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by dkarp 5y ago
I didn't know about the Cube[1], so thanks for sharing. Only sold for 1 year and then discontinued. Laptops are now dominant and have outsold desktops for a long time, but in year 2000 that wasn't the case. So the Cube seems like
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by dkarp 5y ago
If they chose 8:30, then it must have been really risky! ;)
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by dkarp 5y ago
Someone save a risky release for 9am on a Monday morning? Decided Friday afternoon was too risky?
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by dkarp 5y ago
Today's valid opinion is tomorrow's invalid opinion and vice versa
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by dkarp 5y ago
> A Netflix employee can chime in but I assume cpu intensive since the desired objectives of Packager can only be achieved by transcoding I think you're maybe confusing the Packager with the Encoder. Transcoding (encoding) happens b
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by dkarp 5y ago
Indeed, that's what I meant by: > Is it so that they can better distribute the packaged encodes to their CDN? The Packager, as far as I can tell, is not actually a cpu intensive process. That article mentions that the bottleneck was
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by dkarp 5y ago
Right, and I actually read that. Maybe I should rephrase my question. I'd like to know why is a Packager necessary instead of virtually packaging and presenting an interface of a packaged file? Then you'd be able to keep your enco
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by dkarp 5y ago
It's not entirely clear to me what the job of the Packager is here as opposed to a Virtual Package. After chunk encoding and Virtual Assembly with an index file, are Netflix actually packaging the encoded video/audio/subtitle
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by dkarp 5y ago
Non-paywall https://archive.md/lhXt2
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by dkarp 5y ago
Good spot! That settles it for me then
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by dkarp 5y ago
Yea good point, although since it's a raspberry pi compute module anyway I wonder how different support will be. The Zigbee module is the main place that support will be better
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by dkarp 5y ago
You'd refuse to answer fizzbuzz? Why? Some people are very good at talking the talk and yet cannot write basic code. Fizzbuzz is a 2 minute exercise for most engineers I've interviewed (except those who fail it, which does happen)
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by dkarp 5y ago
Just trying to see the benefit of the Home Assistant Amber over a Raspberry Pi 4 2GB. It looks like you get: * Zigbee module ($45 for rp4 https://phoscon.de/en/raspbee2 ) * PoE module ($20 if desired for rp4 https:&#x2
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by dkarp 5y ago
> It's like saying a service is designed by PMs and engineered retroactively Which is a genuine problem on some teams right? The most effective teams I've worked on had engineering a part of the product design process from the
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by dkarp 5y ago
I find this with everything. You have to become an expert at everything if you want it done right. Maybe it's because the truly expert help is generally too expensive. Examples: - Taxes/Pensions - if you just rely on your accounta
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by dkarp 5y ago
For non-professional setups, if you have a decent GNSS module/antenna then near a window works fine. I built a clock with a GNSS module and it gets enough of a signal by the window to keep time fine but I wouldn't rely on it.
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by dkarp 5y ago
Like others say, maybe fraud is less common, but personally I use a credit card 99% of the time. Most banks will refund fraud in most cases even on a debit card here (UK)
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by dkarp 5y ago
Meta: I enjoy how HN has European stories and comments this time of day before the US wakes up. You naturally get sort of region categorised HN feeds based on time of day.
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by dkarp 5y ago
Maybe, although I loaded it less than 4 minutes after it was posted. HN Hug of death must come really quick
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by dkarp 5y ago
Still pending for me too. I'm going to assume this is here because of a voting ring
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by dkarp 5y ago
I'll add Ramster Gardens to my list of places to go this summer. It looks really nice, thanks for sharing.
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by dkarp 5y ago
Submit them and Ron will add them. I've sent him a couple in the past and a few weeks later they were added with credits. These sort of fan pages were such a part of the old web. It's great to find little pockets of it.
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by dkarp 5y ago
similarly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eel_life_history
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by dkarp 5y ago
Does the FCC co-ordinate with other FCC equivalent agencies around the world? Or is everyone just doing their own thing?
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by dkarp 5y ago
Not sure what you mean about ambient spectrum, but Starlink has better theoretical latency than fibre over large distances once they have inter-satellite laser links. There are also huge areas of the Earth's surface that are hard to or
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by dkarp 5y ago
yes, this is driving me nuts. I regularly have to merge 3-4 pull requests and it's taking over a minute for each. This used to be a few clicks and now it's a 5-10 minute job making sure everything has merged correctly. Then you go
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by dkarp 5y ago
does testingbot support running tests with Detox[0]? [0] https://github.com/wix/Detox
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by dkarp 5y ago
There's a bit on the r/DataHoarder subreddit about it[0]. They say it comes down to a shorter warranty, more demand and "Binning of performance parts". [0] https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/w
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by dkarp 5y ago
They said "many people reading this" and HN's biggest audience is US tech workers. It wouldn't be ignorant to say that many US tech workers can afford that.
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by dkarp 5y ago
you could do it for about $2300 by shucking external hard drives. I picked up a couple 10TB WD drives last year for $210 each for my NAS.

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