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by gregmac 4y ago
Doesn't that depend on how good the implementation is? Some modern TVs and receivers have exceptionally good scaling built-in. I'd also bet with certain types of displays (eg: OLED, HDR and/or local dimming) there's bene
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by gregmac 4y ago
> But then people will write them with As, Bs, Es, etc. attached. This is fairly commonly used for multi-unit dwellings, especially when someone turns a "normal" house (with a purely numeric street address) into multiple units,
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by gregmac 4y ago
Ah, right, and the port is right at the bottom (whereas the the HP laptop's port is mounted a bit higher, and with the slight bevel has room to open).
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by gregmac 4y ago
The size is surprising, it looks like something from early 2000's. There are definitely small jacks [1] that seem to work fine. There's also plenty of 2.5G usb dongles that have a pretty small form factor. So it doesn't seem
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by gregmac 4y ago
Good point, code readability is often the best thing to optimize for. Your change also got me thinking of unit tests: at some point it becomes worthwhile to have dedicated tests on that condition, and that's often easiest by putting it
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by gregmac 4y ago
Yep. I've learned over time to just walk away from problems like this that make me go "that's not possible!" or "there must be a compiler bug!" After at least a few hours away (ideally not coding) your fresh ey
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by gregmac 4y ago
I've done a similar architecture as well a couple of times. Both setups use multiple haproxy instances (auto-scaling group), multiple backend app servers, and each haproxy server has a local nginx instance. Nginx is used for serving so
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by gregmac 4y ago
Absolutely! There's a lot of people with the same 1 year of experience repeated several times, who then call themselves 'Senior' based only on number of years.
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by gregmac 4y ago
> You cannot have what you ask for, even if it is possible to make it,^1 but you can have more gadgets that surveil your life without alerting you to the surveillance. What does this have to do with bendable displays? There's no men
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by gregmac 4y ago
Agreed. The benefits of their idea working out are huge, but so is the personal negative impact of it failing -- even if the outcome for the company is better. A lot of people also find it really difficult to admit they were wrong, even to
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by gregmac 4y ago
Different technology, but Destin from Smarter every day did an interesting factory tour [1] of their film making process. Despite the factory being fairy old, there's an impressive level of engineering, automation and other tech involv
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by gregmac 4y ago
Things like CI times and build process strike me as opportunities. If they're bad, there's a spot you can contribute and make it better. A core piece of that is figuring out if they're open to spending times on improvements l
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by gregmac 4y ago
> "Does this team or any of the related teams have a person who actively rejects proposals to improve the code base?" is a BAD question to ask in an interview. What answer could an interviewer give? If I was asked this, I'
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by gregmac 4y ago
Just a caution: I've cut apart several microusb cables (using the ends for power, and cables for sensors, etc, just because I have a bin full of them - mostly for esp32-based projects). The thing I've noticed is cable thickness do
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by gregmac 4y ago
Looks like this [1] is where you got that. Has a decent chart, and I think the last part of the paragraph is also interesting: > Even if there were twenty times more wind turbines, enough to supply the US with electricity, the number of
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by gregmac 4y ago
Do you mean the advertising company that runs a search engine should punish pages in the results that... show their ads? Or just when it's a "lot" of their ads? Or should they only do that if the pages are showing ads from th
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by gregmac 4y ago
Is it possible the majority of attempts were actually being run by a single botnet, and it either shut down or the owner changed the attack payload? Perhaps it's just been running for the last few years, with the botmaster apathetic, f
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by gregmac 4y ago
"Basically" is doing a lot of work in that sentence: > In September, Griffith pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to violate international sanctions against North Korea. Griffith was arrested in November 2019 after giving
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by gregmac 4y ago
> all software will be open source There's a heck of a lot of "boring business software" out there, often quite niche, solving problems various businesses have. Anything that survives, just by virtue it has survived, has a
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by gregmac 4y ago
Is there any tracking other than images? I do "Block all images" in email anyway, would I gain anything (in terms of tracking protection) from this?
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by gregmac 4y ago
This is an excellent point, but there's nuance to it. This seems like an acceptable solution for email and a lot of other PII. However, if you were to propose the same thing for passwords, with the same argument, I'd be dead again
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by gregmac 4y ago
> I'm very much someone who prefers x86 hardware Curious, is this due to something about x86 design (eg: technical benefits over ARM), or are you just referring to the "PC" hardware ecosystem in general (as opposed to Appl
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by gregmac 4y ago
I had the same experience, and it's incredibly frustrating -- both when you don't know about thermal throttling and when you do. I'd do something that caused high load, and it would be briefly fast then suddenly everything
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by gregmac 4y ago
I have an RTL-SDR that collects sensor data via rtl_433 [0] and publishes it to MQTT, which I use for temperature and contact sensors. I found it interesting that I pick up a fair amount of TPMS data from (what I presume are) people driving
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by gregmac 4y ago
Another good way to time certain meetings is using dollars: https://www.mcgurrin.info/mcc/meetingclock.htm
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by gregmac 4y ago
> Typically when a full time position is offered, the workload of a full person is needed (lets not discuss if 8h of work a day results in better or more output than less hours, thats another topic) But that is the point. If someone be
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by gregmac 4y ago
I'm very skeptical of relying on every random domain on the internet setting up SPF/DKIM properly to the point it's trustworthy in this way. I can't find stats on usage of `~all` (soft fail) but only an abysmal 6.4% of .
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by gregmac 4y ago
Without weighing in on this, I think this entire section is a distraction in this post. The author's point in this article would be better served by moving the HTML rant to its own blog post.
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by gregmac 4y ago
I never understood why, among other things, the City of Ottawa didn't just fine every vehicle the same way they'd fine any vehicle parked illegally in the roadway (or at an expired meter), with a new ticket every 12 or 24 hours. T
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by gregmac 4y ago
I have a similar setup myself. I use basically an older PC running Proxmox + openmediavault as my NAS (and a bunch of other things, including Plex). I currently have an NVidia Shield and 'Chromecast with Google TV' as clients, as

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