Back in the day I managed a small office server, backing up via a particularly slow ADSL line. It took about a week to do the initial sync, so I just let it run and in the meantime backed up to an external disk every couple of days.
Once it was up and running most snapshots took a few minutes to sync, always finished before the morning anyway.
Definite +1 to rsync.net, this was >15 years ago but it was always 100% solid, I don't think I ever had any issues. It's nice to see they're still doing the same thing and haven't bloated it with crap!
I went on a tour round a few years ago and it was notable for using Gas Insulated Transformers, which are unusual outside of Japan if I remember rightly. There were amazingly strict planning regs that required the installation to be super quiet, so the building had a surprising amount of sound insulation.
I went on a tour round Torness a couple of years ago and it's a fantastic engineering marvel to mosey around.
A few things stand out, like the old-tech ring binders and Windows 95 screensavers on CRTs. The safety focus was clear. Nothing was done without a risk assessment, and the young apprentice who was helping with our tour was given a telling off by the tour staff as he wasn't holding the handrails - as had clearly been drummed into them.
What really struck me was how many people were involved in running the plant. I don't know how it compares to similarly sized gas plants, but there were hundreds and hundreds of people employed - mostly in project management/safety roles. I wonder how it compares to how many folk are employed in renewables, we have a lot of wind power here now.
It's a shame that cracks have started to form in the reactors so the plants will be shutdown earlier than planned. It looks like tours are suspended for Covid, but go round if they open up again before shutdown!
The central cylindrical space in what was the Scottish Nuclear headquarters was designed to be the same size as an AGR reactor (each AGR plant having two reactors) - which I thought was rather cool.
Nice to see that it's not just another VS Code spin off. They seem to be finding a nice middle ground between the very basic Arduino 1 IDE, and an over-complicated all-in IDE.
What? That’s exactly what this is. Theia is a fork of VSCode that Eclipse maintains (with a slightly differently structured backend, I think), and they’ve forked that and removed the bits you don’t need for working with Arduino. You can see it in the screenshot, it looks like VSCode with less buttons.
you cannot have full intellisense on Arduino project because of how the pre-processing works and generates headers and forward declarations.
IDE 2.0 contains a Language Server developed from scratch to handle this, and every platform supported by ClangD works.
Even using the Arduino plugin for VS Code won't offer proper completion, hinting and jump-to-definition
In fairness, the hard part is scaling redundant HA phone operators. I'm sure between twilio, deep learning, and GPT3 they have the problem almost solved.
Riiing. Hi, I'd like to order tamale maker TK156.
No problem! Where in Tokelau would you like us to send 156 tamales?
I mean yeah, plain html/css scales well for any site that just exists to serve a couple lines of text and images. I can't think of a single site (outside of maybe craigslist) that can get by with that functionality today.
Newspaper sites are the obvious example you'd think of... but they need comments, advertising (or login functionality), moderation tools, etc.
All of the features you mention can be done without JS using server side rendering.
It would of course be more convenient to use JS for advertisements, but logins and comments used to be implemented without using JS for many pages, even if JS was available.
HN is an example of such a site. This site does not have scaling issues due to login not using JS.
Awesome! It's great to see that the project was saved from bankruptcy. I was really gutted at the thought it would get shelved, especially as it was so far along.
They've done a whole lot of educational work with the project to get kids (and adults) excited about engineering, which can only be a good thing.
When this last came up on HN, the Scottish Government was in the process of rolling this out. It seems to have happened and baby boxes are now given to all newborns:
https://www.parentclub.scot/baby-box
Once it was up and running most snapshots took a few minutes to sync, always finished before the morning anyway.
Definite +1 to rsync.net, this was >15 years ago but it was always 100% solid, I don't think I ever had any issues. It's nice to see they're still doing the same thing and haven't bloated it with crap!