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by femto113 5y ago
This is an interesting moment to reflect on the wacky nature of IPO vs ICO valuations. Backblaze and Filecoin are, roughly speaking, in the same business (providing bulk file storage). Backblaze is looking to raise ~$100 million at a valu
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by femto113 5y ago
> Except for under-promotions ... since the program is unlikely to ever find itself in a situation where it would be useful to play one. Not my proudest moment but I did cheese out a tie in an otherwise lost game in jr. high by moving in
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by femto113 5y ago
Seems like that last item is the thread to pull on--get the DOE to cough up some dough to help ensure that lab employees have reliable home access. If you dangle the promise of federal money you can probably get Santa Fe and Rio Arriba cou
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by femto113 5y ago
What would you consider more of a win here: everybody in town has internet that they pay for through the city (either via taxes or fees), or Los Alamos owns and operates its own network? The model used for the other utilities may not work,
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by femto113 5y ago
As a former Los Alamos resident I wish you luck in this endeavor, but my guess is Los Alamos is probably too small to run a cost effective ISP operation. My recommendation is to approach this from a "how do we bargain with ISPs as a s
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by femto113 5y ago
As a middle ground I'd at least love to see some way to expose Discord's pinned messages to the web for anonymous viewing. It seems like they're acting as the de facto "forum post" of yore.
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by femto113 5y ago
A lot more. Current valuation is fuzzy, but the SPAC deal announced earlier this year was publicly putting the valuation at around $9B, and the total cash invested is around $15B, plus there's around $7B in debt (mostly lease obligati
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by femto113 5y ago
at some point I got sufficiently frustrated with all the things that decided they need to add the same various folders to my path over and over that I added this to the end of my .tcshrc (something similar should be possible in most shells)
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by femto113 5y ago
At this point the different blacks are less about color and more about finish/reflectivity. Even if you decide to paint your bikeshed a lovely Celeste green you'd still have to choose whether you want eggshell or semigloss.
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by femto113 5y ago
Surprised at the focus on a proprietary, binary protocol as I'd always taken RabbitMQ to be "all in" on standards based protocols.
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by femto113 5y ago
If they're checking using SMTP's VRFY command then it's actually considered a best practice for the server to always reply with a 252 "cannot verify" since otherwise it can be used to fish for valid addresses.
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by femto113 5y ago
The problem isn't estimation per se, it's the vicious cycle of estimation => "commitment" => "failure" => padding => distrust and much like Global Thermonuclear War the only winning move is not to p
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by femto113 5y ago
Except if you believe, as the author does, that the entire market is just scams and insider manipulation there is no meaning to be gleaned from any of the numbers. If it's all a sham it will blow up at some point, it's just a que
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by femto113 5y ago
The fact that these are decade old devices that haven't had a firmware update in over five years yet are still so integral to their owners' lives that people are keenly feeling their loss suggests to me that they were not a horrib
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by femto113 5y ago
There's no obvious reason to believe this is nefarious or even "mysterious". From the WaPo article[1] on the subject here's the statement from the NIH (which maintains the database) “These SARS-CoV-2 sequences were subm
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by femto113 5y ago
Java makes me want to break something too. Like most kids in my generation (learning to program in the early 1980s) BASIC was my "first language", but it wasn't until I learned C at college in the late 80s that I really start
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by femto113 5y ago
This was less about a memo showing up one day out of the blue and more like an attempt to bring resolution to a series of long, heated, and not terribly productive debates that took raged through the development teams over many months. It&
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by femto113 5y ago
So is this event the digital equivalent of the bag of chips getting stuck on the row below it or the frustrated customer shaking the machine until it falls over and squashes them?
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by femto113 5y ago
Nothing magical, it's just the same as I was already buying for my head: a mid-range (~$50USD), standard-size, down pillow. I mostly buy them from Bed, Bath & Beyond but the nearby store closed I've used a variety of brands f
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by femto113 5y ago
Just leaving this here in case it saves someone else a little suffering: it was life changing to start sleeping with a pillow between my knees. I used to wake up with debilitating lower back pain every morning, which I worked through with
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by femto113 5y ago
You could probably cobble together a POP server on top of S3 pretty easily (e.g. using something like https://github.com/femto113/node-pop3-emitter which I threw together a couple years ago for a related purpose). I&#
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by femto113 5y ago
> Give your web server access to writing to outbox and you can send email. SES is already in the mix, so why not just use it directly to send emails from your web server?
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by femto113 6y ago
The difference is that Okta/Auth0 is never going to be the only piece of a solution. With AWS it's more than just Cognito, you have to consider IAM and SSO as part of the equation as well. And if you're a pure AWS shop the
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by femto113 6y ago
Amazon/AWS and Google are big in the identity space too, so I think it makes sense that there's only room one real "third party" option.
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by femto113 6y ago
Interesting that they're putting so much focus on the DNA piece, since the actual crime was witnessed by a police officer and there is circumstantial evidence tying the suspect to the weapon (it was found along the path they used to fl
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by femto113 6y ago
Especially when you consider a state of the art processor in 1998 was doing < 1,000 MIPS and state of the art processor now can do > 1,000,000.
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by femto113 6y ago
There were some compounding factors for this situation, in particular a reverse split. "Global Links was caught off guard by the events that transpired in February 2005 when it implemented a one-for-350 reverse split of its stock, the
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by femto113 6y ago
35% year doesn't sound so bad until you realize that a lot of shorts are heavily leveraged--they borrowed money to have the "capital" to make a bigger trade than they could really afford. This would multiply their earnings i
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by femto113 6y ago
The numbers roughly correspond to the width of wires in the circuits, but the number of circuits you can fit per unit area depends on the square of that number so going from 7nm to 5nm roughly doubles density. The first microprocessor[1]
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by femto113 6y ago
The smoking gun is right there in config.example.py: TRACKER_API_AUTH = 'topsecret' TRACKER_API_URL = 'http://127.0.0.1:6881/api'

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