loxias

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by loxias 5y ago
Neat idea! There's no C, C++, Perl, or MATLAB entry though, so my ability to help is limited... :/ Surely there's a need for "implement <foo> in better machine code" work, in other languages and projects, no
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by loxias 5y ago
> Maintaining the DHT connection is "expensive", expensive meaning a few packets a minute. Could power be saved by batching messages? For example, in Bluetooth Low Energy, much power is saved by the radio waking up infrequently
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by loxias 5y ago
I'm with you. I used to use Firefox for "everything but videos and gmail", which went in Chrome. But after v92 I think, I stopped going to Chrome for ... anything. My CPU has been happier!
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by loxias 5y ago
Um, I never stopped using uBlock Origin, and generally run beta Firefoxen and haven't seen a problem.
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by loxias 5y ago
Reading Agner Fog's writings has taken my optimization to a whole new level. https://www.agner.org/
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by loxias 5y ago
"Bandwidth Alliance" seems to be some sort of B2B consortium. I'll dig into this more later, but unless I'm missing something obvious (I very well might be...) there's not a easy/inexpensive method for me to si
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by loxias 5y ago
S3 protocol supports multipart upload, which is what you're describing. The client chunks it, the server reassembles. What I'd like to see is PATCH with multipart/byteranges support. =D
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by loxias 5y ago
Wow! Cool! Very surprised that Cloudflare wouldn't charge an arm and a leg for such a service... considering they're moving the actual bits. I'm poking around at the Cloudflare website, what's the name of the aforement
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by loxias 5y ago
(stupid question) What does that get me? Does Cloudflare have cheap VMs I can rent with competitive prices? (including data egress fees?) For object storage that I play with, some clients are in the cloud, with most sitting at home behind
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by loxias 5y ago
Huh, thanks for that. I hadn't noticed (was that always there??). So, sustained egress at rate R/sec means I have to use 2500000 * R amount of storage per month, hrm... Possibly can't use it for one of the "ponies&quot
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by loxias 5y ago
B2 charges for egress, $0.01/GB. More interesting to me is Wasabi, which charges ~$0.006/GB*month and no egress fees at all.
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by loxias 5y ago
Personally, I think it's interesting when I see someone has created something which accidentally conforms to a tangential restricted form. Like, an acrostic, or Bach hiding his initials in the notes. Also, it's not formatting. :)
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by loxias 5y ago
I was curious so I did the requisite short bit of scripting. I think you're right, the misspellings are independent. For a few words (like "begining") the text contains the correct and a misspelt word. But for most misspelt
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by loxias 5y ago
Exactly. It might be impressive if it's consistent, or if the number of misspellings is rare. But starting off with a correctly spelt document and then achieving justification by conditionally removing a letter is... not that hard. O
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by loxias 5y ago
Is there a market for "mathematically superior" tools similar to this? I've been developing this sort of math for more than half my life, and would love to "productize" it. I just never thought there'd be a
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by loxias 5y ago
Yes! Sortition! It was good enough for ancient Athens, it's good enough for us. (For years, one of my own personal causes I'll advocate to anyone who will listen) Ranked choice voting would be nice too, but the beauty of sortit
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by loxias 5y ago
I use Qt. It's nice.
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by loxias 5y ago
(Based on reading just one article, I've never seen or used the app) Seems like all the app did was serve as list of candidates, 225 electoral districts long, and a map from street address to electoral district. Surely this can be triv
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by loxias 5y ago
Sounds like it's time to write a Discord crawler...
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by loxias 5y ago
Thanks for the heads up! Is there anything (packaged easily for Debian) you'd recommend instead?
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by loxias 5y ago
I think you hit the nail on the head. The reasons Discord works well for you are unfortunately ... why it won't work for me. (I'm a late 30s male, but, I don't play video games. Nothing against games or gamers, I'm ac
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by loxias 5y ago
Thanks for all the links and pointers! And yeah, now that I know the term "NFT hydroponics" that is exactly what I was imagining, just didn't know what it was called. "i want plants that are plugged into the matrix.
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by loxias 5y ago
Figure out how to accurately transmit and reproduce jitter sensitive data over BLE as the transport, while keeping latency bounded. (ok, now I'm blatantly just rehashing problems I've solved before. But it was kinda hard!) The
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by loxias 5y ago
Coincidentally, I also, also, started a project to do soil analysis remotely! :D Tho mine is just a few crude proofs of concept and a lot of dreaming. The eventual goal is an inexpensive automated black box box that provides me with fresh
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by loxias 5y ago
Have you implemented your own USB devices yet? How about your own BLE based protocol? All with your own code (not using some off the shelf library which imposes its own abstractions on you)? I've done a moderate amount of firmware pr
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by loxias 5y ago
Echoing the parallel comment, if you're willing to get your hands into the guts, you can get amazing "RTOS-like" audio performance out of linux. I love pushing the limit of how low latency can get. Start with the PREEMPT_RT
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by loxias 5y ago
Thanks for writing JACK! I'm curious what you think of PipeWire, feel free to be opinionated. I'm also a low level audio/midi dev (tho far less prolific, and less public) and having seen how you architect things, and your co
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by loxias 5y ago
Nice writeup! I've been meaning to replace my router with something more... controllable ever since I moved. Using a GigE USB feels messy, handling all those URBs I figure will tax the CPU more than I want. Heaven would be any board
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by loxias 5y ago
This was entertaining, but as someone in their late 30s, to someone in their early 20s, some unsolicited advice: * The health related stuff really catches up with you. I was skinny/lanky my whole life (and don't exercise) until s
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by loxias 5y ago
This. I entertained the idea of working in the public sector a while ago, for a brief time, until I learned that pot is fine in my past, but not in my present. "How the heck do you expect me to get the code written?" Also, I&#x27

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