I do value your research and writings. I was thinking about offering to buy you a laptop because it sounded like you had an old POS that was hampering said research and writings, but then I decided that would be too weird.
I did have a POS, but in July 2010 I finally bit the bullet and bought a new Dell Studio 17 laptop that has since worked well for me. (The hard drive died a few months ago and I had to replace it, almost simultaneously with my external backup drive dying, which was very stressful, but Dell doesn’t make the hard drives, so I write that off as an isolated incident.)
I do value your research and writings. I was thinking about offering to buy you a laptop because it sounded like you had an old POS that was hampering said research and writings, but then I decided that would be too weird.
I did have a POS, but in July 2010 I finally bit the bullet and bought a new Dell Studio 17 laptop that has since worked well for me. (The hard drive died a few months ago and I had to replace it, almost simultaneously with my external backup drive dying, which was very stressful, but Dell doesn’t make the hard drives, so I write that off as an isolated incident.)
Ah, then I only need to buy you a 2-year backblaze subscription, that’s far cheaper.
Backblaze sounds great, but they don’t have a Linux client.
tarsnap it is, then.
Tarsnap is cool—I like Colin’s blog and stuff like scrypt. (The latter was relevant to one of my crypto essays.)
For the record: khafra actually did donate to me and wasn’t just cheap signaling. Well done!
Wow. Great stuff khafra. I hereby grant you some portion of the respect granted to gwern for his nootropics research!
Well, that’s a pretty good prestige-per-dollar return, then; thanks! (And thanks to gwern, and keep up the good work).
Crashplan does.