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by illumin8 8y ago
His main argument is that you need to template differently for different environments (dev/stage/prod) and cloud regions (us-west/us-east/emea/apac). This is actually a solved problem, and you shouldn't be doin
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by illumin8 8y ago
I'm aware of net neutrality, but I'm simply asking what recourse we as consumers have. The current FCC may be too industry friendly, but it will not be that way forever. We, as consumers, need to continue to fight against these mo
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by illumin8 8y ago
It may not be illegal, but they're using their monopoly provider position (they are the only broadband provider in my city) to harm consumers, so it needs to stop.
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by illumin8 8y ago
Does anyone know who regulates Comcast/Xfinity in California? I'm a cord cutter and with 4K video becoming more popular, I've almost hit my 1TB data cap twice in the last year. Comcast/Xfinity is illegally promoting thei
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by illumin8 8y ago
Yes, in all EVs now they must activate the brake lights if they are decelerating at a certain level of G-force. I can't remember the exact level, but it's mandatory that they do this, because, just like with a manual transmission,
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by illumin8 8y ago
Honestly, I've developed the last few projects in Serverless framework and deployed to AWS Lambda. My biggest project is a custom Python application monitoring solution that has 4 separate Lambda function/handlers, populates an RD
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by illumin8 8y ago
I automatically prefer the App Store one because: - I know it will be updated automatically - Sandboxing prevents many dark patterns that apps use to sell advertisers data
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by illumin8 8y ago
Please see this tweet from an AWS principal engineer: https://twitter.com/colmmacc/status/1088516445145784320 "... well, NLB runs on Amazon VPC. On VPC we encapsulate, authenticate and secure traffic at the p
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by illumin8 8y ago
There is a great mini-thread by a principal engineer at AWS describing why this is so amazing: https://twitter.com/colmmacc/status/1088510453767000064
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by illumin8 8y ago
In case this sounds bad for security reasons (using self-signed certs) keep in mind that the VPC network does not allow clients to spoof IP addresses or receive traffic destined for any other MAC/IP pair. So, there is no need to valida
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by illumin8 8y ago
> - we now have Amazon DocumentDB that is a closed source MongoDB-like scripting interface with Postgres under the hood To clarify, Amazon DocumentDB uses the Aurora storage engine, which is the same proprietary storage engine that is us
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by illumin8 8y ago
That's code for "I've never driven before today and I don't have a license, but my family member let me login to his Uber account and drive his car..."
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by illumin8 8y ago
I've had similar experiences with Uber and Lyft in NYC. I was once in a Toyota Camry that had suspension so bad the car bottomed out on every single bump on the highway. I'm not a master mechanic so I don't know if it was un
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by illumin8 8y ago
You need less people with cloud is objectively true, as long as you do it properly. If you're simply running EC2 instances with your same off the shelf software, you're not doing it right, but you'll still eliminate your enti
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by illumin8 8y ago
This. Who beat every single private organization with Spectre/Meltdown mitigation? Amazon Web Services. There is a pervasive myth that servers run by private organizations are more secure than those run by the public cloud providers, a
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by illumin8 8y ago
I stopped reading after this section. It's clear that none of the Bitcoin forks have nearly the market cap of Bitcoin itself. The article might have some interesting ideas, but when you get the basic facts entirely wrong, it's h
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by illumin8 8y ago
He says right in the article: odesk.
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by illumin8 8y ago
Honestly, as someone who has started a 5-6 figure monthly "side-hustle" in an area where there are many other players, and which requires learning new frontend skills, while I'm a crusty UNIX/Linux head, 30 years experie
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by illumin8 8y ago
Sounds like you live in a dangerous neighborhood. Stay safe, friend!
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by illumin8 8y ago
Not to mention if you get robbed they're going to take the PC that has your recordings on it, so good luck giving the police footage of your robbers...
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by illumin8 8y ago
If you need a cheap/free document store for a small app, just use DynamoDB. It's free (forever, not just the first year) up to 25GB of storage and enough read/write capacity units to handle up to 200M requests per month: ht
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by illumin8 8y ago
All Teslas need to do is run inference. I'm fairly certain training is all done either in the cloud or on datacenter GPUs. It would be very interesting if Google was selling Tesla EOL TPU v1 units. The specs are very good for what Te
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by illumin8 8y ago
I was heavily involved in that world in the late 90s to early 2000s, before DirecTV made it almost impossible. I remember showing a couple friends of mine how to flash cards with a DB9 serial port card programmer. You could get every chann
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by illumin8 8y ago
One thing I've learned from reading Medium blog posts recently on programming is that there are some truly misinformed people out there that write extremely well-worded posts describing why their language or framework of choice is bett
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by illumin8 8y ago
I'm not sure I agree with this. The yacht could get very little use, but so could a house that you build for someone. If the argument is that we should only build public goods that will be widely used like parks, I disagree, because
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by illumin8 8y ago
I agree. I was in agreement with the article when it says that money we earn is a statement of the value we provide to society, so earning money is good, however, I don't agree with the statement that spending money and consumption is
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by illumin8 8y ago
Great point, where do you draw the line? Will linear regression be considered "AI?"
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by illumin8 8y ago
I'm not sure this argument really holds up given the dispatch phone number for every police department in the country is still fully functional. Now, if you DDoSed all the local dispatch lines for every police station and sheriff'
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by illumin8 8y ago
Tesla just reached profitability last quarter, and is likely to turn a profit this quarter as well. They might not even need to raise more capital if they keep up with Model 3 demand coming from the US, Europe, and China next year. This is
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by illumin8 8y ago
Actually, afaik, every auto maker used to be like this, and the only reason they provide those manuals is because they are required to by law in some states: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_Vehicle_Owners%27_Right_.

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