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by pedrocr 8y ago
Shouldn't we just fix this one layer above? Just like the internet treat the network as hostile and use strong encryption to connect to your network provider. If someone uses a stingray you use their bandwidth but they see nothing beca
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by pedrocr 8y ago
I have the complete opposite experience. Everything I use is nicely packaged in Debian/Ubuntu. At most I need to add a new package source and then I get automatic updates. In Windows and OSX you used to need to manually install a bunch
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by pedrocr 8y ago
>Just like with cars: is there any sense to the way BMW models are named? Not sure what you mean, BMW seems like the complete opposite of what we are discussing, the way they are named is extremely functional. It used to be simpler bec
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by pedrocr 8y ago
Hasn't Vulkan made that barrier much lower? Is it not yet feasible to just ship a Vulkan driver and a set of standard OpenGL/DX generic implementations on top of it just for backwards compatibility?
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by pedrocr 8y ago
There are only a few modules of 2666Mhz DDR4 ECC RAM by any of those manufacturers. Non-ECC goes to almost 2x that speed and there is plenty of choice. In the places I've seen it's around 40-50% more expensive for 12.5% more RAM c
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by pedrocr 8y ago
>This wasn't my experience either on memory.net or crucial.com As far as I can tell crucial.com shows a total of 2 options. Both 16GB UDIMMs. One tall, one short. I think last time I checked it had none. I didn't see a single
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by pedrocr 8y ago
The main advantage of ECC is reliability so buying used RAM doesn't seem like a great option. If you're willing to buy used a good way to get a nice workstation is to just buy a used workstation machine (e.g., HP Z400/Z600&#x
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by pedrocr 8y ago
I buy and hold index funds, so by definition I obtain the market average over time. All these supposed schemes to beat market returns never explain who are the suckers on the other side of those bets that are getting lower than average retu
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by pedrocr 8y ago
Thanks for the GVT-G reference. For running a Windows VM in a laptop that seems like the only missing piece. Graphical performance is clearly lacking and if that works as described it seems like it would fix it.
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by pedrocr 8y ago
I know ECC is more complex, my hypothesis was that in volume the difference would be small enough to not care and that we're only stuck with non-ECC RAM because of path dependence. >Whether it's needed or not...that's use
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by pedrocr 8y ago
Finding a motherboard that supports it is relatively easy. The Asus Prime X370 Pro for example seems like a good choice for a simple home server with ECC and 8 SATAs. The problem is actually finding reasonable ECC RAM. Unregistered/Unb
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by pedrocr 8y ago
The >90% don't invest at all and end up worse than Bob. Bob isn't real because it requires perfect market timing and yet even if you were as unlucky as Bob you'd come out ahead. That's the point, that you don't n
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by pedrocr 8y ago
Instead of doing this focus on making more money at the actual career you've chosen and being disciplined at avoiding hedonic treadmills and at investing consistently over time. Start doing this as soon as possible, ideally from day 1
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by pedrocr 8y ago
Long-term stock market returns are 9-10%. 7% is after inflation but that's acting on your mortgage as well. Mortgages are indeed cheap leverage for your savings portfolio as you're basically using as collateral a probably somewhat
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by pedrocr 8y ago
>It genuinely doesn't matter that you think it'd be a great idea, not the tiniest bit, since it would see no adoption. The discussion around TLS 1.3 delays included plenty of people that also thought middleboxes should not be
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by pedrocr 8y ago
>Even just small changes to TLS resulted in massive compatibility mishaps. There was about a year delay in the TLS 1.3 process while they worked around things like this. Those are part of the problem we should be solving. Delaying TLS
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by pedrocr 8y ago
>but every step along the way was achieved by backwards compatibility and that meant some compromises This is not a good analogy. The phone system has thrown away plenty of standards as well. Throwing away TLS for something else doesn&
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by pedrocr 8y ago
The suggestion was to block it at the server not the browser. Presumably most of that 1% is because of old sites/servers and not old browsers.
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by pedrocr 8y ago
> It's like CADT but with cryptography. TLS is 25 years old now. CADT is not a fair criticism when more than the lifetime of a whole teenager has elapsed. At some point building a second system is worth it. >You get to learn b
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by pedrocr 8y ago
With the amount of TLS vulnerabilities I don't really understand why we're not just replacing it completely. From what I've read a lot of the issues is the complexity of the standard itself that we could do much better now th
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by pedrocr 8y ago
>Or image stabilization, which also adds weight and size. In-body stabilization is a great solution for this. f/1.4 primes and in-body stabilization are a great combination for available light photography.
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by pedrocr 8y ago
They've always made one. It's lead acid but has more than enough range for a day of work at the farm. Weight just helps with traction. Recent models have the charger on the car so you just need a place with an outlet. There are pl
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by pedrocr 8y ago
For those uses just buy a John Deere Gator or a Toro Workman. Best purchase we ever made for our hobby farm. Relatively easy to find cheap used ones and maintenance is really simple to do yourself. We have the Workman. The electric motor cl
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by pedrocr 8y ago
The problem is that I'm actually using the HashMap not only for concurrency but also for synchronization. Looking at the Java ConcurrentHashMap it wouldn't work. I need the equivalent of an RwLock per key so that stale data is nev
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by pedrocr 8y ago
I had never seen it. The API seems more complex to support consistency/performance tradeoffs. I'm not sure if it would work in my case as I definitely want writes to block if two threads are accessing the same entry. It also doesn
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by pedrocr 8y ago
I've hacked around this issue in a contended hashmap by doing a Vec<RwLock<HashMap>> where you index into the Vec with the first bits of the key hash and then use the HashMap within it: https://github.com/pe
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by pedrocr 8y ago
It's ambiguous indeed which again reinforces my point. The fact that you can issue several commands at once to be executed in order is strange for REST. And the REST definition also includes using common operations (GET/POST/
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by pedrocr 8y ago
I know all this, but this API doesn't meet that definition. As cruegge has linked the JMAP developers themselves don't consider their API REST. From the description it seems more like an RPC that's transaction oriented and fo
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by pedrocr 8y ago
>JMAP is a REST API so it uses HTTP requests and responses to issue commands and get the results. Almost all requests in JMAP are to the same URL using an HTTP POST to submit a JSON body of “methods”. Describing this as REST is really
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by pedrocr 8y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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