups of every. single. build. that we keep.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Paranoia goes a long way. Years ago, a customer had zero backup process in place. Me being the paranoid type would burn zip files to DVD (yeah, *that* long ago). Well, one day IT got a new drive and copied all of the backup zip files to the new drive...
Months later, I needed to revert to a saved image. Corrupt. Every single zip file was corrupted. They hadn't bothered to verify they were good copies before trashing the old drive. I thought the IT person was going to have an aneurism. But I had backup set #1 in my home office and backup set #2 in a safe deposit box.
The fact that this suggestion even needs to be made... which reminds me, time for me to rattle IT about their backups
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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My best failure-to-backup story is fairly old. Back in the late 80's my employer laid everyone off, then hired me back as a contractor to finish up the contract I was working on. I took their MicroVAX home along with its 300MB hard drive (which weighed around 75 pounds).
When I finished the job and I was ready to ship the computer to them across the country, I told them they needed to place a DEC service call first. The backup tape drive on the machine wasn't working, so there wasn't any backup of the rather FORTRAN large simulation I had been writing. They refused to pay for the service call, and told me to just ship it.
I packed up the machine. The 300MB hard drive was packed into its original shipping container which was a form-fitting dense foam block, inside an eight-ply cardboard box, inside dense foam spacers, inside an eight-ply shipping box.
When the drive arrived in California, there were dents in the drive enclosure. They finally got the shipper to admit that it had been dropped from a forklift which then ran into the side of the box. They tried taking it to several data recovery services, all of which refused the job.
When they called me up, I offered them the only backup I was capable of making before I shipped the machine: a paper listing of slightly over 2,000 pages. I took it to Kinko who copied it and then shipped it to them. The last I heard, they hired a secretarial firm to type the beast back in. They never got it working.
Software Zen: delete this;
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By using hypernetworks, researchers can now preemptively fine-tune artificial neural networks, saving some of the time and expense of training. "Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate"
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We’re happy to announce that the first preview of the upcoming .NET Community Toolkit 8.0 release is now live, bringing with it lots of new features, improvements and bug fixes! A new MVVM? YMMV
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Susan Wojcicki says the company is looking to ‘help creators capitalize on emerging technologies’ So you can be the only one to watch that cat video?
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It all started with my monthly Azure bill for December which was way over what it would normally be. 5012 reasons to be cautious about the cloud
Granted, those are Australian reasons, so convert to your local reasons
PS: Happy Australia Day to all who care.
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Astronomers calculate the evolution of black holes over the Universe's existence. Dang. I lost track of the count again.
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Attackers have targeted hundreds of organisations, says Microsoft security. If it also wants to fill in my TPS reports, deal
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Rather than pouring down my opinions, my point is to ignite a debate with you on how to use programming paradigms to write expressive code. Brother, can you spare a pair a' dime?
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How did you stay awake long enough to write your post?
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They missed the "no-code" paradigm
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Digital communications:
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Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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These seemingly harmless bits are automatically targeted by the storage platform's filtering algorithm, apparently for a terms of service violation. It's all 1s and 0s
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Damn, I should have patented that myself earlier!
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Welp, there goes the binary system...
Do not give them any ideas, like the hexadecimal system...
OOPS...
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I suppose you can patent using True or False.
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'How this hasn’t been identified as a pyramid scheme is beyond me' Present company included
Sorry for the naughty words they use in the article.
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[voice type="whiny"]two hours[/voice]
So far, so good (and highly informative). Thank you!
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: [voice type="whiny"]two hours[/voice]
and almost 20 minutes!
You nailed it with the voice. That was almost my exact same thought when I started it, and I was surprised I finished it, and learned about DAOs, which I hadn't heard of before! "I can always quit - after all, he's preaching to the choir!" But boy, did I not know how far down that rabbit hole went!
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