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by kbouck 2y ago
If you disable ARP, you can have a group of servers on the same network configured with the same IP! and if a server acting as a routing frontend can forward packets to a backend server's network interface by mac address (need a kernel
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by kbouck 2y ago
When I'm stumped troubleshooting production problems, I try to think how I can get more information out of the system. Exporting telemetry events with a wide set of attributes to an observability platform is a great approach which can
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by kbouck 2y ago
Any way we can get the Westworld intro song into the demo list?
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by kbouck 2y ago
I had a coat with large side pockets just big enough to fit the 11" air. Not that I would ever use them for that, but it sure felt nice to have the option...
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by kbouck 2y ago
Back in the 80's there was CROBOTS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crobots https://github.com/troglobit/crobots https://tpoindex.github.io/crobots/
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by kbouck 2y ago
you win!
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by kbouck 2y ago
ElectroBOOM demonstrates this: https://youtu.be/OyTmJX_TC84?feature=shared
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by kbouck 2y ago
Worked at Nokia when iPhone was released. No strategy/management insight, but I recall the jokes made by my colleagues as I showed off my iPhone 1: "Cool, but can it make phone calls" On internal message boards, some employee
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by kbouck 2y ago
I read this (or similar) article when researching how to better crimp dupont connectors for mini arcade wiring. I settled on the Hozan P-707 recommended in this article. A bit more expensive than other options, but it has worked really well
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by kbouck 2y ago
It would be somewhat more "compatible" with semver if it placed the timestamp in the MINOR or PATCH segment, rather than in the MAJOR: 0.20241127214906.0 0.0.20241127214906
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by kbouck 2y ago
> I've found that limitation in artistic mediums can serve as motivation and even inspiration in art. There's a great 1969 interview with Charles Eames in which he discusses design, and constraints as being a necessary compon
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by kbouck 2y ago
Ha. Back in the 90's graphing calculators were not allowed during tests, but normal calculators were... Well there was a model of Casio calculator (can't find the model) which was so diminutive, and with a wide rectangular rather
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by kbouck 2y ago
For anyone that has built more complex collector pipelines, I'm curious to know the tech stack: - otel collector? - kafka (or other mq)? - cribl? - vector? - other?
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by kbouck 2y ago
I want to power my 12V devices with USB PD. Looks like 12V is optional in the spec and is supported only by some devices (eg. UGREEN), and not by others (eg. Anker) Given a USB PD power supply which supports 15V but not 12V, and a usb-c&#x2
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by kbouck 2y ago
Missing Forstall's "Blow Away"
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by kbouck 2y ago
(this comment is about using ipad as a general computer, rather than purely coding) if you're like me and continually open new apps and browser tabs, never closing them, then one benefit of using iPad versus mac is the OS process lifec
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by kbouck 2y ago
a-shell is another good option
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by kbouck 2y ago
Network-connected home Mitsubishi units can be controlled with the MELCloud API (same api used by mobile app) which makes it easy enough to write scripts that grab current temp, settings, power usage. Perhaps someone has already made a home
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by kbouck 2y ago
Indeed. Elastic has also recently released a piped query language called ES|QL. Feels similar to Kusto. I find piped queries both easier to write, and read.
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by kbouck 2y ago
This TUI discussion triggered a bit of 80s/90s programming nostalgia -- anyone remember TTT (TechnoJock's Turbo Toolkit)? Pre-gui era UI framework.
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by kbouck 2y ago
Perhaps the act of fidget-spinning spurs on musical creativity
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by kbouck 2y ago
There's also an Amsterdam movie theatre across the IJ named "Eye" Film. I(expat)'ve always heard dutch "ij" as an over-annunciated "eye" where the sides of your mouth are a more widely open.
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by kbouck 2y ago
Grafana has one too called Beyla. https://grafana.com/oss/beyla-ebpf/
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by kbouck 3y ago
vector's VRL language seems more expressive than otelcol OTTL. Has anyone experience creating complex transformations using OTTL? I guess my example would be non-trivial log transformation requiring lookup tables (which vector can do w
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by kbouck 3y ago
I may be in the minority here, but I appreciate pasta shapes which result in a gradient of aldentitude (made up that word).
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by kbouck 3y ago
My experience with PowerLine (TPLink) was really awful. Completely unstable and inconsistent performance. We then switched to MoCA (ActionTec) and it has been about as good as a direct ethernet cable. Consistent performance and stays up for
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by kbouck 3y ago
I upgraded from Ubiquiti USG to Firewalla (Gold). I confirm what others who have experience with both are saying: the Firewalla UX is better by a wide margin.
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by kbouck 3y ago
What are the merits of the prometheus approach versus one where events/metrics and their original timestamps can be preserved, stored (during temporary outages), then forwarded to backends when connectivity is reestablished?
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by kbouck 3y ago
my idea was to let an existing app like djay do the beat matching (which it does really well!) and demixing (less well), and then make a custom app that would act like a midi controller, adjusting the vocals, beats, melody while songs are t
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by kbouck 3y ago
> re: "realtime" it separates the components of tracks that it can download (and process), not of a live audio feed

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