adrianpike

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by adrianpike 6y ago
There's a few groups working on this in various forms. Two ones I've been paying close attention to are; https://www.meshtastic.org/ http://disaster.radio/ Legality-wise can get complicated, there
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by adrianpike 6y ago
Is that not just a blog?
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by adrianpike 6y ago
Everywhere I've worked often has a massive backlog of things that get released after a moratorium or extended holiday week. Those are usually the worst weeks to be oncall since things are under so much churn.
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by adrianpike 6y ago
Same - and it's just... weird. The "everything must be in a thread" model feels really clunky.
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by adrianpike 6y ago
I think you're right on the first bullet, but not the second. If it was mid-Feb, then maybe, but the next FY hasn't even started yet for a ton of companies, let alone onboarding newbies to production.
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by adrianpike 6y ago
> For example ActiveRecord database requests have been non-blocking for many years. Right, but it still blocks the entire calling thread, no? Been a few years since I've been deep into Rails.
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by adrianpike 6y ago
of all the glorious sites across the internet, why are you on HN if you feel this way?
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by adrianpike 6y ago
Those are all single-channel, gateways are traditionally multichannel.
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by adrianpike 6y ago
You should take a peek at the community over at https://www.meshtastic.org/ . I've been building some tangential stuff using LoRa as the PHY, and it's pretty good so far. Bandwidth isn't huge but range is grea
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by adrianpike 6y ago
In those dark times before the internet, we searched for the limit to how many books one could read in a lifetime. We never found it.
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by adrianpike 6y ago
Other than the UX for trust on first use, are there other things that make Signal's protocol better than OpenPGP?
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by adrianpike 6y ago
Would love to hear what you're doing that's got Ruby pegging the CPU. I've ran a few rather large Rails deployments over the years and it's rare to crush the app tier first, so I wonder if there's something unique h
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by adrianpike 6y ago
Yeah, I live in a small town in the far northwest of the country. Nearest true freeway is either 100 miles or a ferry ride away. A surprising number people in town drive things like this.
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by adrianpike 6y ago
Good news: A 463L pallet is a 463L pallet, and the military plans this stuff out long in advance: https://armypubs.army.mil/epubs/DR_pubs/DR_a/pdf/web/ARN1858...
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by adrianpike 6y ago
How many people are killed by lawnmowers on a yearly basis?
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by adrianpike 6y ago
Except the onboard combustion engine is just to generate electricity, no? An engine sieze means you just have to land quickly.
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by adrianpike 6y ago
You can get some 85+" TV's for under 2k currently. We're running a few of those for ours.
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by adrianpike 6y ago
I believe you, but I think you're hitting something completely unique to your setup and external to Slack. I've never seen antyhing like that, what are you running it on? Do you have ways to inspect to find where the bottleneck is
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by adrianpike 6y ago
Oh man, early Mac OS was great for tinkering but horrible for development. I remember looking so longingly over to Linux so I could use Free toolchains, but all I had was Apple hardware. I also started with CodeWarrior, but it was with a co
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by adrianpike 6y ago
It can be, eBay has HDMI physical switches for like $8. Your computers will see it as a monitor unplug, though, and do fun things with adjusting windows/icons/resolutions, and then have to re-handshake on every switch. Not a block
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by adrianpike 6y ago
Oh man, this sucker. I did some filthy stuff in a legacy PHP codebase using this to get some ultra basic acceptance and smoke tests in place. It worked fairly well, but there were a lot of weird edge casees where it didn't _quite_ work
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by adrianpike 6y ago
In this case, according to their about page, it looks like the execs are the beleaguered, underqualified devs.
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by adrianpike 6y ago
I'm guessing you're being facetious, but it has come up and it's covered in the FAQ: https://archiveprogram.github.com/faq/
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by adrianpike 6y ago
Yep, I think we're of one mind here. I'm not worried about the ARM architecture shift, but the whole direction of the platform makes me expect I won't be using a Macbook as my primary dev machine much longer. Interestingly en
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by adrianpike 6y ago
I'm actually not worried, for a few reasons; - I already do cross-arch development day-in and day out between x86 and ARM, and have only run into hard blockers on a library or tool a handful of times. The solve was generally pretty str
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by adrianpike 6y ago
SNET, it seems. Awesome! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_in_Cuba#SNET
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by adrianpike 6y ago
Well I'm sure you'd have to enter your password to disable 2FA. /s, obviously.
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by adrianpike 6y ago
Previous conversation here with some good links; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23532560
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by adrianpike 6y ago
Easy: someone fat-fingered SS7 the same way someone fat-fingered BGP. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signalling_System_No._7 https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-verizon-and-a-bgp-optimizer-...
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by adrianpike 6y ago
Unlikely that an attack would manifest itself in this way. I think it's an SS7 screwup since it seems that signaling is mostly what's gone pear shaped.

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