dstaley

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   by dstaley 8y ago

   Oh boy do I have news for you! Xamarin [1] does exactly this. You write your app logic in C#, which is then AOT compiled to native code. You the write the UI for each platform using native APIs (although you can use Xamarin.Forms if you tru
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   by dstaley 8y ago

   Ah, thanks for the details there! So, given that my Cloud Functions project is a Go app (and would be the exact same code between Functions and Run), if I were to run that in a very minimal container (something like Alpine), I could get rou
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   by dstaley 8y ago

   I haven't launched it, so I'm not sure about performance. My main concerns are cold starts and concurrency. It's my understanding that Cloud Run has higher concurrency per container instance, so my guess would be that Cloud R
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   by dstaley 8y ago

   I'm about to launch an API that uses Cloud Functions for the entire app (it's a pretty simple API anyway). I know that Cloud Run gives me more features (being based on containers and all), but given that my API already runs on Clo
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   by dstaley 8y ago

   I'm getting ready to deploy a Cloud Functions service. I wonder what I'd gain by making it a Cloud Run service instead? I imagine cold starts for Cloud Functions are highly optimized (since they're runtime-specific).
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   by dstaley 8y ago

   I was super interested in buying one of these, but the markup is just too much for my tastes. I built out a reasonable workstation (9900K, 16 GB RAM, 500 GB NVMe SSD, 1TB SSD, RX 580) and the cost came out to $2,359 versus the $1,582 it wou
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   by dstaley 8y ago

   I'd much rather it fold inside to protect the display.
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   by dstaley 8y ago

   I don't think you'd use the unfolded form one handed. I imagine it'd be more like holding a small tablet.
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   by dstaley 8y ago

   The Fold is $2,000, so I highly doubt it'll cannibalize the sales of the S10.
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    by dstaley 8y ago

    Furthermore the "definition" they provide is something they came up with; a Google search for portions of the definition only returns results for the article itself.
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    by dstaley 8y ago

    This article has no citations for the history/use of the term. It was largely written by a single editor over a decade ago.
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    by dstaley 8y ago

    FWIW, TrueHD also contains a lossy core (AC3 in this case), just like DTS-HD MA. I was also surprised to see that my TrueHD tracks are 24-bit, but my DTS-HD MA tracks are 16-bit.
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    by dstaley 8y ago

    From what I've found, Netflix's highest quality audio is a lossy 640 kbps Dolby Digital+ (E-AC3) stream. For comparison, the highest quality BluRay audio would be the lossless formats Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD MA. Both of these form
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    by dstaley 8y ago

    I mean, just turn off the internet on your TV. Most TVs have terrible built-in software anyway. My TV isn't connected to the internet, so it can't track what I'm watching.
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    by dstaley 8y ago

    IIRC only the Node.js runtime has the ability to be emulated locally. Is this still the case? If I wanted to test my function locally, how would I go about doing that?
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    by dstaley 8y ago

    > bloating the bundle with things you will not use The problem isn't that Ember has a lot of things you don't use; it's that the things that are there are much larger than their React counterparts. In terms of actual funct
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    by dstaley 8y ago

    Right, which is exactly why I said "an equivalent set of React libraries" as opposed to just React.
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    by dstaley 8y ago

    I'm still really disappointed that Ember gave up on trying to compete with libraries like React on bundle size. I loved my experience with Ember, and I really like what they've done recently, but the fact that out of the box it&#x
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    by dstaley 8y ago

    I can easily see them discontinuing them in favor of releasing an updated version of the Google Home mini with stereo out.
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    by dstaley 8y ago

    Photobak is really close, but Google's API apparently has several issues making it not a true solution. IIRC you can't download the original uploaded bytes, and you can't get the original EXIF data.
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    by dstaley 8y ago

    You don't even need to die for this to be an issue. Your registrar could just screw up and sell your domain to someone else. Or your registrar could have a security breach resulting in your domain being transferred. There's a myri
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    by dstaley 8y ago

    Stories like this make me incredibly wary about the future of my Google account. I've been using it for almost twelve years. It has a copy of every photo/video I've taken for almost eight years. It's what I use to downlo
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    by dstaley 8y ago

    If I'm reading the pricing page correctly, DocumentDB would run a _minimum_ of $200/month. That's for the smallest instance and no storage or I/O. Kind of steep if you ask me.
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    by dstaley 8y ago

    If I remember correctly, the pricing model for Aurora Serverless is different from Lambda in that you pay as long as the engine is running, whereas with Lambda you only pay when the function is executing. Keeping an Aurora Serverless instan
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    by dstaley 8y ago

    Thanks for sharing! I really should have been more specific and said "SQL database engines". There's definitely a lot of interesting work going on in the document store space, but as someone who's more familiar with SQL
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    by dstaley 8y ago

    I can't wait for the day when we figure out how to "scale to zero" with database engines and also still provide quick starts. The serverless model is fantastic for smaller projects that can't justify the monthly cost of
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    by dstaley 8y ago

    Flutter doesn't use Chrome. I think you're thinking of Carlo[1]. [1] https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/carlo
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    by dstaley 8y ago

    The phone runs PureOS, which is a Linux distro using the Gnome desktop environment. They're developing their own shell, called "phosh", that they plan to push upstream back to Gnome.
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    by dstaley 8y ago

    As far as I can tell, there's no such thing as "conventional 2.4A USB charging". The USB 2 spec limits power output to 5v, 900 mA. USB 3 has the Battery Charging Specification that allows up to 1.5 A. I think you might be thi
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    by dstaley 8y ago

    This seems like another attempt to acquire a new revenue stream for Mozilla. I'm glad it's through something like providing a user-focused VPN as opposed to increased ads and tracking, but I still feel a bit bummed that Mozilla fe