kedean

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by kedean 7y ago
There's two key differences between the cable situation and the streaming situation. First, under cable, theoretically the subscriptions would all go through one provider. That's how direcTV worked (15-20 years ago, not sure if it
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by kedean 7y ago
As I've understood it, AWS keeps things alive as long as someone is using it. Once they want to get rid of it, they take it off the catalog of items you can provision, and start encouraging users to move to it's successor, and onc
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by kedean 7y ago
Id be interested in seeing the median lifespan. I feel like it's possible there are long lived products bringing the average way up, although I could be wrong without diving in further.
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by kedean 7y ago
I wasn't trying to discuss whether or not PGP is a good or widely used technology. My point was that even if something like it were widely adopted and made seamless, it would not be able to solve the problem of bootstrapping the veri
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by kedean 7y ago
I don't think verification of sender is the problem (see PGP), it's that email was built such that anyone can contact anyone without setup ahead of time. I can give my address to some guy I meet at a conference and he can email me
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by kedean 7y ago
Don't forget the menu with a picture of your face on it (probably).
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by kedean 7y ago
I've noticed this particular kind of issue is helped significantly by white noise generators. The last office I worked in (i'm now remote) had a white noise generator built in that cancelled out a lot of those sounds like chip bag
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by kedean 7y ago
When's the last time you used Spotify? Honest question, because that's the exact opposite of how Spotify works. You can be logged into as many devices as you want with the same profile, you just can't play simultaneously on e
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by kedean 7y ago
Is riak still actively maintained or supported by anyone? Last I heard Basho just sort of vanished as a company a few years ago.
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by kedean 7y ago
For what it's worth, this is one of the topics Kernighan's book covers. He goes over the breakup in pretty good detail and does talk about the further evolution of Multics.
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by kedean 7y ago
I've found one good tactic to be the 'reading lists' that some of the arts/science subreddits have in their wikis/sidebars. It's a good way to find solid entry points to a given topic that are at least respecte
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by kedean 7y ago
I'm wondering also if we're all working off of different definitions of "middle class". Many people apply a much lower baseline income to the term than the accepted standard these days.
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by kedean 7y ago
I've always had the same concern stopping me from getting one. I wish I could go to Best Buy or someplace and rent the darn thing for a few hours instead.
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by kedean 7y ago
That completely ignores the purpose of the abstraction. Copy is a high level concept that, yes, can sometimes be reduced to a read/write pipeline, but in many cases cannot. Interfaces and abstractions are important concepts that you sh
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by kedean 7y ago
But it's the "wrong" solution for python. Python is heavily focused around the idea of duck-typing, and forcing things like this completely blocks duck-typing. What if I want to pass down a complex object that can be used as
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by kedean 7y ago
Counterpoint to you last example just for fun...people who live in places with a lot of highly rated burger restaurants eat more burgers because they are surrounded by good burgers, not because of an inherent love for ground beef patties. I
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by kedean 7y ago
There's also the option of refusing the new services. When I think on what I'll do as content keeps fragmenting across services, I keep coming back to one answer...watch less video content. The time before easy streaming wasn&#x27
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by kedean 7y ago
The graph makes it look like about 90% of the requests are apple, so I think this is intended to be serving more like 4.5TB per day. At that rate, I don't think its a terrible way to handle it, since S3 handles things all of the HA and
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by kedean 7y ago
I'm working my way through Steven Pinkers "How The Mind Works", it's a really interesting perspective on the brain and how it theoretically might produce human intelligence and consciousness. I didn't expect to be e
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by kedean 9y ago
I mean I agree that it's not a good thing that its captured at all, but it's going down a dangerous road to ascribe literally everything they do as malicious. The term 'logging' has a well-defined meaning in the tech com
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by kedean 9y ago
This is a poorly named post. It's not "logging" anything, in all likelihood this information is discarded immediately. This shows that the information is sent to facebooks server, but I'd bet money that it's simpl
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by kedean 9y ago
Does AutoHotKey function on the login screen?
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by kedean 9y ago
The product quite literally has the chrome logo slapped on the it.
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by kedean 9y ago
Yeah, this sounds ridiculous if you extend it into, say, grocery stores. "Store X has come up with their own Macaroni and Cheese that market tests show to be extremely successful, so they stop carrying Kraft" In that scenario, sho
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by kedean 9y ago
Man, I hope you don't use grep very often (by default it uses exit code 1 when it doesn't find anything).
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by kedean 9y ago
This comment is like...the definition of an ad-hominem attack.
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by kedean 10y ago
The problem with that order is that where often depends on what has been selected. If you select max(a) as ma, you should know that before you try to compare it to something.
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by kedean 10y ago
I'd say at the very least, the heartbeat should be spawned asynchronously. As it is, someone DOS-ing your API could cause problems for every user.
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by kedean 10y ago
You can't reduce it to those simple variables, though. What if the speedup is enough to remove multiple AWS servers, saving potentially thousands of dollars per year moving forward? What if those milliseconds are the ones that keep mor
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by kedean 10y ago
I'd argue that all of those are either problems in XML, or considered features. Datatypes and comments would give room for extensibility, which is against what JSON is intended to be. JSON should be instantly readable by any system, it

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