Veratyr

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by Veratyr 10y ago
DaVinci Resolve is mainly for colour grading and basic shuffling around of video and audio. It's also a very advanced (read difficult) piece of software and is very much not aimed at home movies. I wouldn't recommend it as an iMov
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by Veratyr 10y ago
The contents table [0] which they ran the query on is 1.8TB. Assuming you only need to do a single pass (seems reasonable given that it's a simple regex), the price should be about $9 [1]. Free quota covers 1TB so the remainder would b
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by Veratyr 10y ago
> What is the name for this phenomenon where folks think they can out-available a thing that has multiple engineers singularly dedicated to nothing more than its availability /and/ operation? S3 is an object storage system, the
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by Veratyr 10y ago
> they're so unfocussed and so notorious for abandoning and shutting down their services When was the last time they shut down anything major other than a consumer service? Cloud is still going. AppEngine is still going. Apps/G
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by Veratyr 10y ago
Me too. Sony's Xperia Compact series was quite good. I think the new thing though is going to be same sized screens with smaller bezels, resulting in smaller phones. Samsung and LG's upcoming flagships both look to be substantiall
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by Veratyr 10y ago
It's a hard launch on March 2. I believe preorders are already sold out though.
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by Veratyr 10y ago
There are alternate Minecraft servers, some make better use of cores than others. Perhaps your parent commenter is using one of those.
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by Veratyr 10y ago
The internet can't really be treated as a single homogenous network. It's made up of many many smaller networks which connect to each other ("peer"). If you want to get traffic from say a residential connection in the US
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by Veratyr 10y ago
> Linode is top tier. Support is great. Interface makes sense. Should be mentioned though that it hasn't always been this way. Before they rebuilt their management infrastructure they were hacked a couple of times and their response
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by Veratyr 10y ago
Unless you're using an abnormally CPU heavy VPN, you should be able to saturate the NIC without issues. Linode has 1Gbit NICs though peering, like always, is a potential problem.
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by Veratyr 10y ago
Also I didn't see it directly mentioned on that page, they're not subject to US law enforcement requests (unless they go through a Mutual Assistance treaty request) and there's nothing like an NSL in Australia: https:/&
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by Veratyr 10y ago
> What? This makes no sense. Your images will be the same between dev and prod, even if the host running the containers is different - which is really the whole point - if you build and run an image in dev, it should run identically in p
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by Veratyr 10y ago
> Facebook has large engineering offices in New York, Seattle, London, and Tel Aviv, and smaller presences in Boston and Dublin. Updated my comment to reflect this better. I was just looking at the jobs site earlier and didn't see m
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by Veratyr 10y ago
Fixed. Derp.
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by Veratyr 10y ago
Added Oculus. Never heard of Private Core but it doesn't seem big enough as a product to differentiate from Facebook's other internal infrastructure.
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by Veratyr 10y ago
Yeah, I didn't mean it like that. From what I know, it's more of a "look at this enormous library of knowledge and premade tools I can use instead of doing it myself" kind of old than "look at this steaming pile of
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by Veratyr 10y ago
> Also, does anyone know of any better companies or how Facebook compares to other companies (as far as interesting projects, culture, work/life balance, etc)? Which of these companies is "better" really depends on your pr
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by Veratyr 10y ago
There are also addons like uMatrix ( https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix ) which allow you to selectively block cookies by domain. By default it loads a bunch of ad blocking stuff too but you can turn that off if you real
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by Veratyr 10y ago
Or better, switch to Matrix. Also E2E but without the lack of features (like multiple devices and a desktop app without a phone proxy) and odd obsession with phone numbers that Signal has.
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by Veratyr 10y ago
> However, what would be the economic incentive to provide such a service at Google- or Facebook-scale, free of charge (via up-front subscription fees, of course)? I'm not quite sure what you mean by "free of charge (via up-fro
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by Veratyr 10y ago
I too played around with k8s but my issues were even more basic: It's darn near impossible to deploy it on a platform that deviates from their expectations. The docs seem to expect that: - If you're not letting managed services do
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by Veratyr 10y ago
> I told them I was also interviewing at other companies, to see what was available. They told me this was not "the people they where looking for". And it wouldn't be "OK" to say something like that in America. I
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by Veratyr 10y ago
> Reasons include immigration/ID status, history of writing bad checks, bank levy, etc. The first can be a legitimate issue (though your link says the majority of the unbanked are American-born), the last two should be resolvable by
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by Veratyr 10y ago
"Check" cashing shouldn't even exist. Most of the western world has functional electronic transfers and bank accounts with no minimum fees. At home in Australia, all it took for anyone in the country to send me any amount of
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by Veratyr 10y ago
> I don't see why it's my responsibility to see Youtube makes money. It's not your responsibility to make YouTube profitable but if you enjoy the content, it's in your best interest to contribute to it, whether it be
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by Veratyr 10y ago
> I assume you spend most of your income of water, right? After all, it's the most indispensable element of out lives. Water is a commodity, it doesn't require you to contribute for it to be available, it's ubiquitous and
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by Veratyr 10y ago
Generally any information regarding an upcoming merger or acquisition is extremely tightly controlled. Unless you work in the executive team or a team that would be directly involved in a potential merger, it's unlikely you'd he
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by Veratyr 10y ago
> Also people are just married to their Spotify playlist and can't get out to see that Google Play Music is a fabulous service. There's actually a service that allows you to move your playlists: https://freeyourmusic
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by Veratyr 10y ago
> Look, my time is valuable. Clearly your time isn't valuable, as you spend it watching content you value at $0. If the content you watched and hence the time you spent watching it actually held value to you, you would be happy to p
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by Veratyr 10y ago
> You're right, and I already paid for it with my ISP. No, you paid for bandwidth from your ISP to you. Your ISP doesn't pay anyone else for traffic. YouTube also has to pay your ISP and that cost is made up from ads.

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