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   by _wmd 10y ago

   This is a really cute use for Lambda, and a great working example of the kinds of limitations one could expect to bump into. I was recently asked to evaluate Lambda for use in hosting a bunch of existing web sites, and just from README.md,
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   by _wmd 10y ago

   This is a fun concept with potentially even more interesting consequences. Using the ocean as a giant heatsink would result in a water temperature slightly higher than elsewhere, I wonder if over time it would suffice to attract the attenti
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   by _wmd 10y ago

   I took the parent comment to be someone familiar with ESR's personality, the reference to gun rights was unfortunate, but indeed probably the parent comment intended to create that association. However, parent comment certainly didn&#x
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   by _wmd 10y ago

   I'm not sure why you're being downvoted, it seems a fairly straightforward statement to make about ESR. When he pops up on a project mailing list, he tends to cause a lot of noise before (in every case I know of) gently fading out
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   by _wmd 10y ago

   This is a short term illusion, with instance reservations and the wider variety of storage options available, AWS can work out cheaper even for small accounts. Source: spent a several days in December cost modelling a few services for a cli
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   by _wmd 10y ago

   relevant: https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/top/
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   by _wmd 10y ago

   Amazon's latency is measured in hours, whatever process they use involves literally cold storage, either disks that are completely switched off, or some tape-like media archive system, but the article makes a good case for why it'
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   by _wmd 10y ago

   FTA: > One of the important priorities in TC39 is to achieve consensus - which means that any employee of any member company can always block any proposal. It's far far better for anyone to be able to block, than to arrive at a spec
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   by _wmd 10y ago

   Most interesting aspect of the article was the last section and first comment, linking to SkipNet: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/alecw/usits-20... Ideas like SkipNet are what differentiat
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    by _wmd 10y ago

    Tesco's last generation machines are particularly bad, although their newest ones have removed a huge amount of latency from the UI and weighing scales from what I've seen. If you're shopping for a single item, scanning it an
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    by _wmd 10y ago

    There are MAC addresses specifically designed for local use: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAC_address#Universal_vs._loca... Not sure why you'd otherwise want a list of never-before-seen OUIs
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    by _wmd 10y ago

    Interesting.. I haven't paid for calls to landlines in the UK for at least a decade, and the air interface to my phone has vastly better latency and error tolerance than anything I've ever seen operate over an IP network
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    by _wmd 10y ago

    I can't speak for early early dial up infrastructure, but by the turn of the century the equipment involved was not all that impressive to look at. A typical configuration would terminate the analogue lines over ISDN, which supported s
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    by _wmd 10y ago

    From initial glance, it seems the problem could easily be fixed with a filesystem filter driver ( https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/drivers/if... ) detecting modifications to paths under
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    by _wmd 10y ago

    Around the turn of the century people stopped going crazy with macros, globals and exposing struct definitions in header files, at least this is where I draw the line between old and new school
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    by _wmd 10y ago

    What constitutes non-scientific discussion?
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    by _wmd 10y ago

    There already is automation for exactly this, it's the optimization step of any compiler. Sounds like OP's lacked an optimizer
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    by _wmd 10y ago

    > During Beta, sizing recommendations are available free of charge. However, Google might charge for this feature in future releases Heh. "We've established enough foothold to compete with EC2 therefore we're preparing to
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    by _wmd 10y ago

    This might be accomplished by something no more sophisticated than a repeater, they're cheap and readily available to provide GPS location inside buildings. Simply stick an antenna on the roof and the indoor transmitters will cause ind
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    by _wmd 10y ago

    > even though I would rate myself more knowledgeable than my questioner Don't get me wrong, I'm guessing you know your stuff, but you also strike me as someone who may likely have failed on culture fit down the line. Interviewe
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    by _wmd 10y ago

    This is probably the most rewarding and insightful thing I've read on HN in 5 years
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    by _wmd 10y ago

    Qt already bundles QWebEngine, which is essentially a copy of Chromium
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    by _wmd 10y ago

    Referring to an upset end user's complaint with drama quotes doesn't strike me as particularly good form
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    by _wmd 10y ago

    I guess you have little experience with embedded bring-up, "without any power management features" is a fairly whopping qualifier, and quoting battery capacity is a far more useful indicator for a prerelease device. I've been
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    by _wmd 10y ago

    There are plenty of live and popular Apache projects that get plenty of press time: Zookeeper, Hadooop, CouchDB, Cassandra, Storm, Cloudstack, SpamAssassin, Lucene(! -- the guts of ElasticSearch), Spark, .. hell, the list is fairly endless.
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    by _wmd 10y ago

    As foldr mentions they're a feature, the remainder of the optical system scales quite shockingly in proportion to the sensor. I'm sure there are plenty of further incremental improvements to be made to small sensors, but there are
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    by _wmd 10y ago

    I wonder if the aggregate cents saved per unit still amount to a profit despite a black swan like this. Based on how much they ship, and this only hurting a single product release I suspect it might
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    by _wmd 10y ago

    As owner of a variety of hobbiest boards I'm not so sure all those pis are mostly lying around unused, it's just too easy to make them do useful stuff, as compared to the usual DIY board where you spend half your life battling som
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    by _wmd 10y ago

    A server like this could only work by buffering an entire response before compressing it once, requiring (compressed+uncompressed) bytes temporary space. In reality most servers of the design you mention operate streamily, flushing the comp
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    by _wmd 10y ago

    Hey, I'm not sure if it's upstreamed yet, but at least the Red Hat fork includes a patch to use unlocked libc IO which more than doubles the mbox parser performance: https://github.com/karelzak/mutt-kz/co