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541.
by gruturo 6y ago
That sounds wasteful. Just use some good erasure coding on the individual apostles.
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by gruturo 6y ago
Aaaand it seems to have registered itself at some point as default pdf viewer, overriding my previous setting. Not sure when that happened but isn’t it just lovely.
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by gruturo 6y ago
Absolutely. Simply unscrewing the Huffman stage from the bottom of JPEG and replacing it with a more effective, modern lossless stage kills webp's gains and does not incur in generation loss - the image is pixel accurate to the source
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by gruturo 6y ago
Every time I run an image comparison, the webp version looks worse and yet Google insists it's the same quality. It's baffling. Even if the above were just an individual... bafflement? and not an actual issue, the size savings rea
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by gruturo 6y ago
Seconded - which make and model please, so I can never buy one?
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by gruturo 6y ago
Port numbers used to be all odd (server side) due to a limitation in TCP’s predecessor. Sockets used to be unidirectional so you’d need a pair for two-way communication. It was discussed here on HN not too long ago: https://news.
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by gruturo 6y ago
Actually it is Pwanson, indeed. A couple slides in the video confirm it. Pawanson is a typo.
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by gruturo 6y ago
> Anecdotal, but it seems like every company that has ever received the anti-Midas Touch of Carl Icahn has had some kind of negative consequence. That's no surprise - it's literally what he does for a living. He damages compani
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by gruturo 6y ago
High frequency traders do NOT want to be limited by the speed of light in a fiber - due to its refractive index (1.5 for ZBLAN according to Wikipedia) this is only 66% of the speed of a radio signal. Over 10km this amounts to an 11 microsec
550.
by gruturo 6y ago
Nespresso does not come with an insanely steep price, you can't squeeze the little capsules by hand :) and it has actual use cases: * I would never drink the stuff some of my colleagues like, and vice versa, so we all buy our preferre
551.
by gruturo 6y ago
No, but for $2.4B Magic Leap didn't invent much physics or chemistry either (or anything, really). Seems like a fair comparison. Hell, Cards Against Humanity achieved more (and faster, cheaper) with their hole in the ground Black Frida
552.
by gruturo 6y ago
I'm a paid user of synergy and despite not necessarily loving the attitude and the direction of the company behind it, I find the software invaluable. Not just for the space saved on my desk, but also for copy-pasting across different
553.
by gruturo 6y ago
My company (based in Frankfurt am Main, Germany) had an online business travel reservation system which helpfully pre-filled the starting point of all new trips to Frankfurt, Kentucky (which is not even the right spelling of the city). I fi
554.
by gruturo 6y ago
In the US, so many jobs, in so many industries, pay a complete pittance. It's one of the least regulated economies and people are seen as a fungible asset, hired, laid off at a company's convenience (in many states), and paid lite
555.
by gruturo 6y ago
That, and the name of the fund ended up being hilariously wrong. They have invested in things where a 10 year old could have pointed out obvious fallacies. Saudi investors must be really pissed off, they look like complete fools now (having
556.
by gruturo 6y ago
We pay devs worse because software is a complete aftertought, and the guys who produce it therefore are not seen as adding much value, if any. Meanwhile, the "software is eating the world" memo is almost 10 years old yet nobody th
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by gruturo 6y ago
Cool project. I built a couple myself (albeit not with a Pi, but with some Wemos D1) and can share a few lessons learned. First of all, safeties. I was lucky to add my work to existing motorized garage doors - which already came with enough
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by gruturo 6y ago
I would recommend it too. It's also one of few Neal Stephenson books in which the ending isn't completely missing or feels too phoned in (beware it IS somewhat unsatisfactory if you wanted more closure). The author unfortunately h
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by gruturo 6y ago
Isn't that what Docker basically is? https://i.imgflip.com/24ac74.jpg (I know, jokes should be down to a minimum on YC, but this was too relevant).
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by gruturo 6y ago
Google Video was an actual product, competing with Youtube. When they decided to acquire the much more successful Youtube, its brand already had a lot of value and recognition, so it survived. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by gruturo 6y ago
That's a scary amount of information which is being asked of you. Are you sure the site asking for it is a genuine Microsoft asset?
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by gruturo 6y ago
> Now imagine that SSH going from a Citrix windows desktop running on a Windows 10 VM on your linux laptop. Every key press reacts in around a second. Welcome to banking "security"! Oh god are you one of my colleagues?
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by gruturo 7y ago
The concept of a universal port was perfectly fine, it's just the implementation that is flawed. And before USB-C and Thunderbolt, "Just because a cable looks like it'll fit" DID mean it will work, at least for what an
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by gruturo 7y ago
026245890040004 :-) Altger. Still remember it by heart. The brain is a strange machine. and I recognized QSD immediately when I saw it in your post.
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by gruturo 7y ago
The Telix terminal interface. I spent so, so much time on it in the 80s, discovering BBSes, other people and later exploring the worldwide X25 network. Also, from the page's source code: // UUDDLRLRBA! var kkeys = [], konami
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by gruturo 7y ago
You may want to pick a less terrible example. UK went into lockdown very late, tried to insist on some bullshit herd immunity theory, very nearly lost even its PM, and is now paying the price in blood.
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by gruturo 7y ago
> I’m definitely in the camp that “the cure cannot be worse than the disease” itself. Sitting in California where there are so few cases makes me wonder if the economic toll is totally worth it. Seems like we’ve used a tsunami to put out
568.
by gruturo 7y ago
A choir is literally a spit fest. I'm surprised it's not 60/60.
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by gruturo 7y ago
Oh, welcome back to the worm, and f * off to Dan Goldin who wasted taxpayer money in his obsession to get rid of it, and would get mad at people when he saw it: https://www.nytimes.com/1999/01/10/magazine&#x2
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by gruturo 7y ago
??? In IT, E2E has always meant End-to-End, as in, nothing in between can decrypt the content. HIPAA, or brazillian telcos, or the FAA, or my local beer tasting club are fine to come up with whatever interpretation they want, but that doe

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