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by dpedu 3y ago
Why can't Earth time be the universal frame of reference, and everywhere else use a factor of earth time? This article describes the rate difference already, why can't we use that?
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by dpedu 3y ago
I'd expect that they have traffic cameras on the bridge that would allow them to know how many cars are missing.
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by dpedu 3y ago
Either I pay a performance penalty waiting for my cache entry to be synced to the replica, or I risk reading stale data from the replica, no?
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by dpedu 3y ago
How would the architecture in the OP mesh with master-slave postgres setups? If I write a cache item how can I be certain the freshest entry is read back from the read-only slave? Can/do I pay a performance penalty on writes waiting fo
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by dpedu 3y ago
Seeing these symptoms as well, from the Bay area. I stopped being able to reach slack a few minutes before this post came up too.
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by dpedu 3y ago
E-ink has really come a long way, applications that involve lots of motion won't be that awful. I bought a Hisense A5C smartphone a couple years ago, which is an android smartphone with a (color!) e-ink display. I bought it as more of
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by dpedu 3y ago
I'd be very curious to see how similar the forces experienced by power lines are in wind storms vs catching a small aircraft.
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by dpedu 3y ago
I once was involved in creating two (linked) amazon accounts at the "same" time, and ended up with account IDs of which the first 4 digits are identical.
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by dpedu 3y ago
"Software that doesn't conform to my pre-conceived mental model is poorly made". No, what you said is not the point of what I wrote. "Wrong" in the sense that it's an imported assumption that has nothing to do
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by dpedu 3y ago
Regarding centering - eh. I think this question comes up so often because it is simply the natural question to ask. What are the first things someone learning how to make a web page visually look how they want is going to learn? Probably te
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by dpedu 3y ago
Ah, my app doesn't have a directory of feeds. It requires that I add urls directly.
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by dpedu 3y ago
It's possible that is happening under the hood, but none of the feeds I'm subscribed to are on a URL clearly owned by apple.
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by dpedu 3y ago
Podcasts predate the iPod by a couple months.
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by dpedu 3y ago
> The entire podcast ecosystem rests upon the shoulders of Apple's podcast directory I find this surprising whenever I hear it. Ditto for spotify. I don't listen to a single podcast via either of these services. Some of the sho
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by dpedu 3y ago
Could anybody recommend a book for learning IPv6? I know there are plenty out there, but what are the best, HN's recommendations? I get the general concepts and I use it on personal systems but I've spent too long just skirting by
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by dpedu 3y ago
> what were you able to determine from that I interpret this as: a company that is successful not because it provides a service that is useful or good, but one that other companies - in this case "financial firms" - are FORCED
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by dpedu 3y ago
I didn't notice the date of the article until I got down to the screenshots of the old Mac OS X "aqua" UI controls. And wow, I forgot how good they looked. The drop-downs just scream "interact with me, you can click on m
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by dpedu 3y ago
> [Firefighters have] had 100 years to train and to understand how to deal with internal combustion engine fires,” the NFPA’s Andrew Klock told Vox. “With electric vehicles, they don’t have as much training and knowledge.” > But MSB’s
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by dpedu 3y ago
Per the article, Google fixed it, but only for google.com accounts.
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by dpedu 3y ago
> Because these non-Gmail Google accounts aren’t actually a member of the Google organization, they won’t show up in any administrator settings, or user Google lists. That's why. This bug allows an attacker to retain access to vario
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by dpedu 3y ago
I can't seem to get past the setup phase where the app "scans" your face via your phone's camera. A dozen attempts, different backgrounds and lighting and I keep getting "try again". Loving this AI-powered futu
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by dpedu 3y ago
IME this happens when site developers do not bother to pare down user permissions, at least for users with privilege to edit the site. Which seems to be extremely common, at least back when I worked with drupal - 6.x and 7.x. When you can s
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by dpedu 3y ago
1GB/s is the same speed from EFS or S3.
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by dpedu 3y ago
My understanding is that EFS is exposed as an NFS share. I haven't used it personally, but NFS mounting is generally fast, nearly instant. What does "load in the entire datastore" mean?
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by dpedu 3y ago
Are enough people going to care, though? Apple already pulled off exactly this on iOS and didn't receive much public heat at all.
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by dpedu 3y ago
It wasn't mentioned in the blog, but you can set `copies=N` on ZFS filesystems and ZFS will keep N copies of user data. This provides redundancy that protects against bitrot or minor corruption, even if your zpool isn't mirrored.
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by dpedu 3y ago
I could point out how it's way, way easier in java programs, since we're picking on java, to skip over doing things like this. Or I could point out how the bar to do things correctly is lower in this hcl example than the equivalen
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by dpedu 3y ago
I think you're looking at this basic snippet and taking it for something it's not. Not shown in this example and considered best practice are: - Defining and validating data structures passed in; type doesn't have to be a bas
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by dpedu 3y ago
The leap is great, I used to have one at a previous office. The "Think" is nice too, which is what I have now. I bought it at the start of the pandemic, "renewed" from Amazon, which cut the list price in half.
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by dpedu 3y ago
> Is it a stretch to think these police officers are trying to make things as painful No, I definitely agree. And it makes me wonder what the endgame is here. Could Abuse of Process come into play?

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