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by Sebb767 5y ago
> So, as an order of magnitude, the price asked by Qualcomm for extended support is 1M$. Do you have a source for that? That does seem pretty low.
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by Sebb767 5y ago
There's a clear trade-off between downtime risk and cost explosion risk. For a hobby/non-profit project, risking the downtime to possibly save 7k€ plus surely saving the surcharge of "scalability" is definitely worth it.
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by Sebb767 5y ago
On the other hand, jumping aboard the hype train can be a good way to make some money without much skill. Might not be as fulfilling work, but it shouldn't be discounted.
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by Sebb767 5y ago
> Chatbots will probably get there some day - but it will take some big improvements in NLP. They write copied platitudes, they will follow their checklist no matter what, they will usually not help at all except for wasting time and the
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by Sebb767 5y ago
OTOH, on a smartphone in portrait (vertical) mode, aiming straight and going full power is an easy win on the first shot.
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by Sebb767 5y ago
There's a huge amount of survivor bias when thinking about old music. All the crap that never made it far is mostly lost by now; what's remembered and what's on the 80s playlist is basically the top pick from a whole decade,
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by Sebb767 5y ago
> Whether regular people can perceive it, I have no idea. If the singer is somewhat good (so that the correction is small) and it's applied well, you have no chance. Even musicians will have a hard time. But you can definitely notic
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by Sebb767 5y ago
> Is autotune ubiquitous? Yes. What you're thinking of is "autotune" as in totally overdone, which is the signature sound people know. What the parent is referring to is autotune as in tone correction (which is, funnily en
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by Sebb767 5y ago
Are you sure the boss would agree, if he would fully know and understand the situation?
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by Sebb767 5y ago
> Make a better product and beat them, don't use the fact that a government is banning them to upsell your own tracking software. I love that you casually put not being illegal on the same level as a dashboard or a convenience fea
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by Sebb767 5y ago
It's still around 100$ and up (I know you can get it a bit cheaper, but not everyone searches). Gigabit switches, on the other hand, are basically free.
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by Sebb767 5y ago
In a lot of software I worked with, unbundling core and UI would've been an immense amount of effort. You basically have the option to either maintain two GUIs side-by-side - including integrating new concepts (think, for example, supp
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by Sebb767 5y ago
> TV: just don't buy an actual TV. Buy a monitor and hook it up to a Linux box with something like Kodi. You can hook up your cable box if you have that or stream from Netflix and such. Sure, even Netflix makes it hard as you can&#x
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by Sebb767 5y ago
Additionally, as split root storage setup because the boot partition is small is a lot more complicated than simply buying a 64GB+ sd card and (usually) have no storage problems.
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by Sebb767 5y ago
That's exactly the problem I was going for - feature richness is the enemy of simplicity. The fact that you need to read a schema (and learn one of the schema languages) makes starting out with XML just much harder than JSON.
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by Sebb767 5y ago
> What he did was no where near acceptable. It was a rebellious act against (what seems like) overbearing organizations, comparable to spraying a graffiti on their walls. As I said, there was no serious damage and nobody was hurt; it&#x2
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by Sebb767 5y ago
I doubt it. They still default to giving an EC2 machine a public IPv4; if their primary motivation would be saving IP costs, they could easily go for the low-hanging fruit.
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by Sebb767 5y ago
I've posted it in another subthread already, but XML, with its nesting and attributes, doesn't map particularly well to a specific programming construct. Also, you can represent an object hierarchy in a lot of ways and it's v
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by Sebb767 5y ago
Additionally, XML, with its nesting and attributes, doesn't map particularly well to a specific programming construct. Also, you can represent an object in a lot of ways. JSON, on the other hand, is dead simple: You have your list&#x2F
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by Sebb767 5y ago
> It doesn't mean they were the best of all possible species, just the best (given the environment) compared to the others at the time, solely at the task of making more copies of themselves. There's a very long list of failed
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by Sebb767 5y ago
> What surprises me is the amount of support he’s garnered for his actions with a lot of people on HN. Well, his motivations were somewhat understandable and his actions were still scratching the realm of acceptable (not cool, but no s
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by Sebb767 5y ago
> In the end, this thing spits out strings. Does it need eight maintainers, only a few of whom had commits, in low double digits? Does it need its own GitHub org, Twitter account, and Google .dev domain? I'm pretty sure the org and
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by Sebb767 5y ago
> Why is kube and conventional hardware mutually exclusive? Conventional setup might've been a better choice of words. That being said, in my experience, k8s in smaller setups tends to use more small machines, rather than (very) few
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by Sebb767 5y ago
Until some maintainer writes "Please stop replying with +1 etc, we know the issue. Use reaction emojis instead.". Bonus points if the issue also gets limited to contributors only.
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by Sebb767 5y ago
To be fair, if you application was designed with Kubernetes in mind, the scale where you can make use of it starts a lot smaller. When paying ~6k$ in servers, you're way past the point where adding it would noticeably impact your bill.
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by Sebb767 5y ago
> When you get to this scale, tools like Kubernetes make more sense. If you look at the details[0], servers are really "just" 6k$ per month. A lot of that goes towards the databases, which you can't optimize much with k8s,
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by Sebb767 5y ago
> Some arse once loudly informed me I was a loser for being at the movies by myself. This is something public, though, while the parent only listed activities in private. Drinking alone in public is shunned even worse. Not that I agree
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by Sebb767 5y ago
> incidentally also what computer science is called in german (informatik) Computerwissenschaften (literally computer science) exists, too, but it's the less common word.
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by Sebb767 5y ago
> it truly saddens me that people think social media is a requirement for living. just dont do it, and dont let your kids do it. In some ways, it is. News get shared over social media. Events get published (only) on social media. A lot
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by Sebb767 5y ago
> Blockchain is not the same as proof-of-stake. While this is also true, I'm pretty sure this should have been proof-of-work. PoS is actually one of the less energy intensive alternatives.

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