jon_adler

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by jon_adler 4y ago
Dislike of blockchain based cryptocurrency.
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by jon_adler 4y ago
A byte has been synonymous with an octet for as long as I can remember. I found a Wikipedia article [1] that describes the transition of a byte meaning the number of bits to encode character of text to an octet. [1] https://en.wi
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by jon_adler 4y ago
Bits to bytes means dividing by 8.
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by jon_adler 4y ago
Has MFM vs RLL encoding of hard disks been brought up recently? Hopefully I was able to remind you of another thing you thought you had forgotten.
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by jon_adler 4y ago
Kermit, xmodem, ymodem and zmodem were all file transfer protocols, often used to transfer files on bulletin board systems (BBS).
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by jon_adler 5y ago
I also ran through most of the modem speeds. All the lower speeds were calls made to BBSs, pre internet. 1200, 2400, 9600, 14400, 28800, 33600…
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Climate groups say change in coding can reduce Bitcoin energy consumption by 99%(theguardian.com)
7 points by jon_adler 5y ago|5 comments
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by jon_adler 5y ago
It is great for large, asynchronous, parallelised processing jobs. I’ve used it to integrate and orchestrate with numerous services within AWS ecosystem. We use source control for the step function JSON and deploy with terraform.
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by jon_adler 5y ago
I think he is saying that each developer have their own environment with full production like architecture. There are benefits to having each developer running in their own sandbox, with full freedom to deploy breaking changes at any time.
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Microsoft proposes type syntax for JavaScript(theregister.com)
1 points by jon_adler 5y ago|1 comments
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Automate the Boring Stuff with Python (2015)(automatetheboringstuff.com)
4 points by jon_adler 5y ago|0 comments
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by jon_adler 5y ago
Perhaps container vulnerability scanning? That’s probably a showstopper for most large customers.
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by jon_adler 5y ago
I don’t think so. Android, Gmail, Maps, Chromebook…
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by jon_adler 5y ago
This sounds similar to how the 8088 XT motherboards could be toggled with a turbo button on the front of the case.
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by jon_adler 5y ago
As someone who shares the same surname, always being at the top of the list was somewhat less desirable during school.
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by jon_adler 5y ago
I’m very happy with my Proxmox x86 host running OpenWRT x86 in a container. It works beautify. I love how fast it is to take a backup/snapshot to try out new configurations and rollback in case of issues. The same host runs plenty of o
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by jon_adler 5y ago
Fortean is still very popular in the scientific community for numeric processing. For example, many nuclear simulations run on fortran.
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by jon_adler 5y ago
Yes, and the government demands that taxes be paid in it, so there will always be some demand.
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by jon_adler 6y ago
I find the SAFe framework describes the brilliance of Kanban nicely [1]. I’m surprised there isn’t some discussion on queuing theory such as Little’s Law [2] either, as I feel it is also relevant. [1] Principle #6 – Visualize and limit WIP,
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by jon_adler 9y ago
You can customise your Fastmail spam filtering if needed, however after 15 years of Fastmail email, I still get virtual zero spam.
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by jon_adler 9y ago
The European payment industry is adopting secure customer authentication in the form of 3DS2.1.
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by jon_adler 9y ago
I believe it would only be possible to maintain yourself as a backpacker on $100 per day. This might be lower in the bush but true in most urban locations in Australia.
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by jon_adler 9y ago
I would contend that HackerRank has done a good job of screening and filtering on this occasion. Given clear instruction, the only skill demonstrated was insubordination.
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by jon_adler 9y ago
In the UK, we have "New Layout Ahead" signs everywhere. Once erected, they seem to stay in place forever and increase noise. Is there any evidence that these are beneficial?
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by jon_adler 9y ago
We are investigating using Scala and Akka (using actors) for concurrent processing. No locks are needed...
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by jon_adler 9y ago
I am still happy after 15 years of paying for Fastmail.
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by jon_adler 9y ago
There is evieence that removing safety devices reduces speeds. Drivers compensate to the conditions. I found this article interesting: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/feb/04/remova...
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The Nino Cipher – The Foundation to Next-Generation Security [pdf](perpetualencryption.com)
1 points by jon_adler 10y ago|1 comments