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by dmw_ng 5y ago
Came here to read this. Reminiscent of the early days of Google and it's championing of open standards, right up until their browser became a monopoly. As for CloudFlare, let's not forget their interest in efforts like DNS-over-HT
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by dmw_ng 5y ago
I was mostly thinking about the sparse structure of upper bits (which are easily enumerable e.g. by downloading a RIPE database dump). As for the lower 64, MAC address OUIs contribute at most around 15 bits, and the distribution is likely s
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by dmw_ng 5y ago
The v6 space has structure and is much smaller than that
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On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs (2013)(atlasofplaces.com)
2 points by dmw_ng 5y ago|0 comments
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by dmw_ng 5y ago
Saved to Drive from https://www.credit-suisse.com/media/assets/corporate/docs/ab... because that link forces file download
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Credit Suisse post mortem on Archegos Capital fund blowup(drive.google.com)
2 points by dmw_ng 5y ago|1 comments
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by dmw_ng 5y ago
One of these promises to justify the billable hours of half the industry for the next decade, the other threatens to eliminate them by the next decade. It really isn't more complicated than that
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by dmw_ng 5y ago
Crypto isn't nearly a sufficient alternative to the money market, in traditional finance its use is highly regulated, the whole reason for the current situation is that since 2008 banks are extremely limited in holding any kind of risk
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by dmw_ng 5y ago
I have a webshare.io subscription for stuff like this, it's something extremely negligible like $3/mo. for 100 addresses and some liberal bandwidth cap. Always happy to self-build, but sometimes it just doesn't make any sense
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by dmw_ng 5y ago
https://fed.tips/sico4-1/ This relates to scarcity of short-duration treasuries, it's mostly a scary sounding non-event
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by dmw_ng 5y ago
I bet this would also screw masses of user code making assumptions about optimal size, or simply designed/optimized for a smaller size. LMDB was the first thing that came to mind
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by dmw_ng 5y ago
Higher performance, much smaller compressed and uncompressed, accepted by a wide range of tools, e.g. Pandas, and often more convenient to parse from statically typed languages.
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by dmw_ng 6y ago
> compact mode) and hide it in about:config[0]. I guess I should count my blessings that they aren't removing it entirely I see this is your first rodeo. Probably within 2 years the story will change to "removed rarely used set
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by dmw_ng 6y ago
These are very different kinds of bandwidth. The only provider above to offer anycast IP (AFAIK) is AWS Global Accelerator.. it's $.015/gb on top of the regular $.09ish/gb EC2 egress charge. GCE offer anycast load balancing b
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by dmw_ng 6y ago
> Inflicting that complexity on you all would help with margin control, but ugh. What we've done instead is set a blended price that fits most apps running on Fly.io, and decided to just eat the extra cost from outliers. If you want
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by dmw_ng 6y ago
If you haven't tried Fly yet, where have you been? - Anycast IPv4 to VMs hosted near the edge - Raw TCP/UDP servers or external HTTP/HTTPS termination - $.02/GB egress, no per-request pricing You can build almost anythin
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by dmw_ng 6y ago
Tarballs must be compressed in a very particular way to support random access, and even that only works with on-demand decompression using a slow compressor (zlib). In Fly's model this would probably also need to happen inside the con
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by dmw_ng 6y ago
> The Ever Given was carrying around approx. 18 000 containers This is a mind-boggling number, I didn't realize those ships carried so much load. Insurance premiums must be crazy
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by dmw_ng 6y ago
Can anyone qualified explain how this could be the shipper's fault? I understood the canal requires (extremely expensive) pilots supplied by the canal authority aboard for any passage. It's mentioned in the article: > Bernhard
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by dmw_ng 6y ago
I think it's fair to say Just Eat is the major contender to Deliveroo over here. Based on the absolutely tragic UX alone, I doubt many people bother with Uber Eats
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by dmw_ng 6y ago
This looks like the holy grail of extension development, effectively a Python runtime HAL, it's wildly exciting. Getting anything to work optimally on PyPy and CPython more or less means writing it twice. CFFI overhead on CPython reall
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by dmw_ng 6y ago
5.3s at 1.4gb on a laptop is 53ms at 14mb, is >70ms on mobile before adding any increased download time. 14mb is one retina image, even Reddit already weighs 8mb. It's silly to pretend this stuff doesn't matter, you can't
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by dmw_ng 6y ago
For the pile of XML in front of me just now (originally arrived in a ZIP container aka deflate, part of a much larger set), it's 1.4gb decompressed, 44M gzipped/deflated (default settings), 31mb zstd (default), 5.379s to decompres
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by dmw_ng 6y ago
Picture the effect of compression ratios or decompression performance improving 1% globally, or conversely, if planes were replaced with a Wright Brothers model or cars with the T1. When discussing Deflate it's not just 1%, but regular
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by dmw_ng 6y ago
It depends on a lot on the compressor. Ancient junk like gzip/deflate only has a 32kb window, more modern compressors like zstd can do 512mb or more. Larger window means potentially much more work during compression, and larger RAM req
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Crypto Investor in Singapore Is Buyer of $69M Beeple NFT(bloomberg.com)
2 points by dmw_ng 6y ago|1 comments
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by dmw_ng 6y ago
Emulation has been a patent minefield going back 20+ years, there is a fairly good chance it's not due to Intel
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by dmw_ng 6y ago
So then what is the point of doing it via NFT? If all value is tied to the behaviour of a single central counterparty, the use of NFT is utterly redundant. I understand this may come as a shock, but the entire point of blockchains is to sol
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by dmw_ng 6y ago
> I don't understand how the value of tokens drifts towards zero This is the software industry after all. Take for example a multi-player game with purchasable trinkets. Player "invests" in a copy of the game at $50 and 20
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by dmw_ng 6y ago
Your use case is definitely more interesting, but it still seems relatively pointless. I love the idea of NFTs acting as a kind of capability to unlock functionality in a piece of software (like a game), but in the particular case of just o

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