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by dharmab 2y ago
I set up a "sandbox" project as an early step of setting up a new PC. Sadly for certain types of projects like GIS, ML, scientific computing, the dependencies tend to be mutually incompatible and I've learned the hard way to
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by dharmab 2y ago
Search "LTT Windows Modern Standby" on YouTube. Sadly all the workarounds to turn it off no longer work reliably. For reliable sleep, buy a Framework (only current Windows laptop that still supports S3 Sleep) or Macbook.
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by dharmab 2y ago
Framework does! I think they might be the _only_ one to consistently support it.
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by dharmab 2y ago
uBlock Origin works great with Orion Browser on iOS.
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by dharmab 2y ago
Oh no, Windows Modern Standby is infamously terrible and unreliable. Here is a youtube video with millions of views explaining the problems in detail: https://youtu.be/OHKKcd3sx2c
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by dharmab 2y ago
Holy crap! I watch like, maybe a couple of movies a month and two or three miniseries a year? Is that including ads too? And sports/news? EDIT: Wait, are these "average person" or "average American?"
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by dharmab 2y ago
Yup, deep archive on <2TB, which is more content than most people watch in a lifetime. I mostly store content in 1080p as my vision is not good enough to notice the improvement at 4K.
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by dharmab 2y ago
The retrieval cost is less than 1 hour of my time and I expect less than 10% chance I'll ever need it.
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by dharmab 2y ago
Having to restore my media server without a backup would cost me around a dozen hours of my time. 2 bucks a month to back up to Glacier with rclone’s crypt backend is easily worth it.
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by dharmab 2y ago
The short version is: - Distributing patches via email is more scalable than web hosting. Even GitHub could not host the level of activity happening on the LKML mailing list - Web hosting has a variety of access and legal problems when work
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by dharmab 2y ago
They're hiring for roles that look like cloud and infrastructure engineers- although that may be for internal infrastructure for training their models.
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by dharmab 3y ago
Sadly my work is subject to regulatory requirements that prevent me from discussing specific details :(
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by dharmab 3y ago
Postgres as a queue is one of the worst decisions I've seen made and I and others I've worked with have spent years of our lives unwinding the consequences.
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by dharmab 3y ago
I wouldn't call it lightweight, but for an adventure bike it's certainly accessible.
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Niche? We must live in different places. Where I live dual sports are probably the most popular bikes after Harleys. All the kids in my neighborhood are getting Surrons instead of gas dirt bikes.
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by dharmab 3y ago
I've ridden long distances around US and usually if you've got 120 miles of gas range, you're fine pretty much anywhere on pavement, even in that very long stretch of no services in Utah. Off road of course is another univers
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by dharmab 3y ago
For clarity, Liquid Death is a beverage brand. Flavored water, ice tea, etc.
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by dharmab 3y ago
I daily commuted on a 300cc for a long time and yeah, the extra power is very handy on US highways. I find at least 70hp is a nice sweet spot, and everything above that is mostly for putting a grin on your face for a solo rider.
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by dharmab 3y ago
Yamaha Niken. Ducati also does some really cool stuff with their bike tech, but doesn't market it as much as the other brands, preferring their exotic brand image.
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by dharmab 3y ago
My F750GS is such an easy bike to live with. It's one of those products that on paper seems boring compared to the competitors but when you actually use it every day you see why it's nice.
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by dharmab 3y ago
I take a shotgun approach and install: - libva-mesa-driver - mesa-vdpau - intel-media-driver - libva-intel-driver - libvdpau-va-gl And hope _one_ of them works
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by dharmab 3y ago
In my experience with motorcycling and bicycling as a primary mode of transport I'm happy if the human drivers attempt to stop at all
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by dharmab 3y ago
Although it's not formal, my team sometimes says "this code is not grug" or "this code is pretty grug" in reference to https://grugbrain.dev
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by dharmab 3y ago
Upgrade our binaries immediately, then bump go.mod `go` directive as we touch things.
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by dharmab 3y ago
You could display instructions on the phone and still use the depth camera on the device, which is presumably used for tracking anyway.
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by dharmab 3y ago
The flash could be a white LED. Apple has some other devices which require another device for setup, so it wouldn't be unusual for them. They could also offer setup at an Apple store.
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by dharmab 3y ago
Aircraft have been reliably landing themselves for decades now. Tom Scott did a video where he was coached through a simulated landing of an airliner with zero flying experience: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbTDzPUDxqY
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by dharmab 3y ago
I'm glad you learned that lesson for less than $1k. I think everyone who's ever worked with large amounts of data in BigQuery has a story like that, and sometimes the number is six or seven digits.
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by dharmab 3y ago
Yes, I've found that you need to scrutinize the documentation, quotas, SKUs and billing statements quite closely, and you need to test everything before you run production at scale. I've seen unexpected billing due to an operation
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by dharmab 3y ago
Experience building and operating large systems using public cloud services and design patterns without falling into the traps such as ludicrously overpriced SKUs, API limits, low quota, data transfer fees, and all the boring stuff in the f

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