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by luhn 10y ago
Nope, 8k is already adjusted for USD. > which came to a total cost of around £6,400 (about $8,000)
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by luhn 10y ago
The creator of Cards Against Humanity has vowed to do the same. https://twitter.com/MaxTemkin/status/846437803164684290
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by luhn 10y ago
Yep. All their applications always write directly to MySQL.
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by luhn 10y ago
> Motto: Security starts here. Stealing the best ideas from the entire open source community (a.k.a. Proudly Found Elsewhere). Whelp. I guess they're taking that to an extreme.
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by luhn 10y ago
The "traditional" Kafka infrastructure (i.e. LinkedIn) uses Kafka as the source of truth. Everything gets written directly into Kafka and makes its way from there. This is a powerful concept, but involves giving up a lot of adva
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by luhn 10y ago
He said a $200 drone, which would be something similar to the tiny, low-flying commercial offerings. You couldn't take that out with an F-35 without destroying an entire city block along with it.
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by luhn 10y ago
> I am skeptical of unmanned taxis for reasons having nothing to do with autonomous driving. What do you do if a passenger gets sick, passes out, starts acting violently, has a heart attack, all things regular taxis encounter. These are
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by luhn 10y ago
I've been on the native app for a while and was very glad to switch. The pseudo-standalone Chrome app had some very weird and obnoxious behavior when navigating between applications and windows on MacOS.
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by luhn 10y ago
I'm trying to imagine a situation in which this would be useful and I can't think of one. Perhaps my lack of imagination is because I haven't cared for years what letters come in the mail—It's all bills and spam.
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by luhn 10y ago
Is there not a market? Here's a list of several dozen devices that MacOS supports: https://support.apple.com/kb/PH22491?locale=en_US
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by luhn 10y ago
If I remember right, Pt 1 is also included in this podcast before they get to the updates.
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by luhn 10y ago
Perhaps they transcode to multiple formats/bitrates locally before upload?
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by luhn 10y ago
Fallen fruit can ferment and apparently it's not uncommon for wild animals to get drunk from it. So you can forage for alcohol ;) http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-alcoholics-...
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by luhn 10y ago
> I seem to remember a github repo that was posted to HN a couple of years back that did exactly that. They showed the same data set and presented 3 different ways with 3 entirely different conclusions. Does anybody remember what reposit
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by luhn 10y ago
As scary as Google's massive size and power is, it's pretty awesome that they're incentivized to do things like this to help the internet because they are the internet.
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by luhn 10y ago
Bookmarking this. I recently was alerted to a CRLF injection vulnerability on the service I manage because an outdated dependency was vulnerable. This could have nipped that in the bud.
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by luhn 10y ago
It was Amazon S3 US Standard (us-east-1) region that went down. This caused quite a lot of pain throughout the internet because people were using S3 as storage for their application and/or their static assets. Other AWS services were
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by luhn 10y ago
> The garbage fire that is asyncio dramatically increases the complexity of the language. Despite asyncio being just one module among others, one might as well consider it built-in, because it is integrated so deeply in the object model
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by luhn 10y ago
> For instance all pre-emptible instances are terminated in 24 hours. On AWS based on when they need the resources. Uhh, Google will terminate preemptible instances whenever they need the resources as well. Hence the name, "preempt
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by luhn 10y ago
One thing they don't mention is that it's built against libcrypto. They make it seem like this replaces OpenSSL, but it really only replaces half of it (libssl). Still an exciting project, especially since the API looks dirt simp
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by luhn 10y ago
Besides the extra memory on the $5 node, what makes Vultr better than DO?
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by luhn 10y ago
Have they not already? I haven't seen seat-back screens in years, and last time I did the entertainment system wasn't functioning so you couldn't actually use it.
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by luhn 10y ago
Why are they so worried about the Arctic melting? Are they hiding something? http://www.theonion.com/article/melting-ice-caps-expose-hund...
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by luhn 10y ago
> It is fascinating how a perfectly sensible rule-of-thumb "you shouldn't use html tables for something which is not semantically a table" gradually morphed into various superstitions like "you shouldn't use html
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by luhn 10y ago
Well, Moore's law is already dead. Intel missed the mark last year. As far as shrinking transistors further, isn't 7nm the physical limit? Edit: I'm mistaken. Transistors as small as 1nm have been developed. https:/
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by luhn 10y ago
More notable to me, last I checked Python was still using Mercurial. Are they also switching to git today or did I miss that migration?
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by luhn 10y ago
Some schema changes can take prohibitively long on large tables, so you do have to be careful. But there are ways of achieving the same results that are safe for production database. Braintree did a decent writeup on it. https:/&#x
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by luhn 10y ago
Right. I'll remember that next time I'm an infrastructure lead at a company with a 100 million customers ;) But thanks for pointing out sharding. It can be powerful strategy.
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by luhn 10y ago
I'd imagine so. I'd be curious to see the numbers on their infrastructure. What $600mm is paying for.
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by luhn 10y ago
I think people underestimate just how far a properly-configured RDMS can scale. A machine with a couple CPUs and a few hundred gigs of memory can do a lot. Couple that with some tastefully-applied caching and query from a read replica whe

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