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by derefr 2y ago
> Apple/Google surely know how to run a data centre, and there doesn't seem to be much that couldn't be hosted just as well by them as by each telco Because Apple/Google can only run so many data centers. And these DC
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by derefr 2y ago
I'm not in the music industry in any capacity myself, so take everything I say here with a grain of salt. And more specifically, to address your question, I don't know enough about the recording part of music production to say whe
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by derefr 2y ago
It doesn't matter that this is a static site; it matters what it's hosted on. If this static site is sitting on a CDN or Github Pages or something, then sure, there's no need to mask its IP address. But if this static site is
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by derefr 2y ago
You can extract pitch information and compare it to a set of quantized reference pitches as an instrument tuning app does, sure. But you can also extract BPM info and compare that to a set of quantized reference BPMs that anyone would eve
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by derefr 2y ago
I can’t speak for general solutions, but at least one portion of the addicted just have chronic pain; were prescribed extremely strong and addictive painkillers (as the only thing that would work!); and then got cut off from the medical sys
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by derefr 2y ago
To be clear, residential ISPs already do provide edge-compute hosting... for corporations . When Netflix and others put CDNs "at the edge", they aren't doing that by building their own DC inside your city; nor by renting s
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by derefr 2y ago
While you might assume that Cloudflare "insights" is an advertising/analytics system, this is actually part of Cloudflare's anti-DDoS infrastructure. This "beacon" gets injected at random on Cloudflare-served H
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by derefr 2y ago
> It will centralize the internet further and squash many attempts for alternative communications. Would it? It seems to me that a future where 1. every home land-line Internet connection is CGNATed; but 2. every cellular Internet conn
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by derefr 2y ago
> they first thing they tell you to do is to install an IDE Yes, they do that because they assume — due to Java being a recommended first language — that they're talking to someone with literally no programming experience. An IDE fo
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by derefr 2y ago
> sure, there's ways to hack them to do some subset of those things, but that takes a lot of setup time The things I mentioned (local symbol auto-complete, reference-chasing, global go-to-symbol) are things that modern code editors
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by derefr 2y ago
Ironically, that was the subreddit I wanted to use as the best example of a place to ask questions... but I just couldn't think of its name. :)
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by derefr 2y ago
I mean, I wasn't being facetious; I am the person I described. I code Java (the 10% of the time that I have to touch it) using Sublime Text and a terminal. Never learned an IDE. I still seem to get things done faster than the IDE peopl
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by derefr 2y ago
Maybe technically true as a matter of biology in isolation, but mostly not in practice — specifically due to that "something they ate or drank" part. The basal body temperature reduction that happens at night really isn't rel
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by derefr 2y ago
Why assume that everyone who touches Java code, uses an IDE to do so? If you write code 90% of the time in a frontend or scripting or other kind of language where a lightweight code editor like VSCode is the peak of productivity — and then
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by derefr 2y ago
These are the sorts of things that won't yield to a specific keyword search (because you aren't giving the search engine the "terms of art" used people who use the thing), but where you can probably figure these out pr
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by derefr 2y ago
> and cannot be replicated at a workshop in China for $50 ... the more bureaucracy you add the more the drop shippers benefit because they know how to work through the bureaucracy better than non drop shippers. The thing about bureaucrac
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by derefr 2y ago
Only works if the maker has come along themselves to man the booth, though. Admittedly, that is true in the majority of cases. But for about ...30%, I'd say? of the vendors I engage with at these sorts of markets, they turn out to be
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by derefr 2y ago
> Imagine having a super high turnover warehouse full of unique one-off items... Auction houses manage it somehow.
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by derefr 2y ago
Since it is by definition a low (sales) volume process, you'd only need to keep one or two of each thing in stock at the Etsy fulfillment center. Items in stores run on "tight logistics" would just have their items constant
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by derefr 2y ago
Only really works for some types of goods, though. Someone selling e.g. end-grain wooden cutting boards would require a very spacious booth to demonstrate their particular skill. Someone selling stained-glass pieces would require a fume h
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by derefr 2y ago
Why are you so sure that an item being sold at a local craft-market gives you any guarantee of its local origin? The "hobbyist jeweler" standing at the twee little booth in the community center on a Saturday afternoon, could just
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by derefr 2y ago
If I were an artist selling stuff on Etsy, my storefront would undergo mitosis under new PO-box identities every time it hit 5k USD of sales.
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by derefr 2y ago
> intractable problems with quality and fulfillment • Re: fulfillment — why not ask Etsy sellers to pre-stock everything that's not made-to-order into fulfillment centers like Amazon's? And, in fact, to send anything that is
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by derefr 2y ago
What's the difference between a counter-drone tackling an attack drone, and a human bodyguard tackling a hitman? Human bodyguards are definitely "private security."
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by derefr 2y ago
> There is no non-military, non-law enforcement market for anti-drone technology. Would you consider the counter-drone systems that are currently deployed over large fixed population gathering spaces, e.g. football stadiums, to be "
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by derefr 2y ago
> you aren’t going to get dirtier just sleeping anyway I don’t shower to wash off dirt; I shower to wash off my own body’s excretions. Which definitely do happen while I’m sleeping (and more so, in fact, because body temperature rises
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by derefr 2y ago
I think I'd expect it to block responses containing anything matching the syntax of any ops secret. A bit like how Github's partner leaked-secret scanning system works (where each company concerned with credential leaks, registe
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by derefr 2y ago
I forgot to mention the best part — a trick that modern GPUs can only pull off because of how they feed their DPEs: Take a modern computer with a modern GPU, and plug the GPU into one 75Hz monitor and one 60Hz monitor. In your OS, arrange t
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by derefr 2y ago
> But if you were blocking the data from being accepted in the first place you wouldn't have that data in your database to begin with. I mean, many of these dumb mistakes that someone would want their WAF to save them from, wouldn&#
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by derefr 2y ago
The question of "how do we deal with lobbying from people whose preferences are reactionary / opposed to human progress", cannot be answered by telling those same people to "take responsibility." In their minds, the

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