adammck

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by adammck 6y ago
Since the parent is running on GKE, they’re already doing that. Postgres in a (kube) container on a (GCE) VM in a (borg) container on a computer.
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by adammck 6y ago
Monarch is monitored by a second instance of itself known as meta-monarch. It’s a fraction of the size, of course, but still mind-bogglingly large. Meta is in turn monitored by the main Monarch instance.
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by adammck 9y ago
Note that $15k isn't tremendously more than public school costs: > Total expenditures for public elementary and secondary schools in the United States in 2013–14 amounted to $634 billion, or $12,509 per public school student enrolle
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by adammck 9y ago
Wow, that New Posts chart is brutal. This nearby link[1] seems to claim that Yahoo failed to "not screw it up", but the details are extremely vague. I'm unclear what could have caused such a dramatic reversal. ~Everyone left,
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by adammck 9y ago
Is anyone actually spending Bitcoin? Given the ludicrous growth, it seems prudent to just leave it in the bank.
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by adammck 9y ago
I wonder if your friend is also incensed by all the low- and middle-income families moving into those high-rises, or just by the "billionaires" who make that feasible.
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by adammck 9y ago
This is great, thank you!
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by adammck 9y ago
Could you share more about your experience with elastic actuators? What did your hardware look like? I'm working on something similar, and would love your input.
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by adammck 9y ago
I used a Rapsberry Pi (and a lot of Dynamixel servos, LiPo, gyro, etc) to build a small hexapod robot. I was mostly interested in learning about legged locomotion, and got a bit carried away. Using a normal-ish Linux platform with GPIO and
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by adammck 9y ago
You might find this interesting: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/11/why-d...
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by adammck 9y ago
So disappointing that Google (disclosure: my employer) couldn't figure out what to do with these incredible companies. Let's hope Softbank can put them to better use.
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by adammck 10y ago
Dynamixel servos are expensive for sure, but there are a couple of low-end models which are pretty reasonably priced given their (excellent, as you note) capabilities. The XL-320[1] is only $22. They're puny, but I've had fun with
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by adammck 10y ago
I've always been intrigued by this stance. Do you believe that heroin should be available for purchase, like e.g. cigarettes? Is this a matter of individual liberty, or some other reason?
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by adammck 10y ago
Not at all, your solution entirely solves the most annoying part. I just prefer to do the next step in an automated manner, too.
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by adammck 10y ago
This is a great feature to get started, but it's unfortunate that the "ssh" file hack doesn't set up SSH keys and disable password auth, or at least change the default password. That must be done manually. I dread to thi
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by adammck 10y ago
Hello! I was one of those annoying "architects" saying no, but it wasn't because only three languages are allowed. When I left the Times about six months ago, systems were actively being developed in the following languages:
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by adammck 15y ago
Clickable: https://github.com/adammck/gh-news-feed-filters
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Show HN: My Chrome extension to add per-repo alert filtering to GitHub
1 points by adammck 15y ago|1 comments