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by johansch 9y ago
Ok. Well, I do hope you work on improving the response times. I think it would do wonders for the popularity of the wayback machine (and in the end, financial contributions).
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by johansch 9y ago
So the primary reason for the multiple second response times is that many sequential megabytes have to be read from an HD in order to return an often quite tiny HTTP response data for a particular {url, timestamp}? That would explain the ne
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by johansch 9y ago
Seemingly consistent response-times of multiple seconds when the underlying storage medium (mechanical hard drives, even for the most popular content) responds in tens of milliseconds does indicate something.
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by johansch 9y ago
Seems like the real problem that should be addressed is the fact that each request typically takes like 3-5 seconds to complete. And it feels like it's been like this pretty much since the wayback machine was launched. Back then I expe
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by johansch 9y ago
Non-AMP/mobile URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/10/06/we-ha...
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by johansch 9y ago
Yeah, sure, I got the difference between these prefab home modules vs prefab parts for very large buildings. I don't really expect these things to translate into the building of 20+ story office/apartment skyscrapers. Totally diff
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by johansch 9y ago
(Thanks for the perspective, that was interesting.) Btw, modular/semi-modular home construction is a pretty big thing here in Sweden. Seems like most standalone homes are built that way nowadays. I had earlier assumed it was similar el
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by johansch 9y ago
> The lawsuit took 15 years to settle Which doesn't contradict that thing about Kodak initially having to remove their products from the market within 30 days, of course. My main beef was that Animat's comment seemed to say (or
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by johansch 9y ago
This seems to have started around 1976/1977. Polaroid wasn't exactly a tiny startup then, so they had the financial resources to defend themselves. https://books.google.com/books?id=6TTbCT64seEC&pg=PA91&lpg
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by johansch 9y ago
It has been going on for a while: https://www.theverge.com/2015/2/17/8048779/google-x-eli-atti... This 2008 patent application has a number of interesting illustrations: https://www.google.com
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by johansch 9y ago
Ahh, memories. (I'm slashdot user #9784.) I remember when our tiny company (with a 2 Mbit/s uplink, iirc) was slashdotted: https://ask.slashdot.org/story/00/05/27/2227209/thoughts-on-... I
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by johansch 9y ago
Google not serious/dedicated about voice-based search? I can buy the argument that they are not as dedicated as Amazon when it comes to selling stuff via voice, but search via voice? They have been at it for like a decade already.
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by johansch 9y ago
My two major turnoffs for living in the London area (which otherwise, based on my multiple visits so far, seems lovely) are: a) the pervasive surveillance (i don't think it's by chance that "black mirror" is written by s
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(Swedish) “Remember to check your fire alarm” – very neat HTML5 design(aktivmotbrand.msb.se)
2 points by johansch 9y ago|0 comments
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by johansch 9y ago
Having a state run public transport utility track everyone's mobile devices' unique IDs. Huh. You're seriously asking why this might be sensitive? Wow, I guess you guys in the UK are seriously desensitized to data invasions l
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by johansch 9y ago
Are you thinking Elon's concern is about what we have today? Duh. Today's AI methods are great at pattern recognition (weak AI). The real risk is obviously a strong, generic AI. We don't know how to to get there, but we kinda
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by johansch 9y ago
Sad to hear that. Being an employee mostly sucks in Sweden. (If you put some (throwaway?) contact email in your profile I'd be interested to trade stories/old gossip via phone over the weekend; it seems like we worked in similar m
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by johansch 9y ago
I guess the most valuable while still feasible thing would be a distributed eventually consistent key-value store (ideally with no-nonsense pricing: just per pay read/write/delete, with a single unit cost regardless how small or b
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The Apple TV 4K has a cooling fan(ifixit.com)
2 points by johansch 9y ago|0 comments
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by johansch 9y ago
Do they have a large enough amount of customers for that to be significant? (leaving judgements aside for a moment)
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by johansch 9y ago
So.. what are they buying here? People, tech or partner relationships?
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by johansch 9y ago
Similar experiences with tvOS 11 on the non-4k model.
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by johansch 9y ago
(Interesting, after meeting the wave of slower readers, all of my comments in this thread were massively downvoted except this one, I guess since I was initially agreeing with someone on HN who is "famous".) Stay meritocratic, Sil
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by johansch 9y ago
Ives is kinda obsessed with white in case you hadn't noticed.
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by johansch 9y ago
I really don't see the correlation between his product design/marketing/pricing choices and him owning a yacht? Are you saying I thought he was a closet socialist/communist? (No, I did not. (hah)) The whole thing is that
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by johansch 9y ago
Yeah, this choice has been bothering me insanely the last year. I am still on a 5s simply because I can't choose the right model/time. ;( Still, in my mind, the largest betrayal of Steve's legacy is the way the affordable and
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by johansch 9y ago
A lot of things wouldn't have. Top of my list: a) keeping the macbook air non-retina (for like five years after PC laptops were retina, even after the incremental cost for the feature was very, very close to zero due to industry-wide c
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by johansch 9y ago
Perhaps calling the hotel to ask if they'll match the online price will work?
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by johansch 9y ago
A suggestion for people who are upset with this behavior: Use Booking.com (and Google, Expedia, etc) as a showroom, after you have found a certain hotel, find their web site or phone and arrange a booking directly.
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by johansch 9y ago
"All in all, it can cost a business up to a few thousand dollars per year to be featured on these various types of signs close to a given exit." That seems insanely cheap.

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