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by Veratyr 10y ago
Arbitrarily. I suspect after that point another storage technology will supersede hard drives.
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by Veratyr 10y ago
So my math is probably messed up here but: - Price of buying a drive and a pod to house it: ~$0.036/GB [0] - 1.84% of drives need replacing each year (warranty aside) - They use 17:3 parity for redundancy (15% of storage) So the hardwa
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by Veratyr 10y ago
Yes, this was a feature of Truecrypt, though I'm not familiar with the underlying crypto.
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by Veratyr 10y ago
> Australia is expensive How so? Wolfram Alpha puts Sydney at ~1.2x the cost of living of LA: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=move+from+Los+Angeles+t... Given that our GDP per capita is 1.25x US I think that we
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by Veratyr 10y ago
There's definitely a need if they intend to wield their authority as a police officer. Random people on the street can't just come up and handcuff me and go through my stuff.
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by Veratyr 10y ago
From an emotional standpoint I see why this would be an issue (everything you do in public being recorded forever is a bit intimidating) but from a logical/philosophical standpoint, how is this different from someone with a photographi
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by Veratyr 10y ago
Cool! On another note, are you aware of any other places with a lot of Halide code? A repository for common but not-obvious processes like brightness changing, denoising, contrast adjustment and such would be really cool.
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by Veratyr 10y ago
It'd be interesting to see this compared to Halide [0], which conveniently already has a resize example [1]. Parallelization and data locality for example can make big differences. [0]: http://halide-lang.org/ [1]: ht
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by Veratyr 10y ago
> App Engine work inside China though There is this: https://www.appscale.com/ It's an open source implementation of the App Engine APIs. The website doesn't make it very clear but the source is on Github: htt
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by Veratyr 10y ago
For me, the plain box gives me cheap Chinese vibes. It brings to mind badly damaged cardboard boxes with dubious electronics inside. The Japanese illustrated box is innocent and kind of cute (certainly not "rapey" as another comme
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by Veratyr 11y ago
To offer an anecdote to counter an anecdote, I'm using OVH proper as well as SoYouStart, one of their "developer" brands and I've had zero issues with either.
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by Veratyr 11y ago
I disagree. Maybe the prohibitions being statutory is a bit strong but I think products should be proven safe before they're allowed. The burden of proof shouldn't be on the government, it should be on the manufacturer, simila
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by Veratyr 11y ago
Does the new API support things like tree style tabs [0]? This is one of the things I've failed to see other browsers implement. [0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...
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by Veratyr 11y ago
> What this shows is that encryption does not lock justice out and that it's really no different than papers in a safe in a person's house. If prosecutors have a valid reason to access the information they can go to a judge, ge
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by Veratyr 11y ago
In Australia the only sales tax we have is the GST, which is a flat 10% nation wide. There's no need for a shipping address to calculate it. They do often ask for a post code at the checkout to calculate shipping, however.
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by Veratyr 11y ago
There's a comparison page for features here: http://beta.madsonic.org/pages/compare.jsp And a changelog here: http://beta.madsonic.org/pages/changelog.jsp
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by Veratyr 11y ago
Just to say it upfront, I'm nothing like big enough for a lot of the options you have available. > Can you describe more about the "data hosted at another provider"? It's all at OVH and Hetzner. They offer very cheap
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by Veratyr 11y ago
That's basically it. SubSonic hasn't seen much major work in years while MadSonic seems to be an active project adding features and support.
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by Veratyr 11y ago
Hopefully this comment doesn't sound too stupid but is it at all possible (or likely to be implemented) to get a worse network on GCE and pay less for it? I ask because I don't need a CDN level network like GCE provides but I do n
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by Veratyr 11y ago
> I set it to wifi only streaming, but it still somehow managed to use 1.5G of my 300M data plan even though I only played a single 60M track with it; so caveat emptor … That's really odd. Perhaps it was precaching extra tracks? I h
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by Veratyr 11y ago
Seconded. There's nothing that even comes close to Beets in terms of metadata management. Thanks to MusicBrainz, not only does it get metadata right most of the time, it keeps it right by syncing from MusicBrainz to the tags when you t
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by Veratyr 11y ago
The purpose of EMV isn't really to counter physical theft, it's to counter passive theft using devices like skimmers. > How is this ANY different other than harder to implement a scanner which would steal the swipe [...] The ma
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by Veratyr 11y ago
Yes, Halide supports Metal as one of its targets. The Github repo has samples for iOS apps and generic Metal: https://github.com/halide/Halide/tree/master/apps
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by Veratyr 11y ago
Halide doesn't operate that high level. You need to use another library to decode the image, Halide takes raw pixel values. But yes, you can use Halide for handling RAW image data. I actually used it for exactly that a couple of months
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by Veratyr 11y ago
I went exploring the Chinese half of the internet for a while. It's amazing how different things are there, yet how similar they are. Baidu seems essentially equivalent to Google, AliPay to PayPal and Weibo to Facebook. As for differen
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by Veratyr 11y ago
A lower level but more portable alternative: http://halide-lang.org/ Takes a bit of learning but it's really fast. The tutorial series is good http://halide-lang.org/tutorials/tutorial_introduc
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by Veratyr 11y ago
I'm not going to pretend I understand PCI compliance but their certifications are here: https://cloud.google.com/security/compliance They appear to be PCI DSS v3 compliant?
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by Veratyr 11y ago
OVH recently sent out surveys suggesting that they're expanding to APAC soon and as others said, Vultr offers Australian instances, albeit with Australian bandwidth prices (thanks Telstra).
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by Veratyr 11y ago
They seem to be starting from scratch and the U.S. financial system is probably the worst system available in first world countries so it makes sense that they'd skip it. It'd be fantastic if the U.S. would follow their example an
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by Veratyr 11y ago
I'm more of the feeling that if the US outlaws encryption, business should move elsewhere. Many electronic services could operate just fine without a physical US presence.

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