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by ajtaylor 13y ago
My current media player is a 3 or 4 year old ACRyan PlayOn Mini, which works wonderfully and has played everything I've ever tried on it. The only downside is that there are some video files which once you start fast-forwarding you can
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by ajtaylor 13y ago
It was only a matter of time before they added Redis to the mix. Glad to see it happening sooner rather than later though.
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by ajtaylor 13y ago
Will something like this run OpenELEC? There is a Raspberry Pi build for ARM, but the download page [1] says it's specific to the RP. I saw things like the Xtreamer Ultra but it's way out of my budget. Up to a couple hundred dolla
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by ajtaylor 13y ago
I first tried perl (and programming in general) back in the mid 90's when I got tired of writing HTML via Word macros and wanted something more interesting. This was perl4 (oraperl to be exact since DBI didn't exist). I haven&#x27
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by ajtaylor 13y ago
For Australia, the easiest path IMHO is a 457 visa => Permanent Residency after 2 years => citizenship after 1-2 years as a PR. They definitely are pretty generous. I'm working on the paperwork for my PR now.
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by ajtaylor 13y ago
I'm in the same boat, though I took an intermediate stop in Ireland. It kills me to see the country I grew up in and still love losing its soul. This is most definitely not what the Founding Fathers had in mind when they drafted the Co
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by ajtaylor 13y ago
I totalled my 2009 VW Golf last year when I hit a guard rail doing about 60kph. The front end was completely smashed, but I walked away with only a little whiplash. Amazingly, the angle was such that neither of the front airbag sensors were
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by ajtaylor 13y ago
I've been looking forward to reading this. It never fails to amaze me how these sort of incidents are caused by a cascade of small, unrelated problems, any one of which on its own would likely not have caused the end problem. The post-
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by ajtaylor 13y ago
This issue is one big reason why my attempt at remote working failed. If I had had a basement office, away from the rest of my family, it very well could have worked. But I couldn't get physically enough out of sight to be also mentall
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by ajtaylor 13y ago
Simple, honest, open and straight to the point. Nice to see that they recognise it's not just about the money, but the trust people had in Twilio. I'm looking forward to reading the promised post-mortem, because I can't recal
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by ajtaylor 13y ago
Been there, done that. I've only kissed the Blarney Stone with the safeguards, but it was still pretty freaky leaning down for the kiss. Everyone should do it at least once. :)
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by ajtaylor 13y ago
The safety issue is not about the government but the level of violence in general society, schools, etc. IMHO, Australia as a whole is a safer place to live than the US right now. You don't hear about people shooting up schools, etc in
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by ajtaylor 13y ago
I now live very happily in Australia. It's not perfect by any means (nanny state comes to mind), but I feel safer here. More importantly, my wife feels safer.
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by ajtaylor 13y ago
It's not the America I grew up in, nor the one I want to live in. So I left and have no plans to go back anytime soon. The land of the free isn't so free anymore, which makes me incredibly sad. And my parents live in VA!
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by ajtaylor 13y ago
Then I guess it's up to the publisher to do the math and see what works out to more profit in the end: keeping prices the same w/ less volume, or dropping the price and (hopefully) increasing the volumn.
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by ajtaylor 13y ago
It was hinted at in the article, but the publisher sells the book to Amazon for less than the cover price. Of course, I have no idea if Amazon's purchase price is a percentage of the cover. But if it's not (and that's what I
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by ajtaylor 13y ago
I see we had the same thought! If prices are too high, supply and demand says you should be able to increase demand by dropping the price. Books certainly fall into the elastic demand (or did I get that backwards?) category.
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by ajtaylor 13y ago
Maybe I'm hopelessly naive, but why don't the publishers drop their prices by 5-10%? Since Amazon is selling books at a percentage of the cover price, dropping the cover price should theoretically offset the decreasing Amazon disc
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by ajtaylor 13y ago
I'm more of a cyclist than a runner, but my limited experience has been that when I consistently cycle longer distances each week (100km+) I feel better, my brain is clearer and I sleep longer and more soundly at night. Historically I&
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by ajtaylor 13y ago
I only watched the first couple of days, but this is seriously powerful stuff. And scary if you think about it too much.
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by ajtaylor 13y ago
The standout quote for me is on the second page: "When courts and judges negotiate secretly, when direct data transfers occur without limits, when huge data storage rather than targeted pursuit of individuals becomes the norm, all sens
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by ajtaylor 13y ago
No kidding! I would routinely get 850+ km from my Golf in city driving on a tank (45-50 L). 1000+ km should be easily possible on the highway. Larger cars would have a little worse economy, but should still be excellent.
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by ajtaylor 13y ago
Based on my experience driving a late model VW Golf TDi, it is only a matter of time before rising fuel costs push both manufacturers and consumers towards diesels. They are more efficient and all the problems diesels of the 70's have
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by ajtaylor 13y ago
I'm looking for a low power server for use serving media files over NFS. Any suggestions? This box doesn't sounds like it will fit neither my low power requirement nor being able to throw in a few large hard drives.
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by ajtaylor 13y ago
One thing I've wondered about is why diesel is so much more expensive in the US than Europe (relative speaking)? As you mentioned, there is a LOT consumed by the trucks so it can't be a question of scale. Or even if it is, the US
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by ajtaylor 13y ago
I should note, I had the Golf in Australia.
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by ajtaylor 13y ago
IIRC it was particulates that have been the primary problem for diesels. With modern engines and exhaust systems, I suspect diesel cars could be a success in the US. For a year I was driving a VW Golf TDi and absolutely loved the car. Fanta
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by ajtaylor 13y ago
I wonder if the cloud removal was in response to Mapbox's recent announcements. It seems like an obvious improvement either way. I remember the first Mapquest product, and now we have Google Earth in high resolution glory. What will th
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by ajtaylor 13y ago
Thank you for the link. I'm going to have fun looking back through all their posts.
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by ajtaylor 13y ago
The gifs are some of the best ones I've ever seen. They are almost perfectly seamless!

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