massaman_yams

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by massaman_yams 3y ago
Yeah, with a CV strip the Mean Wells with CC dimming have an abrupt shutoff at low brightness - maybe 5% (I haven't measured it), and a brief flash upon increasing brightness just above that threshold. Otherwise they work reasonably w
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by massaman_yams 3y ago
Mean Well has some constant current dimmable 24v power supplies with zero flicker. You'd need 2 if you want each strip to be independently controllable. They also can take a PWM signal if you're so inclined, but I bought them beca
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by massaman_yams 3y ago
Can you think of a scenario where a well-intentioned organization doesn't realize they're sending some unwanted mail, and by looking at the right metrics they realize they have a problem and take steps to fix it?
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by massaman_yams 3y ago
Speaking from quite a bit of experience, content can matter at Gmail if it's very obviously malicious/spammy, but not usually otherwise. Metrics matter more than content at gmail. For other filters/ISPs, content can matter a
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by massaman_yams 3y ago
I deal with email at global scale, and yes, you're a fringe case. There are many billions of messages sent every day which have lots of links, and which recipients in general are interested in, and want delivered to the inbox (or promo
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by massaman_yams 3y ago
You're correct that a lot of senders have no idea when they're sending unwanted email, and that unwanted email is well within the realm of possibility here. But don't assume DOI is a panacea; you can use DOI and still send un
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by massaman_yams 3y ago
Gmail is subject to specific targeting by spammers in a way that fastmail is not. The returns for spending weeks or months finding a niche way through Gmail's filters are justified by the number of gmail addresses that can be targeted,
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by massaman_yams 4y ago
Prefect, dagster, or maybe one could argue google cloud composer is different enough from vanilla airflow that it earns a spot on this list? But you're right, Airflow is still the de facto standard, there's just increasing awarene
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by massaman_yams 4y ago
Another comment suggested an extra rinse cycle.
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by massaman_yams 4y ago
It's not the only ambiguous wording in the post; the math doesn't add up here. It's probably a peak of 254 million/hr. "during Black Friday processed a whopping 254 million emails every hour and 3.3 billion during t
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by massaman_yams 4y ago
Table S3 here[1] starting on page 9 appears to show nearly 80 different genuses within stool samples after filtering out "vegetative (non–spore form) bacteria, fungi, parasites, and viruses" [2]. No word on how many strains per
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by massaman_yams 4y ago
It's not quite clear if this is cultivated or not but I know this MD was working on cultivation at one point. "SER-109 is composed of approximately 50 species of Firmicutes spores derived from stool specimens from healthy donors.&
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by massaman_yams 4y ago
Diet alone can't restore strains that don't exist in a patient's microbiome.
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by massaman_yams 4y ago
Yes, it's clear Gordon has applied a mastering limiter to the tracks he delivered to Bethesda, and given that the style of the music involves heavy processing/effects and multiple levels of compression, a somewhat aggressive maste
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by massaman_yams 4y ago
Now, applying a mastering limiter to sub-tracks? Extremely novice mistake, and could be described as brickwalling. Certainly within the realm of possibility given the novice quality of the editing here.
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by massaman_yams 4y ago
"Brickwall" limiting is about very short-term transient compression; to oversimplify things, those limiters are operating at the timespan of 1-30 milliseconds, more or less. These edits are a few hundred ms to a few seconds at a t
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by massaman_yams 4y ago
You're making an extremely pedantic distinction, which is only correct in a purely technical sense. Which is the worst kind of correct. Yes, mastering engineers work from track-level dynamic range (usually achieved with slow-response c
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by massaman_yams 4y ago
Delivering to gmail is unpredictable when you try to send from IP space with unmanaged or poorly-managed IP range reputation, like most low-cost VPSes or residential ISP IP space. Incidentally, I'm pretty confident the same filtering e
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by massaman_yams 4y ago
Is it getting harder to self-host? Yes. Impossible? No. Most senders just find it easier to pay for it.
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by massaman_yams 4y ago
Exceptions to the rule do happen; I'm sorry your experience was the exception. Dealing with that kind of thing can be quite a pain if you're not experienced with it. But again: "If you find yourself in an IP range involved
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by massaman_yams 4y ago
This is not my system, to be clear, but you might be surprised how little 20 years of data matters to filter accuracy, empirically speaking; recent sending behavior carries orders of magnitude more weight.
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by massaman_yams 4y ago
The overwhelming majority of legitimate mail will never see anything remotely near a 14-day block. Again, it's reserved for severe, ongoing, high-volume spam scenarios; ISPs use other methods like short-term deferrals for more common&#
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by massaman_yams 4y ago
> "... small non-spam senders would congregate" Congratulations, you've invented the email service provider. Most small non-spam senders don't want to spend the time figuring out IP reputation, DKIM, or SPF already, s
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by massaman_yams 4y ago
As a practitioner, I can tell you that this proposal would be quite a bit behind state of the art for email spam filter accuracy. For example, there's a surprising amount of legitimate mail that gets sent without authentication, and wh
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by massaman_yams 4y ago
I am not a Google employee, but I do work with email anti-spam at scale. There's a lot to critique here but it boils down to three points: 1. Spam filter behavior has changed because spam has increased in volume and sophistication, not
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by massaman_yams 4y ago
I might be reading into this a little, but you seem to be arguing that "Spam is a reasonably solved problem at my scale, therefore spam is a reasonably solved problem at global scale", and those are very different things. One of t
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by massaman_yams 6y ago
This happens at stunning scale; there are probably several billion messages a month sent via malicious form submissions globally, by my rough semi-informed estimate. (That includes other types of abuse than the one you mentioned.) Perhaps t
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by massaman_yams 6y ago
Can confirm. Async bounces make up somewhere around a few percent of overall bounces for most senders.
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by massaman_yams 6y ago
They're not actually providing it themselves - Aiven actually runs the backend. Seems like that points to it having some longevity. https://kb.timescale.cloud/en/articles/2752585-timescale-clo...
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by massaman_yams 6y ago
cuDF has supported Dask for distributed processing for a while now, maybe a year or two?

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