organsnyder

This was before Extended Validation was available. I don't remember the exact year, but I know for sure it was before 2007 (it was my dad's business, and he passed away in 2007).

That's not how it used to be, though. It used to be that you had to prove a much higher level of ownership, even for standard, non-"enhanced" certs. There was one time we discovered that the business hadn't had its articles of incorporation renewed in the state, and the validation process by the cert issuer caught it.

I do prefer the current model (the trade-offs are worth it, IMHO), but it wasn't always this way.

Could be a combination of factors:

1. AI agent deletes the primary copy 2. Backup system fails (when did they last test the restoration process?), so they have no copies

> As long as the battery has enough energy to cover the outage the end result is the same.

That is the key—having enough battery to cover an extended outage is very expensive.

My generator can run on natural gas, which is piped to our house and only had one outage in the fourteen years we've lived there (when the gas company replaced lines as part of preventative maintenance). So effectively, we have a redundant electricity source coming into the house. If that was also down, I could also run it on propane or gasoline.

That being said, if I had to pick batteries _or_ a generator, I'd prioritize batteries. We have both, and the batteries cover the majority of outages, while also providing other benefits.

My utility doesn't have a program quite like this, but they do have a peak power rate that incentivizes similar behavior. I have our system configured to charge up to 90% at 12pm, and then consume no grid power until 7pm (peak rate is 1-7pm), or if the battery gets down to 35%.

I also have it configured to charge to 100% if there are any weather watches or warnings. That overrides the time-of-use configuration.

We do also have a generator that I can hook up if the batteries get too low. We have enough battery to get us through the night, but we don't have enough solar to keep up in an outage during the darker months, or if we want to run the A/C.

Bartlet / Hoynes '98!

I wonder how many datacenters bother with those sorts of things anymore, given how many workloads are no longer tied to individual nodes. Seems like it would just be easier to accept that a certain percentage of nodes will be down at any one time, and go through and repair/replace them as needed.

I'm shaking! I'm shaking!

They're different sites, with different goals, run by different people.

Of course you can, but that's not what's implied by the quote.

In addition to microtonality, many instruments (and the human voice) are capable of infinite tuning, and musicians will deviate from the "correct" note (as played by an even-tempered instrument) based on chord structure, voice leading, etc.

> That would be a huge mistake if we expect many more hardware and OS running them efficiently than just iOS and Android.

Is that something we should be engineering for right now?

That's fairly rare. Most companies would use a compatibility layer instead.

I tried it out for a trip yesterday. I wanted to love the app—it has a great retro feel, and an ad-free subscription option—but it gave me weird routes and the audio was extremely stuttery.

Yes, latency is excellent. My ping time to 1.1.1.1 is 6ms on wifi.