dmw_ng

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by dmw_ng 3y ago
I genuinely wonder how much that anime waifu logo is costing the project
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by dmw_ng 3y ago
Plenty of locations that used to be BT phone boxes were replaced with pillars featuring WiFi and USB charging. Is this not pretty widespread? This device seems a bit.. daft. Renting a Santander cycle costs 1.65 GBP. Add the high energy food
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by dmw_ng 3y ago
I'd imagine the priority for the service provider is new product lines built around wifi sensing rather than the marketing about bandwidth. It is /really/ hard to come up with new applications that require so much bandwidth c
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by dmw_ng 3y ago
My API key serves at least 5 people including myself, pretty sure that's a common setup
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by dmw_ng 3y ago
17070 (option 1), I think it still exists on BT at least
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by dmw_ng 3y ago
I doubt any amount of staffing could address lack of specialism in dealing with power or air conditioning issues, both likely involve infrequent maintenance by external vendors. 20 people blowing up the phone to a vendor doesn't fix a
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by dmw_ng 3y ago
I'd imagine somewhere well under 50, probably with plenty of CPUs
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by dmw_ng 3y ago
Assuming 256 bytes per query (very high estimate) that's about 3851 MB/s or about 3.5 10 Gbit ports Packet count obviously matters, but a KV cache lookup followed by a short reply in the usual case is one of the easiest loads to e
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by dmw_ng 3y ago
I was recently shocked to discover media attachments sent on Signal are uploaded to either Google Cloud Storage or some other service sitting behind CloudFlare. The recipient device(s) fetch the uploaded keys to access the images. The net e
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by dmw_ng 3y ago
Have never understood the desire to hoard commit rights, half the point of RCS is rollback, and as the article says, once intent is established through effort ("proof of work") there is little risk in assuming good faith until dem
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by dmw_ng 3y ago
You can also pass special commands in the second argument to SQLite: sqlite3 db .dump | ...
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by dmw_ng 3y ago
Is there any documentation showing what kind of performance is given up by shoving a userspace server into the SQLite read path? LiteFS looks cool but I'd be worried about all block IO basically becoming a cross-process RPC negating la
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by dmw_ng 3y ago
Amazing work :) Do you know if glibc gmtime_r() might be impacted by the active timezone? My "massively expensive" experience above came from gmtime_r() on Amazon Linux running in Lambda, but I can't remember the exact scena
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by dmw_ng 3y ago
Neatly omits the massively expensive calendar conversion step for turning the timestamp into a useful format for fast arithmetic. Parsing integers from strings is not why parsing timestamps is slow, any more than counting the length of stri
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by dmw_ng 3y ago
never underestimate the ingenuity of a good QA person. "app freezes while triple-clicking About button while changing wifi network when storage is 89% full and screen reader is enabled" it's the same with good security folk.
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by dmw_ng 3y ago
Video capture is something that's "just worked" for me for as long as I can remember (unlike audio). What's the value gained from the added latency of an intermediary? Is it only to ease containerization?
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by dmw_ng 3y ago
Cost to build the system conspicuously absent This project https://www.gas.scigrid.de/ used a similar approach to map gas pipelines
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by dmw_ng 3y ago
It doesn't seem like an overly difficult problem: try to find a text fragment (e.g. DOM mutation observer) requesting consent in some container that has some other element with an onclick handler (maybe optionally trying to figure out
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by dmw_ng 3y ago
Random aside: this extension had absolutely the worst internals of any I've ever looked at. Love the functionality, but really wish I'd never seen the spaghetti behind the illusion (source files below). It feels like approaching i
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by dmw_ng 3y ago
What value is added by swapping Docker out for an alternative on ECS? It's (at least as I understand it) basically an implementation detail, and well beneath the "covered by AWS support, don't touch" surface
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by dmw_ng 3y ago
What if the assets are a list of URLs computed incrementally? In my app's case, the specific JS bundle variant to load is itself a result of a database query. It's easy to see many scenarios where the majority of assets (e.g. say
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by dmw_ng 3y ago
Early hints solves a different problem, there you have a list of asset URLs you know your rendered page will need. This is about producing pieces of rendered page as computation completes on the backend. Implementing this is a pain in the a
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by dmw_ng 3y ago
viewBox can be comma-separated, so you can loose the quotes but only for inline SVG
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by dmw_ng 3y ago
Record tracking pings independently of any solution and figure things out later, a 1x1 GIF can absorb an unlimited number of query strings, and S3 storage for log files is extremely economical. It doesn't matter which analytics solutio
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by dmw_ng 3y ago
The smoking gun is probably the box that was previously labelled "Media Conversion Service" (Elemental MediaConvert - easily 5-6 figures/mo. for a small amount of snappy on-demand capacity, or crippled slow-as-molasses reserv
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by dmw_ng 3y ago
A while back I tried to reproduce a Vercel enterprise invoice using logs generated by an external service. After multiple round-trips with their support team I concluded it is actually impossible to verify what was billed even remotely refl
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by dmw_ng 3y ago
The same tech works in both directions. Spammer creates 1000 email variants using a LLM, spam filter collapses those 1000 variants back into easily classifiable embeddings
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by dmw_ng 3y ago
Thankfully none of these efforts ever really go places, because they'd create a massive amount of churn for minimal net gain. Spam is primarily a social problem not a technical one
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by dmw_ng 3y ago
The effort to standardize chargers in the EU began at least as early as 2009, 2 years after the original iPhone release and not long after peak Nokia.
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by dmw_ng 4y ago
Currently sitting on 250gb of RAWs since October, at some point that will hopefully become 40gb or less. The last time this happened I batch converted everything to Adobe DNG, but support for that isn't great outside Lightroom. Is the

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