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by jdcarter 10y ago
My 10 year-old is an ace at spotting fake download buttons and "your PC is at risk!" banners thanks to downloading Minecraft mods. In an odd way, these spammy download sites have been a surprisingly good educational tool--to date
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by jdcarter 10y ago
In her case it's not for a specific title, so she was excited to learn about the Switch and is waiting for it. For whatever reason I don't see many kids around here playing on 3DS, so peers aren't a factor. (Most gaming with
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by jdcarter 10y ago
That's precisely why I'll be buying one: my daughter wants a 3DS, but I said let's wait for the Switch instead. Then we'll get to use it on our main TV (replacing our Wii U, which we rarely use) and have games that work
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by jdcarter 10y ago
That's precisely what I was thinking as I read the article. I go into the office for meetings--usually three mornings a week--but all real thought-work happens at home. My home office is quiet, has natural light which I can control to
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by jdcarter 10y ago
Everybody makes decisions using both emotion and reason. This is why successful products speak to both the heart and the mind of the customer. Said another way, this is why the marketing department is just as essential to a company's s
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by jdcarter 10y ago
Absolutely the name is holding them back. In my case it prevents me from championing the product within my company. Going to the executives and saying "we're going to put our most precious data into Cockroach" simply won&#x27
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by jdcarter 10y ago
And MIPS in general needed a NOP between a write and a read. That was as-designed, however, because of the way its pipelining worked.
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by jdcarter 10y ago
I didn't say Kyle solved Mongo's problems, but that he helped solve the problems. He identified numerous data loss issues, explained them in great detail, and even has tooling to readily reproduce the data loss events. That&#x
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by jdcarter 10y ago
It's been a long way from the "Call Me Maybe: MongoDB" post from years back. Aphyr/Kyle took them to task in so many ways for playing fast and loose with data integrity, and rightly so. MongoDB could have said, "tha
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by jdcarter 10y ago
That's a good point, the downside of using new algorithms is playing by the rules of their patent licenses. In this situation I'm not concerned about litigation with Facebook, but I could foresee other products where that might be
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by jdcarter 10y ago
Not just software; from the article it sounded like this was pretty old hardware, with a CPU only capable of running a basic PRNG. Doing a hardware upgrade on the zillions of old machines out there (I have no idea of the scale) must not be
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by jdcarter 10y ago
> her work resulted in saving users an expected 1.5 petabytes (that's 1.5 million gigabytes) of data each day. I'm guessing this is not a measure of data at rest, but data transferred over the network. The couple samples listed
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by jdcarter 10y ago
Agreed, I loved metal shop in junior high. Neither my family nor friends had a shop where I could learn skills like casting and welding. However, rather than modernizing these shops with CNC mills and 3D printers (for example), schools seem
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by jdcarter 10y ago
Indeed, doing the real-world portions of Tron Legacy in 2D and the in-the-grid portions in 3D worked beautifully. I also happened to pick up a magazine about visual effects which contained an extensive interview with one of Tron's vfx
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by jdcarter 10y ago
Sorry I'm late seeing your comment, but I'll tell you what I know for posterity. I heard the story third-hand: a prior manager of mine, Mark "The Red" Harlan (of Clarus the dogcow fame), used to be a DTS manager at Apple
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by jdcarter 10y ago
OLED is fundamentally different than LCD for 3D purposes. OLED can near-instantaneously flip between the left/right eye views, so your perception in each eye is a clear image. LCD's refresh rate is much slower by comparison, leadi
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by jdcarter 10y ago
I coughed up the money for a LG 4K OLED set last year, and suddenly I'm in love with 3D. For those that hate 3D, the experience on OLED is a while different world. Well-done 3D releases like Tron Legacy and Mad Max: Fury Road really co
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by jdcarter 10y ago
Some models of LaserWriter also had an undocumented PostScript command which would print a La Costeña order form for you to fax in. I always appreciate super-obscure Easter Eggs like that.
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by jdcarter 10y ago
The blog posts have a ton more detail and make for fascinating reading (or browsing the pictures): https://dekunukem.wordpress.com/ It's an interesting take on retro; gives the user the feel of a retro computer without
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by jdcarter 10y ago
For those interested in very hands-on advise on using artificial light, the Strobist [1] blog is amazing. David Hobby is a working photojournalist and does fantastic work on-site. It's one thing to control light in the studio, but quit
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by jdcarter 10y ago
Happy to see IRC still going strong. While I switched to irccloud.com a couple years ago--persistent session is so nice, especially for mobile!--I used CLI clients for years before. Amusing blast from the past: back in the 90's I worke
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by jdcarter 10y ago
I've been following Ceph (testing it but not using it in production) because of my interest in using RADOS for a project. BlueStore, hot/warm tiering, erasure coded pools are all pretty darn nice features. Are you aware of ongoing
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by jdcarter 10y ago
Can you tell us more about your production environment? Like how much data, average IOPS, and uptime requirements? I've been poking around and I can't find any real info on who's using this or how. The project's interest
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by jdcarter 10y ago
I'm reading between the lines here, and I'd love for Chris Lu (the SeaweedFS author) to chime in here and correct me, but it seems like Chris read Facebook's Haystack paper and decided to implement it himself in Go. Kind of
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by jdcarter 10y ago
Thanks for the pointer, I may stick an extra disk in there and give Hackintosh a shot. Can you imagine how fast Apple Motion or Final Cut Pro would run with a GTX 1070 GPU behind it?
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by jdcarter 10y ago
Re protection, see: https://github.com/chrislusf/seaweedfs#rack-aware-and-data-c... (Not an author or anything, just found this project today, and it's interesting enough for me to test it out.) Edit to add: I&#x2
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by jdcarter 10y ago
I can answer: safe read/write from a simple system call can be "easy." Safe read from the network, possible but no longer easy. Safe call to ioctl, which can literally do anything with any device driver... is a "safe&q
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by jdcarter 10y ago
Go also does this as of version 1.7: http://www.tapirgames.com/blog/golang-1.7-bce
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by jdcarter 10y ago
I'm torn on that. I spent years playing games exclusively on a Mac and didn't feel like I was missing that much. Given how bad the Mac gaming scene was in the 2000's, in the 2010's we've seen an explosion in the n
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by jdcarter 10y ago
Agreed, macOS is a far superior blend of Unix underpinnings and a graphical front-end. I love that I can have my terminal and Emacs run seamlessly on the same platform as Sketch and Photoshop. Fortunately, my MacBook Pro is still a plenty c

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