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by nickvanw 5y ago
I have been on the other end of this somewhat often, as one does when they take the subway to/from work every day. Some of this is very self-serving for the median commuter as well. Someone struggling with a stroller or luggage is like
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by nickvanw 5y ago
If you're that close to the beach that you can string a cable, do you not have 4G LTE/5G services available? With a high-gain antenna I would imagine you could get speeds and latency that would rival Starlink in many places. Of co
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by nickvanw 5y ago
Starlink won't really ever be designed to compete with wired internet. There is limited bandwidth per satellite, and the density of most places that have good wired internet far exceeds what is reasonable on the current generation of s
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by nickvanw 5y ago
I live in the Seattle-area where we've been hit with some serious winter weather in the mountain passes, to the point that for a period of a few hours, there was practically no route to drive to a neighboring state, and the passes were
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by nickvanw 5y ago
There are a number of providers that have been purporting to be on the edge of offering Satellite coverage to existing cellphones: - https://ast-science.com/spacemobile/ - https://lynk.world The former even
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by nickvanw 5y ago
Definitely! Wave G (NOT Wave's coax-based DOCSIS that they bought years ago) offers/offered IPv6 via PD, lots of documentation for it around the internet: https://gist.github.com/dmtucker/cf3f241cf002367825633
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by nickvanw 5y ago
CenturyLink wired my entire neighborhood a number of years ago, but it looks like _before_ my house was built, and they haven't come back since. All of my neighboring blocks have 1g/1g from them, but the most they offer at my addr
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by nickvanw 5y ago
Parts of the US are catching up, but it is distributed very unequally (and often much more expensive). Anecdotally, I moved into a newish (~5 year old) apartment building in Seattle and had my choice of three ISPs that each provided symmetr
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by nickvanw 5y ago
Home Assistant really hits the right spot on the "enthusiast" vs "product" spectrum for me - it's flexible and configurable, but also easy enough to set up that I basically spent almost no time actually making it wo
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by nickvanw 5y ago
In my experience, not really. It reminds me of another build-time check that I've seen which crawls material looking for broken (non-200) links. Unfortunately, if you link to a single site too often, it'll hit rate limits and star
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by nickvanw 5y ago
I'm curious to see what features the next iPhone comes with -- if it's limited to things like screen refresh rates and 'better' 5G (with Qualcomm's X60) it won't be a super compelling update to people with iPho
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by nickvanw 6y ago
I believe the tax lawsuit is still pending, the most recent documentation I can find from the NY AG is a summons from mid-November of last year: https://ag.ny.gov/sites/default/files/2019.11.14_nyag_v._bh_...
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by nickvanw 6y ago
> Always buy from good small businesses first (vote with your wallet). Megacorps are unfortunately a practical, but depressing, evil last resort. Not to be a downer, but if you're looking for _good_ businesses, B&H is likely to
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AWS: Savings Plans(aws.amazon.com)
4 points by nickvanw 7y ago|0 comments
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by nickvanw 7y ago
This is somewhat valuable, but misses any investigation as to why there were outlying latency spikes when using non-Envoy software for load balancing. Furthermore, using the average latency like this doesn't tell us much, especially wi
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Vulcanizer: A Library for Operating Elasticsearch(github.blog)
16 points by nickvanw 7y ago|0 comments
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The Feedback Fallacy(hbr.org)
1 points by nickvanw 8y ago|0 comments
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by nickvanw 8y ago
$SNAP "popped" 40% when it IPOed: https://money.cnn.com/2017/03/02/technology/snapchat-ipo/ind... It now trades at less than half of that.
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Introducing draft pull requests(github.blog)
331 points by nickvanw 8y ago|127 comments
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by nickvanw 8y ago
These charts miss Hydroelectricity, which is currently 70% of renewable energy production worldwide. Seattle is more or less entirely powered by renewables, with 97% of Seattle City Light's energy coming from Hydro, Nuclear or Wind: h
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by nickvanw 9y ago
If you're operating it in an environment where you need it to be up with multiple 9s or you're losing money, you call Red Hat and pay for a consulting engagement. As an open source piece of software, I think it's significantl
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by nickvanw 9y ago
Ceph is good! I'm a bit removed from keeping up on the day-to-day, but I always respected it as being a solid and dependable piece of open source software. There are options that will perform better, but they are almost always consider
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by nickvanw 9y ago
I was the Engineering Manager for the Storage team at DigitalOcean that took the Block Storage project from conception to launch (though I no longer work there), so I might be able to shed some light. In general, it's really hard to do