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by _kb 1y ago
A Toyota RAV4 (the best calling ICE car in the world) is about half that. They do a hybrid model that’s lower still. The Toyota Corolla (second best selling) is then lower again. US cultural perceptions on fuel efficiency are bonkers.
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by _kb 1y ago
That measure is a ‘Hopper’: https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/object/nmah_69246...
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by _kb 1y ago
Definitely a neat codec! You can get COTS hardware en/decoders that use it via https://atlona.com/omnistream-av-over-ip/ .
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by _kb 1y ago
Government employee here. The best engineers, technologists (and people in general) I’ve had the opportunity to work with don’t give a shit about this sort of thin validation. No-one worth their salt in public service is there for the accol
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by _kb 1y ago
I can’t help with all those queries, but a nice pattern I was introduced to a while back for integrity checks is to have the logging service embed a hash of message N in message N+1. This creates a simple Merkle tree that you can use to det
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by _kb 1y ago
Depends on the network. Where this style of codec is common you’re not traversing internet so transport latency, including switch forwarding, is normally in the microseconds. The killer is the display device that ends up rendering this. If
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by _kb 1y ago
This is a really nice walkthrough of matching trade offs to acceptable distortions for a known signal type. Even if you’re selecting rather than designing a codec, it’s a great process to follow. For those interesting in the ultra low laten
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by _kb 1y ago
Australia is doing its best to hardline digital (and more broadly social) authoritarianism too. It’s a sad future we’re accelerating towards.
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by _kb 1y ago
WTFs/minute is a good metric for code quality. Now your pair expressing that can be an LLM. https://blog.codinghorror.com/whos-your-coding-buddy/
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by _kb 1y ago
Completely agree on the confusing terminology there. IMO that should be: > The moment of capturing a measurement is known as a metric sample . The mental model I hold is the metric is the actual value. This may be discrete (e.g. a packe
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by _kb 1y ago
The breakdown used by OTel isn’t all that bad: https://opentelemetry.io/docs/concepts/signals/ In essence: Logs mark some event in the system. Metrics model some measurable, quantifiable state. In high volume
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A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages (2009)(james-iry.blogspot.com)
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by _kb 1y ago
You underestimate the resources the subset of society who it actually benefits can, will, and do use to distort views on how wide that benefit actually is.
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by _kb 1y ago
It’s certainly one the bits of tech that would be an insane pitch if invented today: “Yes, please stick your face in front of this particle accelerator. I assure you, it’s completely safe. You may experience some visual side effects but tha
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by _kb 1y ago
Australian. This is straight up Clarke and Dawe / Utopia.
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by _kb 1y ago
That still holds true for gen-AI. Organisations that provide transcription services can’t offload responsibility to a language model any more than they can to steno keyboard manufacturers. If you are the one feeding content to a model then
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by _kb 1y ago
30 is not that long in Unix time. Or did you mean your 946708560th?
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by _kb 1y ago
From what I’ve had exposure to conjunction, disjunction, and negation symbols are common if you’re discussing logic [1]. Boolean algebra then use product, sum, and complement [2]. Both can express the same thing. In this case `*` is easier
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by _kb 1y ago
It's used to rattle more than just humans with processes like DFAT [0]. Here's the NASA handbook on their use [1]. For experiences that are a little more human friendly, subsonic audio is something that's also explored more c
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by _kb 1y ago
Fair call out. The snark wasn’t intended or well placed.
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by _kb 1y ago
And free wifi. https://www.telstra.com.au/exchange/free-wifi-telstra-paypho...
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by _kb 1y ago
Believe it or not, humans did in fact have forms of written language and communication prior to twitter.
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by _kb 1y ago
https://www.extron.com/product/software/edidmanager30 https://www1.kramerav.com/au/product/edid%20designer Both are free but not free to distribute. The Extron one may require you to be
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by _kb 1y ago
HTTP range requests [1] are enabled out-of-the-box on both Apache and NGINX for static content. If you slap a fMP4 [2] onto a vhost it will work. No CDN needed. Going viral is a seperate technical challenge, but probably not needed in almos
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by _kb 1y ago
I've been using NixOS since 2018. I still use https://search.nixos.org . It's a great interface for the same dataset. There's nothing wrong with that.
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by _kb 1y ago
Or approximately 100 bananas, for scale.
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by _kb 1y ago
Because it’s not ambiguous. If I pay for something in Australia and the bill comes to $50 this has meaning within that context. I receive a bill in Zimbabwe for $50 this also has meaning within that context. These values are not equivalent.
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by _kb 1y ago
> volume sliders start at 0 dB and then go down to negative $MUCHO, until complete silence at -Infinity. And then this same unit is also used to measure how loud my coffee machine is. They're not the same unit, at all. The audio sof
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by _kb 1y ago
I think where display setups will become really interesting is when we start seeing more integration with complex optical systems, without requiring that to be strapped to your face. I'm aware of Brelyon as one example that's star
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by _kb 1y ago
Well, I suppose technically this /heapdump endpoint does satisfy that archive requirement.

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