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by jhugo 4y ago
Quite popular in China.
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by jhugo 4y ago
Browsers will happily send any standard HTTP method including PUT. HTML forms always produce a GET or POST [0], but nowadays most requests are probably made with fetch() etc, not HTML forms. [0] https://developer.mozilla.org&#x2F
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by jhugo 4y ago
the 12 number probably assumes the middle of a flat plain with no tall structures nearby. buildings, hills etc will reduce the number.
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by jhugo 4y ago
The RK3399 is indeed a great chip. I have an OrangePi RK3399 sitting on my desk right now in fact. But (at least when I last tried, last year) the mainline kernel support for the OrangePi RK3399 isn't really there beyond booting, and t
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by jhugo 4y ago
Didn't downvote but I've owned most of the OrangePi models over the years. Many of them require you to run their non-mainline kernels because of drivers that aren't upstreamed (and likely cannot be due to quality issues), and
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by jhugo 4y ago
I absolutely accept that the statistic is probably a true number of something , it's just unclear from the wording what the something is.
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by jhugo 4y ago
Fair enough, I guess, although I intended for "death" to refer to a process which is ongoing (contrast with "already dead" in the following sentence). It's not an uncommon usage, and Wiktionary seems to document it
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by jhugo 4y ago
> That's incorrect. Read before replying. I literally said "for person-to-person communication".
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by jhugo 4y ago
The death of SMS is hardly specific to central Europe and the US. It's already thoroughly dead in most of Asia for person-to-person communication, replaced by WhatsApp/WeChat/LINE/Telegram/etc depending on country.
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by jhugo 4y ago
I would be staggered if it wasn't majority spam, OTPs, and automated reminders.
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by jhugo 4y ago
That seems really high based on my UK experience. The link says "the average mobile connection sent 51 messages per month". What does it mean for a "connection" to send messages? Could that include messages sent to the
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by jhugo 4y ago
Yup. Arch has an officially supported `linux-lts` package which I use on my server, it's a good choice unless you need a bleeding edge kernel for hardware support etc.
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by jhugo 4y ago
"stable" has multiple meanings, and conflating them leads to a lot of confusion. In the context of Debian, "stable" means that the software that makes up a given distribution does not change, even as the world — hardware
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by jhugo 4y ago
Your example doesn't demonstrate Google giving the data to other Chrome users. Making decisions based on the data is not the same as giving the data out.
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by jhugo 4y ago
Given that the spec requires Service Workers to be optional, future Web specs & implementations may build upon that requirement, so writing your software to assume they always load is both brittle today and subject to unexpected breakag
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by jhugo 4y ago
> Europe wouldn't be covered at all if it was coming from the phones, right? (GDPR) Which part of GDPR would prevent Google from collecting pairs of (Wi-Fi BSSID, approx lat/lon), with the consent that you gave when you set up
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by jhugo 4y ago
If you use Zoom & Google Meet in the browser, the audio processing is likely pretty much the same (most of the filtering is built-in to the WebRTC stack). Zoom's native app has noticeably worse audio, but pretty much everything abo
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by jhugo 4y ago
It isn't absurd at all, unless you think all products should be sold on a cost-plus model.
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by jhugo 4y ago
I don't know where you are, but it's very likely that you do.
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by jhugo 4y ago
There's no record of that rhyme earlier than the 19th century. Also, the association of it with any kind of plague is a modern invention. Usually association with the Great Plague is claimed, but no writing about the rhyme from before
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by jhugo 4y ago
> But maybe it was cheaper than installing cables on land? Way, way cheaper. Trenching or tunneling on the one hand, mostly just steaming forward whilst paying out cable on the other. The cable itself is more expensive for submarine us
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by jhugo 4y ago
Yep. Used to have it on my wall. This year's edition: https://submarine-cable-map-2022.telegeography.com/ ("Buy the Wall Map" at the far bottom right of the page).
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by jhugo 4y ago
Huh. This is the first time I read this quote, but it resonates so well. Does anyone else program this way? I usually sit for a while thinking about the problem, write the program mentally, try out edge cases, sometimes rework the program a
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First Launch of Non-US AWS Local Zones: Taipei and Delhi(aws.amazon.com)
3 points by jhugo 4y ago|1 comments
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by jhugo 4y ago
This is part of a larger expansion of Local Zones to many non-US locations [0]. Unfortunately both new local zones seem to only support four instance types at present, and they're all 2xlarge sizes. [0] https://aws.amazon.co
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by jhugo 4y ago
I think a significant factor, apart from generally worse infra and a smaller talent pool, would be the lack of a coastline. Basically all the long-distance capacity in Africa is in the form of submarine cables going around the coast. A land
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by jhugo 4y ago
I didn't downvote, but honestly just don't understand your comment. I thought it was obvious but maybe I shouldn't have left it unsaid: South Africa has significantly better infrastructure than any other country in southern A
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by jhugo 4y ago
Egypt already has low latency and good connectivity to cloud regions in Italy (and further afield in Europe), Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Dubai etc. Meanwhile latency from South Africa to European cloud regions is >150ms. IOW, putting the fir
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by jhugo 4y ago
Yep. I work on latency-sensitive stuff (realtime A/V infra) and our customers have users throughout Africa. North Africa is pretty well connected to Europe, and the Horn of Africa is well connected to the Gulf region and to Mumbai. Sou
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by jhugo 4y ago
On a whim a few years ago I attended Knuth80[0], a symposium celebrating Knuth's 80th birthday in Piteå, northern Sweden. I traveled there by train from London and spent a few days listening to fascinating lectures and attending the in

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