I have a home server that I’m using and hosting files on it. I’m worried about it breaking and loosing access to the files. So what method do you use to backup everything?
Some hosting sites advertise "unlimited" storage, but the fine print generally excludes "abusive users" from this policy. For web hosting, they'd probably consider backups of non-website data to a service intended for basic web hosting to be abuse.
Unless they have a home lab (sounds like they don't) or fancy expensive contract with a large cloud provider (unlikely), this is asking for trouble. Nobody offers unconditional data storage for free, its always a loss leader for another service and abuse will eventually get you banned.
@nixCraft in the context of arrays, counting starts at 0 because it's not counting items, it's counting the offset from the beginning of the array.
So, if you read from an offset of 0, you're reading the first element of the array etc.
Some languages do not follow this (e.g. lua)
Historically, this is because the earliest programming languages (C etc) were tightly coupled to machine instructions. So, when it came time to turn the operation for accessing an element in an array into a language construct, they naturally said "in machine code, we take the address of the array in memory, then add an offset multiplied by the size of each item in the array to get the starting address for the element we want". This turned into array[offset] as opposed to array[element#].
Since then, most languages just kept that paradigm - people create new languages because they think the existing ones don't do something well enough, and most people with the skill to design a new language aren't annoyed by the use of an array offset instead of array item position starting at 1.
Did anyone else have a weird experience with math? I could always do it in my head, really fast, get the answer, it's correct... But then I couldn't show my work or prove it, meaning it was useless. I'm curious if this is an ADHD thing? If so, does anyone know why?
Part of the problem is a lot of math is taught as pure theory. Unless you're one of the few people who finds math theory interesting on its own, it's soul-crushingly boring to someone with ADHD and feels like you're being taught how to waterboard yourself. It didn't help that my math classes were invariably taught in the oldest building on campus which probably had a single functioning AC unit. Physical and mental torture.
I managed to struggle through it, but only because I found physics interesting and it forced me to learn the underlying math well enough that I could progress to the next level.
Yea, nothing prevents them from fetching the pre-edited content from their daily or weekly database backups. Media such as images and video might be harder to restore, but "soft" deletes on that type of storage are common, and editing a comment to remove an embed won't delete the embed source.
It's a sister service to mastodon.world, so that seems highly unlikely. They're just a general purpose non-specialized instance, with a "left-leaning" code of conduct (see rules on racism, qanon, shitposting, etc)
How do you guys back up your server?
I have a home server that I’m using and hosting files on it. I’m worried about it breaking and loosing access to the files. So what method do you use to backup everything?
ADHD and math
Did anyone else have a weird experience with math? I could always do it in my head, really fast, get the answer, it's correct... But then I couldn't show my work or prove it, meaning it was useless. I'm curious if this is an ADHD thing? If so, does anyone know why?
ADHD alien (comics on adhd) (adhd-alien.com)
A couple of her comics have been posted here, but I think its important to link to the source as well 😀...
Banned from r/news for deleting a 10 year old comment with redact. Guess the mods there have no backbone. No big deal to me since I'm deleting my account soon but be aware.
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