I mean, if you really need redundancy, isn’t a second instance on a VPS somewhere that you manually switch over to, enough?

Over multiple ISPs, so far internet outages for more then a few minutes is very rare (though the few minutes would make me not want to host something requiring high availability; and a cut cable is really annoying because there simply is no quick fix), power outages even rares, I experienced 3 in 40 years, and the longest was 6 hours.

Generally, no.

Ignoring for now how you are synchronizing the database and filesystem, and how doing so may well result in your duplicate experiencing the same failure as the original, you can maybe recover from a small class of availability issues that could knock you out of an SLA.

But that assumes you can get online and can fully orchestrate the transition within less than 53 minutes of it starting. Including the time you took to become aware of it. And including the time to diagnose and decide that a switchover would resolve the problem. Including the time it takes for DNS caches to expire and point to the new host. Including the DNS caches which may ignore your TTL. And including all these things again when you switch back.

And assuming, of course, that it doesn't happen again for a whole year.

I personally just find it convenient, even in my 3.5 room apartment. Though I do have switches that work.

I sometimes called it "textual memory of an image", but I also liked TFA with "we experience these as an awareness of a set of spatial facts"

Yes. Reminds me of "Poetry is the art of giving different names to the same thing" vs "Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things" -- Henri Poincaré. Set of spacial facts is what's left when all the incidental embellishments are removed--pure abstraction.

I don’t have ADHD¹, there. But anyway, while I have aphantasia, almost everyone I talk to reports being able to see images, most being able to manipulate them. From my incredibly small sample size of ~20, my sister was the only one with possibly mild aphantasia, 1 guy online and a girl I know possibly have hyperphantasia (very realistic images coming into their mind’s eye unbidden), and everyone else were confused about me not being able to imagine/see anything.

¹: Though I do (likely) have auditory processing disorder which wikipedia called ADHD for the ears, so maybe it fits.

Is there a way to have fast on-the-fly WebP encoding? When i checked it, it was unusably slow (multiple seconds for large images), but maybe that was the implementation. That alone made JXL far more interesting to us.

This behavior predates modern AI. Maybe it’s getting worse, but without high limits (which lower revenue) adsense will result in a lot of scams.

Under privacy, ignored, I put providers that always suck. Digital Ocean, OpenInference, DeepInfra, AtlasCloud, and Alibaba (that one is different, it doesn’t suck in the same way as the others with a dumb model, but instead it’s heavily censored and doesn’t like being used as RP model in Skyrim).

FWIW, one article is very short on details, it’s a slightly expanded press release, and the other is a video. I’m not sure either is what’s needed more on HN.

> This is quite common if you have full on aphantasia.

Is it? I’ve never really researched common aphantasia behavior, but I’ve seen many mentions of aphantasia in fantasy/scifi subreddits where those of us with it still love reading. I can imagine (heh) it, but I wonder if there’s some kind of data regarding it?

I don't know. I speak mostly from my own experience and that of my friends.

For me personally reading is still interesting and can be very engaging, but due to the logic of the story, characters, and universe; for lengthy descriptions of the appearance of the environment or the characters I quickly glaze over and get bored because they just don't do much for me (unless the appearances have some semantic significance in the story).

Yeah, it's the same for me, but luckily those are very rare

FWIW, there’s a famous(-ish) fantasy author with aphantasia (Mark Lawrence), and I also have aphantasia, yet I absolutely love reading and if I would have to choose only one entertainment for the rest of my live, it’d be reading.

But I can’t stand elaborate descriptions (it’s almost always landscapes, rarely do authors feel the need to describe anything in as excruciating details as landscapes), which might be related to those descriptions not building up to some kind of image in my head.