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by leonroy 8y ago
Care to share on where savings can be made with a DIY approach vs AWS?
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by leonroy 8y ago
There have been at least 5 major extinction events on this planet. Whilst I believe that taking care of Earth should be our number one priority, is it so wrong if a billionnaire decides to focus on improving our ability to travel into spa
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by leonroy 8y ago
But why isn’t it used by professionals? It seemed clean enough, punctual and conveniently located as well as being reasonably priced. Is there an alternative (besides owning a car) that I’m missing for travelling around the conurbation of S
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by leonroy 8y ago
Edited my post too late - it was light rail from Gish maybe to Ohlone/Chynoweth. Had to change at Santa Clara.
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by leonroy 8y ago
London isn’t as we’ll paying for engineers as SV either unless they’re in finance or contracting - how’re you finding the pay gap here vs the US?
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by leonroy 8y ago
Well.. grabbing the light rail in the Bay Area and changing at Santa Clara around 9pm was an eye opening experience. Let’s just say an old man snapping at my geeky reading would’ve been the least of my concerns. I had one guy pushing a cart
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by leonroy 8y ago
Doesn’t meant that thankfully. Apple added Time Machine support for SMB (Windows) shares in Sierra IIRC. So no need for a Time Capsule or any sort of netatalk/avahi Linux setup to emulate one. See here for details: https://d
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by leonroy 8y ago
Not to rain on Leica too much (I love and had a whole M system) but I experienced some serious backfocus issues with their Summilux 50mm which despite two visits to their factory (which took two months) they were unable to fully rectify. I’
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by leonroy 8y ago
Any ideas on the process used to make the glass Apple are using on their new campus buildings? Is it mainly automated or more manual? Also does it have any differences like more iron or other additives to lend strength or conversely less to
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by leonroy 9y ago
You’d think these companies would use VLANs or at a minimum a router or layer 3 switch to segregate camera, critical services and fish tank IoT network traffic.
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by leonroy 9y ago
Clubhouse is an excellent example of site and web app and their approach and integration with both has clearly had a LOT of thought put into it: https://clubhouse.io Probably use it more than any other SaaS and am glad it’s so g
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by leonroy 9y ago
> What if the leaders at Apple are actually good people and they’re honest when they say they want te leave the Earth a better place? There's a concept called first mover disadvantage where for example a well intentioned CEO can pus
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by leonroy 9y ago
One thing to note is that 'young college drop out makes billions' is a more compelling story than 'middle aged, well educated person with good savings makes billions'. The former sells more clicks and hence advertising d
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by leonroy 9y ago
This. Sadly though VC money doesn’t really align with a reasonable rate of return. Seems Feedly did take on a $1M round a little while back - that said they’ve been around since 2006... I use it everyday, one of my favourite apps — hope the
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by leonroy 9y ago
Reminds me of this blind listening test of audiophile interconnects: http://www.audio-forums.com/articles/interconnect-cable-blin...
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by leonroy 9y ago
Marie Kondo’s book really helped our family. We took a lot of clothes, books and toys which hadn’t been touched in a year or more and donated them. We also decluttered the kitchen a lot, putting in a few high quality pots and plates rather
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by leonroy 9y ago
Whilst Origin likely used Wing Commander II as a huge cash cow to subsidize Ultima VII - much to WC2's detriment I distinctly remember a few short years later Origin gave Wing Commander III a lot more resources. At the time (1994) the
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by leonroy 9y ago
The Guardian used to have much higher quality journalism before they decided to avoid a paywall and instead produce traffic generating articles like this one which are light on sources and facts but heavy on hand wringing and outrage. I say
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by leonroy 9y ago
This is one piece of the puzzle certainly if man is going to look beyond Earth. If a Mars colony for instance was indeed established there would be some interesting data transfer and communication problems to work out in order to effectivel
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by leonroy 9y ago
Apparently they stuck in the glove compartment ‘a copy of Douglas Adams' book "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," along with a towel’. Source: http://m.dw.com/en/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-f
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by leonroy 9y ago
It's interesting to note that a technological civilization has occurred only in the past 200 years. Homo sapiens have been around on the planet for a long time so why is it only happening now? I suspect that easy access to large amount
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by leonroy 9y ago
I run my own mail server. Have done since Evolution mail was in BETA circa 2003 ish (time flies). Started with a Linux Mandrake based Postfix, Procmail, Dovecot, Fetchmail setup with SpamAssassin then moved onto a proper Debian setup with E
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by leonroy 9y ago
Having purchased the i1Display 2, the Huey Pro and then the Spyder 4 Elite these devices have a pretty finite lifespan of a couple years at most. If the manufacturer doesn't discontinue software updates for your latest OS the sensors i
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by leonroy 9y ago
Absolutely wonderful article. Your blog in general is incredible - nice to see folk maintaining such great blog content outside of Medium. Also gotta say - the quality of your photo sets, in particular NZ are just jaw dropping. Regarding yo
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by leonroy 9y ago
Linux or Windows? I've been doing dev on a large React app recently and the thought of running npm install on Windows makes me anxious about the performance vs my Mac - wondering if Windows has gotten better of late with lots of ti
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by leonroy 9y ago
> It's extremely selfish, IMO, to hold back a child from their full potential because the parents have their own irrational issues that they're not dealing with. This really resonates. My kid for example has wanted one of these
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by leonroy 9y ago
Excellent points. There was an article where the author interviewed a bunch of kids a few decades back and examined how they played and then revisited them 20 years later to see how their kids played. The original group of kids played acros
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by leonroy 9y ago
Completely agree. After my second child was born I focused my efforts into earning and saving and took a long period of unpaid time to spend with my baby. I had to keep my monthly burn rate super low and learn a lot about budgeting but it w
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by leonroy 9y ago
From what I understand (very roughly) with ZFS or BTRFS at least it takes one flipped bit in the particular block of memory which has just been successfully checksummed and 'approved' by the filesystem as valid for a write operati
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by leonroy 9y ago
For everyone using Ubiquiti in a home setting how do you place your access points? From what I understand they're supposed to be ceiling mounted so the domed side is broadcasting 'down' into the room. I'd imagine most do

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