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by niftich 7y ago
This complaint is real cute, but the trite answer is that this is how things have worked for a long time. Awareness of it is spreads for a while whenever high-profile events receive media and blog coverage, and perhaps the exploitability of
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by niftich 7y ago
It's a gem of an observation that newcomers to an environment often only make it to the first few rungs of the system complexity / actualization ladder. Once you look, you see this everywhere, and not just in IT but with any sort
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by niftich 7y ago
A blockchain would work but is not necessary, and such a scheme would just pushes the storage and computational burden of the bookkeeping onto other users of the same chain. It still wouldn't help you if no provider were willing to hon
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by niftich 7y ago
FWIW the iPod didn't really beat deep-pocket Sony's cassette Walkman or MiniDisc per se, it beat the uneven and dizzyingly wide field of onboard-storage digital audio players, from thumbdrive-looking sticks that only held a couple
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by niftich 7y ago
The UX of cassettes was very useful for sharing and swapping music or speech, and for resuming where one left off. Because of the linear tape, the cassette's "playback cursor" was stateful and independent from whether the med
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by niftich 7y ago
The 'Pink' of the phrase "Pink + Purple == Fuchsia" is a reference to Taligent's Pink, and 'Purple' appears [1] to be a reference to 'Project Purple', the effort at Apple that culminated in the r
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by niftich 7y ago
In the Mule ecosystem, you use a drag-and-drop flow builder of canned components to build flows that typically ingest events, do something to them, and possibly write someplace. Almost anywhere, you can also inject your custom code. You dep
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by niftich 7y ago
The following videos from BTCInstrumentation demonstrate this succinctly. [1] Synchronizing AC generators -- Part 1 (introduction and sync lamps) [2] Synchronizing AC generators -- Part 2 (strobe light view) [3] Synchronizing AC generators
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by niftich 7y ago
Good catch, the links in my previous post are not accurate. The correct links for [2][3][4] are: [2] http://www.cammesa.com/uflujpot.nsf/FlujoW?OpenAgent&Flujo%2... [3] http://www.cammesa.com/uflujp
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by niftich 7y ago
CAMMESA administers the Argentinian electricity market, and they have data on demand [1] and grid flows. Compare the graph of flows on the 500 kV lines from 2019-06-16T07:00 local [2] to one hour later at 08:00 local [3]. For reference, see
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by niftich 7y ago
I don't understand what you're asking in your prior post when you say whether you could "pay someone else". Your carrier makes the agreements about with which others your phone could roam (and with who it can't), an
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by niftich 7y ago
Your phone using a different-besides-your-home network is called 'roaming' and it's not uncommon. For this to happen, your phone needs to know which networks it should try to authenticate against. A while back, Sprint and T-M
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by niftich 7y ago
Boost is an MVNO that runs off of Sprint's networks today, but the sale of Boost is a commitment [1][2] T-Mobile made as part of their efforts to get the FCC to approve their merger with Sprint, with some very generous terms. Remember
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by niftich 7y ago
There are large parts of Nevada that could be 'reclaimed' (in the Bureau of Reclamation sense) without too much effort -- just a couple of well-placed dams, berms, and canals. Large parts of the state are in closed basins, from wh
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by niftich 7y ago
The airline industry embraced point-to-point routing in part because it reduces their costs on inelastic infrastructure on the ground, and allows them to tailor their schedule around demand at the two endpoints rather than on maintaining a
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by niftich 7y ago
Cryptome is a classic source on topics like this [1]. As for what a landing station looks from the inside, Ars Technica had an excellent series [2] on submarine cables in 2016. [1] http://cryptome.org/eyeball/cable&#x2F
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by niftich 7y ago
On the HN thread on Troy's last post about this, I said [1]: "Big sites can get by with DV because people trust big sites by fiat, just by mental associations they already have to a URL. There's no benefit to Facebook having
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by niftich 7y ago
You as the client try to GET /my-receipts/20190512-1 from Fancy Receipt Scanning Service, and content-negotiate with an Accept header to "text/plain" or "image/gif" (e.g. to get a plain copy or a scan
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by niftich 7y ago
The answer is in the part that says "it can be useful to have typed links that are independent of their serialisation, especially when a resource has representations in multiple formats". In HTTP, URLs locate a 'resource&#x27
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by niftich 7y ago
The state of the art for web APIs, for better or for worse, is ones where you send and receive 'untyped' JSON (served as application/json), endpoint URLs have version numbers in them, and POST GET PUT DELETE mostly map to CRU
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by niftich 7y ago
FWIW, RFC 8288 was preceded [1] by RFC 5988, and RFC 5988 [2] says in its section '1. Introduction': "A means of indicating the relationships between resources on the Web, as well as indicating the type of those relationships
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by niftich 7y ago
The article's recommendations don't achieve HATEOAS, because even though the foreign-key IDs are replaced with URLs, they're not actually links because they don't specify an explicit relationship. Instead, the relationsh
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by niftich 7y ago
The US patent applications in the above list resolve to the following five: https://patents.google.com/patent/US20160234144A1/ This one seems to be about specifying a Mimetype paramater that tries to describe the
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by niftich 7y ago
Your statement that "Nokia has licensed their HEIF patents under royalty-free terms" is not true, because the license-in-question's [1] grant is "to, use, run, modify (in a way that still complies with the Specification)
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by niftich 7y ago
MPEG tells [1] rightsholders to file Patent Statement and Licensing Declarations to ISO/IEC. ISO/IEC maintains [6] a spreadsheet of received documents and the relevant standards that they concern. Examining that spreadsheet, I fou
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by niftich 7y ago
Given the current direction of the industry, the most likely candidate for this in the not-so-distant future is HEIF, which has support for an image-sequence [1]. HEIF is an ISOBMFF (aka Quicktime/MP4 container)-derived container forma
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by niftich 7y ago
Chrome didn't support it until 2017 [1], with the release of Chrome 59 [2]. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13871809 [2] https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/6691520493125632
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by niftich 7y ago
Spring is a collection of frameworks that impose their own structure and control flow so that one can focus on the parts of the design that are unique to one's situation. The Go language and standard library and the Go community have a
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by niftich 7y ago
AV1 is an open and free format, but if people really wanted to replace GIFs they could've done it with H.264 or VP9 or VP8. Notwithstanding any issues about video codec support in browsers, GIFs will continue to have value until browse
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by niftich 7y ago
This is a continuation of a long arc of convergent work [1][2][3][4][5] by various people over several years; I've been following along [6]. The innovation of this proposal is to work towards the crossdomain cookie transmission being l

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