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by mackman 3y ago
Yeah, I did worry. I told the flight crew people were at their own risk. I don't remember where I bought them from. Might have been B&H photo which sells their own branded ones in bags of 100 cheap. Maybe from aas.org. It's be
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by mackman 3y ago
I explained what they were for :-)
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by mackman 3y ago
Story time. In the last total eclipse, I was commuting from Boston to San Francisco a bunch and planned my flight to coincide with the path of totality. I brought enough eclipse glasses for the entire flight. The flight attendants were kind
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by mackman 3y ago
I have a fairly optimized backup to glacier strategy involving a couple of days of soak time in S3 before moving to glacier with lifecycle rules to avoid the 180 day min storage for transient files. Net I end up paying about $1.20 to $1.50
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by mackman 3y ago
Obviously there’s going to have to be some holes so they can smell.
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by mackman 3y ago
While I'm sure space truffles are going to be overpriced I am excited to see those little pigs doing EVAs in their little piggy space helmets.
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by mackman 3y ago
If anyone finds this an interesting idea, you should try blackwater diving. It’s one of my favorite things to do it’s absolutely like being an outer space finding weird aliens. You don’t have to dive very deep and it’s super easy to pay att
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by mackman 3y ago
“ Anamorphic lens looks, without using an Anamorphic lens. Also known as Anamorfake or Anamorfaux!”
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by mackman 3y ago
A lot of the enshittification is a result of the drop in organic content from friends and needing to maintain engagement numbers. It’s a vicious cycle, possibly a death spiral.
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by mackman 3y ago
I read through lsof source. It doesn’t provide paths for regular files. Even emailed the author to confirm.
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by mackman 3y ago
If the FCC mandated Apple deploy an update to reduce phones catching fire then yes, I would use the term recall. For bugs that don’t fall into the safety or regulatory compliance category I would not.
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by mackman 3y ago
Whoa, I had no idea. This is one of my favorite albums. I have the FLAC rip of the CD on my phone. Does anybody know how I could actually rip that zero track? iTunes didn’t do it.
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by mackman 3y ago
Wouldn't that prevent time from going in reverse?
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by mackman 3y ago
I’ve been doing development on AIX recently and the lack of such a cache has proven a real pain necessitating implementing our own disk scan and cache. Not knowing the path to an open file or process in constant time is terrible. If anyone
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by mackman 3y ago
The book about it is a great read although I think it could have used a lot more editing. Chapters approach the timeline from different angles and as a result it does feel like later chapters are going over the same material too many times.
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by mackman 3y ago
I usually refer to these as Heisenbugs.
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by mackman 3y ago
When cool it absorbs water. When hot it desorbs water. So you would need to idle or throttle. So some sort of “turbo boost duty cycle” sort of thing.
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by mackman 3y ago
Does each bit flip reveal a bit or less or does somehow a single flip compromise the entire key?
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by mackman 3y ago
C++14 standard: auto add = [](auto x) { return [x](auto y) { return x + y; }; }; auto addFive = add(5); auto result = addFive(3);
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by mackman 3y ago
If you shut down an ec2 instance you only pay for the volume not the compute. Just shut it down and start it up the next day.
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by mackman 3y ago
The cost of setting up additional data centers in Europe and re-architecting your application with a different replication strategy is probably 10x-50x the fine. It would also take years and a sizable fraction of the engineering team to mak
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by mackman 3y ago
Pretty useless video. The dev kits had both a Linux PC and a PS2 target board in the same chassis. These guys never got past the Linux login prompt. Now the PS3 dev kits were more interesting. I used a second gen one, a stainless steel box
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by mackman 3y ago
OK maybe this is a dumb question but if I have a camera with a 600 f/4 lens and I put a 1.4x TC on it for a 840mm f/5.6 lens won't that be a very similar FOV? And I can use my existing camera? And I can take 1,000 photos alig
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by mackman 3y ago
Go look for it on the maps Facebook renders for a fun Easter egg. https://imgur.io/a/zjzZjhQ I wonder if anyone will recognize it.
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by mackman 3y ago
My dyndns perpetual tokens lasted 15 years or more. Sadly they got acquired and it finally stopped.
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by mackman 4y ago
I think using the same algorithm but swizzling the pixels might help (process them in Z curve order).
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by mackman 4y ago
Loved my Power Tower! BeOS, Rhapsody DR 1 and 2. But then I started running Linux on it in college and never looked back.
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by mackman 4y ago
I think this article is about cache locality, but temporal cache locality. Which is just as important albeit orthogonal to what you are describing.
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by mackman 4y ago
Part of his argument here is stock is funny money. I think that is less true at FAANG today. You start vesting in a quarter, vest monthly after that, and RSUs are treated as income unlike options. Yes stock may change a bit but it’s more li
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by mackman 4y ago
You really don’t think he knew this was coming six weeks ago?

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