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by ak217 11y ago
Cool. I've been using a script to do something similar :) I recently published a related tool, keymaker: https://github.com/kislyuk/keymaker It lets you connect to EC2 instances using your IAM account (specificall
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by ak217 11y ago
Amazon should definitely be feeling the pressure from Google on this. Per-hour billing has always been a pain to manage for offline/batch workloads. If you're interested in leveraging advanced cost-saving techniques on AWS compute
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by ak217 11y ago
I believe that's off by an order of magnitude - that's actually the price per 1 TB. Also, you can turn off distribution into remote PoPs that charge more than $85/TB.
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by ak217 11y ago
That's a list price that they charge those who don't care to negotiate. CloudFlare starts at $0 and doesn't meter/charge for bandwidth. CloudFront charges 9 cents per GB and is integrated with other AWS APIs (which can b
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by ak217 11y ago
I love GitHub's response, but I would urge the project more strongly to use modern CDN solutions. CDNs are dirt cheap and incredibly powerful nowadays, for the data sizes that we're talking about here.
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by ak217 11y ago
Related, can anyone explain why nginx uses its own resolver instead of the system one?
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by ak217 11y ago
So you don't have a source? I went to grad school with a lot of ecologists (not an ecologist myself). I've seen countless presentations about anthropogenic threats to all kinds of ecosystems. I've never seen anything that inc
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by ak217 11y ago
> Mosquitoes fill an important niche in a great many ecologies. Source please. I am not aware of any study that confirms this statement. See also http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100721/full/466432a.htm
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by ak217 11y ago
WTF did I just read? The guy relates so many ways in which he thinks we shouldn't use Medium, but never presents an argument on why .
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by ak217 11y ago
John Roberts, the Chief Justice on the Supreme Court, is a pro-arbitration lawyer. In a complex legal landscape, arbitration clauses are winning. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/01/business/dealbook/a
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by ak217 11y ago
I'm guessing they would never use a 5th pylon when engine 2 is missing and replaced by a potentially misbehaving or inoperable test engine. The 5th pylon could never accommodate a running engine since it's just an external cargo m
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by ak217 11y ago
Traffic didn't improve. It got rerouted elsewhere, sure. Ultimately what happened was that neighborhoods with freeways nearby appreciated in property values, and those without freeways remained sleepy and suburban. Except Van Ness and
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by ak217 11y ago
It would be awesome to see this happen, but perhaps building more subways (BART southern crossing, Geary subway, Van Ness subway, Central subway extension to North Beach/Marina/Presidio) should be higher priority. With the rebuilt
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by ak217 11y ago
How is profit recovery from dispensaries different from any other business with respect to racketeering? As far as I know racketeering is not a major threat to US businesses in general, what makes legal dispensaries different? Are you imply
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by ak217 11y ago
The Embarcadero Freeway was not destroyed in the earthquake, although it was damaged. The Cypress Street Viaduct in Oakland collapsed in that earthquake, killing and injuring many people. Although the Embarcadero Freeway was never rebuilt a
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by ak217 11y ago
This article has a lot of good information, but its weirdly sensationalistic tone detracts from it. I appreciate learning more about 3D Xpoint and Nantero, but SSDs are not a "transitional technology" in any real sense of the word
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by ak217 11y ago
For the record, you do not get most of the benefits by doing the future import. The silent Unicode/bytes coercion and lack of standard library support is still there, making it almost impossible to write correct non-ascii-handling so
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by ak217 11y ago
The (perhaps naive) question I have is why don't the pulleys have guards to prevent cords jumping them?
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by ak217 11y ago
For anyone looking to stop making compromises, I recommend pixz. It's binary compatible with xz, and is better at compression speed, decompression speed, and ratio than both gzip and xz on multicore systems. I've adopted it in pro
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by ak217 11y ago
For an introduction to the problem, and to anyone who hasn't lived in a severely air polluted city, I highly recommend the documentary Under the Dome , released earlier this year and later banned in China: https://www.youtu
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_footprint#The_carbon_fo...
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by ak217 11y ago
Mentioned briefly in the article, but worth repeating here: iFixit (who Patagonia used to publish the repair guides) is a remarkable company. Their ethos matches the article exactly, and aside from the (economical and awesomely useful) elec
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by ak217 11y ago
A couple of years ago Spotify rewrote their clients to use CEF (Chromium Embedded Framework), so since then their clients are in some sense native and in some sense not, and much more consistent across platforms. Anyway, I agree with you th
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by ak217 11y ago
Related to the recent interview notes by Brad Spender: https://grsecurity.net/~spender/interview_notes.txt IMO it's scary to hear Linus say that "security is just stupid bugs" and that he doesn't th
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by ak217 11y ago
As far as computer disciplines go, my core interests are in language design, distributed systems design, software engineering, security, string and graph algorithms, high performance computing, OS and filesystem design. Aside from that I ha
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by ak217 11y ago
I would certainly welcome any guidance. Email in my profile. Thanks!
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by ak217 11y ago
That all makes perfect sense. For a moment I thought you were referring more to the NAR (market) than the tax regime/REIT side of things. As a millenial with hope of some sort of real estate in my future, I've been thinking of buy
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by ak217 11y ago
> the game is rigged Could you elaborate? And what does it mean to the demographic described in the article?
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Do you keep track of your gold mine in a list somewhere? Would be interested in looking at it. :)
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I have a triple major from Cal with math among them. All I can say is that Berkeley math classes were the most brutal, boring, and demotivating classes that I've ever encountered. For the longest time I tried to suck it up and blame my

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