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by kimburgess 3y ago
Bug in the latest firmware. Should be patched during the next recharge or OTA for the newer models.
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by kimburgess 3y ago
Bleak is the word you’re looking for. The trajectory of the rental market in AU is beyond terrifying: https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/bulletin/2023/jun/new-in...
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by kimburgess 3y ago
From prior experience, courteous interruption is a skill that a lot of humans find challenging at times too (myself included).
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by kimburgess 3y ago
Similar. It’s a Merkle DAG. There’s an intro to IPFS content identifiers here: https://docs.ipfs.tech/concepts/content-addressing/ .
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by kimburgess 3y ago
It's still a valid form of data transport today. AWS will (literally) ship you a 45-foot container with 100PB of storage for shifting bits around: https://aws.amazon.com/snowmobile/ .
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by kimburgess 3y ago
The aggregation of a sufficient number of small useful tools is a good point. I wouldn’t carry a voice only phone, or a text only messaging device, or a standalone GPS, music player, or PDA. But I do find a phone that combines these pretty
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by kimburgess 3y ago
You can already do that with an iPad (sans fat OS). If you're using Blink Shell ( https://blink.sh ) the external display is independent of what's on the iPad too, which works really neatly. This is the exact setup I use
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by kimburgess 3y ago
For those using the Apple Watch: would you recommend it? I was an early(ish) adopter of smart watches/wearables - think Pebble and LG G Watch era. I walked away from that experience with the perception they exist solely as expensive di
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by kimburgess 3y ago
Another advocate of this approach here. Define some form of time-boxing: 90 minutes, 3 hours, 1 day, 1 week, whatever. When this is up force a capture of current state, knowledge, assumptions and ideas, then walk away and intentionally drop
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by kimburgess 3y ago
Absolutely - YCbCr 4:2:2 and 4:2:0 use different encodings across the lines to balance bandwidth. Complexity then continues to stack with deep colour pixel packing. There's a beautiful pocket of simplicity for RGB 4:4:4 8bpc which is e
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by kimburgess 3y ago
That's only the case in the (relatively) shiny new 2.1 spec with FRL. Prior versions are TMDS with 3 channels for red, green, blue, along with a clock. The audio and InfraFrames slot into the data islands in blanking periods on those s
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by kimburgess 3y ago
For this style or abuse mitigation I’m always surprised that HashCash [1] or similar simple, locally implemented proof of work mechanisms aren’t more common. This can be implemented in a way that remains transparent (albeit via JS), poses l
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by kimburgess 3y ago
Another host to consider with AU presence (both Sydney and Melbourne) is Vultr. Not associated, but have been using them for some personal infrastructure lately - it's a really nice platform. If you have strong isolation requirements t
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by kimburgess 3y ago
A big caveat is #4 should read "be willing and able to take risks". If you're not living in country with a social safety net or have the resources to self-support failure, risk taking is simply not an option.
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Nano Gems – Tiny Demoscene(nanogems.demozoo.org)
5 points by kimburgess 3y ago|0 comments
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by kimburgess 3y ago
Obligatory demoscene links for anyone continuing down the rabbit hole: https://nanogems.demozoo.org/ , https://www.pouet.net/ .
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by kimburgess 3y ago
Just wait until you hear about SSBN’s…
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by kimburgess 3y ago
This form should be the default for any async comms. Expressing the core statement up front allows proceeding content to serve as an optional framing, if required. If the recipient already has context they can skip the cruft. This structure
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by kimburgess 3y ago
This is great news, and somewhat unfortunate something so benign requires celebration. I used to ride a Zero SR. It was a phenomenal bike but also completely unserviceable in Australia. I ended up reverse engineering the log protocol [1] to
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Network Quality Server(github.com)
2 points by kimburgess 3y ago|0 comments
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by kimburgess 3y ago
Default is Apple’s infra, but you can choose via a config flag. You can also run your own: https://github.com/network-quality/server
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by kimburgess 3y ago
Depending on the scale or your organisation (and budget): https://www.pexip.com/ is a pretty incredible platform.
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by kimburgess 3y ago
If you’re interested in the journey, and happy to run on a simulator rather than hardware, https://www.nand2tetris.org/ is a decent ‘full stack’ experience. I know it’s a fairly popular resource here - has anyone extended t
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by kimburgess 3y ago
For the inter-satellite links. First and last hop still need to pass from the ground to LEO. The obvious solution is to start yeeting compute and/or users into space.
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by kimburgess 3y ago
You're right that it won't be the same - it has the potential to be faster. Speed of light in a vacuum is higher than what can be achieved in a fiber-optic. Combine that with a more direct path than what can be achieved with an un
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by kimburgess 3y ago
A “bug” is specific to computer systems. It traces back to a literal bug (moth) trapped in a relay and is an external factor with no responsibility attributed. A “defect” is a declaration that something is evidently faulty with a clear onus
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by kimburgess 3y ago
Loads of Max Cooper [1] and other misc from Mesh [2]. Always new bits of interest from every listen. Also very much looking forward to (finally) experiencing a live show with upcoming AU gigs. [1]: https://maxcooper.net/ [2
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by kimburgess 3y ago
One that's not mentioned in the article, but is a beautiful assembly of engineering is all of the https://www.neutrik.com/ connectors - speakON, powerCON, etherCON, opticalCON etc. Amazing solid bits of hardware with i
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by kimburgess 3y ago
As someone working in a large non-software org, that statement does not hold. Spreadsheets are the underlying infrastructure to a mildly terrifying amount of modern civilization.
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by kimburgess 3y ago
That's not HDMI causing that pain. In fact, HDMI includes specific functionality for lip sync correction and enabling devices to expose both audio and video latencies they add to the signal.

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