alexhornbake

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by alexhornbake 2y ago
As you’ve pointed out High SPL isn’t what breaks ribbons, it’s high SPL at low frequencies (ie wind/air moving frequencies, like those produced from a slamming wooden case lid. Kick drums and bass guitar amps might not be a good match
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by alexhornbake 2y ago
^ this. The AWS v4 signing method is a spec for how to do HMAC request signing. It is not limited to use only with AWS services. You can use it to sign requests on any service, and there are many implementations. Here is an example of one I
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by alexhornbake 3y ago
This is article is a pedantic waste of time. Tapping out SOS is a thing… https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-civilian-worker-w...
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by alexhornbake 6y ago
This is cool, and I applaud the author’s effort. For certain projects this is likely the right way to go. However, another way to solve this which is safe to use when testing packages in parallel, and let’s you work against your exact datab
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by alexhornbake 6y ago
It depends what you’re optimizing for. One of the beautiful things about a static site is it’s ability to be served by object stores like S3 as your origin, and cached by a CDN. From an operations standpoint, you are not responsible for mai
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by alexhornbake 7y ago
Someone wants to lower their cdn bill, so they serve static things on cdn, and dynamic things from origin.
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by alexhornbake 7y ago
Common mistake. Good vibrations did not actually use a theremin. It was a ribbon controller type instrument that was designed to mimic the sound. Theremins are hard. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electro-Theremin
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People can sense Earth’s magnetic field, brain waves suggest(sciencenews.org)
12 points by alexhornbake 8y ago|9 comments
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by alexhornbake 8y ago
https://youtu.be/hZGqtmwboHU I defer to an expert.
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by alexhornbake 8y ago
It’s a static site, so perhaps S3 (or any static cloud storage origin) and any CDN are a better comparison. What is the total power consumption of 1/nth of a large pool of cloud resources compared to the power draw of the router they a
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by alexhornbake 9y ago
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by alexhornbake 9y ago
The right to be a customer of cloudflare (edit: cloudfront typo) is not really a "free internet" either. Personally, I value the right to not do business with nazis over the right to have hate speech backed by a CDN. No one is sto
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by alexhornbake 9y ago
I think it's a common argument for people who think biometrics are a bad idea for security. IE. You can change your password, you can't change your thumb/face/biometric (easily). At best, a fingerprint establishes identi
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by alexhornbake 9y ago
This is a migration problem. A network of only self driving cars is effectively a more complex train without tracks. This does not require an AI, just a very reliable and coordinated state machine. A mixed set of AI and human drivers is muc
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by alexhornbake 9y ago
Ahhh... Found it... The project has it's own Kernel. I stand corrected. This is super cool. https://github.com/ApolloAuto/apollo-kernel
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by alexhornbake 9y ago
Hmmm, thanks for the additional info. Still seems like a bad idea. Based on your assertion, what happens when the RTOS/microcontroller does not receive a "decision" before the scheduling deadline? Many things can hang a Linux
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by alexhornbake 9y ago
Maybe I'm missing something, is this is a platform strictly for developing ML techniques? Or is it intended to actual run in a vehicle... on ubuntu, in a docker container? I'm no expert, but I would think you'd want a realtim
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by alexhornbake 9y ago
Naming the return value in the function signature will both allocate the named variable, as well as make it the default variable to return. Returning a new unnamed variable for every return will cause all of the unnamed variables to be allo
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by alexhornbake 9y ago
I'm running 4.6 kernel "testing" on a MacBook Air 7,2 as my daily driver. It is rock solid. Wifi, Backlight brightness control and FaceTime camera will not work out of the box, however they can be made to work. Expected to sp
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33 points by alexhornbake 9y ago|6 comments
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by alexhornbake 10y ago
Thank you for mentioning adrenaclick. Generics have been completely missing from the public debate. While epipen price gouging is very real, and a problem, there is one short term solution for allergy sufferers: demand an Rx for the generic
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by alexhornbake 10y ago
One of the big advantages of microservices is scaling/migrating the databases behind each service independently. If you need transactions across multiple services then one could argue that either your API endpoint is doing too much, or
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by alexhornbake 10y ago
Not that odd if you are trying to represent a chunk of a file with a single url, which would be desirable if you were serving video manifest/playlist files like m3u8 (HLS) or f4m (HDS). IIRC Netflix is using HDS. Edit: not sure what fo
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by alexhornbake 12y ago
This advice was given to me by a friend when I was dealing with less than ideal employment situations. 1) Change the way you feel about the situation. Is this a me issue? 2) Change the situation externally. Talk to management, etc. 3) Leave