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by oconnore 6y ago
Could you select a random group of individuals up front and then bid on their collective participation in a poll (say, beyond 95%, you all get $10)? You might have to pick a few groups and bid between them.
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by oconnore 6y ago
Is anyone surprised though? This has been the Google status quo for over a decade now, and there is no indication of intention to change, ever.
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by oconnore 6y ago
Density isn’t always that important, for example the Huntorf Plant uses a gigantic underground cave to store 800+ megawatt hours of energy. http://www.fze.uni-saarland.de/AKE_Archiv/AKE2003H/AKE2003H_... https:&#
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by oconnore 6y ago
I agree -- the whole nicety of CGI is that the web server creates your application server process for you, and then you get a very simple one-request = one response interface. Lambda/Function implementations do this right, and also sup
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by oconnore 6y ago
Have you ever attempted to get an organization of people to do this reliably?
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by oconnore 6y ago
You build it on SMTP because upgrading clients is easier than doing a clean slate redesign of ubiquitous internet protocols. Presumably we're discussing how an open protocol addition might gain any traction at all over walled garden pr
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by oconnore 6y ago
I do think there ought to be a way to do good cryptography in email. Email is not going away anytime soon, so giving up on it as a legitimate place where cryptography is needed seems too ivory tower for me. The “dead simple solution” is to
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by oconnore 6y ago
All of these censorship resistant communication projects tend to assume that the network needs to be low latency, always connected, etc. It’s far easier to build a robust network if you relax that assumption, and cheap hard drives + e2e enc
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by oconnore 6y ago
How about a web browser? The Nytimes.com front page is 4.66 MB. A Quantum McEliece key is 8373911 bits (per wikipedia) or almost exactly 1MB. Therefore if my connection to Nytimes.com was over McEliece based TLS -- it would be a 21% bandwid
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by oconnore 6y ago
Julia has a full power macro system with “normal” syntax.
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by oconnore 6y ago
Many systems don’t do TLS in process. TLS proxying is probably more common for systems deployed in the cloud (e.g. running nginx on the same node, or using a cloud load balancer). AWS and GCP don’t even give you a way to install a cert your
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by oconnore 6y ago
Similarly, I wish Regex engines had built in “partial match” support — i.e. is there some suffix that can be added to this string that results in a match? I wrote something like this in Haskell for doing path traversal (descend into directo
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by oconnore 7y ago
The numbers are based on confirmed cases. The task of confirming cases is not a trivial matter -- you need test kits, and someone to administer them, and the virus doesn't wait around for you to test for it.
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by oconnore 7y ago
Shouldn't this be benchmarked against WebP instead of (obviously much worse) JPEG?
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by oconnore 7y ago
American Test Kitchen has a gluten free cookbook with recipes for bread, pizza, pancakes, etc. It’s really good, and very informative.
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by oconnore 7y ago
This doesn’t make any sense in the context of tools like Snowflake and BigQuery, where the allocation of compute is separated from the data itself. You can scale each of these use cases independently without cross-domain impact. The data la
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by oconnore 7y ago
I think you might be overthinking it. Just drop cache after publishing. Maybe you’re doing something more complicated that isn’t amenable to pseudo-static?
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by oconnore 7y ago
In a previous life I worked on a site that had a private Wordpress instance that was scraped and cloned to a more or less static site. You can either do this explicitly using a small scraper tool, or implicitly using aggressive reverse-prox
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by oconnore 7y ago
Javascript + BigQuery (SQL) is great for working with Google spreadsheets.
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by oconnore 7y ago
Community discussion seems like an interesting vehicle for article micro-payments. Could someone try to negotiate a pooled deal with the WSJ based on a valid HN cookie with >X internet points? Or just a single subscription with the agree
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by oconnore 7y ago
Why do people ever think that one or another extreme is the most optimal solution? In real life the answer is basically _never_ "go all the way". By this principal, the right answer is probably along the lines of: a few services,
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by oconnore 7y ago
I love the idea of a web of documents, but I would love it even more if it was a web of documents you could edit collaboratively. First class support for Google Docs/Sheets/Slides style creation, with a clean default read mode wou
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by oconnore 7y ago
That’s exactly why newer biofuels rely on sources that don’t require high investment crop land — e.g. switchgrass and other “weeds”. You could also plant switchgrass in highway medians, for example.
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by oconnore 7y ago
Common practice is to ignore diversity (to the extent possible) in assessing, but not in sourcing.
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by oconnore 7y ago
It’s not just TOS violations... I can’t get into my google account because they locked my password and don’t recognize any of my current devices. The account isn’t even suspended, they just have no support team so I can’t recover my account
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by oconnore 7y ago
If you were ok running your previous apps you should also be ok with gathering usage data for a week before the OS attempts to do a hard cut-over to a more secure model.
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by oconnore 7y ago
For personal archival I think Blu-ray is still best. I think of it as a supplement to S3 or Dropbox. Even if you end up re-writing discs it is very cheap per GB, and 25 or 50 GB discs are comfortable for “normal” personal sizes (my entire f
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by oconnore 7y ago
Ok, so now those s/SWEs/operations/ folks had nothing better to do than reinvent the wheel.
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by oconnore 7y ago
"Exciting" technologies tend to keep you up on the weekends. The opposite of: BoringSSL.
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by oconnore 7y ago
Also, how "exciting" is it?

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