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by piquadrat 9y ago
Snowflake has been retired in 2014 [1]. Are there any similar services around that are still maintained? [1]: https://github.com/twitter/snowflake
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by piquadrat 9y ago
Taking the easy route was OK when they were a scrappy startup, but now that they are a multi-billion public company, I honestly don't see why they can't hire a couple of qualified Android devs to fix this.
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Do dark matter and dark energy exist?(phys.org)
2 points by piquadrat 9y ago|0 comments
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by piquadrat 9y ago
Also known as HDMI CEC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_Electronics_Control
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by piquadrat 9y ago
While the drones won't mind working at night or on weekends, I would certainly mind the relentless, high-pitched noise of drones delivering groceries and the latest new tech gadgets to my neighbours when I try to sleep or relax. Honest
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by piquadrat 9y ago
You'll also be under significant g-forces or zero gravity for large parts of the flight. I, for one, would probably be preoccupied with myself, trying (and failing) not to puke all over the place. For the few minutes I don't stare
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by piquadrat 9y ago
The International Astronautical Congress doesn't come with multiple sonic booms per day.
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by piquadrat 9y ago
Can you elaborate? As someone eyeing (sorry) a Lasik operation in the not-to-distant future, I'm genuinely interested.
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by piquadrat 9y ago
It also is updated very often (I guess to keep step with all the non-public APIs it probably uses). Almost every time I run `brew update`, youtube-dl has an update ready. This might inflate its download stats a bit.
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by piquadrat 9y ago
Copenhagen Police just announced on Twitter that they got reports of a female body in the waters southwest of the city this afternoon https://twitter.com/kobenhavnpoliti/status/89967522825052979...
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by piquadrat 9y ago
The version is actually 2.11.0-2ubuntu0.2, with the fix backported, as can be seen in the changelog: http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/main/g/git/git_... It's somewhat confusing if y
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The Mind-Boggling Ascent of Amazon and Jeff Bezos(nytimes.com)
1 points by piquadrat 9y ago|0 comments
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by piquadrat 9y ago
Can't find a permalink, but I had this notification in our AWS console: > Beginning at Thu, 27 Jul 2017 13:53:00 GMT, some instances are experiencing elevated packet loss in the us-east-1a Availability Zone. We are now investigating
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The Unaffordable Urban Paradise(technologyreview.com)
52 points by piquadrat 9y ago|76 comments
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by piquadrat 9y ago
The "fix" for the issues that the Germanwings tragedy laid bare was a "2-person policy": if one of the pilots has to leave the cockpit, another member of the crew will take their place. But this introduced new problems,
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by piquadrat 10y ago
Troy Hunt wrote about his experience with self-hosted ads a while ago [1]. Basically, he added a as-non-intrusive-as-possible "banner" (if you can even call it that) at the top of the content. Ad blockers blocked it. He changed th
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by piquadrat 10y ago
Is that really happening that open source communities use Slack as their primary communications channel? I haven't seen that happening in the communities I participate in (Python/Django/...). What I do see is that more and mo
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by piquadrat 10y ago
In retrospect, my words were probably a bit harsh, sorry about that Andy. It's never a nice feeling having one's hard work shittalked by strangers on the Internet. A roadmap is definitely highly appreciated. Something I'd lov
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by piquadrat 10y ago
Maybe he meant adding arbitrary token count limits out of the blue that forced countless 3rd party apps to close shop once they became successful? Or the fact that new features like polls are absent in the public APIs, years after they have
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by piquadrat 10y ago
Numbers aren't always easy to come by, but e.g. Amos 6, a more or less run-of-the-mill communications satellite that was destroyed when a Falcon 9 exploded during fueling operations, reportedly cost around $200 million. https:/&#
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by piquadrat 10y ago
They may not be able to compete on price, but they sure can when it comes to reliability and launch cadence (current strike action in French Guiana notwithstanding). Ariane 5 is currently on a 77 successful missions streak. SpaceX has a lon
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by piquadrat 10y ago
Ah right, static assets are an issue, didn't notice it right away due to local browser caching. Sorry about the trouble!
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by piquadrat 10y ago
Hi, Beni from Opbeat here. Our community site is indeed down unfortunately, but the rest should be unaffected. Where do/did you experience issues?
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by piquadrat 10y ago
With six lives and a $100bn+ space station at stake, I'm quite glad they use caution, to be honest.
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by piquadrat 10y ago
As usual, Jeff Barr's blog post is much more informative than the announcement. https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-ebs-update-new-elast...
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by piquadrat 10y ago
Also, it's in line with Brotli[1] and Gipfeli[2], other compression libraries/formats from Google bearing names of Swiss pastries. [1]: https://github.com/google/brotli [2]: https://github.com&#x2F
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by piquadrat 10y ago
I recently bought wireless bluetooth headphones from Sennheiser. The pairing process consisted of holding the phone next to the headphones for a second, done (thanks to NFC). Not sure how you can improve much on that.
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Analysis of multiple vulnerabilities in AirDroid(blog.zimperium.com)
2 points by piquadrat 10y ago|0 comments
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by piquadrat 10y ago
I've never heard of this forum before. Can anybody fill us in on how large it approximately is/was, what if any affiliation it has with the Democratic party etc?
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by piquadrat 10y ago
putting something like 192.30.253.113 github.com into your /etc/hosts (or other appropriate location for your OS) should get you going again.

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