deadlyllama

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by deadlyllama 6y ago
The two biggest telcos in NZ won't peer freely. At least for the biggest (Spark) Cloudflare delivers from far away. Also Cloudflare "protected" 8chan during the Christchurch terrorist shooting last year which makes them unpop
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by deadlyllama 7y ago
Yup, have been able to do that as long as I remember. It's great for pub quizzes where they play the start of a song, I listen to the rest in my head until I've worked out the song's name. Isn't this the experience of ge
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by deadlyllama 7y ago
Norton Utilities were great! Not sure about the later products.
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by deadlyllama 7y ago
Ha! In my interview they asked that. 8 hour days.
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by deadlyllama 7y ago
I joined a startup back in 2009 and negotiated a 4 day work week for a 20% reduction in pay. Spent my day off doing community ministry work in a poor neighbourhood. It was great. The day off provided fulfilment that the job never would hav
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by deadlyllama 8y ago
The decoder box has to decrypt the satellite signal, run it through a video codec, apply the fancy watermarking, and then output the signal. I'm guessing they've worked out a way of hacking the STB to extract the signal between th
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by deadlyllama 9y ago
Vultr would be great!
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by deadlyllama 9y ago
These days you could solve the problem with virtualisation: boot a small ramdisk that loads KVM with GPU passthrough, and give it a block device that's an LVM snapshot or something similar that you can reset every boot. Pre-KVM, you c
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by deadlyllama 9y ago
This was a big deal in 2002. It got on the front page of Slashdot. I was a student at VUW at the time; someone got a cake with the Slashdot front page printed on icing and Robert Biddle did a magnificent job cutting it up.
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by deadlyllama 9y ago
I haven't tried. I use one of their UK servers for iPlayer, with dnsmasq and policy routing so that Netflix NZ still works. I should try putting the Roku's default route through the US. That's the advantage of several connect
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by deadlyllama 9y ago
I'm disappointed that Mo flat out disregards options "due to their website experience being poorly designed." A slick website means that money was spent on the website. I've been using EarthVPN[1], one of his unreviewed
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by deadlyllama 9y ago
To anyone outside the USA, this is old hat. Yes, latency matters for interactive traffic. Yes, the Atlantic (and Pacific) oceans are big and light ain't getting any faster.
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by deadlyllama 10y ago
It follows from Christian theology (imago dei) but that's increasingly losing ground in the West. If we're just agglomerations of atoms why should I believe that all human agglomerations are equally precious?
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by deadlyllama 10y ago
How does this work when you're a member of the "github is my resume" crowd? Or do you have to leave that crowd when you have children? GitHub is not my resume. No one has paid me to work on open source outside of a few isola
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by deadlyllama 10y ago
I've had absolutely no trouble with my HP Elitebook (a few years old) and it's dock. I can even run two external displays and the internal one simultaneously.
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by deadlyllama 10y ago
Really? NZ is in a similar situation and I can buy an unlimited 1Gbps residential fibre connection in a town of 43,000 people for NZD115/month. NBN handover charges are excessive, and interconnecting with Telstra is crazy expensive, an
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by deadlyllama 10y ago
The problem of being unable to delegate, to let go of a task which you think that you are able to do better than anyone else can, is a problem with you, not the task, and not other people. I know because I can get that way. I'm one of
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by deadlyllama 10y ago
The proprietary predecessor was MNP5 (Microcom Network Protocol). The cool thing about MNP5 was that you could implement it on the host PC. There was a DOS terminal program and a FOSSIL driver which worked with my ancient 2400 baud modem (
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by deadlyllama 10y ago
I'd guess before, they've been in the CGI business for quite a while. I saw a presentation from Milton back in 2000 (I'm also a VUW CS grad) with pictures of the render wall. At one point they bought the building of an ice c
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by deadlyllama 10y ago
I used SQLite to analyze web server logs at my last job (devops at Xero). SQLite supports in memory databases which are very fast. I'd parse a bucket of logs into a table, then run some queries against them and write the results into G
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by deadlyllama 10y ago
Vultr has many more locations than the others. There aren't too many good, affordable providers in AU/NZ.
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by deadlyllama 10y ago
In the late 2000s I worked for a small NZ company, Innaworks, who developed a tool to automatically port J2ME mobile phone apps (mostly games) to BREW, Qualcomm's C++ environment for phones. The number of handset bugs we had to work ar