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Tl;Dr: Don't Ever Set Your Electric Car on Fire(turingpost.com)
4 points by kwindla 3y ago|4 comments
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by kwindla 3y ago
This was a great episode and a good lesson for me. The Zenefits story is very different from the one I thought I knew based on media coverage at the time.
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by kwindla 3y ago
Genuinely curious, what would the accessibility problems be? Screen readers seem like they'd do great with this format.
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by kwindla 3y ago
Lovely essay (and the visuals are great). I had not seen this before even though it's from 2015.
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RevenueCat's data-caching techniques for 1.2B daily API requests(revenuecat.com)
12 points by kwindla 3y ago|0 comments
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by kwindla 3y ago
Thanks. (And that sounds like a fun lens!)
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by kwindla 3y ago
Do any of the fuji digital rangefinders have true mechanical focus rings, rather than "focus by wire"? I had an original X100 and thought it was a terrific camera. But I couldn't shoot with it the way I prefer because the man
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Vector Search with OpenAI Embeddings: Lucene Is All You Need(arxiv.org)
92 points by kwindla 3y ago|63 comments
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Shift-left testing: Test earlier and more often(daily.co)
3 points by kwindla 3y ago|0 comments
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Letter from ‘Manhattan’ (1979)(nybooks.com)
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by kwindla 4y ago
Just one data point: I'm a startup founder and have no issues showing potential employees (almost) all the investors on our cap table and who led or was a major investor in each round. In general, the only thing that's sensitive i
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Rummage Sale Planet(scopeofwork.net)
1 points by kwindla 4y ago|0 comments
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My role as a founder CTO: Year Five(miguelcarranza.es)
3 points by kwindla 4y ago|0 comments
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by kwindla 4y ago
Best is hard! But "Owls of the Eastern Ice," about fieldwork in Siberia studying owls, is definitely up there. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jul/22/owls-of-the-ea...
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by kwindla 4y ago
We try to nudge towards making this possible by having a "soft rule" discouraging scheduling any standing or cross-team meetings on Fridays.
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Biochar and biogas carbon capture “silver bullet”(twitter.com)
1 points by kwindla 4y ago|0 comments
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by kwindla 4y ago
That's really interesting. We didn't get any user reports before our canaries fired, either. Now I have to think about what might explain the difference between your systems and ours. We're monitoring API Gateway health (more
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by kwindla 4y ago
https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status is now showing the issue. Our first canaries fired for this at 9:43 PDT local time. The status page updated at 10:13.
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by kwindla 4y ago
:-) August 24th was the first time we saw exactly this issue in 7 years of heavy, multi-region, AWS use. So we put in place the ability to semi-automatically route around this more quickly, but we didn't fixate on it. Two data points i
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AWS us-west-2 issues
203 points by kwindla 4y ago|99 comments
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by kwindla 4y ago
Definitely non-trivial! Deep BGP expertise is required to operate anycast at any significant scale. And RTP/WebRTC media traffic is perhaps particularly tricky, because UDP is so stateless but media servers need to maintain a relativel
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by kwindla 4y ago
I'd love to know more about > Calls uses anycast for every connection, so every packet is always routed to the closest Cloudflare location. Is this true for the UDP media (and data channels) traffic, or just for the initial signalin
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by kwindla 4y ago
The Cloudflare Calls launch post is really well written! But I agree that it perhaps somewhat overstates the uniqueness of their approach, given that Agora, Jitsi-as-a-Service, Stream, and Daily all offer WebRTC platforms with a mesh/c
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by kwindla 4y ago
Relatedly, the book "Grand Obsession" tells the story of one pianist's truly obsessive search for a piano with a particular sound. I found it fascinating, moving, and a little terrifying. https://www.simonandschust
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by kwindla 4y ago
Other long-standing direct competitors include Vonage, who acquired the original WebRTC platform-as-a-service, OpenTok; AWS Chime Video; and Daily (YC W16). https://www.vonage.com/communications-apis/video/ https
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by kwindla 4y ago
Regarding performance: we've been collecting (anonymized) data from real-world WebRTC calls for several years, and sadly it's no longer true that p2p routes are generally more performant. It definitely used to be true that most p2
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by kwindla 4y ago
With today's browser implementations of WebRTC, you can proxy through a TURN server while still maintaining end-to-end encryption, but you can't proxy through any kind of customized endpoint/server, because each endpoint nece
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by kwindla 4y ago
Short answer: it's not currently possible to do true end-to-end encryption through media servers with a key that is inaccessible from user space. Longer answer... WebRTC was designed as a fundamentally peer-to-peer protocol. The spec d
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by kwindla 4y ago
Hilary Mantel, author or Wolf Hall, died today.
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Hilary Mantel on Jane Austen(nybooks.com)
3 points by kwindla 4y ago|2 comments

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