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by Erwin 8y ago
Sounds like applying the web tracking to the real world could be the next evil business idea. When I somehow get upgraded to business class while flying it is rather flattering to be greeted by the stewards by name while being offered a gla
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by Erwin 8y ago
Amazon's Aurora Postgres database does a similar thing: your master in one zone replicates to a disk that is in all the other zones. Unlike normal Postgres RDS instance it also auto-scales storage to what you use. Amazon claims better
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by Erwin 8y ago
"Fabric" has had a generic distributed meaning way before the Python tool: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabric_computing Microsoft's full product name is "Azure Service Fabric" which properly
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by Erwin 9y ago
I spent several months alternating between Tidal HIFI and Spotify to see if I could difference on my Sennheiser HD800S and the Chord Mojo DAC and couldn't. I also tried the "Tidal Masters". It wasn't some complex blind t
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by Erwin 9y ago
As I understand it, Netherlands have a wealth tax: rather than tax capital gains, net ownership is taxed at a 30% rate of assumed gain. So essentially you pay 0.6 to 1.5% of your shares, non-primary housing etc. in wealth tax depending on s
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by Erwin 9y ago
I've recently switched from a giant append-only text file which I've been using for 18 years, to using TiddlyWiki -- a personal wiki. Each journal entry (or any wiki page within it) can be tagged and you can view pages across tags
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by Erwin 9y ago
It requires that your code is architected so performance critical sections of Python can move into C etc. Let's say that your code creates a complex object tree from some configuration settings, and executes Python methods and code fro
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by Erwin 9y ago
You were initially intrigued and hopeful, but ultimately there was no explanation nor the content you were hoping for. Well, that's life for you!
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by Erwin 9y ago
My local (Denmark) taxi company has an app that is pretty much like Uber: I enter start and end address and can prepay. But, they do obey the law unlike Uber. I suppose Uber's ease of use has inspired other companies, so it's grea
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by Erwin 9y ago
If you are running HA in AWS RDS, how would you compare your experience with the above? What are the types of RDS failures modes that you have experienced? So far I've discovered that TCP keepalives are quite important, otherwise your
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by Erwin 9y ago
If you also intercept the exec* family calls, you can forbid the user from running any but the trusted executables (so that will exclude e.g. anything written in Python etc). It does get tricky since you are depending on glibc internals to
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by Erwin 9y ago
I experienced something similar in my data-driven permission restriction DSO. Turns out I was calling my initialization function multiple times because the system calls I overrode were called before my attribute((constructor)) function. I&#
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by Erwin 9y ago
I picked Patchwork the board game recently, and then tried PC game -- very good. You can play both against a good computer player and against online players (with ELO rating) -- as many games asynchronously as you want. Its a cute-looking,
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by Erwin 9y ago
In 1980s Encore Games copied all the American SPI games and published them on the cheap. I had the feeling they were quite successful, publishing 20 games: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgamepublisher/5018/encore-b
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by Erwin 9y ago
You know the author of this piece is Brendan Gregg, right? DTrace author, performance guru, ex-Sun engineer and lead performance engineer at Joyent. And now a full time Linux guy. He doesn't think it's so bad apparently!
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by Erwin 9y ago
Yes, it was a truly chilling effect on the free speech when a website was held responsible for distributing private sex videos to garner clicks. If that suit didn't happen, would reddit been as fast to stop the "fappening" ex
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by Erwin 9y ago
First you have to send your money to your foreign account. If you have earned it as wages and it's in your ordinary bank account, you have already paid quite a lot of taxes. Your employer will probably not be comfortable sending your p
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by Erwin 9y ago
At $120/month you've read 12,000 pages of good enough quality to charge for. If you were to buy 40 new 300-page fiction books you could spend $400; if you were to buy 40 new professional books you could spend $1000.
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by Erwin 9y ago
Google has not in fact, forked Swift. So there's no news here, just FUD.
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by Erwin 9y ago
If you like this, you will enjoy this: http://www.humansofnewyork.com/ -- many touching stories and great portraits. The author started in NY but has traveled the world, doing the same type of short interviews with people i
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by Erwin 9y ago
The tomato thing has been done by SCIO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_5Al294Nak which apparently is now available as an extra sensor small enough to build into ordinary phones, with just one obscure Chinese manufacturer
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by Erwin 9y ago
py.test does the magic walking, and it does indeed make for much less verbose tests -- no need to remember which self.assertSomething method to call either: x = 1 y = 2 items = [4,5,6] assert (x+y) in items Outputs this
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by Erwin 9y ago
A little more theoretical, but for programming language, there's "Programming Language Pragmatics" which covers imperative, functional, logical PLs and everything needed to make them run from runtimes, linking, virtual machin
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by Erwin 9y ago
Not 6 different orange juices, but pure juice pairings have become popular on top restaurants (e.g. the 3-star Geranium here in CPH, and Noma while it was open), similar to wine pairings. Those are thoughtfully developed mixes, so few if
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by Erwin 9y ago
Obligatory transformation of cloud to you-know-what: https://cloudflareworkers.com/#9bdc354e936c05a4a1d7df7eb0d7f...
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by Erwin 9y ago
Or calories. It's not impossible, but I've seen just one non-fast-food restaurant do it: Gauthier Soho in London: http://www.gauthiersoho.co.uk/menu-1.php The tasting menu is 1785 Calories -- excluding wine.
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by Erwin 9y ago
You can buy a digital keyring to show the code if you want, e.g. https://www.nets.eu/dk-da/l%C3%B8sninger/nemid/nemid-til-pri... -- which has a limited lifetime battery; I don't check my account often en
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by Erwin 9y ago
The Danish NemID ("easy ID") uses the Danish SSN, a password and strike list for login to the many government services (you can get divorced online if both parties agree ), banks, contracts (e.g. signing deeds to a house), gamblin
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by Erwin 9y ago
That's assuming all the IO you can block on HAS support for non-threaded concurrency. Things that wrap C libraries may support threads, but not the reactor-of-the-day (twisted? tornado? etc.)
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Danish rocket and submarine builder charged with murder after submarine sinks(news.sky.com)
16 points by Erwin 9y ago|1 comments

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