Natales

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by Natales 6y ago
No means a lot more than “no” most of the time. My mom was Jehovah’s Witness, so I was raised always to take care of “the appearances”, always being polite, even when you disagree. When I moved to the US back in 2000, I “discovered” people
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by Natales 6y ago
> Much of the world doesn't actually enjoy living under total American hegemony Worded like that, yes. But purely anecdotally, having had the chance to visit 35 countries, and having talked to a lot of people about world issues, I&#
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by Natales 6y ago
I cannot agree more. I also had the pleasure of meeting him at his home in Corte Madera. After an hour of conversation and listening, of course I was really impressed with his creations, but during just a moment, I saw a glimpse of why he w
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by Natales 6y ago
I wrote about my experience with the minis first [0] and then with the LX521.4 [1]. The posts are old and I moved since then, but my experience has not changed. The minis are unreal. The quality of the sound you get in such a small (and che
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by Natales 6y ago
Don't judge all of us audiophiles with a blanket statement. Yes, measured hearing capacity is definitely a key metric to know (why invest in super tweeters when you can't hear past 18KHz for example), but room acoustics is probabl
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by Natales 6y ago
I think we can't underestimate that one of the biggest problems with all this is the poor quality of the software. This is particularly shameful in devices that are so simple. Basically finite-state machines, something that everyone in
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by Natales 6y ago
Same. About 10 years ago I bought a Jura-Capresso super automatic coffee machine (S7). Very simple. 4 buttons. Small matrix text display with a good UX. Really nothing fancy. I clean it when it asks me to, and that's all the maintenanc
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by Natales 6y ago
I'm Chilean, and I lived in Bolivia back in 89. I used to travel back and forth all the time, so I got used to see lake Titicaca from the air, and a couple of times on the ground. The place is astonishingly beautiful. Pristine. Ancient
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by Natales 6y ago
This is sad. Puerto Rico has already been hit hard so many times. Agree or not, the observatory has a prominent place in pop culture, which helps bring the much needed visitors, and with them, awareness of Space Research and Science in gene
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by Natales 6y ago
Not really the email client of your choice. In Mac OS, you can do Apple Mail and Thunderbird well, but if you try something like Airmail, it crashes the app (or other unexpected behavior). Not exactly 100% IMAP compliant for what I can tell
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by Natales 6y ago
Funny thing is that a distributed, resilient, asynchronous message passing program in Erlang, is their equivalent of a "Hello World". It's so natural, and so well baked into the runtime itself, that it's hard to do somet
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by Natales 7y ago
The thing is that it's not really complicated anymore. It may be my area of expertise, but just following basic step-by-step instructions, it took me about 10 minutes to have a full ad-blocking, Wireguard VPN server on a DigitalOcean d
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by Natales 7y ago
Wire (wire.com) doesn't require phone numbers either. I've been using it for the last year or so to communicate with my family, and its usability for non-technical users is very good, including top notch audio and video. It syncs
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by Natales 7y ago
Many people forget there are almost always a lot of other things in the ballot that can affect your life much more directly, and if you happen to live in a city of say, 30K people, your vote has a lot more impact than anything happening at
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by Natales 7y ago
I often think about that when I'm waiting for my meal in a plane, seating in row 33 or higher. Odds are my choice won't be available when they finally get to me. I can choose not to eat, but it's more likely I will end up cho
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by Natales 7y ago
Very cool. Back in 2004 I used to have business card-shaped CD-ROMs that booted Tiny Core Linux. They were always eye catching. In fact, one of those was a factor that landed me a job in a small startup in Palo Alto called VMware...
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by Natales 7y ago
Having ran my home (and work) lab environments with many different virtualization systems, in the end, I always keep coming back to VMware. ESXi in particular. These days, with GPU pass-through, you can make it a workstation and a server at
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by Natales 7y ago
Yes! sorry for the memory lapse.
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by Natales 7y ago
I love the ACM and everyone trying to make the effort to preserve our history. I see it from the perspective of someone working at a fast-moving, Silicon Valley-based software vendor. In that context, I don't see a lot of appreciation
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by Natales 7y ago
I've always felt we don't appreciate history very much in our industry. I've been lucky enough to work and hang out with some of the co-founders of very impactful projects, such as OpenStack and Cloud Foundry, and there are s
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by Natales 7y ago
Since I have an ESX box with multiple NICs running 24x7 at home, I've been using both, pfSense [1] and OPNSense [2] on a VM for years, with excellent performance, stability and top notch features. Combine that with 2 UniFi APs, multipl
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by Natales 7y ago
Sadly, you bring up a very good point. I'm 50 myself, but I work in the software industry where I interact with a lot of young programmers, and more than once I've heard "nah, I don't vote. No reason". The argument
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by Natales 7y ago
Create your own VPN and install the DNS blocker there. [Algo VPN]( https://github.com/trailofbits/algo ) is a great start. Furthermore, you could repave the VM daily or in any time interval. Using WireGuard as VPN protoc
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by Natales 8y ago
I've been using [Wire]( https://wire.com/en/ ) very happily for some time now. Great interface, top quality audio/video, good chat, persistent, very secure, open source. I'm surprised it hasn't receiv
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by Natales 9y ago
Exactly. "Never confuse wisdom with luck" (44th Ferengi Rule of Acquisition)
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by Natales 9y ago
Exactly. Virtually all new DCs are being build using Leaf-Spine architectures that leverages pure IP routing and optimize for East-West traffic internally. I'm also starting to see the rapid proliferation of L3-only SDN systems like Pr
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by Natales 9y ago
I'd be cautious with that too. As Agile methodology gains more acceptance, the act of creating software becomes more and more methodology-centric. Breaking down the problem into smaller and smaller stories with TDD approaches, and sudd
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by Natales 10y ago
That's my hobby. Anyone who enjoys creating and building speakers and sound systems, should absolutely spend the time and build a pair of Linkwitz speakers" http://linkwitzlab.com/ -- I yet have to hear anything b
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by Natales 10y ago
I'd become a full-time startup advisor. I already do this part time with a couple of startups here in the valley, and I really enjoy those deep brainstorming sessions about the present and future of technology. Helping shape possible f
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by Natales 10y ago
The reverse is true for Qobuz. They don't want my money because I live in the US.

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