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by jdcarter 10y ago
My household has been Mac-only for about 20 years, but I finally gave up waiting for a decent Mac Pro or a powerful Mac Mini. Last year I put together a PC for about $1500 [1] which looks great and completely demolishes any Mac for GPU-he
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by jdcarter 10y ago
Thanks! I didn't see it mentioned here or in the HN comments, and looking at a bunch of font samples didn't turn it up, either. However I did stumble into Fira Code [1], which has some awesome ligatures for programming! [1]: http
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by jdcarter 10y ago
Does anybody know the font used in the screenshot [1]? It looks like a pretty typical monospace coding font but has fantastic pseudo-cursive italics. I can't figure out what it is, but I want it! https://twitter.com/mxs
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by jdcarter 10y ago
There's no evidence that Quinn wasn't feeding her cat well, before or after getting the robo-feeder. Many domestic animals will search out food when bored, even if they're not hungry. In this case, I think for both Quinn and
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by jdcarter 10y ago
There was no neglect. Quinn bought a fancy feeder because nerds love stuff like that, right? Cat figured out how to defeat the feeder. By the time she's welding a steel enclosure for the feeder, the story has clearly moved from "s
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by jdcarter 10y ago
But on the other side, compare with pigeons who could pilot a glider bomb into WWII enemy ships: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pigeon (As the owner of both a cat and parrot, I've learned not to underestima
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by jdcarter 10y ago
Seconded on iStat Menus. Despite its cost, it shows a ton of useful statistics, including moving graphs of CPU activity, network IO, storage IO, etc.. It's easy to customize the display so you see just what you care about.
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by jdcarter 10y ago
Thank you both, I appreciate the insight!
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by jdcarter 10y ago
I sent some yellow (f0:ff:0) pings, they definitely showed up.
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by jdcarter 10y ago
I took that and check out what Clang does with 32-bit ints: https://godbolt.org/g/ORsX5h vs. what it does with 64-bit ints: https://godbolt.org/g/2wBzn3 Can anybody explain the 32 bit version?
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by jdcarter 10y ago
I just read the F2FS paper and it seems very well-designed to match the physical properties of flash, plus some interesting capabilities to keep hot/cold data separate. If there's something wrong with F2FS, let's fix it. This
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by jdcarter 10y ago
Perfect toy indeed, and I'm glad to see how they've captured the girl's market with the Friends and related series. Lego had attempted to market to girls several times before 2012 but failed. I appreciate how this interview s
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by jdcarter 10y ago
It's even an official RFC: https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1149.txt
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by jdcarter 10y ago
Yes, very much so. I work for a company making hardware products, and I can't tell you how many hardware screw-ups I've had to work around in software. Hardware is hard to fix: boards are expensive to respin and the cycle time is
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by jdcarter 10y ago
And it's really handy how the targeting reticle turns red when you've got the car lined up with your target.
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by jdcarter 10y ago
Well it "seems simple" in terms of the value you get: your speedometer is only a quick glance down, so until you get used to driving with a HUD, you don't really appreciate its value. Eliminating all those glances down to the
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by jdcarter 10y ago
My wife's BMW X4 has a built-in HUD, and to us the killer uses are: 1) Current speed shown along with the speed limit. It gets the speed limit from onboard maps combined with using the car's cameras. If there's road construct
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by jdcarter 10y ago
> I have short legs and a long torso. Same here. Neither the Aeron nor Mirra ever fit me right, no matter how I adjusted them. The Equa 2 fits me perfectly, however. I happened to find a high-back leather one for 75% off when a store was
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by jdcarter 10y ago
I'll defend Amazon on this one: UPS will pick up the order and the delivery person will have the sticker to put on the box. Last month I ordered some Nest Protects from Amazon and one was defective. I filed for a return and the next da
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by jdcarter 10y ago
Now if we're going to talk names, CockroachDB is the one with the problem. I'm very interested in the project and follow it closely, but going to my senior management and saying "we're going to bank the company on Cockro
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by jdcarter 10y ago
> I was really surprised by how low their their worse case scenario was. There's no Y axis on the chart, so we don't know exactly what their estimate actually was. Regardless, I'm pretty sure Pokemon GO exceeded any reas
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by jdcarter 10y ago
I took the parent's comment to mean: the datacenter had a relatively fixed amount of power going toward the infrastructure, so they'd turn on additional servers to add more power to the compute side of the ratio. They'd be wa
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by jdcarter 10y ago
Another thing to look into is FL-41 tinted glasses. I learned about them from a local vision therapist, and just ordered a prescription set about a week ago. There have been studies (e.g. [1]) indicating its usefulness for light sensitivity
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by jdcarter 10y ago
Oracle selling higher-end products as a service makes total sense, and I agree, the subscription model has potential to make them a good deal of money. What I'm getting at, however, is why are they so aggressively taking on Amazon in t
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by jdcarter 10y ago
What a lot of these analysts overlook is why Oracle is trying to take on Amazon, despite being years late to the party. I believe it's a defensive move: Oracle is seeing long-time customers deploy new applications in AWS, and that cu
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by jdcarter 10y ago
On 3) have you looked at the profitability of AWS? It's ridiculously profitable. I just checked their latest 10K, and I see for 2015 their total AWS numbers were $1.9B operating income on $7.9B revenue with 70% year over year revenue g
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by jdcarter 10y ago
My first thought was, why this vs. caffeinated gum? I've used the gum for years (look up "military energy gum") and it's perfect. But I don't want it every time I brush. Brushing teeth and wanting a pick-me-up seem
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by jdcarter 10y ago
I have one of these, they're very neat! Form factor is great, buttons feel good, build quality is solid. I bought a second one as a gift. At the time it first released it didn't integrate easily into the Arduino environment, but I
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by jdcarter 10y ago
Agreed, I was looking through the examples in the HTTP chapter and they're not very idiomatic Go code by today's standards. For HTTP at least, you're better off following the examples from the official Go documentation than f
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by jdcarter 10y ago
There's certainly precedent for that: http://www.geek.com/news/amazonbasics-is-copying-all-the-bes... However it may be a risk worth taking: on the one hand, you have a distribution channel that could help you tak

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