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11y ago
I've bought a few. They work but they're slow and unreliable. The network goes down semi-regularly while they deal with spam too.
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11y ago
> > Ignore Uncorrectable Bit Error Rate (UBER) specs. A meaningless number. ... > > Bad news: SSDs fail at a lower rate than disks, but UBER rate is higher > meaningless, it is. The first sentence is referring to "specs&
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11y ago
I'm not a lawyer but the powers of Federal court are very broad when it comes to contempt: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/401 http://www.bafirm.com/publication/federa
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11y ago
Interestingly, "aviation geeks out there supplying the data" are how the FlightAware API you mention gets much of its data: https://flightaware.com/adsb/coverage#data-coverage https://flightaware.c
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11y ago
If you can also get accurate white balance, you may be able to get useful information from the colour of the sky as an alternative.
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11y ago
The Bay Area other than South Bay is difficult. My city, San Leandro, has public/private "partnership" fiber in the ground [0] for businesses. When I contacted them about residential, they let me know that they'd had a l
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11y ago
> At any rate, this is no worse in principle than the Google Analytics scripts everybody includes on every page everywhere, so it's mostly just a bunch of FUD. This is a rather blind comment. Not everyone uses Google Analytics and t
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11y ago
He's adding context for those people who may have heard of MooseFS but not LizardFS. It's certainly not a big contribution to the discussion but it's not entirely without value.
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11y ago
Spotify and Netflix pricing varies by region. If you're in the US, you likely to pay $10 for it but the person you're responding to is in Poland and pays 19,99 PLN which is $5 USD.
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11y ago
Wow, RCS seems pretty bad from a privacy standpoint. The spec is available on the GSMA website [0]. The relevant section is 2.13.1.3 of "Rich Communication Suite 6.0 Advanced Communications Services and Client Specification Version 7.0
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11y ago
Vultr is the best I've found. The UI and website isn't as pretty as DO or AWS but: - It's consistently faster on most metrics than other providers I've tested. - It's full KVM and allows you to run any OS you like.
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11y ago
Is Intel QSV available on Mac/Linux yet by any chance?
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11y ago
Don't be too sad, not everyone follows these customs. Like most marketing and customs, there will be those who are convinced and follow and those who are not and don't. Ultimately, it's still up to the couple and there are ma
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11y ago
An interesting thing to look into might be using the (apparently Kepler) NVENC capabilities present on EC2 G2 instances. For $2.60 an hour, you get 4x Kepler GPUs that can handle ~4x realtime 1080p encodes each (120fps per GPU), or 16x real
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11y ago
I don't believe 2 and 3 are different enough that this theoretical company would turn someone away for being experienced in 3 rather than 2. Learn that print doesn't need parens anymore, a few renamed modules, that Python 2 str is
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11y ago
It's a platform, not a broker. At the moment it's totally free, and supports Interactive Brokers and Robinhood as backends (both very low commission). It only supports equities at the moment, with futures on the way. It only trade
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11y ago
I'm far from an expert but as I understand it, the maximum deduction you can get from tax loss harvesting is $3000 (per the IRS: https://www.irs.gov/uac/Ten-Facts-That-You-Should-Know-about... ). Does tax-loss harv
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11y ago
Rebalancing is the service offered by Wealthfront and Betterment though. The same downsides of rebalancing should apply to them as well, no?
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11y ago
Anyone interested in robo-investing might also be interested in Quantopian ( https://www.quantopian.com/ ). It's marketed as a platform that facilitates competition for the best trading algorithms but really, algos can b
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11y ago
Sorry if this is incorrect but wouldn't a better term be long term capital gains rates? Short term capital gains are taxed at ordinary income rates but they're still capital gains.
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11y ago
Seconded. I ran some basic benchmarks and found that Vultr outperformed DO rather consistently. Vultr: https://gist.github.com/bobobo1618/0972fc51f49d90fb37af DO: https://gist.github.com/bobobo1618/
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11y ago
> 20% doesn't even work at Google. The reason being, if you care about your career, it ends up being 20% _on top of_ 120% you're already putting in. From what I've heard from close friends who work at Google, this depends
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11y ago
You can get limited data from NOAA (METAR) through ADDS: https://aviationweather.gov/adds/dataserver Here's an example for Moscow: https://aviationweather.gov/adds/dataserver_current/http
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11y ago
You can find all kinds of things in UAT. Not just weather but you can find various equipment information like the landing gear coming down, message sent from the plane (SMS, crew) and there have even been times they broadcast credit card da
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11y ago
It's pbd, not pdb.
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11y ago
Cyph looks great but there are a number of secure applications that only work on desktop or only work on mobile and I'm yet to see one that does both. Cyph of course runs in a mobile browser but unless I missed something, it doesn'
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11y ago
I think the difference in opinion between you and some of the people you're replying to mainly comes down to "bundleware". You use that word a lot but to me, "bundleware" is malware.
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11y ago
I'm not sure if you're the right person but someone on Reddit who appeared to be from the Polarr team was promoting and gave me a free copy of the Mac app. I wrote up a ton of feedback and PM'ed it but didn't get a respo
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There are numerous, with upsides and downsides: - Capture One Pro (Paid): This is the most complete alternative in my opinion. It can handle ingestion, taxonomy and editing. Ingestion and taxonomy are adequate but not fantastic. Editing is
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11y ago
There is actually (Moonlight): https://help.ubuntu.com/stable/ubuntu-help/net-install-moonl...
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