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by cbhl 6y ago
Rebuild $infra from large company and provide it as SaaS was a pretty good recipe for a decent software business for a while. It might still be. For example, PagerDuty came out of monitoring systems at Amazon.
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by cbhl 6y ago
There's quite a bit of dynamic content, no? Things like exercise grading, and progression through the skill tree.
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by cbhl 6y ago
Glad to see I wasn't the only one confused by the Xbox and game controller in the header. (I mean, sure, it "just" runs Windows, but...)
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by cbhl 6y ago
"Serverless" (which looks an awful lot like cgi-bin and shared hosting all over again)
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by cbhl 6y ago
Chrome OS ran into this problem, and solved it by directing writes to an encrypted stateful partition. To reset, you then "simply" securely erase the encryption key, which is much faster than full-disk-overwrites of yore. (There a
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by cbhl 6y ago
+1 to this. $DAYJOB has some proprietary ssh handling, but I can dev from my work-issued macbook into a Linux desktop in the office and vscode "just works"
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by cbhl 6y ago
I was under the impression they were pivoting rather hard into events, to diversify their income streams?
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by cbhl 6y ago
It's unclear to me whether you'll catch it again next year (like the seasonal flu), or how long your immunity will last. But if you want to go about this, I'd suggest doing so with medical supervision. Consider volunteering f
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by cbhl 6y ago
Restaurants and factories use much bigger (and plainer-looking) bags of flour than end-consumers, so retooling probably requires changes to the "paper bag" supply chain...
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by cbhl 6y ago
Pairing a big fast processor with a small energy-efficient processor is starting to get more common. You see it in a lot of higher end Android phones. I believe that the Touch Bar Macbooks also pair an x86_64 processor with an ARM coprocess
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by cbhl 6y ago
In the best case, yes. In the worst case, users can't connect -- which goes in contrast with the "It Just Works" use case for Zoom. P2P is great if you're small, but eventually it makes sense to do client-server with ser
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by cbhl 6y ago
"Guess and check" is a technique that I have also used in Go code, and it is fine. A lot of the compiler errors really could be errors in pre-commit hooks (like, the one about unused variables), but the language designers made a t
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by cbhl 6y ago
My impression is that it's a mix -- telecoms only want to upgrade wireline infrastructure where it's profitable (so, more affluent areas), and in my experience, in SF, there is some degree of NIMBYism about internet infrastructure
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by cbhl 6y ago
The problem with price as a mechanism to determine who truly needs a resource is that it excludes people who don't have money. For example, children who would greatly benefit from early therapeutic and/or psychiatric care.
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by cbhl 6y ago
Oof. Though I have fond memories of playing HoverRace over dial-up links as well as Liero on local co-op...
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by cbhl 6y ago
I always assumed the whole "KD" thing was just a marketing rebrand to make it cool again to a new generation of kids in the '00s Plus, I don't think they are allowed to call it "cheese" in Canada?
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by cbhl 6y ago
I'm having trouble finding the actual study, but UnitedHealth Group, working with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Quest Diagnostics, and the University of Washington did a study on the efficacy of self-swabbing. https:/&
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by cbhl 6y ago
Based on their username, I think searching the page for "in collaboration with the Wells lab" would answer your question.
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by cbhl 6y ago
Once you are five years out of college, your resume lists work experience and the year you graduated from college. Most folks won't care whether you were the hotshot that got early admission, or the kid that took an extra year to finis
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by cbhl 6y ago
The tricky bit for OS X is that there isn't a virtual webcam driver for it. (Someone posted a proposed bounty last month: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22686333 ) You can do this today on Windows and Linux, I bel
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by cbhl 7y ago
I feel like Microsoft has actually built a sustainable, developer-friendly, OSS-friendly business around Azure, Visual Studio, and GitHub. I could imagine other potential acquirers just wanting to do an acquihire, and deprecating the servic
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by cbhl 7y ago
I feel pretty lucky that I've only ever used Trello with one ExampleCo -- so when I got this email, I signed in, removed myself all ExampleCo boards, and deleted my old ExampleCo email address from my account. This process isn't t
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by cbhl 7y ago
I remember in high school, some of my peers participated in the 30 Hour Famine, to help get a better understanding of this.
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by cbhl 7y ago
Yes, I would also guess they're blurring the image with the box overlaid. In a production implementation, you may also want to consider how you do edge handling here. (For faces in the middle of the frame, you want to use the real pixe
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by cbhl 7y ago
In my personal opinion, a naive gaussian blur could be susceptible to supersampling attacks, especially in a video where you can take samples over multiple frames. In a production implementation, I would consider adding some steps to mitiga
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by cbhl 7y ago
Anecdotally, I feel like Zipcar has been shrinking, not growing, ever since they got bought out by Avis (the #2 traditional car rental company). On the other hand, Lyft is now trying to get into the car rentals game...
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by cbhl 7y ago
As I understand it, any API call using the deprecated authentication scheme will fail for the 3-hour period, not just logins. So for some folks, maybe CI will be broken, or deployment automation, or even code review. The trade-off here is t
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by cbhl 7y ago
I have seen restaurant employees also wearing face shields, especially if they work cash. A lot of places near me have also been putting up sheets of plastic between the cashier and the customer.
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by cbhl 7y ago
Even if it's not useful for general-purpose compression, it may still be useful in a more restricted domain. In text compression, Brotli can be found in Chrome with a dictionary that is tuned for HTTP traffic. And in audio compression,
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Releasing music on a custom-built Game Boy cartridge (2019)(youtube.com)
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