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by benjaminl 9y ago
The claim is that a train moves a ton of freight at 470 miles per gallon. > Trains can move a ton of freight over 470 miles on a single gallon of fuel. [0] The claim isn't that the whole train goes that distance in a single gallon.
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by benjaminl 9y ago
Firebase is one of the very few products to offer controllable client data replication for full offline first functionality. For apps that have significant offline requirements, this functionality can save a significant amount of time and s
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by benjaminl 10y ago
Care to expand upon the issues with Next Thing Co? Was considering C.H.I.P. for a new project (besides the ridiculous name of their SBC).
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by benjaminl 10y ago
LastPass uses local encryption to enable LastPass to have Zero knowledge of users passwords. This means that user's passwords aren't passed in the clear even inside a TSL session. So LastPass isn't the password manager mentio
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by benjaminl 10y ago
Since it is basically Ubuntu 14.04, if you install an Windows X Server, you can have a GUI also.
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by benjaminl 10y ago
From the article > [...] we expect that Crashlytics will become the main crash reporting offering for Firebase [...] They will be integrating Crashlytics into their core developer offering, Firebase. Looks like if you are just using Fabr
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by benjaminl 10y ago
I think that you misunderstand the usage of the Optane, it isn't meant to be a cache for an HDD. It will serve as a cache for the NVMe SSD. In hardware terms even an NVMe SSD's random access is slow compared to DRAM memory. From t
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by benjaminl 10y ago
Sandforce SSDs did implement compression, this allowed them to write and read less to the flash boosting performance. But the SSD still reported the full uncompressed size to the OS. This is because the abstraction that storage devices pres
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by benjaminl 10y ago
Motortrend's test was with the Tesla Model S P90D, the 2.5 secs 0-60 claim is for the P100D. Edit: And now, someone has put the P100D in the Wikipedia table. Who knows how long that is going to last before it is reverted.
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by benjaminl 10y ago
> The problem is that after installing the update, Windows no longer allows USB webcams to use MJPEG or H264 encoded streams and is only allowing YUY2 encoding. Thurrott's explanations is incorrect. What is happening is that Windows
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by benjaminl 10y ago
The sentence was already meaningless. It didn't break the sentence but revealed that it was already broken.
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by benjaminl 10y ago
Intel -E platforms share more with Intel's Xenon for servers than they do their consumer chips. The Broadwell-E based on the Broadwell platform so always lags behind the consumer release of the platform. This chip isn't designed f
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by benjaminl 10y ago
This is addressed in the original announcement post of SyntaxNet[0]: The major source of errors at this point are examples such as the prepositional phrase attachment ambiguity described above, which require real world knowledge (e.g. that
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by benjaminl 11y ago
This is happening because unlike almost every other developed nation the US has a worldwide tax system. Almost every other nation has a territorial tax system. The rest of the world with their territorial system taxes income earned within t
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by benjaminl 11y ago
Apple uses a live streaming variant of HLS to stream their events. Since HLS is basically an Apple proprietary protocol it isn't well supported on other platforms. Apple in one of their previous press events enabled support for the Mic
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by benjaminl 11y ago
The key thing to remember about rockets is that they are incredibly fragile. The rocket is about 15 stories tall and is designed for force to only be applied at the end either via the rocket engines or the landing gear. Any type of lateral
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by benjaminl 11y ago
The Space Shuttle was a space craft, not a rocket. The SpaceX equivalent to the Space Shuttle is the Dragon spacecraft. Dragon V2 does land exclusively on the ground.
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by benjaminl 11y ago
You are making me very glad that I went with Ubuntu rather than a NAS oriented OS like FreeNAS.
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by benjaminl 11y ago
I am running ZFS on Linux and it is working great for me. ZFS on Linux is considered production ready[0]. A lot of the showstoppers, like being able to boot from ZFS have been worked out. [0] - https://clusterhq.com/2014&#x2
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by benjaminl 11y ago
No, LVM doesn't provide any protection, you need to layer mdadm below LVM to provide any sort of protection. Even with the use of mdadm, it doesn't provide near the sort of protection that ZFS does. Due to pervasive checksuming of
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by benjaminl 11y ago
You go from 16 terabytes to 14.5 tebibytes right out of the gate. And then if you use Raid-Z2 (Raid 6), which uses 2 disks for parity, on a four disk set, half of your drives will be used for parity. This was of course the right call, becau
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by benjaminl 11y ago
When a block of data on a mirrored disk goes bad, mdadm won't be able to fix it and often doesn't even know that the data is bad. Since there is a mirrored copy this a correct copy of your data but since there is no metadata or ch
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by benjaminl 11y ago
As @jzila pointed out this didn’t include the potential energy, with that included, the energy comparison becomes more stark. The Falcon 9 v1.1 weights 557.6 tons and the number floating around for New Shepard is 40 tons. So that would give
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by benjaminl 11y ago
This graphic aptly shows the differences in complexity between the two flight plans, but it doesn't show the biggest difference between the two rockets. When the Falcon 9, enters space at the height of 100 km, it is traveling at 5000 k
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by benjaminl 11y ago
One thing to keep in mind is that Backblaze keeps 1.15 copies of your data, while Amazon S3 and the like keep multiple full geographically redundant copies of your data. For example Microsoft Azure Cloud Storage keeps 3 to 6 copies of your
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by benjaminl 11y ago
I am not sure if Clouflare would advocate this use case, but quick DNS is actually a crucial part of a quick loading site, and it is surprisingly hard to get reasonably priced high performance DNS. I have been using Cloudflare just for DNS
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by benjaminl 11y ago
Microsoft sells computers in their store under Microsoft Signature Edition branding. Signature Edition computers don't come with any type of extra software [1]. For example the Dell XPS 13 [2] is available in Signature Edition. In fact
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by benjaminl 11y ago
I am a happy customer of ExpanDrive ( http://www.expandrive.com/ ) which is very similar, except that it is cross platform and looks like it support more back-ends. ExpandDrive recently greatly enhanced their product by provi
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by benjaminl 11y ago
That is what I was thinking the whole article. Seem like not only would that be simpler it would also be faster. I assume that there is a reason for employing this, but I couldn't find it. Looking at the paper A Comparison of Method Fo
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by benjaminl 11y ago
The best way to think of the ZeroTier network is that it is a virtual switch. Each host on the network is connected to a port on the switch. Since ZeroTier supports hosts connecting to multiple networks, you can setup a pretty sophisticated

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