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by mmanfrin 9y ago
When Bluehole take down PUBG for 5 hours, there's no communication outside of two tweets. When Epic see degraded performance for less than 2 hours, they give a postmortem. There's a difference in the level of respect each company
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by mmanfrin 9y ago
The cynic in me feels this has more to do with the quarterly imperative to improve numbers showing that they've figured out how to start monetizing rather than an indication of the health of the company. The number of friends I see usi
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by mmanfrin 9y ago
That bit reminded me of a sun spot.
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by mmanfrin 9y ago
I think a lot of the problems with Ruby are really problems with the nature of Rails jobs over the past 5 years. Lots of juniors (which is great) in a field where people change jobs every year or two (which is okay, but horrible from a code
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by mmanfrin 9y ago
The first ad I saw for Crypto was an ad for Bitmain -- it flashed through my ad blocker enough for me to turn off the blocker to see it. It was Bitmain, advertising a miner back in stock. Clicked it, saw it in stock, then thankfully went ba
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by mmanfrin 9y ago
The screenshots from the leaker mention that they are using "redshift", which is the name of Amazon's RDB product. Which means this is about people who have access to the database. This is unsurprising that they could access
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by mmanfrin 9y ago
I hope they lose. There is no legitimate argument against Steam having a good refund policy. Strict refund policies for games came around because people could buy a game, copy the disc, then return it. That is explicitly not possible with S
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by mmanfrin 9y ago
I was very confused, as today there is/was a giant $1million-worth battle between some large Corps in Eve.
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by mmanfrin 9y ago
Even things as mundane as copy become multi-week ping-pong behemoths as 6+ different teams need to put in their two cents and tweek everything. Legal, copy, marketing, UX, product, exec. It's astounding how slow things move at large
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by mmanfrin 9y ago
I hate this so fucking much . Seems like every other search 70% of the top results have one of my necessary keywords removed. And I don't want to switch to verbatim because I do appreciate the fact that they search synonyms and don&#x
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by mmanfrin 9y ago
Unfortunately, these chips are designed explicitly for the SHA algorithm BTC uses. I wonder if there would be a way to make an algorithm based around protein folding that could be verified like a hash?
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by mmanfrin 9y ago
Question related to FFMpeg: In the first few examples, there are input options defining the video and audio encoding -- why is this needed? Shouldn't a video container be self evident of things like that?
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by mmanfrin 9y ago
I think the less cynical answer is that HTC often has good ideas for physical devices but then often fails to follow through and iterate well. They're also just struggling as a company in general. But damn, so I 1000% agree with being
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by mmanfrin 9y ago
Finally, a career fitted to my sharp ability to never follow through on goals.
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by mmanfrin 9y ago
What? Radiohead is demanding full royalties for the song, for a melody they did not create. Why on earth should they just settle out of court?
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by mmanfrin 9y ago
This is measuring startup time, not actual request time. This seems nearly worthless unless you are looking to host something on AWS Lambda? Does the author honestly believe GET requests to rails sites take 2 and a half minutes on average?
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by mmanfrin 9y ago
My work firewall blocks this site; can someone paste the letter's contents?
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by mmanfrin 9y ago
Is it still the default suggestion that Open WRT/LEDE are better than stock router software? What about compared to pfsense (or is that not good for wireless)? Every time in the past that I looked at the WTF website (and I'll admi
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by mmanfrin 9y ago
I've come to see Tesla as being very bad at production lines. I've heard almost nothing but bad news about working conditions, safety, output, etc. Top it off with the massive firings that happened right as the Model 3 productio
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by mmanfrin 9y ago
Except that because of the 'Blue Shield', police are rarely ever charged with any misdoing. A cop is never wrong, unless there is more than a mountain of evidence against them, and that makes me see all police as complicit. Th
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by mmanfrin 9y ago
I've become a bit too used to using the echo as an alarm clock (which I can set without turning on a screen or looking at a light) and for morning/evening news briefings, which is really just a proxy to NPR/BBC podcasts, but
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by mmanfrin 9y ago
We are failing refugees the world over. This is heartbreaking, and so is the situation in Syria, in South Sudan, in Eritrea, and in countless other places. And I don't feel like we're getting any better and we're certainly do
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by mmanfrin 9y ago
I have an iPhone, an Amazon Echo, and a Google Home device. I recently had to watch live TV because I was watching a sports game, and the number of ads that targeted my listening devices was obscene. Every other ad was either for the Echo o
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by mmanfrin 9y ago
Its down for my in San Francisco.
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by mmanfrin 9y ago
Lexus has had autoparking for over a decade.
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by mmanfrin 9y ago
Good slides, got me back in to the fever of wanting to learn; although a lot of the credit goes to the linked 3Blue1Brown videos (whose Linear Calculus series is excellent) which were a lot more technical but no less approachable. Question
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by mmanfrin 9y ago
We had to fight Wheeler, who then bowed to both public pressure and pressure from Obama to support net neutrality rules. https://www.politico.com/story/2015/01/tom-wheeler-net-neutr...
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by mmanfrin 9y ago
My name and address were used to advocate against net neutrality. I am absolutely livid and I want to see justice brought to these fucks who are giving control of the internet to Comcast, Verizon, and AT&T.
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by mmanfrin 9y ago
Ed Lee took over Newsom's spot with a pledge that he would not run for Mayor in the special election (since taking over as interim Mayor would give him a big incumbent bump since many voters are apathetic about local elections and tend
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by mmanfrin 9y ago
Trust me, nobody who uses threading wants to be using threading. They want to be able to write a paragraph. (3/8) Did you not see the backlash that came from them upping the limit to 280 chars?

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