dwyerm

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by dwyerm 8y ago
I'm still curious what the real use-cases are going to be for these platforms. I think many people see "ARM in AWS" and think they're going to get an array of super-inexpensive Raspberry Pies with Amazon's network,
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by dwyerm 8y ago
At a previous job, we were trying to get always-on internet for a pre-IoT energy management product. This was when the fastest wireless you could get was Sprint's 1xRTT and most of the nation was stuck at even slower speeds, if you cou
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by dwyerm 8y ago
My hometown is a little mountain enclave way above a reasonable altitude that ends up spreading a LOT of grit on the roads to combat snow and ice. Over the years, that grit had turned into unsightly berms lining the highway. The highway dep
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by dwyerm 8y ago
I would have liked to, but they didn't have them. Or at least, I couldn't find them. I checked Mouser, too. But at least these sites have excellent parametric search functions! It is nice to be able to say "I do NOT want to
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by dwyerm 8y ago
Yeah, but you need to hit the convenience side, too. Shopping on Amazon is really easy. They already have all my info, and seem to be trustworthy enough to hold it. A few nights ago, I was looking for very specific LED strips -- no waterp
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by dwyerm 8y ago
Yes, but... that's actually the product that Steam (and GOG) is selling you: The ability to just click 'launch' on a game and it knows what collection of DOSBox, Scumm, Wine, Frotz, WinUAE, whatever is needed to just launch
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by dwyerm 8y ago
If clicking something with a clickbaity name isn't your thing, I can save you a click. The cause is "more likely to be bites or stings from other arthropods such as fleas, skin reactions to chemicals or infections."
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by dwyerm 8y ago
Use a Gasser password generator, like the one in Multics[1], to make password that are easier to pronounce, but still long and complex enough to offer some value as security challenge answers. You can read 'mettlograter' or '
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by dwyerm 8y ago
I want to agree with you, but I'm maybe too cynical about this. My dad was murdered with asbestos, and today people are taking paychecks doing work that could net them a miserable end with an untreatable cancer. "All I have to do
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by dwyerm 8y ago
I use GPW strings for this use-case. GPW has weaknesses that make them somewhat poor for use as first-line passwords, but they're still really good for passwords that you need to read to someone over the phone. In my most recent exper
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by dwyerm 8y ago
The irony of resources of this nature is that they're not really available on the internet... My dad was the office manager for a water company in a small town. In one corner of the office was a card catalog sorted by address. Each car
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by dwyerm 8y ago
It feels wrong to recommend a book I haven't read yet, but Chuck Wendig's "Zeroes" might be a good book to pair with Scalzi. I expect from his other books and the reviews that this is going to be more of an adventure boo
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by dwyerm 8y ago
I'm not sure that's true. At the very least, EC2 made a showing with C3 instances that made it to #64 in 2013. https://www.top500.org/system/178321
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by dwyerm 8y ago
You're talking about District Heating[1], and that's been around for decades in hundreds of cities. It's the source of the steaming manhole covers that are a fixture of noir imagery. Denver's got the oldest continually o
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by dwyerm 8y ago
Yes. The air quality -- especially the amount of sulfur in the air -- contributes to sulfur creep corrosion. Run that through an image search to see the results. It's pretty dramatic. Some of this equipment looks like it had been under
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by dwyerm 8y ago
How is this different than the existing Compassionate Use [1], program? Under this program my dad had access to try treatments for his terminal cancer. What does Right To Try offer over that? [1] https://www.fda.gov/NewsEven
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by dwyerm 8y ago
It isn't the graphics that impress me, so much, as the fact that my PS4 can actually send real 5.1 audio out to my home theater setup. It boggles my mind with how difficult that seems to be on my gaming PC. Sure, my PC can sling a zill
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by dwyerm 8y ago
The Hornslet collapse[1] is the one I was thinking about in particular. It is especially daunting now that I've toured a site for myself. Those things are huge ! [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hornslet_wind-tur
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by dwyerm 8y ago
> it's a fairly energetic explosion So is a lithium battery explosion. So is a gasoline explosion. So is a flour mill explosion. So is a wind turbine explosion. Energy is energy, and losing control of energy is never great, no matte
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by dwyerm 8y ago
It was less that local storage was disabled, and more that the newer hardware types didn't have any local storage to share.
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by dwyerm 8y ago
Did using MySQL allow you to ship a product on-time and under budget? Or, to put this the other way, if you had used The Right Backing Store would you still have delivered the product in a timely manner at the right price-point?
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by dwyerm 8y ago
When I was doing some consulting via RDP, I made sure to inform the client that I was about to expose things. "I am about to run strace on this web server instance. This is going to show what all the system calls are doing and how long
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by dwyerm 8y ago
> If they don't, I'll be entitled to be a part of any class-action. I am absolutely shocked to discover that Facebook doesn't have a class action waiver in their terms.
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by dwyerm 8y ago
No, you have it right. They charge me in USD and I pay in USD but, as nmjenkins says, the payment is processed in AUS-the-country, though not AUS-the-currency. Sorry for the confusion. For what it is worth, Fastmail has been as good as the
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by dwyerm 8y ago
> - how does fraud get monetised? In the early days of ecommerce, we jokingly called it 'Toners for Taliban'. They would purchase goods with a stolen card from a company that ships fast. They'd have the item shipped to a r
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by dwyerm 8y ago
Heh. My bank did something right, and my yearly $AUS payment to Fastmail finally went through without getting flagged by the automated systems. Alas, a human also saw the transaction, failed to read the note or look in the history and loc
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by dwyerm 8y ago
Oh, no doubt. I helped to support that software twenty years ago. It was expensive. It took constant grooming from an entire team of people. At the end of the month, the company had to cut hundreds of checks to authorities all over the coun
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by dwyerm 8y ago
"Most of the Walt Disney World Resort is in Orange County, Florida which has a tax rate of 6.5% while the most southern Resort hotels and venues are in Osceola County, Florida which has a 7.0% tax rate." [1] See also: [2] [1] htt
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by dwyerm 8y ago
Or perhaps the playing field will be tilted even further in Amazon's favor. Collecting taxes is difficult . There are hundreds of thousands of variables depending on where you are currently standing and what you are buying. Consider,
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by dwyerm 9y ago
I have often wondered the same. It must be torture for animals with a higher flicker fusion threshold. The Wikipedia page seems to suggest that your threshold is related to your metabolic rate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wik

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