ak217

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   by ak217 10y ago

   As a former GSoC mentor, I think it's important to have an onboarding pipeline in your project, and disagree with the notion that the mentor/student relationship is somehow atypical - such relationships pop up all the time in the
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   by ak217 10y ago

   It already has. The Acuvue dailies have gone down in price by half since last year, after J&J stopped enforcing the fixed price floor.
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   by ak217 10y ago

   If I'm reading this right, this device is slower than a Samsung 960 Evo across the board ( http://www.anandtech.com/show/10833/the-samsung-960-evo-1tb-... ). It seems that when Intel started developing Optane,
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   by ak217 10y ago

   Just to provide a counterpoint, I recently did a new desktop build and installed Windows 10. It's not bad, and very different from the Windows 10 beta that I gave up on in frustration two years ago. With the Ubuntu subsystem I can do u
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   by ak217 10y ago

   Thanks for the thorough reply. I've looked at how unlicensed links are set up in dense urban settings over about 1 km each, and encountered none of the problems you describe. But I can imagine they become issues over longer distances.
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   by ak217 10y ago

   https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA1EA45M8...
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   by ak217 10y ago

   No one in their right mind will plow the insane money into rural areas required to trench fiber to the curb. Meanwhile a quiet revolution is happening with point-to-point wireless, where $300 gets you a gigabit connection over up to 10 mile
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   by ak217 10y ago

   Internal combustion engines are 20-45% efficient. That means a 150 hp car dissipates 55 KW at peak. Assuming half load that's over 25 KW to dissipate continuously. Cars usually dissipate heat by way of a ~100 kg radiator, ram air and a
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   by ak217 10y ago

   I use arq, and I can highly recommend it. It's definitely fast, but more importantly, it has an agent that works in the background, has a great UI, is highly configurable, unintrusive and light on the CPU load. I use arq with Amazon S3
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    by ak217 10y ago

    I'm curious about the setting in which you saw these failures, could you elaborate? Unlike a plain checksum, CRC-32C is hardened against bias, which means its distribution is not far from that of an ideal checksum. This means if your b
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    by ak217 10y ago

    crc32c is not weakish, and was chosen for a reason: crc32c has widespread hardware acceleration support that remains faster than any hash, and crc32c can be computed in parallel (unlike a hash, it has no hidden state, so you can sum indepen
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    by ak217 10y ago

    Nike's history of supporting runners and track and field athletes speaks for itself.
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    by ak217 10y ago

    I'd say the real key to bicycle ergonomics is the iterative work that Shimano and its competitors have put into the groupsets. Most people don't realize the amount of ergonomic improvement that hyperglide cassettes/chains, be
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    by ak217 10y ago

    This is a key decision that derails the timeline of a decade-long project, potentially irreversibly, costing hundreds of millions of dollars. This decision, and the fact that it could be made and can have these consequences, is a prime exam
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    by ak217 10y ago

    If anyone is interested in a more minimalistic alternative to this, I have been designing an "as simple as possible, but no simpler" devops toolkit and CLI on top of the AWS CLI: https://github.com/kislyuk/aeg
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    by ak217 10y ago

    For anyone interested in a lightweight approach, I've built the following package using AWS Chalice: https://github.com/kislyuk/domovoi It specializes in plugging Chalice into all the various event sources that ca
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    by ak217 10y ago

    Check out http://www.parkerici.org/ . Their head offices are in San Francisco, but they work with a lot of labs across the US.
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    by ak217 10y ago

    Came here to mention Flowdock. IMO Flowdock nailed the chat UI layout for modern chat systems with API-driven integrations. It's too bad it hasn't seen wider adoption, since its bigger competitors, especially Slack, still have no
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    by ak217 10y ago

    After looking more closely, that's actually a Chinese derivative of the Alstom Pendolino train first developed in Italy.
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    by ak217 10y ago

    Yes, it's a high speed track. That's a Siemens ICE train (or a Chinese derivative thereof). A telephoto lens can create this visual effect of depth compression. I'm flabbergasted by people implying that there's a good ex
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    by ak217 10y ago

    There is also lots of Node software running in environments where downtime is unacceptable. And having uncontrolled dependency churn is a great way to break your CI and demoralize your team. I know I've spent way more time than I care
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    by ak217 10y ago

    Thanks for your response!
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    by ak217 10y ago

    Your problem has nothing to do with semver. The solution to your problem is to use your package manager's dependency freeze utility (npm shrinkwrap in your case), and also to select your dependencies carefully, so you don't end up
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    by ak217 10y ago

    What about https://dnscrypt.org/ ?
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    by ak217 10y ago

    OK, so for those of us naive about DNS security, can someone summarize the current best practice for DNS on gateway routers and roaming endpoints (laptops)? I know Google has supported an HTTPS bridge for DNS for a while ( https:/&#x2F
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    by ak217 10y ago

    So they are announcing variable data rate streams and Display Stream Compression support. I thought until now HDMI had a fixed data rate except for the control channel, unlike DisplayPort which is fully packetized. Can someone more knowledg
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    by ak217 10y ago

    USB 3.1: 10 Gbit/s DisplayPort 1.4: 32 Gbit/s HDMI 2.1: 38 Gbit/s Thunderbolt 3: 40 Gbit/s
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    by ak217 10y ago

    I definitely appreciate your perspective on the South in general. But I'm a westerner who has lived in Atlanta for a number of years. The gentrification and densification of Atlanta's inner neighborhoods is unlike anything I'
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    by ak217 10y ago

    Until now I thought the new features were confined to `f""` format strings. Edit: As correctly pointed out, this feature has been around since the introduction of str.format(). So this warning applies to all Python versions.
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    by ak217 10y ago

    There are many protocols that use this approach, Aspera FASP is possibly the most advanced one. It uses a TCP control channel to manage the rate on the UDP data channel.