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by niftich 9y ago
Link to their blog post on mad dashes to Costco after the floods [1]. It's an engaging read. [1] https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze_drive_farming/
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Facebook Chat (now called Messenger) came out in April 2008, at a very opportune time. Quote from my earlier post at [1]: While it's tempting to accuse AIM, MSN, and Yahoo for being incompetent and not catching up to the "mobile
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On the contrary; the lesson learned from those days is that codegens and declarative inputs to codegens (i.e. API specs) have their place, despite the particular stack falling out of fashion. APIs that were put out when the "RESTful&qu
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Back in the days of the Acid tests and when vendor prefixes for experimental features were the norm, and a visit to caniuse.com was often met with disappointment, discretionary users cared as much about a browser's layout engine as the
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Grats! Can you talk a bit about your consistency model?
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The very bottom of the blog post links to the FAQ [1]. The FAQ says: > If your Pass subscription goes beyond December 31, 2017, we will give you a prorated refund or a Microsoft gift card (see details below). > Your recurring annua
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At time of writing, their FAQ [1] says: > Will I still be able to play music from OneDrive? > Yes. Music you own that's uploaded to your OneDrive music folder can still be streamed and downloaded on your devices with the Groov
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Summary: 'Groove Music Pass', Microsoft's music streaming service, is being discontinued on 2017-12-31; subscribers get a prorated refund and an opportunity to get a 60-day trial of Spotify Premium; Groove app will offer play
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Kudos for re-using an existing API when one was already available in the same language for a very similar usecase. Any time you commit to someone else's API -- whether it's an actual industry standard, or simply some de facto wide
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0-RTT is an awful idea anyway; the equivalent of spray-and-pray. Some folks under HTTPbis are working on an Internet Draft on Early Data's (~0-RTT's) ramifications [1] in HTTP. 0-RTT trades performance at the expense of security p
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They have recently began a large wave of expansion [1] in the US. Raleigh (Cary) is getting one soon. So is Norfolk, Nashville, Jacksonville, Columbus OH, Milwaukee; they're also beginning to build second (or additional) locations in l
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Yeah, there have been a good number [1] and a steady stream of submissions about Bloom filters (and truly, the inevitable re-riff about Cuckoo filters), but this article is toward the higher end of the quality scale. It's a bit odd tha
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Exactly as viable as any MitM against (unsecured) HTTP. The recommended way is still a 3xx-class redirect (consult your SEO) to the HTTPS version, because it's better than nothing -- in other words: - if an MitM already tampered with t
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The quote from the article is the writer jumping through some creative contortion to try to explain keybase prove [1] feature to a layperson. The idea is to prove control of some social identity; then correspondingly, others on Keybase will
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A good article that covers what Keybase is, where they came from, what they try to do, and where they're trying to go -- although you couldn't tell from the headline. As in the article body, Slack is namedropped just for effect; K
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Were you able to use popular off-the-shelf libraries in your codebase without any trouble, or did App Engine's different JVM give you issues? How much App Engine-specific code is in your product? Would it be a very large undertaking to
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This kind of dispute existed long before IoT. For example, television channels routinely disappear from carriers like cable and satellite providers [1] as contract disputes go on longer and the existing contract expires. The disappearance o
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YouTube has some fairly specific requirements that third-party clients must adhere to [1]. According to my recollection and Google's own revision history [2], this general form of the document dates to August 2016, since at the time I
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In this particular case, (1) and (2) were pretty much the same, as the format that became HEIF was drafted up in 2013 and finished in 2015, by Nokia, as a contribution to the proceedings of the joint MPEG/ITU-T JCT-VC working group wor
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Snapchat [1][2]. Streak [3][4][5]. Various apps from Floreysoft [6]. Google Cloud Platform has a customer showcase at https://cloud.google.com/customers/ [7] and issuing a site-limited search with the terms 'java&
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Keep in mind WebP is essentially a VP8 I-frame in a RIFF container [1]. VP8 is the predecessor video codec to VP9; VP9 being the codec targeted by its makers to be in competition with HEVC which is commonly deployed inside HEIF -- whether t
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The vision of CSS included the notion of alternate stylesheets and some capability in browsers for the user to pick the stylesheet; as well as the notion of user styles which sometimes supplement, sometimes override the page author's s
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In fairness NPR does in fact have RSS 2.0 feeds; they're separated by section [1] -- for example, one for US News [2]. There's an 'assorted' feed [3] that doesn't exactly mirror the homepage but shares a similar pur
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As a sidenote, hazmats are banned from the tunnel if Loveland is open [1]. If Loveland is closed, hazmats are held back at the tunnel [1][2] until they can fully stop normal traffic, at which point they escort hazmats through such that they
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Sure, they want their content to be read, to be "discoverable by the largest possible audience". Meanwhile, "monetization benefits are less decisive and pending further analysis of our current implementation." Publishers
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Well, it's Vienna (although those amounts seem high to me), where the cost of living is higher, but Bratislava is well within commuting distance -- both by car and train -- enabling a decent opportunity to live and have daily expenses
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I wonder, does this aggregate exclude topcolors that have only 1 user? Mine's a rather specific, handpicked-in-a-color-picker value of blue towards the bottom, and while I don't doubt that someone else could've picked it, the
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For a dramatic coverage of this exact subject, I highly recommend 'Curiosity's Seven Minutes of Terror' [1] from NASA JPL. [1] https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/video/details.php?id=1090; or on Youtube: https:&#
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Slovakia's situation is particularly acute, because there is a significant divide in economic fortunes between the capital's region Bratislava, and the rest of the country; while this divide is not altogether unusual, the magnitud
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You made me do a double-take; to clarify, this paragraph is not present in the article, but it presents an intriguing retort to my scenario.

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