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by bobf 9y ago
I've had the Dell U3415W (3440x1440) since it was released two years ago, and it is the best monitor I've ever used. The resolution is great, and avoiding the DPI scaling needed for practical use of most 4K screens is key. As a bo
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by bobf 9y ago
Wanting to see how "a feature that we needed" works is better phrased as a "solution". It solves a problem you have. The quote your referenced is simply saying that a large feature set is not the most important thing; wh
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by bobf 9y ago
I tried Glass but returned it after a few weeks. It failed for me because it didn't provide enough value for the hassle it added. The main pain points for me were that it wasn't particularly comfortable, had poor battery life, did
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by bobf 9y ago
The same idea applies for other fruits and vegetables, like corn, peas, and especially peaches and pears. The trick is finding a good canned variety. Most mass produced versions from the familiar large names (Dole, Del Monte, etc. in the US
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by bobf 10y ago
In my view, the problem is actually that theaters often do not have equivalent quality for 3D and non-3D. The biggest, best screen may show 3D IMAX all day long, because that's what is most profitable. Seeing movies in 2D on the highes
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by bobf 10y ago
Hawaii isn't considered international, from the perspective of the US - it's domestic. Notice that there also is not a trip to Alaska shown, though he did visit Alaska. (And, trips in the mainland US are not shown either.)
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by bobf 10y ago
It's great to see a solution that works using some basic hardware and existing blinds. Not only does that make it incredibly cheap compared to commercial alternatives, but it also doesn't require implementation at time of construc
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by bobf 10y ago
Tokyo is consistently ranked as one of the best cities to travel to or live in, in the world. I visited Tokyo recently, and found it to be exceptional in many ways. Aside from Patrick, I've never heard of Ogaki and I suspect most peo
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by bobf 10y ago
Moving to your own hardware will almost certainly improve performance, reduce incidental downtime, and cut costs substantially. Including hiring more engineers, you might expect total costs to be ~40-50% of what you would have spent on clou
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by bobf 10y ago
The sheer size is almost unimaginable from the perspective of an individual walking around, if the 4 million sq m listed in the article is accurate. For comparison, that means Yiwu is roughly 400x larger than an average Walmart -- and certa
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by bobf 10y ago
Definitely! My own favorites are the tonkotsu ramen broth and chocolate chip cookies. (And yes, there are massive, in-depth posts about making the noodles and the cha siu pork belly to accompany the ramen too). http://www.serio
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by bobf 11y ago
Some aspects of zero downtime DB migrations require your changes and deployment protocols to follow certain rules, so I'm not sure a generic automated solution is possible. I was writing and speaking a fair amount about this back in 20
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by bobf 11y ago
Parma is an incredible town for food, and the whole Emilia-Romagna region is worth an extended visit. I spent 2 weeks exploring the area last summer and loved it. Within a 30 mile radius of Parma, you can sample some of the best fruits and
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by bobf 11y ago
The cheaper kamado-style/big green egg clones are pretty good these days. I recently picked up a Kamado Kooker with stand for ~$300 vs. >$1000 for the similar size Big Green Egg and stand, and have been quite happy with it.
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by bobf 11y ago
I'm pretty unhappy with them, but for different reasons. I ordered more than a year after their Kickstarter -- as a pre-order through their Shopify site. At that point, they had indicated they were going to ship units "soon",
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by bobf 12y ago
I hope you'll be able to upgrade the module and retain the same case+band, but I haven't seen anything definitive from Apple to say that's likely.
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TransAsia GE235 crashes in Taiwan river(youtube.com)
1 points by bobf 12y ago|0 comments
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by bobf 12y ago
They sent out a different email to Explorers that returned Glass (I did) -- Hi there, It’s been an exciting ride. We learned A LOT and now we’re hard at work building the future of Glass. You gave Glass a chance-even if it wasn’t right for
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DevOps View of Cryptocurrency(sysadvent.blogspot.com)
3 points by bobf 12y ago|0 comments
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by bobf 13y ago
You're not going to get rich from this. AWS limits you to ten spot instances of this type, and profits per ten instances per day are probably going to be $20-30. I've been mining with this setup for ~4 hours and have amassed ~0.2
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by bobf 13y ago
It isn't available in all regions. What region are you looking at?
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by bobf 13y ago
It could, but we're talking about a specific GPU instance in this case. I wouldn't see an obvious correlation between Black Friday and the g2.2xlarge instance type.
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by bobf 13y ago
Indeed. I would estimate that at current LiteCoin values and difficulty level, mining on EC2 will stay profitable until the spot price for these instances passes $0.20-0.21. One thing that will slightly slow down the abuse of this is that
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by bobf 13y ago
I'm the author of the post. I didn't include a lot of background detail because I wanted to publish the technically interesting bits quickly. As I see it, mining LiteCoins on EC2 is currently profitable because of four main factor
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LiteCoin Mining on EC2 is currently profitable(completefusion.com)
68 points by bobf 13y ago|65 comments
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by bobf 13y ago
I had a similar experience around the same age and year, except it was with FreeBSD. I got it to boot once, then tried to change the bootloader setup to allow dual booting with the existing MS-DOS 5.x installation. You can imagine how well
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by bobf 13y ago
5+, with another 5+ I don't carry but will use once in a blue moon. These include both business and personal cards, with branded versions of various cards.
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by bobf 13y ago
Securing your instances in what way? Elastic Beanstalk should initially provide you with instances that one would expect to be reasonably secure, but I wouldn't rely on that level of presumed security for anything important. It definit
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by bobf 13y ago
Great suggestions, thanks! I'm sure a whole book could be written about HIPAA compliance and AWS, but a lot of general AWS security best practices will end up being useful towards a goal of HIPAA compliance. I'll definitely be cov
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by bobf 13y ago
Sure! Can you expand on what you're interested in specifically, if anything? (Or is it just top to bottom/ basics to advanced OpsWorks that you're looking for?)

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